Author's Note: I warn you, this will contain spoilers and some will be from my own mind.

In the beginning, legend says three goddesses created the land, the creatures upon the land, and the code by which those creatures live. As these goddesses left, they created a symbol of their power to be left in the newly formed world. This symbol became known as the Triforce, and symbolized order, justice, and power to the inhabitants of the world.

As time passed, a great war began. The races divided and fought for supremacy. The Sheikah, the Hylians, the Gerudos, the Zoras, the gorons; all waged war on one another and battled ferociously. Alliances were formed and broken, and thousands died in the bloody melee. The only place spared from the insidious destruction was the Kokiri Forest, a place that was certain death for any to enter, and certain death for the Kokiris to leave.

Near the end of this war, a lone Hylian, fearing for the life of her son, sought refuge in the Kokiri Forest. She died soon after. The baby was named Link by the Great Deku Tree, after the bond of love between him and his mother. A Hylian in a world of Kokiris, he was outcast by all but the Great Deku Tree and a girl named Saria. A Gerudo king began appearing in the boys dreams, and when that Gerudo cursed the Deku Tree, it became obvious that the boy was indeed meant for a task. Young Link was sent off on a quest to meet the Princess of Destiny, a girl of the same age as Link named Zelda. She then sent him on a quest to draw the Master Sword and obtain the Triforce before the evil Ganondorf could be allowed to. Ultimately, this quest proved foolish and allowed Ganondorf to achieve his goals. While Link, proclaimed as the Hero of Time, was frozen in the now tainted Sacred Realm, Ganondorf began a seven year reign of terror.

When Link awoke, he began righting wrongs and making the six sages realize the power that they each held. Using this power, they helped Link remove Ganondorf's Evil and Zelda finally reversed time such that Link never met Zelda.

Zelda transports Link back to the time just before he met her for the first time. Remembering the seven long years of misery and countless deaths that came from talking to Zelda, Link turns around and leaves for the forest again. Link is disliked by the Kokiri because of Mido's influence and his belief that Link killed the Deku Tree, and is ostracized from the community. After months of enduring scorn and hate, Link moves into the lost woods after buying Epona to raise in remembrance of his adventure and as a reminder of what he could have been. Then Majora's mask happens. Link returns and lives out the rest of his life alone, pondering the events he saw and emotionally scarred by his time as a Deku Scrub. He died alone and friendless, having long since pushed away Saria.

While Link was on his hermitage, evil slowly crept into the Kokiri Forest because the Deku Tree had died. The Kokiri live in fear and no new Kokiris are created, because there is no tree to create them. The Deku Sprout never emerges and, as a seed will, died underground. Eventually, many years later, the Kokiri race is eradicated by it's fear and the lack of a guardian. They don't appear in LttP. The Lost Woods envelop the Kokiri Forest, and a mist descends on it. The name Link was forever associated with evil, and reserved only for orphans.

Meanwhile, the Gorons die of starvation without someone to figure out how to open Dodongo's Cavern. The body of Big Goron petrifies quickly, as is the custom of Gorons. Weathering from the turbulent clouds atop the peak worked oddly on the large stone, softening the Goron's features into a semblance of a Turtle. Goron City is altered by dripping water, and becomes what the Hylians will much later carve into the Turtle Rock dungeon, after magically creating an entrance through the mouth of the long-dead Goron. The species dies out, not to be seen in LttP or ever again.

The Zoras, having never met Link, fret over the ailing Jabu Jabu and the missing Princess Ruto. Ruto is, unfortunately destroyed by the invaders in Jabu Jabu just before the patron god of the Zoras dies. The royal family ends with King Zora, who has no more heirs. Disillusioned and leaderless, the Zoras vow revenge on the Gerudos who they blamed for both deaths, but with time their goal becomes blurred and they begin attacking every human-like land dweller. As the Zoras begin attacking land more and more, the octoroks learned to feed on their kills. They became first semi-terrain, then amphibious, then finally completely land-dwelling. This occurs rapidly, and is complete by the time LttP takes place.

A rogue wizard discovered the knowledge that Zelda possessed, and, in a rage that she did not act to prevent the decadence of the other races, doomed her to sleep until the man with the triforce symbol on his hand again retrieves the Triforce of Courage. Impa, enraged over such an act, exiled the wizard. In memorial, every princess thereafter was named Zelda.

Ganondorf, meanwhile, grows frustrated when he is unable to enter the Sacred Realm. He wages war on the unprepared Hylians, and the land becomes soaked with blood from both sides. The Hylians begin training wizards and discover powerful spells of all kinds. These wizards beat back the Gerudos, barely. Ganondorf becomes angry with his losers and, in a fit of anger, slaughters every other Gerudo. Inadvertently, by using such a great quantity of magic, the wizards weakened the seal between the Sacred Realm and Hyrule. Ganondorf gathered more followers from Hylians who had rebelled and saw Ganon as their equal. they forced their way into the sacred Realm, something Ganondorf couldn't do by himself. Having used the thieves and murderers, Ganondorf slaughtered them and got the Triforce. In Hyrule, the wizards worked feverishly to repair the seal, and narrowly managed to trap Ganondorf. Unfortunately, their seals kept the two pieces of Triforce that Ganondorf couldn't hold in the Sacred Realm. Ganondorf easily retrieved them and used the power of the Triforce of Wisdom to discover a way back into Hyrule. Since the speed of time in the Sacred Realm is greatly increased compared to that of Hyrule (when it is sealed off, anyway), by the time he could gain even minimal access to Hyrule, it was centuries later. Controlling the pawn Agnahim, Ganon began Link to the Past.

Agnahim secretly created natural disasters, and caused pestilence nationwide. None in the kingdom could stop the destruction, and so accepted him with open arms when he caused the destruction to cease. He gained power with the King, finally overthrowing him and killing him. He then, on Ganon's orders, began kidnapping and sending the descendants of the sages into the Sacred Realm. Link, an orphan raised by his uncle, receives a telepathic message to help Zelda. After receiving the Master Sword, he freed the descendants and beat Ganon. Then, with the complete Triforce, he restored all in Hyrule to glory and brought the Triforce back out of the Sacred Realm. A Golden age was begun in Hyrule. The name Link became associated with glory and courage again.

Thousands of years passed, with Ganon dead and Hyrule at peace. A knight, as a safeguard, hid the defunct Triforce of Courage in a distant land. Eventually, a young man from a distant kingdom appeared. His name: Mandrag Ganon. With relative ease, he stole the Triforce of Power. When he did, the greed in his soul turned him into a Pig. Zelda took the Triforce of Wisdom and broke it into 8 pieces, hiding each in a dungeon guarded by a powerful but mindless beast. Impa was sent out to find a man worthy of beating the new Ganon.

Impa was ambushed by a group of Ganon's soldiers, and a young man from a nearby country leaped to her rescue. This man was named Link. It fell on him to retrieve the broken Triforce, defeat Ganon, and save the captured and soon to be slaughtered princess. He did all these things, and Ganon was reduced to ashes which his followers kept. It was rumored that the blood of the Hero could resurrect Ganon again, and the followers of the dead man stuck to that.

One day, a strange symbol of a Triforce appeared on Link's hand. Impa, now old, remembered her first ward and hurried Link on a quest for the third piece of the Triforce. He succeeded, and Zelda was awoken.