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* 4) Butterflies in some cultures have a strong association with death and resurrection...two motifs VERY heavily tied with the Sheikah as a whole, and their past affiliations with death including ''the Shadow Temple''.

Feel free to add theories about whatever you like.

Compare the weapons they wield and the markers in Gerudo valley from Ocarina of Time. The similarity is pretty striking, isn't it? Plus, the Moblins themselves ([[YouDontLookLikeYou in this game, at least]]) resemble large, bipedal pigs... a form Ganondorf has taken on at the end of almost every game in the series (the exceptions being when he was in that form to begin with [[AbsenteeActor or not there at all]]). In addition, they seem to be a OneGenderRace (all male), which would be a kind of IronicHell for the all-female, [[DoesNotLikeMen man-hating]] Gerudos...

*** ''Plus, the Moblins themselves ([[YouDontLookLikeYou in this game, at least]]) resemble large, bipedal pigs... a form Ganondorf has taken on at the end of almost every game in the series (the exceptions being when he was in that form to begin with [[AbsenteeActor or not there at all]]).'' ...Again, so what? What does this have to do with the Gerudo if Ganondorf is the one who became a pig-monster in every game? And for that matter, the Moblins have resembled pigs in almost all of their appearances to date.

* It's more a case of TakingYouWithMe -- without the Triforce of Power, there's no way that he ''can'' escape, so his only remaining option is to prove his perceived futility of Link and Zelda's "future", by ensuring they drown with him.

[[WMG: Nudge is a Shiekah]]
* Nudge is Zelda's confidant and the strongest of the pirates. In the ancient portrait in Hyrule Castle, his ancestor was the only female attendant. This attendant was the Impa of that time, another nurse maid and bodyguard. Now Nudge fills in the Impa role of sworn protector and lancer.

* Smash isn't knowing for giving accurate or consistent data, though.

[[WMG: The three swordsmen on Outset Island represent the Triforce in total]]
* Orca represents Power. He spends all his time either honing his own physique, or training Link in the ways of the sword.
* Sturgeon represents Wisdom. Retired from swordplay, he spends all his time in careful study. He outright states that he wishes to imbue Link with wisdom.
* Link, obviously, represents Courage.
* Orca considers Sturgeon a weakling and an embarrassment for not maintaining his physical prowess and spending all his time with books. Sturgeon considers Orca a roughian and a JerkJock for spending all his time working out and carelessly breaking Sturgeon's belongings with all the commotion. The two embody what happens when one's life is out of balance, showing that both "all brawn and no brains" and "all brains and no brawn" are paths leading to frustration, anger, and even broken families. Link, on the other hand, learns valuable lessons in Power and Wisdom from them, and balances them with his own Courage to prove himself worthy of being the next Hero.

[[WMG: Tingle is a [[Literature/HarryPotter Death Eater]]]]
* Seriously, look at what's on the back of his green outfit. It's a picture of a cobra about to strike! (When I discovered this, it was during the stormy Endless Night chapter of the game, which made my FridgeHorror even worse.)

[[WMG: The sea and Hyrule are located in an alternate Earth]]
* The constellations are the same as in RealLife. That's enough to guess it.

[[WMG: Windfall is the remains of the Hyrule Castle from [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]]]
* If you look at the town's entrance, it looks similar to the barred guard gate you use to sneak inside to meet Zelda; also, the buildings may have been built from the same materials as the castle itself. It also seems to be where the castle town was.
** But the whole castle is underwater.
** I think this person meant the original castle, since Hyrule Castle seems to be rebuilt every game.
*** I think the person you're responding to means that you actually visit Hyrule Castle, and it's underwater, well south of Windfall, so it can't be the remains of it. Note that the area around Hyrule Castle strongly resembles that around Hyrule Castle in Ocarina of Time, too, so it's not a rebuilt castle in the meantime.
** More likely is that Windfall is the remains of Kakariko Village, not too far from Death Mountain, which would be Dragon Roost Island. The alternative conclusion is that the Castle was actually moved to where Lon Lon Ranch was, which could explain the similar geography, and accurately place Kokiri Forest/Forest Haven, Death Mountain/Dragon Roost Island, Gerudo Fortress/Forsaken Fortress, and possibly Lake Hylia/Outset Island.
** It's highly unlikely that Windfall is the remains of Hyrule Castle from Ocarina of Time. The Wind Waker takes place in the adult timeline, where Adult Link defeated Ganondorf and ceased to exist when he was sent back to the past. The relevance of this is that Ganon destroyed Hyrule Castle, so it no longer exists as of TWW for anyone to build on it. (This incidentally is also why a new castle was built elsewhere in Hyrule after Ganon was sealed in the Sacred Realm and presumably Zelda took the throne.)

