Tabantha Shrine Solutions

    
                               

Tabantha is the cold northwest, home to Rito Village and the Divine Beast Vah Medoh. Many of its six shrines are about wind and gliding.

Jump to a shrine: Akh Va'quot | Bareeda Naag | Kah Okeo | Sha Warvo | Tena Ko'sah | Voo Lota

See the full shrine list for every region, and our interactive map for exact locations.

Akh Va'quot Shrine: Windmills

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The shrine at Rito Village. The goal is to get every windmill in the main room spinning at once by turning the fans, but grab the three chests on the right first.

  1. For the chests, go right and up the stairs, past the orange contraption. Make ice blocks in the water to reach the two alcoves along the right wall. At the end of the hall, shoot the orange switch on the far right to open the gate behind you for the third chest.
  2. Back in the main room, hitting the orange switch on the side of a fan turns it to face that way. Set them so that, looking from the entrance:
    • the two fans on the left both blow right,
    • the fan in the middle and the nearer of the two fans right of it blow left,
    • the far fan of those two blows down (toward you),
    • the fan on the far right blows up, toward the altar.
  3. When every windmill is turning, the gate opens to the altar.

Chests: Sapphire and Feathered Spear (the two alcoves along the water) and Ancient Core (behind the gate the switch opens).

Bareeda Naag Shrine: Cannon

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Shrine quest, The Ancient Rito Song: Two Rito children each know half of an old song. Learn both halves, which hint at lighting a fire on the shrine's platform at a certain time of day.

Bareeda Naag is south of Rito Village. Its shrine quest comes from Bedoli in the village: put fire on the lone platform south of Akh Va'quot Shrine at just past noon. Inside, you fire a cannon with Remote Bombs.

  1. Climb the ladder and drop a round bomb into the tube. Detonate it to fire the cannon at the target ahead. Moving barricades start up.
  2. Drop in another bomb and detonate it when the barricades leave a clear path. Hitting the target opens the gate to the altar.

Chests: Royal Bow, behind the breakable rocks on the wall near the entrance; blow them up. Diamond, in the next room past the altar gate: this cannon has moving barricades and a moving target, so watch their pattern and time your shot. Hitting the target opens the gate to the chest.

Kah Okeo Shrine: Wind Guide

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Kah Okeo is underground southwest of the Tabantha Tower; move the stone slab covering the hole to get in. The whole shrine runs on a Korok Leaf: swing it at fans to turn them, and at balloon platforms to push them along.

  1. Open the first chest for a Korok Leaf. Fan the switch with it and run through the gate before it closes.
  2. Avoid the floating bomb and defeat the three Guardian Scouts in the next room (or skip them unless you drop to the lower level). Climb back to the upper area.
  3. Fan the next switch to make a platform on balloons. Ride it forward to the ledge, pushing it with the leaf. If it drifts away or a balloon pops, fan the switch for a new one.
  4. Continue past the altar room. Defeat the Guardian Scout and blow up the rock block it's guarding.
  5. In the big room, stand on the launcher and fan its switch to be thrown into the air. Glide to the central tower, climb the ladder on the right, and bomb the breakable rock inside. Ride the updraft that appears to the upper platform.
  6. Make another balloon platform and steer it carefully through the spikes to the far side. Fan the switch there to launch yourself up.
  7. On the left, fan the switch to make a floating bomb, and push it with the leaf into the stone blocks on the central tower (or set it off near them with a fire or bomb arrow).
  8. With the blocks gone, get on the launcher behind you, fan it, and glide to the platform where the blocks were. Ride its updraft up to the small key, then glide back down to the locked gate and on to the altar.

Chests: Gold Rupee (steer your first balloon platform to the back of the room), Forest Dweller's Sword (glide left after the first launcher), Giant Ancient Core (steer your second balloon platform to the right) and Thunderspear (on a platform at the upper left of the room on the way back to the gate).

Sha Warvo Shrine: Path of Hidden Winds

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Sha Warvo is on the path up to the Flight Range, northwest of Rito Village. It's a gliding shrine: a round disc on the floor marks an updraft.

  1. Ride the updrafts up to the higher platforms. Defeat the Guardian Scout.
  2. Ride the next updraft to the moving blue platform above. Climb the ladder and take the next updraft.
  3. Glide around the tall column until you see a hole in its wall. Going left (clockwise) is quickest. Ride the updraft in front of it up to the altar.

Chests: Purple Rupee, near the Guardian Scout. Knight's Bow, on a small platform reached by a hidden updraft heading northwest.

Tena Ko'sah Shrine: A Major Test of Strength

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A Major Test of Strength at the end of the Ancient Columns, south of the Tabantha Tower. The Guardian Scout has a short sword, a broad sword and a big shield.

  • Side-hop its short-sword thrusts and backflip its wide broadsword sweeps to trigger Flurry Rushes.
  • After either attack it jumps back and spins at you. You can't block this one; get behind a pillar. It smashes the pillar and stuns itself.
  • At half health it starts spinning its laser instead, making an updraft you can use to shoot it from above.
  • At the end it charges a big laser. Perfect-guard it back, keep attacking, or hide behind a pillar.

Chest: a halberd, in front of the altar. (One source says a Knight's Halberd, the other a Royal Halberd.)

Voo Lota Shrine: The Winding Route

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Shrine quest, Recital at Warbler's Nest: Help Kheel and her sisters at Rito Village, then play the notes on the stone columns at Warbler's Nest with a Korok Leaf in the right order.

Voo Lota is at Warbler's Nest, west of Rito Village; its shrine quest needs the Find Kheel side quest done first. Inside, you glide on wind streams over lava. Watch for the spiked walls at the end of the streams, and put away your paraglider before you hit them.

  1. Climb the tall ladder and hit the orange crystal. The floor opens under you, so open your paraglider right away and glide to the platform left of the locked altar door.
  2. Walk to the tunnel and ride the wind up to the next section.
  3. Take the wind stream on the right that passes between spiked obstacles. As you near the spiked wall, drop and reopen your paraglider to catch the lower stream, without falling out of the wind into the lava.
  4. The chest on that platform has a small key. Glide down to the platform below and ride the wind back to the middle. Unlock the altar door.

Chest: Flameblade, with an attack bonus. Instead of taking the wind to the altar, go up the ramp past it. Freeze the fan under the chest's platform with Stasis so its wind stops, then glide and drop onto the platform.