Blood-Stained Shrine is a Forgotten Shrine (also called Wind Shrine) in Ghost of Tsushima Iki Island. It’s a puzzle shrine with a scroll in front of it that provides clues in form of a poem. This guide shows how to solve the Blood-Stained Shrine.
There are 3 Forgotten Shrines in total, for the other 2 Shrines refer to the guides below:
The general idea with Forgotten Shrines is that you must wear a specific Armor and perform a specific action near the Shrine, hinted at by the poem. Each Shrine is an easter egg referencing other PlayStation games, including God of War, Shadow of the Colossus, Bloodborne. By solving the Shrine you get a unique armor skin related to the corresponding game.
Blood-Stained Shrine Location
Blood-Stained Shrine is located at Conoura Cape in the south-west of Iki Island.
Blood-Stained Shrine Poem Riddle
The scroll in front of the Shrine gives the following riddle:
The first green of spring
sickens to black, decaying,
plagued by blood and beast.
Hunter, reject death’s allure.
Prepare to duel man’s frailty.
Blood-Stained Shrine Solution
- Wear the Kensei Armor (Reward for completing Mythic Tale “The Six Blades of Kojiro“)
- Stand behind the Statue and heal yourself (press D-Pad Down)
- If you’re at full health you can’t heal yourself. Jump off the cliffs next to the Shrine to lose some health and then heal yourself behind the Shrine.
The relevant clue of the poem is “reject death’s allure” which refers to healing yourself to avoid death.
Blood-Stained Shrine Reward (Bloodborne Armor)
Upon solving the Shrine you will automatically be equipped with the Bloodborne Hunter Armor. Here are images from the front and back:
And that’s how you solve the Blood-Stained Shrine in Ghost of Tsushima Iki Island.
For other shrines refer to:
For more guides and secrets, check out our complete Ghost of Tsushima Wiki & Strategy Guide.
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