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Fire Sanctuary Walkthrough

Skyward Sword 100% Completion Walkthrough18 chapters
Walkthrough overview
CoversFire Sanctuary at the top of Volcano Summit, the Mogma digging tunnels, the second fight with Demon Lord Ghirahim, Din’s Flame, and Skyloft upgrade errands afterwards
You needGoddess White Sword, Clawshots, Bow, Hook Beetle, Gust Bellows, Bomb Bag, Sailcloth and the Goddess’s Harp; an Empty Bottle for fairies is a good idea
RewardsMogma Mitts, Dungeon Map, 3 small keys, Mysterious Crystals, Heart Container, Din’s Flame and the Master Sword, 1 Piece of Heart, Empty Bottle 4, Rupees from a Goddess Wall, Medium and Large Quiver upgrades, Heart Potion+; with the Mitts, a second Piece of Heart on Volcano Summit and, later, the fifth Empty Bottle

The Fire Sanctuary is the sixth main dungeon in Skyward Sword. You freeze fire hands with water, dig through Mogma tunnels with a new pair of mitts, carry a lump of crystals to the door of the boss and beat Ghirahim a second time. His defeat leaves a Heart Container and lets you temper your blade in the last Sacred Flame, which turns it into the Master Sword.

Link stands before owl statues as the Fire Sanctuary name banner appears over the lava hall
Link raises the Mogma Mitts, the message box reading that they let him burrow under the ground

Fire Sanctuary entrance and first small key

How to enter the Fire Sanctuary

Climb through the hall at the top of Volcano Summit, past the frog statue whose fire wall has just been put out, and walk up to the doorway. A Bird Statue stands just inside. Use it to save, because you can also fly back to the sky from here.

Fi and a stocky guardian stand by the fire-face door as a box says the flames are fully extinguished
Link stands beside a large owl bird statue in the Fire Sanctuary, a lantern and rupee counter in view

Cross the lava with the water plants

Lava fills the first room. Hanging above it are spiky water plants. Hit one with a Beetle launch or a Clawshots shot to drop water on the lava, which hardens into a stone platform that sinks after a short time. Cross on it, hit the next plant on the way and ride the second platform along the current. Raise your shield against the arrows of the Bokoblin Archers on the bank.

Link's Beetle strikes a spiky water plant hanging above the Fire Sanctuary room
A hexagonal stone platform floats on the lava, its edge framed by a spiky plant

Climb the steps on the far side and defeat the Blue Bokoblin to open the gate to a chest. It holds your first small key. Step back out, then jump into the mouth of the sleeping statue standing between the two statues that face each other. You fall into a side chamber where you meet a Mogma called Guld. Unlock the nearby door with your key.

A Mogma hangs from a chain in a side chamber, asking Link to get him off it
Link runs past the vines in the Fire Sanctuary, the Small Key shown on his HUD
Magmanos

The south hall and the first Magmanos room

Another Bird Statue stands in the next corridor. Kill the Dark Keese quickly, since their touch curses you and blocks your sword, then deal with the Bokoblins on the stairs. The left-hand corridor has a chest with a Red Rupee.

Link faces a Dark Keese, a dark bat with a purple curse aura, flying above a stone staircase.
Link swings his sword at a Dark Keese whose purple curse spray splashes around him in a stone hall.

Go back to the big first hall and take the right ramp down to the caged floor. A Magmanos, a hand of molten rock, grabs at you when you land. Stand on the rock beside it and wait. When the hand lifts the rock you can jump to a higher ledge. Climb the vines, beat the Bokoblin, shoot the archer and drop to the Bird Statue below. Go through the door beside it.

A Magmanos rises over the golden lava arena while Link stands on the octagonal floor.
Link stands on a vine-covered ledge and looks across the hall at a Bokoblin.
Link aims the Bow at a goblin-like archer beside a flaming brazier in a stone hall.

Dark Lizalfos and the west wing

Dark Lizalfos

How to beat the Dark Lizalfos

The door of the next room locks behind you and a Dark Lizalfos attacks. It is faster than the ordinary Lizalfos and its breath curses you instead of burning you. Fight it as you would the plain kind: keep your shield up, strike the open side when it swings and finish it with a sword combo. Lizalfos can drop a Lizard Tail, which the Bomb Bag and Sacred Bow upgrades use, and cursed enemies sometimes leave an Evil Crystal for the Iron Bow.

