Arbiter's Grounds (Dungeon)

Arbiter's Grounds is the fourth dungeon in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, located in the Gerudo Desert. It contains four floors and two basements. The first section of the dungeon is similar to the Forest Temple in Ocarina of Time in that Link must track down and destroy four Poes in order to advance; these Poes look almost like the ringwraiths from Lord of the Rings. The item obtained in this temple is the Spinner, which is used to reach higher rooms. Link obtains this after defeating the temple's mini boss, a Death Sword. Deep within Arbiter's Grounds lays the skeleton of a fierce beast, Stallord. It is revived when Zant stabs a sword of Twilight energy through the creature's skull. What killed a beast of this size in the first place remains a mystery, but it can be speculated that a mass number of people trapped the creature in the sand pit until it starved to death. It can also be theorized that the soldiers that it summons are the soldiers killed by the attempt to finish the beast.



An Ancient Prison
Main article: Mirror Chamber Arbiter's Grounds was built to house the most notorious of criminals, while they awaited an instant death. Their sentence was to be sent to the shadow world of Twilight, where they would never see the light of day again. The Mirror Chamber stands atop the ruins of Arbiter's Grounds, where the sacred Sages continue to guard the cursed grounds. Its appearance from afar resembles the Roman Colosseum, but inside it resembles an Egyptian tomb.

Trivia

 * Besides the Imp Poe in Jovani's House, the four sub-boss Poes are the only ones that must be defeated in order to proceed in the game.


 * While it is not certain, there is a possibility the Arbiter's Grounds and the Spirit Temple from Ocarina of Time are the one and same due to their locations at the far end of the desert colossus as well as the presence of the Goddess of the Sand that appeared outside both the Spirit Temple and the Arbiter's Grounds.


 * Each respective Sage residing in the Mirror Chamber has a reference to the Seven Sages regarding their emblems, representing the seven medallions that need to be retrived in Oot, except the water medallion, whom Ganondorf had slain.