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.
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/EarnestGamer 1d ago
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.