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The Hall of Secrets and the Noble Sword Walkthrough

Oracle of Seasons 100% Completion Walkthrough26 chapters
Walkthrough overview
CoversA linked-game detour around Horon Village: Vasu’s Jewelers, Farore’s Hall of Secrets inside the Maku Tree, the windmill in the Eastern Suburbs, the Advance Shop, the Hero’s Cave south-west of the village and the Great Fairy beside it. You warp in from the Sunken City lake with a Gale Seed.
DungeonThe linked-game Hero’s Cave, entered early and left unfinished. It holds two Gasha Seeds, two Small Keys and a Zora with a secret for King Zora, but no boss.
RewardsNoble Sword (sword L-2) and Bombchu from Farore, 1 ring and 1 Gasha Seed from Farore’s first secret, 1 Gasha Seed and 2 rings from the Advance Shop, 2 Gasha Seeds from Hero’s Cave chests, the Green Holy, Blue Holy and Fist Rings appraised, two duplicate rings sold, Dr. Troy’s secret and the King Zora secret collected.

This chapter is almost entirely about secrets. You warp back to Horon Village to have four rings appraised, read Farore’s book in the Hall of Secrets and type in passwords that pay out a ring, a Gasha Seed, Bombchu and finally the Noble Sword. In between you collect a message from Dr. Troy’s pupil at the windmill, shop in the Advance Shop, and fight through the first stretch of the linked Hero’s Cave, where a Zora gives you a second message. Without a linked game none of the password rewards work, but the Advance Shop and Vasu’s appraisals do not depend on one.

Link walking into the Hall of Secrets with its pink floor rings and pillars
Link beside Dr. Troy's pupil on the windmill ledge in the Eastern Suburbs
Link inside the first room of the Hero's Cave ringed by eye statues

Warp to Horon Village and appraise four rings

Use a Gale Seed to reach Horon Village

Standing on the grassy islet beside the blue Moblin house on the Sunken City lake, open the Gale Seed map and pick “Horon Village – Warp”. A Gale Seed whisks you straight back to the village, which saves the whole trip across the lake and through the cliffs. Walk east through the village to the red-roofed Vasu’s Jewelers.

Link on the grassy islet beside the blue Moblin house on the Sunken City lake
Link standing in Horon Village after the Gale Seed warp
Vasu's red-roofed Jewelers with Link walking toward it in Horon Village
Link at the green-roofed building ringed by stumps in Horon Village

Pay 20 Rupees per ring at Vasu’s

Choose Appraise and pick each unappraised ring in turn, paying 20 Rupees each. Four rings turn out to be the Green Holy Ring (no damage from electricity), the Blue Holy Ring (no damage from Zora’s fire), the Fist Ring (you punch when no sword or item is held) and a second Cursed Ring, which halves your sword damage and doubles the damage you take. Vasu already has a Cursed Ring on your list, so he offers 30 Rupees for the extra one. Say yes. You pay 80 and receive 30, which leaves you with 872 Rupees. Remember that rings only work once they are in your Ring Box and equipped.

Vasu welcoming Link to Vasu Jewelers across his counter
Vasu reminding Link that rings do nothing unless worn

Farore’s Hall of Secrets: the first secret

Walk into the Maku Tree and read Farore’s Memory

Leave Vasu’s, pass the village shop and walk to the Maku Tree. Enter the door in the trunk and follow the passage to the Hall of Secrets. Read the book Farore’s Memory to open your Secret List, which holds the Tingle, Symmetry and Fairy secrets, and then talk to Farore. She welcomes you and offers to give shape to the secrets you remember.

Link beside the blue-roofed village shop on the way to the Maku Tree
Link in the grove before the Maku Tree and the door in its trunk
Link facing Farore behind her purple counter in the Hall of Secrets
Farore saying she gives form to the secrets Link remembers

Type the first password for a ring

Say yes, and on the password screen enter the first password. Farore announces that your secrets have called forth new power, and a chest appears in front of her. Open it and take the unappraised ring; you will have it appraised in a moment.

Sparkles around the Hall of Secrets floor ring after the password is accepted
Farore telling Link to come again anytime in the Hall of Secrets
A chest standing inside the pink ring on the Hall of Secrets floor
Link holding up a ring from the chest with the You got a ring message complete

Collect the Gasha Seed outside the hall

Walk back out through the corridor into the hollow trunk of the Maku Tree. A Gasha Seed is waiting for you here, with the usual reminder to plant it in a patch of soft soil. Keep it for the next soft-soil spot you pass; it is not planted in this chapter.

Link in the hollow Maku Tree trunk beside a Gasha Seed on the floor
Link holding up a Gasha Seed with the plant-it-in-soft-soil message complete

The windmill and Dr. Troy’s secret

Climb to the windmill in the Eastern Suburbs

Head for the windmill in the Eastern Suburbs, east of Horon Village. The windmill sits on a ledge of the sand hill, ringed by red trees, and Octoroks wander the ground around it.

