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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s cast is filled with exciting and colorful characters worth the hours spent finding, meeting, and possibly assisting them. Of those characters, few are as precious and helpful as Tulin, the young son of Rito’s village’s elder, Teba.
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His quest is part of the main story and must be completed in order to investigate the strange phenomena happening in the four main regions of Hyrule. Your reward for this quest will be the companionship of Tulin himself and his handy unique ability that will make flying the skies of Hyrule a breeze.
Reaching Rito Village
One of the hardest parts about Tulin’s questline is reaching him to start it. You’ll have toscale the Tabantha Frontier, facing heavy winds, bitter cold, and layers of snow.
To prepare, you’ll want tocook some tasty warming meals. There aren’t any warm clothes to find until you reach Rito Village, so you’ll have to make do.
What route you take up into the mountains isn’t important, but your main goal will be toreach the Lucky Clover Gazette.
You can also begin Princess Sightings at this location, allowing you to begin a series of valuable quests at each of Hyrule’s stables.
In the area around the “fairly acquired” stable, you should be able tofind pinecones sitting on the groundat the base of the trees.
Pick up at least oneand run over to thefire on the edge of the clifffacing Rito Village. Here, the bridge has broken and isn’t able to be crossed. Instead, you’ll have to be cone-crafty.
Throw your pine cone on the fireto createan updraftyou can then use toglide overto the other side where Rito Village awaits.
Tulin can be found near thetop of the villageon a platformout to the rightwith his parents. Approach them to begin a dialogue with them. They’ll give you insight into the situation and officially begin Tulin’s questline.
Make certain to grab Gatakis Shrine on the right side of the Rito Village entrance stairs for a teleportation point on your way.
In The Heart Of The Mountains - Finding Tulin
On Teba’s prompting, your attention will be drawn to thebonfires lit in the distance.These are visible from the platform you’re standing on.
Jump off and glide overin that direction. If you don’t have any stamina boosts, you likely won’t make it all the way, but you should be able to land in an area not far from your location goal.
Head to the bonfire and step inside the hometotalk with Harth. You’ll learn Tulin has gone off on a mission, and you’ll need to find him in theHeba South Summit Cave.
Grab theSpicy Peppersin this shack and do some more cooking while you’re here, as this might be your last chance in a long time.
Heading up the mountain, you can either:
Regardless,enter the cave with the lit torchoutside to find the Rito hunting party inside.
Tulin has gone ahead, so you’ll need to race through the cave after him. From the entrance area,turn right through the bramble pathuntil you reach acavern with a strong updraft.
Jump off and ride the updraft to a path in the wall surrounded by brambles.Inside is a cavernous area with several ore deposits you can break open with a hammer.
In the wind chamber, you’re able to also dive and break an ice chamber on the ground for more ore deposits.
As you climb up the chamber with the ore deposits, you’ll have to take care of theHorriblin crawling on the walls and ceilingin this area.
They’ll attack on sight, and you’ll need todeal with themwith the hard-knock’s school of life: whacking it several times with a weapon until it dies.
Follow the pathto the end of the chamber where you will reach anunlit bonfireon a platform surrounded by water and near a torch.
You canlight this fireby several means:
Once the fire has been lit,throw a pine cone on itto create a strong updraft. Use this updraft toglide up to a ledge abovethat leads to a chamber with small Talos and, eventually, another member of the Rito hunting party.
There is another ledge covered in brambles in this shaft. You’ll need to clear the path ahead with fire of any source.
A Bubbulfrog can be found at the end of it. Once it’s been defeated, you’ll need to dive into the fire below again and use another pinecone to reach the required ledge.
Tulin still hasn’t learned the value of not splitting the party, socontinue chasing after him down the bramble pathGesane points out for you.
At the dead end,either climb up or use Ascend to exit the cavenear a small monster site. Take a moment tolocate the lone cedar treewhere Tulin supposedly flew off to.
Climb up the mountain, avoiding the raiding parties of monsters (they’re quite strong, appear in groups, and aren’t worth your time), and findTulin standing on the ledge near the cedar tree.
Speak with Tulinto learn that his bow has been taken by the nearbyflying Aerocuda.
To get it back, you’ll need toshoot it down with your bow;however, this isn’t the best place to do it. Tulin will assist by granting you hiswind power.
Tulin’s wind power can beactivated by interacting with Tulin with A and then pressing A again.
This will create apowerful straight-line gustthat willincrease your speed while gliding.It’s an exceptionally powerful tool while airborne.
Use this new power toglide over to the platform with the fire ahead.
Once you’ve landed on the platform,shoot an arrow at the flying Aerocuda.One arrow will be enough to defeat it, and Tulin will recover his bow.
Monsters will then appear in a group of three.You’ll have to take them on, but now you aren’t alone. Tulin will assist with his bow, and his great accuracy means he often lands stunning headshots that can be greatly useful in combat.
Defeat all three monstersto end combat and have a short conversation with Harth. It’s time to sort out this blizzard nonsense.
