Related: Breath of the Wild 2 Is Probably Changing Link's Champion Abilitiesĭepending on how deeply time travel is intertwined with Tears of the Kingdom's story, it's also possible that Link will be traveling back and forth through time. There are other possibilities, such as short quests where Link is temporarily transported to the past, or ones where he experiences it as a flashback similar to the memories in BOTW. However, it's not certain that Link will travel to the past and stay there. Age of Calamity especially brings the possibility of time travel that much closer with its story of an alternate Great Calamity and a time-traveling robot.
Time and time travel are prominent aspects in Zelda games, even putting aside The Legend of Zelda series' split timelines, so it's far from outside the realm of possibility for it to show up in Tears of the Kingdom.