One of the delights of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is discovering the backstory of Ganondorf and how his threat first emerged in Hyrule. These are revealed through flashback memories found in Geoglyphs, similar to how past events were shown in Breath of the WIld, but that also means you can end up witnessing events in a mixed up fashion. Truthfully, there is no “best” order for this, but there is a chronological one.
What are Geoglyphs and Dragon’s Tears?
Revealed to you once you manage to get back to the surface of Hyrule, Geoglyphs are giant drawing made in the landscape that can only really be seen from afar. Real world examples include the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset, England, and that’s been transposed into Tears of the Kingdom.
Each Geoglyph in Tears of the Kingdom lets you access a vision from the distant past, revealing a snippet of events that took place aeons ago, but you need to find the Dragon’s Tear to witness them.
How to find the Dragon’s Tears in Tears of the Kingdom
Here’s the good new: If you follow the main questline from the start of the game, you’ll visit the first Geoglyph and then head into a Forgotten Temple that gives you a map of where all the Geoglyphs are in the world. We’ve got that map for you here:
Since you can only really appreciate the Geoglyphs from far away and high up, the key is to get high in the sky and look down upon them. The best ways to do that are typically from the closest Skyview Tower or from one of the many floating sky islands, and then to dive or glide down.
While you’re high up you can use the Purah Pad to zoom in and inspect the Geoglyph. Notinve that each one features a lot of different teardrops – you’re looking for a tear that is ‘filled in’ while the others are hollow. Head to that teardrop and you’ll find a small puddle to interact with, treating you to a flashback cutscene.
What is the best order to find the Tears of the Kingdom Geoglyphs?
There isn’t really a “best” order to find the Dragon’s Tears cutscenes in – the story has ben written so that you can piece together events as you find them in any order, and you can always view cutscenes again from the Adventure Log.
But, if you do want to find them in the chronological order, we’ve marked those down for you.
Just visit the Geoglyphs in the order noted on this map, and you’ll find out what happened in the past of Hyrule in the “correct” order.
