Sah Dahaj Shrine Guide: Power of Fire Walkthrough (BotW)

Where is Sah Dahaj Shrine?

Sah Dahaj hides in a gorge directly north of Cephla Lake in Eldin Canyon, east of Eldin Tower — glide east from the tower’s top and descend toward the lake’s north shore. The entrance sits in the gorge wall just north of the water, so if your shrine marker points at open lakeside, step inland and scan the canyon cut into the rock.

What should you bring?

Nothing is mandatory — no rune, ability, or key item gates this trial. A torch or a low-level wooden weapon (which you can light and carry like a torch) makes it faster, and a decent stock of arrows is also handy for shooting hanging lanterns down from a safe distance. You will have to fight one Guardian Scout II, so bring a weapon in serviceable condition.

Video walkthrough

Sah Dahaj Shrine Guide — YouTube

How do you solve Sah Dahaj Shrine?

The trial spans three connected rooms, and one idea runs through all of them: leafy vines block every route, and fire — from the fallen torch, dropped lanterns, or your own torch — burns them away to reveal passages and destroy the two crates holding the stone slab.

1. Burn through the first vine wall

Enter the shrine and size up the first room: a wall of leafy vines conceals a passage in the wall to the next room, and two torches sit among the leaves — the lit one on the left has toppled over.

Strike the fallen lit torch with any weapon so it tumbles into the vines; the leaves catch fire and burn away, exposing the opening into the second room.

2. Defeat the Guardian Scout II

Head through and deal with the Guardian Scout II guarding the ladder into the third area — it wields a Guardian Sword, so take it out before puzzling.

3. Cut the rope to burn the second vine wall

Now find the corner where another wall of vines blocks the route, with a fire lantern dangling overhead on a rope.

Snap the rope — shoot the cord with an arrow, or strike it in melee if you can reach it — so the lantern drops into the leaves, ignites them, and burns the vines away to reveal the passage.

Climb the ladder into the third and final chamber.

4. Burn the supports to drop the stone slab

Read the room: straight ahead is a sealed door; behind the bars of a cell sits a floor switch with a stone slab suspended above it from two wooden crates, one behind each side of a fence; off to the right, in the room before the Monk’s Pedestal, a treasure chest rests on a vine-wrapped wooden platform.

Grab the chest first: set the leaves beneath the wooden platform alight — shoot a fire lantern down onto them, or light a torch at a nearby flame and walk it up the leaves on the wall. The platform burns through and the chest drops down for you to open.

Move to the left side of the fence and light its leaves — by shooting the lantern on that side down, or with your lit torch — so the flames creep back and consume the wooden crate behind the fence, dropping the stone slab toward the button.

Repeat the process on the right side, burning that patch of leaves until the second wooden crate is destroyed.

With both crates gone, the stone slab falls onto the floor switch, and the sealed door ahead opens.

5. Receive the Spirit Orb

Walk through to the Monk’s Pedestal and speak with Sah Dahaj; he bestows a Spirit Orb, wishes you well, and fades away.

What is in the chest?

What do people miss here?

• The Knight’s Bow chest is the big miss: it sits on a wooden platform to the right of the final chamber and only drops after you burn the leaves underneath — many players beeline to the switch puzzle and leave without it.
• If the stone slab won’t drop, one crate survived. Fire has to travel all the way along the leaves to the crate behind the fence — check both the left and right sides and relight whichever patch didn’t fully catch.
• You can do the whole shrine without a torch or arrows: the fallen torch in room one is moved with plain weapon swings, and the hanging lantern’s cable can be snapped by striking it. Those items just speed things up.
• Don’t underestimate the Guardian Scout II in room two — it guards the ladder into the third area and won’t move aside. Fight it with a decent weapon, or keep your distance and pepper it with arrows if your melee gear is fragile.
• Can’t find the shrine at the lake? It’s hidden in a gorge directly north of Cephla Lake — step away from the shoreline and look for the canyon cut into the rock.

What else is nearby?

Which guides help next?

• All BotW shrine locations
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