Skyward Sword: Kikwi

Sources reviewed: 2026-11-10

They hide by closing the bud on their backs. Bucha will not hand over the slingshot until the search of Faron Woods is finished.

The wiki describes them as a people between plant and animal, peaceful and herbivorous, living in Faron Woods. The bud on the back is how they disguise themselves. Named members in the sources I used are Bucha the elder, Erla, Lopsa, Machi, Oolo, and Yerbal. Bucha’s reward for finding the others is the slingshot.

They are not enemies and they are not a dungeon faction. The water dragon Faron is a different being who lives at Lake Floria. Mixing those names is a common slip because the region, the dragon, and the woods share a word. This page is only the small people with the buds.

Yerbal is part of the same people even though players often meet him later, near the old woods, rather than during the first search. I list him with the others so the family is not cut down to the first fetch quest.

Bucha’s search occurs before Skyview Temple, while Yerbal becomes important after the first Silent Realm. Remembering that distinction helps when revisiting the same forest with the Water Dragon’s Scale: a completed early Kikwi search does not replace the later Great Tree route.

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