Link fights a Dark Lizalfos, a spiked purple lizard, with his sword in a lit stone hall.
A purple message box warns that the creature's breath can curse Link and stop him using his sword

The boulder in the statue’s mouth

Shoot the Cursed Spumes and archers with the Bow. A tunnel high in the wall can be reached with your Hook Beetle for Rupees. Pick up a Bomb Flower and roll it into the rocks that fill the mouth of the statue; the blast frees the lava, which flows again. Use the Beetle on the water plant to make a floating platform and ride it to the west door.

Link aims the Bow at a purple floating creature over a lava pool behind an iron grate
Link aims the Bow at a dark, red-eyed creature in a sandstone hall.
Small Key

Second small key and the captive Mogma

A Mogma is hanging above the lava in the next room. For now leave him. Use the Gust Bellows to blow away the cooled ash on the floor, which uncovers treasure, and walk around the corner to a chest with the second small key. Unlock the door beside the room.

Link blows cooled ash off the floor with the Gust Bellows, dust and sparks flying in a stone room

Frog statue and the random treasure chest

Cut the spiky plants as you climb the steps; they grow back. A chest at the first intersection holds a Red Rupee, and a pot nearby hides a fairy, which you can catch in an Empty Bottle. Take the upper west chest for a treasure. Pick a water plant off the ground with a sword jab so that it sticks to the blade, walk to the platform edge and swing the sword at the mouth of the frog statue. The water puts out the wall of fire. Defeat the Dark Keese and the Bokoblin, save at the Bird Statue and go on.

Link holds up a Red Rupee, and the message says it is worth 20 Rupees
Link walks past spiky green plants hanging from vines beside a stone staircase

Magmanos fight and the Mogma Mitts

Magmanos

Magmanos pair mini-boss

The door locks behind you and you drop to a cage floor to fight two Magmanos. Stand on the rock beside you until a hand lifts it and sends you up to a ledge. Jab a water plant with your sword. Go back down and wait for a Magmanos to rise and follow you. Throw the water at it. Its lava turns to stone, and you strike it until the hand breaks. Repeat with the second one. The lava drains away and reveals a doorway.

Link stands on a rock in the lava arena, with the golden lattice floor glowing around him
A fiery Magmanos hand lunges toward Link across the glowing lava floor of the arena

How to get the Mogma Mitts

Beyond the door, a captive Mogma hangs over a pit. Hit the wall switch to lower him. This is Silva, another of the Mogmas exploring the sanctuary. As thanks he gives you a pair of Mogma Mitts from his secret stash. They work like the Digging Mitts but also let you burrow underground through the dark soil patches of the Fire Sanctuary.

A captive Mogma hangs from a rope over a pit while Link is asked if he lowered the lava
The Mogma with crates on his back promises Link a replacement pair of mitts from his secret stash

How the digging tunnels work

Step on a dark soil patch and press A to dig in. Underground you see a grid of tunnels. Steer along the tunnels, claw through soft rock with the Mitts and roll a Bomb along a tunnel to destroy a boulder that the claws cannot break. Hit a switch and walls above or below move. Tunnels and switches are the main puzzle in the second half of the dungeon.

Link stands on a dark soil patch with the Burrow prompt showing, ready to dig underground.
Link moves through an underground grid of soil squares while blue stone walls slide across the tunnels.

Your first tunnel starts in the cage area. Dig through the soft rock, hit the red switch to move a wall and surface in the room you passed. Defeat the Blue Bokoblin there and step on the floor switch to move the barricade.

Link rises out of an underground tunnel with an Emerge prompt on screen, surfacing in a room.
Underground grid room with a red-and-blue switch post on one side and soil squares around Link.

Empty Bottle 4 and the Dungeon Map

Empty Bottle

Fire Sanctuary Empty Bottle

From the bridge, go left through the door. Dig into the soil beside the first Magmanos room and hit the blue switch underground. Surface, pass the moved gate and step on the floor switch to open another gate. Beat the Magmanos in that room with a water plant as before, walk west and open the chest to take Empty Bottle 4. This is the fourth bottle of the five in the game.

