Direct
Earliest
Earliest adjective - Coming before all others in time or order.
Both words in one sentence
- The Prisoner is the earliest inspiration, and Twin Peaks was the direct inspiration.
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He's not the original Linknote that would be the one from Skyward Sword, but he's still one of the earliest known, and the game presents its incarnation as his direct successor.
Source: Legacy of the Chosen -
John Chrysostom, who died in 407 AD four centuries before the beginnings of the Toltecs, the earliest civilization with any direct ties to the people we call Aztecs.
Source: Critical Research Failure
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