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Before Wind Waker, the world was flooded, and {{spoiler|the country of the real Zanarkand}} may or may not be on an oceanic world, but it is long ago in Spira's history, with plenty of time for Hyrule, a neighboring kingdom, to become magically flooded and the waters to spill over to the rest of the world. The reason Hyrule never really has an increase in technological level is because the goddesses want to {{spoiler|keep it safe from Sin}}. The [http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda_(upcoming_Wii_game) WiiTV April Fools' commercial] (which isn't actually a prank, but Nintendo hushed them up about it) shares the building style and potentially the now-lost technology of {{spoiler|Zanarkand}}, and possibly takes place there before Link goes to Hyrule fleeing the [[Big Bad]] who later becomes/enables/is replaced by Ganondorf/Ganon. The [[MacGuffin]] is the artifact that will eventually become the Master Sword, which becomes depowered not after waiting, but rather after incarnating Link's soul- [[Fan Nickname|Steve]], or (my preferred name) as suggested by another troper on the Just Bugs Me page, Reido, is a (possibly living) statue that houses the machinery: It [http://eudict.com/?lang=japeng&word=Reido crystallizes] a soul and enables it to be "unfrozen" later in time- usually in a different body, but in rare cases like Ocarina of Time, the same body several years later. The first Link (likely with a different canon name, something with a similar meaning to "anchor") has a Pyrrhic Victory at the end of the game, just escaping the [[Big Bad]] at the cost of his life, and having fled to what would eventually be Hyrule, must himself use the device to keep the [[Big Bad]] from being able to take over the world by unfreezing each time he reincarnates or comes back into power. The Goddesses made the soul fragments into the shards of the Triforce (Power for Ganon-to-be and Courage for Link, no idea who Wisdom/Zelda are yet) before making Hyrule (the country, not the world, although they could easily have made the world in the first place).

First off, the constellations in Wind Waker are the same as Earths, Such as Orion and Ursa Major. It appears many of the symbols from Hyrule became town emblems of several southern Japanese cities in the modern day. For instance, the island village of Aogashima has a town flag that [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Flag_of_Aogashima%2C_Tokyo.png looks like the inverted triforce insignia] found on the doors of outset island, both of which are on the far south of the area of islands they are grouped with. At the end of Wind Waker, Link, Tetra, the sages, and the pirates embark on an expedition to found a new Hyrule on a large landmass. If they went north, they probably came across mainland Japan, and began colonizing it. Spirit tracks actually takes place in southern Japan. As for alternate timeline, due to the lack of modern historical or folk Hylian records, it's likely that Ganondorf never managed to free himself from the flooded Hyrule, and Japan was colonized by ordinary citizens who were unaware of the old legends. It might not be alternate, though, if the folk tales and records just faded with time, of if the area was struck with a catastrophe, setting technology back with the rest of the world and destroying the old records.