The Zelda Tears of the Kingdom paraglider - or just the glider, to many - is an essential piece of gear that'll allow you to negate fall damage and control your descent to ground level so you can pick and choose exactly where you hit the ground. However, it'll be a little while before you can get the paraglider, meaning that players will have to be a lot more careful about how they handle verticality in TOTK. For those who want to master the skies ASAP, here's how to get the glider in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.
Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Paraglider location
You won't receive the glider until you complete a main mission called To the Kingdom of Hyrule, meet Purah, and complete the following tasks:
- Complete all four Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Sky Island shrines in the tutorial.
- Jump down the marked islands to reach the ground of Hyrule.
- Walk to the floating Hyrule Castle.
- Just South of the Castle is a settlement called Lookout Landing.
- Talk to Purah in the North building and follow her quest to explore the Castle.
- Afterwards you've explored, talk to Purah again to be told about the Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Skyview Towers.
- As part of that explanation and tutorial, you'll be given the Paraglider, a key item that's a permanent part of your inventory from then on!
After using the Lookout Landing Skyview Tower for the first time, you'll be able to hit the X button while mid-air to drift safely back to land using your new glider, though keep in mind that gliding does use stamina. Check in with Purah once more after doing so the first time, and your paraglider should be permanently in your inventory, ready to use whenever you take a leap of faith or otherwise.
Your glider will be especially useful when it comes to spotting those Zelda Tears of the Kingdom geoglyphs dotted across the Surface map. We have a guide on how exactly these work, but what are they? Well, it might have something to do with that broken Legend of Zelda master sword sitting in your inventory.
Funnily enough one of the team is kicking themselves for not trying Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's 'infinite' glider trick sooner.
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