Characters

Link wakes in his home in Hyrule Town and starts the adventure by delivering a sword to the castle at the Picori Festival. He is a child, so he can see the Minish, who only show themselves to well-behaved children. After Vaati breaks the Picori Blade, he has to find the four Elements and rebuild the sacred sword. The walkthrough begins with The Picori Festival and the Minish Woods.

Ezlo is a sarcastic Minish sage whose apprentice Vaati stole his magic cap and turned him into a green, bird-like hat. You find him in the Minish Woods being attacked by Octoroks. He rides on Link’s head, gives hints and can shrink Link at Minish Portals. His goal is to undo the curse and stop Vaati.

Zelda gives you the Small Shield at the Picori Festival. When Vaati interrupts the ceremony, he shatters the Picori Blade and turns her to stone because she carries the Light Force. Freeing her is Link’s reason for the quest, and she is released only after Vaati’s last form falls (Vaati Final Boss and Ending).

Vaati began as a Minish who became fascinated by the evil in human hearts. He stole Ezlo’s cap, cursed Ezlo and wants the Light Force. He disguises himself as King Daltus and turns Hyrule Castle into Dark Hyrule Castle. You fight him in three forms: Vaati Reborn, Vaati Transfigured and Vaati’s Wrath (Boss Strategies).

The king hands you Smith’s Sword and the Broken Picori Blade and sends you to find the Minish. Later Vaati takes his place, and the real king is the stone figure in a cell of Dark Hyrule Castle. Strike him with the Four Sword to free him; he gives you a Small Key (Dark Hyrule Castle).

Smith is the royal blacksmith and Link’s grandfather. The sword you start with is named after him. Later, a red Kinstone piece fused with him opens a chest in the Eastern Hills that holds an Empty Bottle (see Bottle Locations).

The Minish, called Picori by humans, are tiny people visible only to children. The Forest Minish live in the Minish Woods and Minish Village, the Town Minish live inside the walls and furniture of Hyrule Town, and the Mountain Minish mine and smith on Mt. Crenel. Each group has an elder, and you shrink at stumps, pots and rock stones to reach them (Minish Portals).

Festari looks after the abbey and the Earth Element shrine to the north. He sends you to the Jabber Nut, and once you eat it you can understand every Minish in the village. Gentari, the Elder, tells you to find the Mountain Minish on Mt. Crenel (Ascent to Mount Crenel).

Melari the Mountain Minish smith waits at the top of Mt. Crenel. Bring him the Broken Picori Blade and the Fire Element, and he forges the White Sword (Infusing the Picori Blade).

Librari lives in semi-retirement in the Hyrule Town library, where his trial room hides the Flippers (The Library Books and the Flippers). Belari, who lives outside Minish Village, gives you the Bomb Bag and later swaps your bombs for Remote Bombs once you have fused Kinstones with him and Gentari.

Stockwell’s Shop in Hyrule Town, the building with a giant Rupee on its roof, sells the bigger wallet, the Boomerang, a quiver, a Bomb Bag and Mysterious Shells (30 for 200 Rupees). Syrup, the witch of the Minish Woods, sells the Wake-Up Mushroom for 60 Rupees. Details on Equipment Upgrades.

Speak to the Hurdy-Gurdy Man on the Hyrule Town plaza and he hands over the Kinstone Bag. After that, anyone holding the other half of a piece can fuse with you. Partners include townsfolk, Minish, Gorons and the Tingle brothers, and each fusion opens a chest, a tree or a golden enemy. The full list is on Kinstone Fusions.

Rem, the shoemaker, is asleep and will not finish your Pegasus Boots. Buy the Wake-Up Mushroom from Syrup, press R at him and he sits up coughing. Rem then gives you the boots (Getting the Pegasus Boots).

Hagen’s red-piece fusion opens the staircase under the Lon Lon Ranch pond, and Mutoh’s green-piece fusion drains the Hyrule Castle Garden fountain. Dr. Left is the absent-minded scholar whose house leads you to the Power Bracelets (The Library Books and the Flippers).

Anju asks you to carry her escaped Cuccos back to the pen; round 10 pays a Piece of Heart (Minigames). Carlov sells the 136 figurines for shells, and his last figurine gives the Carlov Medal (Figurines).

Tingle stands in South Hyrule Field, Knuckle on the Trilby Highlands, Ankle at Lon Lon Ranch and David Jr. near the boat dock at Lake Hylia. Fuse a green piece with each to open the trees that hold the Magical Boomerang. When every fusion in the game is done, Tingle gives you the Tingle Trophy (Hyrule Town Side Quests and Kinstone Fusions).

Dampe, the gravekeeper of Royal Valley, gives you the Graveyard Key once you tell him a king’s ghost called you. Inside the Royal Crypt, the ghost of King Gustaf gives you a Gold Kinstone piece that opens Veil Falls (Royal Valley and the Royal Crypt).

The Gorons in the Goron Cave arrive one at a time as you fuse with the Mysterious Walls. After all six Gorons are in, the last fusion wakes Biggoron at Veil Springs, who later gives the Mirror Shield (Goron Quest).

The Wind Tribe, whose members you meet in the Cloud Tops, once lived in the sky and left behind the Ocarina of Wind. Hailey and Gale are stranded sisters near the Cloud Tops entrance, and Caprice, Gregal and Flurris live in the Home of the Wind Tribe (Veil Falls and the Cloud Tops).

The Great Mayfly in Mt. Crenel, the Great Butterfly in the Minish Woods and the Great Dragonfly in Royal Valley each reward you with a bigger bag, wallet or quiver. Locations and answers are on Fairy Fountain Locations.