Chapter 13 covers the Forest Temple, the first adult Link dungeon. The four Poe Sisters steal the flames that power the elevator in the main hall, so you'll have to track down each sister, get the Fairy Bow along the way, and fight Phantom Ganon for the Forest Medallion.
The temple has 5 Gold Skulltulas, and you can collect all of them on this visit. One of them needs the Scarecrow's Song you obtained in Chapter 12.
The Entrance Courtyard
Start on the Minuet of Forest warp pad in the Sacred Grove. Go up the mossy steps ahead of you, equip the Hookshot and fire it at the target above the doorway to pull yourself up. Go through the door to reach the Forest Temple.
Two Wolfos attack you in the courtyard. Defeat them both to clear the way.
Before you go inside, climb the vines on the wall to the right of the temple door. From the ledge at the top, look across at the tree trunk and use the Hookshot on the Gold Skulltula, then collect the Token.
Cross the fallen log at the end of the ledge to reach a chest with a Small Key. Drop back down and use the key on the door at the top of the steps. Defeat the Big Skulltula in the corridor and go through the door at the far end.
The Main Hall and the Poe Sisters
As you enter the main hall, the four Poe Sisters, Joelle (red), Beth (blue), Amy (green) and Meg (purple), steal the flames from the four torches and scatter around the temple. A new event, Forest Temple Mysteries, is added to your Threads of Time. You need to defeat all four sisters to relight the torches and power the elevator in the middle of the hall.
Walk to the foot of the big staircase at the far end of the hall and look up at the wall to the right of the stairs. Use the Hookshot on the Gold Skulltula and collect the Token. If you've followed this guide, this is your 50th Token.
Head back down the stairs and look to your right (north-west side of the hall). A glowing blue block with a crest on it blocks the way. Stand in front of it and play the Song of Time (A, L, R, A, L, R) to make it vanish, then go through the door behind it.
The Courtyards and the Well
You come out in an overgrown courtyard. Defeat the Deku Babas, then use the Hookshot on the Skullwalltula on the big wall of vines. Climb the vines, over the archway and up onto the balcony. Hookshot to the target above the next archway to get across.
In the room ahead, defeat the blue skull and step on the floor switch. A cutscene shows the water draining out of the well in the courtyard.
Drop down to the courtyard and jump into the empty well. Follow the tunnel at the bottom to a room with a ladder, and open the chest for a Small Key.
Climb the ladder to come out in a second courtyard. Bunce the enemy that jumps out of the water's shots back at it to defeat it, then fire the Hookshot at the target on the stone pillar to get across to the platform with a chest. It holds the Dungeon Map.
Go up the steps and through the door with the green stained glass, then stand on the floor switch to open the gate to get back to the main hall.
The Two Stalfos
Climb the big staircase in the main hall and go through the green door (north end of the main hall) at the top. Defeat the skull in the corridor and go through the door at the far end.
Purple bars seal the room and two Stalfos attack. Block their swings and counter. When both are defeated, a chest appears with a Small Key.
The Block Puzzle
Head back to the main hall and go up the stairs with the red carpet. Use a Small Key on the red door at the top. Defeat the skull in the corridor beyond and go through the next door.
Defeat the skull and the Skulltula in the next room, then climb the ladder at the back.
Be careful as in this room hands can drop down from above, so if you see a light starting to form around you make sure to stay moving, don't stand still.
The corridors up here are a puzzle built around large stone blocks. Grab the first block and pull it until it aligns with the next corridor, then push it through this 2nd corridor until it stops, then go through the archway to the side where the block first started. Follow the corridor to get to the other side of the block, push it as far as it goes and climb on top of it to reach the upper level.
In the next corridor, pull the 2nd block out as far as you can towards you, then drop back down the way you came, go into the hallway where the 1st block started and go up the hidden ladder on the left, this will allow you to get the other side of the 2nd block.
