Items to find: Fire Arrow
Now you're standing on an island with a plaque...it talks about firing into the morning sun. Wait until morning and look for the sun to rise and do exactly that; take aim with the bow and fire an arrow directly into the sun. A Fire Arrow will fall down...Now you can collect Fire Arrows throughout the game! They are quite powerful - they explode on contact.
Items to find: Prelude of Light
Go up to the Altar and Sheik will appear, teaching you the Prelude of Light. Now go behind him to find the stone where the Master Sword was. Put the Master Sword back in and you will warp backwards seven years..................
Items to find: Entrance of Well
Walk out of the Market and go to this peaceful town. Now, go to the Windmill and talk to the man. Play the Song of Storms for him, this will drain the well (and really screw up the windmill...). Crawl through the passageway at the bottom of the well and...
Items to find: Map, Compass, Lens of Truth
Go through the small passageway. After defeating the Giant Skulltula, go right through the wall. Yep, that's right, through the wall. It's fake, and you'll end up in a new room. Fall into the stream and follow it, starting to your right. Soon you'll find a Triforce Symbol. Stand on it and play Zelda's Lullaby. The water will drain all the way down...now retrace your steps to the room after the fake wall. There is a large aclove in the floor, it has two passages: one is barred, the other isn't. Follow the one that isn't until you reach a new room. Kill 'Dead Hand' to receive...dun dun dun...the Lens of Truth! Use it in this room to find a chest with a Golden Rupee (worth 200!). Explore the rest of the well, there are many interesting things here...But we got the main item. Now exit, I'm sure you know the way.
Also, here are the locations of the Map and Compass
Map: In the area you appear in when you fall down a hole, where you have to collect Silver Rupees, go to the passageway surrounded by torches and blow the boulders blocking it away. Follow the passageway, being careful of the ReDeads, and you will find a Big Chest!
Compass: Follow where the river used to be and use the Lens of Truth constantly. You should eventually find a secret passageway that allows you to get to the Big Chest containing the Compass. You can also see this in the center area, but an invisible hole makes it impossible to to from that area.
NOTE: For information on anything else in this dungeon, see the FAQ section and Golden Skulltula section.
Return to the Temple of Time and take out the Master Sword to
travel forward seven years..........
Items to find: Nocturne of Shadow, Entrance to Shadow Temple
Enter this town from Hyrule Field, NOT Death Mountain. After a cool cinema, Sheik will teach you a new song, the Nocturne of Shadow. Play it to warp to the entrance of the Shadow Temple. Now look behind you to see a bunch of unlit torches...Stand in the middle of them and use Din's Fire (You did get that...right? If not, go check out the location of it in the appropriate section...I can wait) to light them all at the same time, forcing the entrance open.
Items to find: Compass, Map, Hover Boots, Shadow Medallion
(You're going to NEED the Lens of Truth in this dungeon, unless you know where ALL the invisible things are. If you've never been here and have no idea what I'm talking about, check up a few paragraphs to see how to find it).
Go forward and get past the cliff with your Longshot. Use the LENS OF TRUTH HERE! Walk through the face block. Now you're in a room with a lot of faces, use the Lens of Truth to find the one that goes to another hall. Again, use the Lens to find the correct path. Kill the ReDead and Keese and you'll receive the Map! Now go back into the room with the billions of orange faces to find another path. Sooner or later you'll stumble upon the Dead Hand mini-boss. Check out the Boss Section. Now you will receive the Hover Boots! Return to the room with many blue faces and a strange bird statue in the middle...
The inscription reads "Make my beak face the skull of truth...The alternative is a descent into the deep darkness below." Well, whip out the Lens of Truth and you'll find that most of the skull totems in this room are fake...except for one. Grab the statue and point it's beak to that one. When done, the nearby door will un-lock. Use your newly found Hover Boots to glide there.
There are three ways to go...forward, left, and right. Two are invisible, forward is bombable. Go left first. You have to collect all of the Silver Rupees while avoiding the spinning blades of the two Death statues. Pretty simple...you get a Small Key for your effort. Now, go through the right passage in the previous room (from where you entered originally, that is). Kill the two Mummies and you'll be rewarded the Compass. Now, go back to the little crossroads and bomb the forward passageway and go through the locked door.
