Over the last half decade I have made hundreds of pages of comics and two other fan Zelda games.That's a lot of lore and plot to go through, so here is a general overview of that story and the events that lead up to those in Hyrule: Total War.
Origin Events
- The Goddesses create Hyrule.
- They create various races to worship them, and use the Oocca as mediators of their will.
- Majora creeps upon Hyrule and begins corrupting the work of the Goddesses.
- The Goddesses banish Majora to Termina, a realm which all their rejected ideals and those that opposed them were cursed to relive three days of agony for all eternity.
- The Goddesses leave the world and leave behind the Triforce, a mysterious object that keeps the world's forces of nature in balance. They become distrustful of their creations, even the Oocca, so they create the first seven sages to safeguard this power from mortals.
- One of the first Seven Sages, Sulkaris, deems that she should be granted the power of the Triforce and attempts to steal it. The other Sages stop her and cast her spirit from the Sacred Realm into Hyrule.
- It is decided that after a Sage becomes too powerful they are to be replaced by successors.
- A mysterious object crashes into the Tarm Woods. The primitive Tarminians begin to worship it and the Fairies that came forth from the crash.
Pre-Ganon era
- The Hylians begins to expand across Hyrule. They subjugate other races and exterminate those they deem abominations. The Moblins are prime targets.
- Hylian Soldiers torch the home village of Ganon and slaughter his parents. This inspires Ganon to commit to a lifetime of enacting vengeance on the Hylians.
- Ganon attempts to rally other races to his cause. Of his targets are the Hylians, Sheikah, and Gerudo. The powerful male Gerudo warlords scoff at him and as a result Ganon unleashes a plague on their race that stops male Gerudo from being born.
Ganon Era
- Princess Zelda I comes to power and is due to become the Queen of Hyrule and replace her father.
- Ganon becomes King of the Moblins. He manages to convince some groups of Hylians, Sheikah, Gerudo, and members of other races to support his cause, promising them a place of power should he find the legendary symbol of Hyrule's power: the Triforce.
- Ganon wages war on the Hylians, but fails to find the Triforce which was hidden by Princess Zelda, Rauru and other Sages of that time. Eventually the Hylians, Gorons, and the reluctant Zora ally with each other to beat back Ganon's Moblin army.
- Ganon is supposedly slain by Princess Zelda I.
- It is deemed that the Triforce is not safe, and with the help of the Oocca, Rauru designs and builds the Temple of Time to house the Triforce.
- Hylian, Sheikah, and Gerudo traitors are labeled as the Interlopers and are banished from Hyrule through the Mirror of Twilight for siding with Ganon.
- Princess Zelda II is born, and it is made tradition that every daughter will be named Zelda and never given the title of Queen.
Golden Age Era
- Princess Zelda II takes over the Kingdom of Hyrule.
- The Hylians are universally feared and respected at this point. Hyrule begins a strict suppression policy that denies resources in their territory to other empires, even if that territory is not occupied.
- The Gerudo are cut off from resources needed for survival. With the plague that infected their people the males all die off and their race goes into a decline.
- Miraculously, Ganondorf is born despite the plague. For this miracle he is raised to become the new leader of the Gerudo people.
Gerudo Wars Era
- Princess Zelda III comes to power, with Agahnim as her husband.
- Agahnim is discovered to be a Sheikah and not a Hylian. For corrupting the pure royal bloodline he is banished from Hyrule. Princess Zelda IV's half Sheikah bloodline is decided to be kept a secret.
- Agahnim managed to erase his existence using the Eye of Truth and slips back into the upper ranks of Hyrule. He serves as a mediator between the Hylians and Gerudo.
- Agahnim eventually leads to the Gerudo declaring war on the Hylians. Allying himself with Ganondorf, Agahnim and him lead Gerudo armies across Hyrule Field and assault any village they come across.
- Princess Zelda III is killed by Ganondorf. Filled with guilt for leading to the death of his former wife, Agahnim betrays Ganondorf and sets the subjugated Hylian army free.
- Ganondorf kills Agahnim, but the Hylian army manages to push back the Gerudo and defeat them.
- Under the command of Veran and Onox, the descendants of the Interlopers manage to escape back in Hyrule. They attempt to poison the Zora's Domain and corrupt the water supply, thus killing any who drink from the only river that flows through Hyrule.
- Onox is killed by Princess Ruto and Zaleen before he can release the poison into the water supply, and the Twili army is pushed back by the Zora's efforts.
- Veran, devastated by the death of Onox, flees back into the Realm of Twilight.
- The Mirror of Twilight and any possible replicas are destroyed.
- Link is born.
Fallen Sage Era
- King Zant manages to usurp the throne from Midna. He believes Midna is dead.
- Princess Zelda IV takes over Hyrule, but dies giving birth to her child, Princess Zelda V. Hyrule is placed under control of the military until Zelda is old enough for the throne.
- Sulkaris, the Fallen Sage, manages to implant her disembodied spirit into the minds of Gohma. Eventually she gains direct control over every Gohma.
- General Akazoo, whom was a trusted leader figure during the Gerudo Wars, declares war on the Lanayru Zora for their "immoral and perverted acts against nature" and moves Hyrule's armies out to invade them.
- Sulkaris uses this opportunity to attack Hyrule with an army of Gohma.
- With the efforts of Link and Saria, Akazoo is stopped and Sulkaris is pushed back into the Misery Mire and it is believed the Gohma are defeated.
- General Akazoo begins experimenting with forbidden knowledge such as artificial extension of life. He eventually manages to animate the skeletons of dead races and he soon transforms himself into one of these undead abominations.
- General Onox's skeleton is found by Akazoo at the bottom of Lake Hylia and is ressurected as a Stalfos.
- Veran somehow manages to return to World of Light.
Menagerie Era
- The Oocca begin landing in Hyrule and taking direct action rather than manipulation.
- Link is brought to be judged before the Oocca for his actions, which apparently were against the will of the Goddesses.
- After discovering that the Oocca are corrupted by Majora, Link manages to defeat his influence and free the Oocca.
- Labrynna begins to expand north and west. Their expansion gets the attention of the Fairies of Tarm and a war between the two ensues.
- Eventually the races of Hyrule become caught up in the conflict between the Fairies and Labrynna.
- It is discovered that Queen Ambi is in fact being manipualted by Veran. As a banished Great Fairy, she has been enacting revenge on her race while rebuilding a Mirror of Twilight that can summon the Twili back into the world.
- With the help of Midna and Link, the Hylian army manages to stop Veran from opening the portal that Zant can use to attack Hyrule.
- The Master Sword is forged for Link.
- Realizing that the Master Sword can somehow manipulate time, Link uses it to go back into the past and alter history.
- The game begins at the Ganon Era after Link returns to the past.