Millennium Items (manga)

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The Millennium Items

The Millennium Items are seven treasures in the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga. This is the original depiction of the Millennium Items.

Items[edit]

Powers common to all items include the ability to summon ka from tablets, turn games into Shadow Games, and inflict Penalty Games on the losers.

Three of the Millennium Items are said to represent justice, the Key, Scale and Tauk, three are said to be weak to evil, the Ring, Rod, and Eye, while the seventh, the Millennium Puzzle, represents both evil and justice.[1]

Image Item Powers
Puzzle
  • House souls
Scales
  • Measure the sin in people's hearts
  • Fuse ka
  • House souls
Key
Ring
  • House souls
  • Point in the direction of nearby Millennium Items
  • Mind Doll: Seal people's souls in items
  • Parasite Mind: Seal portions of one's own soul in items
Eye
  • Mind Scan: Read minds
  • Seal people's souls in items
Tauk Foresight
Rod
  • Seal ka in tablets
  • Brainwashing / suggestion
  • Telepathic communication

History[edit]

Creation[edit]

The Millennium Tome was a book containing forms of magic, including shadow alchemy which could create the Millennium Items, which granted the users power[2] and were also capable of conducting a Dark Contract that would revive Zorc Necrophades. Zorc knew that if people possessed the Millennium Items, they would one day fight among themselves and one of them would be ambitious enough to use their powers to release him.[3] The book was passed down by High Priests of Egypt since ancient times.[2]

Akhenaden creates the Millennium Items.

When Akhenamkhanen was Pharaoh, his kingdom's Priests had spent a hundred years working on translating its text. By that time foreign armies had heard of the Tome and started an invasion to claim its power. Akhenamkhanen's brother, Akhenaden finished the translation and made preparations to conduct the shadow alchemy to create seven powerful treasures. He then pleaded with Akhenamkhanen to sanction their creation in order to fend off the invaders, who were days away from storming the palace, and Akhenamkhanen reluctantly accepted.[2]

Akhenaden deliberately neglected to tell Akhenamkhanen that the shadow alchemy had a cost of ninety nine human lives, knowing he would not approve. Akhenaden, along with three magicians and a number of soldiers went to Kul Elna, which had a reputation as being a village of thieves. They killed a number of villagers to turn base substances into gold, which was forged into the Millennium Items in the tablet.[2]

Akhenamkhanen's reign[edit]

The original Millennium Item holders

Akhenaden and his conspirators returned to the palace, where the holders of the Millennium Items were chosen.[2]

Seven days after the Millennium Items' creation, the foreign armies arrived at the palace. The Pharaoh and Priests used the Millennium Items to summon ka that easily defeated the invaders.[2]

Akhenamkhanen learned the truth of how the Items were created from Mahado, which caused him to fall ill and eventually die.[4]

Atem's reign[edit]

Book of the Dead[edit]

It was written in the Book of the Dead that the Millennium Items were made by magicians serving the Pharaoh, in order to punish thieves who would defile the tombs of the Pharaohs.[5]

Tomb Guardians[edit]

The Millennium Puzzle was placed in the Pharaoh's tomb.[6] For generations, Tomb Guardians watched over the other six Millennium Items. Shadi Shin's family watched over the Millennium Key, Scales,[7] Ring, and Eye.[8] The Ishtar family watched over the Millennium Tauk and Rod.[9]

Shadi saw it as his mission to find worthy hosts for his family's Items, which would help them unite the seven again, as the Items are naturally drawn to each other.[8] He also took it on himself to use the Scales and Key to deal justice on people who defiled Egyptian tombs.[7]

The Ishtars on the other hand, saw it as their mission to safeguard the Millennium Items until they could give them to the reincarnation of the Pharaoh's soul.[10]

New owners[edit]

Sugoroku Mutou retrieved the Millennium Puzzle from the Pharaoh's tomb,[6] which was later found by his grandson, Yugi Mutou, who spent eight years trying to solve it.[11]

Shadi safekept the Items in the Shrine of the Underworld and would subject trespassers to tests to see if they were worthy holders of the Items. Maximillion J. Pegasus was subject to one of Shadi's tests and became the chosen holder of the Millennium Eye.[8]

Bakura's father was also subject to one of Shadi's tests. Although he was rejected by the Millennium Ring, it chose his son, Ryo Bakura as its host, causing Dark Bakura to take residence in his body and promptly murder Shadi,[1] who continued to live as a ghost.