Link holds up an Empty Bottle while a box says his pouch is full and the item went to the Item Check.
Link walks an underground tunnel past a blue switch post on the grid floor.
Dungeon Map

Dungeon Map and the hidden room

Go back to the outdoor bridge and shoot the Bokoblin Archers across the gap with the Bow. Use the Clawshots on the pillars to pull yourself across and go in at the door. Dig into the soil in the second Mogma room and hit the tunnel switches in the right order. Which order is right depends on the direction you came from, so try the other switch first if the doors look wrong. Pick a water plant and fling it at the frog statue to put out the fire wall.

Link draws the Bow to shoot at a target hanging over the lava beside a stone stairway.
Link looks up at a stone doorway set into a rock face in the sanctuary

Free the captive Mogma. He digs up a chest with the Dungeon Map. Check the map for the cracked wall in the east of the room. Bomb it to reveal a hidden room with a small soil patch inside.

Link holds up the Dungeon Map he got from the chest, with its item message on screen
A bomb blast throws up a cloud of dust in front of a stone wall in the sanctuary
A Mogma tells Link he just took down the wall, with two treasure chests beside him

Moldorm tunnels and the third small key

Moldorm

Moldorm in the tunnels

Dig in at the soil in the hidden room. A Moldorm is crawling in the tunnel. Hit its tail from behind with your claws, three times in all. Each hit shortens it and makes it faster. Surface at the other exit.

Link faces a spiked Moldorm crawling through the grid of tunnels under the sanctuary
The segmented spiked body of a Moldorm runs along the tunnel wall beside Link

The chest in the next room holds the third and last small key of the dungeon. Climb the vines, drop off the ledge, shoot the distant archer with the Bow and Clawshot back across. Go down the stairs, turn right and use the key to open the locked door.

Link opens a chest in a tunnel room, light spilling out as the lid lifts

Piece of Heart: the Mogma tag game

Beat the Bokoblin and the Cursed Spume on the far side and make a platform from the water plant. After the Dark Keese and the Blue Bokoblin, shoot the Cursed Spume with an arrow and dig into the soil on the far side. Hit the switch in the tunnels. A second Mogma runs in and flips it back. Stand in the middle and catch him as he comes round an edge of the grid by running into him. Once caught, he lets you open a chest holding a Piece of Heart.

A white Mogma with a purple mohawk taunts Link in a corridor, saying he will never be caught
Link chases the white Mogma across the grid of burrow rooms
Link opens a teal chest in a burst of light in the tunnels
Cursed Spume

The boulder and the flooding room

Surface, kill the Cursed Spume and Dark Keese, hit the water plant to make a platform and ride it to the end of the path. A Bird Statue stands there. Dig back into the tunnels through the middle soft rock and hit the Bomb to blow open the boulder, then leave quickly because the room floods with lava. Step on the floor switch to open the gate, go right into the big room, make a platform with a water plant and ride the lava to the ledge. Climb the steps, turn right and dive off the left edge, then open the Sailcloth to land softly near the statue.

Dark Keese
Link looks up at a Dark Keese in a dim Fire Sanctuary hall as Fi says she has no data on it
Link runs down a Fire Sanctuary staircase with his sword out as a Dark Keese flaps through purple smoke

Goddess Walls and the statue puzzle

Goddess Wall rupees

Blessed Butterflies near a wall on these stairs mark a hidden Goddess Wall. Walk up to the butterflies, take out the Goddess’s Harp and strum it to reveal the wall, with the Goddess Crest in its center. Then charge a Skyward Strike and draw the shape of a Rupee, a hexagon, on the wall with your sword. The wall pays out Rupees.

Link strums the Goddess Harp beside a stone wall while Blessed Butterflies flutter nearby
A winged Goddess Crest glows on a dark stone wall after the harp is played
A white hexagon is drawn on a glowing wall panel

Two Dark Lizalfos and the spiral stairs

Go through the door up the stairs and defeat the two Dark Lizalfos. Climb the spiral stairs, shoot the Clawshots at the vines to reach a chest with a treasure and continue to the door at the top.

Link faces a purple armoured lizard enemy on a patterned stone floor
Link attacks a purple lizard warrior, and red hearts lie on the floor
Link climbs a winding stone staircase, a gold-framed alcove set into the wall beside him

The statue puzzle: light by the number of wings

A stone tablet tells you to bring light to each statue in line with how many wings it has, from fewest to most. Underground, work through the orange switches in that order. Crawl over the first two, blow open the boulder with a Bomb without touching the switch near it yet, then crawl onto the third switch and finish with the fifth. Each switch lights a statue above.

