Kadaunar Shrine location and walkthrough in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Kadaunar Shrine is a shrine within The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom‘s Eldin Canyon Heaven region.

Our guide will help you find the location of the Kadaunar Shrine, solve the puzzles and guide you through “Water makes a way” to collect the chest and Light of blessing.

When you’re done, our shrine locations page or interactive Hyrule map can lead you to something else.

Kadaunar Shrine location

The Kadaunar Shrine can be found within the Eat Canyon Sky region. The exact coordinates are (1883, 1202, 1251).

We reached this chain of islands by going first to the Eldin Canyon Skyview Tower. If you haven’t unlocked the tower yet, check out our guide to the Eldin Canyon Skyview Tower. Once you unlock the tower, you can soar into the sky above the Sky Island Archipelago and access the Kadaunar Shrine.

Kadaunar Shrine ‘Water makes the way’ walkthrough

Fans of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker may remember pots of water being dumped on lava in Dragon Roost Cavern. In Kadaunar Shrinerelive the good old days and solve a puzzle by spraying lava with water to create walkways.

1. Walk to the giant lava pool. Hit the fire hydrant to turn it on.

2. Usage Ultra convenient to pick up the hydrant and gradually move it over the lava as it spews out water. It will turn parts of the lava into solidified rock. Link can jump on so-called lava plates.

3. Create a pile of lava plates by moving the hydrant over the water with Ultrahand. At this point, you can either jump from platform to platform to cross the lava, as we did, or use Ultrahand to bond pieces of solidified rock together to make a bridge.

4. After crossing the lava pool, look to the left. You see one chest on a raised ledge with lava in front. Move the bridge you made or create a new one by joining pieces of rock with Ultrahand.

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5. Use the bridge as a walkway to get to the chest. The box contains one strong construction arc. Then get out by walking back over the bridge you made or by jumping and sliding over the small pool of lava in front of the chest.

6. Directly opposite where you have the chest, there is an area closed off by a large rock. Use the Fuse ability to combine a lava rock with a weapon and swing it at the rock to break it. (We don’t know if this works with every weapon. We combined a lava plate with a cobblestoneand that did the trick.)

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7. Enter the next room. You will see two fire hydrants. Activate one and use Ultrahand to create lava plates.

8. You may notice that this is actually a river of lava. When you create a slab, it will flow in the opposite direction from the end of the shrine. Make lots of plates and wait for one to float close to the platform you’re standing on.

9. Wait for a plate to float close enough for you to jump on. Use the Recall ability and then jump on the plate. The lava plate will travel in the opposite direction and take you to the other end of the room. (You can also probably jump the plate first, and Than use Recall, but that’s how we completed the shrine.)

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10. Jump off the lava plate and claim Light of blessing.