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[Zelda] Has there been any confirmation on which timeline BOTW is in?

Title says it but has anyone found anything to suggest which timeline this game is in since they make references to OOT?
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Everyone says it's after Twilight Princess, which is funny because everyone is wrong. We hear that Ruto and Nabooru became sages in this timeline. That did *not* happen in Twilight Princess's timeline. In that timeline, the sages survived *except* the water sage, who was not replaced.

That leaves the Wind Waker timeline and the A Link to the Past timeline. But in Wind Waker, Hyrule is washed away by the flood forever. So we can rule it out too.

Some people will argue for eons about the Twilight reference, but it's important to note that the three events Zelda mentions don't make sense in any timeline - Adult and Downfall would agree about skyward and adrift in time, Child would agree about skyward and twilight. In the Child timeline, the Master Sword was *never* adrift. When we listen closely, we can also hear Zelda mentioning a great sea in her ongoing monologue while everyone else is talking over her. So that's just an easter egg - a Twilight event happened at some point in the downfall timeline that got remembered, which makes sense because the Twilight exists in all timelines and the Mirror is unaccounted for in two of them.