And the "split timeline" theory follows two different Links, one as the adult who defeated Ganon and saved Hyrule, then kept the Master Sword and went on as the Hero of Time. While the second Link was the kid version, he put the Master Sword back in the pedestal after defeating Ganon and went back to his childhood (the ending we saw in OoT). I was under the impression that the stuff he did as a kid remained in tact, but he never really saved Hyrule at that stage, so no one really knew of him. And even if they did, that was Hyrule. Kid Link then traveled to Termina, a completely different land with completely different problems.
I can't remember why Termina has characters that look like the ones from OoT, I think it was because Termina was some kind of darker version of Hyrule or some such.
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