The Obligatory Zelda Timeline Theory - Ocarina to Wind Waker

Every Zelda fan has to do a timeline theory at least once in their lives. It's like a tradition or something, passed down from fan to fan until we're all arguing whether there is irrefutable evidence that Wind Waker comes after Twilight Princess while everyone else wonders what the hell's going on. As for me, I follow most people's theories for the first four games, Four Swords Adventures, and Minish Cap, since I've never gotten all the way through them. So this is just my theory for the last four major console games - Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess - and how I think Hyrule developed during those four. (Except in the case of Majora's Mask, which wasn't in Hyrule. Still, I have things to say about it.)

Right. First, obviously I believe that Ocarina is the first in the series. As everyone knows, the goddesses Din, Farore, and Nayru created Hyrule, then left, creating the Triforce and the Sacred Realm when they departed. An evil king rose up from the Gerudo tribe, obtained the Triforce of Power (which was Link's fault...), and took over Hyrule. And a hero rose up, gained the Master Sword and the Triforce of Courage, and defeated him. You know the story. So the question is: what comes after that?

If we're going on location continuity, then Twilight Princess should come after Ocarina/Majora and before Wind Waker. First off, assuming that about a hundred years passed between Twilight Princess and the game before it, the geography of Ocarina had the time to change to that of Twilight Princess (except for a few strangely unexplainable things, like Lake Hylia and Zora's Domain making a sudden jump to the area north of Hyrule Castle). And the Hyrule Castle of Twilight Princess looks like the one from Wind Waker, and the position of the lake behind it makes sense.

Totally lost my train of thought on this, so I'll end it here.