Access key

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The access keys are ter'angreal linked to the massive Choedan Kal, the two greatest sa'angreal ever created. As tapping the Choedan Kal unaided is invariably deadly because of the immense quantities of the One Power available through them, and the fact that carrying a gigantic statue is not feasible, the access keys were created both to act as buffers between the user and the sa'angreal while being portable.

Three access keys have been found, two by Rand in Rhuidean, one alone though there is a possibility more may exist. The keys are shaped as small-scale replicas of their respective sa'angreal.

Currently, the male key is in the possession of Rand al'Thor. The only known workable female key was destroyed during the cleansing of saidin^[1], along with the female Choedan Kal. A damaged version of the Female key was (and presumably still is) in one of the displays within the Panarch's Palace in Tanchico. We learned of this at the beginning of The Shadow Rising, where Egwene al'Vere had been Dreamwalking to search for the Black Ajah.