The Arbiter’s Temple contains many of the essential decorations for any fantasy dungeon, including numerous traps, skeletons, and deadly peril. These things may not contribute much to the health of the average adventurer, but they certainly make his life more interesting. Link has been exploring dungeons for over twenty years now, so all of these things should not be a problem for him, or his controller.
The first room starts out with a quicksand trap. Avoid getting caught in it. You do need to pull the chain out from it, though. Equip your clawshot and shoot it at the chain. Retract the clawshot to pull on the chain. Go straight across the room until you find the next door.
The skeletons in the next room seem to be rather interested in your presence, which seems odd for brainless creatures that need to neither eat nor breathe. Use the spin attack to clear this room quickly. Light the torches and four Poes enter this room while you are attacking these skeletons. Three Poes leave the room, but one comes down to attack you. Use the sword you found earlier to switch to wolf mode. Defeat the Poe and get another piece of Jovani’s soul.
When you defeat the Poe in wolf mode, use sense mode to get the scent trail of the next Poe you must attack. Go into the next room and climb the stairs. (You can continue to follow the scent trail in wolf form.) Get the map from the chest and continue following the scent trail. The path stops at the Western wall. Use your paws to dig under the wall. When you get to the chain pull it backwards and climb up the new set of steps that appears.
The American develpment team for Twilight Princess may have honored the father of modern horror by naming the villainous spirit Poes, but that has little to do with a player's next move. Get the piece of heart from the chest on the left side of the staircase before proceeding. You will need to use the claw shot to get to this chest.
Walk into the next room and find a platform in the center. The locked door here also blocks your progress. You need to find the key to the lock door. Perhaps the column involves a puzzle? (You can get this column to rotate.) Move the column towards the door and a chest will appear. Open the chest and get the small key. Turn the column back the other way and go back to the main room.
The main room, for those who have forgotten, contains quicksand. Some thoughtful person decided to put platforms across them, but some sadistic dungeon designer thought that spikes were the perfect way to prevent nosy adventurers from spoiling their plans. Fortunately, most dungeon designers tend to be predictable. Time your way through the pikes carefully to avoid being skewered. The locked door rests on the other side of these spikes.
Run to the niche on the west side of this room Go between the fences at the top of the stairs and take note of the chandelier. This unique floor decoration looks out of place. Find the chain that it is attached to and pull the chandelier back up to the ceiling. Let go of the chain and run under the area that the chandelier occupied.
Find the compass behind the statue and head to the east. Someone has locked the door here so head west to find the small key. You may need to break down a barricade or two, but wooden barricades will not subtract from explosive devices that may be needed later. Get the small key from the western side of the room and head back to the locked door.
The locked door presents now further problems once the small key is used. The good news is that a mini-boss or the final boss for the Arbiter Temple is not found here. The next room contains more skeletons, however. It seems that the dead cannot rest here very easily here. Use the sword to switch to wolf form and defeat the skeletons. Once the skeletons have been eliminated, use the spirit barrier to defeat another one of the Poes and get a piece of Jovani’s soul.