Now you have to go through a long hallway. Be careful! Giant Skulltulas will drop from the ceiling with no warning. At the end you'll enter a large room. Dodge the guillotines (sp?) and use the Hoverboots to get to the platform that goes up and down using it's chains (you can pretty much ignore the Stalfo if you want...). Now drop down to the next platform by using your Hoverboots when the platform is at it's highest.
Collect the Silver Rupees to un-lock the door. This is as easy as falling asleep in Algebra class...Go down the hall, now you'll have to go through these falling spiked contraptions. Use your Lens of Truth to spot a block in the wall, use it to get through. When the second platform starts falling on it, switch to the other side to avoid getting hit by the first one (now you've switched from pushing to pulling). At the end it will create a little ladder for you to the above area. Use the spiked platforms as bridges to the other side, just be careful, you have to time it right or else you'll be impaled. On the other side is a switch, stand on it to activate a chest on the opposite side. You'll need to use the Hover Boots, obviously. Inside is another Small Key! No go back outside...
Go up the brown, rocky path to the left. Use your Lens of Truth to spot the invisible platforms. Go through the locked door, you may need to use the Hover boots on the last platform, though, since it's moving back and fourth. Inside you can kill the two ReDeads for a Blue Rupee chest. Collect the Silver Rupees by using your Lens of Truth to spot spikes and invisible Longshot targets. You'll need to line yourself up with them, then fire your Longshot in order to retrieve them. One will require to use your Hoverboots in the platform in the corner. When they are all collected the door will open, another room.
Go up the stairs and grab a Bomb Flower, then hurl it into the flaming skull. When it explodes the skull will to, and a Small Key will pop out. Pick it up, obviously. To open the door you'll have to defeat all of the Keese in the room. Go back to the previous room. You can see the locked door, but you can't get there...don the Lens of Truth to see the invisible Longshot target. Get there, un-lock the door.
In this hall are several switchblades, but there are fans that will try to blow you into them! Put on your Iron Boots to avoid that. After awhile you'll find a gap with a fan across it. Above it is a log, use the Longshot to get over there. Now you'll find a bridge, with fans on either side, and an enemy eyeball that shoots fire. Kill it by shooting an arrow into it when it opens. Now, use the Lens of Truth to find the secret passage in the wall. It's too far away to get to, even for the Hover Boots! Look closely at the fan behind you...when it's at full blast, run off the cliff towards the passage, Hoverboots equipped, and you should make it perfectly!
Kill the two mummies for a Rupee Chest, then bomb the pile of dirt near the entrance. Inside of it is an invisible chest, inside of that is a Small Key, which allows you to exit the room! The ladder is too high to reach, so push and pull the block against it to make it reachable. Up it is a boat, get on the Triforce Symbol and play the Royal Song...if you're confused about which one that is, I'd like to how how you got this far. The boat will start to go down the river. Along the way you'll fight two Stalfos. At the end, whether or not they are both dead or not, the ship will start to sink. Jump to the area to your left (if you're facing the front of the ship). Go through the door.
This room is a big maze (though the walls are only visible if you wear the Lens of Truth) filled with Floormasters. Don't worry! They can't pick you up, they're on the floor, not the ceiling. There are three doors. One has a bunch of rotating skulls, you can get a few items in there. One has a blood stained floor, use the Lens of Truth to find the invisible Floormaster. Kill it to receive a Small Key. The last has two walls with spikes that will attempt to crush you. Just use Din's Fire to burn them down. Kill the two ReDeads for a few Rupees, then open the yellow/blue chest for the Boss Key. Once you have all the keys you need, return to where you fell off the ship.
Look across the chasm and you will see a large statue surrounded by bomb flowers. Take out your Fairy Bow and peg one with an arrow, they will all explode and the statue will fall, making a suitable bridge. Un-lock the door. Now, use the Lens of Truth to spot the invisible platforms, and use the Hoverboots to cross them. Just be careful when you land on a new one, you'll have some momentum and you might fall off, so quickly pull back on the analog stick to avoid that. You now stand at the Boss Door...be sure to leave the Hoverboots on when you enter!
Check out the Boss Section for details on this fight...
Impa, Zelda's nanny, is awakened as a Sage. You also have the Shadow Medallion!
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