How to get the Fierce Deity Armor and Sword in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is awash with Easter eggs and references to other games in the Zelda series, and one of them, the Fierce Deity Set – which is one of many Misko’s Treasure quests – requires a particularly involved journey through the Surface of Hyrule.

The set is a reference to the form Link takes at the end The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask (provided he has collected every other mask in the game), which gives him incredible power over the final boss.

It is possible to get the Fierce Deity Armor through amiibo, but you can also find every part of it in Hyrule. Below we walk you through the process of collecting the Fierce Deity Armor, Mask, Bootsand finally the Swordwhose locations vary from Central Hyruleto the Eldin regionto the Akkala region in the extreme northeast of the map.

There’s a quest line that leads you to the Fierce Deity Armor, but you can skip it all and just go straight to the locations with the chests. Below we indicate where you can find all the pieces of Fierce Deity Armor and Sword. If you want to do things the old-fashioned way, we’ve also detailed the quest steps at the bottom of this post.

Fierce Deity Armor (chest) location

To find the Fierce Deity Armor, go to the Akkala Citadel Ruins, as shown in the image below. If you’re already done Domizuin shrinewarp there, and you’ll be right on top.

The “bedroomwhat you’re looking for (what Misko mentioned in his letter) is on the southwest side of the large central building in the Ruins. Go there, but be careful – a Gloomy spawn haunts the grounds of the Citadel. You can fight Gloom Hands, but avoiding them is also an option on your way to the bedroom.

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Look for a low hole in the wall to enter the bedroom, as shown in the center of the image below. Squat and walk through the hole until you reach the edge of a cave entrance.

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Jump into the cave, open the chest and get the Fierce Deity Armorwhich boosts your attack and has +3 defense in the base.

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Fierce Deity Mask (headpiece) location

Around the Fierce deity maskgo to Skull moreWest of Akkala Wildsand north of Kill Berg. According to Misko’s hint, you want to skydive through the “left eye” (which is actually the right eye on the map). To do this, we shrank to Sitsum Shrine near the top of Death Mountain, ran along the ridge, jumped off the northern slopes and slid until we were right over the opening.

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Once in the cave, you fight your way through a group Stalkoblins and destroy some rock walls until you meet one Stalnox. With a few well-placed shots to its huge eye and some powerful swings at that eye once it pops out of its socket and starts rolling through the cave, you should be able to take out the enemy in no time.

Once the Stalnox is dead, climb the moss covered platform with the tribe flags on it and open the chest for the Fierce deity maskwhich increases your attack and gives +3 defense.

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Fierce Deity Boots (bottom) location

We enter another cave. (Are you starting to see a theme here?) The next location is in the Old tree stump in the middle of the lake just north of mount Daphnes on the west side of Hyrule field. Cross the makeshift wooden bridge to get to the stump and dive in.

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Once there, you’ll find yourself on a collection of walkways made of giant tangled tree roots. Go to the root that runs along the surface of the water at the bottom of the cave and follow it to a wall of hanging vines. Slash them, and proceed to the other side.

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Follow the path behind the vines and climb several mossy walls in the next area, until you come to a room with more roots and yet another wall of vines at the back. Slash these vines, open the chest and collect the Fierce deity bootswhich increases your attack and gives you a boost of +3 defense.

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Location of Fierity Deity Sword

Now that you’ve collected all three Fierce Deity Armor pieces, go to Cephla Lake Cave.

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Just enter the room that houses all the decoy boxes, and a stone door, presumably sensing you’re wearing all three Fierce Deity Armor pieces, will open at the back of the cave. Open the box for the Fierce Deity Swordcompletely “Misko’s treasure: the ferocious deity“ and complete your tribute to Majora’s mask.

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Misko’s Treasure: The starting location of the Fierce Deity quest

If you want to do the quest as intended, warp to Kisinona Shrine next Cephla Lake in Eldin canyonand go slightly north, around the large boulder blocking your view, until you see the smoke of a fire below.

Once there you will meet the treasure hunters dom roof And Priss, leaning against the rock wall outside Cephla Lake Cave. (You may have already met these two elsewhere – they are looking for the legendary treasure of the famous Misko all the way through Hyrule.) Talk to them, and they will tell you that there are too many chests in the nearby cave, and they can’t figure out which one has more than one Green rupee.

As usual, a Freudian slip will indicate that you can feed their dog lounging by their tent, and it will lead you to the right box. We fed the dog four apples (there are two on the nearby wooden box, if you’re running low) and the dog led us to a dirt-covered box, in which the Ember pantsmaking one Attack in hot weather.

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[Ed. Note: Eagle-eyed readers will notice that we’re already wearing the Fierce Deity Armor in the above image. As is often the case in Tears of the Kingdom, we began this quest out-of-order in another region of the world. This guide outlines the intended way to gather the armor, though, so worry not.]

The Ember pants are not what we’re here for. Fortunately, Domidak and Prissen enter the cave shortly after you open the chest to reluctantly congratulate you, open one last chest, and give you a message from Misko herself. This letter will kick off the side quest”Misko’s treasure: the ferocious deity.”

Fierce Deity Armor upgrade cost, effect and set bonus

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Worn separately, the Fierce Deity Armor pieces amplify Link’s attack through a Attack up buff.

With all three Fierce Deity Armor pieces, it’s time to get the set bonus and increase the armor total. After you upgrade each piece of armor to level two and equip all three pieces, you will get one Charge Attack Stamina Up set bonus, causing your load of stamina attacks to use less stamina. To max out the Fierce Deity Armor, you’ll need to hunt down Hinoxes, the three dragons (Dinraal, Naydra, and Farosh), and Lynels. See the table below for more information on what materials you will need.

This means that to upgrade all of your Fierce Deity Armor you will need 15 Hinox Toe Nails, 15 Hinox Teeth, 6 Hinox Entrails, 6 Lynel Entrails, 3 Specific Dragon Scales, Fangs, Fangs and Horns and 2,280 Rupees.

Once you’ve found all three pieces of the Fierce Deity Armor, check out our list of all armor sets and set bonuses to see what you can find next, or check out our recommendations for the best armor.

Update (May 26): We’ve added information about how much it costs to upgrade the Fierce Deity Armor