[[WMG: Fire Mountain is part of the [[http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Mountain Death Mountain range]]]]
* It is a hot spot that is constantly moving, seeing how Dragon Roost could be Death Mountain but is not as active as before, it could be the Zelda equivalent of the Hawai'i Islands.

[[WMG: Lenzo is Link's grandfather.]]
* When you're in the photo shop at Windfall Island, you can see the photographs Lenzo has taken and get commentary from him as well. When you come to a picture of Outset Island, Lenzo says something like, "When I was but a lad, I met a beautiful young girl there. Although I suspect she is not as young as she once was...". The young girl he means was Link's grandmother when she was only 18 or 19. Lenzo was the same age, and they were young lovers. He left a few weeks after he met her, and nine months later she had Link's mother (or father).
** This troper is speechless...

[[WMG: Outset island is the remains of Lake Hylia waterfront.]]
* The gap between the two islands is the path that led to Hyrule Field; also, Aryll's lookout appears to be built from the remains of the lakeside laboratory, specifically the tower you can access via magic bean.

[[WMG: The Forsaken Fortess once belonged to the Sheikah]]
* Take a good look at the entrance to the Ship perched on top: there are Sheikah eye symbols on the door!
** It ''could'' be a coincidence, though, since there seems to be only a vague resemblance...
* Alternatively Ganon already took out the remnants of the sheik and has been using the half of there ship that isn't at the bottom of the ocean as part of his base and a trophy.
** More likely, the fortress was once the hideout of the Gerudo, since it and their home were in similar locations. [[FridgeHorror Might explain why there are skulls and machetes strung up along the suspiciously-red-splattered walls outside Ganondorf's chamber...]]

[[WMG: Windfall Island is Kakariko Village.]]
It's near Dragon Roost Island, rumored to be Death Mountain, and it has a windmill, just like in [=OoT=], it's the main town, just like it was for most of [=OoT=], and its music has a few points where it sounds like Kakariko Village's theme in [=OoT=]. The only question is how it didn't end up underwater. Perhaps Kakariko is higher up than we thought?
* It's probably meant to be a successor to the original village, built on higher ground by residents who had survived through the flood.

[[WMG: The Queen of the Great Fairies is [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Fi]].]]
An obvious one really. The Queen looks quite a bit like a younger version of Fi (or more accurately, Fi is an older version of the Queen), but since they're both Really700YearsOld, it doesn't really matter. Perhaps, after they flooded Hyrule, they drew Fi out of the Master Sword (Ganondorf killed the two Sages, so it was already de-powered anyways), and made her the new Queen to help the next hero that would inevitably appear. (And if the new appearances of the other Great Fairies in WW isn't a straight-up ArtShift, perhaps Fi recreated them in the interim.) She even says that she likes Link when they meet, probably because he reminds her of her old master.
** It's implied that the form the Fairy Queen takes isn't her true appearance, considering how she goes out of her way to refer to Link as "child" and "young one" - she's clearly reminding him (or at least letting him know) that there's a significant age gap in between them.

