Kingdom Hearts: A series summary and "quick" guide

A summary of the Kingdom Hearts Series as of the end of 2023.

1. Timeline and
Retrospective
A St. John’s Sweaties Production

2. Foreword
•The thesis of this presentation is to be a basic
understanding of the Kingdom Hearts series up to
the end of 2023, while poking some fun at the
series as a whole.
•To keep things simple (and clean), we’ll be going in
order of release rather than in chronological order
of events, both for simplicities sake, and to
somewhat preserve some of the impact some of
these moments may have within their respective
game.
•All images, characters, music and concepts from
this series are owned by Squaresoft/Square-Enix
and Disney. This was made as a laugh between
friends and is a non-profit work.
•Fan Art used in each section will be credited at the
end of their respective section.

3. Commonly Used
Resources
•A lot of the resources used to construct this presentation are
available publicly, with some of the most used ones listed below:
•TV Tropes Kingdom Hearts Recap Page
•Kingdom Hearts Insider
•Kingdom Hearts Wiki
•Everglow(YouTube)
•GamersLittlePlayground (Youtube) for cutscene clips

4. Chronological Timeline

5. One sky, one destiny

6. Introducing our Heroes

7. •Kairi
•Personality: Girl
•Friends with Sora and Riku
•Riku
•Personality: Brooding Rival
•A bit of a snot in this game
•Sora
•Personality: Plucky Hero
•Ignore the Keyblade for now

8. Awakening
•The series begins with Sora having a
strange dream, falling from the sky
into the sea below
•He finds himself in a void full of
stained-glass pillars, the Dive to the
Heart
•As he progresses, the pillars begin to
descend into darkness and is soon
attacked by shadow-like creatures
•On the final pillar, his shadow grows
into a large monster called Darkside
•While he fights well, he falls into
darkness before reawakening on…

9. •Home of Kairi, Riku and Sora
•Kairi came from somewhere else, has little memory of it
•All three are very good friends
•Rikuacts as a friendly rival for Sora
•Sora has a crush on Kairi
•Rikuacts like a Disney Princess and “wants to find more”
•All three want to build a raft to try and find new worlds
beyond their islands
•Some Final Fantasy characters also present as friends to
the trio but are not overly significant
•Tidus(FFX)
•Wakka(FFX)
•Selphie(FFVIII)
•Also home to trees that grow Paopufruit
•Star shaped fruit which, according to legend, tie two people
together if they share the same fruit
•Rikuand Sora share one before leaving the island for the day
•The two boys later get into a competition over who gets to share
one with Kairi

10. Lore:
What is a
World?
•Long before the events of KH, during the “Age of Fairy Tales”, there was once a single world which was found
within the Realm of Light
•People fought over the Lightwithin their world, causing Darknessto appear in their hearts, eventually
consuming the world
•Fragments of light remained within the hearts of children, allowing for the reconstruction of the world, only
spread within individual pieces that are completely separate from each other, waiting until true light returned.
•Each world is represented as individual levels in the game
•Rules of the Worlds:
•Worlds all have their own laws/order (physics/magic/etc.)
•Worlds are all separated by a place called the “Ocean Between”
•Worlds are traditionally cut off by barriers and don’t know about each other for the most part
•Important to keep the “world order”, basically the prime directive from Star Trek. The party changes appearance in some
worlds (courtesy of Donald’s magic) to fit in for this reason.
•“lol” said Sora. “lmao”

11. •When building the raft, Sora sees a
weird guy in a brown cloak near a
hidden door in the islands “secret
place”
•The door hidden in Destiny Islands
has always been there, but not one
knows how to open it
•The figure spouts some cryptic
words about darkness (get used to
this) before vanishing
This world has been connected.
Tied to the darkness … soon to be completely eclipsed.

12. Later that night…
•A big storm happens that night
•Concerned about the raft, Sora heads to the island to
make sure it doesn’t get destroyed
•Sora has a mom, who is never seen again
•He meets Riku on the island who starts mentions that
“the door has been opened”
•He wants to use the portal to travel off of Destiny Islands
with Sora
•Riku disappears in the dark portal, leaving Sora behind
•Small dark creatures start appearing
•Sora tries to beat them with his wooden sword, but it
does nothing

13. The Keyblade!
•Before he can be harmed by the dark creatures, a
mysterious weapon appears in Sora’s hand: the
Keyblade
•Only Sora can use it
•If anyone else picks it up, it warps back to him
•It can change appearance using different
keychains
•There’s more too it, but we’ll get there in
later games
•Sora finds Kairi, though she’s a bit out of it
•The door on the island opens up, and endless
expanse of darkness behind it
•Kairi is blown away, seeming to pass through Sora
before vanishing
•Sora is also blown away, and passes out as the
island is consumed by darkness

14. Meanwhile at:

15. •Goofy
•Captain of the Royal Guard
•Uses a shield in combat
•Donald Duck
•Court Magician
•Uses magic (#dosomethingdonald)
•“The King”
•Disappeared leaving a letter
behind with Pluto

16. •Stars are disappearing from the sky which the King
has left to investigate why
•He tasks Goofy and Donald to “find the key
bearer” and protect them
•Goofy and Donald leave on the Gummi Ship to find
them
•Chip and Dale are engineers apparently
•Jiminy Cricket is assigned as the chronicler to the
group, noting their adventure within his Journal
•The Gummi Ship: a craft made of a material
referred to as gummi blocks which allows for travel
between worlds through the Ocean Between
•Gummi blocks are made of the same material as the
barriers between worlds, allowing traversal
•When barriers between worlds are destroyed, they
appear as meteor showers

17. Next stop

18. •Sora awakens in Traverse Town
•A place which takes in people who have lost their
worlds
•Meets up with some Final Fantasy characters
who give him some important information about
the Keyblade and what happened to Sora’s world
•Squall (FFVIII, called Leon here for some reason)
•Aerith(FFVII)
•Yuffie(FFVII)
•Cid (FFVII)
•Moogles(synthesize items)
•Sora meets and teams up with Donald and Goofy
Waking up

19. •The enemies that appeared on Destiny Island, and are found throughout
all worlds
•People have hearts, which is a composition of memories, will, goals and
ambitions and allows a person to have emotions
•Each world also has a heart which keeps it in the Realm of Light
•Hearts have both Lightand Darkness
•Light = Good, Darkness = Bad
•If a heart is overcome by darkness,it becomes a Heartless, leaving the
body and soul behind
•By instinct Heartlesslook for more light and convert heartsto darkness
•Major goal is to look for the heart of a worldand have it “fall into the
Realm of Darkness”
•Can only be prevented by locking the heart of a world with the Keyblade
•Destroying a Heartless with the Keyblade frees the trapped heart within
•While Heartless can be killed through magic or weaponry, only the
Keybladecan free hearts from the Heartless and permanently destroy
them

20. Lore:
Types of Heartless
•Heartless comes in two varieties
•Emblem Heartless (top): Heartless with
logos are manufactured.
•Manufactured through experimentation (in
particular made by a man who goes by the
name of Ansem)
•If hearts are stolen by a Heartless, they
become an Emblem Heartless
•If an Emblem Heartless is destroyed, it
releases the stolen heart which leaves
•Pureblood Heartless (bottom): natural
Heartless which form when people’s hearts
are consumed by darkness
•When destroyed, they vanish and return to
the realm of darkness
•Heartless can be commanded by a powerful
enough force, though it requires a strong
will

21. SDG Goals:
1.Sora wants to find Riku and Kairi
2.Goofy and Donald want to find the King
3.Our trinity goes between worlds to look for
their friends and seal the keyholes that lead
to the heart of each world to prevent them
from falling to darkness

22. Meanwhile,
at the
Legion of
Doom

23. Villain Goals:
•Several Disney villains led by Maleficent plan on
co-opting the heartless for their own individual
schemes that follow closely with the original
movies
•Maleficent herself mentions that her long-time
goal has been to find the “7 Princesses of Heart”
to open the way to something called Kingdom
Hearts, said to be the heart of all worlds and an
object of great power
•Riku awakens at this unknown castle and is found
by the Legion of Doom

24. Lore: Ansem reports I
•As they progress and defeat various villains, SDG also pick up reports
written by a man named Ansem, a beloved sage from an unknown world
who wanted to understand the darkness within people’s hearts
•He is responsible for:
•Naming Heartless
•Identifying their affinity for the hearts of both people and worlds
•Identification and confirmation of the “hearts of worlds”
•Finding Gummi blocks and discussing inter-world travel with the King
•Development of Emblem Heartless through artificial means (and
inhumane experimentation)
•His reports mention discussions with a king with a vessel made of Gummi
blocks, where he learns of the story of the Keyblade, which can bring
either salvation or destruction of worlds as well

25. The Journey at a Glance
•The gang go through various Disney worlds, making friends with
various Disney characters (and Cloud from FFVII), defeating members
of Maleficent’sLegion of Doom and sealing the keyhole in each world.
•After the first batch of Disney worlds, Riku shows up in Traverse Town,
and Sora gives him the info about the Keyblade, and both agree to
find Kairi
•Maleficent manipulates Riku into using more darkness and stokes
jealousy in the boy by suggesting that Sora doesn’t care about him
and Kairi anymore, replacing them with Donald and Goofy
•Some Disney characters (Alice and Jasmine) have also been kidnapped
for an unknown purpose
•The group continues through various Disney Worlds, meeting Riku a
couple of times who begins acting hostile
•Riku has found Kairi’s body, but she in a comatose state
•The group continues through the remaining Disney worlds, until they
reach the mysterious castle Riku arrived in…
You can also go to the Winnie the Pooh
world! Would you like to go to the Winnie
the Pooh world?

26. •SDG arrive at Hollow Bastion, but are
stopped by Riku before entering the
castle
•Riku takes the Keyblade from Sora (and
keeps it), claiming that the Keyblade
was always meant to go to him, that
Sora was simply meant to deliver it, and
that there can’t be two Keyblade
masters (heh)
•Donald and Goofy, following the
instruction left by their King,
begrudgingly leave Sora behind
•Sora proceeds with a wooden sword and
help from Beast, who is here against all
conceivable logic due to his desire to
find Belle, who was also kidnapped

27. •Challenging a darkness powered Riku again, claiming that
his friends are his power, Sora reclaims both the Keyblade
and his friends
•Riku leaves, meeting again with the cloaked figure from
Destiny islands who encourages him to fully submit to
darkness
•Team SDG defeats Maleficent before a weirdly-behaving
Riku reappears wielding a weapon called the Keyblade of
Heart, which has the ability to unlock a person’s heart and
release the darkness within
•He does this to Maleficent and who is fought as a
dragon before she is seemingly killed
•This Keyblade is constructed from the hearts of the
other 6 Princesses of Heart

28. •The next room shows 6 Princesses in glass containers, alongside the
catatonic Kairi
•Maleficent was able to gather the 7 Princesses of Heart, which should
unlock the keyhole to Kingdom Hearts, but was unable to complete it
•Riku, now completely possessed by Ansem(who was the cloaked figure
on Destiny Islands), explains the following:
•Princesses of Heart are those with absolutely no darkness in their
hearts (i.e. they cannot form a Heartless under any circumstance)
•Kairi is the final Princess of Heart
•While her body is present, Kairi’s heart left her body and entered
Sora’s during the initial attack on Destiny Islands

29. •After defeating Riku-Ansem, Sora
takes his dropped Keyblade of Hearts
and seeing no other option to
release Kairi’s heart from his body,
uses it on himself
•This action has the following
immediateconsequences:
•Kairi’s heart is released from
his body and put back into hers
•The Keyblade of Hearts breaks,
returning the hearts of the
other Princesses of Heart
•The way to Kingdom Hearts
becomes opened, summoning
a ton of heartless who are
attracted to it
•Sora himself becomes a
heartless
•(He’s just a little guy
though)

30. •Ansem himself appears, but is held off by Riku, who
finally pulled his head out of his ass and gives Kairi,
Goofy and Donald time to escape
•Sora’s Heartless, which maintained some sense of self,
heads to the entrance to help his friends
•Kairi recognizes Sora and presumably based on their
close connection and her status as a Princess of Heart,
restored Sora to a human form
•He was losing his sense of self, but the restoration
happened before any real damage could be done
•The group leave Hollow Bastion and regroup at
Traverse TownAnsem
Seeker of Darkness

31. Preparing for the
Finale
•After catching their breath, the group resolves
to return to Hollow Bastion, and seal the open
Keyhole
•Kairi gives Sora a good luck charm to
represent their connection
•The Hollow Bastion keyhole is sealed, though
Ansemhimself has retreated to the End of the
World, a place created from the remains of
worlds taken by the Heartless
•During this second visit to Hollow Bastion, the
group also encounter an Unknown Figure in a
black cloak who phases through Sora,
seemingly observing his memories of the
journey so far
•While familiar with Ansem, and remarking on
Sora’s similarity to him, he proceeds to briefly
battle the group before retreating –remarking
that he is merely a shell
Impressive.
This will be
enjoyable.

32. Lore: Ansem reports II
•Documentation found at Hollow Bastion, alongside reports gathered through optional
encounters reveal additional aspects of Ansem’sresearch
•The appearance of Heartless cause collapse of the Gummi Barriers between worlds
•Worlds have some period between the arrival of Heartless, finding the door to a world’s
heart and stealing the heart of a world
•There is a relationship between the Princesses of Heart and the Keyblade
•He selected a girl who might qualify for such a title and sent her off into the Ocean Between
to land on another world
•He was once a person, but willingly became a Heartless. Unlike others, he retained his
memories and kept form of a person
•To enter the Realm of Darkness, he believed he had to go beyond the door to Kingdom
Hearts, the heart of all worlds
•Makes mention of Realms of Light, Darkness and that of In-Between
•Briefly postulates where the body goes when a Heartless is formed
•Heart and soul are not the same thing. When the heart forms a Heartless, the soul stays with
the body, and both disappear
•Considers that without the existence of the dark or light of a heart, the remains exist in-
between the two forming what he refers to as “non-existent ones”

33. Finale:
Seeking
Darkness

34. •Upon arriving at the end of the world, team SDG
speculate that since this is a “Heartless world” it
should disappear upon Ansem’sdefeat, though
their fates are uncertain
•After fighting through several rounds of Heartless
they encounter a chamber containing a strange
machine, before eventually coming upon the ruins
of Destiny Islands
•Ansem appears in his true form, informing Sora
that Riku can no longer hear him or resist Ansem
•He goes on to explain that all worlds and hearts
begin and end in darkness, that all worlds are the
same, and that darkness is the true essence of the
heart
•Sora counters by saying that he believes that there
is always a light that never expires, even in the
deepest darkness
END of the World

35. •The fight begins, Ansemsummons a
plethora of darkness alongside a strange
guardian Heartless called the Dark
Figure which appears connected to him
•Upon an initial defeat by Sora, he brings
the group down further into darkness,
fusing himself with a large heartless
known as the World of Chaos for the
final phase
•With a lot of effort, the team manage to
defeat the World of Chaos and Ansem
END of the World

36. •On his last legs and seeking the power of darkness,
Ansem opens the Door to Darkness, where Kingdom
Hearts, and the Realm of Darkness just beyond it, laid
•However, Kingdom Hearts was not darkness as
Ansem thought, but light. The light of Kingdom
Hearts overwhelms Ansem, killing him.
•Even with his defeat, the darkness surrounding
Kingdom Hearts threatened to overwhelm the realm
of light, and the door had to be closed.
•Sora, Donald and Goofy, together with the reformed
Riku whose body was restored on the other side of
the door work to close the Door to Darkness.
Kingdom Hearts

37. Kingdom
Hearts
•Unfortunately, it isn’t enough as the door must be sealed from both sides to be
properly closed
•The King appears wielding the Kingdom Key D, the Keyblade representative of the
Realm of Darkness and is the counterpart to Sora’s Kingdom Key from the Realm of
Light
•The door is sealed, with SDG in the Realm of Light, and Riku and King Mickey in the
Realm of Darkness
•As the parts of the End of the World return to where they belong, Sora finds Kairi, who
is returning to Destiny Islands
•Sora promises to return, but not before finding Riku and bringing him home
•SDG are left on a lone road on a grassy field, where they find Pluto with another letter
from the King.
•The three chase after the dog, ending the events of Kingdom Hearts 1

38. Fan Art Links
•Slide 25: Salvatore Tabbi
•Slide 27: HolleysArt
•Slide 34: ArcaneKeyblade5
•Slide 34: SoulStryder210

39. FIN

40. The Key to Memory
&
The Road to Dawn

41. Part 1:
The Key to Memory
Sora’s Story

42. •Immediately after the events
of KH1, SDG are still searching
for Riku and the King before
being led astray by a
mysterious figure in a black
cloak; similar to the one met in
Hollow Bastion
•The group arrive at a
mysterious place called Castle
Oblivion, which serves as the
setting for the entirety of this
game.
•Shortly after entering the
castle, we meet our first of
many anime villains–

43. He (cryptically) explains that
Castle Oblivion has two rules:
The deeper you travel into the castle, the
more memories you’ll lose.
Everything within the castle operates on
cards.
Why cards? Because it used to be a GBA game. ->
There isn’t really much of a lore reason as far as
we know

44. •Cutting through his flowery language, our mystery villain
insinuates that Riku and (by extension) Mickey are
somewhere within the castle.
•With no other options, SDG (and Jiminy) head further
inside, and begin their ascent throughout the castle’s
many floors
“Walk the avenues of latent memory and you
shall meet someone dear to you.”
Say
less.
?
?
Ascending the Castle

45. Lore: Worlds within
Castle Oblivion
•Unlike the previous game, the worlds you visit in CoM are not real.
•The “law” of Castle Oblivion requires Sora to physically traverse his
memories of the first game to progress further into the castle
•These worlds are Sora’s memories (extracted into card form)
made manifest by Castle Oblivion
•The essentially speed through the Disney plots touched on in the
first game (just swap out the word “Heart” for “Memory” and it’s
quite similar)
•The group figure this out upon arrival to the reconstruction of
Traverse Town, where Leon and his friends don’t recognize the
group, but still know their names
•Upon clearing Traverse Town, the group arrive on the next floor,
before being accosted by another cloaked figure…
There’s even memories of
the Winnie the Pooh world!

46. ORGANIZATION XIII: AXEL
Attribute: Fire
Weapon: Eternal Flames
VIII
The Flurry of Dancing Flames おどる火の風
•IT’S HIM, IT’S MR. ANIME HIMSELF!!
•The internet is so horny for him that he literally
cannot die
•The first member of a group simply called “the
Organization” in CoM, which will be elaborated
on further in KH2
•Sarcastic, aloof personality, and is constantly
asking if people have “Got it memorized?”
•His motives are seemingly unclear at this point,
but get expanded upon in future installments…

47. ●After their confrontation, he tells Sora that he is
prepared to venture further into he castle, and that
he needs to trust his memories to find the person
“most important to him”
●Sora asks if he means Rikuor the King, but Axel says
that Sora needs to give it more thought
●Axel warns Sora that if he discovers his buried
memories, he may no longer be the same person he
is now
●The group forge onward, but not before showing
signs of forgetting the end of their last journey
●Notably, Jiminy’sJournal (thus the chronicled
adventures of KH1) is soon rendered completely
blank as well…
Ascending the Castle

48. ●Continuing onward, Sora reminisces
about his promise to return Kairi’s
good luck charm to her
●However, when recalling the
memory, Kairi is seemingly replaced
by a young blonde girl instead
●As he ventures upward, Sora begins
remembering her living on the
islands alongside himself, Kairi and
Riku
●The group concludes that Sora must
be remembering new things instead
of just forgetting, putting the first
cloaked figure’s words into
perspective
●Things continue as normal until…
Ascending
the Castle

49. ORGANIZATION XIII: LARXENE
Attribute: Lightning
Weapon: Foudre
XII
The Savage Nymph 非情の妖姫
•She’s such a bitch, I’m in love
•The lone female member of the Organization
•Sadistic and sharp-witted, she revels in
taunting both allies and enemies alike
•Incites a fight with Sora by mocking the fact
that he can’t even remember the mysterious
blonde girls’ name

50. •Before Larxeneleft to fight Sora, it is revealed that she is
conspiring to take over the Organization, with Axel supposedly
helping her
•She tells Axel to remain quiet about the plan before vanishing,
with Axel saying she should have done the same, implying that
he is a double agent
•Before starting the fight, Larxeneconfirms that the blonde girl
Sora has been remembering is in Castle Oblivion
•Sora drops Kairi’s charm in the ensuing scuffle (which now
looks quite different), but can’t remember what it is; Larxene
taunting him about his forgetfulness
•Upon urging Sora to remember a promise he made to the
owner of the charm, Sora finally recalls the name of his friend:
Naminé
•Sora defeats Larxene, who flees the scene, leaving a furious
Sora behind
•Larxenereports back to Axel who mocks her for losing to Sora
•Suddenly, another Organization member arrives…
Ascending the Castle

51. ORGANIZATION XIII: VEXEN
Attribute: Ice
Weapon: Frozen Pride
IV
The Chilly Academic いてつく学究
•“I’m a scientist, experiments are what I do,
yes >:)”
•Essentially a (relatively) saner Hojo from
FFVII
•A loner in the Organization. Would prefer to
perform his unethical science in peace
•He chastises Larxene for letting herself lose
to Sora, and isn’t confident that Sora is worth
the effort
•He is, however, willing to test a “new subject”
that we wishes to try out; which appears to
be Riku

52. •As Sora continues to climb floors, he is surprised to see
none other than Riku, and asks why he is in Castle Oblivion
•Insulted, Rikuasks if he was looking for someone more
important, stating that Sora had probably forgotten about
him
•Rikuclaims to only care about finding Naminé now, before
transforming into his Dark Mode and attacking Sora
•Upon defeat, Rikuleaves, with the group wondering if Riku
has potentially fallen into darkness again, expressing
concern for the King who was with Rikuwhen the Door to
Darkness closed
•Jiminy assures Sora that the memory altering effects of the
castle may be changing Riku’smemories too, and the group
press on, determined to find answers
Ascending
the Castle

53. Ascending
the Castle
•Shortly, Sora meets with Rikuagain, who insists on saving both Rikuand Naminé and reminds him that
Kairi is waiting for them all back at Destiny Islands
•Rikuscolds Sora for staying behind to take care of Kairi like he asked when closing the Door to Darkness,
and refuses to return to Destiny Islands, claiming that protecting Naminé is all that matters to him
•The two clash again, with Sora emerging victorious
•Rikuonce again refuses help from Sora in finding Naminé and flees
•As Sora once again begins to chase after Riku, he wonders why they can’t all be friends since they share
the same goal
•The group realizes that they have now forgotten the name of Sora’s friend remaining on Destiny Islands,
with Jiminy urging them to hurry before Sora loses his remaining memories
•Sora recalls a promise he made to protect Naminé when he was young, only just remembering it. With
no option to turn back, the group continue their trek through Castle Oblivion

54. Lore: Nobodies
•Back with the Organization, Axel approaches Naminé and taunts her,
saying he offers his sympathies “from the heart”
•It is revealed that both the Organization members, and Naminé herself,
are Nobodies
•This was briefly mentioned in the final Ansemreport from KH1, with
Nobodies referred to as the “non-existent ones” the are in-between light
and darkness
•Nobodies are formed from the leftover body and soul of a person that
remains when a heart is taken by the Heartless
•Nobodies lack hearts entirely and supposedly don’t have any true
emotions
•Axel expresses some pity for Naminé as he states that Nobodies can
never hope to be real people
•The Organization members reconvene while Sora makes his way up the
Castle, and the figure who brought SDG to Castle Oblivion is revealed…

55. ORGANIZATION XIII: MARLUXIA
Attribute: Flower
Weapon: Graceful Dahlia
XI
The Graceful Assasin 優雅なる凶刃
•The Lord of Castle Oblivion and the main antagonist
for Sora in CoM
• ♪♫ I feel pretty, oh so pretty ♫♪
•Begins taunting Vexen along with Axel and
Larxene over the failure of “his” Riku
•Despite Vexen’s higher rank in the
organization, Maluxia’s been given reign
both of Castle Oblivion and Naminé by their
“Superior”, and defiance of him would be tantamount
to treason
•Axel agrees that traitors of the Organization must be
eliminated
•Vexen is given one more chance to eliminate Sora
•Marluxia asks Naminé if Sora made a promise to
her, which Naminé hesitantly confirms

56. Ascending the Castle
•SDG soon meet Vexenfor the first time, who tells Sora that he is
responsible for their reunion with Riku
•Sora believes that Vexenis responsible for Riku’sstrange state and
demands his location
•Vexenengages the trio in combat, but reveals that it was only a test
to look into Sora’s memories
•Vexengives the group a World Card, stating that it is derived from
memories on the “other side” of his heart, before fleeing
•Axel and Marluxiarecognize that Vexenis a threat if he eliminates
Sora, who is required for their plans
•Marluxiagives Axel the order to “eliminate the traitor” which Axel
responds, “No taking that back later”, implying that there is more
than one traitor to eliminate

57. •SDG use the new World Card and enter a place none of
them recognize; a place called Twilight Town
•Sora recalls some memories with Naminé from when
they were children
•During a meteor shower, she became frightened and
asked what they would do if one fell to the island, with
Sora promising to knock it out of the sky if it did
•Naminé then gave him her charm, and Sora promised
to become her protector
•Sora feels guilty for forgetting about her and his
promise
•The group continues to the gates of an old mansion
which they don’t recognize
•Vexenreappears asking Sora if he trusts his memories
and encourages him to listen to his heart rather than
the warped memories in his head, comparing Sora to
“his” Riku

58. •With Sora emerging the victor, he demands Vexenreturn Riku to normal, to
which Vexenretorts that it is Riku’s fate to be swallowed by darkness
•He warns Sora to stop chasing Naminé, lest he become a pawn of Marluxia
•Before Sora can get any more answers, Vexenis struck by Axel’s chakram, who
explains that he needs to eliminate Vexenbefore he tells Sora the truth
•Despite Vexenbegging to be spared, Axel proceeds to eliminate Vexen, making
him the first of the Organization to fall
•Axel returns to meet with Marluxiaand Larxene, leaving a shocked Sora behind…

59. AGranderScheme
•It is soon revealed that Marluxiaand Larxeneare
working together as part of a coup to overthrow the
leader of the Organization
•Larxeneexplains that killing Vexenwas a final test for
Axel to join the traitors, to prove he had the ability to
destroy an Organization member if required
•The group decide it’s time for Naminé to meet with
Sora, telling the girl to manipulate his memories to
lead him closer before vanishing with Larxene
•Axel is left to guard Naminé, but lets her know that he
won’t stop her from leaving
•A grateful Naminé leaves, with Axel hoping that Sora
continues to make things interesting
•Axel is enjoying himself enough that he begins to
laugh, much to his surprise

60. A Phantom
Promise
•Sora soon finds Rikuagain, expecting him to return to normal
with the defeat of Vexen, only to find him just as insistent on
keeping Sora from meeting Naminé
•Rikugoes on to explain his promise to Naminé, which is word-
for-word identical to Sora’s earlier promise
•Sora explains that he made the same promise and the charm,
with Rikushowing an identical charm after a sudden flash of
light.
•The two fight again, with Rikufleeing upon defeat and dropping
the charm, which turns into the World Card for Destiny Islands
•Goofy and Donald, concerned that something is wrong, question
if Sora is being blinded by his memories and becoming obsessed
with Naminé
•Sora, upset at the accusation, runs ahead into the memory of
Destiny Islands

61. A Phantom Promise
•Sora searches through the memory of Destiny Islands searching for “the
girl” the memories of his friends keep referring to
•Assuming this is Naminé, Sora tries to search for her before a storm arrives
and darkness begins to engulf the island
•Sora finds Naminé, who explains that in her loneliness, she drew Sora to
Castle Oblivion and feels guilty for deceiving him
•Sora claims that he only cares about keeping his promise to her, but a
second, transparent Naminé appears, saying that she shouldn’t be the
person he sees
•As she tells Sora to reach deep within his memories, Sora briefly recalls
Kairi, but can’t remember her name
•Sora moves on to the next floor of Castle Oblivion, encountering both Riku
and Naminé, with the two boys fighting again and Sora emerging the victor
•As he approaches the downed Riku, Sora is struck by him and gets knocked
down
•As he prepares to finish off Sora, Naminé begs Rikuto stop, and another
white flash occurs and Rikucollapses to the ground, completely
unresponsive…

