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Lanayru Temple Dungeon – The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Walkthrough

Echoes of Wisdom 100% Completion Walkthrough16 chapters
Walkthrough overview
  • Prologueplaying as Link, escaping the castle jail, and the waterways to Suthorn Beach.
  • Suthorn ForestSuthorn Beach and Village, meeting Tri, the first echoes, and mending the Suthorn Forest rift.
  • Suthorn Ruinsthe first dungeon, the Shadow Link fight, and the Seismic Talus boss.
  • Jabul Watersthe River and Sea Zora feud, Lord Jabu-Jabu, and Stilled Jabul Waters.
  • Jabul Ruinsthe whirlpool chase, the five colored switches, and the Vocavor boss.
  • Gerudo Desertthe Oasis, Gerudo Town, the desert rifts, and Cryptic Cavern.
  • Gerudo Sanctumthe tribute puzzle, the Bow of Might, and the Mogryph boss.
  • Hyrule Castlethe Hyrule Castle well rift, Stilled Castle Town, and the Ganon boss.
  • Eldin VolcanoKakariko Village, the Eldin Volcano Trail, and saving Goron City.
  • Eldin Templethe Bombs of Might, the lava hall, and the Volvagia boss.
  • Faron WetlandsScrubton, Blossu’s House, and escaping the Deku Scrub Lockup.
  • Faron Templethe small keys, the plant mini-boss, and the Gohma boss.
  • Hebra Mountainmeeting Condé, the climb through the snow, and the Stilled Hebra Mountain rift.
  • Lanayru Templefire orbs, fans and lasers, the slime mini-boss, and the Skorchill boss.
  • Eternal Forestthe six Ancient Orb pedestals, the Deku Tree, and freeing Link in the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
  • Null’s Bodythe final dungeon and the multi-phase fight against Null.

This page covers Lanayru Temple from its entrance to the boss, Skorchill. It picks up where Hebra Mountain leaves off; that page also has the region’s collectibles checklist.

Fire Orbs, Fans and the First Key

The Entrance Mural

A mural inside the entrance shows a balloon trip from Hebra Mountain up to Holy Mount Lanayru. Tri works out that Condé’s brother left it here, so Condé had it wrong: his big brother doesn’t think badly of him at all. The next room has footprints in the floor, just like the ones outside the rift. Grab the Twisted Pumpkin by the braziers and head on in.

Tri reads the Lanayru Temple entrance mural and realizes Condé's brother left it here.
Zelda in the temple's footprint room as Tri notes they match the tracks seen outside the rift.

The Orb Pedestals

The first fan room has a floor track and ice crystals blocking a doorway. A Wind Cannon echo set on the track gets the gusts going. To melt the ice, Bind one of the lit braziers and drag it against the crystals. The room beyond has a water pit, ice blocks and a pack of Ice Octos. Clear them out and a chest appears with 5 Rock Salt. This temple’s gimmick is the orb pedestals: an orb’s element sets what a fan does, a fire orb turns it into a heater and an ice orb makes it blow cold.

A Wind Cannon echo sits on the floor track in the first fan room, blowing a gust across the floor.
Zelda Binds a lit brazier against the ice crystals by the right-hand door of the fan room to melt them.
Zelda fights the Ice Octos in the icy room with the water pit and ice blocks.
Zelda holds up Rock Salt with the box "You got 5 portions of rock salt!" in the Lanayru Temple.

The Fire Orb and the Ice Shaft

Back in the fan room, a fire orb sits on a red pedestal out over dark water. Lay Cloud echoes across the gap, Bind the orb, pull it back over the clouds and set it on the pedestal by the track. The fan glows red and turns into a heater, and a ladder down opens up. The side-on ice shaft below has snowman enemies and ice geysers. Use Clouds to climb past the geysers, then hop across to a chest with 3 Monster Fangs.

Zelda lays Cloud echoes across the dark water toward the fire orb on its red pedestal.
Zelda uses Bind to pull the fire orb back over the Cloud bridge toward the pedestal by the floor track.
The fan glows red and turns into a heater once the fire orb is set on its pedestal.
In the side-on ice shaft, Zelda places a Cloud echo next to the ice geysers to climb past them.
Zelda holds up Monster Fangs with the box "You got 3 monster fangs!" in the side-on ice shaft.

The Geyser and the Small Key

The next room is swept by icy gusts. Bind the boulders into their path to block them and make your way to the door. Beyond it is a big room with a fan in the middle, icy wind on the left and hot-air burners on the right; take the door at the top. In the barred room, an ice geyser blasts up between you and an orb on the far side. Drop a Lava Rock echo on top of the geyser to plug it.

