This is a ramble, read it or not but it concerns the newly screwed up Zelda Timeline. Correct me on any false things I may have said!!
There are A LOT of reasons why Breath of the Wild does not fit into the Zelda timeline correctly, but here are the main ones that I have heard people talk about and just some things I've noticed put into a summary. To start off, the game seems to be an expansion of the original Hyrule in Ocarina of Time. So, seeing this, you must be thinking that this game does not correlate with the Adult Timeline (Windwaker, etc.) and instead, the Child timeline (Oot, Majora, Twilight, etc.). It even references to the original Temple of Time, Zora's Domain, Death Mountain and many other things that exist in the Child Timeline. Overall, you may have thought that the Link in Botw is a descendant of the Hero of Time and the Hero of Twilight. Seems legit, right? Well here's where things get very complicated and confusing to many players including myself. In the first memory that is gathered by Link, Zelda is making him anofficial knight. In this speech, she references to the SS hero, Oot hero and the TP hero, and not the hero from WW. So again, the idea of the game being somewhere in the child timeline is conspicuous. However, if you have played Wind Waker, you know that the Rito tribe is in theory an evaluation of the ancient race of Zora's. This is confirmed by the ancient sage 'Laruto' when she tells Medli that she is a descendant of Laruto herself, even though Medli is a Rito and not a Zora like Laruto. Therefore, confirming the evaluation. There are many things that contribute to this theory/mostly confirmed fact, but I'm not going to explain it all, there are many videos on YouTube explaining it. So after knowing this, it's very confusing as to how the Zora's and Rito exist in the same Hyrule (Sidon, Revali, etc.). Where does the game lie now? Is this Link a descendant of The Hero of The Flood? Does it have a timeline of it's own? Did the timelines merge together somehow? Another thing crossing over from Wind Waker is the Koroks. Again, in WW, it's explained by and ancient sage 'Fado', that the Koroks are an evaluation of the Kokiri children due to the great flood of Hyrule. If this game really does take place in the Child Timeline, then what happened to the Kokiri children? They had no reason to evolve into Koroks like in the Adult Timeline, so that again, is another confusing thing that I have yet to understand. Another unanswered question is: who in the goddesses name is the hero from 10,000 years in the past prior to BOTW. This hero is referenced more than once within BOTW, and was apparently the first hero to witness the Devine beasts and the new guardians made my the shiekas, and that's how Ganon was defeated 10,000 years ago prior to BOTW. But who is this hero? Why was THAT not the story of the game? Why is this story not following directly after one of the video games and references to some random hero no one knows about? These are all questions I am sure everyone wants answered, but so far, Nintendo has only confirmed that BOTW takes place after OOT (wow, thanks for the groundbreaking news Nintendo...). Any who, these are just some things really confusing me and some questions that are VERY unanswered. There are more things that contribute to everyone's confusion, but I think these are the obvious ones.