[[WMG: Location, Location, Location]]
In between [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]] and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]], there was a Great Flood, which turned Hyrule into the Great Sea. Although most of it was underwater, many of the islands and locations seem to be remnants of the drowned kingdom. (And as for ''how'' those places became islands instead of staying underwater - [[AWizardDidIt the Goddesses raised them up]].)
* The Gerudo Fortress = The Forsaken Fortress
* Castle Town = Windfall Island
** The architecture on the island seems to resemble a castle. The resemblance to Kakariko Village is due to the residents of Kakariko moving to Windfall and rebuilding their homes. Eventually, the sub-cultures/architecture of the people from Castle Town and Kakariko Village merged, and they created Windfall.
* Death Mountain = Dragon Roost Island (& Fire Mountain)
** In [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]], it’s implied that the Gorons don’t need to breathe, and can stay underwater indefinitely. So most of them may have felt no need to evacuate to higher ground when the Flood came. (The three traveling merchants -- all clearly Gorons -- located on Greatfish Isle, Bomb Island, and Mother and Child Isles remain on the surface for business purposes.) So the Gorons stayed in Goron City.
*** The Zoras, on the other hand, despite being highly adapted to aquatic environments, weren’t so lucky. Although they seem at home in the water with their fins and gills, their humanoid bodies imply that they aren’t meant to be in the water ''all'' the time.
*** In real life, most fish are meant to be in either saltwater or freshwater; only a few, like bull sharks, can swim and breathe in both. Some of the Zoras, by praying to the Goddess Nayru, were able to adapt quickly to the saltwater environment, and settled on Greatfish Isle [[spoiler:until it was destroyed and they all disappeared]]. To thank Her, they created Nayru’s Pearl, which housed some of power of the Goddess Herself. They also hatched, nurtured, and raised Lord Jabun, the offspring of the demi-god Lord Jabu-Jabu, to watch over them as the new living Water Spirit.
*** The other Zoras travelled north to the top of Death Mountain, and turned to the Goddess Din for aid. In answer to their prayers, She gave them avian features (beaks, feathers, wings) to protect them from the scorching heat, and entrusted a dragon egg to them. This egg held the single surviving offspring of the dragon Volvagia, who was slain by the Hero of Time. When the egg hatched, Din deemed the newborn dragon to be Lord Valoo, the living Sky Spirit. The Zoras, no longer being Zoras, began to call themselves Ritos, in memory of Ruto, the Princess (and later Queen) of the Zoras in ancient times.
*** Although the Ritos had wings, their wings were not big or strong enough to enable flight. So Din instructed Valoo to give each adult Rito one of his scales (which grew back easily). These scales triggered a magical “growth spurt” that caused a Rito’s wings to grow big enough to allow flight. Eventually, it became customary for young Ritos to visit Valoo and receive their wings when they came of age. To thank the Goddess for Her kindness, the Ritos created Din’s Pearl, which housed some of the power of the Goddess Herself.
*** Well, the bits about the three pearls are jossed; they were created by the goddesses themselves, as part of the trials protecting the Master Sword. Also, WordOfGod is that Koroks are the form Kokiri take when they leave the woods, which is why they appear that way in ''The Wind Waker'' and ''Breath of the Wild''.
* Kokiri Village & The Lost Woods = The Forest Haven & The Forbidden Woods
** When the Great Flood came, the Kokiri were completely unprepared. They were afraid to leave their forest, and couldn’t bear to abandon their guardian, the Great Deku Tree. The Deku Tree, who had just reached his juvenile stage of growth, prayed to the Goddess Farore for aid.
*** The Goddess answered by taking away the burden of the human forms the Kokiri took on. They shed their mimicked humanoid features and became what they had always been underneath: the Koroks.
*** The Kokiri, despite their mammalian appearance, had always been sentient plant-people. Instead of blood, they had chlorophyll keeping them alive. When they became the Koroks, they became lightweight enough to use the leaves that the Great Deku Tree shed as makeshift “wings”.
*** To thank the Goddess for Her kindness, the Koroks created Farore’s Pearl, which housed some of the power of the Goddess Herself.
** The Forbidden Woods may also be the former Kokiri village. Remember the two or three cabins containing treasure chests? They basically look like empty Kokiri houses. The Forest Haven may be just the Deku Tree's alcove; the Kokiri may have had to take refuge there becauce it was the only protected place.
-->''Once upon a time, long ago, the Koroks took on human forms, but when they came to live on the sea, they took these shapes.''
--The Great Deku to Link, when the Koroks reveal themselves.

[[WMG: Nudge is a Shiekah]]

* Nudge is Zelda's confidant and the strongest of the pirates. In the ancient portrait in Hyrule Castle, his ancestor was the only female attendant. This attendant was the Impa of that time, another nurse maid and bodyguard. Now Nudge fills in the Impa role of sworn protector and lancer.

