Arrival in Labrynna and the Black Tower Walkthrough

Impa recovers and tells you that Nayru must be saved. Because this is a Linked Game, she hands you a Wooden Shield, which goes into your B slot. She also gives you the Wooden Sword, and you have it equipped by the time you leave the forest. In an unlinked game you start with no gear at all. Once both items are on your item screen, put the sword on B and the shield on A, which suits the cutting and digging ahead.Impa then tells you to go to the Maku Tree in Lynna City and walks off toward Nayru’s house to the east.

Go north from the shop and enter the jeweler’s, Vasu Jewelers. Vasu notices you have no Ring Box and gives you an L-1 Ring Box, which holds one ring at a time. He also gives you a Magic Ring to appraise, so choose Appraise from his menu: the ring turns into the Friendship Ring, which does nothing but is the first entry in your ring list. Come back to Vasu whenever you find an unidentified ring, because rings only work after he has appraised them. See Magic Rings for the full list.

You reappear in the Forest of Time, at the swirling blue portal Veran opened. Impa waits beside it and explains that it is Veran’s doing and that it leads to the past, where you can stop her and save the Maku Tree. Walk into the portal. This is the first of the time portals; it is already open, so you do not need any song yet. You arrive in Lynna Village, 400 years earlier.

Look around the village square and slash the flower bushes with your sword. Cutting them drops rupees and gets you up to about six, enough to try the shooting gallery later. Talk to the villagers as you go: they say the whole village is being dug up for the Black Tower, and that you will not get far here without a Shovel.

Cross the river bridge and look for a small outhouse; the man inside asks you for paper, and you have none to give. Continue to the house just past it. The man inside complains about his stash of seeds and gives you a Gasha Seed, telling you to plant it in soft soil. A soft soil patch sits behind the outhouse building, so once you own the Shovel, dig there and plant the seed. After a while the tree grows a Gasha Nut; harvesting it gives a Magic Ring, or rarely a Piece of Heart. The Gasha Seeds page explains how often to come back and check.

Walk through the work area, keeping to the left of the path, until you reach the man reading near the holes in the ground. Talk to him and mention digging: he is delighted and hands you the Shovel, which goes into your A slot. Use it on loose earth and on the piles of rubble to clear a way, and on soft soil to plant Gasha Seeds. See Items and Equipment for what else it does.

Go back out to the front of the tower, the courtyard where a heart floats behind a ridge of rubble. Use the Shovel to dig through the stones and walk up to take your first Piece of Heart. Your item screen now shows 1 of 4 pieces; every four pieces make one more heart container. The full list is on the Heart Piece Locations page. Next you can dig your way through the rubble to the Maku Path in Lynna Village, which starts the next chapter.