Stilled Heart Lake Rift walkthrough in Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

Stilled Heart Lake Rift is an optional area you can explore in the Faron Wetlands during The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom.

Found near Scrubton, you need to find all five of Tri’s friends to give you a clue for where to find a Membership Card to access the Sweet Spot.

If you’re also interested in optional side-quests in the region, we can explain how to complete “The Rain-Making Monster” quest.

When you first arrive in the southeastern Faron Wetlands, you’ll find everyone obsessed with a new kind of cotton candy and pretty disinterested in literally anything else. You’ll also get called “bumpkin” a lot.

At the Sweet Spot in the north — where you’re clearly supposed to go — you’ll be told you need a Membership Card. Time to ask around to see where we can get one.

Make your way down to the southwest corner of the Faron Wetlands. Stilled Heart Lake is, as you may have guessed, the lake that’s shaped like a heart there. When you arrive, though, there’s a thematically appropriate rift cutting the heart in half and a lovelorn scrub in the lake.

Jump into the rift and you’ll learn that you have to find five groups of Tri’s friends to heal the rift.

Head north and you’ll run into a deku baba Lv. 2 on a grass-covered wall. That’s a clue. Drop something that can start fires like a brazier or an ignizol near the grass (don’t worry about targeting the deku babe).

Once the fire takes hold, it’ll burn all the grass as well as the armored baba. Pick up its echo if you don’t have it yet.

The fire will also burn a spider web that’s covering a small cave on the right. Climb up and you’ll free the first Tri’s friend location.

Continue up the wall — a pillar of water works well here — and cross the gap heading left. In the pool of water there, dive down through the small hole.

Swim all the way left and start down. There’s a bombable block on the right side of the column, but there’s a current pushing down. We used a bombfish and Bind to hold it in place.

With the block out of the way, swim up to the top of the current and let it push you down as you swim right to free the next Tri’s friend.

Swim to the right across the bottom of the screen. Up the column and past the bio deku baba, you’ll find the next friend and another bombable wall.

Head up and out of this area.

Back outside, head across to the right. Jump across the stump to land in a grassy area with a deku baba Lv. 2, a baby gohma, and a spiderweb-covered pit. Drop an ignizol or three and try not to catch on fire while you wait. Once everything is cleared out, rescue the friend.

The fifth of Tri’s friends are directly below you, but they take some work to rescue. Head to the bottom left corner of the platform you’re on. There’s just enough room there to summon an ignizol to your right. Do that and immediately Bind it.

Climb down the cliff face below you and position the Ignizol so it catches the spiderweb on fire. Drop into the cave it reveals and you’ll rescue the last one.

Because this is a video game, the scrubs you just rescued and reunited don’t actually have a Membership Card. Instead, they’ll point you to another rift in the southeast of the Faron Wetlands, and a scrub named Blossu.

Head over there to meet Blossu. After a quick talk, jump into the rift, and start exploring Stilled Blossu’s House, or see where to go after that with our Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom walkthrough.