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The Eternal Forest – 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.

Earning the last of the three goddesses’ sanctions (whichever temple you finish last; in this guide’s order, Nayru’s Sanction from Lanayru Temple) kicks off the next main quest, The Prime Energy and Null, which sends you to the Eternal Forest. There’s no rush: plenty of side quests are open at this point, so it’s a fine moment to clean up before heading into the forest whenever you’re ready.

Outside Faron Temple, Tri notes the Faron rift is fixed and Farore's sanction earned, the last of the three.
The Main Quest banner The Prime Energy and Null appears in Zelda's Room, starting the Eternal Forest chapter.

Getting There

As Zelda and Tri leave Faron Temple, a voice says it has long awaited this moment, and a dark rift swallows the temple steps and bursts, knocking Zelda out. A red-eyed copy of Zelda steps out of the temple and declares that, now the goddesses have provided their sanctions, she should be able to approach the Prime Energy; “this identity should suffice.” Then she vanishes in a flash of light, and Zelda wakes up back in Hyrule Castle.

Back on the Faron Temple steps, a purple-bordered voice says it has long awaited this moment.
A dark rift cloud swallows the path in front of Faron Temple as Tri flies clear.
A red-eyed copy of Zelda steps out of the Faron Temple doorway after the rift bursts.
The impostor Zelda stands over the collapsed real Zelda, saying the sanctions let her approach the Prime Energy.

Zelda comes to in her own bed in Zelda’s Room, with the King and Impa at her side. The King relays that the goddesses spoke of an ancient forest with a sacred tree; Impa identifies it as the Eternal Forest, northwest of the castle, with the sacred tree being the great tree that stands there. Tri realizes Null waited until Zelda earned the right to seek the Prime Energy, then made an echo of her. The King adds that Link may be found in the Eternal Forest and asks Zelda, as the priestess of wisdom, to go. A Rift in the Faron Wetlands completes and The Prime Energy and Null begins.

Zelda wakes in her bed in Hyrule Castle with the King of Hyrule and Impa at her side.
In Zelda's Room the King asks Impa about the ancient forest with a sacred tree the goddesses spoke of.
Impa identifies the goddesses' ancient forest as the Eternal Forest.
Tri explains Null waited for Zelda to earn the right to seek the Prime Energy, then made an echo of her.
The King says the goddesses told him Link may be found in the Eternal Forest.

The forest sits northwest of Hyrule Castle Town, east of Kakariko Village, and the quest marker points straight at it. There’s a Waypoint in Hyrule Field right at the forest’s eastern edge; warp there if you have it, then walk west into the trees until the Eternal Forest title appears and the fog closes in.

Zelda arrives at the Hyrule Field Waypoint at the eastern edge of the Eternal Forest.
Zelda walks west across the clearing toward the misty treeline of the Eternal Forest.
The Eternal Forest title card appears as Zelda enters the blue-tinted woods.
Fog drifts between the round trees and stumps along the Eternal Forest's narrow paths.

Into the Fog

Inside, the forest fills with fog and the paths twist between walls of round trees in classic Lost Woods fashion. There’s no trick to the maze here: just keep exploring the winding trails. Darknuts and other armored enemies patrol the clearings, so summon a strong echo (a Darknut works well) to fight for you, and open the chests along the way; two of them hold a Monster Stone. Eventually you’ll come out into a clearing with a small stone tablet, where General Wright and a few of his soldiers are recovering from a run-in with the fake princess. Wright admits he “couldn’t tell the difference” and remembers she was last seen examining the stone monument.

Zelda walks a misty path between round trees at the start of the Eternal Forest fog maze.
Zelda holds up a Monster Stone from a chest in the Eternal Forest fog maze.
A summoned Darknut echo strikes an enemy in an Eternal Forest clearing while Zelda stands back.
General Wright and two soldiers stand by a stone tablet, admitting the fake princess fooled them.

After the cutscene, examine the small stone tablet. It reads: “The path will open when the six pedestals are crowned. To crown each pedestal, demonstrate the power of echoes, and prove your wisdom.” Once you’ve read it, a much larger stone monument rises out of the ground behind it in a cloud of dust.

Zelda walks up to the small stone tablet in the clearing with the Check prompt showing.
The tablet reads that the path will open when the six pedestals are crowned.
The tablet's second line: crown each pedestal by demonstrating the power of echoes and proving your wisdom.
A large stone monument rises behind the tablet in a cloud of dust as Zelda watches.

