There actually is a major problem I have with the Zelda timeline, and that is the inclusion of the Oracles games and Link's awakening in the "hero is defeated" timeline. You see, this does not make sense based on what happens in the Oracle games. After playing through both titles and getting the final ending, you find out that everything that occurred were the machinations of Twinrova in an effort to release Ganondorf from his seal. Right away we can eliminate this being in the adult era timeline because in that one Twinrova was killed in the Spirit temple. And though I suppose you can kind of force it into the defeated timeline (since they claim that Zelda and the Sages shove Ganondorf into the Sacred realm as a last ditch effort to protect Hyrule) it makes more sense for it to be part of the child era timeline, where Ganondorf is stopped and "executed" (they shove a sword into his stomach but he still manages to kill a sage before they force him into the Twilight realm's seal) before he can ever defile the temple of time. You see, in the Child timeline Link never went to the spirit temple and therefore never killed Tinrova, so she'd be alive and free to try and free Ganondorf from his seal at a later date, hell they probably even waited until Link's next resurrection to do so, they were like 400 years old already what's another century or two? Also since Link goes off on a boat at the end of the Oracles games it's implied that they're a prequel to Link's Awakening but that's not as important a connection.

Actually whether the Oracle games fit in the child or defeated timeline depends on WHEN/IF Link is killed. It's possible that Link never even made it out of the Deku Tree, in which case the Oracle games can easily be in the defeat time. But if Link managed to make it at least as far as beating the Spirit temple then the Oracles games CAN'T be in that timeline because whatever happens after Twinrova would be dead and therefore unable to set forth the plan to break Ganondorf out of his seal. I THINK the defeated timeline implies that Link actually gets as far as the final confrontation with Ganondorf, only to be killed by Ganon in the final boss fight because in the Hyrule Historia they say that Zelda and the Sages desperately seal him away in the sacred realm, but since the sage's power doesn't awaken until AFTER Link clears the dungeon that they are trapped in that means Link MUST have gotten through the entire game, therefore killing Twinrova, before Ganondorf cuts him down. If Link failed to clear any of the dungeons then that means the Sage would never realize their power and therefore not be able to help Zelda seal Ganondorf away.

What do you guys think? Do you see the logic in my argument or is there some detail I missed that would firmly place the Oracle games in the defeated timeline? Keep in mind I had a copy of the Hyrule Historia sitting in my lap as I wrote this journal so I could fact check myself.