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You’ve successfully found the Spiritual Stone of Fire after helping Darunia and the other gorons with their problem at Death Mountain. Now you’re off to befriend the zoras and get the Spiritual Stone of Water. Unfortunately, that is easier said than done as the zora’s are currently preoccupied with searching for the lost Princess Ruto. Perhaps if you help them they’ll be willing to give you their Spiritual Stone. If you’re in need of any assistance while searching for the young fish monarch, here is a walkthrough for how to find Princess Ruto in the Ocarina of Time Remake.
Where to Find Princess Ruto in the Ocarina of Time Remake
To enter the Zora’s Domain you’ll first need to trek your way up the Zora’s River that flows to the east of Kakariko Village. At the of this river you will find a large waterfall and an engraving of the Triforce on the ground in front of it. Like all other instances of the Triforce, the way to progress here is to play Zelda’s Lullaby on your ocarina. The waterfall will part when you do, revealing the entrance to Zora’s Domain.
Once you enter Zora’s Domain, make your way up the steps on the east side of the area and speak to King Zora. Unfortunately, he is far too depressed to give you a warm welcome. His young heir, Princess Ruto, has mysteriously vanished and most of the Zoras are out looking for her. You can offer to look for her yourself, but King Zora says that she is likely underwater and thus only a Zora can reasonably find her.
So if we want to find Ruto, we’re going to need to learn to dive like a Zora. Luckily for us, there’s a diving coach standing atop the waterfall by King Zora’s royal chambers. Speak to this man and he’ll offer to give you a diving lesson. This lesson will have him throw five of his scales in the water for you to collect.
You’ll have a 45 second time limit here, so quickly jump off the waterfall and dive into the water to collect the scales. All five of them will be in the shallowest part of the water, so you won’t have to do much swimming to get them all. After collecting all five scales, you’ll automatically be transported to the top of the waterfall to get your reward: A Silver Scale, one of two items in the game which can increase you diving range.
Now that we can dive deeper, jump back down the waterfall and look for the underwater passageway near the edge of Zora’s Domain. With your new diving skills you’ll be able to swim down there and be transported to Lake Hylia.
Near the entrance to Zora’s Domain on the Lake Hylia side you’ll notice that there’s plenty of trash on the lakebed such as Deku Sticks and rupees. What should catch your eye the most though is a bottle floating in the middle of this trash. Collect the bottle and you’ll find that it isn’t empty, but has a letter inside of it.
Open the bottle and you’ll find a letter from Princess Ruto saying that she is trapped inside of Lord Jabu Jabu’s Belly and needs rescuing! The letter also says that you absolutely should not tell her father, which is why the first thing you are going to do next is show the letter to her father.
Return to King Zora’s chambers in Zora’s Domain and present the letter to him. He’ll grant you passage to the Zora Fountain where Lord Jabu Jabu is and very slowly move away from the entrance to it. However, you shouldn’t go there yet as we need one more item before we can go and rescue Princess Ruto.
Head to the bottom floor of Zora’s Domain and you’ll spot a zora who is desperately trying to catch fish in a bottle. We won’t be helping him, but we will be catching one in a bottle ourselves. Use your new empty bottle to catch one of these fish and then make your way to Zora Fountain.
At Zora Fountain you’ll find the very sickly looking Lord Jabu Jabu. In front of him there will be an offering bowl. Pour the fish that you just captured into the bowl and Jabu Jabu will eat not only it, but Link as well! This is the beginning of the Lord Jabu Jabu’s Belly dungeon, where you will almost immediately meet Princess Ruto.
