Sepapa Shrine (Backtrack) - Zelda: TotK Shrine Guide

Sepapa Shrine is a Recall puzzle with fire: rewind a raft, carry a flame to burn the vines for the Strong Construct Bow chest, burn the wooden gate with a lit torch, then move a ball between plates and Recall it into the last socket.

Region	Central Hyrule (Hyrule Field)
Location	On a dry, grassy hilltop east of Hyrule Castle, past Boneyard Bridge and Hyrule Forest Park, with the castle visible across the moat
Trial	Backtrack
Type	Puzzle (Recall, fire)
Chests	Strong Construct Bow (Strong or Mighty, depending on your progress) (1)
Lightroot below	Apapes Lightroot
Reward	Light of Blessing

How to find Sepapa Shrine

Head northeast from the moat around Hyrule Castle, past Boneyard Bridge and Hyrule Forest Park, to the dry yellow hill east of the castle. At its foot a small rock arch holds a chest with Brightbloom Seed x5; Ascend through the arch ceiling for a view of the hill. Follow the slope up (a horse helps) to the green light on the summit.

Small grassy rock arch in the fields at the foot of the hill

Item box reading Brightbloom Seed x5 inside the rock arch

Touch the shrine stone and step onto the blue platform to enter.

Shrine stone glowing green beside the hilltop entrance

Sepapa Shrine doorway on the hilltop with Hyrule Castle in the distance

Sepapa Shrine solution

Climb to the channel room

Past the first stairs, stand under the overhanging ledge beside them and Ascend onto the walkway above. The flooded channel room lies beyond it.

Green Ascend grid on the underside of the ledge beside the first stairs

Exit point on the upper walkway above the ledge

Recall the raft

A wooden gate blocks the landing, with a Torch on the floor in front of it. Pick up the Torch (drop a weapon first if your slots are full), then target the drifting raft with Recall so it returns to the landing, and hop on.

Landing with the wooden gate and a Torch on the floor beside the channel

Raft far down the channel targeted with the Recall rewind prompt

Burn the vines

As you drift past the candles, light the Torch (or a wooden weapon, or an arrow) and set the vines hanging from the ceiling alight. They burn away, and the chest is revealed at the end of the channel (see chest below).

Weapon held to a lit candle with vines hanging above the channel

Column of flame as the hanging vines burn beside the row of candles

Re-light and rewind back

Recall the raft to carry you upstream beside the candles again. Stop the rewind there, relight your weapon and keep it equipped; Recall the raft once more to return to the landing.

Raft stopped beside the row of lit candles

Wooden weapon catching fire from the candles

Burn the gate

Hold the burning weapon or Torch against the wooden gate. It burns away and opens the doorway.

Burning weapon held to the barred wooden gate

Gate burned away with an open doorway between two lit candles

Place the ball in the first plate

Grab the ball from its pedestal with Ultrahand and lower it into the hole in the large round plate; the ring turns green and the door ahead opens.

Ball on a pedestal with the Grab prompt beside a large round plate

Round plate glowing green with the ball seated in its centre hole

Move it to the second plate

Lift the ball out of the first plate, carry it across to the next plate and drop it in; the next doorway opens.

Ball lifted back out of the first plate with Ultrahand

Second round plate glowing green with the ball in place

Recall the ball to the last socket

In the final hall, target the ball resting in the pit with Recall. It rolls back up its path into the raised socket on the white block and opens the way to the altar stairs.

Final hall with the ball resting on a green ring in the pit below

Yellow rewind path leading from the ball toward the raised socket

Sepapa Shrine chest

Strong Construct Bow: step off the raft onto the low stone ledge at the end of the channel after the vines have burned and open the chest on the back wall. If your bow slots are full, drop one first.

Chest against the back wall of the stone ledge with the Open prompt

Item box reading Strong Construct Bow over the opened chest

Light of Blessing

Climb the stairs and touch the green seal on the altar to collect your Light of Blessing. Directly below, in the Depths, is Apapes Lightroot.

Light of Blessing item box in front of the altar

Nearby

Yamiyo Shrine is another Hyrule Field shrine.

Tips

Stop a Recall early with the stop button to halt the raft exactly where you want it, such as beside the candles.
Do not unequip the Torch or it goes out; Recall the raft back to the candles to relight it.
The torch also works on the candles by the gate, but any burning wooden weapon is just as good.
If a ball falls off a platform, Recall it rather than climbing down.