How long after OoT does TWW take place?
There are many centuries separating OoT from TWW. We know this from several quotes in the game. From the intro, “The boy’s tale was passed down through generations until it became legend…” So generations passed between OoT and Ganondorf’s escape from the Sacred Realm. When the King of Hyrule talks about Hyrule’s flooding, he says, “So, before the sealing of the kingdom, the gods chose those who would build a new country and commanded them to take refuge on the mountaintops. Those people were your ancestors. Hundreds of years have passed since then…” So there are hundreds of years between the flood and TWW. Therefore, TWW happens many hundreds of years after OoT. There is a very common misconception among fans that TWW takes place exactly one hundred years after OoT. The source of this misconception is an interview of Eiji Aonuma, the game’s director, conducted at the 2002 Wind Waker summit. It seems that Aonuma used an ambiguous Japanese word, and some translators translated him as