[[WMG: The Great Sea is a colony of a technologically advanced civilization]]
* The Great Sea is filled with examples of high technology, not the least of which is an electronic device functioning like a cell phone (Tingle Tuner), the multiple self-propelled boats (Beedle's Shop Ship), and the existence of cameras with the ability to save, copy, and delete images at will, much like a digital camera. The reason why the Great Sea does not have much more technology is because it is a faraway colony. The Great Sea is also very similar to maritime Europe of the 1700s, when European colonies were well established with working trade between colony and mother country. The Great Sea as seen in ''The Wind Waker'' does not have any sources or processing systems for textiles, food, or other necessary raw materials; these items are brought from the civilization mentioned earlier.

[[WMG: Ganondorf was KilledOffForReal at the end of Wind Waker.]]

[[WMG: The Triforce's wish-granting powers are the only reason Ganon is turned to stone.]]
* At the end of his speech, once the Triforce is active and submerging Hyrule forever, King Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule adds one last thing:
->"Ganondorf! May you drown with Hyrule!!"
The Triforce took him at his word, ensuring that Ganon stays sealed as a stone at the bottom of the ocean for all time.
* Well, the king wasn't touching the Triforce when he said that part. He directed it more at Ganondorf himself than as a wish to the gods.

[[WMG: The Wind Waker baton doesn't make a sound.]]
The tones the audience hears as the cursor moves back and forth are merely from a built-in metronome of sorts. From Link's point of view, there's no sound whatsoever, just the flashes of light at the tip of the baton to help him keep time. The brief music that we hear after the player makes the correct input is actually the wind (or various spirits, if Link is indoors or underground) singing as Link conducts them.

[[WMG:Link is not a reincarnation of the Hero of Time]]
He's just a normal boy who happens to have a resemblance to him. His name might not even be "Link", since apparently not all Link's are named "Link".
* This is already confirmed, as the resurrection cycle was broken in this timeline after the Hero of Time returned to his timeline.

[[WMG: Ganon was a DeathSeeker]]
Think about it. His actions do not resonate as someone who wants to live. They really seem more like someone who is just looking to make enough noise that someone will try to stop him, allowing him to commit SuicideByCop. Even his speech doesn't sound like someone who wants to win, but rather someone who's just sick of it all, was tired of fighting, and just wanted it to be done. He didn't even try to flee the sinking Hyrule...like at all.
* It's more a case of TakingYouWithMe - without the Triforce of Power, there's no way that he ''can'' escape, so his only remaining option is to prove his perceived futility of Link and Zelda's "future", by ensuring they drown with him.

[[WMG: Ice Ring Isle was a lot bigger, until it melted.]]
The first line of the "The Cutting Room Floor" article claims that ''Wind Waker'' depicts the Zeldaverse after global warming. What if they're right?

They look very alike - Wizzrobes resemble toucans, and Rito resemble hawks or gulls, and that can easily be attributed to an EvilMakeover.

[[WMG: Tetra's family originally hailed from Greatfish Isle.]]
It would've been quite a leap for them to have switched from "ruling family of the kingdom" to "terrifying gang of pirates who pilfer and rob their own former subjects" - it's only sensible that they initially adopted a more obscure lifestyle as peaceful islanders, to hide their noble origins and keep under the radar in the event that Ganon ever made his return. Then, a few generations later, a group of them tired of that kind of life and switched to piracy on the open seas. Jabun even asks the King of Red Lions whether he has found one who carries on the royal line, whereas neither of the other spirits ever mention this, suggesting that he may've been in touch with them when they lived on his home island, and then lost contact after they left.

It would also explain Tetra's odd behavior during the Nayru's Pearl questline, and why she would be more concerned about Outset's well-being than treasure and riches. She's already seen her home destroyed by Ganon and doesn't want the same thing to happen to Link's island. She doesn't actually care ''who'' gets the pearl.

[[WMG: Vaati created the Wind Waker]]
Vaati the Wind Mage was [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap originally a student of the magician Ezlo]], who created magic items such as the Minish Cap. Vaati created the Wind Waker under tutelage of his master, before transforming into the evil eyeball we all know today.

[[WMG: Fi tried to contact Tetra in this game]]
Similarly to ''Breath of the Wild'', Fi had attempted to make contact with Tetra to warn her about the Master Sword's power being lost, which was signified by the sword vibrating in her presence when she reunited with Link in the Forsaken Fortress. The unfortunate part was that Tetra couldn't understand her, because she hadn't unlocked Hylia's sacred power like ''Wild''-Zelda had.

