Chronicle Slate

Zelda's Incarnations

Goddess-blood, sage, pirate captain, ghost, scholar, dragon — the princess is never just a princess, and half the timeline's pivots are hers.

  1. Skyward SwordShared Trunk (Before the Split)

    Not royalty at all: Hylia herself, reborn mortal by her own design.

  2. Ocarina of TimeShared Trunk (Before the Split)

    Sheik — seven years in disguise running a resistance.

  3. The Wind WakerAdult Timeline

    Tetra, pirate captain, who learns her lineage mid-adventure and visibly resents the dress.

  4. Spirit TracksAdult Timeline

    A ghost possessing a Phantom knight — the series' only co-op Zelda protagonist in the mainline.

  5. Breath of the WildDistant Future (BOTW / TOTK)

    A scholar crushed by expectation who then holds Calamity Ganon alone for one hundred years.

  6. Tears of the KingdomDistant Future (BOTW / TOTK)

    Swallows the secret stone and spends ten thousand years as a dragon to heal the Master Sword.

  7. Hyrule Warriors: Age of ImprisonmentAge of Imprisonment (inferred prequel)

    The same time-stranded Zelda, now a playable warrior in the founding era's war.

  8. Zelda: The Wand of GamelonNon-Canon

    Non-canon, but historically the first playable Zelda.