Zelda Binds a boulder into the path of an icy gust in the two-door wind room.
The big room with the central fan, icy wind on the left and hot-air burners on the right.
A Lava Rock echo sits on top of the ice geyser behind the bars, plugging it.

With the geyser plugged, Bind the fire orb through the bars and drag it down to the pedestal on your side. The big room’s fan becomes a heater and melts the frozen floor into water. Dive in for a Small Key.

Zelda Binds the fire orb through the bars and drags it toward the pedestal on the floor track.
The central fan glows red as a heater, melting the frozen floor into water.
Zelda holds up a Small Key underwater with the box "You got a small key! It can open a locked door."

The Ice Orb and the Locked Door

Now do the reverse. Back in the barred room, Bind the orb again and drag it straight through the ice geyser so it freezes. Set the ice orb on the pedestal and the fan blows cold, refreezing the water. In the big room, Bind the boulders into a stack against the hot-air burners on the right. Stand on a Cloud to lift the last one into place, then climb up to the locked door.

Back at the bars, Zelda Binds the orb through the open ice geyser to turn it into an ice orb.
The central fan glows teal and blows cold air, refreezing the water in the fan room.
Zelda Binds boulders into a stack to block the hot-air burners on the right side of the fan room.
Standing on a Cloud, Zelda Binds the top boulder into place to finish her stack up to the ledge.
Zelda reaches the locked door on the upper ledge of the fan room above the boulder stack.

Freeze Slugs and the Golden Egg

The side-on shaft beyond is crossed by icy blasts that freeze Zelda solid. Bind the stone slab into each blast to block it as you work your way down. Next comes a room of ice geysers: Clouds carry you across to a chest alcove with a Golden Egg. In the ice block room after it, slide an ice block aside to uncover a ladder down. The side-on corridor below is crawling with Freeze Slugs; defeat one to learn the Freeze Slug echo. Then carry an orb across the corridor on Clouds. The icy blasts turn it to ice and the wall flame turns it back to fire, so steer it round the blasts and set it on the pedestal as a fire orb. That heats the fan up in the ice block room above.

In the side-on shaft, Zelda Binds a stone slab into the icy blast to block it.
Zelda holds up a golden egg with the box "You got a golden egg!" in the alcove beyond the geysers.
Zelda Binds an ice block aside in the ice block room, uncovering a ladder hatch beside the water channel.
Zelda learns the Freeze Slug echo, with "You learned the Freeze Slug echo!" on screen.
Zelda stands on a Cloud and drags the fire orb across the side-on room, steering clear of the icy blasts.
The fire orb glows on the red pedestal at the right side of the side-on room, sending power up the pipe.

The Dungeon Map and the Slime Mini-Boss

The Twin Switches and the Second Small Key

The next room has two floor switches joined by a narrow ice walkway, with ice blocks scattered around it. Bind the blocks off the walkway, then summon a heavy echo (a Beamos works) and drag it along the walkway onto the far-right switch. Step onto the left switch yourself and, with both held down, a chest appears beside the ice blocks on the left. It holds a Small Key.

Zelda Binds an ice block off the narrow walkway between the two floor switches in Lanayru Temple's ice-block room.
A Beamos echo sits on the cleared walkway, ready to be pulled onto the far-right floor switch.
With the Beamos on the right switch and Zelda on the left one, a chest appears beside the ice blocks.
Zelda holds up the Small Key from the chest in the ice-block switch room of Lanayru Temple.

The Geyser Maze and the Dungeon Map

The room beyond is a maze of geysers and green slime pools, guarded by enemies that throw bombs. Clear them out with your echoes and sword. A chest on the upper ledge holds the Dungeon Map. Light the braziers in the lower half with Brazier echoes, then head through the top-right of the room to the next door.

Zelda enters the geyser room with green slime pools, where bomb-throwing enemies wait.
Zelda and her echoes fight the enemies around the central green pool in Lanayru Temple.
Zelda holds up the Lanayru Temple Dungeon Map found in the chest on the room's upper ledge.
Two Brazier echoes burn among the geysers in the lower part of the slime-pool room.

The Waypoint and the Slime Mini-Boss

A small room with a Waypoint statue comes next. Activate it so you can warp back here from the map. The door at the top left leads to the miniboss.

The small Waypoint room before the miniboss, with the statue in the middle and the door at top left.
The Waypoint statue glows after activation; the miniboss door is at the top left.

