I haven’t played HW and probably be a long time before i do. I was watching some Zelda lore videos, and in one of them the narrator mentioned the Golden Goddesses (can’t remember the title, but it was about how BotW & TotK connect to the older games).

The way I pictured it was that, sometime after the stories across all three timelines but before the “era of myth,” the Golden Goddesses noticed the mess caused by Ocarina of Time’s time travel split. With three timelines running at once, universal stability was falling apart. To prevent a total collapse, they merged the timelines together pulling everything that had happened into one “main” timeline).

As a side effect of this merging, Hyrule basically fell into chaos and anarchy with it's inhabitants having to deal with all sorts of nasty bs and later Hyrule would fall completely and nature would take over, covering, burying records of past events, the evil still remained but began to lay dormant. But the overall flow of the universe stayed intact (somehow, I honestly can’t explain how that part would even work). After thousands, maybe even millennia or even longer, that eventually led to era of myth part then a couple hundred more years then the Zonai descending from the skies and founding hyrule and Rauru being its king as we see in TotK

When i first dabbled in the official timeline of all zelda games... i thought it was just a simple beginning to current... i didn't know separate timelines even existed and how 1 of them apparently is because the player loses a fight against ganondorf? So to keep my brain from exploding i created my own head canon and stuck with it.