Ascent To The Wind Temple
The ascent to the source of the storm is a long and tedious journey that will require you touse Tulin’s Wind, your Ascent power, and no small amount of smart stamina usage.
From the monsters' area,fly over to the mountainwhere thetower to the sky islands is connected at the peak.That tower is your goal, soclimb the mountainacross several stones and platforms until you reach it.
There is a balloon under the platforms on the side of the mountain you’re able to build to ride up and ignore most of the climbing.
This will allow both you and Link to save some time and energy and ignore the threat of enemies on your way.
you may increase this balloon’s speed and allotted time by creating a flame-emitter and charging it with more batteries.
If you’re going by foot, you’ll eventually find aplatform with Huck.Talk with himand thenuse Tulin’s wind to glide across the platformsahead.
Eventually, you’ll find atall pillarthat stretches far above you. There’s a platform under it you can stand on, allowing you to use ascent on the pillar up to the top.
As you reach the top, you’llspy a shrinefar ahead.Race across the platforms toward ituntil Tulin prompts you tonotice the ship.
This ship has a sail on top of it thatacts as a trampoline.Making contact with it willrestore your staminaandthrow you high into the air.This will be important for later platforming and the dungeon ahead.
Use this ship tomake your way over the shrine,using Ascend from below if you don’t make it all the way.
Stop here, atMayaumekis Shrineto create a teleportation checkpoint and learn crucial mechanics that will help you on the road ahead.
Outside the Shrine,continue along the upwards pathusing your paraglider and Tulin’s wind.
Achest of Portable potscan be found atop a pillar with icicles protruding from the bottom; use them to create any more dishes as needed.
The Flux Construct I
If you decide totake the ship from earlier to anywhere other than the Shrine, you may possibly end up on apath that leads to a boss fight with the Flux Construct.It is a two-stage boss fight.
In the first stage, you’ll need touse your Ultrahand to take out the boxes and reveal its weak point.Once enough boxes have been removed; it will fall over and allow you to strike its glowing weak point.
In the final stage, it will begin to fly. You canget up to it by using Recall on one of its deployed boxes or Ascend.Either way, strike it enough times to come away with several valuableZonaiteresources.
From the Portable Pot chest,jump over into the icicle-covered windowin the pillar to the right.Use Ascendand glide over with Tulin to theplatform with the large stone gateway to the northwest.
Ahead, you’ll see enemy Zonai on some of the platforms, but you can ignore them as you glide over to the platform with the large icy circle. Break it to find a ship sail beneath you can trampoline off of to proceed.
Again, you’ll find an important platform, but this one will have a square filled with breakable rocks.Destroy the rockswith either a hammer or aBomb Flowerto reveal yetanother sail.
From this ship,fly over to a very tall collection of several staircasesgoing up. Anicy circle can be found on the left sideof the staircase.Break itto reveal a ship sail you canjump offof to carry on.
From here, there will beflying Aerocudaon your path andaround a flying ship you’ll needto jump onto in order to stay in the air.
Like earlier, you’ll want toaim for the large platforms with the gatewayson top of them. It is here that you’ll findseveral Zonai.
Instead of fighting the Zonai in the area with the large gateways,ignore them and begin sprinting ahead on a long stone bridge.
It will begin tofall underneath you,so time is of the essence.Run to the other sideand let gravity defeat the Zonai behind you.
Continue to anarea with two sets of stairs and a pair of Zonai enemies.Defeat them bothto reveal anothersquare with breakable boulders.
These lead to an underground path witha chestwhere aLarge Zonai Chargeis held. Grab it anduse Ascendto return.
Climb the stairsto an area where balloon parts can be found. You canbuild a successful balloonby:
Step onto your balloon, strike the flame-emitter, andride ituntil you can successfullyjump onto a platform beneath a tall pillar.Do so anduse Ascendon the pillar.
At the top of the pillar,climb the nearby stairs and jump offonto the boat sail.
Angle yourself tojump across a series of moving boats,ignoring the icy circle on the way unless another boat is required, andmake your way to the large platform with yet another gateway.
Tulin should comment now on the cold, and you’ll need tobegin eating your warm foodfrom now on.
Nearby, there’s a shrine. It’s known asKahatanaum Shrine: Raoru’s Blessing. It’s afree blessing with no trials or puzzles, sowalk infor the free prize before continuing.
From Kahatanaum Shrine,jump over onto the moving boatsnear the storm. The goal is tocontinue to the platform with the very large staircase above.
There areno gimmicksbeyond timing good jumps and practicing your angling to catch the ships in time, socontinue trying until you find a path that works best for you.
Once you reach the staircase,climb to the top of it and jumponto one of the boats below. This willposition you over the eye of the storm.
Angle yourself todive into the stormand descendto theWind Temple.It’s along puzzle dungeon; completingit anddefeating its bossis necessary to complete Tulin’s quest.
When the Wind Temple is completed, you only needtoreturn to Rito Village where you first met Tulin,and speak with him and Teba.
Afterward, Tulin’s quest will be completed, and you’ll receive the ability to travel with Tulin’s avatar.
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