Zelda Timeline 2026

Last verified: 2026-11-10

Age of Imprisonment and the timeline

Age of Imprisonment is not on Nintendo's timeline page. IGN says its story is canon to Tears of the Kingdom. I am keeping both statements.

At a glance

Original platform
Nintendo Switch 2
First release
2025-11-06
Timeline placement
Dramatizes the Imprisoning War of Tears of the Kingdom. It is not on Nintendo's official timeline, but IGN reports its story is canon to the Tears of the Kingdom continuity, so the status is disputed rather than simply non-canon.
Link
Zelda / the Knight Construct / the sages
Zelda
Zelda (time-displaced)
Main antagonist
Ganondorf
Official key art for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment
Official key art for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Key art © Nintendo, used with a link to the product page. Chart art on this site is original.

The game released on 6 Nov 2025 for Nintendo Switch 2, the same day in Japan, North America, and Europe in our record. It dramatizes the Imprisoning War that Tears of the Kingdom tells in memories. Zelda is displaced in time. The opposing force is the Demon King. Playable forces include the sages and a knight construct. That is a story about a war the chart already summarizes. It is not automatically a new square on the chart.

On 10 Nov 2026 I checked the English timeline page for the words Hyrule Warriors and did not find them. Age of Calamity and the 2014 Hyrule Warriors are in the same silence. I will not hide this game in that silence and call the case closed, because IGN has a separate sentence: the story is confirmed as canon to the Tears of the Kingdom continuity, and Age of Calamity is described there as a side story that is not.

So the status word on this site is disputed. Official omission plus IGN. I am not writing non-canon, and I am not writing on the official timeline. If you want the war as Nintendo's chart tells it, read the wild-era section: founding, Demon King, Imprisoning War, then a Great Calamity much later. This game is a dramatization of the early part of that sequence.

It does not relocate Breath of the Wild, and it does not merge the three branches. A musou battle can be a true scene in a continuity without becoming the chronology's spine. I link Tears of the Kingdom for the founding and the war, and the games table for the other Warriors titles that lack even the IGN sentence.

The key art is Nintendo’s product image, linked through Sources. The product page provides the official media gallery. Announcement footage and release dates are different evidence; the release used here is the store’s 6 Nov 2025 date.

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