TotK Monster Medals: All 6, How Many to Beat, Why One Is Missing

In The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, beating every monster of one big kind earns a medal from the monster-control crew, and lighting every Lightroot in the Depths earns the Dispelling Darkness Medal. This page puts all seven together: how many you need, who hands them out, what they do, and where the last missing monster usually hides. Each monster has its own location page with every spawn on a map, and the counts here match those pages.

Which Monster Medals are there and how many monsters does each need?

Every variant counts. Hinox include Blue Hinox, Black Hinox and Stalnox; Taluses include Luminous, Rare, Igneo, Frost and Battle Taluses; the Gleeok count includes the four King Gleeoks; Frox include Obsidian and Blue-White Frox.

Who gives the Monster Medals?

Gralens, in the Emergency Shelter at Lookout Landing, the crew’s headquarters.

1. Do one monster-control crew adventure. Bring Peace to Hyrule Field! is one. After any of them, Gralens starts talking about big monsters; see the monster-control crew.
2. Take all six quests. Ask him about both the big monsters and the unusual ones to get the six quests in the table. Each one names a single monster; beat it and report back for a reward.
3. Beat every monster of a kind. Each one has to go down at least once. With the quests done, talk to him again and he tells you how many of each kind are left.
4. Go back at zero. He is stunned (“the number of Hinoxes remaining is…zero? Unbelievable! You hunted them all?”) and gives you the medal.

How do you get the Dispelling Darkness Medal?

Light all 120 Lightroots in the Depths. There is one under every surface shrine, named after that shrine spelled backwards. When the last one lights up, the game says “You found every lightroot. They have dispelled all of the darkness,” and the medal is yours on the spot. Its description: “An award for one who has conquered the darkness by lighting up every lightroot. This special item commemorates blessings received.”

What do the medals do?

Nothing. All seven just sit in Key Items. The Monster Medal descriptions all follow one pattern, for example: “An award presented by the monster-control crew in appreciation for defeating every Hinox in Hyrule. It’s very fancy and is shaped like the monster it represents.” They are keepsakes that prove you cleared every monster of that kind.

Why won’t Gralens give me the medal?

If his count is not zero, something is still out there. The usual reasons:

• The quests are not unlocked. Without a monster-control crew adventure behind you, Gralens never brings up big monsters, so there is no medal either.
• The Depths. 29 Hinox, 32 Taluses, 20 Flux Constructs and one King Gleeok are down there, and all 40 Frox. One sweep of the surface can never add up.
• Caves. 10 Hinox and 7 Taluses are in caves.
• The sky. 15 Flux Constructs and 3 King Gleeoks are on sky islands.
• Variants. Stalnox, Battle Taluses, Igneo Taluses, Frost Taluses and King Gleeoks all count.
• The fourth Flame Gleeok. There are four Flame Gleeoks, and the one at Trilby Valley in Lanayru is the one people miss most.
• The Hyrule Castle Black Hinox (old versions). Before version 1.4.3 (February 2026) this one could stay marked as undefeated after you beat it, which blocked the Hinox Monster Medal. Updating the game fixes it; see Hinox locations.

For a missing Lightroot, go through the shrine map one shrine at a time: if the Depths under a shrine are still dark, that Lightroot is not lit yet.

Is there a Lynel medal?

No. The crew only hands out medals for the six monsters in the table; Lynels are not among them. See Lynel locations.

See also

• The monster-control crew: the six Bring Peace adventures and the crew’s fabric.
• Paraglider fabrics: another set of collection rewards.
• What to do after the ending.
• All Key Items: the medals and the other 46 things in the Key Items tab.