It is inverted. the fourth one stands for chaos, the god of whom is Null. the world was created to seal away Null -I am about to go into pure, unadulterated speculation. the previous part had evidence, but not this.- so life could emerge, on the wishes of Hylia and her husband, brother of the three Goldens and king of the gods, known in mortal form as link. in turn, Null sent avatars, the first of whom, Demise, was formerly a god in the distant nebula. the ultimate goal of Null was to get his avatar to think of the world as the avatar's property so its destruction would seem like a right of the avatar. then Null would destroy the gods. to combat this, the goldens sealed link, hylia, and demise in a cycle, which before his death, demise took credit for. Null decided a mortal which rose would be better for his purpose of arrogance, and reached out to Vaati, who 1. had proximity to great power 2. great arrogance already and 3. unsatisfied with the amount of power he had. thus, the Minish cap happens. next, Ocarina of time happens, with ganondorf, somewhere in between the positions of Vaati and Demise. he had great natural power, but longed for more. here is where it gets complicated. majora's mask introduces us to parallel worlds, which may or may not exist or be on the same planet or in the same dimension. twilight princess is just the sequel to Oot, except now Ganon has an avatar. after this, we have four swords adventures, where Vaati and Ganon die, neatly tying up the child timeline. in the second, the adult timeline, nothing interesting happens other than Null drops all influence on ganon's shattered mind and we now have five avatars of Null. in the fallen timeline, we see the four game hero, who kills Ganon and rescues two unrelated lands from Ganon again. at this, Null places link into an "eternal" slumber, so he cannot reincarnate or interfere in any way, producing Link's Awakening, which after a couple generations, I theorize leads to another timeline split for the space of one game, with Echoes of Wisdom and a Link between worlds. then it merges for tri-force heroes. the original games happen and introduce us to our second, or possibly third Ganon. finally, our fourth Ganon is born and like Dragmire before him, is an excellent candidate, being sealed by rauru, and then causing calamities, and then an upheaval, and then [insert further Zelda games here, please.] that is my personal, unnecessary, unnecessarily long extrapolation of the theory, which the only evidence for is in a cutscene in Echoes of Wisdom, apart from the descriptions of the games themselves. total Null avatar counter, as of now, is somewhere between 7 and 10.