A stone tablet reads: bring light to each statue by its number of wings, from least to most
Three of the five winged statues in the stone room have their braziers lit

Second Moldorm and the Mysterious Crystals

A second Moldorm slithers through these tunnels. Hit its tail three times as before and surface. The gate above is now open. Take the steps up and open the chest to receive the Mysterious Crystals, a lump of glowing stone that acts as the key to the boss door. Smash the pots on the way for hearts and fairies. Step on the floor switch and save at the Bird Statue.

A segmented worm with an orange head crawls through the grey burrow grid beneath the Fire Sanctuary
Link holds up the Mysterious Crystals, and the message box reads that several of the crystals are missing

Boss door and Ghirahim

How to open the boss door

Climb the northern steps to the big golden door. Face the round lock and set the Mysterious Crystals into it. Attach the crystal pieces on the disc until they join into a single clean shape, and the doors swing open. There is no Boss Key in this dungeon; this puzzle takes its place.

Link grabs the loose glowing crystal pieces on the round golden lock, with the Grab prompt showing
A tall red-and-gold door with a round golden lock stands in the Fire Sanctuary, Link waiting before it
The red doors swing open onto a dark passage as Link stands at the threshold

Meet Ghirahim in the hall

Ghirahim is waiting inside. He taunts you about a second Gate of Time, then challenges you to a duel. Draw your sword and fight him on the round stone floor.

Ghirahim in his red cloak taunts Link, the message box reading that he has been searching for another Gate of Time
Link faces Ghirahim across the arena with his sword drawn as the duel begins
Demon Lord Ghirahim

Ghirahim second fight

Phase one: Ghirahim flicks red diamonds at you in lines. Slash them out of the air in the direction they come from. Up close he hides behind them, so hit the diamonds first and strike him when his guard drops. If he catches your sword between two fingers, keep your sword moving and strike once his hand has moved aside.

Red diamond blades circle Ghirahim as he stands in the stone arena, Link's sword raised in front of him

Phase two: once he has taken enough damage he draws two slender sabers and blocks your strikes much as a Stalfos does, so slash at the side he leaves open. Block his rush with a Shield Bash, and when he jumps and teleports before a downward thrust, dodge it, because his swords stick in the floor and leave him open. He also summons the red diamonds in a ring around you: use a vertical spin attack when the ring is vertical and an ordinary spin attack when it is horizontal.

Link's sword meets Ghirahim's blade in a burst of light during the second phase of the duel.

He also fires the diamonds at you in groups of five, which you slash away in the direction they come from. Keep a potion or a fairy ready. After the final hit he rants and retreats, and a Heart Container appears.

Red diamonds fly in a volley above Link while Ghirahim stands back in the arena.
Link's sword slash releases a violet blast as it strikes Ghirahim during the duel.
Heart Container

Heart Container

Walk into the golden sacred hall and take the Heart Container. It adds a heart and refills your health.

The Heart Container rises in the golden sacred hall, light rays spreading from it between two bird statues.
Link holds up the Heart Container, with the message that his life has grown by one heart.

Din’s Flame and the Master Sword

Light your sword with Din’s Flame

Go through the glowing gate and the sealed doors to the Sacred Flame chamber. Stand before the flame, raise your sword and fire a Skyward Strike at the sacred fire. The blade glows as Din’s Flame, the last of the three Sacred Flames, tempers it.

Link slashes at the sacred flame erupting from the altar, sparks flying through the chamber.
Master Sword

The Master Sword

Fi tells you that your sword has finally shown its true form: the Master Sword. It has four times the power of the sword you started with, and with it you can wake the Gate of Time in the Sealed Temple. Use the Bird Statue in the next room to save and fly back to the sky.

Link stands in a stone hall as a purple message box says his blade has become the Master Sword.
A glowing spirit beside a red sacred flame says the sword can awaken the Gate of Time in the Sealed Temple.

