Congratulations Hyrule historians, all of your countless hours of research and theory have not been in vain. A true master timeline to the Legend of Zelda series does, in fact, exist according to Eiji Aonuma. He says in a recent Official Nintendo Magazine interview, via ZeldaDungeon.net:
“Yes there is a master timeline but its confidential document!” explains Aunuma-san. “The only people to have access to that document are myself, Mr. Miyamoto and the director of the title. We cant share it with anyone else! I have already talked to Mr. Miyamoto about this so I am comfortable in releasing this information – this title [Skyward Sword] takes place before Ocarina of Time. if I said that a certain title was ‘the first Zelda game’, then that means that we cant ever make a title that takes place before that! So for us to add titles to the series, we have to have a way of putting the titles before or after each other.”So there you have. Will the timeline ever be revealed to us? Probably not, but I'm sure a lot of Zelda fans will take solace in the fact that it exists at all.