[[WMG: The Hero of Winds is descended from ''The Minish Cap'' Link.]]
This would explain how Link's "family shield" was also "used by the hero himself" - the game's backstory implies that this was the Hero of Time, but it looks nothing like the Kokiri or Hylian Shields, and the Hero of Time didn't sire any descendants in this timeline. It looks ''identical'', however, to the Small Shield that Zelda gives to Link in ''The Minish Cap.'' The Links from both games are also identical to each other, and are the only iterations to have grandparents.

It's also what makes Link the perfect candidate for the new hero - he's not a reincarnation of any previous one, nor is he a descendant of the Hero of Time...but he ''is'' the descendant of Minish Link, one of the only two heroes who still existed in this branch.

[[WMG: Gannondorf didn't seem to hate Wind Waker Link because he didn't have the Spirit of the Hero.]]
Gannon(dorf) is know to be an if not the incarnation of the curse Demise put on the Spirit of the Hero. Now assuming the Spirit stayed with Ocarina of Time Link when he went to Termina this Link naturally wouldn't posses it, so there was no reason for Gannon(dorf) to hate him.
* While this does make sense in theory, Ganondorf never shows any signs of ''not'' hating this iteration of Link. He still has the Helmaroc King toss him into the sea, tries to kill him himself before Tetra intervenes, and even tells Link not to betray his expectations before putting him up against Puppet Ganon. It would seem that Ganondorf is basically testing the Hero of Winds just as the Golden Goddesses were, trying to figure out whether this new hero is worthy of his unyielding hatred and fury. (And in the end, he seems to decide that yes, he is.)

[[WMG: The "persona" of Tetra was due to the same magic that turned Zelda into Sheik]]
* The two characters have a lot in common - they're both alter-egos of the princess with the intent of keeping hidden from Ganondorf, both have tan skin, advanced skillsets in sneakery, and wear primarily blue and white, with red accents. Here's how it happened: when the Great Flood occurred, the princess of the time used the Triforce of Wisdom to assume the form of Sheik, like her ancestor did, when she escaped to the surface of the Great Sea, and this magical guise was passed down onto her descendants, although intermingling with Hylians over the years led to certain features (namely the red eyes) being weaned out of the bloodline. This explains why Tetra and Princess Zelda have different skin tones and body types - it's not " what she would look like if she were born as Princess Zelda" -- it's what she naturally looks like, without the magic of the Triforce of Wisdom keeping her in disguise.

[[WMG:''Wind Waker'' Link and Zelda are older than they look]]
They look like ten-year-old kids because of the art style, but think about it. At the beginning of the game, Link's Granny says he's the same age as the Legendary Hero. But Wind Waker takes place in the adult timeline where Link did his best work at the age of 17. Also, his age in the game is never actually given (at least not in game).
* Toon Link's trophy in [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl Brawl]] states that he was 12.

