Makasura Shrine (An Upright Device)

Makasura Shrine is a puzzle shrine built around Zonai Stabilizers, which flip a plate upright when struck. Stand plates against walls to climb them, fling the Shrine Sphere into its socket and launch yourself over the last gap. The trial is called An Upright Device. It sits in West Necluda, about 79 map units from Kakariko Village. The Arusakam Lightroot lies directly beneath it in the Depths.

Trial	An Upright Device
Type	Puzzle
Region	Necluda
Location	West Necluda
Coordinates	1769, -1051, 179
Chests	Fairy Tonic
Lightroot below	Arusakam Lightroot

How to find it

Makasura Shrine is at map coordinates 1769, -1051 (height 179), on the cliff and ridge above Kakariko Village. Most guides suggest using Ascend under the wooden scaffolding along the cliff wall near the village’s west entrance (or the east entrance) and climbing it piece by piece to the top. The shrine’s first room is empty: walk to the wall opposite the entrance and use Ascend to reach the first ledge. Completing it makes it a fast-travel point for Kakariko Village. The shrine has no Korok seed.

Solution

Ride the upright plate up the first wall

The first room is closed off by a high wall. A long grid plate with a Zonai Stabilizer lies on the floor: climb onto the plate and strike the Stabilizer. It snaps the plate upright and carries you up the wall. A Stabilizer can also be set off with an arrow, which is the usual way to be flung across a gap.

Long grid plate with a Zonai Stabilizer lying on the floor of the first room

Grid plate standing upright on its Stabilizer beside the wall

Stand a plate against the fence and climb it

In the next room a second plate lies beside a barred wall. Use Ultrahand to lift it, rotate it against the bars and activate its Stabilizer so it stands upright. Climb the standing plate and jump over the fence to the ledge with the chest. If the plate will not carry you high enough, attach a Stabilizer to the plank on the far side of the bowl, aim it at the ledge, and set it off with an arrow to be flung up.

Grid plate with Stabilizer lifted in Ultrahand beside the barred wall

Upright grid plate leaning against the barred fence

Open the chest on the ledge

The chest on the ledge holds a Fairy Tonic.

Closed chest on the narrow ledge above the fence

Chest on the ledge opened with the Fairy Tonic item box

Launch the sphere into the socket

Beside the chest is a bowl-shaped plate. Attach a Stabilizer to it with Ultrahand, put the Shrine Sphere in the bowl and aim it at the round socket high on the wall. Strike the Stabilizer and the sphere flies up into the socket, which opens the barred gate beneath it. Some guides instead set the sphere on the floor pressure plate to open the gate.

Bowl plate and Stabilizer being assembled on the floor

Bowl plate with its Stabilizer beside the Shrine Sphere

Build the final launcher and leave

Behind the gate is a second bowl plate. Join it to the grid plates and a Stabilizer so the Stabilizer sits underneath, climb into the bowl and strike the Stabilizer to be thrown across the last gap. Glide to the far side, climb the steps and take the Light of Blessing from the terminal.

Second bowl plate being attached to a Stabilizer

Grid plates stacked above a Stabilizer plate for the long launch

The Lightroot below

Directly under this shrine, in the Depths, is the Arusakam Lightroot. Light it from below to reveal that part of the Depths map.