Sinakawak Shrine (An Uplifting Device)

Sinakawak Shrine is a hot-air balloon puzzle: heat balloons with candles and flame emitters to lift yourself and two orbs upstairs, then seat each orb in its socket. The small orb opens the exit; the large orb opens the optional Opal chest, so place it before you touch the altar.

Region	Hyrule Field (North Hyrule Plain, Hyrule Ridge area)
Location	On a low rise just northwest of New Serenne Stable; about a glide southeast of Lindor’s Brow Skyview Tower
Trial	An Uplifting Device
Type	Puzzle (Ultrahand, balloons, candles, flame emitters)
Chests	Opal (1)
Lightroot below	Kawakanis Lightroot
Reward	Light of Blessing

How to find Sinakawak Shrine

Start at New Serenne Stable on the main road across North Hyrule Plain, northwest of Lookout Landing, and head northwest over the grass. The shrine is built into a rocky knoll with a pale, skull-like outcrop behind it, so its green glow is easy to spot from the stable. If you are coming from Lindor’s Brow Skyview Tower instead, launch and glide southeast. Step onto the blue platform in front of the arch to go in.

New Serenne Stable beside a grassy rise with the green glow of Sinakawak Shrine and a pale rock outcrop behind

Shrine arch built into a rocky knoll with the blue entry platform in front

Sinakawak Shrine solution

Ride a balloon up the first wall

Ultrahand a wooden board flat beside the wall, stand a candle on its centre, then fix a balloon on top of the candle. Hop on straight away: the flame heats the balloon and carries you up. Jump off at the ledge; building next to the wall makes the jump easier.

Wooden board laid flat against the wall, held with Ultrahand, ready for a candle

Board with an upright candle and a balloon fixed above it, forming a hot-air lift

Open the barred gate

Look for the orange button on the ceiling above the gate. Build a balloon with a candle beneath it, set it under the button and let it float up and press it.

Balloon with a candle beneath its basket floating up toward the ceiling above the barred gate

Balloon assembly pressed up under the orange ceiling button that opens the gate

Send the small orb up

Drop down to the room with the small orb on a pedestal ringed by candles. Fix a balloon to the orb and give it a flame source beneath so it rises toward the opening in the ceiling.

Small orb on a stone pedestal surrounded by four candles

Balloon attached to the small orb, lifting it off its pedestal

Get yourself upstairs

Build a second board, candle and balloon lift as in step 1, or simply use the wall ladder in the ball room, which saves the extra build. You can also glide down from the upper floor whenever you need to return.

Second board, candle and balloon lift built beside a pedestal in the ball room

Balloon lift level with the railing of the upper floor

Seat the small orb

Grab the balloon and orb at the ceiling, pull them down onto the upper walkway and take the balloon off. Place the orb in the left socket; this opens the door to the altar.

Balloon and small orb floating against the ceiling opening of the upper floor

Small orb resting in the circular floor socket on the upper walkway

Rig the large orb

Back in the ball room, the large orb stands between four columns of fire. Attach a balloon above it and a flame emitter between the two, pointing up, then switch the emitter on. Keep clear of the flames while it rises.

Large glass orb standing between two columns of fire on the lower floor

Balloon fixed above the large orb with a flame emitter between them

Seat the large orb

Return upstairs, grab the floating orb with Ultrahand, steer it along the walkways over the right-hand socket and let it drop in. A side door opens onto the chest room.

Large orb lifted by a balloon and flame emitter over the maze-patterned walkways

Large orb seated in its glowing green socket in the upper-floor walkway

Sinakawak Shrine chest

Opal: go through the door the large orb opened and open the chest at the back of the small room. Collect it now, before the altar.

Small plain chest room opened by the large orb, with the chest at the back

Opal held overhead with the You got an Opal item box

Light of Blessing

Walk through the door the small orb opened and examine the altar at the end of the shrine to collect the Light of Blessing.

Glowing green altar seal at the top of the steps at the end of the shrine

Light of Blessing item box shown over the shrine altar

Nearby

Directly below, in the Depths, is Kawakanis Lightroot.

Tips

A balloon only rises with a flame directly under it: a candle or an upward-facing flame emitter.
Join board, candle and balloon together before you stand on them.
The orbs are not stacked; each goes to its own socket.
If a balloon drifts off course, wiggle the controls while holding it with Ultrahand to detach the orb cleanly.