62. Lore:
The Replica
Program
•Larxeneappears again and reveals
that the RikuSora has met during
his journey is in fact a Replica
•The Replica Program was an
experiment performed by Vexenin
Castle Oblivion
•The RikuReplica (Repliku) was a
copy of Rikudeveloped by Vexen
and given fake memories by
Naminé

63. Malleable Memories
•Sora also learns that Naminé has the unique
ability to alter the memories of anyone
connected to Sora, including Sora himself
•This memory manipulation ability is the
reason why the group lost memories as they
went up the castle and got closer to Naminé
•The memories Sora has of Naminéon Destiny
Islands are also fake, with Naminé simply
replacing Kairi in his mind

64. MasterPlan
•Marluxiaand Larxenehad Naminé place
these memories into Sora’s heart to
manipulate him and use his power as a tool
to use against the Organization as part of
their coup
•Larxenerealizes that Axel let Naminé escape
and is acting as a double agent sent to
eliminate the actual traitors
•Larxeneengages the group, with Sora
defending Naminé; even if the memory is
false, the promise he made is still real to him
•Donald and Goofy arrive, and the three work
together to finally defeat Larxene

65. •Naminé explains to the
group that she can restore
their memories if they
reach the 13
th
floor, but
they’ll have to deal with
Marluxiabefore then
•She also admits that while
Marluxiaforced her to
alter their memories, part
of her wanted someone
to finally care for her
•Touched, Sora promises to
help the girl and asks her
to watch over Replikuand
stay safe
Malleable Memories

66. •Meanwhile, Axel confronts Marluxia,
reminding him of the order he gave
before fighting: “Eliminate the traitor”
•The two seem to be at a stalemate until
Marluxiateleports Naminé to his side,
intending to use her as a shield
•Axel states that he has no qualms with
harming Naminé, and it is at this
moment that Sora enters the room
•Axel calls Sora Marluxia’spuppet, but
the boy says that Marluxiais next in line
after defeating Axel
•While reluctant to fight Sora, Axel begins
to fight, with Sora emerging the winner
•As he fades away, Axel mentions that he
is glad he “saved him” to Sora’s
confusion
Castle Cleared

67. Floral Fury
•The group catches up to Marluxia, who
explains to Sora his ambition to gain the
power of the Keybladefor his own end
•He orders Naminé to erase Sora’s memory
and destroy his heart
•While this would damage Sora, Marluxia
would mold the mindless boy into his puppet
•Naminé refuses, but Sora tells her to proceed
and spare her from Marluxia: even with his
memories gone, he has Donald and Goofy to
help him once they defeat Marluxia
•Before any action can be taken, Repliku
reappears, attacks Marluxiaand manages to
get Naminé away from him, intending to
honour his promise (even if it was fake)
•Marluxiasummons his weapon and attacks
the group

68. Floral Fury
•Marluxiais seemingly defeated, but it is
revealed to be an illusion
•The real Marluxiais beyond a final door and
before entering, Sora tells Replikuto look
after Naminé while he, Donald and Goofy
face Marluxiaone final time
•Inside a world of nothingness, Marluxia
appears in a fearsome final form and the two
clash
•Despite Marluxia’spower, Sora wins their
fight, and the Lord of Castle Oblivion fades
away; screaming in rage
•The three leave; Sora sealing the door
behind him

69. Re-chaining Memories
•After Marluxia’sdefeat, Sora asks “Riku” if he’s alright, with the Replica
replying that he isn’t really Rikuand only has the fake memories
provided by Naminé
•Sora insists that Replikuis his own person with his own heart and
identity, and the Replica thanks Sora for his kind words before leaving
•Naminé explains that Sora’s memories were never truly erased, simply
taken apart and rearranged
•In order to put them back, Naminé has to undo the chain of memories
she made, and put the real ones back in the correct order
•To do this, Sora and co. must slumber within specialized pods for one
year, and will not recall the events of Castle Oblivion

70. •Naminé asks Sora if he wants to regain his memories,
forgetting Castle Oblivion, or if he wants to keep his
current memories and forget what happened before
•Sora chooses to regain his memories, and while
saddened, Naminé accepts his decision
•To ensure the group know to thank her for her hard
work, Jiminy ensures to write “Thank Naminé” in his
journal to ensure they remember her, even when
they wake up
•Q: Why doesn’t he write down all of what happened
instead of just two words?
•A: Shut up, that’s why
•Before entering the pod, Sora promises to be friends
with her for real when he regains his memories and
that even if he forgets, she will be in his heart
•As the pod closes, Sora finally recalls Kairi after
glancing after the now restored good luck charm,
saying her name as he drifts into slumber
•A little while after entering the pod, a lone figure
enters the room…
Re-chaining
Memories

71. Part 2:
The Road to Dawn
Reverse/Rebirth:Riku’sStory

72. Facing Darkness
•Riku’stale begins shortly after closing the Door to
Darkness in KH1
•Having fallen unconscious, Rikusoon awakens in a
gray void, separated from the King
•A voice calls to him, telling him to stay asleep in
the void between light and darkness, and that he
fell asleep due to his failure to overcome darkness
•The voice offers him a chance if he wishes to
leave, and presents him with a card, telling Rikuit
will lead him to the truth
•Rikutakes the card, and soon finds himself in the
basement of Castle Oblivion

73. Facing Darkness
•Riku enters a memory of Hollow Bastion, with the voice taunting him as he makes his way through the
abandoned castle
•Both the voice and the memory of Maleficent in Hollow Bastion tell Riku that his heat is corrupted by
darkness and that he can only meet those in his memories who also served darkness (i.e. Disney Villains)
•Riku declares that he will destroy the darkness within his memories and fights Maleficent
•Victorious, Riku returns to Castle Oblivion and hears the voice again, revealing itself to be Ansem
•Ansem wants Riku to embrace darkness so that he can possess the boy again
•Before Ansem can do any real harm, a glowing ball of light appears and flies into Riku. This ball is King
Mickey, who tells Riku he can always find light no matter how deep the darkness

74. Facing Darkness
•Riku and Ansem briefly fight before Ansem
gives Riku a World Card, telling Riku that if he
keeps looking through his memories, he will
eventually fall to darkness
•Riku, determined to overcome Ansem, states
that he’ll work through his memories without
falling to darkness
•Ansem also empowers the darkness in Riku’s
heart before vanishing, telling him that while
he can’t force Riku to use it, it will remain to
tempt him
•Though the presence of darkness is
overwhelming, Mickey uses his power to
project into the room and tells Rikuhe is
working to reach to boy and reunite in person
•Rikucontinues upward through Castle Oblivion
unaware that others may soon be aware of his
presence…

75. ORGANIZATION XIII: LEXAEUS
Attribute: Earth
Weapon: Skysplitter
V
The Taciturn Stalwart 静かなる豪傑
•Beefiest boy
•Also, the most boring
•A strong chin for a strong boy
•Likely the physically strongest member of
Organization XIII, and doesn’t talk unless
needed
•Will absolutely, 100% beat the shit out of a
child
•Doesn’t trust other members of the
Organization, with the exception of…

76. ORGANIZATION XIII: ZEXION
Attribute: Illusion
Weapon: Book of
Retribution
VI
The Cloaked Schemer 影歩む策士
•“He’s got a cloak! You idiots, we all have
cloaks!!!”
•The brains of the basement duo, and an
eloquent speaker, especially compared to his
partner
•Calm, collected and intelligent, he prefers to
trap his enemies in illusions to wear them
down
•He’ll really make his enemies “hit the books”
(I’m sorry, please don’t go)

77. Rising from
Darkness
•Zexionnotes the presence of someone who
possesses a similar aura to their Superior and is
soon able to confirm Riku’s presence within the
castle, identifying the boy based on his aura
(translated as smell/scent for some reason)
•Vexenarrives and concludes that Rikuescaped
the Realm of Darkness using his own dark
powers and emerged in the Castle due to his
connection to Sora
•Zexionand Lexaeusare upset to know that
Marluxiahas already begun to enact the plan
without informing the two that Sora was within
the castle
•Vexenagrees that his plan is foolish, but takes a
special interest in Rikudue to his ability to
overcome darkness
•Vexenbriefly engages Rikuin combat to sate his
curiosity, telling the boy that his Superior is
Ansem’sNobody, who exists between light and
darkness
•Before fleeing, Vexenreveals that his true
purpose was to collect data from RIku

78. •Zexionshows concerns about Marluxiaand Larxene, while Lexaeusis more
concerned with Axel’s “wild card” nature: both hoping the Vexen’sreplica
will solve their issues
•As Rikucontinues up Castle Oblivion, he soon comes face to face with the
RikuReplica, who is acting much more antagonistic compared to the one
shown in Sora’s story
•The Replica insists that he’s better than the original as he isn’t afraid to use
darkness, though the real Rikudefeats him regardless
•Vexensends his Replica upstairs to fight Sora, while the RikuReplica
proudly insists that he’s far superior to both Sora and the real Rikubefore
leaving
•Ansemreappears, telling Rikuthat the Replica is what he should strive to
be, as he doesn’t fear darkness
•Rikuattacks Ansem, but is pushed back before being given another set of
World Cards
Rising from Darkness

79. RE-Write
•An expanded scene from Sora’s story plays out, with Vexen
introducing his Replica to Larxeneand Axel
•Larxenetells the Replica that by giving him the real Riku’s
memories with Naminé’spower, he can be just like the real
one
•The Replica isn’t pleased with this, viewing the real Riku as a
weakling who fears darkness
•However, none of the Organization members really care
about his dissent, and after a brief struggle with Larxene, the
Replica is forced to submit as a horrified Naminélooks on
•This changes his attitudes and feelings to match with what
we see in Sora’s story, including his memories of Naminéand
his oath to protect her

80. Rising from Darkness
•Some time later, Lexaeusreturns and informs Zexion
that Vexenwas killed by Axel
•While Lexaeusfears Sora, they can’t eliminate him, as
the Superior requires the boy for his own plans
•To combat Sora’s light in the event Marluxiagets total
control of him, they decide to use Riku’sdarkness
•Rikusoon meets Lexaeuswho tries to tempt him into
using darkness, to no avail
•After a grueling duel, Lexaeushits Rikuhard enough to
knock him unconscious
•A dark aura overcomes the boy, and as he stands back
up in Dark Mode, Rikudefeats Lexeausin a single blow
•Speaking in the same dual voice as he did in Hollow
Bastion, Rikuis once again possessed by Ansem
•As Lexaeusfades away, he realizes that the aura they
sensed that was similar to their Superior was Ansem,
lurking in Riku’sheart

81. Rising from Darkness
•Riku, trapped within his own heart, is taunted by
Ansemand is nearly overcome before Mickey is able
to save him and regain control of his body
•Riku reawakens in Castle Oblivion, and while Mickey is
gone, he feels the King connected to his heart
•Meanwhile, Zexionand Axel, who faked his death in
front of Sora, are recounting the dead Organization
members, both believing Marluxiawill be the next to
fall
•The two agree that Riku is no longer needed to
destroy the traitors, and is a threat to any future plans
•Zexion, taking a Destiny Island card from Axel, goes to
confront Riku

82. Rising from Darkness
•As Riku ascends to the next floor, a large quake
reverberates throughout the castle
•Zexionarrives, informing Riku that Marluxiahas been
destroyed by Sora and that he can reunite the two
•He warns that since Riku has the still has the darkness of
Ansemwithin him, Sora may fight him to fulfill his duty
of eradicating darkness
•Riku proceeds through the memory of Destiny Islands
until he meets Kairi, who fades away
•Zexionconfronts Riku, reminding him that he can only
meet beings of darkness within his memories, and that
he forgot his friends when he destroyed the worlds
•They find themselves on the night of the storm, and see
the memory of Riku opening the world’s Keyhole
allowing the Heartless to invade and destroy it

83. Rising from Darkness
•After fighting a Darkside, Riku sees Sora at the
edge of the island
•Riku meets his friend, but Sora attacks him,
telling Riku that as a servant of darkness, he
must be destroyed
•Sora fires a beam from his Keyblade, blinding
Riku in light
•As Riku falls into the light, a vision of Kairi
appears, telling Riku that neither darkness or
light can destroy him, and that he should
embrace the powers of both
•Visions of Naminéand Kairi ask if he wants to
run, and Riku resolves to use the powers of
both light and darkness

84. Rising from
Darkness
•Using the power of darkness to break
through the illusion, Riku attacks “Sora”
who is revealed to be Zexion
•Zexiontries to defend himself, but Riku
forces him to flee
•An injured Zexionreturns to Castle
Oblivion, turning to see Axel and “Riku”
•Zexionis initially frightened, before
realisingthat Axel found Repliku(after
Sora’s story) and they can use him to
defeat the real Riku
•Axel asks Replikuif he wants to become
real, telling him that by gaining more
power he can become a real person
•Replikugrabs Zexionand begins to drain
his power, with Axel looking on as Zexion
fades away

85. Rising from Darkness
•Back in Castle Oblivion, Riku encounters Ansem
again who says that since Riku has chosen to
embrace darkness, it will soon consume him
•Ansemputs Riku in a T-pose, until another ball of
light from the King appears and flies into Riku’s
heart, keeping Ansemat bay a little longer
•The real Mickey soon appears, with Riku releaved
to see a friendly face
•Mickey managed to escape the Realm of Darkness
using a card; a card which depicts Twilight Town

86. Final Preparations
•Riku appears in Twilight Town alone before soon
meeting Ansem, who tells Riku to fight him one
on one
•Riku realizes that this is not the real Ansem, as
he doesn’t have the same dark aura that Ansem
does, and this Ansemis the one who initially
guided Riku out of the void
•Ansemtransforms, introducing himself as asDiZ
(Darkness in Zero)
•DiZtells Riku that he must first find Naminéand
then make a choice

87. Final
Preparations
•Riku makes his way to an old mansion,
where he is confronted by his Replica
•Replikunotes that the real Riku has
changed, no longer afraid of darkness
•Replikuexpresses his desire to become
a real person, and feels that he can’t be
his own person as long as the real Riku
exists
•Replikuattacks, and they battle for one
final time, with Riku coming out on top
•The Replica begins to fade away into
darkness, and as he does, wonders
what happens to a Replica when it dies
•Riku hopes that his heart will go to the
same place Riku’s would
•Replikuaccepts himself for who he is,
and fades away into the darkness

88. Final
Preparations
•Riku continues his way back into Castle Oblivion, finally meeting
Naminéand Sora, now within the pod to regain his memories
•Naminéexplains to Riku why Sora is sleeping in the pod, and gives
Riku a choice whether or not he wants to do the same thing to seal
the darkness in his heart
•If he accepts, Ansemwill no longer have power over him, but he will
also lose his memories up until the moment he embraced darkness
for the first time
•Riku refuses the offer, deciding to face Ansemin one final
confrontation
•Naminéis pleased that he declined the offer, and Riku reveals that
he knew that the Kairi he met in the memory Destiny Islands was
her, as the two have the same aura
I knew when I met you.
You and Kairi smell the same.

89. •Riku proceeds to the next floor, meeting with
Mickey and DiZ
•While Mickey doesn’t recognize DiZ, he feels like
they’ve met before
•DiZgifts the two the same black cloaks as the
Organization, both to help conceal their identities
from the Nobodies and to protect them from
darkness, which the Nobodies can’t control
•Riku proceeds to face Ansemalone, telling Mickey
that if he loses, he wants Mickey to destroy him
•Mickey refuses, telling the boy that he knows Riku
will win, and even if he doesn’t, Mickey would try
to save him
•With his preparations made, Riku proceeds to
confront Ansemfor a final time
Final
Preparations

90. Final
Confrontation
•Ansemsoon appears before Riku, trying
one last time to tempt him into giving in to
darkness
•Riku refuses, and Ansem(with his Dark
Figure) engages Riku in battle
•After a difficult fight, Riku defeats Ansem,
though he warns the boy that this is far
from over
•Ansemsays that as long as darkness exists
within Riku, he can and will return, before
the Heartless explodes in a burst of
darkness

91. •With Ansemdefeated, Riku and Mickey leave Castle Oblivion
•While Riku feels he can’t return home yet due to Ansem’slingering
presence, Mickey reassures him, saying that due to Riku’s example,
he believes that darkness is not inherently evil and can be used for
good
•Riku calls him “Your Majesty”, but the experience has convinced
the King that he and Riku are now friends, and tells the boy to
simply call him Mickey
•The two find themselves in the grassy field where SDG were at the
start, and reach a crossroads with DiZawaiting them
•The man asks Riku if he is choosing the road to darkness or light,
with Riku choosing the middle road instead
•DiZasks if it is the twilight road to nightfall, with Riku simply
responding that it’s the road to dawn
The Road to Dawn

92. Sunset
Streets
•As the credits roll, we see the
remaining hooded Organization
members meeting in a round
room full of chairs, clearly aware
of what has occurred in Castle
Oblivion
•Naminécontinues to fix Sora’s
memory, supervised by DiZ, while
Riku and Mickey continue their
journey together
•A brief glimpse of a blonde-haired
boy in Twilight Town is also
shown, climbing on top of the
town clock tower, and gazing into
the horizon

93. Fan Art Links
•Slide 44: cigardoesart
•Slide 62: Forevergeek
•Slide 64: Awkward Zombie
•Slides 67 and 89: arcanekeyblade5

94. FIN

95. The story is not over…

96. Summer Vacation,
Day 1
•One year after the end of CoM, we begin KH2 as a boy
named Roxas living in Twilight Town, who has been
having dreams of Sora’s previous adventure
•He hangs out with his friends Hayner, Pence and
Oletteat their usual spot, as the group makes plans
on how to spend their last week of summer vacation
•The group explains to Roxas that someone has been
stealing things all over town, and the leader of the
towns unofficial “Disciplinary Committee”, Seifer
Almasy(of FFVIII fame) believes that they are to
blame

97. •The four soon discover that the theft even
extends to words of the stolen items, before
Roxas gets dizzy and passes out, hearing a voice
saying that “his” heart is returning and will
awaken soon
•After Roxas recovers, the group confronts Seifer
and his gang
•Fuu(FFVIII)
•Rai (FFVIII y’know)
•Vivi (FFIX)
•After a brief tussle with Seifer, Roxas sees the
thief, a strange white figure that steals Pence’s
camera, and chases after it
Summer Vacation,
Day 1

98. Summer
Vacation, Day 1
•Roxas pursues the creature to a nearby forest,
reaching the gates of a strange manor
•The white creature says that he has come to
retrieve Roxas, referring to him as “his liege”.
•Roxas tries to fight it off, but to no avail
•The Keyblade suddenly appears in his hand,
allowing him to destroy the thief, recovering both
the photos it stole, as well as the word itself
•With their names cleared, the three return to
their usual spot eating Sea Salt Ice Cream,
noticing that all of the stolen photos have Roxas in
them
•As Roxas heads home, he hears Sora’s voice

99. Restoration
at 12%
•Meanwhile in a computer room, two
figures continue to observe Roxas
•DiZ, the man who helped Riku and
Mickey in CoM, explains to another
figure in a Black Cloak that the white
creature was a lesser Nobody (a Dusk),
and a servant of Organization XIII
•Lesser Nobodies can’t tell the
difference between data and the real
thing, so it confused the photos with
Roxas himself
•DiZnotes that time is running out and
that Naminé needs to hurry and finish
restoring Sora’s memories

100. Summer
Vacation, Day 2
•After another dream of Sora, Roxas runs into
the black cloaked figure shown with DiZ, who
walks away without a word
•Haynersuggests the group go to the beach, and
the group take on part-time jobs to get some
munny,
•Haynerand Roxas also agree to participate in a
sports tournament, called Struggle, in two days
time, planning on splitting the prize if either of
them win
•Once gathered, Olettehands the munnypouch
to Roxas before the black-cloaked figure
appears, whispers something to Roxas, and
steals the money
•Roxas recalls that the figure, who none of them
saw, asked him “Can you feel Sora?” before
vanishing

101. Restoration
at 28%
•Back in the computer room, DiZreveals to
the robed figure (who has the munnyin
hand), that the Twilight Town Roxas is inside
is a simulation that DiZcreated
•DiZhad the robed man steal the munnyhe
did not design a beach in the digital world,
fearing that it would give the Organization
another point to access the simulated world
•DiZtells the man to delete the digital munny
pouch, saying that objects from the virtual
world should not be used in the real world
Think about it DiZ, infinite munny!
Diamond hands to Kingdom Hearts itself!

102. Summer
Vacation,
Day 3
•Roxas dreams of Naminé watching over Sora in
his pod, and while asking who she is, he gets
no answer
•When running into Oletteand Pence in town,
they and the rest of the world freeze in place
before Naminé appears
•She greets Roxas, saying she wanted to meet
him at least once, but before he can get any
answers, she vanishes
•Roxas wonders if she went to the mansion, and
tries to head there before being chased out by
some Nobodies
•While luring them into a fight with Seiferand
his gang, Roxas is unable to do anything
•Naminé calls to Roxas, telling him to use the
Keyblade as a bright flash appears

103. Restoration
at 48%
•As Sora did in the last game, Roxas finds himself in a
Dive to the Heart
•Along one of the Stations of Awakening, Roxas
encounters a giant Nobody called the Twilight Thorn
•While he manages to defeat it, darkness begins to
consume the area
•Fortunately, Naminé is able to drag Roxas out,
introducing herself to the boy
•She asks Roxas if he remembers his “true name” but
the cloaked figure seen with DiZstops her, saying that
Roxas shouldn’t learn the truth
•Roxas is forcibly sent back to the virtual Twilight Town
•DiZconfirms that the Naminé the figure stopped was
the real one, and while upset, states that as long as
Naminé restores Sora’s memory, is doesn’t matter what
happens to Roxas

104. Summer
Vacation,
Day 4
•Roxas, his friends and Seifer’sgang participate in a local Struggle tournament, with the
final match set between Roxas and, unexpectedly, Vivi
•After defeating Vivi, the world freezes again, with Vivi revealing he was a Nobody
•After defeating the Nobodies with the Keyblade, more appear and another black-
cloaked figure appears
•The man lowers his hood, revealing himself as Axel
•Axel speaks as though he knows Roxas, and remarks that the lesser Nobodies, called
Dusks, seemingly won’t be able to do the job
•Axel says that he’ll explain everything once he takes Roxas, but the world distorts again
•Frustrated, Roxas throws the Keyblade (though it returns to his hand), and before
engaging, Axel refers to Roxas as “No. XIII” implying he had a role in the Organization
•DiZsoon interrupts, and after a brief struggle, the world returns to normal, with Roxas
declared the champion after another brief match

105. Summer Vacation, Day 4
•Roxas receives a trophy with four orbs attached, splitting them off and
giving one to each of his friends when they meet on top of the clock
tower
•The group holds them against the setting sun, and as Roxas reaches for
some ice cream, he slips and falls from the tower, calling out for
Naminé
•Meanwhile, on Destiny Islands, Kairi reminisces about her
childhood, and while she can recall Riku, she has forgotten about
Sora, vowing not to return to their island until he can remember his
name
•She hears Roxas call for Naminé, telling the boy that her name is
Kairi
•Roxas notes that she is the one “he” likes, telling her his name
•Kairi asks for the name of her forgotten friend, when she hears
Sora’s voice chastising her for forgetting his name, simply giving a
hint that it “starts with an S”
•Kairi heads to the beach, sending away a message in a bottle telling
the boy that she will find him someday, finally recalling Sora’s name

106. Restoration at 79%
•The hooded figure returns to the computer room with Roxa’s
blue trophy orb in tow
•Placing it in the munnypouch, DiZexplains that meeting
Naminé has connected Roxas and Kairi, which sped up Sora’s
recovery
•DiZelaborates that Naminé was created differently from other
Nobodies, and as we know from CoM, has the power to
manipulate the memories of Sora and those he knows
•The figure asks whose Nobody she is, with DiZrefusing, asking
for his companion’s name instead
•The cloaked man removes his hood and introduces himself as
Ansem, the Seeker of Darkness from KH1, seemingly alive and
well despite his earlier defeats
•DiZlaughs, saying that it is an honour to meet him

107. Where Nothing Gathers
•In a meeting with the Organization, Axel has just
been given the order to eliminate Roxas
•Axel protests, but the group’s No. III reminds him that
he has no problem with eliminating traitors (as
several of the room’s empty thrones can attest to)
•Axel insists that Roxas didn’t betray them out of his
own free will, with No. III threatening him further,
explaining that there are consequences for
disobeying
•The group's leader, No. I (aka the Superior mentioned
in CoM) wordlessly threatens Axel with the possibility
of turning into a Dusk for failure
•Axel reluctantly complies, leaving for his mission

108. Summer
Vacation,
Day 5
•Roxas reawakens the next day, and he and his
friends try to investigate the “Seven Wonders of
Twilight Town”
•The majority of the leads seem to be false, except
for a mysterious train that appears, and a seventh
one at the mansion in the woods
•Roxas heads in alone, after seeing Naminé there,
and finds the girl’s room, covered in drawings of
Sora’s adventures
•She informs Roxas that he and Axel used to be best
friends, and explains how she is putting Sora’s
memories back together
•She also tells Roxas that he holds half of Sora’s
memories, and he needs them to awaken, gently
telling the boy that he “wasn’t supposed to exist”
•Roxas leaves, returning to the usual spot with his
friends…

109. Restoration
at 79%
•DiZand Ansem meet again, with Ansem
asking DiZwhy he showed Roxas the train
•DiZreplies that he felt bad for making the
boy miss the beach
•Ansem tells DiZthat his memories of Sora
are returning, with Ansem confirming that
the same phenomenon appears to be
happening to all connected to the boy
•Ansem asks DiZwhat his motivation is, with
DiZreplying that he is seeking revenge
•DiZalso tells Ansem that once Naminé has
served her purpose, she is to be disposed
of

110. Dreams of the Past
•Roxas has dreams about the end of KH1 and the start of CoM,
fading away as SDG enters Castle Oblivion
•Roxas continues to dream of a strange beach, wearing one of
the Organization’s cloaks, meeting a man who says he met with
someone who looks a lot like Roxas
•When he asks the man for his name the dream stops,
continuing onto another scene in a rainy city
•Roxas, wielding two Keyblades(Oathkeeperand Oblivion),
fights several NeoshadowHeartless
•He looks up to see an older, blindfolded Riku on a skyscraper
•The two fight, with Roxas seemingly the victor; the dream
fading as Riku asks why he has the Keyblade

111. Summer Vacation,
Day 5
•Roxas wakes up the next day, and when returning
to his friends, find that they don’t notice him; his
hand even phasing through as they run by
•He is soon confronted by Axel and some Dusks. He
pretends to remember Axel, but after failing to
remember their Superior’s name, Axel reluctantly
sends the Dusks after him
•The world, including Axel, soon freezes, and DiZ
appears telling Roxas to go to the mansion
•After Roxas leaves, Axel gets free and accepts that
the Roxas he knew is gone; the Flurry of Dancing
Flames now committed to his mission

112. Summer Vacation,
Day 6
•Roxas heads to the mansion, returning to Naminé’s
drawing room
•He begins to regain more memories, seeing himself in the
rainy city again, leaving the Organization behind
•Axel wanted him to stay, but Roxas wanted to know why
the Keyblade chose him
•Naminé explains that Organization XIII is comprised of
incomplete people trying to use the power of Kingdom
Hearts to maekthem whole
•Before Roxas can inquire further, she vanishes and DiZ
appears, telling Roxas that he is a Nobody
•Ansem returns telling DiZthat they need to leave, but
Naminé reappears, telling Roxas that Nobodies are half a
person, and that he won’t disappear, but will be made
whole
•Before being taken away by DiZ, Naminé promises Roxas
that the two will meet again, even if they don’t recognize
each other
Roxas! We will meet again.

