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Song of the Hero Walkthrough: Faron, Eldin and Lanayru Gorge

Skyward Sword 100% Completion Walkthrough18 chapters
Walkthrough overview
CoversEldin Volcano (captured, the stealth route and Volcano Summit), the third Imprisoned fight in the Sealed Grounds, flooded Faron Woods and the Tadtones, Lanayru Gorge, the Life Tree and Levias in the Thunderhead
You needGoddess’s Harp, Beetle, Water Dragon’s Scale (for swimming), Gust Bellows, Clawshots and Mogma Mitts; the Triforce hunt must have started and Pumm’s soup must have reached Levias in the Thunderhead (see the previous chapter)
RewardsThe four parts of the Song of the Hero; every item stripped from you in Eldin returned, including the True Master Sword; the Life Tree Seedling and Life Tree Fruit; Amber Relic, Ornamental Skull and Ancient Flower treasures, a Gerudo Dragonfly; 5 Gratitude Crystals from Sparrot, plus 10 more from two optional errands; two Goddess Cubes (Volcano Summit and Lanayru Gorge) that open the Empty Bottle chest and the Small Quiver chest in the sky

This chapter collects the Song of the Hero, the melody that opens the last trial. Three dragons each hold one part and Levias holds the fourth: you survive an eruption in Eldin, win a Tadtone chase in flooded Faron Woods, heal the sick dragon of Lanayru Gorge with fruit from the Life Tree, and finish with Levias in the Thunderhead.

The Water Dragon, a blue serpent in her hall, says Link is worthy and will teach him her verse of the song.
Eldin, the Fire Dragon, kneels in his gold hall and says the mountain was not always so dangerous.
A blue spirit congratulates Link on collecting three verses of the Song of the Hero, with the Thunder Dragon nearby.

The three dragon quests can be done in any order, and the order below is simply the one that flows well. Fi will not let you descend into Faron Woods until the third Imprisoned has been dealt with, so that fight arrives whenever you first head for Faron. Do Lanayru last, because the Life Tree needs a trip to the Sealed Temple and its Gate of Time.

The Water Dragon rises before Link and asks who dares set a toe in her waters
Eldin the Fire Dragon appears in his golden hall as a message names him protector of Eldin Province
The ailing Thunder Dragon coughs in a cloud of dust at Lanayru Gorge

Eldin Volcano: captured and stripped of your gear

Wake up in the cell and get the Mogma Mitts back

Fly to the Eldin Volcano and dive in. The mountain erupts as you arrive, and you wake in a Bokoblin cell with none of your gear. Smash the pots for recovery hearts, then lift the barrel. A Mogma named Plats burrows in and hands the Mogma Mitts back.

Eldin Volcano erupts in a huge burst of fire and lava above the mountain.
Link stands in a green cell beside two pots and a barrel, with a Bokoblin behind the bars.

Dig through the soil patch in the cell and follow the tunnel out. A Bird Statue stands close to the exit, so save there. If a Bokoblin spots you from this point on, you are sent back to a recent checkpoint. Plats marks every chest that holds one of your items on your map.

Link stands on a dirt patch in the Eldin cell area, wearing the Mogma Mitts, with a lit brazier nearby.
Link walks toward the bright doorway at the end of a dark tunnel beneath the volcano.

Stealth route: how to get your items back

Guards cannot see you through the fences with holes in them, so hide behind those, wait for a patrol to turn away and then move on. The yellow ring under a watchtower’s light shows where you would be seen. Moldorms underground are not worth fighting, and the Peahats overhead make useful Clawshot targets later.

Link runs along a fenced lava-side path past a lit torch, with a spiked iron fence on the right.
Link waits behind a spiked fence while a Bokoblin with a lantern patrols the path ahead.
Link peers through a wire fence along a cave path toward distant lanterns and a bright light.
Link hangs from a Peahat above a wooden watchtower whose lantern throws a bright beam on the ground.

