Deeper into the Faron Woods
You emerge from a short tunnel into a large curved clearing where two Bokoblins are talking. Ready your sword’s spin attack, and engage them in combat. If you need healing, seek out a Heart in the grass clump at the foot of the large tree to your right. Continue northward.
Attack another Bokoblin, before a bird with the biggest head you’ve ever seen beckons you over! This is Trill, and his forest store is a perfect place to spend those Rupees you’ve been unearthing.
Store
Store
| Item | Name | Cost (Rupees) | Notes |
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Red Potion Refill |
30 |
A blend of mushroom and herbs replenishes 8 Hearts. Bottle needed. |
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Lantern Oil Refill |
20 |
The woods are dangerous at night! This fills your Lantern or Bottle. Bottle or Lantern needed. |
Trill: This intelligent myna bird, owned by Coro, watches over the unattended shop in the Faron Woods. Trill is friends with Plumm, another myna bird who lives somewhere near the great lake Hylia. |
Check your Lantern oil levels. You should be close to empty with your Lantern, but still have a full Bottle of fuel. Either pour the fuel into the Lantern and use the Bottle to store the Red Potion, or dip the Lantern in and refill it yourself, and ignore the Red Potion.
Before you leave the store, pay up! There’s an honor system in play, so cycle through how much you want to pay, and Trill tells you if you’ve paid too much or too little. Pay the rest if you shortchanged the bird, or he’ll peck you the next time you use the shop!
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If you follow the advice in this walkthrough, you’ll fill your wallet to 500 Rupees easily. This is fine, until you head into a dungeon, where chests remain unopened if you can’t fit Rupees inside your wallet. One way of solving this problem is to overpay Trill. You don’t get the money back, but you can check off the chests in a dungeon without going back there again! Neither affects your ultimate goals, however. |
After you finish shopping, slash by heading north and east toward a patch of long grass. A Deku Baba is hiding inside. Not for long! Find Rupees and Hearts in the grass around here, as usual.
Now head northwest to spot a winding road leading northward. However, to your left is a patch of grass with a Deku Baba to slice up and a small chest to open! Remember this area for later; this is the entrance to the Sacred Grove, but you can’t enter it yet.
Move to the entrance of the winding path northward. At the foot of a giant tree, you spot Talo and that cheeky monkey placed in a cage! Perhaps the monkey isn’t to blame after all! Draw your sword, race up the winding path, and sure enough, strike down the two Bokoblins guarding the pair. Use a spin attack to smash the wooden cage!
Overworld Chest #6:
Yellow Rupee (10)
Author NoteWith the boulders in the background and those two short, stone columns on either side of the cage we spent several minutes attempting to find a tricky lever to free our friends. After jumping on the columns in different orders and hacking at the boulders to no avail it was frustration that led us to slash at the cage…and find the solution. |
Missing Links
1. Thieving from Trill Part 1
This doesn’t affect anything during your adventure, but you can steal from Trill by walking away from the store after filling a Bottle! Trill calls you a thief, but nothing happens. You can escape!
2. Thieving from Trill Part 2
That is, until you enter the fence. Trill launches an attack, and he’s deadlier than any foe you’ve faced thus far! He can take a quarter of a Heart life energy every couple of seconds. Pay what you owe, and he halts his pecking!
3. Thieving from Trill Part 3
Or, ignore Trill’s pecking, run in, scoop up the Red Potion, restore eight Hearts, and leave with minimal damage! This isn’t heroic, but it’s possible!
Ordona Province: A Big Day of Transformations
Walk Talo out of the Dark Tunnel, and he begs you not to mention this to his dad. He runs off, and Rusl strolls in and greets you. He mentions how strange the woods feel. He wishes you luck tomorrow; you might even meet Princess Zelda!
The next day, Fado asks you to finish the chores at the ranch. Use the Horse Grass to call Epona and wrangle those goats using the techniques taught earlier. A time of 26–30 seconds is excellent. The best time on record? 23 seconds! Try it when you wrangle goats here a second time. When you’re done, leap over the northwest corner’s fence.
Author NoteA peaceful starting village, complete with a working ranch, brought us back to the days of The Ocarina of Time, although Fado’s idiosyncrasies and his goats aren’t quite as strange as that sleepy-head Talon and the Lon Lon Ranch. Remember how you had to wake him up with an egg that hatches into a Cucco? |
You ride down to meet Ilia and Mayor Bo. Everything is ready and the royal gift is here. Ilia isn’t happy, and she scolds you for pushing Epona too hard! Then she scolds her father for sticking up for you. She takes Epona to the spring; that’s where you’ll find her!
When you finish talking with the mayor, Fado yells. Another goat is loose! Stand and move left or right to catch it, then press the A button to toss it. Optionally pat it afterward so it bleats happily. Say good-bye to the mayor (his house is locked).
Run to Rusl and Uli’s house, where Uli asks you to take care of yourself. Rusl is practicing sword moves; he’s impressive! He offers to teach you when you return.
You can also visit Pergie in her house, and she thanks you for rescuing Talo and Malo. Up on the flat rock with the vines stands Jaggle, who tells you to have a safe trip! You can even speak to miserable Hanch. He is spending his day stocking shelves! Hanch’s wife hears the city stores are really ritzy! Buy her wares if you need them.
Missing Links
1. Cucco or Cuckoo?
This is the first time you’ve encountered a Cucco while carrying a sword. If you’re feeling malicious, you can run after a Cucco, slicing it with your blade! Feathers fly off everywhere, and it squawks like mad. Spend too long striking a Cucco, and something strange happens: you become the Cucco! You have 10 seconds’ worth of flying, dashing, and flapping until you return to your human body.
Head out of the village, and speak to Colin, who isn’t being let into the woods by Talo and Malo. Optionally speak to Beth, then entertain Talo and Malo by giving them the Wooden Sword when Talo asks for it. You can’t enter the woods otherwise!
Talo screams with joy, and the brothers head off to the scarecrow. Colin asks if you could teach him to ride a horse sometime, then he disappears into the woods. Follow him to the spring. This time, don’t miss a couple of squirrels scampering about. Head to the gate.
The gate to the spring is locked, and so is the one to the bridge! Ilia isn’t letting you in, and Colin says he’ll talk to her about you rescuing Talo. Colin tells you to try the tunnel entrance (which you found earlier). Head to the woodland glade and enter the narrow tunnel on your knees. Collect a couple of Rupees on the way. Exit and meet up with Ilia.
Ilia realizes that you helped Talo, and she tells you Epona is feeling better. But she wants you to promise her not to try anything out of your league! Suddenly, Epona lets out a startled whinny!
A massive Bullbo crashes through the gate with two Bulblin Riders. One strikes Ilia with an arrow. You fall, clubbed in the head! The riders gather up the bodies of Ilia and Colin. The raiding party is joined by a massive Bulblin on Bullbo-back!
This is King Bulblin riding Lord Bullbo! He blows a huge horn, and something strange appears out of the sky. You waken, run to the bridge, and an inky black arm pulls you into another world!
A strange and alien being holds you by the neck. This is a Twilit Messenger. Your Triforce glows. The Messenger flees. Your body twitches. You scream, and transform into a black-and-white wolf! You collapse and the Messenger slowly drags you away. Silently, a strange figure watches….