Spinner
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| Spinner | |
|---|---|
 The Spinner | |
| First appearance | Twilight Princess (2006) |
| Found | Arbiter's Grounds |
| Use | Climb railed walls Attack enemies Cross quicksand Spin gears |
The Spinner is an item from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. It is an ancient device found in Arbiter's Grounds. Its appearance is that of a large top with a gear along the outer edge.
[edit] Twilight Princess
The Spinner makes its first and thus far only appearance in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. In the game, the hero, Link, goes to the Gerudo Desert in search of the Mirror of Twilight and seeks out its home, the ancient desert prison known as the Arbiter's Grounds. Once inside the haunted prison, Link is confronted by multiple traps, quicksand, and an array of undead enemies. In the basement of the prison, Link is forced to battle a Death Sword, a demonic spirit that haunts the sword it once wielded when it was alive. Upon the Death Sword's defeat, Link finds that the evil spirit had been guarding a useful and valuable treasure: the ancient Spinner of the desert. The Spinner appears to be an ancient, gear-like device, similar to a top in appearance, left behind by the builders of the Arbiter's Grounds and appears to have been used to move around different parts of the prison when it was inhabited, as evidenced by the multiple tracks and gear switches found throughout the prison. Link then uses the Spinner to fully explore the remainder of the Arbiter's Grounds and finds his way to the lair of Stallord, where the remains of the ancient dragon are reanimated by the Usurper King of Twilight, Zant, in an attempt to destroy Link. The Spinner proves to be an invaluable tool in defeating Stallord, in which Link uses the device to travel around the chamber at speed on the tracks that surrounded the chamber and uses it to bash both Stallord's spine and later its head. After defeating Stallord and clearing the Arbiter's Grounds of enemies, the Spinner proves once again to be invaluable in the remainder of his quest in such places as the Temple of Time, the City in the Sky and Hyrule Castle Tower.
[edit] Use
The Spinner has two main uses. It can attach to certain rails on walls, and since Link stands on it, he is able to ride on top of it up to an area he couldn't normally reach. Additionally, the Spinner can jump from one rail to another if the second rail is located on another nearby wall. Furthermore, Link can use the spinner to cross areas of quicksand. Inside dungeons, the Spinner can be fit into certain holes in the ground where a gear would normally be. Spinning the Spinner will turn the gears, usually causing part of the dungeon to move, such as stairs, platforms, and bridges. If not used along a rail, it eventually loses speed and stops.
The Spinner can also be used as a weapon, though to a much lesser extent than other items. Pressing A (or B in the Wii Version) while the riding the Spinner on the ground makes it spin very fast for a brief time. This attack does minimal damage to enemies, but is invaluable when fighting Stallord. It is initially used to break Stallord's spine. Then Link can damage Stallord by slamming it into his head with the Spinner's attack.
