Quote Originally Posted by Britannianhero4
Well how COULD it be affected? I mean, the rift is only contained in the mountains in and around the Temple of Light, as well as the temple itself. (The temple still stands in all its glory, though somewhat "rubbled." It'll be enemy-less, but will contain locked doors and such, and numerous portals back and forth from the Temple of Evil equivalent in Ganondorf's world.)

So I don't see any reason to alter the overworld. There's just nothing to alter it as.
But wouldn't the rift eventually change the rest of the world? So, Link appears to stop him before it xan get that far? Or does the rift work REALLY slow?