The monument’s face is carved with six round sockets laid out in a triangle (one at the top, two in the middle, three along the bottom), and that triangle is your map of the six pedestals in the forest. An Ancient Orb pops into view beside the monument and drifts off through the clearing; follow it and catch up to learn the ancient-orb echo. In plain terms: find the six pedestals and put an Ancient Orb on each one.

The risen orb monument, its face carved with six round sockets arranged in a triangle.
An Ancient Orb floats beside the monument as General Wright and his soldiers look on.
Zelda follows the drifting Ancient Orb through the grass near the soldiers' clearing.
Zelda holds up the Ancient Orb with the message "You learned the ancient-orb echo!"

The Six Pedestals

1. The first one is right in front of the monument. The Ancient Orb you learned the echo from is still floating there: grab it with Bind, steer it onto the pedestal just below the monument, and the top circle lights up. For every other pedestal, summon an Ancient Orb echo onto it instead; Tri flies ahead and points the way through the fog.

Zelda uses Bind to set the floating Ancient Orb on the pedestal just in front of the Eternal Forest monument.
The orb monument with its top circle glowing after the first pedestal is crowned.

2. The middle-left circle: follow Tri through the fog to a pedestal hidden in a pocket between the round trees, and summon an Ancient Orb onto it.

Following Tri's trail between the round trees of the foggy Eternal Forest toward the second pedestal.
An Ancient Orb echo summoned onto a pedestal hidden in a pocket between round trees in the Eternal Forest.
The monument now shows the top and middle-left circles lit, confirming the second Eternal Forest pedestal.

3. The bottom-middle circle: a pedestal at the foot of a large tree, with a couple of green rupees lying in the grass beside it. Drop an orb on it.

The third pedestal under a large tree beside two green rupees, crowned with an Ancient Orb echo.
The monument with three circles lit: top, middle-left and bottom-middle.

4. The bottom-right circle: deep in the thickest fog, past a treasure chest, the pedestal sits in a nook just below a row of trees.

Zelda crowns the fourth pedestal with an Ancient Orb in a fog-shrouded nook below a row of trees.
The monument with four circles glowing after the bottom-right pedestal is crowned.

5. The bottom-left circle: another pedestal wedged into a gap between round trees. Summon the orb and five circles are lit; only the middle-right one is left.

The fifth pedestal, tucked in a gap between round trees, lighting up as Zelda places an Ancient Orb echo.
The Eternal Forest monument with five of its six circles lit; only the middle-right one is dark.

6. The middle-right circle: the last pedestal stands beside a raised grassy ledge among the trees. Crown it with an orb and all six circles on the monument glow.

The last empty stone pedestal sitting by a grassy ledge among the Eternal Forest trees.
Zelda summons an Ancient Orb onto the sixth pedestal, completing the set.
The monument with all six circles lit in a triangle pattern.

With all six pedestals crowned, head back to the monument. Golden lines join the six circles into a Triforce, the monument vanishes in a burst of light, and a path opens to the north. General Wright wants to go along, but Tri says only those sanctioned by the goddesses can pass, so Wright and his soldiers head back to the castle and leave the forest to Zelda and Tri.

Golden lines join the six lit circles into a Triforce on the monument as Zelda stands before it.
A glowing golden Triforce symbol hangs where the Eternal Forest monument stood.
The monument is gone, leaving an open grassy path leading north into the Eternal Forest.
General Wright and his soldiers join Zelda at the newly opened path, exclaiming "A path!"
Tri explains that only those sanctioned by the goddesses can go through the new path.

The Deku Tree and the Ancient Ruins

Once the Triforce path opens, head north through the thickest fog yet, weaving between the round treetops, until you reach a sunlit clearing and the Great Deku Tree, guardian of the forest. He is surprised to see you “return” so quickly: someone who looked just like Zelda already passed through, and he now realizes she was only an echo. While she fooled him, he says, she won’t be able to deceive the Prime Energy, and he lets you in to bear witness. Step onto the hexagonal platform in front of him and take the stone stairway down into the Ancient Ruins, then walk through the torch-lit room into the shrine beyond.

Zelda pushes north through the thick blue fog and round treetops of the Eternal Forest toward the Deku Tree.
The Great Deku Tree in its sunlit clearing at the heart of the Eternal Forest.
The Deku Tree tells Zelda an echo of her fooled him but will not be able to deceive the Prime Energy.
Zelda steps onto the stone stairway behind the Deku Tree as the Ancient Ruins area title appears.
Zelda walks through the torch-lit stone room toward the inner shrine of the Ancient Ruins.