Link near a cave with two red Octoroks among yellow grass and red trees
Link on the windmill ledge ringed by red trees with Dr. Troy's pupil beside him

Take the secret from Troy’s pupil

Talk to the young man at the foot of the windmill. He tells you he is the pupil of Dr. Troy, the biologist from Labrynna, and he is too busy to carry a message himself. Say yes when he asks if you will pass it on, and he gives you a short password. In a linked game you take it to Dr. Troy in Labrynna, and Troy’s reply is what pays off in Farore’s hall as Bombchu.

Dr. Troy's pupil introducing himself as the senior pupil beside the windmill
The pupil asking Link to take his request with OK and No way choices
The pupil asking Link whether he got that, with Yes and No choices
The pupil's short password shown in the text box beside the windmill

Second secret: Bombchu

Return to Farore and type the second password

Go back to the Maku Tree and into the Hall of Secrets. Enter the second password, the reply to Dr. Troy’s secret, and Farore calls a chest into the hall again.

Link at the stairs below the snow-covered Maku Tree
Link standing before the Maku Tree about to enter its trunk
Sparkles over the Hall of Secrets floor as the second chest is called forth
Farore saying come again anytime while a chest waits in the Hall of Secrets

Open the chest for Bombchu

Open the chest and you receive Bombchu, a homing bomb that runs along the ground at enemies. The game puts ten of them in your Items menu. Press the button you assigned, and aim them at anything you cannot reach with an ordinary Bomb.

Link beside the chest in the Hall of Secrets ring before taking Bombchu
Link holding up Bombchu with the send them right to your enemies message complete

Vasu’s Jewelers again: the Snowshoe Ring

Appraise the ring from Farore’s chest

Walk back out into the snow-covered village and enter Vasu’s Jewelers. Appraise the ring from the chest in the hall for 20 Rupees. It is the Snowshoe Ring, which stops you sliding on ice, but you already own one, so Vasu buys the spare for 30 Rupees. You come out with 882 Rupees after the appraisal and sale.

Link beside the snow-covered Vasu's Jewelers in winter Horon Village
Vasu at his counter asking what he can do for Link

The Advance Shop: Gasha Seed and two rings

Find the shop in north-west Horon Village

Follow the winter paths to the Advance Shop, a duplex house in the north-west corner of the village. Everything on the shelf costs 100 Rupees. The first item is a Gasha Seed, which you buy and keep for planting later.

Link following the snowy paths of Horon Village toward the shop
The Advance Shop shelf with three items each priced at 100 Rupees
The shopkeeper offering the Gasha Seed for 100 Rupees with OK and No thanks
Link holding up the Gasha Seed bought in the Advance Shop with the message complete

Buy the Advance Ring and the Magical Ring

Buy the second item, the Advance Ring, which later appraises as the GBA Nature Ring. Then buy the third item, a ring the shopkeeper simply calls the Magical Ring, whose identity is a secret until Vasu appraises it. Both are bought for 100 Rupees each, so you leave with 582 Rupees and two unappraised rings.

The shopkeeper offering the second shelf item for 100 Rupees with OK and No thanks
Link holding up the ring bought in the Advance Shop, get it appraised later
The shopkeeper offering the third shelf item for 100 Rupees with OK and No thanks
Link holding up the Magical Ring with the get it appraised later message complete

Hero’s Cave (linked game)

Enter the cave on the beach south of the village

Leave the village by the south-west road and cross the beach, fighting Octoroks and keeping to the sand. Go in through the cave mouth in the cliff. The first room is ringed with eye statues and a sign: “This is the Hero’s Cave. Continue on if you trust your skills.” In a linked game this cave is far harder than the Wooden Sword cave of a normal file.

Link on the beach with an Octorok near the cave mouth in the cliff
Link at the cave mouth in the cliff with Octoroks close by
The Hero's Cave sign telling Link to continue if he trusts his skills

Work through the block and pot rooms

The first rooms are mazes of raised blocks and pots, patrolled by Keese. Use the Power Bracelet to lift pots out of your way, and take any Rupees that drop. If a door says it will not open from this side, find another route round and approach it from the far side.

Link in a maze of raised blocks and pots with a Keese flying nearby
Link working through the raised-block maze beside pots with a Keese below
A Rupee dropped beside Link after he clears a pot in the block maze

Collect the first Small Key and meet the Zora

Two Hardhat Beetles guard the next room; lure them away from the gap and jump it. In a big room full of pitfalls, a pink key block hides a Small Key. In a small room nearby, a pale Zora stands beside a swirl tile. He says King Zora sent him to find a new home, and asks you to deliver a secret and his report to the king in Labrynna. Accept and he gives you the password. This is the King Zora secret, and in a linked game it upgrades a sword. Then use the Small Key on the locked door.

