Merlin's key

Merlin's key, also known as Merlin's jewel, is an item in Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders. It is special magic jewel that normally is placed atop of Merlin's staff and can be transformed to a key to the Jewel Box that holds the Crown Jewels of Avalon.

Whenever an Enchanted Jewel is found by the Jewel Riders on their Jewel Quest, Princess Gwenevere touches it with the key and it then returns to the box. Unlike the case of the Jewel Riders and their Enchanted Jewels, the staff and its jewel are not the direct source of Merlin's power.

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Transformed into the form of a golden key, and almost stolen from the wizard Merlin by the evil Lady Kale when she banished him into the Wild Magic, it was barely saved from her by a hawk and Sunstar the unicorn in "Jewel Quest, Part I" (renamed in German as "Die Jagd nach Merlins Schlüssel" - "The Hunt for Merlin's Key"). Retrieved from Kale, the key was then entrusted by Merlin to Princess Gwenevere in "Jewel Quest, Part II" to safekeep it from evil and help Gwen in her mission to secure the seven lost Crown Jewels.

In her attempts to get the key, Kale takes Sunstar as a hostage in "Jewel Quest II" and later also briefly captures Gwen to get it in "Badlands". Gwen uses the key at the end of most Crown Jewels hunt episodes.

Eventually, Lady Kale seizes it from Gwen when she used the anti-magic in "Revenge of the Dark Stone" and then directly from Merlin along with the Jewel Box in during their battle within the dimension of Wild Magic in "Full Circle", taking it at her new own Enchanted Jewel to absorb the power of all the Crown Jewels. But the jewel atop the staff soon explodes in the trap set up for her by Merlin, which leaves her unprotected against the untamed magic of the Crown Jewels that then quickly destroys her. However, this leaves the wizard himself stranded inside the Wild Magic now in his "ghost" form, with seemingly no way back (that is until the Wizard Jewels are introduced soon afterwards).