Last verified: 2026-11-10

Echoes of Wisdom on the timeline

Echoes of Wisdom is on the downfall path, after Tri Force Heroes and before the 1986 Legend of Zelda.

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Zelda is the person you play. Link is captured and returns for the opening and the ending. Null is the antagonist in our record. The game shipped worldwide on 26 Sep 2024 for Nintendo Switch. There is no remake row, because this is the first release.

IGN's 26 Nov 2024 report is the news source that Nintendo had placed the game on the official timeline. The page I read on 10 Nov 2026 still shows it in that downfall slot. Tri Force Heroes is the predecessor. The 1986 game is the successor, after a Golden Era and an era of decline that are labels, not extra cartridges.

This is the first mainline game in the record with Zelda as the lead. That fact does not create a new branch. A princess as the player character can still stand in an old kingdom. I have seen the assumption that a Zelda-led game must be a reboot. The chart does not say reboot. It says downfall, late.

The 2026 Ocarina remake and the two founding lines do not move this game. It is already after the first founding and on the defeated path, far from Rauru and Sonia's wild-era kingdom. If a later Nintendo page slides it, the changes log gets a new row and this paragraph gets a date. Until then the slot is Tri Force Heroes, then Echoes, then the NES game.

Link's Awakening and the Oracle games are earlier on the same path. Their order differs between Historia and Encyclopedia. I do not use that older argument to shove Echoes around. Echoes has a current web placement. The book argument is about two 1990s games, and it stays in the books page.

• Downfall path
• Next: the 1986 game
• Previous: Tri Force Heroes