In the inner shrine you catch up to Zelda’s echo: a false Zelda standing before the Triforce altar, telling the story of the Prime Energy and of how Null once tore at the fabric of the world. When you and Tri confront her, she brushes you off (“I do not have time to deal with you right now”), and she vanishes, leaving a glowing rift behind. Tri urges you to go after the rest of the Prime Energy, so enter the rift to reach the Stilled Ancient Ruins, a string of floating islands in the purple Still World where Tri senses that a dark mass in the distance may be Null. (You can leave through the light on the starting island if you have cleanup left to do; returning later puts you on the platform in front of the Deku Tree, so walk back down the stairway and through the carved Triforce doorway to re-enter the rift.)

The false Zelda, an echo, stands at the Triforce altar and speaks of the Prime Energy left by the goddesses.
The false Zelda faces the real Zelda and Tri in the shrine before vanishing into a rift.
Zelda walks up to the glowing rift left behind in the Ancient Ruins shrine.
Inside the Stilled Ancient Ruins, Tri points out the dark mass in the distance that may be Null.
Returning later, Zelda arrives on the hexagonal warp platform in front of the Great Deku Tree.
Zelda passes through the carved Triforce doorway on the way back to the shrine and its rift.

Stilled Ancient Ruins

Past the sealed door, the Stilled Ancient Ruins are a chain of floating islands hanging in a purple void, and the first stretch is teal grassland crossed by pink dirt paths. Shadow Peahats, Moblins and a Wolfos patrol the islands; a Lynel echo makes short work of them while you keep moving.

Zelda arrives on the first teal grass island floating in the purple void of the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
A shadow Peahat hovers by the toppled blue spire as Zelda crosses the grass islands of the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
Zelda's Lynel echo cuts through Moblins while a Wolfos prowls the grass island in the Stilled Ancient Ruins.

Next come sand islands dotted with cacti and broken carved stone, a Gerudo-style stretch. The gaps here are wide, so lay Cloud echoes in a row and walk across them. Beyond the sand, tall columns of water blocks rise out of the void: swim up through them, stacking Clouds beside them where you need a foothold, to reach a higher grass island with pale stone steps.

Zelda reaches the sand islands, marked by cacti and a fallen Gerudo-style carved stone, in the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
Zelda lays a row of Cloud echoes to bridge the gap between sand islands in the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
Cloud echoes lead Zelda toward a tall column of water blocks topped with grass in the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
Zelda climbs a water-block column by stacking Clouds beside it to reach the upper islands of the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
Zelda arrives on a raised grass island with pale stone blocks, past the water columns in the Stilled Ancient Ruins.

Keep following the upper grass islands, cloud-hopping between them and onto pale stone pillars. More water-block columns (one beside a glowing green orb) carry you higher still, and then the path turns into an area of red brick blocks under a pale slab, which you again cross by laying Clouds from block to block.

Zelda follows the pink path across the upper grass islands of the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
Zelda cloud-hops from a grass island toward a pale stone pillar over the void in the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
Zelda rises beside more water blocks while a green swirling orb glows nearby in the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
Zelda crosses the red brick block area on Cloud echoes beneath a pale slab in the Stilled Ancient Ruins.

The red bricks lead into a blue ice room full of ice crystals and ice blocks, guarded by shadow Freezards that blast frost breath down the lanes; use the ice blocks as cover and pick them off. Beyond it is a floor of shallow green water with lily pads, where blobs crackle with electric fields. Let your Lynel echo deal with the enemies here and stay out of the sparks. Cross to the lavender stone slab next door and activate its Waypoint.

Zelda enters the blue ice room with ice crystals and ice blocks in the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
A shadow Freezard blasts frost breath between the ice blocks as Zelda dodges in the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
Zelda's Lynel echo leaps onto the shallow green water floor with its electric orb in the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
An electrified blob crackles in the green water as Zelda and her Lynel echo fight through the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
Zelda activates the Waypoint on the lavender stone slab in the Stilled Ancient Ruins.

Then comes the lava section: a dark rock ledge running beside glowing lava blocks studded with red spiked domes and steam vents. A horned, armored shadow warrior and a swarm of Keese attack on the ledge, so summon your Lynel again to handle them, then stack Clouds to climb over the lava. Past it, dark rock paths with cracked, glowing floors wind through the void; ride Clouds across the gaps until you reach a stone-and-grass terrace with stairs and palm trees. Activate the last Waypoint there, then climb the pale stone steps and path ahead to the circular arena for the boss.

Zelda walks the dark ledge beside a lava platform with red spiked domes and steam vents in the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
A horned, armored shadow warrior and Keese attack on the lava ledge of the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
Zelda stacks Cloud echoes to climb over the lava platform in the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
Zelda rides a Cloud along the dark rock paths past cracked lava floor in the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
Zelda activates the last Waypoint on the stone-and-grass terrace before the arena in the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
Zelda heads up the pale stone path and stairs toward the final arena in the Stilled Ancient Ruins.