From here push the 2nd block as far as it will go, you can now drop back down, jump up the 1st block again and now be able to push the 2nd block into its final position allowing you to climb all the way to the top.
Getting the Fairy Bow
Climb the ladder and defeat the blue skulls in the room at the top. Step on the floor switch to activate the levator shortcut, then use a Small Key on the door. Run down the twisted corridor, and go through the door at the end.
Keep going down some stairs and through another door, until you reach a room with a green pool of poison in the middle. The bars come down and Stalfos attack again. Defeat them and a chest appears with the Fairy Bow. Equip it right away, you will be needing it for the rest of the temple.
The Red Poe
Leave the room back through the door you came through into the room with the red stairs. Head up the stairs and look for the red Poe in the painting on the wall. Shoot the painting with arrows each time she appears in all of the paintings in this room. After three hits Joelle comes out.
Chase her down to the bottom of the stairs and defeat her by evading her spin attacks making sure she misses so that she becomes visible, then attack her with your sword. Her flame returns to the main hall and a chest appears with a Small Key.
If you want some extra Rupees, go back up the stairs and through the twisted corridor to the block puzzle corridors. If you drop down to the end of the corridor where you went up the ladder to push the 2nd block you will see and eye symbol that you can shoot to make a chest appear than contains a Purple Rupee, worth 50 Rupees.
The Boss Key
Make your way back to the room with the floor switch and the elevator (just before the twisted corridor). There's an eye switch on the wall above the door. Shoot it with an arrow and the twisted corridor straightens out.
Go through the door and run down the now straight corridor to the red room. Defeat the skull and open the big chest for the Boss Key.
Drop through the hole in the floor to land in a pool in the room below. Swim out, defeat the skull and go through the door at the top of the steps to get back outside.
As you come out of the door, go around the small ledge to the left of the next door to find a Gold Skulltula. Defeat it with the Hookshot and collect the Token also using the Hookshot to reach it.
Return from the small ledge, but DON'T go through the door near the ledge yet. Instead, go through the other door directly in front of the arches. The room locks behind you and a Floormaster, a giant hand, drops from the ceiling. It splits into smaller hands when you defeat it. When you defeat them all a chest appears with a Small Key.
The Blue Poe and the Compass
You can now go through the door near the ledge from before, this will take you back to the room just before the block puzzle. Take the elevator to the left of the ladder back up to the room with the eye switch and shoot the eye again. This twists the corridor back the way it was. Run through it, cross the red room and the room where you got the Bow, and use a Small Key on the door at the far end.
You come out on a staircase in the blue room. The blue Poe is in the painting on the wall here. Shoot the painting three times and Beth comes out. Follow her to the bottom of the stairs and defeat her. The fight is very similar to the first Poe, but this time you will need to dodge 2 spin attacks for her to become visible. When you defeat her, her flame returns to the main hall and a chest appears with the Compass.
The Frozen Eye
Go up the blue stairs and through the next door. Drop down, defeat the skull and climb the ladder (be careful of the hand). Follow the corridor, deal with the skulls, and use your last Small Key on the door at the end.
This room has a torch on a stand and a frozen eye switch on the far wall. First stand on the floor switch to light up the torch. Then Line yourself up so the torch is between you and the eye, then shoot an arrow through the flame. The burning arrow melts the ice and hits the eye, which changes the twisted corridor one last time.
Go back through the twisted corridor. This time you drop through a hole and land in a pool in a room with a checkered floor. First exit through the door on the right before the section with the falling roof, you will be out on another balcony where you can push down a block to create a shortcut back to near the start.
This one needs the Scarecrow's Song. Out on the balcony with the shortcut block, take out your Ocarina and play the Scarecrow Song so Pierre appears on a balcony above you. Equip the Hookshot and fire it at him to pull yourself up to the high ledge. The Gold Skulltula is right there by the flower pot, defeat it and collect the Token.
