Spirit Keys

The Spirit Keys are items created by Kagemaru along with the Spirit Gates as a means to revive the Sacred Beast cards. Kagemaru gave the Spirit Keys to Chancellor Sheppard and told him that the Keys were necessary to unlock the Spirit Gates and access the Sacred Beasts, and warned Sheppard that the Shadow Riders would come to Duel Academy someday to unseal the Sacred Beasts. In truth, all of this was merely an elaborate ruse; the Sacred Beasts required dueling energy to be revived, and Kagemaru created the Spirit Keys and Duel Academy to bring powerful duelists together to duel over the keys, generating the energy he needed.

When Nightshroud came to Duel Academy, Sheppard told seven of the Academy's top duelists about the Sacred Beasts and entrusted the Spirit Keys to Chazz, Bastion, Jaden, Alexis, Crowler, Zane, and Banner. Over the course of their conflict with the Shadow Riders, the Spirit Keys changed hands often, but ultimately the Shadow Riders were all defeated and the Spirit Keys returned to Sheppard. However, Chazz stole all seven of the keys to get Alexis to duel him and prove his love for her.

Unknown to any of them, the duel provided the last bit of energy needed to revive the Sacred Beasts. Shortly after the duel the Spirit Keys were drawn to the Spirit Gates that emerged on the Academy Grounds and were absorbed into them, causing the capsule with the Sacred Beast cards to rise to the surface.

Trivia[]

• The seven Spirit Keys appear in the artwork of "Raviel, Lord of Phantasms", "Uria, Lord of Searing Flames", and "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder".