{"id":980338,"date":"2026-01-06T06:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=451934"},"modified":"2026-01-06T06:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:03:18","slug":"gerudo-sanctum-walkthrough-in-zelda-echoes-of-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/gerudo-sanctum-walkthrough-in-zelda-echoes-of-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerudo Sanctum walkthrough in Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After sorting out some issues in Gerudo Valley in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom<\/a>,<\/em> you\u2019ll be able to jump straight into the rift, taking you to the Gerudo Sanctum<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This is either the first or second non-tutorial dungeon you\u2019ll run on your journey (either coming second to or being followed by the Zora\u2019s Jabul Ruins<\/a>), so while the puzzles here aren\u2019t too complex, you likely won\u2019t have many tools in your arsenal yet.<\/p>\n

Below is our full Gerudo Sanctum dungeon walkthrough in Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom<\/em><\/strong>, where we\u2019ll show you how to nab every chest and echo along the way. There are many solutions to the puzzles in this dungeon, so while our solutions might not be the most efficient or the easiest, we can at least confirm that they work. And hey, if it works, it works.<\/p>\n

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Gerudo Sanctum walkthrough (part one)<\/h2>\n

Right off the bat, you\u2019ll be greeted with a ladder. Climb up and head to the right, climbing up the walls while avoiding the wind cannons. You should be able to jump from the right-most rock wall to the one on the left to bridge the gap.<\/p>\n

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Continue left, pushing the boulder in front of the wind cannon, giving you safe passage up the previously obscured ladders. Head up the ladders.<\/p>\n

In the new room, you\u2019ll see a locked door, a warp waypoint, and exits on both the left and right. Activate the waypoint, break those jars to potentially get some smoothie ingredients, and head left.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll now be in a room where tiles are flying at you. Quickly press ZR near a tile to learn the Flying Tile Echo<\/strong>, one of the most useful in the game, and dodge the remaining tiles. Once the tiles are gone, a chest will appear with a red rupee<\/strong> (worth 20 rupees) inside.<\/p>\n

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If you didn\u2019t manage to learn the echo fast enough, you can leave and re-enter the room to cause the tiles to respawn.<\/p>\n

Head back to the room with the waypoint and now go right, the only direction you can<\/em> go.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll now be in a room with some conveyor belts, some keese, and a blue contraption that holds a door open. Take out the keese using your tactic of choice (Crow Echo, Swordfighter mode, etc.) and then grab the handle on the left side, pulling it out as far as possible. Once you do this, quickly summon a flying tile<\/strong> to take you safely across the conveyor belts, jump from the tile to where the door is, and enter it before the blue blocks close.<\/p>\n

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In the next room, there\u2019s a suspiciously interact-able silver wall. Use Tri to grab on to the handle of the wall and pull it, so it rotates open. Enter the newly opened door to find a chest with a small key<\/strong> inside. Smash those pots for some smoothie ingredients and warp back to the room with the locked door.<\/p>\n

Unlock the door and you\u2019ll be in a room with some snake-statues. Learn the Snake-Statue Echo<\/strong>, but you won\u2019t actually use this for anything. Continue on to a room with some flying moth enemies inside. Take them down using flying echoes (like crows or keese) quickly and learn the Mothula Echo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Once the mothulas are taken care of, the door on the left will open, so head in there. You\u2019ll now be in a room with some pots, and there\u2019s even a chest on the other side of the wall! Break open those pots and ignore the chest for now.<\/p>\n

Head south and you\u2019ll be in another room with conveyor belts. Whip out your trusty Flying Tile Echo to cross this chasm and head down the ladder. Continue on and take on the little rolling baddie and learn the Caromadillo Lv. 2 Echo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Use your previously obtained Holmill Echo to dig into the sand above the chest and drop into the hole it creates to get a Golden Egg<\/strong> from a chest. (If you don\u2019t have the Holmill Echo yet, you can grab one in a few rooms and backtrack.) Dig down again take out the second caromadillo, and move down the ladder on the left.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll now be in a large room with another warp waypoint, a regal-looking door, and a tablet. Activate the warp waypoint and read the tablet, which notes that you need to put specific statues on these platforms to move on.<\/p>\n

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Use Tri on the right wall handles to open a passageway leading to many piles of sand and a holmill. We summoned a tornando, from a previously encountered Tornando Echo, to blow away the sand. (Similarly to the holmill, there will be a spot to grab tornandos later on, so you can grab one and backtrack if you need to.)<\/p>\n

The upper right pile of sand will reveal a sign talking about what statue to place on the pedestals, and the bottom right pile will have a buried chest. The middle right pile will have an aruroda scorpion enemy inside of it, so be careful. Once you clear out the room, use Tri to pull the chest out of the sand to get 10 portions of rock salt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Gerudo Sanctum dungeon map location<\/h3>\n

Head back to the room with the warp waypoint and now head left. You\u2019ll get locked in a room with a Poe. Take it out to learn the Poe Echo<\/strong> and a chest with the dungeon map<\/strong> will appear in the center of the room. Leave the room from the south and you\u2019ll be in the stilled bit outside of the Sanctum.<\/p>\n

Before following Link, build a platform up into the open window to the right of the door you just came out of to grab a handful of rupees just sitting in a room.<\/p>\n

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Now head south, following where Link went. Take out the baddies along the path, making sure to grab the half-buried chest on the left for a red rupee<\/strong>. Build some platforms so you can keep heading up until you get to the large pillar with handles. Use Tri to grab the handles and pull, rotating the pillar and giving you access to a ladder.<\/p>\n

Climb up the ladder to get a purple rupee <\/strong>(worth 50 rupees) from a chest. Head to the left and around, avoiding the tornandos. (Grab a Tornando Echo<\/strong> if you don\u2019t have one already.) Make a platform or staircase of your desire to get up the heightened wall above the quicksand. (We used beds<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n

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Keep going and interact with the warp waypoint. Take care of the nearby baddies and use a tornando<\/strong> to blow away the southern-most pile of sand to reveal a chest with a monster stone<\/strong> inside. Before you move on, use a holmill<\/strong> on this spot to get access to that previously blocked-off chest, which has a purple rupee inside:<\/p>\n

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Warp back to the outside waypoint and then summon a tornando<\/strong> to blow away the sand on the right side, allowing you to climb down the wall. Before going inside, head right. Platform your way up to this ledge using your preferred method (again, we used beds<\/strong>):<\/p>\n

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Then platform up to the right side ledge. Take out the bad guys on the path and keep heading forward until you see another rotating blue ladder pillar. Use Tri to rotate the pillar and climb up to learn the Hawk-Statue Echo<\/strong>. Backtrack to the door you previously disregarded and head inside.<\/p>\n

The room you\u2019re in will have another blue block pulley system, so pull the lever all the way out and use your trusty flying tile<\/strong> to get into that door before the blocks close on it.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll now be in a room with two gibdos and a redead, so take them out and learn the Gibdo Echo<\/strong> and the Cat-Statue Echo<\/strong> (the latter you won\u2019t end up using, but will need for collections sake). Use Tri to move the top cat statue out of the way and enter the next room.<\/p>\n

Interact with the warp waypoint, break open those pots, and heal up, as the next room you enter will have a boss fight.<\/p>\n

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