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The Kandorean Temple is located below Daila, secluded within the center of Indra's mountain ranges.

Kandorean Temple (カンドラ寺) is a temple-monastery located in northern Indra, south east of Daila, and serves as the first proper dungeon explored in Golden Sun: The Lost Age. While its placement on the world map suggests it is an optional location, the Gondowan Cliffs in the western part of Indra can be crossed without the Lash Psynergy that the temple rewards your party with at its end. However you won't be able to complete the kibombo mountains

Story[]

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Kandorean Temple shares it's architectural style with the Sanctum in nearby Daila.

Kandorean Temple is run by an old monk named Master Poi, who instructs monks in attaining spiritual power that appears to be Psynergy through intense meditation. The temple's architecture is modeled on Ancient Indian, or possibly South East Asian styles; however, the temple also connects to a large network of watery caverns within the rock face, which are used as training grounds for the monks (in this regard, it could be viewed as similar to how those that train at Fuchin Temple in Angara aspire to undergo a similar test at the Fuchin Falls Cave, which is a dungeon in the first Golden Sun game). Early in Golden Sun: The Lost Age, Felix's newly formed traveling party makes this one of the first stops on their journey across the world, so as to gain much-needed development for their Psynergy powers. After they pass the grueling tests within, they win the recognition of Master Poi, who is surprised that people outside his temple could have achieved this; thus, he bestows upon them the Lash Pebble.

Walkthrough[]

When you enter the location, the front gate is sealed off, and the guarding monks tell you that no one is allowed inside during the acolytes' meditation period as dictated by Master Poi. Go left and up to get to a bush that, as Kraden himself says, looks rather suspicious, so cast Sheba's Whirlwind Psynergy to remove the bush and reveal a hidden passage. Go through the underground passage and climb up out of the well to get inside the temple grounds, and enter the main entrance to see a cutscene involving Master Poi and one of his acolytes. Enter the main dungeon area after the acolyte.

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A battle in the caverns connected to the main structure of Kandorean Temple.

In the cave area, go up to fight the first Mimic in The Lost Age, which rewards you with a Game Ticket. Now go northwest amongst the various pillars and rocks dotting the path (you can see how the taller pillars only visually obscure spots that can otherwise be easily passed through), and the dungeon path linearly leads you to the floor below. In this new, complex-looking room, climb down the ladder and go a short ways left and down to where the acolyte from earlier is twitching on the ground; from there, go through the left part of the maze of pillars (easier than it looks) to get to a ladder on the upper left of the room. Climb it, go down along the left elevated floor, hop right twice onto the pillars, hop down, hop right, up, right, up, left twice, up, right, and up twice. Go up into the door at the top part of the room.

In the new large room, take the left narrow fork, which leads you downstairs to a room with a river/waterfall. Climb down and go along the left side of the area, cross the river, then run upward against the river current in between the various rocks and stalagmites until you reach the upper right end. Go down along the right side of the area to be lead through a doorway to a room with a unique puzzle: Two circular tiles on the ground regularly spout upward, and there is one earth pillar that may be moved on either one so that the other one will be propelled higher up. Move the earth pillar onto the left circular tile, then stand on the right circular tile; when it spouts up, you are transported to the upper floor where you can hop down and claim a chest that has a very unique item: The Mysterious Card, one of three equippable items that manually change an Adept's class series into something all-new, in this case the Pierrot class series. Return to the lower floor by hopping onto the circular tile when it reappears, then push the earth pillar all the way right and down onto the right circular tile so that riding the left circular tile up lets you hop onto the next part of the dungeon.

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Kandorean Temple provides a thorough test of basic dungeon-solving abilities and methodology.

From where the circular tile drops you off, the path linearly leads you left, then right and across a tightrope. Before crossing the second tightrope, go a short ways to the upper right so that you face an earth pillar across a gap. Use the Move Psynergy and move it right, then hop right and manually push the pillar right so that it blocks the air spout. Now you can cross the second tightrope without being blown off. From there, don't go down the ladder; follow the narrow pathway to the right of that clockwise, and hop your way between gaps as you go southwest and out of the room's bottom exit. You will pass by a Mercury Djinni on a ledge with a coiled rope nearby as you follow the path south and go up two set of stairs. Now follow the winding path to a boiling pot near a wooden sign; Move it out of the way using the Move Psynergy.

When you proceed past the boiling pot, you engage in the game's first boss battle: An encounter with three large gorilla-like monsters named Chestbeaters. While three enemies at once might seem difficult at this early point in the game, using area-of-effect Psynergy like Earthquake, Flare Wall, and Ray makes it over surprisingly quick. Following this, climb up the ladder and engage in a cutscene with Master Poi, who lets you take the dungeon's reward: the Lash Pebble, the item that bestows which Adept it is equipped onto with the Lash Psynergy that makes use of any coiled rope throughout the game. Before you leave the dungeon, retrace your steps back into whence you came, and return to the point where you saw the Mercury Djinni; use Lash to turn the coiled rope into a tightrope that lets you climb up onto where the Djinni stands on. Save the game in case it runs away from you when you attempt to battle and defeat it; once you defeat it, the Mercury Djinni Fog is added to your Djinn collection. Now cast the Retreat Psynergy to help exit Kandorean Temple.

Enemies[]

Bestiary of Kandorean Temple
Monster Name LVL HP ATK DEF AGI EXP Coins Weakness Drop Drop Rate
Amaze 6 39 36 10 18 5 6 Star jupiter Oil Drop Oil Drop 1/16
Angle Worm 6 37 40 9 14 12 10 Star mars Elixir Elixir 1/32
Giant Bat 5 32 30 6 22 6 6 Star jupiter Herb Herb 1/16
Punch Ant 4 26 26 8 6 5 6 Star mars Smoke Bomb Smoke Bomb 1/32
Wild Wolf 5 45 34 8 13 7 7 Star mars Herb Herb 1/16
Mimic (unique) 9 207 47 12 23 64 46 Star mars Game Ticket Game Ticket 1/1
Mercury Djinni (Fog) (unique) 6 165 32 6 22 28 85 Star mars N/A N/A
Chestbeater (3) (boss) 9 155 44 11 20 40 28 Star mars Nut Nut 1/1

Collectibles[]

Mercury djinn Fog: On a ledge late in the dungeon area reached by casting Lash on the rope on the ground. Lash is gained at the end of the temple. It must be fought to be gained.

Lash Pebble Lash Pebble: The reward at the end of the dungeon following defeating the three Chestbeater bosses.
Mysterious Card Mysterious Card: In a chest reached via the earth pillar and water spout puzzle.

Trivia[]

  • You may skip the Chestbeater boss fight by making use of the Retreat glitch at various points in the dungeon. Occasionally, a door will teleport you to a small area that appears to be the first room of the dungeon, but you are stuck inside invisible walls. The most reliable method of skipping involves using the glitch when going back down on the waterspout that leads to the Mysterious Card. Doing so dumps you out in the hallway you climb up to after the Chestbeater fight. Interestingly, you may climb down on an invisible ladder into the boss fight room and walk through the sprites of the Chestbeaters; the fight will not trigger until you go into the hallway leading to the room from the boiling pot.
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