My PM's worded slightly differently.
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Hello!
While rummaging through your clothes you discovered 7 keys in your inventory under the Game tab. You can feel an aura of power and agelessness, and can barely see faint symbols that remind you of alchemy. Touching the keys gives you warm memories back to your first day on Gaia, and you intuitively understand that you have received one key for every year you've been on the site. A mystery!
Also. ********. I didn't think I'd been on for
seven years.
gonk
Anyway, the key's item description helps out on theories:
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This key is said to unlock a great quest...
I'm not going to jump in and say wings (though that seems like a plausible theory), but I am willing to bet that Gaia listened to all our complaints about how old users weren't "dedicated enough" to the site to achieve expensive/new/better alchemy items, and this is their way of addressing that.