Link reaching the pink key block that holds a Small Key above the pit room
Two Hardhat Beetles guarding a corridor in the Hero's Cave
The pale Zora beside the swirl tile saying he is traveling the lands
The Zora asking Link whether he understood, with Yes and No choices
The Zora thanking Link after he accepted the message

Open the first Gasha Seed chest

Continue through the door, across a checkerboard room of pits and a room with a magenta door, then follow a conveyor ledge to the chest at its end. Open it for a Gasha Seed.

Link on the ledge above the dark pit heading for the chest at its end
Link striking a red enemy beside the chest at the end of the ledge
Link holding up a Gasha Seed with the plant-it-in-soft-soil message complete

Open the second Gasha Seed chest

Move on through more checkerboard pit rooms until you reach a room with ladders and a few Zols and Gels. Beat them, then open the chest in that room. It holds a second Gasha Seed, so you now carry two from the cave.

Link entering the room with ladders and a pink block above a pool
Link fighting a Zol and a Gel beside the chest in the ladder room
Link at the open chest in the ladder room after the fight
Link holding up the second Gasha Seed with the message complete

Swim through the water rooms for a second Small Key

The next rooms are flooded, so swim with Zora’s Flippers. In one of the water rooms a chest on a ledge holds a Small Key. Use it on a locked door in the rooms that follow. This first run stops somewhere beyond that point, because the linked cave expects items from later dungeons.

Link on a ledge in a flooded room beside a chest and water
Link on the flooded room ledge beside a white statue block
Link holding up a Small Key with the You found a Small Key message complete

Leave when your hearts run low

By this point you are down to a heart or two. There is still a chest left unopened beside a teleporter at the end of the last room you reach. Walk back out and plan to return in a later chapter once you hold more dungeon items.

Link at the teleporter swirl beside the unopened chest with few hearts left
Link walking past the unopened chest in the cave room
Link at the exit of the Hero's Cave statue room

Great Fairy by the cave

Refill your hearts

Back on the beach, go to the nearby cave with the pool. The Great Fairy there says she will ease your weariness, and a shower of hearts fills your life meter to full. Come back here whenever you leave Hero’s Cave in bad shape.

Link low on hearts on the beach path toward the cave with the pool
Hearts falling around Link in the Great Fairy's cave
Link in the Great Fairy's cave with his heart meter filled

Third secret: the Noble Sword

Walk back to the Maku Tree

Cross the Horon fields to the east, past the woman standing in the field, until you reach the stairs below the Maku Tree. Walk into the trunk and on to the Hall of Secrets once more.

Link crossing the Horon fields past the woman standing in the grass
Link at the foot of the stairs below the Maku Tree
Link walking into the Hall of Secrets toward Farore
Farore welcoming Link in the Hall of Secrets

Type the third password and open the chest

Enter the third password, the reply that King Zora gives for the Zora’s message. A blue ring of light surrounds Farore and the chest appears. Open it to take the sacred Noble Sword. Your sword changes from L-1 to L-2 and does more damage. Farore reminds you that your secrets have called forth new power.

A ring of light around Farore as the third secret takes effect
Link holding up the sacred Noble Sword with the message complete and the sword at L-2
Farore telling Link to come again anytime after the Noble Sword

Save at the Maku Tree and leave

Farore offers to save, so choose Save & Continue if you like, then walk out into the Maku Tree’s trunk. The Noble Sword now sits on the B button.

Link in the Hall of Secrets with the L-2 Noble Sword in hand
Link heading for the exit of the Hall of Secrets with Farore behind him
Link walking down the long corridor out of the Hall of Secrets

Chapter checklist

TypeNameWhere
RingGreen Holy Ring (appraised)Vasu’s Jewelers, 20 Rupees
RingBlue Holy Ring (appraised)Vasu’s Jewelers, 20 Rupees
RingFist Ring (appraised)Vasu’s Jewelers, 20 Rupees
RingCursed Ring (spare sold for 30 Rupees)Vasu’s Jewelers
RingSnowshoe Ring (spare sold for 30 Rupees)From Farore’s first chest, appraised at Vasu’s
RingAdvance Ring (GBA Nature Ring), unappraisedAdvance Shop, 100 Rupees
RingMagical Ring, unappraisedAdvance Shop, 100 Rupees
GashaGasha SeedMaku Tree trunk, after Farore’s first secret
GashaGasha SeedAdvance Shop, 100 Rupees
GashaGasha Seed (2)Two chests in Hero’s Cave
ItemBombchu (10)Farore, second secret
UpgradeNoble Sword (L-2)Farore, third secret
KeySmall Key (2 found)Pink key block and a water-room chest, Hero’s Cave
SecretDr. Troy’s secretPupil at the windmill, Eastern Suburbs
SecretKing Zora’s secretZora inside Hero’s Cave
HealingGreat FairyCave beside the Hero’s Cave beach

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