113. Summer
Vacation, Day 6
•Roxas finds the digital version of the DiZ’scomputer room in
the basement, and more memories come flooding back
•He recalls sitting in Organization XIII’s meeting room, along
with all of the members killed at Castle Oblivion present as
well
•He remembers more of his escape and battle with Riku,
revealing that Riku got a second wind and somehow
defeated Roxas
•The last thing Roxas recalls is DiZand Ansem putting him in
the simulated Twilight Town with a fake personality while
Naminé worked on restoring Sora
•While Ansem felt guilty about this, DiZacted indifferent,
saying that he is merely a Nobody and it is his fate
•Roxas smashes the computer in a rage, proceeding to the
next room

114. Summer Vacation,
Day 6
•In the next room, Roxas
encounters Axel
•While he reveals that he has
recovered his memories for real,
Axel says that it’s too late
•Roxassummons Oathkeeperand
Oblivion, and the two face off
•Roxasdefeats his friend and
recalls that the reason Axel told
him not to leave or he would be
destroyed
•Axel fades away, promising to
see his friend in the next life

115. Summer Vacation,
Day 6
•In the next hallway Roxassees pods containing Donald
and Goofy
•He soon finds DiZstanding in front of a giant pod
•DiZexplains that he needs to restore Sora’s memories as
he requires an inhabitant of the Realm of Light to
destroy Organization XIII for him
•DiZcalls himself a servant of the world, and when Roxas
tries to attack him, reveals that he is a digital projection
of the real thing
•Roxasexpresses his hatred for DiZ, who tells him that he
should share that hatred with Sora, who is too nice
•Roxasreaffirms that his heart belongs to him, but DiZ
vanishes
•The large pod opens, revealing Sora
•As he is reabsorbed into Sora’s heart, Roxasaccepts that
his summer vacation is over…

116. Restoration
Complete!
•Sora reawakens, having grown older and taller during his slumber
•After reuniting with Donald, Goofy and Jiminy, the group recall what happened
previously; the defeat of Ansem, the return of Kairi to Destiny Islands and their
continued search for Riku and King Mickey
•As Naminé stated in CoM, the group has entirely forgotten about the events in Castle
Oblivion, including the girl herself; the only trace left being a note in Jiminy’s Journal
•The group ventures out to find out what strange new place they’ve ended up in, and
resume their goal of finding Riku and the King

117. •The group, in the real Twilight Town, meet Hayner, Pence
and Olettewho tell him that they saw a hooded figure
matching the King’s description heading towards the train
station
•SDG head to the station, only to be ambushed by a group
of Dusks
•They are soon saved by King Mickey, who defeats the
creatures, give Sora the munnypouch that Ansem took
from Roxas in the data world, and instructs them to board
the train to the Mysterious Tower
•SDG bid farewell to Hayner’sgroup and although Sora has
just met the three, he feels like he has known them for a
long time and sheds a tear before boarding the train…

118. •Meanwhile, it is soon revealed that Axel
survived his battle with Roxas, but he was
apprehended by Ansem soon afterwards
•Naminé, who was also captured, learns that
DiZwants the two of them eliminated due to
their nature as Nobodies, but Ansem decides
to let them live
•He explains that the two helped him at Castle
Oblivion, and while they aren’t sure what he
means, they take their leave using a Corridor
of Darkness

119. •Once the train stops, SDG are met by Pete, a
troublemaker from Donald and Goofy’s
home who was banished years ago
•Pete unwittingly explains that he is a servant
of Maleficent, and is currently seeking to
turn the owner of the tower, Mickey’s
former Master Yen Sid into a Heartless
•Sora reveals that they were the ones who
defeated Maleficent
•The group scales the tower to meet the old
master, leaving Pete in the dust
Oh Maleficent? She’s toast! Gonnacry?

120. •The group ascend the tower,
defeating Heartless as they go
•Eventually, the group finally
meet Yen Sid himself who asks
if King Mickey had given them
their most recent instructions,
explaining that they have
another long journey ahead of
them
•Sora explains that he’s trying to
simply find Riku and go home
•Yen Sid cryptically says that
everything in his journey is
connected, with Sora himself
as the key to it all: the key that
will open the door to light
You are the key that will open the door to light.
Chosen wielder of the Keyblade!

121. Lore:
Organization XIII
•Yen Sid explains that while Sora’s previous efforts prevented a lot
of Heartless from entering the Realm of Light, darkness lurks
within most hearts, preventing them from ever truly going away
•Yen Sid further elaborates on the enemies the group will
encounter on their journey
•As before, both Pureblood and Emblem Heatless exist, and arise
from the darkness within people’s hearts
•Nobodies form if a person with a strong will becomes a Heartless;
the empty body and soul left behind act with a will of its own; they
“do not exist”
•While Nobodies may seem to have emotions, they are apparently
faking it, since they lack hearts
•The strongest of the Nobodies, which take a human shape,
formed Organization XIII (more like Organization VII at this point)
and command lesser Nobodies
•They seem to be working towards a common goal, but Yen Sid
isn’t sure what that is
•Mickey went off to fight against the Organization, and has been
on the run ever since the events of CoM
If the heart succumbs to Darkness
The heart always
becomes a heartless
If the user had a strong will, the
body and soul left behind may form
a Nobody
Real strong Nobodies keep a human
shape, get nifty powers and join
Organization XIII

122. •Yen Sid directs Sora into a room with three fairies
who give Sora magical garments to aid him on his
journey through the use of Drive Forms
•Flora, Fauna and Merryweatherfrom Sleeping Beauty
•These forms give Sora a boost to his abilities based
on his friends or past experiences
Valor Wisdom Master Limit ANTI

123. •With his new clothes in tow, Yen Sid
returns the group’s Gummi Ship and
informs them of an additional change to
the worlds
•With the events of KH1 returning the
worlds to their initial states, the barriers
once keeping the worlds separate are also
restored, eliminating the Gummi Ship
pathways between them
•In response, worlds now have Gates,
acting as connections between the worlds
which may form paths to allow for travel
from world to world when unlocked with
the Keyblade
•With this information, Sora, Donald and
Goofy leave for their first world in their
new adventure

124. •As the trio and Yen Sid leave, the three fairies notice a
raven on the window
•The raven drops off a set of familiar looking robes,
with the fairies remembering that they belonged to
Maleficent
•In the act of remembering her, Maleficent is able to
seemingly resurrect herself
•(we’ll get to the how and why wayyyyyylater)
•She proceeds to cackle madly, accomplish nothing,
and leave, which she will continue to do for the
majority of the rest of series

125. •SDG soon arrive in Hollow Bastion once again, this time
finding that a town has been built
•The trio soon encounters the Traverse Town group, now
working to restore their former home world as the Hollow
Bastion Restoration Committee
•To help control threats in the town, the committee has been
able to make use of a computer-based security system able to
defeat Heartless and Nobodies that enter the town
•After making Sora an honourarymember, Leon explains that
they need Sora’s help both to take care of the lesser
Nobodies, and a vast sea of Heartless within the valley below,
near Maleficent’scurrent base of operations, Villain’s Vale
•The remaining members of Organization XIII (except Axel)
appear to taunt the group, hinting at his connection to Roxas
before vanishing
•Back in their meeting room, the Organization muse on the
Keyblade wielder’s new adventure before moving out to
pursue their unknown objective…
I’m in the committee too! Me! Merlin! I
even have a new volume of the Winnie
the Pooh world Sora!!

126. The Journey Finally Begins
•As the group sets out from Hollow Bastion, SDG moves along
through a series of Disney Worlds to accomplish their goals:
1.Find King Mickey and Riku
2.Open the Gates to travel between worlds
3.Find out what Organization XIII is planning and stop them
•The group encounters a few members of the Organization on
their early travels including…

127. ORGANIZATION XIII: XALDIN
Attribute: Wind
Weapon: Lindworm
III
The Whirlwind Lancer 旋風の六槍
•Probably tied with Lexaeus
for “most boring
Organization member”
•Cool fight later though
•Super into Beauty and the
Beast
•Grand plan to gaslight the
Beast into becoming a
Heartless so he can add his
respective Nobody to their
ranks
•Can’t even take a hostage
correctly, smh

128. ORGANIZATION XIII: DEMYX
Attribute: Water
Weapon: Arpeggio
IX
The Melodious Nocturne 夜想のしらべ
•“Dance magic water dance!”
•A lazy slacker who would rather play his sitar
than do any actual work for the Organization
•Initially sent to Olympus Coliseum to find
Sora and try to awaken Roxas, but failed and
fled after a brief battle
•Definitely the odd man out of the still living
Organization members by KH2, and has the
most obvious personality aside from Axel

129. •As SDG continues their journey, Pete has
informed Maleficent that none of her Legion
of Doom are interested in joining her for a
second round, while also informing her of
everything that happened since she died
•The group briefly stops at Disney Castle upon
the request of the Queen who tells them that
they are under attack by Heartless
•The Queen, escorted to the throne room,
shows Sora an object called the Cornerstone
of Light, a large orb with the power to repel
darkness
•The room is covered in thorns and Maleficent
appears, letting the group know of her
resurrection and her intent to corrupt the
Cornerstone of Light and take the castle for
herself

130. •The group seek Merlin’s help who is able to create a door
to the past, allowing them to head to the point in time
where they can prevent the corruption of the castle,
telling them to find the matching door that the enemy is
using and close it
•The group is transported to the past (now in black and
white) and after a brief encounter with past Pete,
continue to track down the Pete from their time
•A series of flashbacks show how Pete, wishing to go back
in time after being berated by Maleficent, found a door
to Timeless River and was instructed to destroy the
Cornerstone of Light
•With the corruption gone, group continue on the next leg
of their journey, while strange things begin to happen
back on Destiny Islands…

131. •We open on a scene of Pluto following Axel in the same city as Roxas’s
flashbacks
•While the dog is unable to follow, a second Corridor of Darkness appears
after someone whistles to him
•Kairi is beginning to wonder if she should try to find Sora herself, when
Axel appears claiming to be an acquaintance of Sora’s and offers to take
her to him
•Pluto soon arrives and leads Kairi away; the two vanishing through
another Corridor of Darkness before Axel can send his Dusks after them
•While in a strange tunnel, the whistle is heard again and a bright light
appears
•While Kairi sees someone in an Organization cloak, the portal closed
behind her before she can approach them
•The two arrive in Twilight Town, encountering Hayner, Pence and Olette
at their usual spot
•Soon afterwards, SDG return to Twilight Town for more leads, but are
soon attacked by more Nobodies led by…

132. ORGANIZATION XIII: SAÏX
Attribute: Moon
Weapon: Lunatic
VII
The Lunar Diviner 月に舞う魔人
•Speaks softly, carries a big stick
•Seems to have a particular interest in Axel
•He informs SDG that Axel has betrayed the
organization and is planning on turning Sora
into a Heartless
•Also says that the Organization doesn’t want
Sora hurt, encouraging him to keep fighting
the Heartless
•Before leaving, Saïx also hints at Riku’s
whereabouts, but Sora is unable to ask for
more

133. •As thanks for fending off the Nobodies, Seifergives Sora
the real version of the struggle trophy before Haynerand
Olettearrive
•They inform Sora that a little while after Kairi arrived, Axel
appeared and kidnapped her, despite the trios best efforts
•Angered, Sora vows to get his friend back, and the group
move on with their journey
•At the Organization’s headquarters, Saïxreports to his
Superior, confirming that he told Sora to keep fighting the
Heartless
•The Superior explains that he wanted this message
delivered to make Sora doubt himself, as if one of the
Organization told him to keep doing it, it would make the
boy hesitate, become upset and drive him to continue his
goal as fast as possible
Not my wrist, that’s my one weakness!

134. •SDG return to Hollow Bastion, briefly encountering
Cloud who is after Sephiroth, and asks the group to let
him know if they encounter the swordsman
•They note how more Heartless and Nobodies seem to
be present in the area
•Meeting up with the Restoration Committee, Cid and
Aerithreveal that King Mickey is meeting with Leon,
and the two have found Ansem’slab and computer
within the castle
•Hopeful that they can get more information on the
Organization, Sora and co. rush off to meet them,
briefly encountering three strange fairies who work for
Maleficent
I’ll get him.

135. •Sora, Donald and Goofy head
inside the lab, with no signs of
Leon or Mickey, but briefly
encounter Tifa, who is looking for
Cloud
•The group also see a portrait of a
young silver-haired man, who they
assume is Ansem before he
became the Heartless they are
familiar with
•Leon soon appears from a secret
passage, bringing Sora to the
computer, warning them not to
damage it
•Due to an interruption by Stitch,
the group end up hitting the
computer, and a voice announces
that they are under arrest
•Leon warns them of a laser on the
other side of the room, which then
fires at the three, who disappear.

136. •Sora regains consciousness in a strange world, now
wearing armour and seeing Donald and Goofy being
taken away by several Heartless, led by Commander
Sark, who captures Sora as well
•The three are placed in a cell alongside Tron, who
explains that the three are inside the computer itself,
and the MCP has taken over
•Tron helps the three escape through the use of a
terminal, offering to help Tron defeat the MCP by
finding his user and getting the password to
something called the dataspace, referred to as the
DTD
•This would allow Tron to regain his functions, and the
group may be able to access sensitive information
relating to Ansem, the Heartless and Organization XIII
•Tron reveals that his User is none other than Ansem
the Wise
•Before Sora can explain that Ansem is dead, the MCP
finds them, forcing the trios hasty escape from the
data world

137. Say, fellas, did somebody mention the
Door to Darkness?
•Back outside the computer, the group discuss with Leon how to get
the password if Ansem has died
•While searching the lab, Tifamoves the portrait of Ansem revealing
information which shows that the DTD Tron mentioned stands for
“Door to Darkness”, though they still don’t have the password
•Mickey arrives, telling them to keep quiet as the Organization may be
listening
•He believes that since the seven Princesses of Heart were required to
open the real Door to Darkness, their names may be the password
•Mickey tells them that they can use the information to find out where
Ansem is, but before he can elaborate further, SDG head back into the
datascapeto help Tron

138. •After escaping from Sark’s game grid, SDG reunite with Tron and explain that they returned to give
him the password, with Tron asking why they didn’t just enter it from outside the computer
•Regardless, the four make their way to the main security tower, and Tron enters the names of the
seven Princesses of Heart
•With access to the DTD, Tron’s full functions are restored, but also gave the MCP full access to the
system
•The MCP prepares to activate a self-destruct program for all of Hollow Bastion, but Tron is able to
stall for time and the four are avert the destruction of the town by destroying a hostile program
deployed by the MCP
•Tron is pleased to have a fighting chance against the MCP, as it is what Ansem would want
•Sora confesses that Ansem was their enemy, with Tron surprisingly saying that the man is his
enemy as well, as he is the one who restored the MCP to the DTD system
•He explains that there was a time when Ansem would never do such a thing, confusing Sora
further
•Tron tells the three that their names are the new password, wishing them well before returning
them to the real world

139. Mistaken
Identity
•SDG access the computer, searching for Riku, Kairi, Nobodies
and Organization XIII, all yielding no results
•Frustrated, Sora starts hitting random keys until a picture of
an unknown man with blonde hair and orange eyes appears
•Mickey enters the room, congratulating them, and tells
them that the man in the photo is Ansem the Wise, much to
the group’s confusion
•Sora drags Mickey to the portrait of the silver-haired man,
insisting that thisin Ansem
•Mickey proceeds to explain that their old foe was not the
real Ansem, but merely an imposter who stole the identity
of Ansem the Wise
•The silver-haired man wrote most of the “Ansem” reports
from KH1 under that name, before unleashing the Heartless
on Hollow Bastion, and turning himself into the Heartless
the trio fought and defeated in KH1
•While dismayed that all of that effort was put into defeating
a fake, Mickey assures them that Ansem Seeker of Darkness
(SoD) needed to be stopped regardless

140. Lore: Secret Ansem report I
•As SDG have progressed, they have found several reports written by the Ansem the
Wise
•The reports go into detail of how he was the leader of a place called Radiant Garden,
who wanted to understand the nature of light and darkness to preserve the
happiness of his people
•He began with a psychological experiment with Xehanort, who has served Ansem
ever since the latter found the amnesiac young man several years prior, hoping to
recover the young man’s memories
•Ansem soon grew concerned with Xehanort’s well-being and potentially superhuman
abilities
•His reports soon detail that it was a grave mistake, the project snowballing with the
construction of a lab in the basement of his castle, while his apprentices began
collecting subjects for experiments on the “darkness of the heart” without his
permission or knowledge
•Ansem demanded that his six apprentices cease their operations and destroy their
research, falling into despair
•He soon met with King Mickey, who told him of the Keyblade and found a friend and
confidant in the King
•Mickey suggested that Ansem review the data obtained in the basement lab, where
Ansem soon discovered the “Ansem’sReports” found by Sora and friends in KH1
•Ansem notes that the only one written by him was the very first, with all others
written by Xehanort

141. Mistaken Identity
•Goofy asks that if the Ansem SoDwas who they defeated, what happened
to Ansem the Wise
•Mickey explains that he was hoping the computer would give him a clue,
believing that he might have information on Organization XIII
•Goofy realizes that if Ansem SoDwas the Heartless of this fake Ansem,
then he must have also created a Nobody
•Mickey confirms that he does have a Nobody, who is actually the Superior
of Organization XIII briefly encountered in KH1
•All of Sora’s work so far has been dedicating to fighting two halves of the
same person
•Mickey recalls meeting the false Ansem before his split into Heartless and
Nobody, but can’t remember the specifics such as his real name, or where
he met the fake Ansem
•Sora asks Mickey if he knows where Riku is, and while he clearly knows
something, the King refuses to answer
•Upon being informed of Kairi’s capture by the Organization, Mickey says
that the they should work on finding Riku and Kairi together, and can hold
off in finding Ansem the Wise
•As he says this, a huge quake reverberates throughout the castle…
The false Ansem
His Heartless
Ansem, Seeker of Darkness
His Nobody
The Superior of Organization XIII

142. Battle of 1000 Heartless
•The party rushes outside, seeing a huge army of Heartless led by Maleficent and Pete doing battle
with several Nobodies
•With the Nobodies having the upper hand, Pete flees while Maleficent remains, ordering the
Heartless to attack Sora when she spots him
•Sora, Donald and Goofy fight a mix of both Heartless and Nobodies on their way out of the castle,
running into and convincing Maleficent’sfairy minions to change sides
•The group continue battling their way through Hollow Bastion, with all members of the Restoration
Committee doing their part
•Sora briefly runs into Sephiroth, who is searching for Cloud to make him give into his own darkness
•Mickey tries to order get Sora and co. to leave and search for Riku and Kairi, but the three ignore the
order and remain to help their friendsThink you can handle this many?
I see... He wants to meet me again. Then I should
give him what he wants. That last bit of light is
always the hardest to snuff out.

143. No Heart
•As the battle rages outside, the Superior of
Organization XIII enters Ansem’slab
•While spotted by security, he makes short work of
the system, entering a disc into the computer and
inputs a series of passwords
•A secret passage opens within the castle, and begins
a very longwalk down to a secluded room
•As he walks, he recalls his time as one of Ansem the
Wise’s apprentices, asking for permission to perform
an experiment on Hollow Bastion’s Keyhole and the
Heart of the world
•Ansem forbade it, referring to this apprentice by his
real name; Xehanort
•Finally reaching his destination, Xehanort’s Nobody
sits within a chair in the hidden chamber, looking
upon a suit of armour that he addresses as “friend”;
a worn Keyblade beside it
It has been far too long,
“friend”.

144. No Heart
•In a flashback scene set before/during KH1, we see Vexenasking
Zexionwhere the Superior is, referring to him as Xemnas
•Zexioninforms Vexenthat Xemnas is located within the Chamber of
Repose, Vexenstorming off in response
•Zexionis stopped again by the Organization’s No. II, telling the
Illusionist that he has just recruited “Mar-something” to their cause
•No. II asks about the Chamber of Repose, explaining that before
becoming an apprentice under Ansem, Xehanort was involved in a
fearsome battle between Keyblade wielders
•The outcome of the battle caused Xehanort to lose his memories,
working under Ansem until his betrayal
•The Chamber of Repose was initially used to study darkness, and
was initially sealed by Ansem the Wise until Xehanort opened it up
again
•Xemnas, giving strict orders to never be disturbed within this
chamber, occasionally leaves to talk to someone in the chamber,
though there should be no one there
•Zexiontells his cohort that they need to focus on finishing the
Castle Oblivion project, with No. II telling Zexionabout an
additional goal Xemnas has not informed the group about
•The Chamber of Repose has a counterpart called the Chamber of
Waking somewhere within Castle Oblivion which Xemnas wishes to
find, as his other “friend” is contained within

145. •Continuing through the valley, Sora, Donald and Goofy are
confronted by Demyx, who is still reluctant to fight
•While they insult Demyx’slack of heart, he says that Nobodies do
have hearts, but the group don’t buy it
•Demyxrefers to Sora as a traitor and attacks, with SDG destroying
the Nobody in this encounter
•Mickey catches up with the group, as a battle above knocks a
boulder in his direcition
•Goody pushes him away, getting hit in the head, knocking the knight
down
•Sora, Donald, and Mickey (discarding his cloak), enraged at the
seeming death of their friend, race onward to aid Restoration
Committee in their fight
•After regrouping in a nearby cave they are rejoined by Goofy, who
explains that he was merely knocked unconscious
•Making their way to the bottom of the canyon, the four see the
Superior, who finally reveals his face…
Battle of 1000
Heartless
They’ll pay for this.

146. ORGANIZATION XIII: XEMNAS
Attribute: Nothingness
Weapon: Interdiction
I
The Superior of the In-Between 狭間の指導者
•The Nobody of Xehanort and leader of
Organization XIII
•“M A N S E X. Got it memorized? Wait, that’s
not right…”
•Once Mickey sees his face, he is able to recall
a meeting he once had with Ansem the Wise
•During the meeting Xehanort, still an apprentice
under Ansem, enters and asks about an
experiment which Ansem deemed too
dangerous
•Mickey finally recalls Xehanort’s name, to his
Nobody’s amusement
•The group tries to follow Xemnas, but are
interrupted by a large army of Heartless

147. Battle of 1000 Heartless
•Sora, alone against an army of 1000 Heartless, proceeds to
destroy them all after a taxing battle
•As the group confronts Xemnas, Sora demands to know
where Riku and Kairi are
•Xemnas claims not to know about Kairi’s whereabouts, but
tells Sora that the King knows about Riku’s whereabouts
before vanishing, Mickey following behind the Superior
•Axel soon appears telling Sora that the Organization’s goal
is to keep destroying Heartless with the Keyblade to free
the hearts within
•While ordinarily a good thing, Organization XIII has found a
way to gather these hearts
•Before Sora can ask more of Axel, Saïxappears, forcing the
redhead to flee and telling Sora that they will punish Axel
for his betrayal
•Saïxtells the boy that they have Kairi captive at their
headquarters, and refuses to let the boy see his friend,
despite his begging
•Saïxtells the now furious Sora to direct his rage at the
Heartless, saying that the hearts Sora has freed will come
together to form Kingdom Hearts, and allow the Nobodies
to become whole

148. Battle of 1000
Heartless
•Maleficent appears claiming that the right to Kingdom Hearts is
hers alone, summoning Heartless to attack Saïx
•Saïx, in turn, summons Dusks which defeat the Heartless and try to
attack Sora, who is saved by Maleficent
•She intends to use the boy to eliminate the remaining Organization
members, fading away as the Dusks overcome her
•Saïxsummons more Heartless (who follow the strongest side, now
clearly the Organization), letting Sora defeat them to collect the
freed hearts
•Sora, in despair over being used for the Organization’s plans,
refuses to fight but is soon sent into a portal of darkness by
Maleficent
•In the portal, a hooded figure leaves SDG a box containing the
photo from the digital Twilight Town (with Roxasincluded), and
some sea-salt ice cream which served to open the next gate
•SDG returned to the Gummy Ship, with Sora feeling as though Riku
was the one who gave him the box
•Despite being backed into a corner, the group resolves to fight
more Heartless and re-visit the worlds they’ve seen for more clues
about the location of Organization XIII’s headquarters

149. •After the battle, the Organization meets again with Saïxwondering if it will be
harder to control Sora now that he knows about the plan
•No. II assures Saïxthat Sora is too much of a goody-two shoes, and that his
desire to help others will keep him in conflict with the Heartless
•After wondering if they should keep Sora alive until the plan is complete, Xemnas
tells the group that if Sora is weak enough to be beaten by them, he is of no use
to them
•From here on, the Organization directly interferes with the order of each Disney
world
•The only Organization member to die during this part of the game is Xaldinwho
is killed in Beast’s Castle (down to IV now guys, maybe start getting a little
worried)
•Sora also briefly re-encounters the hooded figure who gave the three the photo
and ice-cream, who also possesses Riku’s Soul Eater sword
•We are also formally introduced to the remaining Organization members…
World Tour Take Two

150. ORGANIZATION XIII: XIGBAR
Attribute: Space
Weapon: Sharpshooters
II
The Freeshooter 魔弾の射手
•“Oopsy daisy!”
•Speaks in a confident, laid-back surfer
accent, dismissing any concerns with a
simple “As if.”
•Despite this attitude, he is very cunning and
as his past knowledge of Xehanort shows,
clearly knows more than he lets on
•Briefly encountered Sora in Hollow Bastion’s
first visit, but formally reveals himself in the
Land of Dragons, being mistaken for Riku
(who Sora thinks may be the hooded figure
that keeps helping SDG) by the boy

151. ORGANIZATION XIII: LUXORD
Attribute: Time
Weapon: Fair Game
X
The Gambler of Fate 運命を賭す者
•The only person who would by hyped by a
Kingdom Hearts pachinko game
•A man of games and luck, Luxord is a
gambler at his core, able to read others
quite well
•Sora encounters him in Port Royal, where
he uses the curse of the Aztec gold to
enhance a Heartless, a game which he
loses
•Despite his loss, Luxord is not a sore
loser, deeming such things as part of the
hand fate deals

152. •Despite their vast travels, Sora and co. haven’t
been able to find the location of Organization
XIII’s hideout, returning to Hollow Bastion once
again
•They find it overrun with Heartless from Space
Paranoids, Merlin claiming that the MCP has
been generating more Emblem Heartless the
same way that Xehanort did in the past
•Using a program developed by Cid, Sora, Tron
and the others are able to defeat the MCP for
good, putting Tron in control of the security
system
•Tron shows the Restoration Committee an
image of Hollow Bastion in its prime, before the
damage caused by Xehanort and Maleficent,
with everyone recalling the worlds original
name: Radiant Garden

153. Loose Ends:
One-Winged Angel
•After dealing with the MCP, Sora encounters Sephiroth
once again, who takes an interest in the Keyblade,
proceeding to duel Sora to try and claim it
•After a difficult battle, Sora manages to seemingly
triumph, though the one-winged angel is not harmed,
stating that while an impressive effort, Cloud is the
only one who can destroy him, requesting Sora find
his nemesis
•Sora, telling Cloud about Sephiroth, witnesses a clash
between the two
•During the battle, Tifafinally manages to find Cloud,
telling him that she is his light, briefly fighting off
Sephiroth herself
•Cloud and Sephiroth soon vanish in a flash of light,
with Tifacontinuing her search for her friend all over
again…

154. Loose Ends:
Rage Awakened
•Before heading back to Twilight Town, Sora makes a
quick stop to Disney Castle, finding a strange portal
near the throne room
•On the other side, Sora, Donald and Goofy find
themselves in a wasteland, standing before a kneeling
armoured figure with a large Keyblade
•The armour, referred to as the Lingering Will, recalls
“Aqua” and “Ven”, before noticing Sora’s Keyblade
•The figure seems to recall meeting Sora before, but
noting that the boy was “not the one he chose way
back when”
•Mistaking Sora for Xehanort, the figure rises, draws
his Keyblade and proceeds to put the three through
the most difficult battle they will face for a verylong
time
•After some time, the Lingering Will realizes that it was
wrong in its assumption that Sora was Xehanort
•Going dormant once again, the Lingering Will awaits
the real Xehanort, promising to have its revenge

155. •With no clues to the location of Organization XIII’s hideout, the group decide to check the
Twilight Town mansion in the photo given to them by the robed figure
•The three run into Hayner, Pence and Olette, who went to the mansion to try and find Kairi
•The kids know that strange visitors have come and gone from the mansion, and with clues such
as the duplicate trophy orb and munnypouch, they believe that there may be a gateway to an
alternate Twilight Town inside
•Some Nobodies appear to attack them, but Mickey reappears to help them out
•Mickey tells them that he has learned that the Ansem the Wise has infiltrated Organization
XIII’s world
•Sora tells him about the photo that he believes Riku have him, asking the King what he knows
about his friend
•Mickey is hesitant to answer, but lets it slip that he made Riku a promise
•Sora, ecstatic that his friend is alright and that he might be able to see him soon, heads into the
mansion with the others

