How is age of calamity not canon? I could’ve sworn it was and the only hyrule warriors that wasn’t canon was the first one on Wii U
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"Word of God" says it's canon, but it can't be in the same timeline as BotW because the story of AoC actively prevents BotW from ever happening. Then again, TotK retcons a bunch of stuff from BotW as well (like pretending the Guardians and Divine Beasts never existed or somehow "just disappeared" which still cotradicts the after-credits end scene from BotW) so personally I think that's just an alternate timeline, too.
Or maybe the devs just didn't put much thought into continuity.
How is age of calamity not canon?
Short answer: Terrako
Long answer: The champions' descendants travel back in time to prevent the champions from being killed. King Rhoam survives. Kohga and the Yiga defect. Ganon gets defeated. Hyrule survives.
Age of Calamity was advertised as being canon. Then TotK ignored it for new lore involving sexy goat people, so it's not canon anymore.
I thought it was an alternate timeline
It is an alt timeline. It actively prevents BotW from happening.