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Explorer’s Crypt (Dungeon 7) Walkthrough

Oracle of Seasons 100% Completion Walkthrough26 chapters
Walkthrough overview
CoversThe Explorer’s Crypt, entered from the graveyard on the Western Coast. Summer is needed to clear the vines that block the graveyard path.
DungeonExplorer’s Crypt (Dungeon 7): Roc’s Cape in a chest, Poe Sisters (mini-boss), Gleeok (boss), Seed of Life (Essence of Nature)
RewardsRoc’s Cape, Power Ring L-1 (unappraised until Vasu), Small Keys, Boss Key, Heart Container, Seed of Life

Explorer’s Crypt is the seventh dungeon. It holds the Roc’s Cape, a Boss Key, a Heart Container and the Seed of Life, which is the essence you need for the late game. The route is to enter from the graveyard, light the torches that call the two Poe Sisters, collect Small Keys for the locked doors, open the Boss Key chest, and then fight Gleeok.

Link in the lit central room inside the Explorer's Crypt, yellow blocks around him
Link in a dark Explorer's Crypt room with chests along the walls and a sealed door
Gleeok's two heads at the top of the boss room as Link enters

Explorer’s Crypt entrance

Enter the crypt from the graveyard

Walk into the dark stone building at the graveyard, which opens the Explorer’s Crypt. Inside, head north and then west past the Stalfos and Anti-Fairies. The Magical Boomerang handles the Anti-Fairies well. Cross the dark room and keep going east through the room where the lights go out, where blue and red Wizzrobes wait.

Link walking across the graveyard toward the stone crypt building
Link at the glowing green doorway of the stone building in the graveyard
Explorer's Crypt name box shown as Link enters the dungeon
A Stalfos beside a row of Anti-Fairies at the top of a dark crypt room

Dungeon: Explorer’s Crypt (Dungeon 7), first rooms

Small Key from the Wizzrobe room

The Wizzrobes drop a chest that holds a Small Key. Use the key on the locked door to the east to reach the gauntlet room. The chest contents are the key, and you need it to move on.

Link walking among chests in a purple crypt room
Link at an open chest with a Small Key rising above it
You found a Small Key! message over Link in the crypt room

Power Ring L-1 from the gauntlet room

The gauntlet room has Sword Stalfos, Shrouded Stalfos and Zols. Clearing them is optional, but a chest on the ledge rewards you with a ring. Its name only appears after Vasu appraises it at Vasu Jewelers in Horon Village, where it turns out to be the Power Ring L-1.

Link and a green Zol in the gauntlet room of the Explorer's Crypt
Link below a chest on a ledge behind yellow blocks in the crypt
The Get it appraised later message shown over the ledge chest where Link found the ring

Mini-boss: the Poe Sisters (Dungeon 7)

Light the torches to call the first sister

Two torches in the northern room of this floor stay unlit. Light them with Ember Seeds and the first Poe Sister appears. Her ghost fire fills the room, so keep moving and strike her when she comes in close. Defeating her lifts the curse on that room, which lets you explore the rest of the north freely.

Link facing the first Poe Sister in a dark crypt room beside chests
The first Poe Sister's ghost fire circling in the crypt room
Link's sword striking the first Poe Sister as her ghost fire scatters

Light the four torches for the second sister

The eastern room holds the second sister, who carries a lantern and moves in a circle. Light all four torches quickly with Ember Seeds, because she will not stay still. Several hits break her curse, and the room is open after that.

The second Poe Sister with her lantern in the gold-floored room
Link chasing the second Poe Sister through the gold-floor room
Torches lit in a row on the crypt floor as the second sister moves on

Fight both sisters together

Once both curses are lifted, the sisters fight you together in the gold-floor room. Keep at least two torches lit at all times, and when three are lit, attack. Focus one sister first. Defeating both opens the east doorway.

Link and a Poe Sister in the gold-floor room with torches lit
Link striking a Poe Sister in the gold-floor room, a torch lit beside them
Link fighting both Poe Sisters among lit torches and ghost fire
Poe Sister's 'I'll come back to haunt you!' message as she falls

Roc’s Cape and the magnet rooms

Get the Roc’s Cape from the spike room

Past the Darknuts and a magnet crossing, a red trampoline sends you into a room with Anti-Fairies and a spinning moving platform. The chest in the dark spike-ringed room holds the Roc’s Cape, which upgrades the Roc’s Feather. Roc’s Cape lets you jump gaps and dodge Gleeok’s fire, so keep it selected for the boss.

Link approaching the dark spike-ringed chest room in the crypt
Second page of the Roc's Cape message, reading that it lets Link do a double jump

Small Key from the magnet rooms

Work through the magnet mazes and the stairwell, and you will find a Small Key in a chest after the orb puzzle. Keep the Small Keys ready, because the locked doors on the way to the boss use them up one at a time.

Link among yellow blocks and enemies in the crypt puzzle room
You found a Small Key! message over Link after opening a crypt chest

Boss Key

Open the Boss Key chest

After the switch puzzle is set, the Boss Key sits in a red chest on a blue-tiled floor. Take it back through the stair maze to the boss door.

Link on blue tiles below a closed red chest in the crypt
You found the Boss Key! message with the chest and Link on blue tiles
Link beside the opened chest on blue tiles after taking the Boss Key
Gleeok

Boss: Gleeok (Dungeon 7)

Phase one: the two heads

Gleeok is a two-headed dragon. Its body stays in place while the heads spit fire in a three-way stream, a short ring of fireballs or occasionally a full ring. Fly over the stream with Roc’s Cape, and jump over the full ring. Damage both heads evenly, because a severed head that is not finished quickly grows back to full health. Charged Spin Attacks are the fastest way to deal damage.

Gleeok's two heads spitting fire at Link in the boss room
Gleeok's head and a ring of fire as Link slashes with the sword
Gleeok's heads firing fireballs around Link in the boss room

Phase two: the headless body

After both heads fall, the body jumps and slams the ground. Use Roc’s Cape to hop when it lands, or you will be stunned and rammed. Strike briefly after you dodge the landing, then move away before the next jump.

Gleeok's headless body crouched on the gold floor after both heads fell
Gleeok's headless body lying low on the gold floor, ready to jump

Heart Container and the Seed of Life

Claim the Heart Container

When Gleeok falls, a red heart appears and you take it. The message reads that you got a Heart Container, which raises your maximum health.

Gleeok bursting in a red explosion after both heads fall
You got a Heart Container! message box in the boss room

Take the Seed of Life essence

Walk out of the boss room and head west to the essence chamber under the blue crystal. There you receive the Seed of Life, which is the Essence of Nature. The Maku Tree then tells you that the next essence is somewhere in Holodrum.

Link leaving the Gleeok boss room through the pink doorway
The Essence of Nature message fully typed while Link stands in the essence chamber
Link in the essence chamber with the Seed of Life light around him
Maku Tree text saying the next essence is somewhere in Holodrum

Chapter checklist

TypeNameWhere
Small KeySmall Key (Wizzrobe chest)First rooms, after the dark room
RingPower Ring L-1Ledge chest in the gauntlet room, appraised at Vasu Jewelers
Mini-bossPoe SistersTorch rooms in the north and east
ItemRoc’s CapeDark spike-ringed room past the magnet crossing
Small KeySmall Key (magnet orb puzzle)Chest after the orb puzzle
Boss KeyBoss KeyRed chest on a blue-tiled floor
BossGleeokBoss room past the boss door
Heart ContainerHeart ContainerDropped by Gleeok
EssenceSeed of Life (Essence of Nature)Essence chamber west of the boss room

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