Eldin Temple walkthrough in Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (2024)

The Eldin Volcano in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is home to the Goron people who desperately need your help to close up the rift swallowing their home. That said, you’ll need to help them out and eventually head into the Eldin Temple, a fiery dungeon filled with lava.

This is one of three dungeons you can enter at this point in the game, the other two being Lanayru Temple and Faron Temple. We recommend doing this one first, as it’ll give you access to easier access to bombs.

Below is our full Eldin Temple dungeon walkthrough in Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, where we’ll 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.

Before you get to Eldin Temple, you’ll need to cross through the Stilled area outside first, using your Lava Rock Echoes to help you get through the lava. You can also use your Boulder Echo to cross smaller gaps, but the boulders will sink after a few seconds, making them a riskier choice. However, lava rocks have a higher Tri energy cost, whereas boulders only cost one energy, so it’s up to you.

Right off the bat, head left through the lava using a lava rock. Continue on the path, crossing gaps using your method of choice (water blocks, beds, flying tiles, etc.) Then head north to hit a lava pool with several octoroks scattered about. Take them out, and head a bit north and then right.

Grab the chest on this right platform to get five rocktatoes, and then backtrack to the area with the octoroks. From here, head north, and then cross the gap on the left to grab a chest with a purple rupee (worth 50 rupees). Head back to the right and continue right until you’re faced with this large cliff. Scale up this wall using water blocks or whatever other vertical-climbing echoes you like.

Interact with the warp waypoint at the top and climb up the left wall, taking out more octoroks in this lava pool. Continue left along the pool, and drop off the ledge, heading further left and then north. Take out the bomb-spitting shadow enemies (zirro) if you want and use a flying echo to take the steam vents up to the top. At this bit with the lava, you should be able to glide to the rock in the middle and then glide again to another platform on the bottom of the right side safely.

Once you drop down, you’ll be at the entrance to the actual Eldin Temple.

Interact with the warp waypoint and regain some hearts by soaking in the hot spring if you want before moving on.

There’ll be some fire keese in this room, so take them out and learn the Fire Keese Echo if you haven’t already. Head north to a room with those shadowy bomb-throwing mushrooms. Bait them into throwing bombs into the top right corner so it breaks the block up there and then take these things out.

Once they’re dead, use Tri to pluck the newly revealed chest out of the ground to get eight twisted pumpkins.

Head back to the original fire keese room and go right, where you’ll need to use lava rocks in these shooting lava pillars to boost yourself up. Use a block to cross on to the platform and then from that platform, place a lava block on the right-most pillar to get a ride up.

In the next room, use your flying echo of choice to give you a ride up to the chest, giving you a small key. Backtrack to the fire keese room and enter the left door, now that you have the key for the door.

This next room will have lava that repeatedly fills and drains the room every few seconds. Summon lava rocks to give yourself a safe place to stand or head to one of the platforms in the corners to give yourself a safe place. The chest at the bottom left of the room has a golden egg inside.

Lift up the lava rock on the left side to reveal a switch. Press it to open the door in the top right of the room and head out.

At the top of this 2D segment, use a flying echo to glide to the platform straight ahead and then carefully climb on the wall. We recommend summoning more flying enemy echoes to quickly take out that octorok at the bottom, just so it won’t annoy you anymore. Make yourself an ugly bridge using two boulders and two beds to elevate yourself up the pillar safely.

In the next room, head down and then summon a boulder to block the fiery air duct. With that blocked off, head down the ladder into an area with rising and lowering lava levels again. Go left first and hit the blue switch. Now head back right, carefully scaling the walls and using lava rocks with the rising and lowering lava to exit. The next room will have a chest with a small key.

Now backtrack to the room with the fiery air ducts and head north this time. Time your climbing with the ducts so you don’t get lit up. Use Tri to grab the chest on the left, pull it to safety, and then open it to get the dungeon map.

With map in hand, head up the ladder on the right side. Activate the warp waypoint and use the key to open the room in front. Heal up a bit before you enter the room, as you’ll have to deal with a mid boss.

