The Dominion Rod Loses Power
After completing the sixth dungeon, depart from the Temple of Time and head back to this area immediately; there’s some unfinished business to attend to. Head to the entrance steps and around to the east, and look for the owl statue. Aim your Dominion Rod at the statue. It activates! Shift the statue out of the way; it’s blocking a door leading to a chest. Inside is a Piece of Heart!
Overworld Chest #88:
Piece of Heart #37
Piece of Heart
You got a Piece of Heart! Collect three more for another full Heart Container. Piece of Heart #37 of 45.
Missing Links
1. Chest in Time
Do you remember the open, rusty chest back in Sacred Grove? If you pour over your maps, you’ll realize this chest you just opened is actually the one outside, in another time!
Poe Soul #54 Now head to the staircase’s other side and activate this owl statue with your Dominion Rod. As you move it away from a thin alcove, a Lantern floats toward you. It’s an Imp Poe! Clobber it and steal that soul: only six more to go!
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Poe Soul
Head into the Sacred Grove to meet Ooccoo. “Goodness, yes! It’s the Dominion Rod you found!” she says. However, this device, which can help her return to her people, has lost its power now that you’re removed from the time period of the temple. She sets off to figure a way to restore it. You should warp to Castle Town.
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The Postman arrives when you next enter a bridge or junction somewhere in Hyrule. He’s been busy collecting quite an assortment of letters in your absence. If you took a more indirect path through your adventure, you may have received these letters before or after this point. There are four letters to open: 
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Letter #10Inside Castle Town: Outstanding Objectives
You should have collected all the Golden Bugs by now, so give them to Princess Agitha. You receive the Giant Wallet for your troubles.
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You can also optionally visit Madame Fanadi’s Palace but this book is a much clearer picture of your future. |
Visit Telma’s Bar, as this is the source of most gossip in the realm. Say hello to Louise, then talk to Telma. She tells you that Shad is in Kakariko Village, looking for something he deemed important. Head over to the table of adventurers.
Ashei tells you the beast of Snowpeak hasn’t reappeared…. Speak to Rusl, and he wonders if you’ve found anything Shad might be interested in. The Oocca are supposed to be the ancestors of the Hylians, you know! Check your table map for Shad’s location.
Powering the Dominion Rod: Kakariko Village
Warp directly to Kakariko Village, change to Link, and enter Renado’s Sanctuary. Gor Coron tells you that an acquaintance of yours has lost her memory and is in some trouble. You know this; Ilia is the person you’re here to see!
Next, speak to Renado. He’s heard that when Ilia was saved, she overheard someone talking about the rod of the heavens. He needs to trace back Ilia’s locations during her memory loss to figure out what this means. Instructions for Telma to think back on who may have come into contact with Ilia are contained in Renado’s Letter.
Renado’s Letter
You got Renado’s Letter! It carefully details how to treat Ilia to get her memory back.
Ilia remains confused, remembering she was saved by someone who told her about the rod. Then she calls you a complete stranger! Ilia’s recovery is not complete yet.
Powering the Dominion Rod: Back to Castle Town
Head back to Castle Town and to Telma’s Bar. Present Renado’s Letter to Telma. She tells you that Doctor Borville was the first to bring Ilia in. He won’t talk to you until he’s paid, so Telma hands you the Invoice.
Invoice
You got the Invoice! This invoice is for the town doctor’s running tab, which is an astronomical sum.
Enter Doctor Borville’s medical house, and present the invoice to him. He says he can’t pay this off right now. If he’d been able to sell the Wooden Statue that young lady had, he’d have the money. He spilt medicine on the statue, put it outside to dry, and someone stole it. Until he gets the statue back, he can’t repay you.
It’s time to look for that statue. There’s a crate at the back of the doctor’s clinic. Push it out of the way to see a green stain emanating from the back wall. This looks like a medicine spill!
Turn into wolf form and activate your senses, and you’ll see the cloud of green scent in the air. Forget the Reekfish Scent, and learn the Medicine Scent!
Medicine Scent
You learned the Medicine Scent!
Powering the Dominion Rod: Hunting for the Statue
With your scent learned, you can bound onto the crate, leap to the shelving’s top, across the ledge (smashing pots for Rupees), and out onto the clinic’s upper balcony. The scent trail leads down to the street, but don’t jump there yet; check the left alcove for a chest with a red Rupee (20) and some pottery with a blue (5) and green (1) Rupee.
Overworld Chest #89:
Red Rupee (20)
Follow the scent trail south, around the alley past Jovani’s, then south down the market street, before turning and ending up at Telma’s. Louise is waiting and admits she stole the statue! Alas, she was attacked by some skeletal dog beasts who took it from her. The fiends lurk just outside the southern gate, and they only come out at night. Mostly. Leave Louise, and head directly out the south gate.
Bound down the southern gate’s steps and into the Hyrule Field area where the Goron who bashed the path away is standing. Wait for night to fall, and a pack of Stalhounds comes out of the ground. Fortunately, they aren’t particularly difficult to defeat. Use your spin attack on them, and defeat them in either form. A second pack emerges, so dispatch them too. After destroying every Stalhound, the Wooden Statue appears out of the ground.
Wooden Statue
You got the Wooden Statue!
Powering the Dominion Rod: Jogging Ilia’s Memory
Give the statue to Ilia, and she begins to remember. Gor Coron recognizes the statue as belonging to a tribe that protected the Hylian royal family long ago. The tribe’s remaining members live in the hidden village on the path to Lanayru Province. Darbus will clear the path!
Check your map for the location of the Hidden Village; it’s past the Bridge of Eldin, on the rocky path near the wooden bridge and spinner track. Gallop here on Epona, and halt when you see the gap in the left rock wall. Defeat any Bulblins here, then race into the opening.
Inside the tunnel, Darbus bashes the rockfall until it disintegrates. He informs you that there are 20 presences you must purge from this place—remnants of a warring tribe you should defeat one at a time, and from range. Head through into the Hidden Village.