Lanayru Gorge

Lanayru Gorge is an area in Skyward Sword located in Lanayru Province just outside the desert. Lanayru Gorge is home to Lanayru, the Thunder Dragon. Like every area of Lanayru Desert, it is a barren wasteland in the present, but in the past it is full of life.

Appearance and Features
Lanayru Gorge is one of the three areas that Link is required to visit in order to learn parts of the Song of the Hero. It becomes accessible after Golo, the Goron miner, finally completes his mining expedition. Link manages to find the location of the Thunder Dragon, but in the present he has died, leaving behing only his skeletal remains. After activating a Timeshift Stone by moving a minecart through several trials, Lanayru Gorge is restored to its former glory.

Lanayru is seriously ill in this time, and the Ancient Robots, in an attempt to cure him, planted a Tree of Life seedling here, hoping to use the powerful healing properties of its fruit. Despite all of their efforts to make the tree grow, the seedling cannot flourish in the Lanayru Province. Link manages to find a more suitable location in the Sealed Grounds of the past for the Tree of Life to grow and is able to bring the fruit to Lanayru to cures what ails him. Lanayru teaches the hero the Final Part of the Song of The Hero, and subsequently opens up a minigame called the Boss Blitz.

Lanayru Gorge in the past is a green landscape bursting with activity, but in the present is a barren wasteland occupied by monsters.