#Popla Foothills South Well

[pocketseizure]

Best Wells in Tears of the Kingdom #4

The Popla Foothills South Well is hidden in a small alcove of land along the shore of the lake south of the waterlogged ruins of Deya Village. Most players will discover this well in the process of activating the nearby Skyview Tower, which requires Link to enter the Popla Foothills Excavation Site to free Elmerson, the technician in charge of maintaining the towers.

This well is one of the many secret bases of a traveling chef named Aurie Taamu. Aurie Taamu’s specialty is experimenting with ingredients to achieve special effects in cooking. In the notebooks he’s left underground, Aurie Taamu describes dishes used to create resistance against extreme temperatures, as well as dishes that grant weather-related attack boosts. The notebook in the Popla Foothills South Well details ingredients that create a glow-in-the-dark effect that’s useful for Link’s exploration of the Depths.

Along with these notebooks, Aurie Taamu is also the author of the textbooks used in Ashai’s cooking class in Gerudo Town. This is where things get interesting! If you become close to Cara, Isha’s apprentice at the Starlight Memories Jewelry Shop, she’ll tell you that Isha and Ashai were once in a love triangle with Aurie Taamu.

This makes the text of his notebook in the southern Popla Foothills well all the more intriguing: “The road of a gourmand is fraught with thorns. It’s why I choose to travel alone. This life does have its share of lonely nights. That’s when you need to shine a light to keep the darkness at bay.”

Perhaps because of the mistakes he made in the past, Aurie Taamu is able to close his meditations on life, love, and cooking by offering a solid piece of advice. “There is no shame in not knowing,” he writes, “for beyond that lies the joy of knowing.”

[phoenixmaiden-gaming]

I went over the side of a hill and found the Popla Foothills South Well and dropped down. I was in a new tunnel with water and I followed it to a smaller cave that had a note on a table from a chef that had tried cooking with brightblooms and the effects.

[anastasiapetrova]

Tears of the Kingdom Playthrough

Day 4 (exploration day of the south east map)

- [ ] Shrines: zanmik, found Kumamayn, tajikats, utsushok, eshos, sanapan, found tsutsu-um

- [ ] Stables: riverside, highland, outskirt

- [ ] Caves: 4 hateno wells, riverside well, popla foothills wells, popla foothills excavation site, Faron lakefront well, highland stable well, dueling peaks stable well, tabatha stable well, found satori mountain foothill cave,

- [ ] Towers: Rabelais wetlands, popla foothills,

- [ ] Quests: mannys beloved, serenade to the great fairy, the missing farm tools, gourmets gone missing, an eerie voice, the flute players plan, serenade to cotera,

- [ ] Notables: found hateno village, found a well within a well! Fought a black boss bokoblin and won! Visited satori mountain, checked out the islands by Kumamayn,