Boss: Zelda’s Echo

At the top of the Stilled Ancient Ruins your impostor waits on a ring-shaped stone arena with Link sealed in a pink crystal overhead (no boss name card appears). She fights like a twisted version of you: she keeps her distance at the arena’s edge, slips away through dark portals, and summons her own echoes against you, including a golden Lynel and shadowy Darknut-style knights. Drink a damage-reduction smoothie before you start (a Mixed Tough Smoothie works), then let your Lynel echo trade blows with her summons while you enter Swordfighter Form and pick at her with the sword and Bow of Might whenever she’s in range. Once she’s worn down, a Lynel spin attack finishes her, and she sinks into the floor taking the Prime Energy with her, which updates the quest The Prime Energy and Null.

The fake Zelda waits beneath Link's pink crystal in the Stilled Ancient Ruins arena before the boss fight.
The impostor Zelda (left) summons a golden Lynel echo onto the arena while Swordfighter Zelda dodges.
Swordfighter Zelda fires a Bow of Might arrow across the arena at the impostor Zelda on the left edge.
Zelda's own Lynel echo clashes with a shadowy Darknut summoned by the impostor in the boss arena.
Zelda's Lynel echo lands a spinning sword attack on the impostor Zelda to end the boss fight.
Tri reacts as the defeated impostor sinks away: "Oh no! There she goes with the Prime Energy..."

After the fight, walk up to the grassy ledge beneath Link’s crystal; it cracks and shatters, and Link drops free. Tri explains that the Prime Energy resides in both of you and that you’ll have to take it back from Null together, and the Rescuing the Hero Link main quest completes. Tri then asks whether you’ll give Link his weapons, and warns that once you go inside there’s no backing out. Answer “I’m not ready yet” if you still have business elsewhere; when you’re set, talk to Link again, hand over his sword, choose “I’m ready”, and the way into Null’s Body, the final dungeon, opens.

Zelda stands beneath Link's pink crystal as it cracks open after the boss is defeated.
The crystal shatters into shards and Link drops free above the Stilled Ancient Ruins arena.
The "Main Quest Complete: Rescuing the Hero Link" banner appears with Zelda and Link in the arena.
Tri warns there's no backing out once inside and asks if you're ready, with "I'm ready" or "I'm not ready yet".
Link, now holding his sword, stands ready beside Zelda before the way into Null's Body opens.

Eternal Forest Collectibles and Final Prep

The forest itself is light on pickups: this playthrough turns up no Piece of Heart or stamp stand anywhere in the Eternal Forest. Its chests, tucked into the dirt clearings of the fog maze, hold monster stones and rupees, so open them as you pass. The one thing really worth hunting here is the Lynel echo.

An opened chest in a dirt clearing of the Eternal Forest fog maze, where the chests hold monster stones
Zelda arrives back in the misty Eternal Forest, area name on screen, for the last free-roam stop.

The Lynel echo

Lynels roam the forest’s misty paths on your return visit. They’re tough, fast, and hit like a truck; enter Swordfighter Form, keep moving when one charges or winds up its spinning sword attack, and let your echoes soak up hits. When it falls, learn the Lynel echo. It’s an ideal partner for the boss fight ahead and for Null's Body.

A Lynel appears among the trees of the Eternal Forest just ahead of Zelda.
The Lynel charges at Zelda in Swordfighter Form across a muddy clearing in the Eternal Forest.
The Lynel unleashes a spinning sword attack as Swordfighter Zelda fights it in the forest clearing.
"You learned the Lynel echo!" as the Lynel appears above Zelda in the Eternal Forest clearing.

Last checks before the finale

Before you tell Tri you’re ready, finish your prep. Spend your Might Crystals at Lueburry’s house in Suthorn Forest; once your weapons are fully enhanced he’ll take 25 more to make “something extra special” and place it outside his house. Stock up on combat smoothies too. A damage-reduction drink like the Salted Tough Smoothie helps a lot, and documenting every recipe at the Smoothie Shop earns you 10 golden eggs. Check that your Fairy Bottle is filled, too.

Lueburry tells Zelda "There's nothing more I can enhance for you" in his Suthorn Forest house.
Lueburry, having taken 25 might crystals, says he's placed his special creation outside the house.
Zelda holds up 10 golden eggs from the Hyrule Field Smoothie Shop after documenting every recipe.
Zelda holds up a salted tough smoothie, a damage-reduction drink, at the Hyrule Field Smoothie Shop.

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