156. •Inside the mansion, they find DiZ’scomputer
room, but require a password to enter
•Guessing that it has something to do with the sea-
salt ice cream they received in the box (Ansem’s
favourite flavour) they use it as the password
which grants them access to the Twilight Town
simulation
•Entering the simulation, Sora see’s the computer
smashed by Roxasand a portal, presumably left
behind by Axel when he entered the data-based
town
•Inside the portal, they find themselves in a field of
emptiness known as Betwixt and Between where
they encounter an army of lesser Nobodies

157. Flare, Flicker, Fade
•As the swarm of Nobodies begins to prove too much for the
group, an exhausted Axel appears to fight alongside them
•He explains that Kairi escaped from him and was taken by Saïx
•While he tells Sora to go on alone, Sora stays to fight with him
•Recognizing that there are too many to fight, Axel uses all of his
energy in a single attack
•While this clears the way, it also mortally wounds the Nobody
•As he fades away, Axel tells Sora that he was trying to reunite
with Roxas, but changed his mind as Sora reminded him too
much of his friend to harm him
•Axel opens the way to the Organization’s world before fading
away for real
•The Organizatonis aware of the infiltration and wonder why Axel
gave up his life
•Xemnas believes that the encounter would have an impact on
Sora’s heart, gazing at the thirteenth chair in their meeting room,
which sits empty…

158. •Sora, Donald, Goofy and Mickey arrive in the World That Never
Was, a dark city with a large skyscraper and the Organization’s
castle
•The group also see what appears to be Kingdom Hearts,
silhouetting the castle in the sky
•As the group venture onward, two Nobodies appear, separating
Sora from the others
•A hooded Organization member appears, summoning a two
Keyblades to attack Sora, who is suddenly facing the figure within
his own Dive to the Heart
•When questioned on his identity, the figure claims that he once
defeated a Riku, further provoking Sora

159. ORGANIZATION XIII: ROXAS
Attribute: Light
Weapon: Oblivion and
Oathkeeper
XIII
The Key of Destiny めぐりあう鍵
•To the surprise of absolutely no one paying
attention, the figure Sora is fighting is Roxas,
reawakened from Sora’s heart at the death of his
friend
•Roxas nearly wins the duel, but is defeated by
Sora
•In a flashback set right after Sora became a
Heartless in KH1, we see that the first person to
approach Roxas was Xemnas
•Rearranging the letters of Sora’s name and
adding an “X”, the Superior gave the boy his
name
•Axel and Roxas are shown briefly reuniting,
wondering if what Xemnas said about Nobodies
having hearts is true, mentioning a third person
simply referred to as “her”
•Beaten, Roxas accepts his fate to fully merge with
Sora, telling the boy that he “makes a good other”

160. •While the group finally reaches the
edge of the city and recovers, Saïx
approaches Kairi’s cell to taunt her
•After he leaves Naminé appears in a
portal, helping Kairi escape, their
meeting causing a bright light to shine
which Sora notices
•Kairi and Naminé, who is beginning to
fade away, are soon stopped by Saïx,
but the hooded figure who has been
helping Sora drives the Nobody off,
now equipped with a Keyblade of his
own, the Way to the Dawn
•Naminé refers to him as Riku, and Kairi
pulls down his hood to reveal the face
of Ansem SoD

161. •Sora, now fully complete after coming to
terms with Roxas, unlocks his final Drive
Form: Final Form
•The group is soon confronted by Saïxwho
tells them that Kingdom Hearts is almost
complete, needing only a few more hearts,
summoning a horde of Heartless
•Kairi, on a balcony above Sora, notices her
friend and tries to reach him, but is stopped
by some Heartless
•Riku/Ansem rescues her, giving Kairi a
Keyblade of her own: Destiny's Embrace
•This will never be explained
satisfactorily, stop thinking
•Maleficent and Pete soon arrive, plotting to
take the Organization’s castle for themselves
FInal

162. •While the others fight, Mickey continues fighting through more
Nobodies as he continues up the castle
•He soon runs into DiZ, carrying a large machine
•DiZremoves the wraps from his face, revealing him to be the real
Ansem the Wise
•He tells Mickey that he was going against Organization XIII for revenge,
as the founding six members were his initial apprentices; with a special
grudge against Xehanort
•Ansem tells Mickey about how he found Riku; some time after CoM,
Riku still felt Xehanort’s Heartless within him, left Mickey behind, and
met DiZwithin the Realm of Darkness
•Ansem describes Riku’s fight against Roxas, assuming that Riku was
unable to defeat No. XIII and had to rely on the darkness within him to
win
•This made Riku take on the appearance of the Seeker of Darkness, all in
the hope that retrieving Roxas for Ansem would help awaken Sora
again
•In shame, Riku made Mickey promise that he not reveal the truth of his
condition to Sora No Mickey, it wasn’t blackface. It was
darkness. It’s completely different.

163. Lore: Secret Ansem report II
•Further reports by Ansem detailed his betrayal by not only Xehanort (now
calling himself Ansem) but his other five apprentices; Braig, Dilan, Even,
Aeleausand Ienzo, who make up ranks II-VI of Organization XIII
•Their names got the same treatment as Sora, with the letters scrambled and an X
added in to make the names of their respective Nobodies
•Ansem himself was banished to the Realm of Darkness by the Nobodies of
his former apprentices, deciding to use the power of darkness within the
void of nothing he found himself in; taking the name of Darkness in Zero
(DiZ) and vowing revenge and sustaining himself through the hatred in his
heart
•As he traveled, Ansem soon understood what was described in Xehanort’s
reports (Pureblood and Emblem Heartless, the creation of Nobodies, the
Hearts of Worlds, etc.) eventually mastering darkness enough to escape
using a corridor of darkness
•From here he planned on heading to Castle Oblivion to face some of the
Organization members, learning of Sora, his defeat of Xehanort’s Heartless
and of the “witch” within the castle, Naminé

164. Lore: Secret Ansem report III
•DiZlearned that Naminé is a Nobody created from Kairi, who did not create a
Heartless due to her nature as a Princess of Heart, which prevented her body from
vanishing
•When Sora freed Kairi’s heart from his body in KH1, in addition to the formation of
Roxas through losing Sora’s own heart, the exit of Kairi’s heart from Sora’s body
resulted in the formation of Naminé
•This special connection gave Naminé the ability to alter the memories of Sora and
those connected with him
•While meeting both Riku and Mickey, who arrived at Castle Oblivion using corridors of
darkness made by Organization XIII, he did not disclose his identity, as he believed
Mickey would try to persuade him from taking revenge
•After Naminé and DiZmoved the now-slumbering Sora to Twilight Town, DiZsent Riku
to acquire Roxas and complete Sora, wanting to use the boy as his tool of revenge
against the Organization
•In his final report, with Sora ready to awaken the next day, DiZexpresses regret over
what his need for vengeance has cost, especially to Riku, now trapped in the
appearance of Ansem, Seeker of Darkness

165. •While confused as to how Kairi is fighting,
alongside “Ansem” no less, the group are soon
met by Xigbar, who destroys the Heartless
surrounding them
•The Freeshooterrefers to Sora as Roxas, with the
Keyblade wielder still not understanding what he
means
•Xigbaralso mentions that he pales in comparison
to the Keyblade wielders of the past, before
engaging the group in combat
•Sora emerges victorious, but refuses to elaborate
on what he said about Roxas as he fades
•Sora, Donald and Goofy move on to assist Kairi
You don’t look like you’re half the hero
the others were.

166. •At the top of the castle, at the Alter of
Naught, Xemnas waits and urges his
Kingdom Hearts to share its power with
the Nobodies
•Saïxasks Xemnas if Kingdom Hearts is
ready, with Xemnas telling his subordinate
that it is only a matter of time before it is
complete, and Sora may be disposed of
•Sora and Kairi reunite, sharing a hug, with
“Ansem” about to leave
•Sora calls out to who he thinks is his
former foe, saying that despite their earlier
conflict, he’s grateful for his help in saving
Kairi
•Kairi prevents the man from leaving,
explaining to Sora that he is actually Riku
•Sora, weeping tears of joy, asks his friend
why he didn’t tell Sora about his
whereabouts
•Riku (his voice now sounding like his own),
explains that he needed the power of
darkness until they defeat the
Organization, and had to remain with his
current appearance

167. •Ansem the Wise and King Mickey set up a machine further up the castle which will turn the
artificial Kingdom Hearts into data, thwarting Organization XIII, though the scientist is
unsure of whether it will be successful
•Sora’s party are soon stopped by Luxord, who traps everyone else in cards, leaving only Sora
to stand against him in a deadly gambling game
•Sora is able to win, Luxord calling out to Roxas as he fades away
•The last line of defence before Xemnas is Saïx, who also refers to Sora as Roxas, much to the
boy’s exasperation
•The Lunar Diviner finally reveals his true berserker nature, drawing on the power of the
moon to fuel his rage
•Sora, Donald and Goofy prevail, Saïxreaches out to Kingdom Hearts, in a vein hope to claim
a heart of his own, before fading away

168. •Sora finally asks Riku about Roxas, who tells Sora that Roxas
was his Nobody, which let him use the Keyblade and recall
some of Sora’s memories
•Roxasbetrayed Organization XIII and fought Riku, who was
unable to defeat the Nobody
•Removing the blindfold used to keep his darkness in check,
he transformed into Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, using the
Dark FIgureto subdue Roxas
•DiZappeared soon afterwards to take the Nobody into his
virtual Twilight Town, wipe his memory, and let the boy
reconnect with Sora
•While Riku tried to tell DiZthat Roxasfelt a connection with
Sora, DiZdismissed his concerns, telling him that Nobodies
don’t have feelings

169. •Up the castle, Ansem the Wise realizes that he was a fool to
think he could ever encode hearts, revealing to Mickey that
even the denizens of his simulated Twilight Town began
developing hearts of their own
•He warns his friend that the machine is about to explode, and
that anything could happen as a result
•When Sora arrives, Ansem apologizes to Roxas for his
mistreatment of the boy
•Xemnas appears, mocking Ansem for his attempts to stop him,
when it was his research that allowed for the creation of
Emblem Heartless as Xehanort, the plunging of worlds into
darkness as Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, and the formation of
Organization XIII as Xemnas
•Xemnas claims he will use the power of Kingdom Hearts to
make a new, perfect world, with Ansem claiming that any
world made by him would be an empire of ignorance
•The machine explodes, seemingly killing Ansem, while Riku
shields the others from the blast

170. •While the machine was unable to encode Xemnas’s
Kingdom Hearts, it did harm the creation, expelling some
hearts onto the streets of the dark city below
•Nobodies desperately try to grab the falling hearts, while
others are enveloped in darkness, recreating Heartless
destroyed earlier in the adventure
•The explosion also turned Riku back into his true self,
purging Xehanort’s heartless from his heart entirely
•The group soon notice the hearts trying to return to the
artificial Kingdom Hearts, as well as the horde of Heartless
now ascending the castle
•Leaving his cloak behind, Riku joins Sora and the others to
try and defeat Xemnas
•While the horde of Heartless almost catches up to them,
Maleficent and Pete appear to hold them off while the
heroes continue towards Xemnas, the witch assuring
them that once he is out of the way, they will be enemies
once more

171. Alter of Naught
•Upon reaching the alter, Xemnas urges them to
recollect the hearts for him, attempting to play for
sympathy by asking why they hate those turned away
by both light and dark
•Believing that Nobodies aren’t able to show emotion,
Sora and co. refute Xemnas, with the latter admitting
that his words were an attempt at manipulation
•The leader of the Organization transports himself and
Sora to the skyscraper within the city, with the two
fighting a one-on-one duel
•After a battle similar to their encounter in Hollow
Bastion over a year ago, Sora emerges victorious,
with Xemnas seemingly defeated

172. World of
Nothing
•Xemnas, defeated, calls upon the
power of Kingdom Hearts, absorbing
its energy before disappearing
•A door appears, “granted by the
worlds” according to Mickey, and the
group head into this “World of
Nothing” after some preparation
•Xemnas, atop a distant building in a
large fortress, separates Mickey and
Kairi from the others before retreating
•The party scales the gargantuan
fortress, meeting Xemnas at the top,
now wearing a massive suit of armour
and using the other Organization
members weapons
•Defeating him again, Xemnas tries to
call for more power and rage from the
hearts, with Sora telling him that
there are other emotions besides
hateand asking if he can remember
them
•Xemnas replies that he cannot, as he
seemingly fades away…

173. Two become One
•The group, now completely reunited, plan on returning to Destiny Islands
•While Riku is hesitant due to his prior actions, he agrees with Sora’s
encouragement
•The castle begins collapsing, and while Riku tries to open a corridor of
darkness, he is no longer able to without his dark powers
•A mostly transparent Naminé appears from Kairi, appears to create the
corridor, with Roxas similarly appearing from Sora
•The two Nobodies, pleased to have kept their promise to reunite, agree that as
long as Sora and Kairi are with each other, they will be together as well
•Roxas and Naminé return to their whole selves, and while most of the group
escapes, the portal closes before Sora and Riku can follow through

174. •Riku and Sora soon see Xemnas’sfortress reactivate, now
in the form of a large dragon
•Sora laments that he forgot to thank Naminé like Jiminy’s
Journal instructed, with Riku telling him he can do it once
they return home
•Using a nearby flying vehicle, they assault the dragon, and
an armoured Xemnas, who faked his death
•After dealing enough damage, the three find themselves
in a white void, with Xemnas preparing a final showdown
between them
•Proclaiming that his nothingness is eternal, Xemnas (now
in a spiffy new jacket) attacks the two islanders
World of Nothing

175. End of Nothing
•After a lengthy battle, with Riku sustaining the brunt of the
injuries, the two Keyblade wielders are able to finally put
Xemnas down
•With both Xehanort’s Heartless and Nobody destroyed,
and the ambitions of Organization XIII put to an end, it
seems Sora has seen the end of the wayward apprentice’s
madness
•The two soon end up on a beach known as the Dark Margin
within the Realm of Darkness
•The boys, resting on the beach, reaffirm their friendship
despite all of their recent hardships when a bottle washes
up on the beach…

176. Coming Home
•Within the bottle is the message Kairi sent before she tried to
find him herself
•After reading the message, Sora and Riku see the Door to
Light before them, the counterpart to the Door to Darkness
they closed after their first adventure
•Stepping through, the two return to Destiny Islands, reuniting
with their friends, Roxas and Naminé appearing within Sora
and Kairi
•Sora returns Kairi’s lucky charm as the scene fades

177. The Adventure
Continues!
•Sometime later, Kairi
meets with Sora and Riku,
bringing a letter from King
Mickey
•Opening the letter, they
learn that their quest is
not yet over, leading to
the next chapter of their
journey…
•But before that, we have
three games worth of
prequels to get through!

178. Fan Art Links
•Slide 110: Ateo88
•Slide 124: AquaVentusTerra
•Slide 145: Meme made with KiwamiGenerator
•Slide 147: Rischantag
•Slide 149: Awkward Zombie
•Slides 154, 158, 168, 174 and 175: ArcaneKeyblade5

179. FIN

180. What mattered the most was
remembered the least

181. Birth of
Nothing
•The game begins during the time
of KH1, shortly after Sora stabbed
himself to free Kairi’s heart
•This act, produced not only his
own Heartless, but also formed
both Roxas and Naminé
•Roxas, barely conscious at this
point, is found by Xemnas outside
of the Twilight Town mansion
•Xemnas inducts Roxas into the
organization, and gives him his
name, as shown in KH2

182. Day 7
•One week after Roxas’s induction, he
and all the other members of
Organization XIII gather at their
meeting room for Xemnas to introduce
their newest member, a hooded figure
simply referred to as Number XIV
•Roxas briefly recalls his own induction
into the Organization, still unsure of his
exact roll, recalling how Xemnas
introduced him as the Keyblade’s
chosen
•The new member seems to take an
interest in Roxas, focusing her gaze on
him

183. Day8
•The next day, Roxasis partnered with Axel by Saïx,
who tells the redhead to teach Roxaswell
•Before heading out Roxaslearns the name of
Number XIV: Xion
•Axel continues to make sure that Roxas knows the
names of some of the other Organization
members, namely himself and Xemnas
•Upon completing their mission, Axel takes Roxas
to the Twilight Town clock tower to share sea-salt
ice cream together
•While still unsure of what his exact purpose is,
Roxaslearns that he will be sent for field missions
every day to accomplish the Organization’s goals

184. Days9-13
•Over the next several days, Roxastrains with several of the
Organization member’s learning more about his purpose
•Marluxia explains the nature of hearts, Heartless and how
Roxas is the only one who can collect the hearts required
to complete Kingdom Hearts
•Zexionexplains how Nobodies lack hearts, and while this
prevents them from truly existing, it also makes them
desire hearts of their own to become complete
•Larxene instructs Roxas on how to fight without the
Keyblade, as he questions why he is the only one who can
use it
•Vexeninforms Roxason the nature of worlds and their
rules
•Lexaeusforces Roxas to accept his role as the Keyblade
Wielder, and his importance to the Organization

185. Day14-22
•Roxas and Axel briefly see Haynerand his friends, which
gets Roxas to question why they act the way they do
•Upon being invited by Axel to the clock tower again,
Roxas questions why, with Axel explaining that they’re
friends, like the kids they saw
•The two agree to meet at the tower to have ice cream
every day after work
•Roxas continues to execute his missions for the
Organization for several days, building rapport with Axel
•On Day 22, Axel tells Roxas that he, along with other
members of the Organization will be heading to Castle
Oblivion the next day, leaving Roxas alone
•As Axel leaves, Roxas notices that his ice cream stick has
the word “winner” printed on it, with the boy unsure
what it means

186. Day23-25
•Saïxpasses on a message, supposedly from Xemnas, telling Axel
about the Castle Oblivion traitors and to eliminate them, setting
up his role in CoM
•Roxas tries to look for Axel, but is informed of his departure
•Roxas teams up with Xion, who bears a resemblance to a young
Kairi
•Xiondoesn’t speak for the first day, but starts talking the day after,
her first word being Roxas’ name
•The following day, Roxas and Xiontake on a Darkside Heartless,
with Xionsummoning the Keyblade to defeat the monster.
•Roxas brings Xionto the clock tower, sharing his ice cream, and
declaring the two friends
•He tells Xionabout all he has learned, and looks forward to Axel’s
return

187. Day 26
•Roxas learns about the fall of the members
at Castle Oblivion (as shown in CoM), with
Saïxsaying that Axel has likely disappeared
for good
•On a mission with Xigbar, Roxas asks what
happens when Heartless are destroyed,
with the No. II telling him that they’ll
combine to form Kingdom Hearts
•When Roxas asks what happens if a
Nobody is destroyed, Xigbartells Roxas
that nothing is left of them and that they
won’t be seen again
•Before stepping into the portal to return to
the castle, Roxas faints, dreaming of Axel,
Xion, and a girl with blonde hair

188. Day 27
•Roxas dreams of an earlier meeting with
Xemnas along the Dark Margin, taking
place shortly after Xemnas’ fight with
Sora in KH1, six days after Roxas was
inducted into the organization
•He remarks on Roxas’ similarity to his
other, telling Roxas Sora’s name before
leaving
•In the present, Xemnas asks Saïxif Roxas
will wake, with Saïxstating that Roxas
should return if Sora is completely
stripped of his memories
•Saïxalso tells his master that with Xion
recently gaining use of the Keyblade, she
can fill in for Roxas while he is comatose

189. Day 49
•While Roxas is comatose, Xion
continues collecting hearts in his
stead
•At the end of each mission, Xion
brings a seashell back, laying it at
the boy’s bedside
•Roxas dreams of Sora entering the
pod at the end of CoM,
awakening the next day, meeting
with Xionat the clock tower
•Giving Roxas another seashell, he
sees a vision of Sora and Kairi on
Destiny Islands

190. Days51-72
•Over the next several days, Roxas continues his
missions alone with no word on what
happened to the members that went to Castle
Oblivion
•On Day 71, Roxas is surprised by the return of
Axel, and the two briefly share some ice cream
at the tower
•Roxas tells Axel about his new friendship with
Xion, and his promise that the three could get
ice cream together
•On Day 72, Saïxconfronts Axel about the
Castle Oblivion incident, especially concerned
with the disappearance of Naminé
•Axel states that he was also unable to find the
Chamber of Waking, and is impressed that Saïx
knew who to eliminate

191. Day73-74
•Roxas grows concerned over not seeing Xionfor
some time
•Axel and Roxas soon meet Xionat the end of one
of their missions, and the three head to the
tower for ice cream
•At the clock tower, Xionreveals that she has lost
the ability to use her Keyblade and worries that
she has become useless and be turned into a
Dusk, as she won’t be able to collect hearts
•Axel suggests that Xionteams up with Roxas on
all their missions, and that the Organization
won’t notice as long as Roxas collects double the
number of hearts
•He states that friends need to lean on each other
sometimes and when Xionasks if she and Axel
are also friends, the assassin replies that they
are

192. Day75-94
•Roxas and Xioncontinue their missions
together, meeting with Axel every day,
with the three building their friendship
over time
•On Day 94, Xemnas calls all still extant
members of the Organization and shows
them the fruit of their labour, the artificial
Kingdom Hearts shown in KH2
•He tells the group to continue to gain
power for his Kingdom Hearts, so that
they too may gain hearts of their own
•That evening, Roxas wonders why
Kingdom Hearts is so important or why
they need to have hearts at all
•Axel explains the importance of Hearts,
believing that they don’t really understand
due to their lack of a Heart, which Roxas
accepts

193. Day95
•Roxas and Xionreflect on how all
the Organization members all fill
unique rolls with the group, with
Axel explaining that they’re all
different, even without Hearts,
due to having memories of their
past
•Roxas and Xionconfirm that
neither of them recall lives
before the Organization
•A brief scene shows DiZand
Naminé arriving at the Twilight
Town mansion

194. Day 96
•Xionis told by Saïxthat she and Roxas will
be split apart for future missions, worrying
the two
•Roxas lends Xionhis Keyblade for the day,
reasoning that practicing with his might
help her recall how to summon her own
•Sure enough, after the daily mission, Xionis
able to summon her Keyblade again
•The two show Axel their progress, grab
some ice cream to celebrate, hoping that
they’re time together lasts forever
•Axel tells them that while things may
change, as long as they keep each other in
their thoughts, they’ll always be together
BET?

195. Day97-117
•With Xion’sissue resolved, Roxas continues grinding for hearts on his daily
missions
•On Day 117, Axel and Saïxmeet, with Saïxsending Axel to go back to Castle
Oblivion on a solo mission
•Saïxdoes this to find the Chamber of Waking, hoping to find clues about
Xemnas’strue motivations
•Saïxreveals that Xionalso came from Castle Oblivion, and that the link
between her, the Castle, and Naminé will allow them to track the missing
girl
•Axel states it plainly; he does all of the dirty work, assassinating members
who are no longer needed, so that Saïxcan get closer to Xemnas and find
out his motives
•That evening, Xionrecalls a distant feeling where she would sit with
someone and watch the sea, though she doesn’t believe it to be a memory
of her past

196. Day118-151
•Axel, Xionand Roxas spend a day off together before
Axel heads out on his “reconnaissance mission”, with
Saïxwarning Axel that he is getting too attached to the
Keyblade wielders
•During this time, Xionwas given a mission to defeat an
imposter posing as an Organization member
•Xionis defeated, with the imposter revealed to be Riku
(looking as he did in KH2 with the cloak and blindfold)
•Riku seems surprised at Xion’sface and why she has the
Keyblade, though he dismisses the sword as a fake
•Riku warns Xionto leave the Organization while she can,
before leaving
•Xionis berated by Saïx, who says that she never should
have been made, causing the girl to begin to have fearful
dreams she can’t remember
•Roxas tries his best to support his friend while
continuing to talk with Axel, beginning to fear what
would ever happen if he were to lose his friends

197. Day 152-192
•Roxas continued his missions, learning more about the world and
emotions as he went
•After mission he would often eat ice cream alone after Xionleft last
time
•On Day 172, Xionfails another mission, falling into a deep slumber
•Roxas goes to see his friend, leaving her seashells as she did when he
slept
•Axel confronts Saïx, asking him if there is anything more to Xion, with
the Berserker simply stating that she has no right to be among their
number
•Axel tells Roxas this information, but lies in saying that Saïxwould
reconsider his stance based on Xion’sfuture performance, in an
attempt tocheer his friend up

198. Day 193
•After several days and dreams of Sora
and Kairi, Xionreawakens with several
seashells beside her
•Xiontags along with Roxas on his
mission though she soon collapses
again, having more visions of Sora and
Kairi
•Both Saïxand Roxas notice that Axel has
changed, noting how he normally
doesn’t like things so complicated
•Axel reiterates to Roxas that he spends
time with Xionand Roxas because they
are best friends, and he will go out his
way for them
•Xionwakes up, taking it easy for the
remainder of the day
•In the Twilight Town Mansion, Naminé
sketches pictures of the three, though
Xionlacks a face…

199. Day194-224
•In his room, Axel looks through records from Castle
Oblivion, finding Vexen’snotes about Naminé
•On Day 224, Naminé reveals to DiZthat a Nobody is
interfering with her progress in restoring Sora’s
memories
•She explains that pieces of Sora’s memories are
missing, seemingly starting to find their way into
someone else
•DiZdismissisthe need for Sora to have all of his
memories, though Naminé insists that if his
memories become the memories of this other
person “she will not survive it”
•That afternoon, Xionasks Axel about Castle Oblivion
•As she starts to leave, Xiongets another dizzy spell,
nearly falling from the clock tower if not caught by
Roxas

200. Day225-255
•Xion, using the Organization’s computer, manages to gather
some files about Castle Oblivion that Saïxhad written
•On Day 255, Axel is sent to Castle Oblivion to clear out their
remaining facilities by Saïx, who reports to Xemnas and
Xigbarabout Xion’saccess to the network
•Xemnas tells Saïxto leave her be, saying that she is heading
toward her destined path and that they must simply watch
and wait
•Xionenters Castle Oblivion in search of answers, having a
flashback to a prior time she was there with Saïx, and claims
to have memories of seeing Axel there as well
•Axel arrives and tries to get Xionto leave, explaining that she
would be destroyed by the Organization
•Desperate, and realizing Axel won’t help, Xiondashes further
into the Castle, presumably goes through several floors of
card-based fighting, and eventually finds answers that leave
the girl in shock
•That evening Roxas and Axel meet at their usual spot, though
Roxas wonders where the absent Xionhas gone, with Axel
providing no answers…
Wh-What…Then I…wasn’t who I am…?

201. Day 256-276
•Xemnas calls the members of Organization together,
informing them that Xionhas disappeared, and they are
not to pursue her
•Roxas argues that they should search for Xion, but Xemnas
vetosthat decision, telling him that all will become clear
in time…
•Roxas spent his time alone, with neither Axel or Xion
appearing at the usual spot
•On Day 276, Xion, now on Destiny islands, continues to
have a series of nightmares after what she had learned in
Castle Oblivion
•When dreaming of a sunset with Axel and Roxas, she
expresses that her wish is to be with Roxas and Axel, but
can’t go back “the way she is now”
•Riku soon finds the girl, unconscious on a beach in Destiny
Islands…

202. Day 256-276
•In a flashback, we see a conversation between Riku and Naminé discussing how
Sora’s memories are escaping from Roxas into Xion
•Naminé warns Riku that if Soras memories completely merge with Xion’s, Naminé
would have to take more time to fix it, making Sora sleep even longer, an option
which DiZwould not allow
•If Naminé were to arrange Xion’smemory, Sora may wake up, but no one would
remember him
•Naminé states that the only solution for Sora to awaken without damage to
himself or others is for both Roxas and Xionto be eliminated
•In the present, Roxas tells Axel that while he thinks he saw Xion, he isn’t sure,
feeling like that day's mission was almost like a dream
•Axel proposes using their spare time to find Xion, starting the following day

203. Day 277–297
•Despite looking through all of the available
worlds, Axel and Roxas are unable to find their
friend
•Roxas suggests checking Castle Oblivion, and
Axel reluctantly reveals that Xioncomes from
Castle Oblivion, having only found out through
Vexen’stexts
•On Day 297, the two arrive at the Castle, but
Roxas passes out shortly after entering the
building, his head flooding with memories that
aren’t his
•Roxas reawakens in Twilight Town, seeming to
hear Riku and shouting for Sora’s friend
•The two soon encounter Xionand a cloaked
Riku, the two soon disappearing
•Riku asks Xionif she wants to go back to her
friends, with Xiongiving no response

204. Day 298
•Roxas meets Xionin Twilight Town, with Axel watching from the rooftops
•Roxas pleads with his friend to return, promising that he and Axel will protect her
•At the mention of Axel, Xionbegins to leave, drawing her Keyblade on Roxas
•Axel attacks Xion, and the two begin to fight, with a confused Roxas begging them to stop
•Axel knocks Xionout, and takes her away, leaving Roxas behind…

205. Day 299
•Back at headquarters, Axel and Saïxdiscuss the
situation, with Saïxexplaining that either Xionor
Roxas has tobe eliminated, and that he’s better
off saving Roxas: a real friend as opposed to a
fake one
•He also explains that Xemnas’spatience with
the two is running short due to their constant
“fixing”, telling “Lea” that there is too much risk
•Roxas confronts Xemnas, demanding to know
what happened to Xion
•At this moment, Roxas recalls their meeting at
the Dark Margin, and alsobegins to ask who
Sora is
•Xemnas, pleased at this recollection, explains
that he is the connection between Roxas and
Xion
•Xemnas tells Roxas that if he wants Xionto stay,
he must not be distracted from the goals of the
Organization
There is simply too much on the line … Lea.