First, take the left path down from the cell area once the nearby Bokoblin has turned its back, and burrow underground. Break the light boulders from beneath, use Bomb Flowers on the dark ones, and climb out of the north hole toward a wooden watchtower. Dig past its light, come out on the north side and climb the ledges to a chest holding the Gust Bellows. Use them on the ash below to clear a way on.

A wooden watchtower casts its light over a lava-side path with an iron gate to slip past.
Link opens a chest on a ledge above the lava, and light pours out of it.
Link stands on a lava rock as the box reads that he got his Gust Bellows back.

Next, follow the first of two patrolling Bokoblins from fence to fence. At the last fence wait on the left until the second guard walks off, slip around the fence and burrow through the soil patch. Underground, break the boulders, ignore the second Moldorm and leave by the east exit. Drop down the ledges to a chest with the Clawshots.

Link hides behind a fence as a Bokoblin guard patrols between two spiked fences.
Link tunnels through the underground pit maze, with a Moldorm crawling along the path above him.
Link lifts the lid of a chest beside a glowing watchtower to take the Clawshots.
The box reads that Link got his Clawshots back, with a spiked iron fence in the corner of the frame.

Now Clawshot across a chain of four or five Peahats, then to the vines, and land on the ledge below. Floating platforms ride the lava current, so wait for one. Blow up the watchtower that blocks the way with a Bomb Flower, open the chest it was guarding for the Whip, and pass behind the fence once the Bokoblin above you faces away. Beyond the gate, use the Whip and the Clawshots on the Peahat to cross.

Link aims the Clawshots at a Peahat over the lava, with the Shoot prompt on screen.
Link swings from a Peahat on a Clawshot over a lava lake, aiming at the next target.
Link stands on a rock ledge above the lava, aiming the Clawshots at a glowing target on the wall.

The fourth chest holds the Slingshot, or the Scattershot if you upgraded it. Whip a plant to coax a Peahat out, bomb the boulders at the cave mouth and in the whirlwind tunnel, and float up on the air. Ride a magma platform to the bridge, throw a Bomb Flower from a platform to topple the next watchtower, and ride back to the chest. The Slingshot stuns guards, so use it at the encampment near the Earth Temple.

Link kneels before an open chest, and a bright light pours out of it in a dim cave.
Link holds up the Scattershot, with the box saying it stuns enemies on patrol.

The last chest holds the Bomb Bag. Stun the Bokoblin with a seed, go underground, break the boulders, knock a Bomb Flower east to clear the rubble and come out of the hole beside the chest. With bombs in hand, retrace your path through the Earth Temple area, stunning guards as you go, then follow the long path and the incline up to the Volcano Summit.

Link walks across a reddish cave floor toward a teal chest with blue light beneath it.
Link holds up the Bomb Bag, the box reading that it is time to make something explode.

Volcano Summit: the sword, the cube and the Fire Dragon

Inside the summit you take back your sword: the message confirms the True Master Sword is yours again, and Fi can talk to you once more. She tells you a dragon who knows a verse of the Song of the Hero is close by.

Link raises the True Master Sword over a lava cave, the box confirming it is his again.
Fi, a blue spirit, says signs point to a dragon who knows a verse of the Song of the Hero.

Before moving on, look for the Goddess Cube in the eastern room. Raise the sword to charge a Skyward Strike, ride the moving lava platform and release the strike as the cube passes. This cube opens the Empty Bottle chest in the sky; the Goddess Cubes page covers the sky side.

Link runs across a lava shore with his sword raised, its blade glowing purple.
A glowing purple Goddess Cube sits on a rock in a lava pool.

A chest in the summit hands back your Adventure Pouch, and the rest of your items come with it, so your equipment is complete again. Fight off the Fire Keese and Bokoblins around it first.