Skyloft errands after the Fire Sanctuary

How to upgrade the Quiver

Land in Skyloft and visit Gondo’s Scrap Shop. The Small Quiver becomes the Medium Quiver for 50 Rupees, 3 Monster Horns, 3 Dusk Relics and 5 Amber Relics, adding 10 arrows. The Medium Quiver becomes the Large Quiver for 100 Rupees, 2 Monster Horns, 3 Dusk Relics, 1 Golden Skull and 1 Goddess Plume, adding 15 more. A Quiver only adds arrows while it is stored in your Adventure Pouch.

In the Scrap Shop, a box announces the Large Quiver upgrade, which holds 15 extra arrows for the bow.
Heart Potion+

Heart Potion+

Bertie infuses potions with bugs at the Infusion Shop next to Luv’s Potion Shop. Bring a Heart Potion, 3 Blessed Butterflies, 1 Woodland Rhino Beetle and 1 Volcanic Ladybug, plus 20 Rupees, and you receive a Heart Potion+ that restores all your hearts.

The potion infuser asks if Link has any potions to infuse, with Nah and Sure choices

Fi and the Gate of Time

Talk to Fi. She says the Gate of Time in the Sealed Temple is likely to lead to Zelda and tells you to open it with your newly strengthened sword. The next chapter takes you there.

Beside the Gate of Time, a box says the sacred force in his blade will awaken it with a Skyward Strike.
Link is told to climb the pedestal before the Gate of Time and show it his sword's power.

What the Mogma Mitts unlock outside

Piece of Heart

Volcano Summit Piece of Heart

Near the frog statues before the Fire Sanctuary, a Gossip Stone points to a Piece of Heart. Dig into the soil in front of the stone and burrow to the other exit. A small cave holds a Piece of Heart with three fairies circling it.

Link stands beside a stone Gossip Stone with the eye symbol, with a prompt to burrow into the soil
A Piece of Heart rests on a tree stump in a small cave with three fairies circling it
Link holds up the Piece of Heart from the fairy cave, and the box says three more are needed
Goddess Cube

Summit Goddess Cubes

The two Goddess Cubes you struck on Volcano Summit (cube 24 by the waterfall and cube 25 outside the Fire Sanctuary) open the Bug Rock chest with a Piece of Heart and the Isle of Songs tower chest with a Small Bomb Bag. A third summit cube, cube 26 in the eastern room, is reachable only later, when you return for the Fire Dragon; its chest, on a Thunderhead island south-west of the Isle of Songs, needs the Mogma Mitts and holds Empty Bottle 5. See the Goddess Cubes page.

Link holds up the Small Bomb Bag, its full box saying it holds 5 extra bombs
Link holds up a Piece of Heart against an ivy-covered stone wall, its message box reading Two to go

Chapter checklist

CollectibleTypeWhere
Small Key Small Key 1KeyEntrance, chest on the hill after the Blue Bokoblin
Small Key Small Key 2KeyWest wing, chest after clearing the ash with the Gust Bellows
Small Key Small Key 3KeyChest after the first Moldorm tunnel
Mogma Mitts Mogma MittsItemGift from Silva, the captive Mogma, after the Magmanos pair
Dungeon Map Dungeon MapItemChest dug up by the second captive Mogma
Empty Bottle Empty Bottle 4BottleWest of the Magmanos room, reached by digging
Piece of Heart Piece of HeartPiece of HeartMogma tag game in the north-west tunnels
Red Rupee Red Rupees and treasure chestsChestsSouth corridor and the west rooms
Silver Rupee RupeesGoddess WallGoddess Wall on the stairs
FairiesBottle BottlePots in the west rooms and by the boss door
Mysterious Crystals Mysterious CrystalsKey itemChest after the second Moldorm
Heart Container Heart ContainerHeart ContainerAfter Ghirahim
Master Sword Din’s Flame and the Master SwordSwordSacred Flame chamber
Quiver Medium and Large QuiverUpgradeGondo’s Scrap Shop, Skyloft
Heart Potion Heart Potion+PotionBertie, Skyloft
Piece of Heart Volcano Summit Piece of HeartPiece of HeartCave behind the Gossip Stone dig spot
Cubes 24 and 25 (cube 26 is later)Goddess ChestsVolcano Summit cubes; chests at Bug Rock and on the Isle of Songs tower

With the Master Sword in hand, fly to the Sealed Grounds for the True Master Sword, Levias and Bilocyte chapter.

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