206. Day 299
•Xemnas returns both Xionand Roxas to their duties,
dismissing the boy
•In a meeting between Xemnas and Saïx, Xemnas
admits that while Xionhas strayed from their initial
intentions, they are observing an interesting effect
•While Xionwas affected by Roxas, as anticipated,
Sora (through Roxas) began to shape the once
empty shell into her current form
•Xemnas realizes that by keeping Roxas and Xion
together, it will prevent Sora from waking up and
interfering with their plans
•Xemnas warns Saïxto keep the imposter away
from both Keyblade users, lest the plan be
compromised

207. Day 300 -321
•While Roxas, Xion, and Axel all meet at the clock
tower, they don’t talk or have ice cream, simply
staring out into the sunset
•Naminé reveals to DiZthat Sora’s memory has
stopped, and that unless something is done soon, he
will never wake
•DiZtells Naminé that they must take action,
reasoning that the Nobodies should never have
come into existence
•As the days go on, Roxas’s power and stamina begins
to decrease, while Xiongrows stronger
•Xionis concerned for Roxas, and asks Axel what’s
wrong with him
•Axel tells Xionthat she should know, finally revealing
to the audience Xion’strue nature…

208. ORGANIZATION XIII: XION
Attribute: Light
Weapon: Replica
Kingdom Key
XIV
Replica Program No. i
•Axel confirms that Xion is another replica created
by Vexen in Castle Oblivion, intended as a backup
in case Sora and Roxas prove inadequate
•Her initial purpose was to copy Roxas’s powers
•Axel believes that Roxas’s recent weakness is due
to Xion using more of his power than she should
•Axel tells Xion to think for herself, and that she
isn’t just a puppet
•Xion tells Axel she saw someone who looks a lot
like Roxas, asking if he is “who she thinks he is”
•Hiding nearby, Xigbar overhears the conversation

209. Day 322 -352
•Xigbar, Xemnas and Saïxmeet, agreeing that Xionis the more worthy
candidate to pursue their goals, preparing a “device” to further their goals
•Xemnas decides to pit the two against each other, reasoning that
whichever one wins the conflict, they will have Sora’s complete power
under Organization XIII’s thumb
•Xionbegins to realize that things won’t work out for her and her friends
on their current course
•In a flashback set before Riku and Xion’smeeting on Destiny Islands, Xion
asks Riku about the memories she has of Sora and Kairi
•Riku explains why she has some of Sora’s memories, telling Xionthat they
may be able to transfer the memories to Sora
•Xionexplains that she can’t leave, feeling that her friends need her
•Riku gives Xionsome time to sort out her feelings, telling her that the
answer must be what’s best for everyone

210. Day322-352
•During that day’s mission Roxas and Xion
are tricked into fighting each other, each
seeing the other as a powerful Heartless
•Fortunately, the two are stopped by Axel
before they can seriously injure each other
•That evening, the three share ice cream
again with Roxas proposing that the three
could just run away from the Organization
•The idea is dismissed as they would have
nowhere to run, with Axel restating that
the most important thing is that they keep
each other in their memories
•DiZ, seeing that no further progress can be
made on restoring Sora, sends Riku to deal
with Roxas and Xion…
I’ll have these moments memorized for a
long time. Forever.

211. Day 353
•Saïxtells Axel to get to cease meddling and that the Organization only
needs either Xionor Roxas, not both
•On a mission with Xigbarand Axel, Xionand Xigbarget into a fight,
with Xionappearing to Xigbaras a boy almost identical to Roxas
•Xiongets the upper hand, knocking Xigbarout
•Xiontells Axel to let her go, showing her face which surprises Axel
•Xionasks Axel to take care of Roxas before leaving, Axel not making
any efforts to pursue
•When returning to base, Axel and Xigbarexplain that Xionescaped
•Roxas asks Axel for details, with Axel finally explaining to Roxas Xion’s
nature of a replica
•Roxas, not understanding what Axel means, realizes that Xionwill be
destroyed and storms off
•Xionmeets with Riku, confirming that she found her answer
•Riku directs to Naminé in Twilight Town
Of all the faces… Why do I look at her and see yours?

212. Day 354
•At another Round Room meeting, Xemnas reveals to the
other members about Xionbeing a Replica, and her
purpose for the Organization
•Xemnas commands Axel, being the one who lost Xion, to
bring back Xionback alive
•Roxas catches up to Axel, demanding to know how long he
knew about Xion’snature as a power-draining copy
•King Mickey briefly meets with Riku and the two catch up,
with Riku explaining that they needed to absorb Sora’s
memory after unwinding them
•Riku further states that he may have to fight the
Organization soon and use the power of darkness to win
•He asks the King to look after Sora, Donald, and Goofy
when they awaken as Riku may not be able to do so

213. Day 355
•Roxas, still reeling over the information about Xion
and Axel’s lies, begins to doubt his own abilities and
wonders who Sora is
•Reasoning that Axel may know more about his own
origins, confirming that the Organization wanted him
removed since they had Xion
•When Axel refuses to tell him about his connection to
Sora, Roxas leaves, his trust in Axel and the
Organization broken
•In a scene previously shown in KH2, Roxas leaves the
Organization, refusing to heed Axel’s warning

214. Day 356
•Xionand Naminé finally meet, with Xionexplaining that she has realized that much
of her memories aren’t her own
•Naminé explains that Xionisn’t Sora or Roxas, but rather Kairi as Sora remembers
her
•Xioncontinues, stating that the more she remembers, the more she feels she must
go back where she came from, and return to Sora
•Naminé explains that if she does this, since Xionhas no memory of her own and is
only connected through the memories of others, she will not only cease to exist, but
others will forget about her as well
•Naminé is unable to fix this, though Xionif fine with this
•While Xionacknowledges that Roxas should also be going with her, she knows that
he won’t understand just yet
•Xionasks Naminé to watch over Roxas while she is gone, but before they can see
Sora, the mansion comes under attack

215. Day 356
•The assailant is revealed to be Axel, who
refuses to let his friend be destroyed
•Xionrefuses to return with Axel,
believing that her actions are for the
good of everyone, which Axel refuses to
believe
•Axel, frustrated at being caught
between the Organization, his friends
and his own lies, fights Xionin a brutal
struggle
•Axel barely emerges victorious, taking
the unconscious Xionto headquarters
before passing out
•Xemnas collects Xion, leaving Axel on
the floor Go on, you just keep running. But I’ll always be there
to bring you back!

216. •Roxas, realizing he has nowhere to go, sulks on the clock tower, missing his friends
•A hooded Xionappears, offering Roxas some ice cream which the two share in silence
•Xiontells Roxas that she is “out of time” removing her hood, revealing that her
appearance has fully become that of Sora
•She explains that she has been compelled by Xemnas to absorb Roxas and become a
complete replica of Sora, which would prevent the real one from ever awakening
•With the knowledge that Roxas will disappear if she continues to exist, she transforms
and attacks Roxas to that she will destroy her, save himself, and prevent Xemnas’splans
from coming to fruition
Day 357

217. Day 357
•After a grueling battle, Roxas emerges the victor, and approaches
Xion, now back in her typical appearance
•He can’t recall who Xionis, though she assures him that he will be
better off now
•As Roxas cradles her in his arms, she explains that she chose to
sacrifice herself to slow down Xemnas’splans
•Before disintegrating completely, Xionasks Roxas to prevent Xemnas
from obtaining Kingdom Hearts, also saying that she is glad to have
met him and Axel
•Roxas suddenly remembers her name before she completely fades
away, leaving behind only a single seashell…

218. Day 358
•Taking place during the secret movie of KH1 and the
flashbacks in KH2, a hooded Roxas tears through a swarm of
Neoshadowsin The World That Never Was to complete the
wish of his fallen friend
•Roxas is confronted by Riku, who intends to capture Roxas to
complete Sora’s memory restoration
•Xion’smemory still lingers for both boys, though it is a
struggle for them to remember her name as the memories
continue to fade
•Riku, believing that Roxas is not strong enough to defeat
Xemnas and the Organization and wanting Sora’s memories
back proceeds to fight Roxas
•Riku, forced into a corner by Roxas and encouraged by the
memory of Xionto stop Roxas, uses the power of darkness to
take on the appearance of Ansem, Seeker of Darkness
•As Roxas is defeated and falls unconscious, his last memories
of Xionfade away…

219. Summer Vacation Day 1
•From this point, Roxas is placed in the simulated
Twilight Town by DiZ, kicking off the events of KH2
•As Roxas reawakens, in his room he hopes that he
and his friends may finally go to the beach on their
last week of summer vacation…

220. Fan Art Links
•Slide 216: ArcaneKeyblade
•Slide 218: Aeflus

221. FIN

222. Destiny is never left to chance

223. Some time ago…
•The game once again opens on Destiny Islands,
showing a silver haired young man looking into
the ocean, musing that the world is “just too
small”
•Decades later, the now elderly man returns to
the island, carrying a dying young boy in a
bundle
•The old man briefly reflects on his former
home, noting it empty, like a prison
•He brought the boy here intending to give him
a place to rest in his final moments

224. •The boy, who looks almost identical
to Roxas, enters his own Dive to the
Heart
•The boy’s heart comes into contact
with that of a newborn heart on the
island
•Sensing that the boy’s heart is
fractured, the new heart offers to
share its light to repair the boy’s
heart, forging a bond between the
two
•As the old man begins to leave, he
sees the boy raise his arm and
summon a Keyblade, much to his
surprise
“The light brought me.I saw it shining in the
distance and followed it here.You should join
your heart with mine.”

225. •Four years later, the boy, revealed to be a Keyblade
apprentice named Ventus (Ven for short) is shown living in a
castle in the Land of Departure
•Ven heads out of his room to see a meteor shower and train,
and is soon met by his friends and fellow apprentices, Terra
and Aqua
•The two are preparing for their Mark of Mastery exam the
next day, a test which names those who pass as Keyblade
Masters (whatever that means)
•After a brief sparring session, Aqua hands her friends
Wayfinders, enchanted good-luck charms to tie the three
friends together which are shaped like the paopufruits from
the Destiny Islands

226. •The next day, Aqua and Terra begin their Mark of
Mastery Exam
•The exam is administered by their Master, Eraqus,
and Master Xehanort, an old friend of Eraqus, fellow
Keyblade Master, and a man who is definitely not
evil
•Xehanort was the man who brought Ven to Destiny
Islands four years ago, though Ven doesn’t recognize
him
•As Ven watches on, Terra and Aqua begin the exam
by fighting orbs of light, which Xehanort secretly
imbues with darkness, forcing Ven to fight as well
*wiggle wiggle*

227. •The second phase of the exam consists of a duel between Aqua and Terra
•During the fight, Terra briefly taps into darkness, to Xehanort’spleasure,
though he dispels it quickly
•Due to this use of darkness, only Aqua passes the exam, though Terra is
encouraged to try again at another time
•Eraqustells Aqua to meet him later for knowledge only Masters may
receive, as she and Ven comfort the distraught Terra
•As Xehanortleaves, he enters a corridor to meet a masked boy, curious
on what this boy thinks of Ventus
•The boy believes that Ventus is too weak, and should be made to leave
the Land of Departure to become stronger
Aqua pass. Terra no pass.

228. •Disappointed with his
performance, Terra leaves Aqua
and Ven, only to meet Master
Xehanort outside
•He tells Terra that as long as he
uses darkness, he will never be
made a Master by Eraqus’s
standards
•He comforts the boy, telling him
that despite the teachings of his
friend, darkness is not meant to
be destroyed, but channeled
•Terra is soon summoned along
with Aqua to meet with Eraqus

229. •Eraqustells his pupils that Yen Sid, himself a former Master, has
reason to believe the Princesses of Heart are in danger
•In addition to Darkness, there is also now the threat of the Unversed,
monsters made up of and feed on negative emotions
•When he attempted to contact Xehanort for assistance, he received
no response, and now believes his friend to be missing
•Eraqusassigns his pupils the tasks of venturing out into other worlds
to subdue the Unversed, and search for the missing Master
•Eraqustakes time to tell Terra to consider this as an opportunity to
prove himself worthy of the Mark of Mastery
•He warns Terra that his need for power, despite the noble goal of
using it to protect his friends, invites darkness, almost plagiarising Star
Wars as he does so
•Alone with Aqua, he also tells her to bring Terra home if the darkness
proves too much for him
Fear leads to obsession with power, and
obsession beckons the darkness. A little
green muppetonce said something
similar to me!

230. •In his room, Ventus is confronted by the masked boy, who
tells Ven to catch Terra before he disappears forever
•Though he asserts that Terra is his friend and won’t be going
anywhere, the boy mocks him further before leaving, causing
Ven to grow concerned and chase after his friend
•Ven briefly catches up to Terra, who soon dons a familiar
looking Keyblade Armor and transforms his Keyblade into a
glider to enter the Lanes Between; a set of “roads” between
worlds unlocked by Eraqus
•The armor, much like the black coats of Org. XIII protects the
wearer from darkness within the Lanes Between
•Fearing for his friend, Ven undergoes a similar
transformation and follows Terra
•Eraqus, surprised and Ven’s sudden exit, orders Aqua to
follow Ven and keep an eye on Terra, beginning the events of
Birth by Sleep…

231. •Collected throughout the game are
several of Xehanort’s writings,
elaborating more on his thoughts and
motivations
•In these earliest of these reports, he
reflects on the nature of the Keyblade,
and while agreeing that they allow those
in the light to protect the world from
darkness, he believed that there was
more too it
•While Xehanort and Eraqusboth own
Keyblade Armour, Xehanort stopped
using his after an exposure to darkness
in the Lanes Between left him without
any ill effects
•So began his journey through the
multitude of worlds for his answers…
Lore: Xehanort’s report I

232. •Terra first arrives at Enchanted Dominion, and soon
encounters the Unversed
•Approaching the nearby castle, Terra encounters
Maleficent, who asks him why he hasn’t fallen asleep like
the rest of those in this world
•Terra, who has never been taught about stranger danger,
enquires about Xehanort, and the evil fairy confirms that
he was present and “looking for light” in the nearby castle
•Terra makes his way to the sleeping Princess Aurora, who
Maleficent explains is a Princess of Heart, one of seven
who hold the key to all worlds
•Maleficent seemingly controls Terra through the darkness
in his heart, and steals Aurora’s heart before fleeing
•Terra, disturbed by this act is forced to flee after defeating
some Unversed, vowing to abstain from using Darkness

233. •Ventus and Aqua arrive later, and with the aid of the three Good Fairies and
Prince Philip, storm the castle, return Aurora’s heart, and defeat Maleficent
•During their battle, Maleficent tells Ven and Aqua that she knows about them
and the Keyblade (presumably through Xehanort), and that Terra was the one
who stole the Princesses’ heart, which both students refuse to believe
•Aqua was unable to convince Ven to return home, who leaves to try and
chase after Terra
•After the battle, the weakened Maleficent vows to one day use darkness to
rule over all worlds

234. •In the Dwarf Woodlands, Terra confirms his
suspicious that Snow White is another of the
Princesses of Heart that Maleficent mentioned,
and forces the Magic Mirror to tell him
Xehanort’s whereabouts
•“Both beyond light and dark he dwells, where
war was waged upon the fells.”
•Ven and Aqua defeat more Unversed, and
protect Snow White from the Evil Queen
•In the Castle of Dreams, the three students
independently aid Cinderella and protect her
from Unversed
•Terra learns that the Unversed were
commanded by the boy in the mask, and passes
on the connection between Xehanort and the
Princesses of Heart to Aqua

235. •With the knowledge gained on his quest, Terra visits
Yen Sid to ask for guidance on the current situation
•On the way in, he briefly passes Yen Sid’s student
King Mickey, who teleports away using a strange
object
•Terra tells the wizard about Xehanort’s
disappearance, the masked boy, and the Unversed
•Yen Sid tells Terra to consider them all as the same
problem, and that finding Xehanort takes priority,
sadly remarking that he had hoped Xehanort would
not be led astray as Terra leaves
•Terra soon receives a message from Xehanort, who
meets him in a desolate wasteland referred to as the
Badlands…

236. •Xehanort explains to Terra that the masked boy and
master of the Unversed, is an “accidental” creation of
his named Vanitas
•Xehanort explains that Ventus once used to be his
apprentice, but succumbed to darkness
•Xehanort ripped the darkness out of the boy,
accidentally creating Vanitas, and sending Ventus into
the comatose state seen at the beginning of the game
•Feeling guilt after the incident, Xehanort left him with
Eraqus, Terra, and Aqua, allowing the boy to gradually
recover from his injured state
•Xehanort asks Terra to help him correct his grave
mistake, believing that Vanitas will strike Radiant
Garden, being drawn to the abundance of light in that
world
•Terra, after seemingly seeing visions of Ventus and
Aqua injured by Vanitas agrees to help and heads to
the city of light…

237. •While travelling between worlds, Ventus spots the
masked boy, pursuing him to the Badlands
•Vanitas, using his own Keyblade, fights Ventus in a
brief duel and overpowers him
•Before Vanitas can finish Ven off, Mickey appears,
saving and healing the boy
•The two work together to defeat Vanitas, who
escapes through a dark corridor
•Ventus and Mickey introduce themselves, with
Mickey explaining that he is an apprentice under Yen
Sid
•He shows Ven the “Star Shard”, a special gummi
block which teleports the user to other worlds at
random
•On cue, the Star Shard activates, and Ven and Mickey
are teleported to Radiant Garden

238. •After being dropped off at Radiant Garden, Mickey and Ventus
get separated
•Ven tries to enter the nearby castle, but is stopped by the
guards Dilan and Aeleus(the complete forms of Xaldinand
Lexaeus)
•The three see an Unversed which Ven pursues, with the
scientist Even (the complete Vexen) noting that Ven’s heart is
one of pure light
•Upon saving Scrooge McDuckfrom the Unversed, Ven is
rewarded with three passes to Disney Town, before the boy
continues in pursuit of the Unversed
•At the same time, Terra has arrived at Radiant Garden, and
begins following Xehanort, who he saw head to another part of
the town
•Eventually Terra sees a large Unversed, which he begins to
follow
Play Fortune Street in the Winnie the
Pooh World Terra! It will give you powers
even greater than darkness!

239. •Aqua soon also arrives at Radiant Garden, and is informed by the
miserly mallard that Ven headed toward the castle
•Upon arriving, she saves a young Kairi from some Unversed, with
the girl touching her Keyblade when they meet
•Aqua senses that Kairi’s heart is one of pure light, much like the
previously encountered Princesses
•Mickey arrives to hold off the Unversed while Kairi is taken to
safety
•After defeating the Unversed, Mickey and Kairi introduce
themselves before Mickey is warped away by the Star Shard

240. •Aqua places a spell on Kairi designed to protect her if
she’s in danger by connecting her light with that of
another
•Kairi’s grandmother arrives to collect the girl
•As the two leave, Kairi’s grandmother tells a story to
the girl:
•Long ago, the world was united and covered in light
•As people began to covet the light, darkness grew
within their hearts
•These people fought over the light, eventually resulting
in the destruction of the world
•However, the light inside the hearts of children was able
to restore the world in a fragmented state, resulting in
the creation of the many worlds observed in the current
time in Kingdom Hearts

241. Lore: Xehanort’s report II
•Xehanort recalls information on the larger World before the current
state, agreeing with much of Kairi’s grandmother's story
•However, he reveals that an event called the Keyblade War began in
an effort for wielders to claim the right to Kingdom Hearts
•Kingdom Hearts, as shown in earlier games, is the aggregate of
heats, including those of both worlds and people
•By gathering the hearts of all worlds in one place, one could
complete Kingdom Hearts, which would bring about the creation of
the Next World and give the wielder who claims it great power and
control over all worlds and people
•The initial conflict for Kingdom Hearts, the Keyblade War, decimated
all in the conflict (regardless of motive) and cast the world and
Kingdom Hearts itself into darkness

242. •Terra, Ven, and Aqua, each following a large
Unversed, soon reunite
•The Unversed combine into a large Trinity
Armor, but the three friends work together and
destroy it
•Ven gives his friends one of the Disney Town
passes he previously earned
•Ven tells his friends not to worry about the boy
in the mask, which concerns Terra, who knows
of Vanitas’s history with Ven
•Terra orders Ven to let Aqua take him home,
though Ven refuses
•Aqua tells Terra that she has seen some of the
things he’s done on the other worlds, which
confuses Ven
•Terra accuses Aqua of spying on him for Eraqus
and leaves, with Ven storming off shortly after
He said to take two grown-ups.
You saw the boy in the mask?

243. •Resuming his search for Xehanort, Terra encounters
Braig(the complete Xigbar), who claims to have
abducted Xehanort to learn the secrets of the
Keyblade
•Terra follows the sharpshooter, and upon finding the
imprisoned Master, the Terra and Braigfight
•With some encouragement from Xehanort, Terra taps
into his inner darkness and maims Braig, scarring his
face and costing him an eye
•As Braigflees, Terra becomes ashamed of his actions,
believing he can no longer return to Eraqus
•Xehanort tells Terra that Eraqusis too afraid of
darkness and has succumbed to light
•Xehanort explains his belief that light and darkness
must exist in equal capacities, and that only by using
both can one be a true Master…like Terra…
•Xehanort takes “Master” Terra in as his pupil, the two
reaffirming the need to destroy Vanitas

244. •After leaving Aqua behind, Ventus soon saves a boy named
Ienzo(the complete Zexion) from some Unversed
•Even arrives, thanking Ven for his help, explaining that Ienzois
an orphan who lives with him and the other apprentices of
Ansem the Wise
•Ven finds Terra and offers his help, but Terra says that while he
knows he can count on Ven, he needs to continue his mission
alone
•Aqua, now alone, is confronted by Vanitas and the two fight
•Vanitas is defeated, fleeing through a dark corridor, but not
before mentioning that he plans to keep Aqua as a “backup”
•Ven and Aqua soon reconvene, with the boy telling her that
Terra left again
•Aqua tells Ven to return to the Land of Departure before
leaving, hoping to find Terra
I’ll keep you around. Never hurts to
have a backup

245. •Now alone, Ven recalls how close he and his friends used to
be during their training
•As he thinks, two boys named Isa and Lea (the complete Saïx
and Axel) meet and befriend Ven
•Lea and Ven have a brief sparring match, with Ven emerging
the victor
•The two reaffirm their new friendship and go their separate
ways
•Lea explains to Isa that he tries to make an impression with
the people he meets, as inside people’s memories, he can
live forever
•Lea and Isa gaze at their goal, something within the castle of
Radiant Garden, before leaving
•Ven, motivated by jealousy at their closeness and concerned
for Terra, ignores Aqua’s order and leaves to find Terra

246. •With everyone else gone, Braigreturns to
Xehanort, attempting to gun the Keyblade
Master down
•It’s revealed that the abduction was fake,
though Braigdid not agree to be collateral
damage for Terra’s sake
•Xehanort threatens Briag, who surrenders,
telling the Master that he is still needed, and
he simply want Xehanort to keep his end of
the bargain
•Xehanort reveals that Terra still has a
powerful light within him, and that he was
the one who stole Aurora’s heart in
Enchanted Dominion (by hiding behind some
curtains or in a closet I suppose)
Wait! You still need me for one of your several
dozen plans!

247. •The three continue their journeys throughout the
worlds
•In Disney Town a competition is currently underway for
the ”Million Dreams Award”, which Pete is attempting to
win by underhanded means
•The three play some awful minigames where the karts
barely turn, the rhythm minigame doesn’t synch with
the music and also fruitballis here. I hate this place.
•Ultimately Terra, Ven and Aqua are declared the
winners, and when Pete tries to take the award by force,
Queen Minne banishes him to the Shadow RealmLanes
Between
•Pete is found by Maleficent, who frees him in exchange
for his help in finding the Princesses of Heart…

248. •The three continue their individual journeys through Olympus Coliseum, Deep Space, and
Neverland
•Terra is declared a true hero after encountering and saving Zack Fair from Hades, while Ven
befriends Hercules, and Aqua interferes with the evil god’s schemes
•Terra is briefly captured, though escapes with the aid of Experiment 626, who makes his own
Wayfinderand is befriended by Ven and Aqua
•Mickey and Ven reunite in Neverland, and after the theft and retrieval of the Star Shard from
Captain Hook, Ven is warped away
•Terra leaves after putting Peter Pan in his place, and Aqua is briefly knocked unconscious after
seemingly defeating Vanitas, who separated Mickey from the Star Shard

249. •After leaving Neverland, Terra is drawn toward a
bright light from Destiny Islands
•After recalling Aqua’s explanation of the paopu
fruit, he sees a very young Sora and Riku along the
beach
•Riku, who has never seen Terra before, realizes he
is from another world
•He tells Terra of a boy who previously lived on the
islands who managed to leave and explore other
worlds, with Terra seeing a vision of both a much
younger Xehanort, and a teenage Riku
•Trusting Riku’s words of wanting the strength to
leave the islands and protect his friends, Terra
performs the bequeathing ritual: a rite which will
grant Riku the ability to use a Keyblade when he is
older
•Terra swears Riku to secrecy, who agrees despite
Sora’s constant questioning
•With this encounter, Terra swears to protect his
friends with the same drive as this boy, and leaves
the island
In your hand, take this key. So long as you have the makings, then through this
simple act of taking...its wielder you shall one day be. And you will find me, friend—
no ocean will contain you then. No more borders around, or below, or above, so long
as you champion the ones you love.

250. •Aqua also senses the light, finding herself at
Destiny Island, and meets Sora and Riku
•Aqua notes the similarities the two boys have
to Terra and Ventus and considers performing
the bequeathing ritual
•She is surprised to realize that Riku has already
received the power from Terra
•Aqua tells Sora to help his friend if he ever
goes down a dark path, which Sora promises to
do
•Noting that even a single Keyblade may ruin
friendships, Aqua does not bequeath Sora the
power of the Keyblade
•Worried over the fates of her friends, Aqua
leaves the island shortly after her encounter
with the boys
So then, if something happens, and Riku is about to get lost —or say, he starts
wandering down a dark path alone —you make sure to stay with him and keep him
safe. That’s your job, Sora.