This time around, Link will chuck bombs at you, frequently flying around the room to reposition himself away from you. We used a mix of flying enemy echoes and our Swordfighter mode to take him out quickly.

In the first phase he’ll throw regular bombs, and after you deal enough damage, he’ll add moving bombchus to the mix, though.

Admittedly this boss went down pretty quick and there wasn’t much to the fight itself, as long as you keep following him around and slashing at him.

Thanks to the Swordfighter mode’s increased jumping height, it’s not too hard to just follow him around and swipe at him while he tries to bomb you. Sorry, Link.

If you’re struggling to chase him down quick enough, let him blow up more of the broken blocks on the bottom, as they’ll reveal air ducts that will allow you to jump after him without having to climb the walls. If you’re running out of energy, the cracked blocks on the bottom area will provide more energy for you once they get blown up, so bait some bombs down there every now and then to stay topped up.

With that, you’ll get access to Bombs of Might, which means you don’t need to use zirro or bombfish anymore, so long as you have Swordfighter energy.

With your newly obtained bombs, you can do quite a bit more now. In the next room head up, taking out the golem, and go right first.

Blow up the wall with your bombs, a zirro, or a bombfish. Take out or ignore the enemies and climb up the ladder. In this room, bomb the top left corner to clear away the blocks and reveal a chest with a silver rupee (worth 100 rupees) inside.

Clear the blocks in the top right to enter a room with a fire wizzrobe. Yuck. These things are annoying to beat, so we strongly recommend using your Bow of Might in Swordfighter form to quickly take it out, paired with some flying enemy echoes to deal out damage. Once it’s out, claim your Fire Wizzrobe Echo and open the newly-appeared chest for a small key.

Backtrack to the previous room and now head left, towards the shadowy webbing and cracked rocks.

Break the webbing open with your Swordfighter form and bomb open those cracked blocks to get a chest with a small key. If you don’t have enough Swordfighter energy, you can still summon bombfish and zirro to help you out.

Use the key to open the locked wall on the left and head down the ladder. Carefully climb down, being wary of enemies. We actually recommend summoning a swath of flying enemy echoes to take them out as you climb down.

The boss chest is at the bottom of this room and once you open it to claim the boss key, the lava levels will start rising. It’s now a race to get out, so quickly climb back up and get out of there. (This is why we recommended clearing out the enemies ahead of time.) As you climb up, a ladder will actually break, forcing you to use a flying echo to cross a gap and get access to a rock wall to climb.

With boss key in hand, head the only direction in the 2D room you didn’t go (northwest), unlocking the wall and climbing up the steps.

In this next lava filled room, carefully glide from platform to platform using the air ducts to boost yourself up. Halfway through the room, you’ll need to use a lava rock to elevate yourself up a lava pillar. Continue flying using the air ducts to the back of the room until you get to the boss door.

Activate that last warp waypoint and heal up before heading into the boss door.

After heading into the boss door, drop into the hole to come face-to-face with Volvagia. Just like the other bosses, Volvagia’s fight is broken up into phases, introducing new attacks throughout.

Phase one is as follows:

After hitting it enough times, the green orb on its neck will break and it’ll relocate, entering phase two. When its neck orb breaks, you’ll gain some Swordfighter energy back. This phase is largely the same, though now Volvagia may opt to peek out of the lava with no platforms close enough to attack it in melee range. Use your bombs or arrows to strike it. After a bit, its green neck orb will break again and it’ll move around the map.

Phase three of this fight is again, largely the same, though now Volvagia swaps places more often. You can keep up the normal strategy — use your sword if it’s in melee range, otherwise use bombs and arrows to take it out.

After it takes enough damage, it’ll enter its fourth and final phase, introducing a new attack to the foray:

If you’re struggling, we recommend using flying enemy echoes to dish in random pecks of damage. We personally used a zirro to spit bombs at Volvagia during portions of the fight where we couldn’t get it with Swordfighter form.

Once you finish Volvagia off, Tri will reunite with their buddies and you’ll get a Heart Container.