[[WMG: Location, Location, Location]]
In between ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'', there was a Great Flood, which turned Hyrule into the Great Sea. Although most of it was underwater, many of the islands and locations seem to be remnants of the drowned kingdom. (And as for ''how'' those places became islands instead of staying underwater - [[AWizardDidIt the Goddesses raised them up]].)
* The Gerudo Fortress = The Forsaken Fortress.
* Castle Town = Windfall Island.
** The architecture on the island seems to resemble a castle. The resemblance to Kakariko Village is due to the residents of Kakariko moving to Windfall and rebuilding their homes. Eventually, the sub-cultures/architecture of the people from Castle Town and Kakariko Village merged, and they created Windfall.
** Doesn't explain its proximity to Death Mountain/Dragon Roost, nor how it's so far from the castle. I suggest that it's the opposite: as seen in (what led to the other timelines from) [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]], the moment Ganondorf came back everyone in Castle Town ran off to Kakariko. The castle-like structure is what they knew as the best barricade against either Ganondorf or the threat of pirates in the chaotic years that probably followed the flood.
* Death Mountain = Dragon Roost Island (& Fire Mountain)
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'', it's implied that the Gorons don't need to breathe, and can stay underwater indefinitely. So most of them may have felt no need to evacuate to higher ground when the Flood came. (The three traveling merchants -- all clearly Gorons -- located on Greatfish Isle, Bomb Island, and Mother and Child Isles remain on the surface for business purposes.) So the Gorons stayed in Goron City.
*** The Zoras, on the other hand, despite being highly adapted to aquatic environments, weren’t so lucky. Although they seem at home in the water with their fins and gills, their humanoid bodies imply that they aren’t meant to be in the water ''all'' the time.
*** In real life, most fish are meant to be in either saltwater or freshwater; only a few, like bull sharks, can swim and breathe in both. Some of the Zoras, by praying to the Goddess Nayru, were able to adapt quickly to the saltwater environment, and settled on Greatfish Isle [[spoiler:until it was destroyed and they all disappeared]]. To thank Her, they created Nayru's Pearl, which housed some of power of the Goddess Herself. They also hatched, nurtured and raised Lord Jabun, the offspring of the demigod Lord Jabu-Jabu, to watch over them as the new living Water Spirit.
*** The other Zoras travelled north to the top of Death Mountain, and turned to the Goddess Din for aid. In answer to their prayers, She gave them avian features (beaks, feathers, wings) to protect them from the scorching heat, and entrusted a dragon egg to them. This egg held the single surviving offspring of the dragon Volvagia, who was slain by the Hero of Time. When the egg hatched, Din deemed the newborn dragon to be Lord Valoo, the living Sky Spirit. The Zoras, no longer being Zoras, began to call themselves Ritos, in memory of Ruto, the Princess (and later Queen) of the Zoras in ancient times.
*** Although the Ritos had wings, their wings were not big or strong enough to enable flight. So Din instructed Valoo to give each adult Rito one of his scales (which grew back easily). These scales triggered a magical "growth spurt" that caused a Rito’s wings to grow big enough to allow flight. Eventually, it became customary for young Ritos to visit Valoo and receive their wings when they came of age. To thank the Goddess for Her kindness, the Ritos created Din's Pearl, which housed some of the power of the Goddess Herself.
* Kokiri Village and the Lost Woods = the Forest Haven and the Forbidden Woods
** When the Great Flood came, the Kokiri were completely unprepared. They were afraid to leave their forest, and couldn’t bear to abandon their guardian, the Great Deku Tree. The Deku Tree, who had just reached his juvenile stage of growth, prayed to the Goddess Farore for aid.
*** The Goddess answered by taking away the burden of the human forms the Kokiri took on. They shed their mimicked humanoid features and became what they had always been underneath: the Koroks.
*** The Kokiri, despite their mammalian appearance, had always been sentient plant-people. Instead of blood, they had chlorophyll keeping them alive. When they became the Koroks, they became lightweight enough to use the leaves that the Great Deku Tree shed as makeshift "wings".
*** To thank the Goddess for Her kindness, the Koroks created Farore's Pearl, which housed some of the power of the Goddess Herself.
--->''Once upon a time, long ago, the Koroks took on human forms, but when they came to live on the sea, they took these shapes.''\\
--The Great Deku to Link, when the Koroks reveal themselves.

[[WMG: ''The Wind Waker'' was all an elaborate plan by the King of Red Lions and Ganondorf to get rid of the Triforce and break the cycle]]
Following on in a way from the theory that the Goddesses want Ganondorf to have the Triforce of Power. While in most games he's in he'd do anything to get the other pieces, ''Wind Waker'' Ganondorf shows a lot more restraint, and before the final fight refuses to kill Link or Zelda to get the Triforce pieces that way. It's possible that after the great flood and the sealing away of the majority of his power, he has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment, possibly when he realizes that he doomed his own race in his bid for glory and a decent place to live. He's smart enough to realize that he's stuck in a cycle and the only thing that can stop him is Link with the Triforce of Courage, which got shattered when Link went back at the end of ''[=OoT=]''. So he conspires with the former King of Hyrule, who's as fed up with the cycle as he is, and they plan to reform the two missing shards in the hope of using the Triforce to hit a great big reset button undoing the great flood and possibly the 7 years of evil rule. To do this, Ganon has to be evil for evil's sake to encourage this: Kidnapping any girl who could possibly be Zelda.

It all goes well when ''WW'' Link takes out the Master Sword and Tetra is revealed to be Zelda; all Link has to do is re-unite the Triforce of courage under the guidance of the King of Red Lions. However, during this time, The King decides that he can't trust Ganondorf, possibly by his off-screen handling of Zelda (who was probably resisting capture) and trying to break out of sunken Hyrule, and decides to stab Ganondorf in the back by having Link re-awaken the Master Sword to its full potential so it can kill Ganondorf. When all this is revealed, Ganondorf has a VillainousBreakdown.

