The Dark Ruins region covers much the same terrain as the Eastern Ruins region in Hyrule. Use the fissure pillar in Hyrule’s Octorok field, or the fissure in the Tektite-filled basin, to travel from the Eastern Ruins region to the Dark Ruins region. Here you’ll find some shadowy ruins guarded by special sentries that will lock Link away if they catch sight of him. Use Link’s merge ability to slip past the sentries and reach the Dark Palace dungeon that they guard. By entering this region via the fissure to the east of the Witch’s House in Hyrule, you can explore the region’s northern territory, where flows a massive waterfall that is home to Lorule’s aquatic Kus.
Sitting out in the open on the high ledge up north. You must travel south from the Dark Ruins’ entrance to reach it.
Lorule Chest #10 (Red Rupee)
In the Dark Ruins, atop some stairs. You must merge and slip past a Lorule Soldier to reach it.
Pieces of Heart (Dark Ruins Region)
Piece of Heart
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Piece of Heart #23
In the Dark Ruins, on a narrow beam. You must avoid the Lorule Soldiers to get it.
Lost Maiamais (Dark Ruins Region)
Maiamai
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Lost Maiamai #69
Visible atop a tall rock in the rocky area filled with Slaroks, just west of the Dark Ruins.
Lost Maiamai #70
Hidden in a standalone tree in the region’s southwest corner, near the chasm.
Lost Maiamai #71
Hidden in a tree just south of the entrance to the Dark Ruins.
Lost Maiamai #72
Stuck to the wall just inside the Dark Ruins.
Lost Maiamai #73
Stuck to the high wall in the region’s southeast area, which you visit by taking the southeast exit from the Dark Ruins. You must merge and make a long, counterclockwise journey around the upper cliff to reach it.
Lost Maiamai #74
About halfway through the Dark Ruins, stuck to the wall near a piece of heart and some green braziers.
Lost Maiamai #75
Hidden in tall grass on a high ledge with a fissure at the ledge’s base. It’s found along the same route you’d take to reach Zora’s Domain in Hyrule. You must make a long merge-journey to reach it.
Lost Maiamai #76
Underwater near the giant waterfall, where Zora’s Lake exists in Hyrule.
Lost Maiamai #77
Underwater at the end of the river, near the waterfall cave that is home to a frightened Hinox.
Lost Maiamai #78
Underwater on the west side of the river. You must merge into the wall near the Hinox’s waterfall cave and then slide westward across the chasm to reach it.
