Dual Crystal Key

Intro
This ancient jewelled key, rediscovered by the party in the Old Orc Encampment, is the means of activating (and deactivating) the Jewelled Idol.

Description
The key resembles the Jewelled Idol in style.

Effect
The key is "deeply attuned" to the Jewelled Idol. Combined, the two items have some degree of unexplained control over some aspects of time.

The crystals at either end of the key glowed when it was brought close to the disturbed altar in the Old Orc Encampment, where the Jewelled Idol was assumed to have previously rested. This reaction was seen to occur again when the key was brought nearer to the Jewelled Idol itself. Its presence also caused some reaction in the 'pockets' of stopped time created by the idol - the proximity of the key caused their boundaries to ripple, but not recede.

The key reacted with the Jewelled Idol to create a portal:Those passing through the portal were met with a blinding light and emerged in a demiplane associated with Yan Turin, which was occupied by an elemental guardian. Upon this creature's defeat, the portal immediately began to shrink.

While the guardian remained alive, the key could be taken through the portal without causing the portal to close. After the guardian's defeat, the key ceased glowing. It subsequently grew slightly warm to the touch when taken close to the Jewelled Idol but there was no further reaction and the portal did not re-open.

"Pay What You Want" (1x6)
The party departed Daelin to seek the Dual Crystal Key on the advice of Laik Peiume, who believed its retrieval would be the best way to counter the chaos that its counterpart Jewelled Idol was causing at the Sapphire Tower.

"Thinking With Portals" (1x8)
The party found the Dual Crystal Key buried in an old fire pit in the depths of the Old Orc Encampment. They swiftly returned to Daelin and took the key up the Sapphire Tower to the Jewelled Idol, where the interaction of the two items opened a portal to a demiplane, which the party entered.

"Fissures" (1x9)
After the Shard Guardian had been destroyed, keeping the key and the idol in range of each other no longer caused a portal to open automatically. Laik Peiume and several researches from Shinan and Keunan Universities spent the night studying the items, seeking a means of manually reopening the portal to the demiplane to save Godric. However, he was rescued by other means.

The key was left in the possession of Shinan University.