Characters

Link is a Knight Academy student on Skyloft who rides a rare Crimson Loftwing. He begins as an ordinary, sleepy cadet, but the goddess Hylia has chosen him. When Zelda is swept below the clouds he draws the Goddess Sword from the Statue of the Goddess and follows her to the surface. The sword and its Skyward Strike stay at the centre of his kit until the final battle.

Zelda is the Headmaster’s daughter and Link’s oldest friend. She plays the goddess at the Wing Ceremony and gives the winner a Sailcloth she made, then a black tornado carries her off. You catch up with her at the Temple of Time, where she hands you the Goddess’s Harp, and later in the Sealed Temple of the past, where she explains that she is Hylia reborn as a mortal. To keep Demise sealed she must sleep for thousands of years.

Fi is the spirit who lives in the Goddess Sword. She calls you Master, speaks in probabilities, and teaches Dowsing: open the menu with C, choose a target and sweep the sword until it hums. She also reads out facts about areas and enemies and sings along when you play the Goddess’s Harp. Her dowsing list grows as the sword is tempered, and the White Sword adds Rupees, Treasure, Gratitude Crystals and Goddess Cubes. The harp songs page covers the music.

These characters guide you, fight beside you or teach you the songs you need.

Groose

Groose is Link’s loud rival at the Academy. He has a towering pompadour, a black Loftwing and a crush on Zelda, and he begins as a bully whose gang hides your Loftwing before the Wing Ceremony. When Zelda disappears he follows Link to the surface. From the second Imprisoned fight onward he arrives in the Sealed Grounds with a contraption of his own, the Groosenator, and helps you bring the monster down.

Three enemies matter to the plot. The boss strategies page covers how to beat them.

Ghirahim

Ghirahim calls himself the Demon Lord. He is theatrical, vain and cruel, and he hunts Zelda in order to revive his master Demise. You fight him three times: in Skyview Temple, in the Fire Sanctuary and in the finale. His true form is the sword of Demise.

Cawlin belongs to Groose’s gang. He gives you a love letter to deliver, and you decide whether it goes to Karane or to the ghostly hand that reaches out from the Academy restroom. The quest pays five Gratitude Crystals.

Strich is the tall, quiet member of Groose’s gang, and a bug lover. He sits in the Lumpy Pumpkin by day, buys bugs that take his fancy in his room at the Academy at night, and after you free Levias he runs the Bug Heaven minigame on Bug Rock. The bugs and treasures page has his buying list.

Fledge is the timid student who worries about his weak arms. He gives you the Adventure Pouch when you are about to leave for the surface, and later you help him train in a long side quest that unlocks the Pumpkin Pull minigame in front of the Sparring Hall.

Pipit is a talented, enthusiastic classmate and a dependable friend who keeps watch over Skyloft after dark. He pushes Fledge to admit that Groose and his gang hid your Loftwing near a waterfall, which sends you to the Waterfall Cave. His mother is Mallara.

Karane is a senior student, friendly and popular. Cawlin has his eye on her, but she is more interested in Pipit.

Horwell teaches at the Academy and runs the Wing Ceremony. He asks you to rescue Mia from the roof before the ceremony starts.

Owlan knows Loftwings well and collects plants. He teaches the Spiral Charge for your bird, and his plant quest asks you to bring the Kikwi Oolo to Skyloft.

Eagus runs the Sparring Hall and teaches sword basics. He loves pumpkin soup, and carrying a bottle of hot soup to him is one of the Lumpy Pumpkin tasks.

Gondo is the craftsman who runs the Scrap Shop. He upgrades your equipment for Rupees and treasures and repairs shields for a fee. In his spare time he tries to fix an ancient robot he inherited from his grandfather, and that robot, Scrapper, becomes your helper once you find an Ancient Flower to repair it.

Rupin sells shields, bombs, arrows and seeds at the Gear Shop by day. At night he buys treasures. His stock grows as you progress.

Luv sells the potions and hands you your first bottle early in the game, so the bottle page starts here.

Bertie is Luv’s husband. He upgrades your potions for Rupees and bugs, and looks after their baby, whom he carries on his back. The baby’s lost rattle begins a Gratitude Crystal quest.

Peatrice runs the Item Check, where you can store items from your Adventure Pouch. She grows fond of you if you visit often, which leads to the Do You Love Me? quest with her father, Peater.

Sparrot tells fortunes. The first reading costs 1 Rupee and later ones cost 10. After you bring him a new crystal ball, readings cost 5.

Parrow is a skilled Loftwing rider who spends the day around the plaza. He worries when his younger sister Orielle goes missing and asks you to find her.

Orielle is stranded on a small grassy island in the Sky with her injured Loftwing. Once you report back, Parrow gives you a bottle of Mushroom Spores to heal the bird, and the quest pays ten Gratitude Crystals in all.

Wryna is the wife of Jakamar, Skyloft’s repairman, and Kukiel’s mother. Her missing daughter starts the Find Kukiel quest.

Kukiel is a small girl who is not afraid of Batreaux, and his only friend. You find her with him at night.

Mallara, Pipit’s mother, hates cleaning even though she likes a tidy house. Blowing the dust out of her home with the Gust Bellows earns five Gratitude Crystals the first time, and 20 Rupees on later visits.

Henya cooks for the Academy and scolds you if you smash her pots. She is married to Rusta.

Batreaux is a kind demon who longs to be human. Every crystal you hand him brings that closer, and he pays you in wallets, a Piece of Heart and other rewards. At 80 crystals he becomes human and the monsters of Skyloft vanish.

Beedle is the flying merchant. You stop his Airshop with a projectile and climb aboard, and he gets upset if you leave without buying. He sells Adventure Pouch slots, extra wallets, medals and a Piece of Heart. A missing beetle starts a quest that involves Strich.

