Return to Hyrule
Items/Weapons: Master Sword
Heart Pieces: 5 // 24/44
Treasure Charts: 4 // 23/41- #s 40, 16, 4, 37
Special Charts: 1 // 3/12- Beedle’s Chart
Great Fairies: 3 // 5/8- Bomb Upgrade, Second Bomb Upgrade, Second Rupee Upgrade
Empty Bottles: 1 // 3/4
Songs: Ballad of Gales
Welcome back to the ancient land of Hyrule, where the original Hero of Time made his presence known about 100 years ago. The town is submerged under the sea, and the castle stands out among the remains. Your boat drops you off at the entrance to the castle. Go inside and everything appears frozen in time. In front of the Hero of Time statue are three large triangular blocks. Your boat will summon you about this. You must arrange them around the points on the ground to form a Triforce symbol over the marks on the floor. Pull out the blocks and turn them around to form the Triforce. There is really no strategy involved, just keep moving them around. Eventually you will form the symbol, opening up a basement level. Go down through the passage and approach the light in the middle of the room. Link soon pulls the legendary Master Sword from its pedestal, bringing colour, and unfortunately a gang of enemies, back to Hyrule. Exit the room and prepare for a long battle. Defeat all 10 Moblins and 7 Darknuts to disable the electric barriers that block both exits. Collect their Skull Necklaces and Knight’s Crests (handy Spoil’s Bag items for later). When all 17 enemies are defeated, the barriers are released. You can go through the opposite exit to get a small overview of Hyrule. You will return here later. Take the exit behind the Hero of Time statue to return to your boat. Cruise into the light to return to the Tower of the Gods. Now that you have the Hero’s Bow, you can get a number of side quests completed before moving on. Firstly, get the most important one: the Ballad of Gales. Sail to D3 (Northern Triangle Island) and approach the giant cyclone. Cyclos, brother of Zephos who taught you the Wind’s Requiem, appears. Shoot him with arrows three times to defeat him. He will teach you the Ballad of Gales, an incredibly useful warping song that allows you to reach nine important destinations in mere seconds (see Songs for a listing). This will shave off oodles of sailing time. Play the song now and select B2 (Mother & Child Isles). This song is also special, because it takes you inside the island, an otherwise unreachable location. The Fairy Queen appears, but will not help you just yet. Oh, well, she will later. The only way out of here is with the Ballad of Gales. Warp to Windfall or Outset Island. Check the red mailbox if it’s wiggling to get Beedle’s Chart, which shows the locations of all his shop ships. Warp to E4 (Tower of the Gods) and sail north to E3 (Eastern Fairy Island). On the island, bomb the boulder and drop through the hole within the conch shell. Inside is a Great Fairy Fountain, where you get a bomb upgrade. You can now hold 60 bombs. Warp to D6 (Southern Fairy Island) and on that island, bomb the wooden gated conch shell and enter the hole for the last bomb upgrade. You can now hold a maximum of 99 bombs. Within this quadrant, find the three Sea Platforms and destroy their wall cannons with your boomerang or cannon to make 2 chests appear. Climb up one platform’s ladder to the top and glide with your Deku Leaf (with the wind set properly) to the chests to collect Treasure Chart #40 and a Skull Necklace. For the last rupee purse upgrade, warp to C3 (Tingle Island) and sail north two quadrants to C1 (Northern Fairy Island). Bomb the boulder and enter the conch shell. The Great Fairy upgrades your purse to hold a maximum of 5000 rupees. If you have a lot of rupees (probably more so later on), warp to B4 (Greatfish Isle) and sail north to B3 (Rock Spire Isle). Find Beedle’s Shop Ship and enter to find Beedle wearing an Amazon mask. You can purchase three major items from him: Empty Bottle (500 rupees), Heart Piece (#22, 950 rupees), and Treasure Chart (#4, 900 rupees). You won’t be able to purchase all three at once, but check back when you have enough to get all three eventually. In this quadrant, find two Cannon Boats near each other. Using your own cannon, bomb them until they both sink. Use the Grappling Hook to pull up two treasures from their boats at the rings of light: an Orange Rupee and Heart Piece #23. Also in this quadrant, on the island itself, bomb your way along the spires to a secret cavern hole. Inside, light a Deku Stick from a torch and use that to light two other torches. A bunch of Keese appear. Wipe them all out to reveal a chest with Treasure Chart #37. From here, sail north two quadrants to B1 (Star Island). Bomb the large boulder on the west side and enter the hole. Defeat all the enemies to reveal a chest with Heart Piece #21. Warp to F6 (Forest Haven) and sail north to F5 (Bomb Island). Bomb the large boulder at top and drop through the hole. In this room, stun the Magtail by slashing its eye when it lurches at you. It curls into a ball. Pick it up and place it on the pressure switch. Enter the unsealed door. Carefully walk the narrow pathway at left and step on the switch to dissipate the fire. Go back and take the second pathway. Stun a Magtail and throw it into a ring of fire with a hidden switch. Use the other Magtail to activate the other switch the same way. When both are activated, the fires disappear. Collect Heart Piece #24 from the chest, then exit back to the warp to leave. If you have Beedle’s Treasure Chart (or when you do), warp to D6 (Southern Fairy Island) and open Treasure Chart #4. Find the treasure’s spot and grapple the chest under the sea to get Heart Piece #25. Sail to A5 (Needle Rock Isle), locate a sea platform and climb up. Defeat a Wizzrobe to reveal a chest, and another Wizzrobe on the other Sea Platform for another chest. Defeat two more Wizzrobes to reveal a third chest. Inside one of these three chests is Treasure Chart #16. The others contain minor rewards. That’s it for side quests at this point. You must now return to Forsaken Fortress. To get to A1, warp to D2 (Windfall Island) and sail northwest to Forsaken Fortress.
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