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The '''Millennium Items''' are the seven treasures created from an ancient spell found in the [[Millennium Spellbook]] in order to keep the ancient magic of the [[Shadow Game]]s locked up forever. [[The Millennium Stone]] in the village of [[Kul Elna]] is the origin and resting place of the seven items, and also where [[Akhenaden]] sacrificed ninety-nine humans in order to create them.

 ==Millennium Items==

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* Contains the soul souls of [[Pharaoh Atem]] and [[Zorc Necrophades]]

* Seals souls or fragments of souls into other objects* Contains the souls of [[Zorc Necrophades|Zorc]] and [[Bandit King Bakura|Thief Bakura]]

* Judges peopleFinds out how much darkness is in a person's souls heart.

| * [[Aknadin's co-conspirators|Seto's predecessor]]

According to Shadi, three of the Millennium Items represented justice (Key, Scale and Necklace), three are weak to evil (Ring, Rod, and Eye), and the seventh, the Millennium Puzzle, represents both evil and justice.This would the explain the increasingly evil natures of the main antagonists (Pegasus, Marik and Bakura)

The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (first series Toei anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh! first series anime]]'' just makes use of the story depicted in the early chapters of the manga due to its small coverage of the series, while the [[Millennium World]] arc of the [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (second series anime)|''Yu-Gi-Oh! second series anime'']] follows the detailed version of the manga's late chapters (the dub cuts the mention of the villagers dying, but still specifies their souls were used).

When his father died, Pharaoh [[Atem]] was given the Millennium Puzzle, and in time, [[Shimon Muran|Siamon Muran]] relinquished the Millennium Key to Shada. The Millennium Rod was given to a young priest named Seto, who (unknown to everyone) was actually Akhenaden's son. Seto became a strong friend of [[Atem]], though both young men remained unaware that they were cousins. [[Thief King Bakura]], the sole survivor of the slaughter in [[Kul Elna]], stole the holy [[Duel Disk#DiaDhank|DiaDhank]] from the tomb of Akhenamkhanen. By using it, Bakura could summon the ka, or soul, sealed in slates in the tomb of Akhenamkhanen and the demon Diabound, which created by the [[ka]] of the deceased people in [[Kul Elna]] (originally, a Millennium Item was needed to summon [[Ka]], except your own). After failing to beat [[Atem]], he defeated [[Mahad]] and acquired the Millennium Ring. Then, using the Millennium Ring, [[Thief King Bakura]] injected evil thoughts into [[Akhenaden]]'s Millennium Eye to corrupt his mind. [[Akhenaden]] wanted his son, [[Priest Seto|Seto]], to become the new Pharaoh, so he helped [[Bandit King Bakura|Bakura]] defeat the other priests and [[Atem]], then he placed the Millennium Items upon the stone slab to summon the Dark God [[Zorc Necrophades|Zorc]]. While [[Zorc Necrophades|Zorc]] attempted to decimate the planet, [[Atem]] used his own name and the magics of the Shadow Games, within the Millennium Items, sealed [[Zorc Necrophades|Zorc]] and his own soul within the Millennium Puzzle, wiping his memory so that he could not recall it, so that the binding might never be undone.

The magic of the Shadow Games was unleashed when the Millennium Puzzle was solved by [[Yugi Muto]] in the present day, and he embarked on a series of adventures that eventually resulted in the locations of the Millennium Items being revealed, and the three [[Egyptian God Card]]s coming into his possession. Placed on a stone tablet (the [[Tablet of Lost Memories]]) that professed to chronicle a battle between the Pharaoh and [[Priest Seto|Seto]], the cards and the Puzzle opened a gateway to Ancient Egypt, through which the soul of the Pharaoh was pulled. Back in his original body, but still lacking his memories, the Pharaoh was reunited with his priests, and [[Akhenaden]]'s treachery was revealed as the Spirit of the Millennium Ring, which had also traveled back in time, stole the Items from their owners and used them to resurrect [[Zorc Necrophades|Zorc]], only to have him be eradicated for eternity at the hands of the union of the three Egyptian Gods, [[The Creator God of Light, Horakhty (character)|The Creator of Light]].

Back in the present, following [[Atem]]'s defeat at the hands of his vessel, [[Yugi Muto]], in the conclusion of the Ceremonial Battle and the series, the Millennium Items, placed onto the tablet just before the duel began, would open a gateway to the afterlife, allowing the Pharaoh [[Atem]] to be finally at rest. Afterwards, the temple would then crumble, sealing all 7 Millennium Items deep underground for eternityuntil Kaiba digs them back up in The Dark Side of Dimensions.