Link opens a cave chest in the Eldin Volcano, light pouring out of the lid
Link holds up his Adventure Pouch from a glowing chest, the box noting the rest of his items are here too

Climb back up, bomb the blockade and head for the next hall. Cut the rope on the ledge, then send the Beetle to cut the ropes on each side of the raised drawbridge. Once the bridge is down, cross it into the dragon’s hall.

A drawbridge hangs on chains above the lava beside a carved golden gate in the Fire Sanctuary
A tall golden gate with a carved emblem stands at the far end of the lava hall in the Fire Sanctuary

Eldin, the Fire Dragon, studies you and decides the goddess has chosen you. He teaches the second part of the Song of the Hero and admits that the eruption was an accidental burst of his own power. You leave through the mountain beside the Earth Temple, and Fi reports that the volcano has calmed.

Link stands on the Fire Sanctuary stairs as the box reads that the goddess has chosen him to hear the melody
Red-robed Eldin sits in his golden hall, the box admitting the eruption was caused by an explosion of his power
Sparrot

Eldin errands: Sparrot’s crystal ball and Guld

Outside the exit, Fi senses a glowing sphere at the entrance to the Earth Temple, out of reach on foot until you Clawshot up to it. It is the replacement crystal ball for Sparrot, the fortune-teller in Skyloft. Let Fi call Scrapper to carry it, then hand it over for five Gratitude Crystals. The side quests page has the earlier steps of the errand.

Guld
A crystal ball rests on the fortune-teller's table in the Skyloft Bazaar, a text box reading If you need me
Link holds up a glowing bunch of five Gratitude Crystals in the Skyloft Bazaar, the box about helping people

If you have already finished the Lumpy Pumpkin tasks, Kina at Pumpkin Landing wants the Mogma elder Guld (her request opens once the Fire Sanctuary is done). Land at the Volcano East landing, drop into the volcanic area where you first got the Mogma Mitts and glide over to a rock pillar in the north to find him. Have Fi call Scrapper to carry him out, take him to the Lumpy Pumpkin, and Kina pays you five more Gratitude Crystals.

A propeller robot asks if it should carry an old thing out of a rocky cave while Fi and Link look on.
A Mogma digs in the pumpkin field as Link and the woman in teal look on from the fence
A woman in a teal dress thanks Link for bringing the Mogma helper to the pumpkin field
A metal sealing spike stands in a red-ringed arena floor, with dark tendrils rising around it

The Imprisoned, third fight

Arrive at the Sealed Grounds

Head for Faron Woods on your Loftwing. Fi warns that flooding makes it impossible to descend into the forest, so you can only land in the Sealed Grounds. Groose is waiting with the Groosenator, a bomb launcher, because the Imprisoned is breaking out of its seal again. Jump into the pit at its bottom centre to start.

A red-capped man at a bomb launcher aims at the spiked monster, Link beside him on the platform

Imprisoned boss fight

This time the monster has a tail and moves fast. Let Groose stun it with a bomb, cut off the toes of each foot to topple it, then drive the spike into the seal on its head with a down-and-up swing. Three spike hits make one round, and after the first round it floats up into the air on a dark halo.

Link stands beside a stone pillar on the monster's spiked back, sword in hand
The monster's spiked head and open jaws fill the view, with a red ring behind them

While it flies, wait for the Groosenator to recharge. A bomb knocks it down again, and you need three more spike hits. You can also ride the whirlwind at the centre of the pit to reach its head.

The monster rises out of the mist as a pale, spiked form against a pink sky

In the last round, use Groose’s catapult to be flung at the monster’s head. Line your aim up with the spike on its head, then hit it three more times. The ninth hit ends the fight.

Link rides the cannon as it fires him toward the Imprisoned's head, with the Fire prompt on screen.

Finish with a Skyward Strike on the sealing spike at the bottom of the pit, then swing the Wii Remote to match the design that appears. Ride a whirlwind back up to the Sealed Temple. The beast is sealed away for the third time.

