Ikana Castle and finding the Stone Towers.

i.You now have a short cut here. Go near the entrance of the blocked castle and enter the hole on the left side. ii. You may want to play the Song of Time after you save your Rupees and re-stock on Arrows and Magic Power. iii. You will need a Powder Keg too, so make sure you pick it up. iv. Hit the Crystal Switch and then reflect the light to the Sun Block. v. This castle is infested with ReDeads and those fire skulls that can Jinx you. 1. Use Song of Storms to cure yourself if that happens. vi. You should come out from the top of the map, but on the left side from the entrance. vii. Go around to the entrance and pick up any pots and grass items you can find. viii. Enter the in the front entrance which is on the middle of the map. ix. This room has several ReDeads around, but if you wear the Gibdo, Garo, or Captain's Hat, they decide to dance? Hmmmm. x. Go to the center and shoot a Fire Arrow on the 2 Iced Eye Switches on the pillars. xi. They will both open up the doors on the North and South of the Map. xii. Go to the North Corridor first. Go into the room and you will see a Crystal Switch and a Checkerboard platform on the ground. 1. It is fire and it is too high for a Goron to Jump so don't turn into Deku or Zora Link and stand on it. xiii. Turn into Deku Link and hit the switch. The platform will rise and fall after about 10 seconds, more or less. xiv. You need to run and dive into flower and wait for it to fall. xv. When it does jump out and it will knock the platform back up for another 10 seconds. xvi. Keep doing this until you get to the end of the right side of the room. xvii. This time Dive into the flower and knock the platform up, drop down and dive into it again. Pop out and fly to the Crystal Switch on the pillar and knock it for the door to open. xviii. Turn into Link and dive over to the door. xix. This next room is a big pit with bats and Big Skulltulas. xx. Shoot them down from the corner of the first platform with the Arrows. xxi. Put on your Lens of Truth to see the hidden platform, jump to it and then jump over to the switch. 1. You can also use the Deku Flower. xxii. This will open the door for you. Jump back onto the platform. Jump from the platform to platform until you reach the exit. xxiii. There are some fire skulls here that can Jinx you. You can block them with your shield and kill them, or run from them. xxiv. Now go up the stairs and you will be on 1/2 of the roof.

xxv. You may notice the Crystal Switch. Hit it with an arrow and the flames on the other pillars will go down. xxvi. Put on the Bunny Hood and jump to the first pillar with the Deku Flower. xxvii. Then turn into Deku Link and dive into it, hop to each pillar until you get to the Heart Piece. xxviii. You now have to retrace your steps until you are back on the roof. xxix. When you get there go to the middle part of the roof. You will need to walk on the edge of the roof and the fence. xxx. Jump onto the platform right above the entrance and dive into the Deku Flower. xxxi. Fly over to the switch and hit stand on it as Link to activate it. This will make light come into the next corridor that you are about to enter. xxxii. Go back into the entrance and go to the South Corridor this time. The door should be open if you hit both Eye Switches. xxxiii. Enter the room and if you hit the switch there should be some light there. Use this to kill the Floor Master. It will turn into 3 smaller ones; you can use light or kill them with your shield. xxxiv. Reflect the light to the Sun Block to open up the rest of the passage. There will be 4 more ReDeads here, past them or kill them and then go into the next room. xxxv. You will find an old annoying friend, the Wizrobe. Take him out like before. 1. Stand in a corner and shoot at the one that is real. xxxvi. Once he is dead continue to the next room and up the stairs to the roof. xxxvii. On the roof go to the Skylight in the front of the roof. Place the Powder Keg on the glass and run away. xxxviii. When it explodes and then jumps down. You will be back in the middle near the entrance. xxxix. Now the light will allow you to clear the block in the middle of the room. xl. Grab the pots in the room to re-stock on the Arrows. xli. Go into the next room. h. Ikana Castle; Throne Room i. When you enter you see the Ikana Royalty in Stalkid form. ii. He sends 2 of his warriors to kill you. For fun put on the Captain's Hat and go to the foot of the King. You will get a funny surprise.

iii. King's Guards 1. First thing you should do is take out the Fire Arrows and burn away the curtains. This will allow light into the room. 2. Attack the warriors with Arrows and your sword. Try to lure them to the light squares or around them. 3. When they fall down into a pile of bones and take your shield and then put the light onto their bones and they are dead for good. iv. King 1. When both of the Warriors are dead then you have to fight the King. Follow the same rules, but he is a little harder. v. Once they are dead then the King will recognize you are the warrior you are. vi. In return he will teach you a new song Elegy of Emptiness. vii. Elegy of Emptiness 1. > < > \/ > /\ < a. This song will allow you to create a "Totem" of your form. You have 4 forms so you can have up to 4 Totems.

i. They will hold down switches for you that would not stay down unless they are stood on. viii. You may want to play the Song of Time now to save and make sure things get easier next time. XVIII. Free the Stone Tower a. Stone Tower Entrance i. The Stone Tower is in the corner of the canyon. Climb up and you will need to complete a few things to get to the top. ii. You will be Hookshooting from different points and then using the Elegy of Emptiness to make the switches stay down. iii. Jump over the platforms and look out for the falling boulders. They will be all over here so get use to them. iv. Step onto the switch and play the Elegy of Emptiness to keep the switch down. v. Now Hookshot to the next ledge where there is a Beamos standing guard. vi. Knock him out with a Z Targeted Bomb and then step onto the switch. vii. Turn into a Goron or Zora and step onto this switch and play the Elegy of Emptiness again. viii. This will make the second platform go into place. Hookshot to the next target. ix. This time step onto the switch with the only other form you haven't used. x. This will complete the platform. Jump over them to get to the other side. xi. The next switches are not important. You use these when you want to go back down. xii. Now Hookshot to the next switch and leave a Totem on the switch, doesn't matter which one as long as it isn't Deku, they are too light. xiii. Hookshot to the next platform and kill the Beamos again and flip the switch with a Totem. xiv. Hookshot to the next one again and guess what you are going to do here! If you don't know please let me slap you. xv. Leave a Totem to make the final bridge of platforms and jump across. xvi. Now Hookshot up the next three ledges and activate the Final Owl Statue! 1. You can now warp to anywhere in this world! xvii. Take out some of the pots and grass to heal up. You will need it for this temple. Make sure you have some Blue Potions. You will defiantly need them for the Boss fight. xviii. You can play the Song of Time now that the Owl Statue is activated and you have instant access to the temple. 1. Again make sure you are prepared. This is the longest most complicated temple, but it is the last one too. xix. Now you have to activate the next three platforms to get to them to work you need to leave Totems on all three of them, but they need to done in the right order. 1. Middle, Right, & Left xx. Jump over the platforms and enter the Stone Tower.