Go back through the door into the checkered room. Be careful, in this room the ceiling drops at intervals, so be sure to stand on the bright patches. First make it to the tile with the floor switch that open the door, wait on this switch tile until the roof drops down then move as soon as it starts to rise again, then head for the tile with the chest near the far door for five arrows, wait here for the roof to drop again before going towards the door at the end of the room. Go through the far door.
The Green Poe
The green Poe, Amy, appears in the painting and scatters it across the stone blocks on the floor. Each block has a piece of her picture on top. Push the blocks together so the pieces make up the whole painting. Once it is complete, she appears.
Defeat her and her flame returns to the main hall.
The Purple Poe
Only Meg is left. Go through the door to the blue room and she appears in the painting there, then flies back to the main hall. Go to the main hall and she splits into four copies that circle around you.
For the first two rounds you can easily spot the real Poe because she is the only one with a purple torch. Watch for it and shoot that one with an arrow, then attack with your sword.
For the third round where they all have purple torches, you just have to look at which one her eyes wide open, that one is the real one, the fake copies will all be squinting.
After defeating her all four flames are back and the elevator in the middle of the hall now works.
The Basement
Step onto the elevator to go down to the basement.
As soon as you reach the basement, before spinning any walls, turn around and go into the small room with the pots, be careful of the Big Skulltula at the entrance, look up at the wall to find the Gold Skulltula. Use the Hookshot on it and collect the Token. That's all five for this dungeon.
The basement is a circular room, and the walls around you can be turned.
Use the white levers to rotate the walls. First push the left pole once clockwise to open up the red room behind you that has a chest containing 10 arrows.
Now push the pole on the right counter-clockwise twice to reveal another red room, this time with a floor switch inside that you need to stand on to light up the torch.
Now just push the right pole 3 more times counter-clockwise to line up the torch with the frozen eye symbol, then use the Bow to shoot through the flames at the eye melting away the ice to open the door towards the Boss.
Boss, Phantom Ganon, Evil Spirit from Beyond
Ganondorf appears in the arena and sends his phantom after you, the Evil Spirit from Beyond, Phantom Ganon. He rides his horse in and out of the paintings around the arena.
Part one, the horse rides toward you out of one of the paintings, while a fake rides out of another. The real one comes all the way out of the painting. Shoot it with an arrow as soon as you see it come out.
Part two, Phantom Ganon floats in the air and throws energy balls. Hit them back with your sword. Keep returning the ball until he misses and gets hit. When he falls, slash him. Sometimes he dashes towards you instead. Move out of the way when he does this.
When he's defeated, Ganondorf calls him a worthless little puppet. He says you've grown stronger, as one of the chosen, and warns that when you truly face him you'll regret ever drawing that sword. Collect the Heart Container and step into the blue light.
The Forest Medallion
In the Chamber of Sages, Saria explains she was making her way through the Forest Temple when she was summoned there by Rauru the sage. She thanks you, and says that staying there and helping you makes her happier than you could ever know. She awakens as the Sage of Forest and gives you the Forest Medallion.
You return to the forest, where the curse has lifted and the Kokiri Forest monsters are gone. The Deku Tree Sprout thanks you and tells you the truth about yourself. You were never a Kokiri. Long ago, during a war in Hyrule, a Hylian mother fled to Kokiri Forest with her baby son, and the Great Deku Tree sensed the child had a great destiny and resolved to care for him. You're a Hylian, and the Deku Tree knew you had the soul of a hero.
Chapter 13 Checklist
- Fairy Bow, Dungeon Map, Compass and Boss Key
- Heart Container from Phantom Ganon
- Forest Medallion
- Gold Skulltulas this chapter, 5 (running total 53 of 100)
- Heart Pieces this chapter, 0 (running total 23 of 36)
You now have more than 50 tokens. We collect the 50 token Piece of Heart from the House of Skulltula on our way through Kakariko in Chapter 14.
Next: Chapter 14, Reaching the Fire Temple.