A sage in red robes tells Link to strike the sealing spike with a Skyward Strike to restore the seal.
Link raises his sword and charges a Skyward Strike at the sealing spike in the bottom of the pit.
A glowing seal glyph forms around the sealing spike, with a Wii Remote swing prompt on screen.

Inside the Sealed Temple the old woman tells you that Faron Woods has somehow been flooded. Save at the Bird Statue, walk out of the front door and Groose flings you with his catapult into the flooded woods. Woodland Rhino Beetles crawl on the walls behind the temple, so take a Bug Net if you want some.

Link stands before the Sealed Temple doors as dust puffs rise at their base.
Link stands on the Groosenator launch pad, ready to be flung over to the flooded woods.

Flooded Faron Woods: the Tadtone song

Meet Faron

You land in a flooded forest, so swim with the Water Dragon’s Scale. Talk to Bucha, the Kikwi elder, then swim into the opening at the base of the Great Tree. Surface inside and climb onto the land at the top.

Bucha, the elder of the Kikwi, introduces himself and says he can hide objects in the structure on his back.
Link swims past a giant tree trunk in the flooded forest, with the Swim prompt on screen.
The title card Inside the Great Tree appears as Link swims into the tree's flooded base.

Faron, the Water Dragon, rises from the pool. She flooded the forest on purpose to wash out the monsters, and she will teach her part of the Song of the Hero only if you collect her scattered Tadtones. A musical score appears on screen: each group of coloured Tadtones matches a run of notes, and you must swim through the members of one group one after another before touching the rest.

Faron, the Water Dragon, rises from the pool beside Link in the flooded forest.
The completed Tadtone score on screen, its groups of notes in purple, blue, yellow, green and red.

How the Tadtone score works

There are 17 groups in all, from single Tadtones to large rings. If you hesitate too long inside a group, its members escape back to the score and you must gather them again. A spin attack underwater draws in nearby Tadtones and helps with the ones that dart away. Air bubbles refill your air gauge. Avoid green spiky growths, purple poison bubbles and monster fish such as Cranioc that charge when they see you.

A bean-shaped guide explains that rogue Tadtones can be caught with a spin attack.
The guide warns that Tadtones of one colour must be collected one right after another or they escape.
The guide warns that the pretty bubbles underwater are poisonous and will make you choke.

Partway through the hunt, talk to Bucha again. He remembers something that could help, and Fi adds the Tadtones as a Dowsing target. Use C to dowse and see which way the nearest group lies; stand on a lily pad or the shore if the water gets in the way.

Standing on a lily pad by the shore, Link reads that dowsing cannot be used underwater.
The bean-shaped guide says Link can now use dowsing to find the rest of the Tadtones.

The groups range from single Tadtones in yellow, red, light blue, purple and green, through pairs, fours and a six, to eights, and the biggest group is fifteen purple Tadtones along a narrow path in the south-west corner of the woods. Singles are the easiest way to start, and the score on screen shows the colour order.

Link swims through the forest with the Tadtone score on screen, a purple Tadtone just collected.
The Tadtone score on screen, with a purple group of notes being filled in.

Treasures on the way

You can pick up an Amber Relic as a treasure in the woods, and Blue Bokoblins can drop an Ornamental Skull. Both are crafting treasures; the bugs and treasures page shows what they upgrade.

Link holds up a floating Ornamental Skull, and a box describes it as a fashion statement with the Bokoblin symbol.

Collect the first part of the song

When the last group is collected, return to the pool. Faron praises you, teaches the first part of the Song of the Hero, and returns to Lake Floria so that the woods drain. Fi confirms the water level has fallen. Take the Bird Statue back to the sky.

Link raises a golden harp as a box reads: You learned part of the Song of the Hero!
A robed guardian and a blue spirit stand in Faron Woods as a box says the water level has dropped.

