Duel Sanctuary

The Duel Sanctuary, known as the Duel Lodge (決闘 (デュエル) 庵 (あん) Dyueru an) in the Japanese version, is a dojo owned by Roku. It is located in the mountains around Heartland City. Roku carved many statues that honor famous Duel Monsters cards from previous eras. With the holographic technology of Augmented Reality, he can make the statues come to life for Statue Duels.^[1]

An alternate version of Duel Sanctuary appears in Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V.^[2]

The statues include:

• Blade Armor Ninja
• Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon
• Blue-Eyes White Dragon
• Cyber Dragon
• Dark Magician
• Dark Magician Girl
• Elemental Hero Flame Wingman
• Elemental Hero Neos
• Flame Swordsman
• Jinzo
• Rainbow Dragon
• Red-Eyes Black Dragon
• Super Vehicroid - Stealth Union

Roku trains students to better themselves at Duel Monsters and other tasks. His former disciples include Kaze.^[1] Hidden within the Lodge is a powerful Deck of cards, which Roku gives to Yuma Tsukumo after the boy defeats Kaze.^[3] Although he wasn't trained there, Astral also considers himself a disciple.^[1]

Trivia[]

• Each of the monster statues found in the Duel Sanctuary, with the exception of "Blade Armor Ninja" represent a different duelist from the second series anime and GX series, including Seto Kaiba, Zane Truesdale, Yugi Moto/Yami Yugi, Jaden Yuki, Joey Wheeler, Jesse Anderson and Syrus Truesdale.

• While many monsters used by powerful duelists from the second series anime and GX are present in statue form, no cards used by powerful duelists from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's can be found here. This suggests that the 5D's characters never trained in the Duel Sanctuary and as a result, statues of their legendary monsters are not present.

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