Sky Temple Grounds
Planet	Dark Aether
Environment	Mountain, Dark Twist
Sub-Areas	3 sub-areas: South Area North Area West Area
Bosses	Dark Samus 3 and 4
Key Items	3 Sky Temple Keys
Connected areas	By light shaft: Sky Temple By portals : Temple Grounds
Distinct features	Very damaging atmosphere, no Save Stations.
Map	[1]

The Dark Aether version of the Temple Grounds, the Sky Temple Grounds is the area surrounding the Sky Temple. It is a very dangerous place, with its atmosphere very damaging, even for Samus Aran's Dark Suit. Many Ing guard the area, making sure none get the Temple Keys hidden throughout the land. Samus faces Dark Samus here at the end of the game. It hides three Sky Temple Keys.

Contents 1 Areas and Main Rooms 1.1 South Area 1.1.1 Main Rooms 1.2 North Area 1.2.1 Main Rooms 1.2.2 Ing Windchamber 1.3 West Area 1.3.1 Main Rooms 2 Differences from the Temple Grounds 3 Music 4 Trivia

Areas and Main RoomsEdit

Like its Aether counterpart, this area is divided into three. Each of these areas have one of the three Sky Temple Keys located here.

South AreaEdit

This area is very small, consisting of only three rooms.

Main RoomsEdit

• Plain of Dark Worship
• Accursed Lake

North AreaEdit

This area is bigger than the South Area, and has large quantities of Phazon in some rooms.

Main RoomsEdit

• Phazon Grounds
• Profane Path

Ing WindchamberEdit

Isolated from all other rooms is the Ing Windchamber.

West AreaEdit

The largest area in the region. Contains Ing in some rooms.

Main RoomsEdit

• War Ritual Grounds
• Defiled Shrine
• Sky Temple Gateway

Differences from the Temple GroundsEdit

This area is probably one of the most different from its Aether version:

• It has three different areas that do not link, as they are completely isolated from each other by Ingworms.
• It does not have the Splinter Hive area (explored in-game).
• It does not contain the GFMC area (as they landed in Aether after the creation of Dark Aether).
• It has Phazon in some rooms.

MusicEdit

• Main Theme : [2]
• Phazon Region (Pal and MPT) : [3]

TriviaEdit

• Sky Temple Grounds is the only area in the game without a Save Station.
• Early in the game, Samus travels through a portal in Hive Chamber B to a Phazon site on Dark Aether that isn't seen or explorable in the game again. Unlike the Aether version, this room is open and has a wall of Phazon opposite of the portal. Strangely, this room has a Light Crystal, indicating that the Luminoth explored this area. As the room is only seen in a cutscene and the portal disappears after it, it is impossible to tell at all if the "Splinter Hive" exists in Dark Aether.

Areas of Aether
Temple Grounds | Agon Wastes | Torvus Bog | Sanctuary Fortress | Great Temple
Areas of Dark Aether
Sky Temple Grounds | Dark Agon | Dark Torvus | Ing Hive | Sky Temple