251. •Mickey’s Star Shard brings Ventus to the home of Yen Sid,
where he meets Donald and Goofy
•The group learns that Mickey is being held hostage by
Xehanort, and Ven leaves to face his former Master alone
•At the Badlands, Ven finds Mickey and Xehanort, but begins
curling over in pain, beginning to remember his past
•Xehanort explains Ven’s true purpose: he separated Ventus
and Vanitas to create beings of both pure light and pure
darkness
•When these two clash, Xehanort believes this will summon
the ultimate sword, the χ-blade, which all other Keyblades
were modeled after
•Xehanort explains that Eraqus knew this, which was why he
forbade Ven from leaving the Land of Departure
•Xehanort forcibly sends Ven back to the Lands of Departure to
confront Eraqus, also blowing Mickey into the Lanes Between

252. •Xehanort calls Terra to the Badlands, informing him that Ventus has
discovered the truth of his origins, and is heading to the Land of
Departure for answers
•Terra, fearing for Ven’s safety, immediately makes his way home
•Upon Ven’s arrival, Eraqusis initially pleased, though Ven lashes out at
him for keeping him “imprisoned” and mentions the χ-blade
•Eraqusexplains that Xehanort was once obsessed with the legend and
mysteries of an event called the Keyblade War
•Believing that destruction would bring about creation, he became
curious if another Keyblade War would pave the way to Kingdom Hearts
and balance the world
•Xehanort believed that forging the χ-blade would be necessary to
accomplish his goal, and Eraqus, sensing that this curiosity would doom
all worlds, fought Xehanort
•In their fight, Xehanort scarred Eraqusand the two went their separate
ways until Xehanort dropped off Ven some years later

253. Lore: Xehanort’s report III
•In his report Xehanortdescribes the three families of Keyblade,
along with the χ-blade
•Keybladesof Light: used by the Keybladewielders in the Realm of
Light (ex: Sora’s Kingdom Key, the BBS trio’s Keyblades, most others)
•Keybladesof Darkness: Keybladesfound only in the Realm of
Darkness and counterpoints to those in the Realm of Light (ex: King
Mickey’s Kingdom Key D)
•Keybladesof Heart: came to be after the reorganization of the world
after the KeybladeWar and can only be made by gathering seven
hearts of pure light (ex: the “fake” Keyblademade from the Princesses
of Heart used by Dark Riku/AnsemSoDin KH1). Acquiring this
Keybladecan open the door to Kingdom Hearts
•χ-blade: the original “Key/Kye/Chi Blade”. All other Keybladesare
“man-made counterparts” to Kingdom Hearts, while the χ-blade
coexists with Kingdom Hearts. Summoning the blade willboth
summon Kingdom Hearts and open the door to it.

254. Lore: Xehanort’s report III:
What is Kingdom Hearts??
•Xehanort also finallyelaborates on the nature of ways to
summon Kingdom Hearts
•Kingdom Hearts can be forcibly/artificially made in a
couple of ways
•The first, and easiest, false Kingdom Hearts to explain is shown
in KH2 and Days
•This is the false Kingdom Hearts made by Xemnas and
Organization XIII
•This one was made by collecting the hearts of people(no worlds
that we know of) that get freed when Heartless are destroyed by
Keyblade Wielders
•While still powerful (DiZwasn’t able to digitize it using his
machine and it summons the doors associated with Kingdom
Hearts), it’s probably the furthest from the “true” Kingdom
Hearts that we see in the series since it doesn’t contain the
hearts of any worlds and doesn’t seem to require a “special”
Keyblade to open

255. Lore: Xehanort’s report III:
What is Kingdom Hearts??
•Xehanort also finallyelaborates on the nature of ways to
summon Kingdom Hearts
•Kingdom Hearts can be forcibly/artificially made in a
couple of ways
•The second is a bit more complicated to explain, and is the one
shown behind the Door to Darkness in KH1
•This is the one made by Ansem SoDand is a collection of the
hearts of several worlds
•Ansem SoD’splan was to force worlds to be destroyed by the
Heartless, enter the Realm of Darkness, and gather their hearts
(now within a single location) to summon Kingdom Hearts
•In theory, if Ansem SoDsucceeded in gathering the hearts of ALL
worlds, this could have resulted in the construction of a “True”
Kingdom Hearts, though this was stopped by Sora and co.
•Additionally, it requires the use of a special Keyblade to access
Kingdom Hearts when summoned, though it was the Keyblade
made from the Princesses of Heart rather than the χ-blade

256. •In BBS, Xehanort believes he has
found a way to summon the true
Kingdom Hearts
•By forcing two hearts of equal
power into conflict, one of pure
light and the other of pure
darkness, the χ-blade can be forged
•As the χ-blade and Kingdom Hearts
are inextricably linked, forging the
sword summons a complete
Kingdom Hearts, containing the
hearts of all worlds without the
need to collect them one at a time
like Ansem SoDeventually tries
Lore: Xehanort’s
report III: What is
Kingdom Hearts??

257. •During his time away, Xehanort thought of
his brother-pupil Eraqusand expressed
distain for Eraqus’ single-minded pursuit of
light over the balance he believed he could
bring
•As he wandered, Xehanort considered his
purpose in life
•While a Keyblade Master, he was not chosen
by his own master as Successor, and did not
take on a pupil
•He despaired as he aged, refusing to accept a
quiet death while he still needed to
complete his work…
Lore: Xehanort’s report III

258. •Eraqus, deciding to prevent the forging of the χ-blade by any
means, prepares to kill Ven
•It’s at this point that Terra arrives and saves his friend in the nick
of time
•Eraqusis surprised at Terra’s refusal to let him harm Ven, and
believing that Terra has fallen to darkness, prepares to fight them
both
•Terra sends Ven through a portal before facing Eraqusin a duel
•After a difficult battle, Eraqusis defeated and pushed to
exhaustion, though Terra does not strike him down
•Expressing remorse at harming his students, Eraqusadmits that
he has darkness in his own heart
•Before Terra can help his Master recover, Xehanortshoots Eraqus
from behind…

259. •As Eraqusdisappears in Terra’s arms, his Keyblade
discarded, Xehanortcongratulates Terra for his aid in
killing Eraqus
•Enraged, Terra asks why Xehanortkilled his old friend,
with the old Master simply telling Terra to give his heart
to darkness
•Xehanortinvites Terra to come to a place called the
Keyblade Graveyard, revealing his plans to kill Aqua and
Ventus
•Xehanortuses his power to destroy the Land of
Departure before leaving through a dark corridor
•Terra escapes the destruction of his home, and with no
other choice, heads to the Keyblade Graveyard

260. •Meanwhile, Ven, who has been deposited on the Destiny Islands
where he meets Vanitas
•Vanitas wants to fight, but Ven refuses, not wanting to forge the
χ-blade
•Vanitas explains, and causes Ven to remember, his time as
Xehanort’s apprentice
•Xehanortabused Ven, forcing him to fight strong Heartless to
release his darkness and forge the χ-blade
•Unsurprisingly, this was unsuccessful, forcing Xehanortto extract
Ven’s darkness manually, create Vanitas, and leave Ven near
death
•Vanitas, to force Ven’s hand, tells his other that he’ll “choke the
life out of” Terra and Aqua at the Keyblade Graveyard if he
doesn’t show
•Fearing for his friend’s safety, Ven leaves for the Keyblade
Graveyard
Empty creature from Ventus riven…
to you, the name Vanitas shall be given.

261. •Travelling through the Lanes Between, Aqua
spots an unconscious Mickey, and delivers him
to Yen Sid
•The former master delivers the news of
Eraqus’sdeath, reluctantly telling Aqua that it
was Terra and Xehanortwho performed the
deed
•Aqua refuses to believe that Terra was
responsible, but asks Yen Sid where he went
•After Yen Sid tells her that Terra went to the
Keyblade Graveyard, Aqua solemnly heads to
the ancient battle ground…

262. Loose Ends:
Mysterious Figure
•At some point before heading to the Keyblade Graveyard, the three
students each independently head back to the destroyed Land of
Departure
•They are each confronted by a Mysterious Figure in a black cloak, who
proceeds to draw two ethereal blades and fight Terra, Ventus and
Aqua
•After a difficult battle (especially for poor Terra), and constant
spamming of Thunder Surges and Mine Squares, the Figure vanishes
•While ambiguous if this fight really happens for all three students, this
character’s true identity would be revealed in later titles…

263. •The three students soon arrive at the Keyblade Graveyard within the
Badlands, a wasteland where the Keyblade War of the distant past once
occurred
•All three arrive with the intention of settling the score with Xehanortand
Vanitas
•Terra confesses to Aqua his role in the death of Eraqus, and intends to
atone for his actions
•Ven arrives, explaining the link between himself, Vanitas and the χ-blade
•Ven asks his friends to put an end to him if he is forced to create the χ-
blade
•At this moment, Xehanortand Vanitas arrive, determined to create the χ-
blade, the supposed source of the Keyblade War that occurred so long
ago…

264. •With this, the three don their armour and begin the
battle
•After several impressive displays of magic and
swordplay, Ventus is frozen by Xehanortand thrown
from a cliff, forcing Aqua to catch him
•Xehanortis able to summon Kingdom Hearts, now
only needing the χ-blade to accomplish his goal
•As Aqua tends to Ven, Braigappears, now patched
up and looking a little different from before…
•Braigflees after a brief scuffle, telling Aqua that he
only needed to buy time for Xehanort
•Terra, atop a cliff with both Xehanortand Vanitas,
combats them both before Xehanorttells Vanitas to
merge with Ventus and kill Aqua

265. Lore: Vanitas
and the Unversed
•While an enraged Terra battles Xehanortabove,
Vanitas drops down and is able to knock out Aqua
•Before Vanitas can strike her down, Ven recovers and
battles his darkness made flesh
•After a brief fight, Vanitas removes his mask, revealing
himself to look identical to Sora and declaring this the
time to forge the χ-blade
•Vanitas summons some Unversed to restrain Ven,
explaining that the Unversed initially came about due
to the split between himself and Ven
•The negative emotions of Vanitas took the form of
monsters, which he spread throughout the worlds to
lure Ven away from Eraqusand make him stronger
•Even if defeated, the negativity simply returns to
Vanitas, creating and endless cycle which could not be
defeated
•The two then fuse, creating a massive explosion which
knocks the unconscious Aqua away and signals
Xehanortto begin the next phase of his plan
It happened when you and I were split into two. The negativity took the shape of
these monsters. They are what I feel –a horde of fledgling emotions under my
control.

266. •Terra, motivated by the death of his master and
father-figure, the need to protect his friends, and
powered by darkness, seemingly defeats
Xehanortone-on-one
•Before he can strike the finishing blow, Xehanort
and Terra witness the explosion caused by the
creation of the χ-blade
•While Terra is distracted, Xehanortturns his
Keyblade on himself, releasing his own heart
•To survive beyond his second Keyblade War,
Xehanortrequired a younger body to replace his
aging form
•By encouraging Terra’s use of darkness, Xehanort
was grooming Terra for use as a new vessel
•Terra attempts to activate his armour to prevent
Xehanort’s possession, but it is too late…
Out with the old and brittle vessel, and in with a
younger, stronger new one!
I swore I would survive… and be there to see what
awaited beyond the Keyblade War! And now it is your
darkness that shall be the ark that sustains me!

267. •Xehanortwould come to learn that Keyblade Masters have
the ability to extract hearts, both those of themselves or
others
•In order to see his mission through, Xehanortbegan to seek
candidates for a new vessel
•While he eventually found Ventus and made him his pupil, the
boy was too frail to serve as a vessel, and was instead used to
acquire the pure hearts of light and darkness
•The ordeal rendered Ventus unconscious and created Vanitas
•While Ven seemed to be dying, Xehanortdropped him off at
his childhood home as a place to spend his last moments in
peace
•However, Ven accepted the light of the newly born heart on
the island and began to recover, allowing him to be used in
Xehanort’s bid for the χ-blade
Lore: Xehanort’s
report IV

268. Lore: Xehanort’s
report IV
•In his final reports, Xehanortnotes that Vanitas and
Ventus are unequal in power and could not be
trained together, lest Vanitas kill his counterpart
•He brought Ven to Eraqusto allow Ven’s light to
flourish and grow stronger and first noted Terra’s
potential as a vessel here
•Years later, at the time of the Mark of Mastery,
Xehanortenacts his plan to isolate Terra for use as a
vessel and to get Ven strong enough to equal Vanitas
and forge the χ-blade
•With a final letter to Eraqusaccepting his invitation to
the Mark of Mastery, Xehanortsets the stage for his
claim to Kingdom Hearts…

269. •As Xehanort’s body disappears, the Keyblade Armour
falls from Terra’s body
•Xehanort, now in control of a silver-haired Terra
(Terranort) gives the same speech about darkness being
the heart’s true nature that Ansem SoDgave Sora in
KH1
•As he prepares to head to Vanitas and and claim his
prize, Terranortis trapped in an arena of yellow chains…
•Terranortturns to see the Keyblade Armour
reassembled, kneeling with Terra’s Ends of the Earth
•It seems Xehanorttaught Terra to hate a little too well,
as the sorrow, rage, and desire to protect his friends
imbued itself within the discarded armour, resulting in
the formation of the Lingering Will seen in KH2
•Terranort, furious at Terra’s continued resistance,
engages the Lingering Will in combat
•Genuinely one of my favourite moments in the series, I
love this scene
Rage Awakened:
The power of
Hatred
Your body submits, your heart succumbs —
so why does your mind resist?

270. •Meanwhile, Aqua regains consciousness and is found
by Mickey who returned from the Mysterious Tower
to help
•The two see what appears to be Ventus and
approach, but soon realize that it is Vanitas in control
of Ven’s body
•Now wielding the χ-blade, “Venitas” claims that by
using the χ-blade, Keyblade wielders will appear and
spark another Keyblade War before fighting against
both Aqua and Mickey, with Aqua hoping to get
through to her friend

271. •The two do their best, but are no match for the power of
the χ-blade
•On the ropes, Aqua looks to her Wayfinder and prays for
strength from Terra and Ventus
•Using the power provided by her bonds of friendship, Aqua
is able to damage the χ-blade, ultimately destroying it
•The sword explodes, sending Mickey, Aqua, and the now
unconscious Ven into the Lanes Between
•The Lingering Will defeats Terranort, with the χ-blade blast
engulfing the unconscious Master and sending him to
another world
•As the clouds cover Kingdom Hearts once more, the
Lingering Will is left alone, where it remains undisturbed
for over ten years until Sora’s encounter in KH2 still
swearing to set things right…

272. •Either during Aqua’s fight or shortly afterwards (both
make sense but it’s ambiguous as to which), Ven finds
himself within his own Dive to the Heart, now complete
and showing himself and Vanitas
•Vanitas appears with the damaged χ-blade, explaining
that their union was not entirely complete, partially
explaining why the χ-blade broke (though we’ll come to
find additional reasons in later games)
•Vanitas tells Ven to join him and complete the χ-blade,
though Ven refuses
•Vanitas reveals that destroying him and the χ-blade,
would also destroy Ven’s heart, but the young Keyblade
wielder fights on regardless
•Ven ultimately defeats Vanitas, with both he and the
damagedχ-blade disappearing
•Ven too vanishes, his heart seemingly lost as well…
Dive to the
Heart
My friends are my power, and I’m theirs!

273. •Aqua recovers in Yen Sid’s tower, with the
wizard confirming that Terra is missing, and Ven
is unconscious due to the destruction of his
heart
•Yen Sid believes that his heart sleeps in a place
between light and darkness, and will require his
friends light and belief to bring it back to the
real of light
•Aqua believes that finding Terra would help
restore Ven, and plans on using the magic
between the Wayfinders to find him
•Before she can begin to find a safe place for
Ven, he unconsciously summons his Keyblade
and opens a portal to the Land of Departure

274. •Shocked at the state of her home, Aqua finds the
discarded Keyblade of Master Eraqus, and recalls the
secret he shared when she became a master
•After laying Ven on the throne, she uses the Master’s
Defender to transform the Land of Departure into a
place where no one will be able to get to Ven except
for her
•Assuring Ven that she will return soon with Terra, she
leaves Ven within what becomes known as the
Chamber of Waking, her home now transformed into
Castle Oblivion
•Hearing Terra’s voice asking her to “put an end to
him” she sets off to find her friend
I know it’s a lonely place, but you’ll be safe

275. •Upon finding Terra, she soon realizes that Xehanorthas
possessed her friend’s body
•She tries to jog Terra’s memory, but Xehanorttakes control
and claims that Terra’s heart is lost to darkness
•After a lengthy duel, with Terranortsummoning the Dark
Figure used by Ansem SoDand Terra continuing to fight
against Xehanort’s influence, Aqua emerges victorious
•Xehanort, tired of Terra’s interference, stabs Terra’s body to
remove his heart, though his body soon sinks into darkness
•To save what’s left of Terra, Aqua jumps in after him to
bring him out of the darkness
•With little time left, she sacrifices her Keyblade and armour
to return Terra’s body to the Realm of Light, while she falls
into darkness

276. •Within Terra’s heart, Xehanortasks how Terra can remain even after
having his body stolen
•Terra assures the old master that he will retake his body, with Xehanort
realizing that Eraqusput a piece of himself inside Terra’s heart as well
before passing
•Terra affirms that he no longer fears the darkness and even if he fails
to overcome Xehanortand is cast into darkness, he will make Xehanort
pay for his crimes
•The Master informs him that he is in no hurry as Terra’s possession was
one of “many roads that I may choose to take”
•Later, Ansem the Wise, Dilan, and Braigdiscover an amnesiac
Terranort, who only recalls that his name is Xehanort
•Pleased that the plan seemed to work, Braigorders Dilan to bring
Aqua’s discarded Keyblade and armour

277. •Later, Braigtries to remind Xehanortof earlier
plans, though soon realizes that the amnesia is
legitimate
•Seeing no signs that Terra may retake control,
Braigpromises to “watch out for him” though
Xehanortdoesn’t understand
•The amnesiac Terranortwould eventually come
to study under Ansem the Wise, becoming the
“Apprentice Xehanort” shown in KH2 who
ultimately splits into Ansem SoDand Xemnas
•The residual links to Terra partially explain
Xemnas’ desire to find the Chamber of Waking
in Castle Oblivion, and the storage of Aqua’s
items as the “old friend” in the Chamber of
Repose

278. •That night on the Destiny Islands, as Sora and Riku head home,
Sora begins crying without knowing why
•Riku explains that since all worlds are connected, there may be
someone connected to him who is also hurting
•Sora tries to call out to this person, and at his Dive to the Heart
he discovers the damaged heart of Ventus
•Sora’s heart was the one who saved Ven’s four years prior, so it
returned upon Sora’s calling after the battle against Vanitas
•Since Ven must return to sleep, Sora offers to let Ven’s heart
sleep safely inside his own, allowing Ven to survive

279. •Within the Realm of Darkness, Aqua walks onwards with
the Master’s Defender, considering letting the darkness
swallow her
•Before she can give up, she is saved from some Heartless
by the appearance of Terra and Ven’s Keyblades
•As she looks at her Wayfinder and recalls the friends she
made on her journey, she proclaims that she will keep on
living
•After an over ten-yearlong journey in the Realm of
Darkness (partially covered in 0.2) Aqua meets none other
than Ansemthe Wise at the Dark Margin that Sora and
Riku found themselves at near the end of KH2
•Ansemwas banished to the Realm of Darkness after his
machine exploded in the World That Never Was (KH2),
and has since lost his memories
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280. •Ansemtells Aqua she reminds her of a boy he knew who used a Keybladeto save
the worlds on several occasions
•Aqua asks if this was either Terra or Ventus, with Ansemsaying it was neither
•Ansemvaguely recalls the actions of his vengeance, and those he hurt along the
way
•He reveals that during the boy’s slumber (CoM/Days), Ansemhid the results of his
research inside of him for future use, believing that a boy of his kindness would be
able to save them all
•Ansemreveals that the boy’s name is Sora, and the knowledge that the boy she
met so long ago has saved so many worlds causes Aqua to cry
•This tale ends after the final scene of KH2, with Sora telling Riku and Kairi that he
needs to begin a new journey after having read King Mickey’s letter
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281. Fan Art Links
•Slide 226 -Awkward Zombie
•Slides 231 –Keestar52
•Slide 251 –Awkward Zombie
•Slide 253 -GeorgePG
•Slide 257 –LexieQ
•Slide 267 –R. Martinez
•Slide 268 –Keestar52

282. FIN

283. Thank Naminé

284. •Coded opens with narration from Jiminy
Cricket (remember he’s been here with
SDG throughout all of 1, CoM, and 2)
•He recalls the journeys the KH1 in KH2,
but due to events in CoM, his KH1 journal
is left blank with only a single line: “Thank
Naminé.”
•When examining the book, he finds a line
that wasn’t there previously: “Their hurting
will be mended, when you return to end
it.”
•Knowing that he didn’t write it, and no
one else could have, he consults King
Mickey on what to do

285. •To investigate, Mickey calls Goofy,
Donald, Chip, and Dale, and explains
his plan
•Using a device, notable hackerman
King Mickey digitizes the contents of
the journal, hoping to explore the data
in detail and figure out the origins of
these messages
•The group soon notice red and black cubes
which are preventing the analysis of the
journal
•To clear out these “Bug Blox” the group
decide to get someone already inside the
data to clear it out: the data version of
Sora

286. •Data-Sora wakes up within a Station
of Awakening, having been given the
ability to use an artificial Keyblade
programmed by Chip and Dale
•Noticing some warnings on the screen,
Chip and Dale leave to figure out the
problem while Donald and Goofy are
caught up to speed
•The group notice someone else with
Data-Sora, a figure in a black cloak
(add another one to the pile why
don’t ya)
•Data-Sora pursues the figure,
fighting some Heartless with guidance
from Mickey
•Emerging on the data version of
Destiny Islands, Mickey explains to
Data-Sora that while they have
never met, they are friends and that
he requires Data-Sora’s help to solve
the mystery

287. •Data-Sora begins clearing out some of
the Heartless and Bug-Blocks around the
island
•The Heartless within the data are
records of enemies the real Sora met,
but do not release hearts since those
cannot be transferred into data
•When Data-Sora arrives at the islands
secret place and uses his Keyblade, a
bright light floods the monitor, blinding
the group in the real world
•When the light clears, a new message is
observed in the journal: “There’s a road
for the taking if you end our world’s
aching.”
•The cloaked figure appears, telling Data-
Sora to use the Keyhole to make the
world whole
•Using his Keyblade, Data-Sora activates
the Keyhole and defeats a Darkside
heartless, before being lost in the storm

288. •Upon completion of this task,
Mickey and co. see a new message:
“There are more hurts than the
one you have just undone .”
•The group then see a brief scene
of Riku encountering the hooded
AnsemSoDon Destiny Islands,
something which Jiminy or Sora
couldn’t have known about
•While Data-Sora recovers in
Traverse Town, the group realize
that the data has been
fragmented, and removing the bugs
world-by-world may be necessary
to reach the truth

289. •While watching the monitor, the
group are suddenly surrounded by
Heartless, something which
shouldn’t be possible within the
castle
•Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and Jiminy
find themselves trapped within
the library with no way out
•Checking the monitor, they find
another new message “ Undo the
hurt to unbar the way.”
•With new messages appearing upon
sealing of the digital keyholes,
the cloaked unknown within the
data, and little other choice,
Data-Sora resolves to keep going
throughout the worlds and fix the
data

290. •As Data-Sora
continues following
the cloaked figure,
Mickey and co. hear
a banging on the
door but are shocked
to see Data-Sora
kick through it
•Cloaked figure
reveals himself to
be a data version of
Riku. Sort of.
•He explains that
when the memories
that used to fill
the journal were
pulled apart and put
back together
(Thanks Naminé),
bugs filled the data
which prevented the
journal from being
restored
•To protect the data, the journal
made a “backup save” with all of
the memories stored inside a
strong vessel, the data version
of Riku now talking to the group:
essentially Jiminy’s journal
given form
•Data-Riku explains that he
brought them all into the
journal’s datascape to help solve
the mystery of the strange
entries
•Chip and Dale, still in the real
world, inform everyone that an
unknown party is trying to access
the data, preventing the group
from leaving the datascape
•With the link to the real world
severed, the Data-Sora continues
onward to clear out more bugs and
restore the link

291. •Data-Sora soon runs into Pete
and Maleficent, who proceeds to
destroy his Keybladeand summon
Heartless to attack him
•Data-Sora is saved by Mickey and
Data-Riku who ask how Maleficent
and Pete got in
•The villains reveal that Pete
broke into Disney Castle to spy
on them, and was unintentionally
pulled into the journal’s
datascape
•Pete awoke within a portion of
the journal able to access all
of the worlds within, and called
Maleficent in to take over the
worlds within it
•Pete also reveals that he was
the one who cut the link to the
outside world
•Once Maleficent has rallied her
forces within the book, she
plans to reconnect the journal
to Disney Castle and invade

292. •Data-Riku tries to attack
Maleficent, but is captured
due to the Riku’s prior
connection to darkness
•Once the villains leave, the
heroes regroup and with Data -
Sora’s programmed Keyblade
destroyed, Mickey is forced to
clear out the rest of the bugs
alone
•The King fails to return, so
Data-Sora, Donald and Goofy go
after him
•Goofy and Donald end up
getting trapped by Pete, with
Data-Sora unable to save them
•Pete questions why they would
risk their lives for a piece
of data who isn’t even a real
person, though Goofy and
Donald reaffirm that Data -Sora
is still their friend
•With encouragement from Donald
and Goofy, Data-Sora
understands that “his friends
are his power” and summons a
genuine Keyblade, saving his
friends

293. •Mickey appears, revealing
that Data-Sora’s connections
have allowed him to grow a
heart and gain the use of a
Keyblade(similar to Tron in
KH2)
•Data-Sora goes after Pete
and defeats him, though Pete
reveals his trump card: a
Data-Riku affected with bugs
forced to do Pete’s bidding
•The two fight, and Data -Sora
emerges as the victor, with
Data-Riku falling
unconscious

294. •Mickey and co. arrive,
informing Data-Sora that
unless the bugs within him are
destroyed, Data-Riku will
remain unconscious
•Despite the danger, Data -Sora
decides to use his Keybladeto
enter the worlds inside Data -
Riku/the Journal’s memory
•Deeper within the journal,
Data-Sora encounters Data -
Riku, who admits that the bugs
will overrun him soon
•He also gives Data-Sora an
isolated piece of data which
was entered into the journal
after KH1, though he doesn’t
know who is responsible
•Solving the mystery of the
extra data will restore the
rest of the journal and give
everyone else a way out

295. •Data-Riku intends to dive
further into darkness to
destroy the remaining bugs
within him, though in the
words of the real Sora “You’re
stupid!”
•Data-Sora decides to stay and
help Data-Riku clear out the
bugs within him as there
should be enough time to do so
•The two visit various worlds
from Data-Riku’s memory,
clearing bugs and essentially
recapping KH1 again, until
they reach Hollow Bastion
•Data-Riku also explains that
the figure Data-Sora saw at
the Station of Awakening was
not him, but someone else
•With Data-Riku/the Journal
fixed, and the bugs cleared,
the Disney gang are ready to
head back to the real world,
promising to return one day
•With everyone back where
they belong, Data-Riku
reveals that the journal
will return to how it was
and that Data-Sora and Data-
Riku will forget about their
adventure with everyone else
•Before the reset can occur,
a new message appears,
stating that a powerful
glitch within the darkness
(sigh) will delete the
datascape
•Data-Riku tells them to lock
the journal, which would
delete everything within it,
including Maleficent and
Pete who are still locked in

296. •Data-Sora rushes off to save
the two villains, finding them
fighting off a more powerful
Darkside Heartless
•Pete and Maleficent are
seemingly erased by the
Heartless, leaving Data -Sora
alone to fight
•It’s revealed that this
Heartless started as a digital
record of Sora’s brief time as
a Heartless in KH1
•Like Data-Sora, it began
evolving over time, spreading
Bug-Bloxand absorbing the
minds and intentions of slain
Heartless throughout the data
worlds, gaining power
•Unlike the real Sora’s time as
a Heartless, this version is
actively malevolent, intending
to enter the real world to
feed on hearts

297. •With help from a returning Mickey,
Data-Sora manages to defeat his dark
doppelgänger after a long struggle
•Data-Riku reveals that he managed to
save Pete and Maleficent, who bail
•With the datascaperesetting for real
Data-Sora begins feeling sad at having
to say goodbye to his friends in the
real world, with Mickey promising to
share the memories of this journey
with the real Sora and Riku
•As the two villains leave, Maleficent
commiserates on why the datascape
seemed familiar to her, and not
because she was just there
•Maleficent mentions an artifact called
the Book of Prophecies, a transcript
detailing events that have yet to take
place and conjure worlds not meant to
exist
•The two decide that investigating the
potential links between Jiminy’s
Journal and the Book of Prophecies
will become their top priority, though
they may need to take the Journal’s
data to aid in their plans…
Tell me Pete, what do you think of mobile
games?

