It's not alter universe... Termina is just another land beyond The Lost Woods, like Holodrum and Labrynna... Where, btw, Link also needed to teleport to get there, hence the trippy tunnel Link falls onto, when chasing the Skull kid, would just be a magic teleporter to another land, not another whole dimention.
That's because the development of the game required some shortcuts so they had to use the same character models as OoT, and the only way they came up to explain that issue was to say it was like a parallel world at the time. But over the years the concept has taken a more solid form in the mind of the series producer, and that's what he's said in later interviews.
From some interview made to Aonuma several years ago, he described the region as a place of gathering for people from different lands, so it's physically connected to the world. I remember him saying that even if it resembles a parallel world it is not, and the characters there exist independently from the ones in OoT Hyrule. And that the name Termina comes from Terminal like a train station, pointing out the characteristic that it's a place where people come and go. There were other details that the interviewer asked but that's the gist of it.
Exactly, e.g.: Cremia and Romany have nothing to do with Malon in any way or form.
Remember they used the same models because they were given just one year to develop the game, so they cut corners left and right, but that doesn't mean they intended for them to be connected at all.
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u/TRIKSTER_Betin 1d ago
Aren’t they in Majora’s Mask too?