One of the greatest mysteries of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom It has finally been revealed: at what exact moment in the timeline the plot takes place in relation to his previous game.
A few weeks ago, the global furor for the game’s premiere was maintained at the same time that everyone was exploring every possible corner of this title.
But at the same time, the further we got into this adventure, the more obvious the serious doubt became about at what moment in the official timeline of the franchise the events of this game and the previous one happened.
In the end, knowing the general eras of the canon, it is possible to locate both plots at some point after the writing stage. The decline of Hyrule and the last hero (The Hero is Defeated).
It’s quite possible even that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and the new Tears of the Kingdom represent the first two parts of a new era following the controversial Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.
However, even with this complex calculation for those who do not know the franchise’s mythology in depth, it was almost impossible to estimate the time distance between the plots of these Switch games.
Now, to the surprise and bewilderment of many, we have been discovering that a character in the last game kept the desired answer.
An NPC from Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom reveals the time that separates the plot of both games
From YouTube Shorts A detail that has blown the minds of many fans of the franchise has gone viral. After discovering that a Non-Playable Character (NPC) or Non-Playable Character, he hid the exact data of how long the plot of Tears of the Kingdom separates from that of Breath of the Wild.
In the previous Zelda game we vicariously witnessed the marriage of a couple, who ended up becoming the parents of Mattison, who appears in Tears of the Kingdom.
Mattison in the game is 7 years old, he says so explicitly in a secondary mission where he takes the role of an NPC. So that between the plot of Breath and Tears a period of 7 years would have elapsed, almost 8:
Just found out TotK is meant to take place roughly 8 years after BOTW based on the age of Mattison (her parents got married in BOTW and now she’s 7). At first I thought TotK was just 2ish years later but now that I think about it that explains Purah and Tulin changing a lot. pic.twitter.com/R67djI43iA
— 🌸Day 🌸 (@DragonCatalyst) June 1, 2023
As we can see, the observation has spread to other social networks such as Twitter and the general consensus now is that Tears of the Kingdom would then take place at least 7 years after the events of Breath of the Wild.
Previously, the community in general pointed out that there would only be a couple of years of separation between the two stories at most. But this detail helps us better understand the game’s timeline and canon.