The developers of the Zelda series always tried to make new games fit the previous one's lore. The devs themselves put a ton of effort on making these games ki

The developers of the Zelda series always tried to make new games fit the previous one's lore. The devs themselves put a ton of effort on making these games kinda fit with each other at the time they were making each new installment, it wasn't a retroactive thing. They just weren't super pedantic about it until the official timeline came out.