Marik Ishtar's alter ego, Dark Marik, murdered his father, using the Millennium Rod.[12] After that Marik and Ishizu Ishtar assumed ownership of the Rod and Tauk, respectively.

School[edit]

Yugi Mutou solved the Millennium Puzzle, causing the spirit of Atem to reside in his body as Dark Yugi.[11] Dark Yugi on many occasions used its powers to play Shadow Games to overcome people who harmed Yugi and his friends.[13][14][15]

Shadi encountered fellow Millennium Item-holder, Dark Yugi. Using his own Items, he set up the Trial of the Mind Shadow Game to test Dark Yugi and powers of his Millennium Puzzle's powers.[16][17]

Monster World[edit]

When Ryo Bakura played games with his friends, Dark Bakura would take control of his body and use the Ring to turn the games into Shadow Games, where he would seal the souls of the friends in miniatures[18] or other items.[19] This forced Bakura to change schools, eventually going to Domino High School, where he found that his Millennium Ring was pointing towards Yugi's Millennium Puzzle. The two Millennium Items coming close to each other caused them to resonate and gave Dark Bakura the ability to communicate with Bakura.[18]

Dark Bakura went on to face Dark Yugi in a Shadow Game of Monster World over the ownership of the Millennium Puzzle.[18]

Duelist Kingdom[edit]

Pegasus used the Millennium Eye to aid in his attempt to takeover KaibaCorp, including using it to conduct Shadow Games and inflict Penalty Games. This included forcing the Millennium Puzzle holder, Yugi, to take part in his Duel Monsters tournament, Duelist Kingdom.[20] He also caught the attention of Millennium Ring holder, Bakura, who had developed a fascination with learning the origins of the Millennium Items.[21]

Pegasus and Yugi each made use of their Millennium Items' abilities in the final Duel of the tournament,[22] which was played as a Shadow Game.[23] Following his defeat, Pegasus told Dark Yugi what he know about the Millennium Items, how he got the Millennium Eye, and how the Items were said to possess an evil intelligence.[8]

When the tournament ended, Dark Bakura murdered Pegasus and stole the Millennium Eye from him.[24]

Battle City[edit]

King's Memories[edit]

Rite of the Duel[edit]

Dark Side of Dimensions[edit]

Duel Academy[edit]

The items as they appear on the body of "Ma'at"

The Millennium Items were wielded by "Ma'at", who used the power of the items that Priests had sealed in the White-Winged Ka to defeat Tragoedia and allow the White-Winged Ka and Light and Darkness Dragon to seal him permanently.[25]

History of possession[edit]

The Millennium Items changed holders a number of times.

For simplicity, instances of Dark Yugi, Dark Bakura, Dark Marik, and Corrupted Aigami possessing Items are only noted by their hosts in the table below. People who took the Millennium Puzzle for extremely temporary periods of time are not listed, but can still be seen at Millennium Puzzle (manga) § History of possession.

