Skip to main content
  1. Home
  2. Gaming
  3. Guides

Digital Trends may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site. Why trust us?

Where to find all the Great Fairy Fountains in BOTW

By

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s Great Fairy Fountains are an important part of gearing up to face the game’s many challenges. They let you upgrade your armor to both inflict more damage and gain special benefits for many armor sets. Finding the first Great Fairy Fountain is simple enough, with some pretty clear signposting in one of the villages you’ll come to earliest in Breath of the Wild‘s story, but finding and unlocking all of them will take a good deal more work.

Further reading

Unlocking Great Fairy Fountains

Just finding the locations of the Great Fairy Fountains won’t be enough to use them. You’ll need to give each Great Fairy a certain amount of rupees to grant you her power, which increases with each fountain you find. You’ll need to pay 100 rupees to unlock the first fountain, 500 to unlock the second, 1,000 to unlock the third, and 10,000 to unlock the fourth and final fountain. You can unlock the fountains in any order as long as you have enough rupees.

Recommended Videos

Each Great Fairy Fountain you unlock will let you upgrade your armor one additional level, no matter which fountain you’re using. Many armor sets will give an additional bonus — like a boost to climbing speed or stealth — once you upgrade each piece in the set to level two, so it’s a good idea to find the Great Fairy Fountains and upgrade them that far as soon as you can.

Great Fairy Fountain locations

Great Fairy Cotera

zelda breath of the wild great fairy cotera
Image used with permission by copyright holder

The easiest Great Fairy to find in Breath of the Wild is Great Fairy Cotera. To find her fountain, you just need to head northeast of Kakariko Village. The fountain is in the woods past the Tal’noh Naeg Shrine, which sits on a hill just above the village. If you talk to Pikango, the old man working on a painting in the village, he’ll give you a quest to find the fountain and even lead you in its general direction.

Great Fairy Kayasa

zelda breath of the wild great fairy kayasa
Image used with permission by copyright holder

You’ll find Great Fairy Kayasa in the Tabantha region, so it’s best to come prepared with warm clothes and warming food if you’re going to be exploring the area on foot. The easiest way to reach this fountain is to start from Tabantha Tower, which itself is just south of Rito Village. Starting from the tower, glide south-southeast and you should see the large green plant that Great Fairy Kayasa lives in from the air. The area where the fountain is found is named Piper Ridge on your map, and you’ll find it on the north side of the ridge.

Great Fairy Mija

zelda breath of the wild great fairy mija
Image used with permission by copyright holder

Great Fairy Mija is in the Akkala region, just east of Akkala Tower and Akkala Lake. Starting from the tower, glide all the way across the lake to the east and land in the small forest on the other side. On the map, you’ll see a small pool of water surrounded by trees. That’s where you’ll find Great Fairy Mija.

Great Fairy Tera

zelda breath of the wild great fairy tera
Image used with permission by copyright holder

Likely to be the last Great Fairy you meet, Great Fairy Tera is located in the Gerudo Desert. Her fountain is in the far southwest of the map, just beyond an area called Dragon’s Exile. You’ll find Great Fairy Tera’s fountain beneath a massive dragon skeleton. If you’re starting out from Gerudo Town, hop aboard a sand seal and head directly to the southwest and you shouldn’t have too much trouble finding this fountain.

Editors' Recommendations

Topics
Robin Bea
Robin Bea
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Robin is a Pittsburgh-based writer focused on gaming, entertainment, and science. She spend her free time mostly making…
How to get Wild Greens in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Link standing next to Sundelions in Tears of the Kingdom.

In The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, you might encounter the Gloom-Borne Illness quest, which requires you to find Wild Greens. However, there isn't actually an item called "Wild Greens," making this quest particularly tricky to complete. In this guide, we'll show you where to find Wild Greens in Tears of the Kingdom.
Where to find Wild Greens

The most important thing to note with this quest is the item you need is actually the Sundelion. The game is purposely vague, making it difficult to know what the actual item you need is. These items are found in various locations around Hyrule, but the most consistent way to find them is to visit a Sky Island around the following coordinates: -2,184, 0966, 1637.

Read more
How to find the Fifth Sage in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
A sage grabbing ganon by the throat.

For as open and freeform as The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is, even allowing you to skip essentially every quest in the game and go straight to the final boss, you will be missing a ton by doing so. At the very least, most players will want to complete all the main quests before marching into the final encounter, which will take many hours. One quest is taking some adventurers a long time to complete, not due to its difficulty, but because they have no idea how to complete it.

The Fifth Sage quest is one of the most enigmatic in the entire game in what you're supposed to do to complete it. You're only given a single clue, and it's not a very helpful one at that.

Read more
The best horses in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

There are plenty of ways to roam the land of Hyrule in Breath of the Wild, but few are as well-developed as horse riding. Not only does the game let you tame a variety of horses found in the wild, but you can customize your horse by changing its saddle, bridle, and even its physical attributes. Toss in the ability to discover Malanya, the horse god, and there's a lot to unpack with this down-to-earth travel method.

However, not all horses are worth taming and adding to your stable. And since horse taming is a time-consuming task, it's important to know the best horses in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild so you don't waste your day chasing a steed that's not much faster than Link.

Read more