298. •Mickey finally leaves the datascape, with
Data-Sora closing the gate behind the
King, resetting the Journal to its original
state
•Back in the real world, Data-Riku,
whose memories were unaffected (I guess
he was wrong earlier), reveals that a
door to a new world has opened in the
datascape
•Hopefully, this will give the gang a lead
on who wrote the other entry
•Mickey re-enters the datascapeand is
reacquainted with Data-Sora, who only
has the memories of KH1 before his first
visit to Traverse Town
•Mickey explains that they need his help
to understand the hidden message in the
journal
•Data-Sora, who can still call upon his
Keybladeand has some faint feelings of
meeting the King before, agrees to help
and begins entering this newly discovered
world…
I’m trying to free your mind Sora.

299. •And promptly ends up in Castle
Oblivion... super.
•You want a KH1 recap game within
your KH1 recap game???
•Data-Sora encounters another
mysTeriouScLOadkEDfigUrEwho
starts spouting off Marluxia’s
bullshit from CoMabout Castle
Oblivion’s memory erasing card
game nonsense
•While Data-Sora doesn’t know who
this figure is, anyone in the
audience with two brain cells
will know that this is some
version of Roxas
No, I don’t play Triple Triad or Tetra Master.
Please go away Mr. Nobody.

300. •In the next room, Data -Sora briefly
meets with Data-Riku again, who
shows him a scene of the real Riku
and comatose Kairi in Neverland
during KH1
•Data-Riku explains that both Riku
and Kairi had both lost themselves
experiencing “hurt” and asks what
Data-Sora would have done?
•Data-Sora says he would have
figured out how to help his friends
and ease their pain
•Data-Riku tells Data-Sora that
he’ll make the right choices, while
also warning him that as he
progresses in the Castle, Data -Sora
will begin to lose his memories and
be in pain himself
•He tells Data-Sora that despite
this, he’ll as long as he follows
his heart, he’ll be ok
•Data-Roxas mocks Data-Sora for
already forgetting the previous
encounter, giving him more cards
to progress throughout the castle
•Data-Roxas tells Data-Sora that
if he wants to know the truth, he
must move forward through the
worlds he already visited twice
within the journal
•Data-Roxas tries to encourage
Data-Sora to hurt or dismiss
those he comes across, since as
illusions of data, they and their
pain aren’t real
•This obviously doesn’t stick
since this is Sora we’re talking
about, who continues through the
castle despite the pain caused by
constantly forgetting

301. •Finally using up the cards given
to him, Data-Sora meets with
Data-Roxas for a final time,
continuing to reject Data -Roxas’
pessimistic attitude
•Data-Sora states that even if his
heart is hurting (in a feelings
way, not an angina attack way),
it has meaning in that it still
means he’s connected to others,
even if he doesn’t remember
•Data-Roxas attacks Data-Sora, who
defeats his Nobody but refuses to
finish him due to a connection he
can’t place
•Passing his test, Data -Roxas
gives Data-Sora a final card for
Castle Oblivion which will lead
him to the truth, and passes the
real Roxas’ memories onto Data -
Sora

302. •Mickey finally catches up, and
the two head through the door to
the truth
•The two soon encounter the data
version of Naminé, and Mickey
explains how she was able to
restore Sora’s memories after the
events of CoM
•Data-Naminéalso reveals that she
is the source of the bugs: an
unintentional side effect of the
restoration of Sora’s memories
•In addition to Sora’s own
memories, Naminéfound additional
memories deep within Sora’s heart
that do not belong to him, but
people who are connected to him

303. •Data-Naminéstates that the real
Sora will have to awaken these at
some point, though all of them
painful enough that they could
damage or break his heart
•Data-Naminéleft the additional
message within the Journal, knowing
that the connection between the
journal and Sora would allow for a
way to see if Sora could handle the
strain
•When Mickey investigated the
message, it restored the memories
of the worlds Sora visited in KH1,
but the foreign memories resulted
in the data corruption and spread
of bugs
•She thought that if Data -Sora could
deal with the bugs sprung from
these memories, then the real Sora
may be able to face the sorrow and
pain of the memories themselves
•TLDR: This was all a test set up
by Data-Naminé to see if Sora’s
heart could handle the pain of
these extra memories that don’t
belong to him
•Since Data-Sora faced the bugs
derived from these memories and
Data-Roxas’ test and came through
fine, the same should apply to
the real Sora
•Data-Sora and Mickey examine the
memories directly, the two seeing
visions of some of the tragedies
which plagued the several of the
characters of past titles

304. •They first see a vision of Naminé,
Roxas, Axel, and Xion(who they
don’t recognize)
•Data-Naminéexplains that they’re
waiting for the real Sora to put an
end to their pain
•She also reveals that DiZhid a
piece of data within Sora’s heart
to “clear his conscious” (as
mentioned in BBS)
•Terra, Aqua and Ventus are also
shown, connected to Sora through
their respective meetings
•Mickey promises to pass the
information on to the Sora in the
real world, bidding farewell to
Data-Naminéand Data-Sora
•Data-Sora, fulfilling the message
Jiminy wrote at the end of CoM,
thanks Data-Naminéfor all her help
as she fades away
Thank you.

305. •The game ends with Mickey writing
a letter to Sora, Riku and Kairi,
explaining the events of the game
and the adventure with Data-Sora,
the additional memories within the
real Sora, and the hurt that they
must face
•The group read the letter, as shown
at the end of KH2, looking forward
to their next adventure
•We can finallymove the plot past
the events of KH2 as we set up for
Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop
Distance
I wanted to tell you right away, About
memories from the past that sleep within
you, and about the pieces that will tie you to
your future. Sora, Riku, Kairi, the truth
behind the Keyblade, has found its way
through so many people, and now I know
that it rests in your hearts.
Sora, you are who you are because of those
people, but they're hurting, and you're the
only one who can end their sadness. They
need you. It's possible that all your journeys
so far, have been preparing you for this
great new task that's waiting for you.
I should have known there were no
coincidences— only links in a much larger
chain of events. And now the door to your
next journey is ready to be opened.
-Mickey

306. •Sometime later, Mickey returns to the Mysterious
Tower, appraising Yen Sid of current events
•Mickey claims that he is close to figuring out where
Ven’s heart is
•With Aqua known to be in the Realm of Darkness
(as shown in 0.2), that only leaves Terra
unaccounted for
•Yen Sid also reveals grave news, Xehanorthas
returned…
•When a person’s Heartless and Nobody are both
destroyed, a person does not die, but is
recompleted
•With the destruction of AnsemSoDand Xemnas, it
is only a matter of time until Master Xehanort
returns…
•Yen Sid, cryptically hinting that more than a
“single” Xehanortmay return, instructs Mickey to
summon Sora and Riku to the Tower to undertake
the Mark of Mastery Exam and become true
Keyblade Masters in preparation for the battles to
come

307. Destiny
•In the computer room of Ansemthe Wise in
Radiant Garden, the unconscious forms of Lea,
Isa, Aeleus, Dilan, Even and Ienzoare shown,
recompleted due to the destruction of their
Heartless and Nobodies
•Braig, also recompleted but conscious, speaks to
a young man in a cloak, deducing that the
absence of “Apprentice Xehanort” despite
Xemnas’sdestruction means that the Master’s
plans are already underway
•Braigis unsure of Master’s Xehanort’s intentions,
questioning his compatriot if “even you know
what’s going on inside your own head”

308. •The man, a version of Xehanortin his younger
years, admits that he too is unsure
•Young Xehanortexplains that Keybladesare
bequeathed from master to apprentice, with more
made as time goes on
•He claims that the “No Name” Keybladein Master
Xehanort’spossession is the oldest, and is his own
eventual destiny
•Braigguesses that it is somehow connected to the
ancient KeybladeWar, but shows little interest,
stating that he has his own plans to take care of
•Examining the unconscious forms of the
recompleted people on the ground, Braigasks
Young Xehanortwhich one to take along, the
scene cutting off before he says a name…
Destiny

309. Fan Art Links
•Journal Pages –Keestar52 Google Doc
•Slide 295 –AngelMJ
•Slide 296 –ArcaneKeyblade5
•Slide 296 –mheartz

310. FIN

311. Darkness becomes light,
light falls into darkness

312. some tIme ago…
•Sometime after BBS but before KH1, we
see Braigenter Ansemthe Wise’s
computer room, finding Even and Ienzo
on the floor, dissolving into darkness
•He questions Appentice
Xehanort/Terranort, the only one
present, who proceeds to summon
Xehanort’s No Name Keyblade
•As Braigwonders if Xehanorteven lost
his memory, he is run through by No
Name
•As Braig’sheart leaves his body,
Apprentice Xehanortdeclares that his
name is Ansem, setting up the births of
both AnsemSoDand Xemnas, and
everything from KH1 onwards
That’s not my name.
I’m not “Xehanort.”
My name is Ansem.

313. •We next see what appears to be KH1 era Sora
and Riku heading out to sea on their raft,
though Riku’s hair is a bit different
•As they head out, the two are trapped in the
middle of a storm and are soon attacked by
Ursula
•The two believe it’s part of some sort of test,
and after defeating the illusion of the witch,
sink beneath the waves
•Upon seeing a glowing keyhole, the two fire
upon it and disappear in a flash of light,
seemingly watched on by the hooded form of
AnsemSoD
“This world has been
connected.”

314. •In a flashback at Yen Sid’s tower, we learn what’s
really going on here
•Yen Sid informs Sora and Riku about Xehanort’s likely
return and his intention to put them to the test in a
Mark of Mastery exam
•While their combined feats are impressive, they’re
apparently not Keyblade Master material and must
begin their training again from scratch (might as well
call Sora “Samus” at this point)
•While Sora believes that himself, Riku and the King
have already proven themselves, Riku isn’t sure,
believing that darkness still has a hold on him
•With this, Sora also agrees to be put to the test along
with his buddy
•Unfortunately for the boys, Master Yen Sid is much
more of a taskmaster than Eraqusever was…
Don’t think of it as a reset.
Think of it like you’ve hit Prestige in an FPS.

315. Playing catch up
•As part of their initiation, Sora and Riku
learn about the connections between
Kingdom Hearts, the χ-blade, and the
Keyblade War
•He also informs the two that after the
Keyblade War, the χ-blade was shattered
into 20 pieces; 7 of light, and 13 of
darkness
•With Xehanortlikely going for the χ-blade
again, Yen Sid believes that they’ll need to
get back the people King Mickey found
linked to Sora’s heart in Coded
•To do this, Sora and Riku must unlock
something called the “Power of Waking”
an ability which has the ability to “free a
heart from its sleep”
713

316. Lore:
Sleeping Worlds and
the Power of Waking
•In order to gain the Power of Waking, Yen
Sid must send to two to reactivate “Sleeping
Keyholes”
•After KH1, while many worlds were restored
after Sora defeated AnsemSoD, some of
them didn’t quite come back correctly for
some reason (we still don’t really know why,
don’t ask)
•These worlds entered a “sleeping state”
which not even the Heartless can enter
•These worlds are themselves akin to a
dream, depicting events that occurred
before they were consumed by darkness,
and play events in a timeloopof sorts
•While there are no Heartless, the Sleeping
Worlds have their own dangers…

317. Lore: Dream Eaters
•Within the Realm of Sleep are beings called Dream
Eaters, which consume the dreams and nightmares of
their denizens
•“Nightmares” are Dream Eaters which devour happy
dreams and plant bad ones, aiming to destroy the
worlds if they find the Sleeping Keyholes
•“Spirits” consume the Nightmares and only eat bad
dreams
•These creatures act as both the enemies and party
members within 3D and “guide the way to the sleeping
Keyholes”

318. Mark of Mastery
•With Sora and Riku informed, Yen Sid explains that the
Sleeping Worlds are often interconnected and that they
need to choose a point to start at
•Using a form of time travel magic (WE WILL GET TO THIS
LATER) he send their consciousnesses back to their bodies
at the start of KH1
•As the Destiny Islands were plunged into darkness and sent
into sleep at this point in time, it made them a viable
starting point on their quest to awaken the Sleeping
Worlds
•With their first Sleeping Keyhole sealed, the two move
onto the next
•However, with the return to the time of KH1, it seems like
AnsemSoDhas also returned to stalk our heroes
“Psst. Sora. Come this way.
Definitely no darkness here…

319. •Sora and Riku become separated, both seeming to
land in Traverse Town with new outfits
•They meet residents of Shibuya from “The World
Ends With You”, who have become separated from
their own partners as well
•It soon becomes apparent that Sora and Riku are in
two different “versions” of Traverse Town, though the
actions in one version can affect parts in another
•The two also have sudden fits of sleepiness, causing
them to drop into sleep for periods at a time
•Sora and Riku both learn of the involvement of the
Mysterious Figure from BBS, who the audience can
recognize as Young Xehanortfrom the bonus ending
of Coded
•Sora and Riku are ultimately able to find the sleeping
Keyhole and move on to the next set of worlds

320. •Sora and Riku continue their journeys
through the sleeping worlds, though
they seem to be meeting figures which
should be long dead
•In addition to Young Xehanort, Sora sees
both Vanitas and Xemnas, who taunt him
by comparing his heart to a prison or
making him doubt if his own memories
and feelings are truly his own
•This plays on the reveal in Coded, where
the additional memories of Ventus,
Roxas and Xionwere found to be locked
within Sora’s heart
•Riku is similarly confronted by Young
Xehanort, but also finds AnsemSoD
(now with his body instead of a potato
sack), and another hooded figure who
looks identical to his KH1 self
•These encounters cause Riku to doubt
himself, though his thoughts of Sora ease
his fears
Light Sleep

321. •As the Mark of Mastery continues, we see Axel dreaming of his
promise to Roxas to “always bring them back” before his
completed form, a now adult Lea, wakes up in Radiant Garden
•Lea, retaining all his memories as Axel, finds that not only himself,
but Dilan, Even, Aeleus, and Ienzoare human again, though he
notes the absence of Braigand Isa
•As Lea, Aeleus, and Ienzolook through Ansem’sstudy, Ienzo
explains to Lea that Isa and Braigare not likely at Radiant Garden
as when recompleted, a person should end up either in the same
place where they lost their heart, or in Traverse Town if that world
fell to darkness
•Lea states that he plans on bringing them back himself, as he gazes
at the writing behind “Ansem’s” portrait
We’re people again.
Somebody else
returns

322. •Sora and Riku continue their journeys, learning some
things about Mickey’s past as Yen Sid’s apprentice,
also running into Young Xehanortagain
•Young Xehanorttells Sora that unlike those he has
encountered so far, he is not part of the dream or the
Mark of Mastery test, telling Sora that they will meet
again if he continues to sleep
•In his encounter with Young Xehanort, Riku is
informed that he has fully tamed the darkness within
his heart, finally moving past his mistakes
•His mastery extends to the point that he is immune
to the corrupting influence of darkness, making him
no use to Young Xehanort
•With all seven Sleeping Keyholes found and shut, the
test should be over, but things aren’t quite that
simple…
Deep Sleep

323. •In the Mysterious Tower, Mickey and
co. receive a ransom letter from
Maleficent who has kidnapped Minnie
•Mickey, Donald and Goofy leave in the
Gummy ship for Disney Castle while
Yen Sid continues presiding over the
Mark of Mastery exam
•Maleficent reveals that Xehanortwas
the one who shared the information
regarding the Princesses of Heart and
Kingdom hearts
•She wants Jiminy’sJournal from
Coded, but before an exchange can be
agreed upon, Minnie escapes with the
intervention of a familiar red chakram
•Once Pete and Maleficent leave, Lea
enters the room using a dark portal
and reintroduces himself

324. •As Lea explains things to Yen Sid, the master admits that he
believes that something may have gone wrong from the start
of the test
•The only reason Sora and Riku are doing it this way as
opposed to the training that someone like Eraqusprovided
was to get the Power of Waking
•With Lea and some of the other Organization members back
as complete people, Yen Sid assumes that Xehanortmust also
be back in top form
•In an effort to prepare a wild card that could interfere with
Xehanort’s plans, Lea is sent into a time vacuum (time passing
faster inside vs outside) by Merlin and the Three Good Fairies
in the hopes that he can learn to wield a Keyblade
THERE IS NO TIME IN THE WINNIE
THE POOH WORLD!!!
uh oh

325. •As Yen Sid and the others wonder if Xehanortsomehow
interfered with the test, they explain some of the rules of
time travel in Kingdom Hearts
1.You can only return to a time and place where a version of
you already exists
2.In order to time travel, you must separate your heart from
your body, and only the heart is sent back
3.Merlin (and Pete I guess?) is the exception to this (Timeless
River) because Disney magic is busted
•They realize that since AnsemSoDwas present on Destiny
Islands the night of the storm in KH1 and did not have a
body before possessing Riku, they could have followed
Riku and Sora into the Sleeping Realm
•Yen Sid tracks Riku to somewhere in the Realm Between,
and with Mickey believing that the two should enter the
real world soon if Xehanortgets his way, the mouse sets
off alone to find the boys

326. •Instead of returning to the Mysterious Tower,
Sora finds himself in the World That Never
Was, the former HQ of Organization XIII
•Still in his younger body, Sora is soon
confronted by Xigbar(once again a Nobody)
•The Freeshooterreveals that his allies have
rigged the Mark of Mastery from the very
beginning on Destiny Islands
•With AnsemSoDacting as their way into the
Sleeping Realm, Young Xehanortand Xemnas
guided Sora deeper into the dreams
Vivid
Dreaming

327. •Pointing out that he is still in the dreams due to his
clothes, Xigbarsummons twelve additional figures
including Young Xehanortwho takes Sora to a vision of
Destiny Islands
•Young Xehanortreveals his identity to Sora, and
confirms that the robed figure was AnsemSoDbefore
he possessed Riku
•He reveals that Apprentice Xehanort/Terranortsplit
himself into Xemnas and AnsemSoDso that his
Heartesscould time travel
•With no body to tie him down, AnsemSoDwent to the
past to meet Young Xehanortand explain his role in the
plan

328. •Sora returns to the World That Never Was in his
older body, and soon encounters Naminé, who
turns into Xionbefore fading away as Sora cries
•While he faintly hears Riku telling him to wake
up, Sora is too disoriented to listen to it
•Sora soon sees Roxas, who muses that if he won
his duel with Sora, this could have been the
other way around, though Sora insists that he
deserves to be his own person separate from
Sora
•Roxas believes that only Sora can save everyone,
and upon taking Sora’s hands, Roxas transfers
all his memories into Sora
•Back in his younger body, Sora continues on,
unable to hear Riku’s voice calling to him
Sora, see?
That’s why it has to be you.

329. •Sora tries following who he thinks are Riku and Kairi,
who soon turn into Terra and Aqua, with Sora himself
appearing as Ventus
•Sora recalls the time he and Riku met Aqua, before a
vision of AnsemSoDblows him back to the World That
Never Was
•Appearing before Xigbaragain, the Nobody reveals that
everything Sora saw was a dream as part of a “second
sleep” they put him in
•Seeing his counterpart's memories, Sora realizes that
there is no way that Roxas, Axel, Naminéand “that
other girl” didn’t have hearts
•Xemnas appears and reveals a simple truth about the
nature of Nobodies: He lied.
Wait, Nobodies
have hearts?
Indeed.
Always have.
Master Xehanort’s
Wild Ride

330. •Nobodies, while initially lacking a heart, can grow
one over time, retroactively making all scenes with
the Organization cast make more sense while
simultaneously gutting the very concept of a
Nobody
•Xemnas simply didn’t tell the other Organization
members that they can grow new hearts as they
were to serve a different purpose
•Xigbarreveals that the real purpose of the
Organization was to gather strong empty vessels,
link them using the artificial Kingdom Hearts, and
synch them to have identical copies of the same
heart and mind
•In short, they were selected to become copies of
Xehanort
Master Xehanort’s
Wild Ride
Truth is, the game was rigged from the start.

331. •Sora, baffled, asks how Xigbarcould stand to turn into
someone else
•Xigbarsimply replies that he is already “half-Xehanort” and
has been since BBS, sometime between his fight with Terra
and the confrontation at the Keyblade Graveyard
•Xemnas admits that most of the original Organization
members were not ideal candidates which caused that plan
to fail
•Xigbartries to tempt Sora into joining them, but Sora refuses,
stating once again that the connection with his friends is his
power
•Xigbarleaves upon seeing Sora’s strength, leaving the boy to
face Xemnas alone
Me? I’m already half Xehanort.
Master Xehanort’s
Wild Ride

332. •Seemingly defeating Xemnas, Sora soon collapses of
exhaustion as Young Xehanortsoon reappears and reveals one
more wacky twist
•The “X” on his chest is actually a symbol called the Recusant’s
Sigil, something which allowed this New Organization XIII to
track him
•By luring Sora further and further into the darkness of sleep,
they planned to turn Sora into their thirteenth and final vessel
•Young Xehanortalso reveals that those who time travel won’t
have memories of their experiences in the past/future
•Despite not remembering this encounter, his heart will still
drive him to follow the path that leads him to become Master
Xehanort
•While Sora’s heart is nearly lost to darkness, Ventus, still
dwelling within him, encases Sora in his Keyblade Armour,
•A catatonic Sora sits in the Organization’s meeting room,
awaiting rescue by his dearest friend…
As your flesh bears the sigil, so your name shall be
known as that… of a recusant.
Master Xehanort’s
Wild Ride

333. •Riku soon arrives in the World That Never Was, soon
making his way to the castle
•Finding Sora within a force field, Riku tries to wake him
up from his second sleep, to no success
•After fighting a manifestation of Sora’s nightmares, the
“Anti Black Coat”, AnsemSoDappears and drags Riku
into darkness
•AnsemSoDreveals that Riku knew something was
wrong as soon as he saw Ansem’shooded form on
Destiny Islands
•To protect Sora, instead of entering the Sleeping Realm,
Riku entered Sora’s dreams and has been acting as a
Spirit Dream Eater, destroying the Nightmares within
Sora
•This explains the multiple versions of the worlds visited,
as well as the Spirit Dream Eater emblem on Riku’s
outfit
And you became exactly what that
sigil on your back represents –a
Dream Eater to protect Sora from
nightmares.
Rikuto
the Rescue

334. •AnsemSoD, seeing that Riku has locked his darkness
away, tells the boy to set it free if he wants to save
his friend
•Riku explains that the entire purpose of his journey
in the Mark of Mastery exam was to see if he had
the right to use a Keyblade after accepting darkness,
especially after seeing that Xehanortlost his after
becoming a Heartless
•Upon seeing AnsemSoDagain, Riku is reminded of
his promise to Terra in BBS, and how that was his
initial inspiration to seek new worlds and gain
strength to protect his friends
•Riku accepts that he can hold the darkness within
himself and still become a Keyblade Master, refusing
to join Ansem
•After defeating AnsemSoD, his Dark Figure reaches
out to him as it fades away
Rikuto
the Rescue

335. •Riku finds himself now in the real world, though he still has his Dream
Eater powers since Sora has not woken up yet
•Reaching Organization XIII’s meeting room, he finds the unconscious
Sora and is soon confronted by Young Xehanort
•Young Xehanortexplains that he is planning on making Sora his new
vessel
•While he initially wanted to use Riku, his resistance to darkness made
this impossible
•While Roxas was also initially a candidate, his rebellion and subsequent
disapperancemade this impossible
•Young Xehanorttells Riku about the true purpose of the original
Organization to gain thirteen vessels for Xehanort, and how not all of
the candidates in the first group weren’t suited to the task
•He then summons the hooded forms of the rest of the Real
Organization XIII
Rikuto
the Rescue

336. Real
Organization XIII
•Among the members in this new Organization (aside
from Young Xehanort) include AnsemSoD, Xemnas,
and Xigbar
•Young Xehanortreveals his identity to Riku, with the
new group only needed two more vessels: Sora and
the original Master Xehanort, who is about to reform
after the defeats of AnsemSoDand Xemnas
•Young Xehanortexplains how he was trusted with
collecting the different incarnations of himself
throughout time (explaining his BBS appearance)
•He also explains the rules of time travel again, with
the additional note that once you arrive in time you
can’t rewrite events that are destined to happen
•After their goals are fulfilled, the time-travelling
Organization members will return to their original
place in history, with no memory of their time
travelling escapades

337. Real
Organization XIII
•King Mickey appears and with a timely Stopzaspell, freezing
Young Xehanortand the other Organization members in
time
•Before the two can grab Sora and leave, Young Xehanort
seemingly recovers and attacks Mickey
•At this moment, Master Xehanortis actually possessing his
younger self, allowing him to move freely within stopped
time
•In a desperate duel for his friend, Riku defeats
Master/Young Xehanort, though the Master himself soon
appears
•Everything up to this point has been pre-planned by
Xehanort, where his twelve other selves would gather to
welcome his true self back
•In his own words: “It is the future which lies beyond my
sight.”

338. •The old master tells Mickey and Riku of his plan to forge
the χ-blade once again and access Kingdom Hearts
•With his initial attempt with Ventus and Vanitas failed,
Xehanorthas since realized that he requires seven lights
and thirteen darknesses, the equivalent to the pieces that
χ-blade initially shattered into
•Mickey, full of remorse, realizes that despite the sacrifices
of his friends, Xehanort’s plan is still on track
•The old master continues, explaining that both of Ansem
SoDand Xemnas had roles to play in this larger plan
•Through AnsemSoD, he oversaw Maleficent as she
gathered the seven Princesses of Heart to serve as the
representatives of light
•Through Xemnas, he collected the members of the original
Organization XIII to serve as vessels of darkness
Real
Organization
XIII

339. •Though Sora defeated AnsemSoDand Xemnas,
stopping these plans, Xehanorthas a new goal
•He now plans to gather seven Keyblade wielders
to act as Guardians of Light, while his Real
Organization XIII will act as Seekers of Darkness
•In getting the two to clash, he hopes to forge the
χ-blade properly, and access Kingdom Hearts
•While Mickey tries to guess that the guardians of
light are himself, Riku, Sora, Terra, Aqua, Ventus
and a seventh member, Xehanortcorrects the
King
•In addition to Sora as his thirteenth vessel, one
other on their list is already on Xehanort’s side
(three guesses as to who, first two don’t count)
Real
Organization
XIII

340. •With Xehanortpreparing to turn Sora into another
vessel and Mickey and Riku disrupted by Ansem
SoDand Xemnas, all seems lost…
•At the last second, Lea appears and interrupts the
process, to the frustration of Xehanort
•Attacked by one of the other vessels, Lea is able
block but is shocked to see Saïxunder the hood
•As AnsemSoDsummons his Dark Figure to trap
the heroes, Donald and Goofy appear with the Star
Shard and destroy it
•This buys them enough time, as the Organization
members have stayed in the present for too long,
and are forced to return to their own time
•Before disappearing, Master Xehanortassures
them that this is not the end and that they shall
meet at the “fated place” once the seven and
thirteen have been gathered
Real
Organization XIII
Promises to keep. I’ll always be
there to get my friends back.

