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There is the idea that all timelines inevitably lead to BotW. So the events of BotW happen simultaneously in parallel universes.
I don't know how this works in the Adult Timeline. One idea I had is that the Korok ceremony of planting seeds throughout the flooded Hyrule:
That might explain how Old Hyrule could reform as a continent, I guess. Guess they also need to remove the Master Sword from Ganon's skull, deep in the ocean. Oh, and the whole message about leaving behind the old kingdom is kind of ruined, lol. There's a lot of ass-pulling involved in general to connect the end of Spirit Tracks to BotW, that I'm not super confident saying one will inevitably lead to another.
And then there's the idea of a Dragon Break from Elder Scrolls:
Honestly in the world of Zelda with the Goddess of Time and other such powerful deities, they could give an explanation similar to this and I'd be happy. It's not really consistent with how time works in Zelda previously - after all, if this were possible then why did the Goddesses flood Hyrule if they could merge worlds and bring the Hero back? lmao - but if they gave it a cool sounding name I'd be like whatever.
I don't know how this works in the Adult Timeline. One idea I had is that the Korok ceremony of planting seeds throughout the flooded Hyrule:
Every year after the Koroks perform this ceremony, they fly off to the distant islands on the sea and plant my seeds in the hopes that new forests will grow.
That might explain how Old Hyrule could reform as a continent, I guess. Guess they also need to remove the Master Sword from Ganon's skull, deep in the ocean. Oh, and the whole message about leaving behind the old kingdom is kind of ruined, lol. There's a lot of ass-pulling involved in general to connect the end of Spirit Tracks to BotW, that I'm not super confident saying one will inevitably lead to another.
And then there's the idea of a Dragon Break from Elder Scrolls:
A Dragon Break, sometimes referred to as an un-time,[1] is a temporal phenomenon that involves a splitting of the natural timeline which results in branching parallel realities where the same events occur differently, or not at all. This results in a return to the non-linear timeline of the Dawn Era. At the end of a Dragon Break, the timeline reconnects making all possibilities and outcomes truth, though contradictory to each other.
Honestly in the world of Zelda with the Goddess of Time and other such powerful deities, they could give an explanation similar to this and I'd be happy. It's not really consistent with how time works in Zelda previously - after all, if this were possible then why did the Goddesses flood Hyrule if they could merge worlds and bring the Hero back? lmao - but if they gave it a cool sounding name I'd be like whatever.