Editing Palace Key

{{item-infobox
|image=[[File:PM Palace Key.png]] [[File:PMTTYD Palacekey.gif]] [[File:Pedestal Key.PNG]]
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario]]'' ([[List of games by date#2000|2000]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[List of games by date#2004|2004]])
|description=''“Opens a locked door in the [[Crystal Palace]].”''
}}
A '''Palace Key''' is a level-exclusive item needed for progress in the [[Paper Mario (series)|''Paper Mario'' series]]. Palace Keys can come in several varieties.

==History==
===''Paper Mario''===
In ''[[Paper Mario]]'', a Palace Key appears in [[Crystal Palace]] along with a [[Red Key]] and a [[Blue Key]].

After [[Mario]] and co make great progress in Crystal Palace, they encounter a room with two locked doors on the east side. Mario uses the hole on the "mirror" in this room to go to the area behind the mirror, and eventually encounters a small [[Albino Dino]] statue in a hallway. After Mario pushes it, the big Albino Dino statue on the south side moves along. Mario then goes back to the south side to access the area below the big Albino Dino statue, and finds a Palace Key in a chest at the end of the path. After Mario uses the key on one of the locked doors, they get both unlocked, allowing Mario to access the Albino Dino riddle room to the next.

===''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''===
In ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', there are two kinds of keys under the name of Palace Key: Palace Keys and [[Pedestal Key]]s.

There are three Palace Keys of the first kind. The first one is in the area before the [[Riddle Tower]]. It is dropped by the [[Dark Bones]] in the big Dry Bone room. After Mario catches the Dark Bones and defeats it, it drops the key, therefore allowing Mario to make progress. The second is in the descended area to the east of Riddle Tower. In the room to the north of the descended hallways 2 and 3, there is a spinning wheel with a locked door to the left. Mario finds this key on a ledge to the lower-right of the spinning wheel, and uses it to open the door to the left and activate the wheel. Eventually Mario finds an airplane room. To the north of the room is the third key. Mario must use [[Yoshi (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)|Yoshi]] to reach it speedly. This key opens the door on the right of the room after which Mario will encounter [[Sir Grodus]].

The in-game descriptions read, ''"A key for a door in the Palace of Shadow."'' and ''"A key for a pedestal in the Palace of Shadow."''

==Names in other languages==
{{foreignname
|Jap=しんでんのカギ (''Paper Mario'')<ref>[http://themushroomkingdom.net/pm_j-e.shtml "Paper Mario: From Japanese to English"]. (June 17, 2013). ''The Mushroom Kingdom.'' Retrieved February 4, 2015.</ref><br>''Shinden no Kagi''<br>きゅうでんのカギ (''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'')<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ilap1t6nww</ref><br>''Kyūden no kagi''
|JapM=Temple Key<br><br>Palace Key
}}

==References==
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