Big Key

, are recurring items in .
==Location and uses==
Big Keys are very similar to their later counterpart, Boss Keys, as their purpose is to open the big door leading to the Boss' chamber. Unlike Boss Keys, Big Keys can usually also open Treasure Chests. In their appearances, Big Keys are one of the three standard dungeon items, the other two being the Compass and the Dungeon Map.
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The Big Keys in are depicted as having an angry glare and devil-like horns. Big Keys can be used more than once, although only in the same dungeon. Aside from opening doors, Big Keys also open the Treasure Chests containing the main Dungeon Item. Doors unlocked by the Big Key may not necessarily lead directly to the boss. One instance of this is the very first Boss Key, located in the Hyrule Castle dungeon, where Link can use it to unlock Zelda's cell after defeating the Ball and Chain Trooper with the Big Key.
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In , Big Keys retain their design from . Unlike before, Big Keys are optional items instead used for opening Big Chests, which contain a large number of Force Gems. One of the Links has to physically carry a Big Key as if it were an object to use it.
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There are six Big Keys in , all of which appear inside Dungeons (Deepwood Shrine, the Cave of Flames, the Fortress of Winds, the Temple of Droplets, the Palace of Winds, and Dark Hyrule Castle). Most of them reside in a large blue Treasure Chest, and are used to open the large Locked Doors covered by golden chains. The exception to this is the Big Key found in the Temple of Droplets; it is frozen into a Key-sicle, and must be thawed out using Light Beams.
In the Palace of Winds, there are two of these large Locked Doors; however, unlike Small Keys, Big Keys are not consumed after being used as long as Link is in the same Dungeon, and thus the second Locked Door can simply be opened with the same Big Key used to open the first.
The game's Big Key artwork depicts it with a nearly identical design to their Boss Key equivalents in , in which there is a discrepancy where they are also titled Big Keys.
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The Big Key from the Goron Mines must be put together by obtaining the three Key Shards from the Goron Elders in . In the Snowpeak Ruins, the Big Key is replaced by the Bedroom Key, as said dungeon is actually the mansion residence of Yeto and Yeta.
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In , Big Keys are designed after their appearance in . However, like Boss Keys, their only function is unlocking the door to a Boss Room in the same dungeon that the Big Key is found in.
==Nomenclature==
==Gallery==
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File:TP Goron Mines Big Key Icon.png|Completed Goron Mines Big Key icon from 
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