Once you step in, a giant green slime with a red core drops from the ceiling and the gate behind you closes. It bounces after you around the arena, so keep moving.

A giant green slime with a red core drops into the arena in front of the north door.
Close-up of the giant green slime miniboss as it lands in its Lanayru Temple arena.
The slime bounces after Zelda as the arena's bottom gate stays sealed.

This Slime miniboss splits into smaller slimes as you damage it, first two and then a scatter of little blobs. Ice echoes do most of the work: summon a Snomaul or an Ice Wizzrobe to freeze a slime solid, then switch to Swordfighter form and smash it. Each split brings more of them, but the method stays the same: freeze, hit, repeat until nothing’s left. A Golden Tough Smoothie takes the edge off the damage if the crowd gets out of hand. When the last blob is gone, the north door opens.

Zelda tethers the giant slime with Bind during the Lanayru Temple miniboss fight.
The giant slime has split into two smaller slimes, with an ice echo on the right.
One slime is frozen into a ball of ice by an ice echo, ready to be smashed.
In Swordfighter form, Zelda shatters a frozen slime while smaller blobs remain on the pool.

The Laser Room and the Big Key

The Torch Shaft

Beyond is a side-scrolling shaft of ice and ladders with unlit torches on every level. Summon a Brazier echo and Bind it up to each torch, climbing the walls and ladders with it in tow. Ice blocks block parts of the climb; park a Torch Slug beneath them to melt them away. Keep working upward, lighting torches as you go, until you reach the alcove at the top left, where a chest holds 100 rupees.

In the side-view torch shaft, Zelda Binds a lit Brazier echo up to an unlit torch.
Zelda climbs the shaft with a Brazier echo tethered behind her to reach the next torch.
Zelda Binds a Torch Slug under an ice block to melt it and open the way up.
Zelda carries a Brazier echo up a ladder to light the upper torches near the top of the shaft.
Zelda holds up 100 rupees from the chest in the upper-left alcove of the torch shaft.

The Yellow Switch and the Snowball

Out of the side-on shaft you reach the heart of B3’s main puzzle. The first room shows a big yellow switch beyond a field of ice spikes, with a giant snowball parked below it; next door, the big chest sits behind bars with a small yellow floor switch in front. Remember both. East is the laser room: an ice orb sits on a track pedestal, and a fire orb burns in the brazier by the fan. Bind the fire orb to see how it works, then take the north door.

Lanayru Temple B3: a giant snowball sits below a big yellow switch fenced by ice spikes in frozen water.
The big chest locked behind bars, with a small yellow floor switch on the track in front of it.
Laser room: the blue ice orb sits on its track pedestal while Zelda crosses toward the fire brazier.
Zelda uses Bind to carry the fire orb away from the lit brazier in the laser room.

The Ice Wizzrobe Room

The north room is full of ice crystals and Ice Wizzrobes. Summon fire echoes (Fire Wizzrobe or Ignizol) to melt the crystals and open the chest inside for a Twisted Pumpkin. Carry on through a frozen room with Tektites skating on the ice to a set of floating ice platforms. Shove the ice blocks into a path, then Bind the fire orb from its brazier and carry it to the empty socket on the far side. It fires a red laser through the fan, and that thaws the frozen room you just passed.

A fire echo melts the ice crystals around the chest in the Ice Wizzrobe room of Lanayru Temple.
Zelda shoves ice blocks around the floating icy platforms to make a path.
Zelda carries the fire orb with Bind across the icy platforms toward an empty socket.
The fire orb set in its socket fires a red laser that will thaw the frozen room beyond.

The Twin Plates and a Might Crystal

Go back to the thawed room, which is now deep water patrolled by Tektites. Swim across and use Cloud echoes to climb onto the right-hand ledge, where a chest holds a Might Crystal. Beyond is a gated water room with a pressure plate on each side ledge. Once the floor is frozen, stand on one plate and send an echo (a Pathblade works) onto the other so the middle gate opens.

The thawed room is now deep water patrolled by Tektites; Zelda swims through.
Zelda rides Cloud echoes over the water toward the chest on the right-hand ledge.
Zelda holds up a Might Crystal from the ledge chest in the flooded room.
Gated water room with two pressure plates on the side ledges and the exit gate in the middle.
With the floor frozen, Zelda and a Pathblade echo hold both pressure plates down to open the gate.

White Wolfos

The next room is a fight against a pack of Wolfos led by White Wolfos; let your echoes do the work and learn the White Wolfos echo.