[[WMG: Tetra and ''WW'' Link are currently in the possession of their Triforce pieces.]]
We never saw the Triforce again after it split up to flood Hyrule once and for all, so it may have gone back to Tetra and Link, since they are its chosen holders. This also opens up the possibility that Ganon(dorf) is still alive, since ''Twilight Princess'' has shown how damn hard he is to kill with the Triforce of Power on his hand. The Master Sword probably just put him into stasis, like it did with Hyrule. Also, the grafik of ''Phantom Hourglass'' stylized Tetra's and Link's hands so much that it would be very hard to tell if they were having the symbols on them, and Link seems to be a lot stronger in this game than he was in ''Wind Waker'', beating more temples in shorter time (but this could just be due to that stupid Triforce-shard-quest in WW...)

[[WMG: Just like ''Ocarina of Time'''s Zelda was one of the seven sages of the sacred realm, ''The Wind Waker'''s Link is the third sage of the Master Sword.]]
He's using an instrument and the Master Sword doesn't completely get back all of its power until he finds the Triforce of Courage and, therefore "awakens".
* Last I checked, it was back at full power when Makar joined Medli in prayer for the Master Sword's power. How does it power up again when you get the Triforce Of Courage without saying so?
** The Triforce symbol on the hilt lights up.
* This seems to be supported by ''Skyward Sword'': The Goddess Sword is imbued with the power of the three flames and becomes the Master Sword, but it isn't until Zelda affords it the power of the Triforce that it becomes The True Master Sword.

[[WMG: There are no fish in the great sea because Ganondorf killed them.]]
Everybody who played ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' knows that Ganondorf's one weakness is, in fact, NOT the Master Sword, but that fancy ''fishing rod'' Colin made for Link. Clearly, ''Wind Waker'' Ganondorf wanted to eliminate the possibility of anyone facing him with a fishing-rod in his inventory, so he killed all the fish. Simple.
* But not all the fish in ''Wind Waker'' are killed, so possibly... that debt the first one you meet mentioned was incurred because they asked for the king's protection... and maybe they weren't technically his responsibility to begin with? Unless there's something that actually states what that debt was all about...

[[WMG:Hyrule flooded because of the moonfall in Termina.]]
Since Link may not have been there to awaken the giants, stop Skull Kid, and prevent the moon from falling, the moon leaves a huge crater with large fissures across Termina, forcing a rift through the area that Link fell through early in the game. Much of the ocean around Termina drained into the rift, and filled Hyrule with the water that the goddesses supposedly sent to purge the land of Ganon's influence. The moonfall caused the mountains to rise as the water came through, so the goddesses may have done at least that to keep the primary landmarks of Hyrule intact.

* Alternatively, destroying the moon simply caused massive tidal issues.
* Or how about this one: Hyrule is flat, and Termina is on the opposite side (explaining how Link could "fall" through the plane and end up on the other side), but they have a single ocean which wraps around the side of the flat plane. Previously, the gravity of Termina's moon exerted tidal forces that kept most of the ocean on the Termina side (which is why Termina had more watery areas than Hyrule -- the Great Bay and the Southern Swamp). Once the moon was destroyed, the water washed back, flooding Hyrule.
** This would imply that the Hyrule/Termina plane has two moons, one that was always in a fixed position over Termina, and another that rotates around the entire plane. But then why would we not see a second moon traveling overhead in Termina?
** Of course, since Hyrule's moon is never seen during the day, one reasonable explanation is that while Hyrule/Termina rotates, the sun and moon are in fixed positions on opposite sides of the plane. Once we're talking about flat planets, pretty much all we know about astronomy can be thrown out the window. INeedAFreakingDrink.
* Given that ''Majora's Mask'' features Link barely older than in ''[=OoT=]''[='=]s child section, and the Great Flood takes place some time after Ganondorf's defeat in the adult section, there is no way the two events could match up unless the moon was somehow delayed for multiple years, or the effects of its impact were just that long-winded.

*** The Kokiri, despite their mammalian appearance, had always been sentient plant-people. Instead of blood, they had chlorophyll keeping them alive. When they became the Koroks, they became lightweight enough to use the leaves that the Great Deku Tree shed as makeshift “wings”.

