Arena:Skeleton's Key/Intro

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Artifact: Skeleton's Key (lore page)
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Statistics
Weight	0 kg
Enchantment
Open one lock of lock level 25 or lower, once per day
Map Dungeon Province
Valenwood
Can be used by the following classes
All classes

"The power of the Skeleton's Key is very simple, indeed. With it, any non-magically locked door or chest is instantly accessible to even the clumsiest of lockpickers. A particularly skillful lockpicker may even open some magically barred doors with the Key. The two limitations placed on the Key by wizards who sought to protect their storehouses were that the Key could only be used once a day and it would never be the property of one thief for too long. Some of those who have possessed the Key have made themselves rich before it disappeared, others have broken into places they never should have entered."
— Codex Scientia

The Skeleton's Key is an artifact that can be obtained by taking part in its artifact quest.

The Skeleton's Key can be used by all classes, but can be particularly useful to player characters who aren't Thieves or one of the Thief subclasses who aren't as effective at lockpicking, or those with lower Intelligence, Agility, or Luck attributes and thus have particular difficulties with lockpicking. That being said, its limit to being used once per day means you should still bring other back-up methods of opening doors and chests into dungeons, particularly those with numerous locked doors or many locked chests.

Though theoretically the Skeleton's Key cannot open the higher levels of magically-held locks, which are locks designated level 20 or higher, the eventuality of this happening and actually coming across one of these locks is rare.