An optional Skyloft errand fits here. Instructor Owlan wants an exotic plant: fly to the Viewing Platform in Faron Woods, dowse for Oolo the Kikwi, let Fi call Scrapper to carry him, and Owlan thanks you with five Gratitude Crystals.

Owlan stands beside the plant creature Oolo as a box says he will take great care of the new life form.
Owlan lifts a glowing bunch of five Gratitude Crystals beside Link, the box saying it took a lot of gratitude.

Lanayru Gorge: the Thunder Dragon and the Life Tree

Reach the Gorge

Fly to the Lanayru Desert and descend near the Mine Entry, or land in the Sand Sea and walk through the Lanayru Caves. Learn Lanayru’s part last: if you talk to Golo, the Goron in the caves, again after learning the Thunder Dragon’s part while the others are missing, the Wii game could lock the quest. Follow the cliffs into the Lanayru Gorge, where a Bird Statue lets you save and a gate marked with the dragon’s sigil lies ahead.

Link and a blue spirit walk into a sandy canyon as a box reads: This is Lanayru Gorge. Legend tells of a dragon.
The Lanayru Gorge title card floats over a sandy canyon, with a round stone plate in view below.

The mine and the Timeshift Stone

Roll a bomb through the passage to clear the boulders, then jump the gap beyond the Bird Statue to reach the mine. Send the Beetle to fetch a Small Key from a distant pillar, unlock the door and Clawshot over the Peahats. A mine cart holds a Timeshift Stone: hit it and the whole mine returns to its ancient, working state. Speak to the robot and the cart rolls on.

Link holds up a Small Key under a blue sky, its message box fully typed: it opens a locked door in this area.
A glowing cyan Timeshift Stone sits on a carved red pedestal in the dim ruin, its outline lit against the stone.

Ride and fight onward. Technoblins, Deku Babas and Beamos guard the way. Step on the switches to keep the cart moving, and use the Clawshots and the Beetle to cross gaps and drop a bomb on the rocks blocking its path. Stamina Fruit grows on the vines and sand slopes. A pink Ancient Flower grows in areas the Timeshift Stones have returned to the past. When the cart reaches the end of the line, the Thunder Dragon is revived but far too ill to teach you.

The yellow Thunder Dragon sits in a cloud of dust on the Lanayru plain, its body worn and motionless.

How to get the Life Tree Seedling

Lanayru explains that his robots planted a seedling of the Tree of Life, whose fruit is said to cure any illness, but it will not grow in the dry gorge. Cross the bridge to the sand and dash to the small island where the sickly tree stands. Blow the Gust Bellows at the sand pile to uncover a Timeshift Stone, hit it, and the tree turns back into a seedling that you can dig up.

A withered tree stands on a grassy island of sand in a sandstone canyon, ringed by a cyan barrier.
Link holds up the Life Tree Seedling, a sprout with a golden fruit, its message box fully typed.

A robot nearby agrees the seedling cannot grow here and that it must be planted somewhere else. Before you leave, hit the Goddess Cube near the withered tree with a Skyward Strike. It opens the Small Quiver chest in the sky. If the bridge vanishes when the stone’s effect ends, hit the stone again to bring it back. A Gerudo Dragonfly flutters around the grass here.

Link's sword strikes a Goddess Cube, which bursts with white light over the grass.
The robot helper beside Link says this grassy area is no good for growing the seedling quickly.

Plant the seedling and pick the Life Tree Fruit

Fly to the Sealed Grounds, enter the Sealed Temple and talk to Groose about the patch of dirt there. Do not plant it in the present, because the tree would take ages to grow. Use the Gate of Time to go to the past, plant the seedling in the mound of dirt in the side room there, and go back to the present, where the tree has grown.

Link beside a woman in a blue and gold robe, the box reading "Ah, you've planted a seedling!"
Link runs past the Life Tree in the Sealed Temple grove, now grown tall with a glowing fruit in its branches

Roll into the trunk and a glowing fruit drops. Pick it up: you receive the Life Tree Fruit, and the message tells you to take it to the Thunder Dragon.

