From: StealThisSheen | #012
Yeah, thinking about it... "Hero is defeated" doesn't make sense, since it'd stop any other timelines from happening after it.
It makes more sense as a timeline that Link left behind when time traveling and never returned to, thus leaving Ganon to "win."
Makes perfect sense. It's the most pivotal battle in the timeline - if Link wins, not one but TWO Hyrules are saved, and Termina on top of that. The consequences of losing are tht darkness falls for an age, hence why there's a split. It's like a non-standard Game Over.
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