Feel free to add theories about whatever you like

** While this is an interesting theory and I'm not totally against it, there are a few things I have to point out. First, there are most definitely hints that a settlement once existed on Greatfish Isle; there are two canoes sitting on the beach and what looks like a wrecked hut atop one of the slopes. The letter you get from Aryll doesn't say anything about her eventually returning to Outset or that you should go and meet her there at some point; all it says is, "I'm with the pirates, I'm sending you some money, you can keep using my telescope, and good luck." (And speaking of letters, you're never sent one from the Deku Tree or anyone else from the Forest Haven, so that sort of undermines that point.) And your last point is written as though it's unusual for Aryll to still be on the pirate ship at that point in the story, despite that she was with them when you last heard from her and hadn't been returned to Outset since then. It's as if you're trying to write around a problem that isn't really there.
** Also important to note is that Aryll doesn't play an instrument like the two other sages do. If they were far enough along to have a pre-rendered ending cutscene that tied into her being a sage, it's improbable that they wouldn't also have given her an instrument to play. It's more likely that the third sage would be someone you met at Greatfish Island who worked as Jabun's attendant, before it was changed to being destroyed in the final game.

** Also important to note is that Aryll doesn't play an instrument like the two other sages do. If they were far enough along to have a pre-rendered ending cutscene that tied into her being a sage, it's improbable that they wouldn't also have given her an instrument to play. It's more likely that the third sage would be someone you met at Greatfish Island, before it was changed to being destroyed in the final game.

** While this is an interesting theory and I'm not totally against it, there are a few things I have to point out. First, there are most definitely hints that a settlement once existed on Greatfish Isle; there are two canoes sitting on the beach and what looks like a wrecked hut atop one of the slopes. The letter you get from Aryll doesn't say anything about her eventually returning to Outset or that you should go and meet her there at some point; all it says is, "I'm with the pirates, I'm sending you some money, you can keep using my telescope, and good luck." (And speaking of letters, you're never sent one from the Deku Tree or anyone else from the Forest Haven, so that sort of undermines that point.) And your last point is written as though it's unusual for Aryll to still be on the pirate ship at that point in the story, despite that she was with them when you last heard from her and hadn't been returned to Outset since then.

** While this is an interesting theory and I'm not totally against it, there are a few things I have to point out. First, there are most definitely hints that a settlement once existed on Greatfish Isle; there are two canoes sitting on the beach and what looks like a wrecked hut atop one of the slopes. The letter you get from Aryll doesn't say anything about her eventually returning to Outset or that you should go and meet her there at some point; all it says is, "I'm with the pirates, I'm sending you some money, you can keep using my telescope, and good luck." (And speaking of letters, you also are never sent one by the Deku Tree or anyone in the Forest Haven. I'm not sure where you got that from.) And your entire last point is written as though it's unusual at all for Aryll to still be on the Pirate ship at that point in the story, despite that she was with them when you last heard from her and hadn't been returned to Outset since then.

** While this is an interesting theory and I'm not totally against it, there are a few things I have to point out. First, there are most definitely hints that a settlement once existed on Greatfish Isle; there are two canoes sitting on the beach and what looks like a wrecked hut atop one of the slopes. The letter you get from Aryll doesn't say anything about her eventually returning to Outset or that you should go and meet her there at some point; all it says is, "I'm with the pirates, I'm sending you some money, you can keep using my telescope, and good luck." And your entire last point is written as though it's unusual at all for Aryll to still be on the Pirate ship at that point in the story, despite that she was with them when you last heard from her and hadn't been returned to Outset since then.

Gannon(dorf) is know to be an if not the incarnation of the curse Demise put on the Spirit of the Hero. Now assuming the Spirit stayed with Ocarina of Time Link when he went to Termina this Link naturally wouldn't posses it, so there was no reason for Gannon(dorf) to hate him.

[[WMG: Gannondorf didn't seem to hate WW-Link because he didn't have the Spirit of the Hero.]]
Gannon(dorf) is know to be an if not the incarnation of the curse Demise put on the Spirit of the Hero. Now assuming the Spirit stayed with OoT-Link when he went to Termina this Link naturally wouldn't posses it, so there was no reason for Gannon(dorf) to hate him.