Thoughts Before Bed

Once I finished Tears of the Kingdom, I started watching some of the Zelda YouTube videos out there.

I saw some of the ones who are trying to figure out where Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild fit in the Zelda timeline do some serious backflips and jumps to get it all to fit in, and it still really doesn't. And there are others who claim that Tears of the Kingdom is Ocarina of Time retold.

There was a theory I had before Nintendo put out the official Zelda timeline back in the Skyward Sword days, that I've decided to go back to: The Zelda Story is another world's version of our "Sumerian Flood Myth." The story that turned into Nuh, Noah, Gilgamesh and others.

Like the Sumerian Flood Myth, it's been told and retold by different cultures second/third/fourthhand, has morphed into different stories, affected by the cultures telling the story, traditions getting mixed in and confused and integrated....

All of them (minus the direct sequels) are telling the story of "The Hero Who Saves The Princess From The Demon King" in various ways. Imagine a seafaring civilization taking the story and turning it into "The Wind Waker" or a Forest civilization giving us "Ocarina of Time." Skyward Sword being told by a sky civilization.

Tears of the Kingdom is another legend and story of "The Hero Who Saves The Princess From The Demon King" that's changed a million times over the centuries...but has the core idea of the original story.

At least until Nintendo gives us final word from on high. :)