Pumm owns the Lumpy Pumpkin pub on Pumpkin Landing. Once you break his chandelier he gives you jobs to pay it off, and the soup he makes is what cures Levias.

Kina is Pumm’s daughter. She waits tables, tends the pumpkin patch and loves to sing. She asks you to find a Mogma who can plow the field.

Peater is Peatrice’s father, a former knight who trains on Bamboo Island. He lets you try his Clean Cut minigame for a fee.

Dodoh built Fun Fun Island as a place for fun. When his party wheel falls to the surface he loses heart, and he rewards you with five Gratitude Crystals and a free dive when Scrapper brings it back.

Piper cooks at the Bazaar restaurant. Her mischievous son Gully is mad about bugs and asks you to knock a Sky Stag Beetle out of a tree.

Rusta, Henya’s husband, spends his days at the Lumpy Pumpkin. Jakamar, Wryna’s husband, repairs Skyloft’s buildings and fixes the eastern windmill once Scrapper brings back its Propeller.

Bucha is the huge Kikwi elder. After you find the four lost Kikwi he gives you the Slingshot, which you need for the Deep Woods and the door of Skyview Temple. The route is in the Faron Woods chapter.

Machi is the first Kikwi you meet, after you save her from a group of Bokoblins.

Oolo is a Kikwi with a leaf mohawk, and you find him mimicking a bush. He is one of the four lost Kikwi, and later Owlan’s plant quest asks you to bring him to Skyloft.

Lopsa, the most cowardly Kikwi, hides on a tree branch from a Bokoblin. Beat the Bokoblin, then roll into the tree to bring him down.

Erla is found hiding in the grass on a cliff. Pick him up to talk to him.

Yerbal is the Kikwi hermit who climbed the Great Tree and never came down. You reach him at the top after Farore’s Silent Realm, and he tells you how to open the sealed gate to Lake Floria.

Nackle is the green-haired Mogma in the cave who gives you the Digging Mitts once you clear the Bokoblins out of it.

Ledd hunts treasure with Cobal. He drops his Bomb Bag while fleeing two Lizalfos in the Earth Temple, and he gives it to you once they are beaten.

Cobal accompanies Ledd and suggests that the pair could simply dig into the Earth Temple.

Kortz explains Bomb Flowers and that you need a Bomb Bag to carry them. He is later found searching for treasure at Skyview Temple.

Silva is captured by Ghirahim’s forces and hung over lava in the Fire Sanctuary. He is proud of his long hair and admires Guld. Free him and, as thanks, he gives you a pair of Mogma Mitts so you can burrow through the dark soil.

Bronzi is trapped in a room of the Fire Sanctuary. Lower him and he digs up a chest with the dungeon map, and asks you not to tell anyone he was caught.

Plats is the greedy, food-loving brother of Silva and Bronzi. In the Fire Sanctuary he mistakes you for a Bokoblin and runs; catch him and he hands over a chest with a Piece of Heart. When the Bokoblins jail you after the eruption, he takes your Mogma Mitts back from the Bokoblins and returns them so you can escape.

Guld is the elderly leader of the Mogmas and the inventor of the Digging Mitts. You meet him early in the Fire Sanctuary, where he mentions a huge treasure tied to a sleeping statue deep inside. He wants to retire, and later he ends up plowing Kina’s pumpkin patch at Pumpkin Landing.

Merco, a blond Mogma, stands near a big rock in the lava with a hole in it, and mentions that he saw Impa enter the hole.

Tyto is a blue-haired Mogma you can dig out of his burrow. He encourages you to dig everywhere and warns you about red blobs coming out of burrows.

Zanc is found near the retracted bridge and in the cave with the Thrill Digger minigame. For 20 Rupees he gives advice on how to read the holes, although the same hints are written on the cave wall.

Tubert is the large, bald businessman who runs the Thrill Digger digging game. Mogmas as a whole are treasure hunters, but he prefers to serve them. The Rickety Coaster is a different game, run by the Goron Gortram in the Sand Sea.

The Parella are aquatic creatures, part seahorse and part jellyfish, who live in Lake Floria and serve Faron. They are good swimmers and fit through small gaps.

Jellyf leads the Parella and serves the Water Dragon. She first leads you through the flooded channels of Lake Floria, and once she sees your Water Dragon’s Scale she tells you what Ghirahim did to the lake.

Scrapper, officially LD-301S, is an ancient robot that Gondo inherited. He calls Fi “Mistress Fi” and carries what you cannot: Guld, Dodoh’s party wheel, Sparrot’s crystal ball, Oolo, the Water Basin and Pumm’s soup.

Skipper, officially LD-301N, captained the Sandship until the pirate Scervo took it. You wake him by activating a Timeshift Stone on a boat beside his body, and he guides you through the Sand Sea to Skipper’s Retreat and the Pirate Stronghold.

Gorko is a traveling Goron archaeologist who studies the surface and the goddess’s relics. You first meet him in the Sealed Grounds, where Bokoblins are pestering him, and again at Goddess Cubes and Goddess Walls. The Goddess Cubes page lists the cubes.

Golo, Gorko’s assistant, digs in the Lanayru Caves, where you meet him after Nayru’s Silent Realm. He researches the legend of the three dragons, and when you say you are seeking a Sacred Flame he hands over the key that opens the way to the Lanayru Sand Sea.

Gortram is a bearded Goron businessman who has lived alone in the Lanayru Shipyard for ages and runs the Rickety Coaster minecart game there. He asks you to tell more people about it.

Phoeni is the ghost of a young girl who appears as a hand in the Academy restroom at night, asking for paper. She is tied to Cawlin’s letter quest. The Wii game never gives her a name; the name Phoeni comes from the HD remake.