Quick Links
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom features many different kinds of quests. This one will send you looping and fumbling around a devious labyrinth. First on foot, then using your paraglider.
Luckily, there are some tips and tricks you can implement to make this quest a lot easier on the brain than trying to remember where you have and have not been, ending with you going in circles. Utilizing Ascend, you can actually make it up onto the top of the walls rather than going between them.
Updated by Chad Thesen on 12 June 2023: Granting players so much freedom to explore and try out things has insurmountable pros. Players may be able to make all manner of devices, but they often forget those devices are limited by how many batteries they have. This update will help players be better prepared for certain parts of the guide.
Where To Find North Lomei Labyrinth
Head to the North Lomei Labyrinth, located in the Hebra Mountains. Once you are standing at the entrance, make your way straight down the labyrinth path toward the long bars. There is a lot of gloom about it, so watch your step. Take the first right, and keep going until you come to some more gloom; take a left, and go up some stairs.
Follow the path forward towards the little campsite and then take the first right you come to. You’ll see some ice in the corner and an indent going into the wall on the opposite side. Go into this alcove and use Ascend to move through the stone all the way up to the top of the labyrinth walls.
Turn the camera to the left. Run forward and jump over the gap. Drop down and walk to the groove in the walls with two light sources.
Climb up the ladder and head forward until you come to a left turn that goes up some stairs. Make your way straight ahead and keep going until you go over the edge and reach the floor. In this room, you’ll find the Mayaotaki Shrine. After activating the shrine, several pieces of dialog will be displayed. This will begin the side quest, "The Northern Lomei Prophecy."
Build A Flying Machine From A Stone Block
This part of the guide will see you high up in the air and using a flying fusion vehicle. It is very important that you have sufficient energy to reach your destination, so you might want to stock up on as many Crystalized Charges as you can get, then spend them to extend your Energy Wells. It is also worth noting you can store Zonai bubbles in your inventory to pop later and have those devices at your disposal whenever you may need them. You do not want to fall short of energy and then fall all the way back down. After acquiring this side quest, make your way to the Pikida Stonegrove Skyview Tower and activate the elevator by standing on top of it. This will send Link high up into the sky. Deploy your glider and turn the camera to the left to see a large cube-like structure in the distance. Glide slightly to the left of it and avoid the incoming enemy attacks. You will see several floating platforms below you, but just keep going to the slight left of the cube structure in the distance. You're aiming for the East Hebra Sky Archipelago in Hebra Mountains Sky.
Keep gliding straight ahead until you see a large stone structure with a wheel that you will be able to turn on its surface. Position the spring so that it will launch you to the next nearby floating island when you touch it. Head forward and use the Ultrahand ability to reposition the floating stone platform with the fan on it.
- Use the game’s fusion mechanic to fuse the fan to the bottom of the stone Platform.
- Use the fusion mechanic again to fuse three additional fans onto the stone platform, facing towards the stone structure that you are standing on.
- Fuse a steering stick onto the top of the floating stone platform.
- Fuse a battery into the middle of the floating stone platform behind the steering stick.
This is a similar way of piloting a Wing in the game. You could also just put fans on all sides and use your bow to trigger them, but you lose a lot of control by doing so. Now that you're ready for take-off, head towards that floating cube from earlier.
Another option would be to fuse fans on all sides of the cube and strike the ones you want to provide thrust. This will have the cube drift where you want it to without the need for a control stick or power source.
Fly To Tenbez Shrine
In the distance, you will see the large stone cube-like structure, but from this angle, it might resemble a large stone tablet. There might be clouds currently covering the front of this structure, so look around carefully to make sure you see it.
Pilot the floating stone block directly toward the structure. If your fusion cannot make the whole journey, you may have to jump and glide to one of the floating stone pillars underneath the cube. If you worry the durability will not last and are pretty close to your destination, you can stop piloting and, on top of the cube, make a hoverbike by fusing 2 fans on either side of a control stick and ride it the rest of the way. The hoverbike may be energy efficient, but it does not float like the stone cube meaning it will fall if you run out of energy.
Position yourself so that the top of the surface is above you, and then use Ascend. You will see the Tenbez Shrine opposite the Gravity and Velocity puzzle. Interact with the shrine to trigger some more dialog and progress the quest to its next step.
Activate The Four Terminals
During the cutscene, the wall in front of you will slide down. Head straight through the doorway that it created and used your glider with the updraft to glide through the path ahead. This might be a very intimidating maze to navigate, but there is a very simple trick you can use to get to your destination that requires very little effort. You will see plenty of places to rest and recover your stamina for gliding — use these.
Just keep following the right-hand side of the wall.
Look at your minimap to avoid any dead ends and just keep following along the right side, and you will make it all the way to the very corner of the map without having to pause every couple of seconds to work out the route on your map or when to turn to get to the glowing markers.
Just keep following the right wall till you get to the corner you will come across a half-circle terminal.
- Approaching this terminal will have a glowing sign appear on top of it.
- Start to backtrack; the wall you followed is now on your left.
- Keep following along it until you see three brown squares on the minimap.
- Move through these three brown squares.
- After clearing them, turn left and keep to the left wall, and you will go around the corner into a room with the second terminal.
As you leave this room in the direction you came from, turn right and keep heading straight until you come to a split path to take. Take the left path, followed by another left, and then a right.
Head straight until you see a place you can land and rest. Land at this rest point and take the right path after it, and it will be a straight line to a set of stairs going down. Go down these stairs to find the third terminal.
- Turn around and go forward.
- Use your glider to follow the Labyrinth again and take the second right turn and follow the wall on the right.
- You will come to a grid blocking your path; drop down and then redeploy your glider to get an updraft to a higher point.
- Follow the only path available to get to the fourth and final terminal.
You will know you are getting close when you see the small staircase heading towards the final corner of the Labyrinth.
This will trigger a cutscene where you will see a stone ring rising up from the top of the labyrinth walls. Deploy your glider at the location of the fourth terminal to receive a very strong updraft that will send you high enough to glide all the way to this stone ring. Interact with this stone ring to trigger more dialog.
Make A Leap Of Faith
In the previous dialog, you will have been instructed to jump from the top of the labyrinth. Run through the stone ring to the point directly straight from you, and Link will be able to perform a swan dive from it towards the bottom of the Labyrinth. Keep diving straight down this long path, and you will eventually come to the North Lomei Chasm.
Deploy your glider when you see moving orange lights — this will be your indicator that you are nearing the very bottom of the fall. You will find yourself in the North Lomei Depths Labyrinth.
The depths are known for having lots of tricky elements like pitch-dark patches in them, so make use of Brightbloom to illuminate your way. You will see a moving orange light coming from a green cube in the next room; use a Brightbloom seed so that you can see inside this room, and a fight will trigger with a Flux Construct.
Flux Construct III Boss Fight
Keep your distance and use arrows to damage the glowing cubes that move and periodically change places around its body. After enough hits, the Flux construct will crumble into a pile of cubes. Hit the glowing cube with everything you have to reduce its health to zero and finish off this fight.
You will see a glowing circle appear after the Flux Construct has been defeated.
Head on over to this ring and activate it. After the dialog concludes, a cutscene will play, revealing a chest as well as the confirmation of the completion of the side quest.