A glowing Life Tree Fruit drops beside the trunk in the Sealed Temple grove, a Dowse prompt on screen
Link holds up the Life Tree Fruit, the box reading "Take it to the Thunder Dragon!" fully shown

Return to Lanayru Gorge and give the fruit to the Thunder Dragon. He recovers and teaches the third part of the Song of the Hero. Fi congratulates you on three parts and tells you to meet Levias.

Link holds up the glowing Life Tree fruit for the Thunder Dragon
The Thunder Dragon asks if Link brought the fruit for him, his face wreathed in white dust
Link closes his eyes as golden music notes drift around him while he learns the dragon's verse

Levias completes the Song of the Hero

Fly into the Thunderhead and land on Levias’s head. Levias is pleased that you learned all three parts from the dragons, so he plays the last part for you and the Song of the Hero is complete. He says the song opens a door to a great trial, and that the path to the Triforce will be revealed if you succeed.

Link stands on the head of Levias, the great sky spirit, as its large eye opens above the clouds
Levias, the great sky spirit, opens its mouth wide above the clouds in the Thunderhead

Fi says the Trial Gate is somewhere among the floating islands; it stands on Skyloft and the finished song can open it. The trial is the Skyloft Silent Realm, covered in the next chapter. Meanwhile the cubes you hit in the volcano and the gorge have chests waiting on the island south-west of the Isle of Songs; the next chapter explains how to reach them. The bottle page covers the Empty Bottle.

Link runs through Skyloft at night toward the golden light beam above the Trial Gate

Lanayru’s Lightning Round, a boss replay challenge, also opens at the healed Thunder Dragon. Four wins in a row offer a Piece of Heart and eight the Hylian Shield, which are jobs for later, once your gear is strong.

Link holds up the Hylian Shield, with the full item box saying it is completely indestructible.
Link receives a Piece of Heart beside the Thunder Dragon, the box saying it completes a Heart Container.

Chapter checklist

CollectibleTypeWhere
Mogma Mitts Mogma MittsItem returnedPlats, Eldin cell
Gust Bellows Gust Bellows, Clawshots, Whip, Slingshot or Scattershot, Bomb BagItems returnedFive chests along the Eldin stealth route
True Master Sword True Master SwordSword returnedInside the Volcano Summit
Adventure Pouch Adventure Pouch and the rest of your gearItems returnedChest inside the Volcano Summit
Goddess Cube Goddess Cube (Empty Bottle chest)Goddess CubeMoving lava platform, Volcano Summit; chest south-west of the Isle of Songs
Goddess's Harp Song of the Hero, second verseSongEldin, the Fire Dragon
The Imprisoned Third Imprisoned fightBossSealed Grounds pit
Goddess's Harp Song of the Hero, first verseSongFaron, after the Tadtones
Amber Relic Amber Relic, Ornamental SkullTreasuresFlooded Faron Woods
Ancient Flower Ancient FlowerTreasureLanayru Gorge (areas returned to the past)
Gerudo Dragonfly Gerudo DragonflyBugGrass by the Thunder Dragon
Life Tree Seedling, Life Tree FruitQuest itemsLanayru Gorge island; Sealed Temple tree
Goddess Cube Goddess Cube (Small Quiver chest)Goddess CubeLedge near the sickly tree, Lanayru Gorge
Goddess's Harp Song of the Hero, third verseSongLanayru, the Thunder Dragon
Goddess's Harp Song of the Hero, final verse (complete)SongLevias, Thunderhead
Gratitude Crystal 5 Gratitude Crystals eachQuestsSparrot (crystal ball); optional Owlan (Oolo) and Kina (Guld)

With the song complete, head for the trial gate at Skyloft in Skyloft Silent Realm and Sky Keep.

Link stands on a bridge in the Silent Realm as a box says the door to the Triforce waits beyond the trial.

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