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But where does "Calamity Ganon" fit into all this? I've seen some debates that "Malice" and "Gloom" are two different "evils", so TotK-dorf isn't actually the same source of evilness as Calamity Ganon.

Calamity Ganon is similar to Vaati or Bellum (which obviously is just likely that it's the same artist working on those creatures) but there's the eyes theme, while Gloom-dorf seems like it's some sort of offshoot of a similar thing.

I could imagine there being some secret insider-timeline at Fujibayashi's desk that Gloom-dorf is an offspring to Demise Timeline A while Calamity Ganon is an offspring of Timeline B.

There's also the issue of the Triforce. Zelda has a complete triforce on her hand in BotW, and we don't see Link or Ganon have one, so it does appear that Zelda really has it, and it isn't just some "reference". I took it in Ocarina of Time when Ganondorf splits up the Triforce with his evil wish, that it's permanent across all time, like a constant that transcends the force of time. So either the Triforce is whole, or it's split up, and in BotW it's whole, and has been for a long time, and has yet to split up.

It could actually be because King Daphnes in Wind Waker touched it and made a new wish from it. And then that completes the Triforce again, and once a new Zelda reincarnate comes to life, she gets the full Triforce this time, with Link and Ganon going back to being more independent forces in the trifecta.