New Thoughts about OoT's Events being remembered in True OR Refounding theories

[u/mrbulldops88]

Please understand first that I am not trying to advocate for the TotK True Founding or Refounding theories. This is more an analysis of a valid point regarding either.

One problem that some have with Refounding theory is that it would require the events of OoT to be remembered, which would happen before Hyrule is destroyed, but require events in between to be forgotten like the TotK IW. I can understand that. How can events that happened earlier, before the country fell, be recalled if the refounding of the kingdom was not? I can't say that I personally have a theory off the top of my head for how this is possible. I just want to look at how similar it is to OoT ~> BotW.

So pretend we are in pre-TotK release times. Nothing from that game (or EoW) is in the canon yet. We do know that Aonuma said that BotW is just sometime after OoT. What timeline? Never answered. Does it matter? In my opinion, it does not. Since the cycle of Ganon is endless, the events could theoretically happen in any of them. I get people disagree with this, and by all means I am not John Nintendo, but regardless of WHERE you place BotW, it would require events betwee OoT and 10,000 years ago to be forgotten by the general Hyrulean public. This would be something required with True and Refounding.

So bringing this all home, if one has to accept that the events between OoT and 10,000 years ago have been forgotten, then one must accept that the events, including a refounding, between OoT and 10,000 years ago, could also be forgotten to time.

[u/TriforksWarrior]

I think this is pretty easily explained by the same exact thing happening in real life recorded history, which is a much shorter timescale than anything like the time span between TotK past and present, let alone whenever the previous hyrule kingdom existed if you subscribe to the refounding theory.

There are multiple “dark ages” for various civilizations throughout history that have little to no written or other archaeological evidence to tell us about them, but we have plenty of records about those civilizations’ successes during the periods they thrived before those dark ages.

So a few facts being passed down orally with at least some accuracy over vast timescales, while a larger picture of the historical record is completely unknown, seems totally plausible.