

The fourth group of games, the Calamity Timeline, aren’t related to the other three in time.

Three branches of the timeline follow: the Child Timeline, the Adult Timeline, and the Fallen Hero Timeline. Link meets the famous Princess Zelda in Ocarina of Time, the last game of the timeline, and this is the pivotal place where Zelda time splits.
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The next game in this series is Four Swords, which was the first Zelda multiplayer game. This is the only Zelda game that wasn’t originally created by Nintendo. The timeline proceeds with The Minish Cap, which was developed by a third-party company, Capcom. The setting is a floating island called Skyloft, and knowledge of the future world where Link’s adventures aren’t yet a part of the story. Skyward Sword is chronologically the first game in the Zelda universe. The entire Zelda story line begins with the “Early History” timeline. This allows Link to appear at different ages in different games without contradiction. It explains that there are multiple concurrent timelines in the game of Zelda, including one that is separate, considered by some to be Zelda myth. This cleared up many questions that Zelda fans had. In 2011, Nintendo published a book entitled Hyrule Historia, which gives a timeline of the entire Zelda story.