Zelda enters the next room as a Wolfos pack charges along the track.
Zelda's echoes brawl with the Wolfos and White Wolfos pack.
A White Wolfos, the last of the pack, prowls in front of the north door.

The Second Laser Path

North, work through the ice-block rooms, where a blue block breathes ice across the floor. Carry the fire orb to the socket beside the cage to light up another laser path. Back in the laser room, Bind the ice orb into the left-hand socket: its blue beam freezes the big-switch room. Step on the floor switch in front of the barred chest and the giant snowball rolls in, but it stops against the ice spikes.

Ice-block room with a blue ice-breathing block and a fire orb on a pedestal to the left.
Zelda carries the fire orb toward the socket beside the cage to power another laser.
Back in the laser room, the ice orb in the left socket sends a blue beam to the switch room.
The blue beam freezes the giant-switch room, but ice spikes still stud the floor.
Released by the floor switch, the giant snowball rolls in but stalls against the ice spikes.

The Big Key

The door beside the barred chest leads down to B4, where you’ll find the boss door; come back up for the key. In the laser room, put the fire orb in the socket so the red beam melts the switch room, ice spikes and all. Then swap the ice orb back in to refreeze it smooth. Hit the floor switch again and the snowball slides all the way onto the big switch. The bars drop, and the big chest holds the Big Key. Return to B4 and open the boss door.

With the fire orb in the socket, the red beam melts the switch room's ice and spikes into water.
Zelda Binds the ice orb back into the left socket to refreeze the switch room smooth.
The giant snowball slides across the smooth ice and lands on the big yellow switch.
Zelda holds up the Big Key: You got the big key! Now you can open the big door!
Zelda walks through the unlocked boss door in the B4 room with the green floor tile.

Boss: Skorchill

Tri wonders whether the white yeti waiting in the arena is Condé’s brother before it armors up in dark crystal and becomes Skorchill. The fight runs in three phases, all keyed to the color of his helmet. Phase one he wears an ice helmet; hit him with a Fire Wizzrobe echo until the ice armor breaks, then go in with the sword (or Swordfighter Form) while the bare yeti is exposed. Watch for the White Wolfos and icicles he brings in. Phase two the floor changes and his helmet turns to fire, so switch to an Ice Wizzrobe echo to break it. Phase three the helmet is half ice, half fire: use Fire Wizzrobes on the icy side and Ice Wizzrobes on the fiery side, then use Swordfighter Form on the exposed yeti. A Chill-Proof smoothie keeps the arena’s cold off you. Rewards: 5 Might Crystals from Tri, a Heart Container, and Nayru’s sanction.

Skorchill's name card: a yeti in dark crystal armor with an icy helmet, at the Lanayru Temple boss arena.
A Fire Wizzrobe echo has melted Skorchill's ice armor, leaving the white yeti open for Zelda to attack.
Second phase: Skorchill's helmet turns to fire, so Zelda summons an Ice Wizzrobe echo to break it.
Final phase: Skorchill's helmet is half ice, half fire; Fire Wizzrobe echoes blast the icy side.
Zelda holds up the reward after Skorchill: "You got 5 might crystals from Tri!"
Zelda holds the Heart Container dropped by Skorchill in the Lanayru Temple boss arena.

Nayru’s Sanction and the Eternal Forest

After the fight, the goddess Nayru speaks to Zelda in a beam of light and tells her about the one who tore the land apart with the rifts: Null. Back on Holy Mount Lanayru, Condé is overjoyed that you two cleaned the mountain, though his brother still hasn’t come home. That completes Rift on Holy Mount Lanayru and updates Lands of the Goddesses. You can start the Snowball Magic side quest later in Condé’s igloo (see below).

In a beam of light, the goddess Nayru tells the priestess about the one who tore the land with rifts.
Back on Holy Mount Lanayru, Condé greets Zelda and Tri: "Then you two cleaned the mountain!"
"Main Quest Complete: Rift on Holy Mount Lanayru" banner shown on the snowy mountainside.

With Nayru’s Sanction in hand, all three goddesses’ sanctions are yours and Lands of the Goddesses updates. The King of Hyrule tells you about the ancient forest with a sacred tree: the Eternal Forest, northwest of the castle. (If you cleared the mountain before Faron, Tri instead points you on to the Faron Wetlands for the last sanction.)

On Holy Mount Lanayru Tri notes they now have the goddess Nayru's sanction too.
Zelda walks down the snowy slopes of Holy Mount Lanayru after mending the rift

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