Puzzle Scales Key Ring Eye Tauk Rod Explanation
Akhenamkhanen Kalim's predecessor Siamun Muran Mahado's predecessor Akhenaden Isis' predecessor Seto's predecessor [h 1]
Atem Kalim Shada Mahado Isis Seto [h 2]
Bakura Bakura Bakura Bakura Bakura [h 3]
Akhenaden Akhenaden Akhenaden Akhenaden Akhenaden Akhenaden [h 4]
Atem — Shada — Isis Seto [h 5]
Siamun Muran [h 6]
— Tomb Guardians Tomb Guardians Tomb Guardians Tomb Guardians Tomb Guardians Tomb Guardians [h 7]
Sugoroku Mutou Shadi Shadi Shadi Shadi Ishtar family Ishtar family [h 8][h 9]
Yugi Mutou Ryo Bakura Maximillion J. Pegasus Ishizu Ishtar Marik Ishtar [h 10][h 11][h 12]
Ryo Bakura [h 13]
Marik Ishtar Yugi Mutou [h 14][h 15]
Yugi Mutou Yugi Mutou [h 16]
Ryo Bakura [h 17]
Bobasa Bobasa Yugi Mutou [h 18][h 19]
Ryo Bakura [h 20]
Yugi Mutou Tomb Guardians Tomb Guardians Yugi Mutou [h 21]
— — — — — — — [h 22]
Seto Kaiba Mani [h 23]
Yugi Mutou Aigami [h 24][h 25]
— — [h 26]
  1. ↑ Items were distributed to the Pharaoh and High Priests after being created.
  2. ↑ As the original owners aged or died, the Items were passed on to new owners.
  3. ↑ Bakura stole a number of the Items.
  4. ↑ Akhenaden took the Items to insert into the tablet.
  5. ↑ Previous owners took back their items.
  6. ↑ Siamun took back the Key to aid in the war, after Shada's death.
  7. ↑ The Items were safekept by generations of Tomb Guardians, except the Puzzle which was left in the Pharaoh's tomb.
  8. ↑ Sugoroku Mutou took the Puzzle from the Pharaoh's tomb.
  9. ↑ Shadi and the Ishtar family were the last of the Tomb Guardians to look after the Items.
  10. ↑ Yugi found the Puzzle in his family's home.
  11. ↑ Pegasus and Bakura passed Millennium Item trials.
  12. ↑ Marik and Ishizu took their family's Items after their father's death.
  13. ↑ Dark Bakura killed Pegasus and took the Eye from him.
  14. ↑ Ishizu gave Yugi the Tauk.
  15. ↑ Dark Marik defeated Dark Bakura in a Shadow Game and took the Ring.
  16. ↑ Marik gave the Ring and Rod to Yugi.
  17. ↑ Bakura took the Ring back from Yugi.
  18. ↑ Dark Bakura gave the Eye to Yugi
  19. ↑ Bobasa looked after the Key and Scales for Shadi.
  20. ↑ Dark Bakura took the Millennium Puzzle to set up the Shadow RPG
  21. ↑ After the Shadow RPG, Yugi took back the Puzzle and Ring and the Tomb Guardians looked after the Key and Scales
  22. ↑ The Millennium Items were buried under the Shrine of the Underworld.
  23. ↑ The Puzzle and Ring were recovered during KaibaCorp's excavation.
  24. ↑ Aigami picked up the Ring following Mani's disappearance.
  25. ↑ Kaiba returned the Puzzle to Yugi.
  26. ↑ The Puzzle disappeared with Atem.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ a b Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 308 (Millennium World Duel 30): "The Birth of the Millennium Items!!"
  3. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 321 (Millennium World Duel 43): "The Dark God Awakes!"
  4. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 314 (Millennium World Duel 36): "The Spirit Beast!!"
  5. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 14: "The Man from Egypt (Part 2)"
  6. ↑ a b Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 279 (Millennium World Duel 1): "The Millennium Treasure"
  7. ↑ a b Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 13: "The Man from Egypt (Part 1)"
  8. ↑ a b c d Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 132 (Duelist Duel 73): "The Tragic Tale of the Millennium Eye"
  9. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 214 (Duelist Duel 155): "The Cursed Bloodline!"
  10. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 233 (Duelist Duel 174): "Duel in the Dark!"
  11. ↑ a b Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 1: "The Puzzle of the Gods"
  12. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 232 (Duelist Duel 173): "The Clan of Darkness!"
  13. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 2: "Lying Eyes"
  14. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 3: "Hard Beat!"
  15. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 4: "Jail Break!"
  16. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 16: "Shadi's Challenge"
  17. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 17: "Game Start!"
  18. ↑ a b c Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 50: "Millennium Enemy 1: The Mysterious Transfer Student"
  19. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 56: "Millennium Enemy 7: I'll Fight Too!"
  20. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 62 (Duelist Duel 3): "Countdown!!"
  21. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 63 (Duelist Duel 4): "I Won't Lose!!"
  22. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 128 (Duelist Duel 69): "The Downfall of Toon World"
  23. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 129 (Duelist Duel 70): "The Sacrifice!"
  24. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 133 (Duelist Duel 74): "The Precious Piece"
  25. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! GX chapter 64: "Beyond the Struggle..."
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