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Sarkhan: An entire world has gone missing on my account Ugin. And though I had no love for it it was my home. What of that Tarkir?
Ugin: It is gone. Not only gone - the world you remember never existed and its people met very different fates.

"I hate alternate timelines. They make for messy bookkeeping."
— Squishydodo, Black-ops elf, Sluggy Freelance

Doc Brown: Obviously, the time continuum has been disrupted creating this new temporal event sequence, resulting in this alternate reality.
Marty McFly: English, Doc.
Doc: Here, here-here. Let me- Let me illustrate.
(He moves aside cardboard boxes to set up his chalkboard)
Doc: Imagine... that this line represents time. (draws a line) 1985... the future... the past. Prior to this point in time, somewhere in the past, the timeline skewed into this tangent (draws a diverging line), creating an alternate 1985. Alternate to you, me, and Einstein, but reality for everyone else.

Cell: All right, kiddo, tell me - what do you know about time travel?
Trunks:...Less than I should.
Cell: Well, how do you suppose I got here?
Trunks: Well, my time machine, obviously.
Cell: Yuh-huh. And how do you think I got said time machine?
Trunks: [worried look] I don't wanna answer that.
Cell: Here's the thing: multiverse theory's a bitch.

When Terrako—pursued by Ganon's Malice—arrived from the future, a new world was born.
— "Splintered Worlds" loading screen from Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity

"This place was once the temple where I travelled through time. I fought back and forth across time, so some called me the Hero of Time. I defeated Ganondorf... then Princess Zelda turned back time seven years, and Ganondorf was executed before he could do anything... so no catastrophe befell Hyrule. History changed, and the fight between Ganondorf and me never occurred. What you saw earlier were events in a flow of time that branched away and broke off."


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