341. •Riku, back in his older body, and the others return
the still sleeping Sora to the Mysterious Tower and
inform Yen Sid about what just happened
•Yen Sid tells Riku that since he opened the Sleeping
Keyholes, he should have learned the Power of
Waking, which he can use to save Sora’s heart from
darkness
•While Mickey initially volunteers to go instead, Riku
insists, reasoning that his close bond with Sora will
give him a better chance
•Descending into Sora’s Station of Awakening, he
finds himself in darkness with a corrupted
Nightmare version of Ventus’ Armour ready to fight
•Riku defeats it and frees Sora from the darkness,
but encounters something unexpected on the way
out
Waking
Up

342. •On an illusion of Destiny Islands, he sees visions of
Roxas, Ven, and Xion(the latter he can’t remember)
who all ask him questions, with his answers illustrating
how much Sora means to him
•A bottle soon washes up on shore, and Riku is soon
greeted by Ansemthe Wise
•This projection explains that the real Ansemleft a piece
of data which contains a digital copy of his research in
Sora’s heart (as mentioned in Blank Points in BBS and
Coded)
•The sage believes that this copy, combined with Sora’s
strong bonds with others, can be used to find their lost
friends and restore them
•He tells Riku that Sora awoke when the Armoured
Ventus Nightmare was defeated, allowing Riku to
return to the waking world
Waking
Up

343. •With both boys awake and safe at the Mysterious Tower, an
awakened Sora is relieved that his friend is safe
•Yen Sid reveals the results of the exam: Riku pass, Sora no pass
•Since Sora came too close to falling into darkness, he lacks the
control required to become a master
•Riku is shocked at the results of the exam, while Sora is
undaunted, simply happy that his friend passed after his long
ordeal
•Lea tells them that he plans to become a Keyblade wielder as
well, with his sudden summoning of a Keyblade shocking all in
attendance
Exam
Results

344. •With the exam over, Sora returns to the still
sleeping Traverse Town, which hasn’t quite
woken up yet
•He meets for a final time with all the Dream
Eaters that helped him on his journey
•The happiness in his heart connects with
the body of Ven, who gives a smile in the
depths of Castle Oblivion
•Aqua stillremains in the Realm of Darkness,
hoping for her suffering to end soon
•Yen Sid summons Riku, sending him on an
important mission before speaking to his
former apprentice
Epilogue

345. •Yen Sid explains to Mickey that should the
Guardians of Light refuse to face him, Xehanort
plans to use the Princesses of Hearts as a backup
•With Lea as another of their number and Terra’s
circumstances unknown, they need one more to
fill out their ranks
•Riku returns with Kairi, who Yen Sid plans to
make a Guardian of Light due to her ability to
wield a Keyblade, arranging her to begin training
alongside Lea
•With little other choice, the Guardians prepare
themselves as best they can for the inevitable
conflict with Xehanort…
•But first we have even morebackstory to go
through. Y’all like mobile games?
Epilogue

346. Fan Art Links
•Slide 337 –ArcaneKeyblade5
•Slide 338 –kanipanman
•Slide 338 -DarukaDraws

347. FIN

348. To discover the end, a journey must
start at the beginning…

349. What is this??
•Kingdom Hearts χ(Chi, pronounced like “Key” here for some reason)
•A free to play game on PC browsers that was initially a Japanese
exclusive
•A “remake” referred to as “Unchained χ”, and later renamed “Union X
(Cross)”, was released on iOS and Android later on, but this contained
additional story content as well.
•A CG movie referred to as “Back Cover” was also made and placed in
the 2.8 compilation which covers some of the events in the initial
mobile game, but also goes into some more background detail.
•Is this important?
•Unfortunately, yes, it is. The plans laid out in this game are significant
to 3 and all games beyond it, making it essential for the overall lore
(thanks Mr. Nomura, very cool).
•For this section we’ll cover the events of the initial mobile game, Back
Cover and Union X all in one segment.
•There was an additional bit of content added later called “Dark Road”
covering the origins of Xehanort, but we’ll get to that after we cover 3.

350. •This story takes place during the
“Age of Fairy Tales”, briefly
described in KH1 and BBS
•The light of the world is
protected by individuals residing
in a place called Daybreak Town
•These people are let by a group
of seven Keyblade Masters

351. The setup
•The leader of this group is the Master of Masters
•Writer of the Book of Prophecies, in which contains writings
that described future events
•The initial user of the No NameKeyblade, which would later
come into the possession of Master Xehanort
•Among these predictions was a great catastrophe described
as the Keyblade War, a cataclysmic event which would result
in the complete destruction of the current world order, and
allow darkness to flourish
•The Master gave five of his apprentices, known as the
Foretellers, a copy of the Book of Prophecies.
•To address the upcoming disaster, the Master also gives each
Foreteller a “role”… or so they believe
•“The war in that place will lead to the defeat and destruction of the
Light. The World will be enveloped in eternal Darkness.”
–Passage from the Book of Prophecies

352. The
Master
Apprentices
•The apprentices of the Master, all
Keyblade Masters in their own
right
•Five of these Foretellers will each
become in charge of their own
Unions
•Unions are groups of Keyblade
users created by the Foretellers
with two main goals
1.Protect the world from darkness in the
form of the Heartless
2.Collect light in the form of Lux
Foreteller Ira
Leader of the
Unicornis Union
Foreteller Invi
Leader of the
Anguis Union
Foreteller Aced
Leader of the
Ursus Union
Foreteller Ira
Leader of the
Unicornis Union
Foreteller Gula
Leader of the
Leopardus
Union
Foreteller Ava
Leader of the
Vulpes Union
Luxu
Given unique
instructions
from the Master

353. •Upon reading the Book, Ira goes to
discuss its contents with the Master
•Ira believes that he and his fellow
apprentices will be able to find a way
to prevent the war from beginning
•The Master clarifies that the war is
inevitable and cannot be stopped
•The plan is to save what remains
after the war, not to prevent it
•The Master also warns Ira that he
“might” disappear and gives Ira the
role of leader in case this happens.
Case of
Ira

354. Case of
INVI
•In a discussion with Invi, the Master
assigns her the task of watching over
the other foretellers, and act as a
mediator between them
•Inviis unsure if she will be able to
perform the task, without the Master
or Luxu (who has already embarked
to fulfill his role) there to help them.
•The Master reassures her and leaves
her with the following words:
•"May your heart be your guiding
key". I say it all the time; you
ultimately need to do what your
heart feels is right.
–The Master of Masters

355. •The Master assigns Aced to
be Ira’s second in command
•Aced is noticeably
disappointed by this as he
desired the role of leader
•The Master assures Aced that
the role is important, as Ira
tends to overthink things,
and Aced needs to ensure
that Ira is able to act when
necessary
•He also notes that in case Ira
does poorly, it is his job to
step up and become leader,
noting that it is Aced’s“true
role”
Case of
Aced

356. •The Master shows Gula the “Lost Page”, a
excerpt from the Book of Prophecies that
no one else is in possession of.
•Among the passages on this page, there is
note of a traitorwithin the ranks of the
Master’s apprentices
•Gula’s assigned role is to identify and stop
this traitor
•Gula realizes that the Master gave them
different roles for this purpose, as if anyone
deviated from their role, it would give away
the traitor's identity
•While mildly upset that he didn’t get to
reveal this himself, the Master confirms
that Gula is correct and tells Gula that the
only one he can trust is himself.
Case of
Gula

357. •The Master tells Ava that the last page of
the book will come to pass, and that the
world will be lost to darkness, though
through her role, Ava may prevent light
from expiring
•Ava is instructed to ignore the Unions
and to not get involved in any conflict
•Instead, Ava is to find Keyblade wielders
with great potential and recruit them for
an entirely separate organization which
will eventually become known as the
Dandelions
•“Then, like the seeds of a dandelion, let
them fly to another world. They will
keep the light alive,”
–The Master of Masters
Case of
Ava

358. •Luxu is given the No Name Keyblade,
with the Master explaining that the
eye at the tip actually belongs to the
Master himself
•Luxu’s role is to pass the No Name
down a line of succession so that the
gazing eye within is able to observe
future events
•This is how the Master wrote the Book
of Prophecies, and the fact that the
book exists at all means that Luxu has
already accomplished his role
Case of
Luxu

359. •Luxu is also given several additional
instructions
•In addition to No Name, he is instructed
to take a Black Box, leave Daybreak
Town, and remain completely out of
sight
•He is to watch the upcoming events of
the Keyblade War, but cannot get
involved in the conflict
•He cannot open the box under any
circumstance
•While Luxu is told the contents of the box,
and seems shocked at the answer, though we
don’t hear what it is
Case of
Luxu

360. Lore: Chirithy
•Before disappearing, the Master shows his
apprentices a creation of his: the first Spirit Dream
Eater, known as a Chirithy
•These adorable little guys were created to oversee
their respective Keyblade wielder’s progress and
provide guidance to their partners when necessary
•Individual Chirithy are paired with each Keyblade
wielder, and support wielders from all five of the
unions, working together to drive back darkness
•The Master warns his apprentices that if a Keyblade
wielder succumbs to darkness, the Chirithy will do
the same, creating a Nightmare
•Nightmare Chirithy will plant darkness in the hearts
of others, and cause the creation of more Nightmares

361. •With his work complete, the
Master disappeared
•Luxu left with No Name and the
black box to fulfill his role
•The five Foretellers create their
Unions, beginning the events of
Kingdom Hearts χ

362. Introducing…
you!
•Kingdom Hearts χbegins with the Player standing at the Dive to the Heart, and selecting a Union to
join, before meeting their respective foreteller who tells them that while Keybladesoffer great
strength, they must work together to combat darkness
•The player is given the rundown on the current state of the world (the Master of Masters, the 5
Foretellers, the Book of Prophecies, etc.) by their partner Chirithy and both travel to many worlds
to gather Lux
•Chirithy also explains that in order to try and prevent the war, the Foretellers used the powers of
the Book of Prophecies to make “Medals” which draw from the power of the future and are the
gachagimmick of these titles
•Chirithy mentions that while all of the Foretellers have the same overall goal, they aren’t following
the same path, and are somewhat competing for Lux. This is reinforced by their Foreteller, who
states that the other Unions may be hoarding Lux without concern for peace across the worlds
Bro, just one more pull to get
that Seven Star Medal. Trust
me bro.

363. •As the player progresses, a Chirithy gives the player a “Power Bangle” as a gift, an accessory which
allows for greater strength by using the “Guilt” found within certain medals.
•As Chirithy leaves, another one is seen from a distance, wondering what they saw.
•As the Unions gather more light, darkness seems to also grow stronger in response. The player’s
Chirithy wonders if there really is a traitor, which the Player’s Foreteller doesn’t believe yet.
•One night, the player has a dream of the Foretellers speaking with the Master in their chamber in
Daybreak Town’s clock tower. While not permitted here, the player still wishes to investigate.
•The player’s Chirithy speaks with the Chirithy that gave the Player the Power Bangle, declaring that
they will protect the player from this other Chirithy
What’s with that Power Bangle
bro? That’s shady as hell!
Nah bro, I don’t know what you
mean. Go grind for medals or
somethin, smh.

364. •Soon the player meets a Keyblade wielder from
another Union named Ephemer.
•Ephemerclaims that he is “Union Free” today,
looking into another matter unrelated from his
typical duties
•Ephemer is wondering why the Unions are
competing instead of working together to gain Lux,
and has done some investigation onto the worlds
that they have been visiting and the Unions
•All of the worlds are actually holograms of future
places produced by the Book of Prophecies, much
like the medals, and the Unions all have their own
goals
•The player describes their dream to Ephemer, who
agrees that the two should head to the clock
tower and search for the Foreteller’s chamber
•The mysterious Chirithy appears again with a
darker colouration, declaring the player is getting
closer to the truth

365. meanwhILe…
•The Foretellers reconvene at a meeting, with Ira declaring that
there is a traitor among the Foretellers
•He reveals a Nightmare Chirithy, confirming that a Keyblade
wielder has been tainted by darkness
•Ava wonders how Ira can be sure if one of the Foretellers is the
owner of the Nightmare, with Ira noting that the Nightmare has
been handing out Power Bangles which not only collect darkness
but convert that darkness into power.
•Due to the difficulty of acquiring these items, Ira accuses one of
the others of being the Nightmare’s master.
•Aced calls Ira foolish for thinking that the traitor would
immediately crack under his accusation and leaves, followed
shortly by Gula and Ava
•Ira discusses a potential lost page from the Book of Prophecies
with Invi, as this incident was not mentioned within the text
•Ira believes that whoever has this lost page is the traitor, with Invi
agreeing to keep a close eye on things

366. Suspicions
rising IN
Daybreak
Town
•The player and Ephemer make it partway through the tower but stop after agreeing that they’ve been gone too long and
should return before anyone gets suspicious. The two agree to meet the next day and search for the hidden room
•Meanwhile, Aced vents his frustrations with Ira to Gula and Ava, and proposes an alliance with the two to limit the spread
of darkness
•Ava mentions that creating alliances and combining Unions was strictly forbidden by the Master to “maintain balance”
•Gula accepts Aced’soffer, but makes it clear that the alliance is only between the two Foretellers, and does not extend to their Unions
as a whole
•Both Inviand Ava decline the alliance, with Invigrowing more suspicious of Aced.
•Invireports her findings to Ira, mistakenly believing that Aced and Gula have completely aligned their Unions.
•Ira believes this makes Aced the traitor, but Invicorrects him, stating that Aced believes unification will allow for strength against the
darkness
•Both agree that despite this, alliances were forbidden by the Master, whose teachings they believe as absolute
•Invistates her intention to convince Gula to dissolve the alliance, noting that her reports to Ira will become less frequent, as Aced
knows that she is reporting everything she hears directly to Ira

367. •After the meeting Ava sits at
Fountain Square, hoping that the
Foretellers don’t come into direct
conflict with each other, when she is
met by Ephemer
•Ava and Ephemerwonder why
Unions have to compete for Lux, as
while it was one of the Master’s
orders, Ava is skeptical as it would
make more sense for them to
collaborate
•Ephemerasks Ava for more details
on the Book, but is denied
•Ephemerleaves, mentioning he
needs to meet his friend from
another Union
•Ava is pleased to hear this,
commenting on being happy to leave
the fate of the world to kids like him;
like Dandelions

368. •The player waits for Ephemerthe next day, who
unfortunately is a no show. Chirithy consoles the
player.
•It turns out Ephemerwent back to the tower the
previous day but encountered someone while
there.
•Fortunately, Ephemerturns up the next day,
apologizing profusely for neglecting his friend and
asks if they want to explore the tower today
•The two proceed as far as they went the last time,
before Ephemersays that the player is “not ready
yet” before vanishing into a cloud of dandelion
seeds
•The Player wakes up, the prior encounter being
nothing more than a dream

369. The Search for Ephemer
•The player spends the next day looking for clues about
where Ephemer has gone and learn that Ava has been
gathering wielders for an unknown purpose and that
Ephemer was seen with her
•Heading to the clock tower, the player confronts Master Ava
and asks what’s been going on
•Ava proceeds to test the player in battle to determine the
strength of their heart
•While losing the fight, Ava comments that the player has
strong resolve, but also sadness which can plant seeds of
darkness
•While the player sleeps that night, Ava meets with Chirithy,
who mentions that Ephemer has fallen into an “Unchained”
state of truth, and that their meeting within the realm of
sleep means that the player is also close to discovering this
truth
So, it’s you. You’re the
friend he told me about..

370. The
Search
for
Ephemer
•As the player continues on missions, some even
within the Corridor of Darkness*, it begins to exhaust
them.
•*The player is protected from darkness thanks to a “Bracelet of
Light” given to them by Chirithy.
•The Foretellers believe that the darkness is coming soon
and that they need to be more prepared than ever
•Wielders begin to become more competitive, seeing
other Unions as rivals rather than friendly competitors
Sorry, but friends aren’t my
power.

371. Dissolution of an
Alliance
•Sometime after their initial meeting Gula meets
again with Aced, wanting to cease their alliance.
•Partially due to the lack of serious incidents
since the initial appearance of the Dark
Chirithy
•Also due to Aced unable to bring anyone else
into their alliance
•Begrudgingly, Aced accepts Gula’s request, but not
before Gula mentions that Invitold him to break
off the truce
•Gula mentions that while Invisuggested it, it
was Gulas final decision as he feels that he
can’t trust anyone else besides himself
•As Gula departs, Aced mutters that Inviwill regret
her interference…

372. The Search
for Ephemer
•The player soon meets another
Keyblade user named Skuld
•She, like Ephemer, the player and Ava,
has begun to question why the Unions
are competing if they all have the
exact same goal
•Skuld mentions that she and Ephemer
used to be in the same party before
Ephemer left
•Like the player, she has been having
dreams of Ephemer, who instructed
her to find the player and gave an
ominous warning that the end of the
world is near
•The player shares the information
about their dream about Ephemer
with Skuld, and the two plan on
heading to the tower before a sudden
crash is heard throughout the town…

373. •Inviand Aced are openly clashing in the streets of Daybreak
Town
•Aced believes that they should abandon the Master’s teachings
to avoid the inevitable future, while Inviclaims she is fulfilling
her role and that they must follow the Master’s instructions
•Gula, hiding in an alley, watches the fight; seemingly satisfied
with the outcome
•Led by Gula, Ava arrives and the two ask what has happened
•Invitells the newly arrived Foretellers that she has found the
traitor, believing it to be Aced. The four Keyblade Masters
continue in a three-on-one fight against Aced
•Witnessing this, the player and Skuld make haste to the clock
tower as Skuld remarks that Ephemer’swarning may come true
sooner than expected
ForetellerFaceoff

374. •As Skuld and the player continue, they once again
encounter the strange Chirithy, now sporting a darker
colour scheme
•The Dark Chirithy summons talking heartless called
Darklings, which crave Lux
•After defeating these creatures, the Dark Chirithy
reveals that Darklingsare the remnants of Keyblade
wielders that have completely succumbed to darkness
and cannot use powers of light, such as the medals
•Before fleeing, the Dark Chirithy mentions that their
wielder is “closer than you think”.
•Skuld and the player continue to the Foreteller’s
Chamber, led by Chirithy
The Search for
Ephemer
!

375. ForetellerFaceoff
•Sometime after the initial fight, Gula meets with an
injured Aced, explaining his role and how he is in
possession of the lost page.
•Aced is furious at the fact that Gula knew there was a
traitor while doing nothing about it and the two clash
once more
•Aced wins the fight, but Ava begs him to stay his hand.
Aced limps away, while Ava takes Gula and retreats
•Later that evening, Ira finds Aced, who believes he is
there to finish Aced
•Ira reminds Aced that their role is to pass light onto
the future, not to prevent darkness from coming and
that they’ll need all five lights to do it
•Aced tells Ira about Gula’s lost page, and Ira leaves to
confront Gula
Bro, close your eyes.
Okay, bro.
What do you see?
Darkness bro.
That’s going to be the world
if we’re not a team bro.
Bro!

376. The Search for
Ephemer
•Unfortunately for our trio, there is nothing much inside
the Foreteller’s Chamber, and no clues to Ephemer’s
whereabouts
•As they go to leave, they are confronted by one of the
Foretellers, who comments on Ephemer’searlier arrival
and chastises the player for trusting someone from a
different Union, assuming they just wanted information
•Upon remarking that Ephemeris gone and can no longer
interfere, the player speaks directly to the foreteller,
telling them that while they had previously followed their
orders without question, they realize something greater
is happening.
•The player raises their Keyblade to confront the
Foreteller
•While they lose the fight, the Foreteller congratulates
their strength of heart, revealing themselves to be Ava in
disguise

377. The Dandelions
•Ava explains that Ephemer’shunt for the truth
made him the best candidate to lead the
Dandelions, Keyblade users with strong hearts
that will carry light to the next world.
•Those who cannot join will take part in the
Keyblade War, which the Foretellers will also join
to ensure that there is no clear victor
•Ava offers the player and Skuld positions within
the group.
•Skuld accepts, excited to see Ephemer again,
while the player hesitates as they don’t want to
leave the other wielders behind
•Ava gives the player time to think it over
•Ava later gives the Dandelion’s a speech on their
mission and concludes with the phrase “May
your hearts be your guiding key.”

378. Foreteller Faceoff
•Ava, knowing Ira is hunting for Gula, refuses to tell Ira
where he is hiding. While disappointed, Ira departs
without conflict.
•Ava speaks with Gula about the Lost Page, which talks
about “the one who bears the sigil”. Gula laments that
his hasty actions and the consequences that followed,
were due to the ambiguity of this passage
•Gula declares that he is going to force the Master to
return by purposefully breaking his rules; specifically, by
gathering enough Lux to summon Kingdom Hearts
•Ava declines to help him, claiming that she is following
the Master’s teachings
•Inviand Ava converse sometime later, with Gula
collecting lux for his plan, Aced and Ira doing the same
to maintain the balance, and Invipreparing to join the
three, urging Ava to do the same

379. Final Days
•Sometime after Ava’s speech, fights between Keyblade
wielders become more common. The time for the final
battle is swiftly approaching
•Skuld and Chirithy are shocked at how quickly things
have devolved
•Skuld has been trying to recruit more Dandelions, but
the group is losing hope with the disappearance of Ava
•The three begin their search for Ava starting with Gula,
since the two were close.
•He explains that Ava has gone to look for the Master, or
Luxu if the former is not possible
•Applauding their efforts in spite of the inevitable
conflict, Gula shares a passage of the lost page with the
group
•This passage speaks of the traitor who will bring the end
of the world. Gula was supposed to find this person, but
failed to do so
“Imbalance observed, strength
misplaced, a future filled with
sorrow.
Words of truth misunderstood as
they explore the secret tomorrow.
With a single strike, toll the bells
and herald the end, bringing war
upon us, as fate did intend.”

380. Final Days
•While Gula is expositing, Ava finds Luxuon a hill overlooking Daybreak Town
•Luxuexplains that his role is to “watch” the events that are to occur and that the Masters
true intentions are written on the lost page of the Book, which no one is supposed to
have
•Ava is shocked to learn about the truth of the traitor, claiming that Luxuis twisting the
Master’s words
•The two briefly clash, the impact creating a shock wave that rings the bells of the clock
tower, heralding the end of the world

381. •Skuld heads back to the Dandelion’s encouraging the player
to come with her and Ephemer, and to avoid partaking in the
war.
•The player asks Chirithy what they should do, with Chirithy
hesitant, town between their duty to the Foretellers and
knowing that it would perish along with the player in the
Keyblade War
•The Dark Chirithy reappears, claiming that the Dandelions
are taking light for themselves and leaving everyone else to
perish
•It also reveals that the Power Bangle it previously gave the
player converts the darkness collected into power,
unbeknownst to the player and that this darkness spawned
the Dark Chirithy
•After merging with some Darklings, the now Nightmare
Chirithy fights the player
•Upon defeat, it says that their bond has been severed, but
will meet the player again in “another dream”
Final
Days

382. Final Days
•With the advent of the Keyblade War nigh, the player, clad in armor, faces off against
the other Union’s at the badlands featured in Birth by Sleep
•As the war rages on, the player briefly clashes with the enemy Union Foretellers,
gradually getting whittled down as the fights continue
•After confronting the final Foreteller, the player collapses from exhaustion, on the brink
of death
•A bright light envelops them, with Skuld, Ephemerand Chirithy appearing. The player,
crying, chastises Ephemerfor breaking his promise while Ephemerreplies that they will
now “go together”

383. Final Days
•As the Keyblade War comes to a close,
and the hearts of children cease floating
into the sky, Kingdom Hearts breaks
through the clouds
•The fate of the five Foretellers is
unknown, the group having simply
disappeared sometime during the war
•On a nearby cliff, Luxu fulfills his role,
watching the events unfurl with No
Name in hand, before moving elsewhere
through the wasteland now known as
the Keyblade Graveyard, with the black
box in tow

384. FIN…?

386. Dreams of
Darkness
•The player wakes up in Enchanted Dominion, a
world not previously explored in χ, with Chirithy by
their side
•Their memories are hazy, though they can recall
events up until the moment Ava offered them and
Skuldthe chance to join the Dandelions
•Chirithy mentions that they’ve been having dreams
of the events that occurred during the Keyblade
War, but there are no signs of the previous tension
between wielders as before.
•The two leave, heading back to a normal Daybreak
Town
•Nearby, we see Maleficent also in Enchanted
Dominion, pleased that “it” worked, and that Sora
and his fiends will not be able to get in her way…

387. AvA’s
Extended Role
•In a flashback extending the initial “Case of Ava” the Master instructs
Ava an additional goal alongside forming the Dandelions
•The Master has written the names of five individuals to take over as
Union leaders after the Keyblade War is over.
•Ava is told to find these five, explain their role and give them both the
rulebooks each should follow
•In secret, one of the five is given a copy of the Book of Prophecies to
help shape the future world
•In this new world, these five will be the only ones left with knowledge
of the Keyblade War, as the Master does not want to burden all of the
survivors with the tragedy of the event
•Ephemerwas one of these individuals, with Ava swearing him to secrecy
•Though he did not like to hide the truth, Ephemeragrees, becoming the
first new Union leader and remained in hiding until the end of the war
•Chirithy is aware that the player’s nightmares are not just a dream, but
plans on making sure the player doesn’t remember the war by
continuing to go on new adventures with them
•During his duties as Union leader, Ephemernotes that the darkness in
this new world is different than the old one, feeling more complex,
as if it had its own will

388. •The five new Union leaders were not
to meet until the end of the
Keyblade War
•Ephemeris the first to arrive at the
Keyblade Graveyard, waiting to meet
the others.
•Skuldarrives shortly after, the two
pleased to meet again after their
brief meeting with the player at the
end of χ
•Their meeting is soon interrupted by
the appearance of the third new
Union leader: Ventus
Re-Union

389. Re-Union
•Ventus isn’t sure why he was picked to
lead a Union, as he had little contact
with anyone in the old world, including
Ava.
•While Ephemerdeclares that they will
all be friends, the fourth new Union
leader appears, a boy named Brain.
•Brain expresses some conflict over
whether they can trust Master Ava and
the rules prepared in their books
•Ultimately, the four agree to keep the
truth of the Keyblade War hidden as
they wait for their fifth member.

390. Re-Union
•The four Union leaders have been waiting for
their final member for some time before they
final member appears, apologizing for his
lateness, saying that he was searching for
something, and that time got away from him
•The fifth Union leader is revealed to be Lauriam,
the man who will eventually become Marluxia of
Organization XIII
•The new five Union leaders now assembled, the
group reconvene in the Foreteller’s Chamber in
Daybreak Town

391. Bird of Paradise
•In another series of flashbacks set before the war, we
follow a girl named Strelitziaand her time in Daybreak
Town
•She recalls in her journal entries how she first saw the
player alone on the day they were waiting for Ephemerto
arrive.
•She continues to briefly encounter the player on their
journeys across all of the different Disney Worlds, but
never introduced herself
•She notices how the player continued their pursuit for
the truth and admires them for it, hoping they can be
friends
•One day, Strelitzia meets with Ava, who inducts her as
one of the new Union leaders

392. Bird of
Paradise
•Strelitzia and her Chirithy discuss her new role and how only
the Dandelions will survive the war
•Realizing the player is not a Dandelion, plans on finding them
at Fountain Square the next day to try and recruit them
•Entering an abandoned warehouse after being led there by her
Chirithy, Strelitzia searches for the player, but he is nowhere to
be found
•From the darkness, an unknown figure cuts her down, steals
the Union leader rulebook, and leaves the girl to perish
•Strelitzia is able to grab her Chirithy and tries to reach the exit,
but dies at the entryway, wishing that she had the courage to
speak to the player
•History appears to be repeating itself, as it now seems likely
that there is another traitor among the new Union Leaders

393. A New Era
•The group decides against immediately choosing Union leaders,
not wanting to rush into things and repeat the mistakes of the
Foretellers
•The five also agree not to tell any of the Union members about the
Foretellers until their training is complete
•Brain, looking through a book found in the Foreteller Chambers,
finds a way to synthesize Spirits that have the power to devour
nightmares
•By giving these Spirits, called Pets, to Union members, it will help
everyone forget about the Keyblade War
•During this time, the player relives their adventures throughout
the Disney Worlds previously explored in χ, along with two new
ones, making up the entirety of the Unchained χgame

394. Something wicked this way
comes…
•During the players exploration of the Enchanted Dominion, things seem
to go as they normally would in any other world; essentially retelling the
plot of their respective movie.
•After her initial defeat at the hands of the Player and Prince Philip,
Maleficent is seen back at her castle questioning why the “ending never
alters”
•A mysterious figure, calling themselves Darkness
(yes, really), appears and
claims that it is because they already knew that she would come from the
future to erase her previous defeats from history and successfully collect
the 7 Princesses of Heart once again
•Darkness reminds Maleficent, and the audience, that there are rules
involved when travelling backwards through time
1.You can only return to a time where a version of you already exists
2.In order to time travel, you must separate your heart from your
body, and only the heart is sent back

395. Why does Maleficent
know anything?
•Unlike the other Disney characters in the
χsaga so far, Maleficent is not a
projection made by the Book of
Prophecies
•This Maleficent is from the events of KH1,
specifically right after Riku-Ansem
released her heart from her body using
the Keyblade of Heart
(behold!)
•Maleficent recalled knowledge she
apparently received from Master
Xehanort about the use of time travel,
and believed she would be able to use
this opportunity to return to the past and
undo her failures
•Darkness tells her that this plan is
doomed to fail due to several precautions
set by the Master of Masters

396. •Darkness informs Maleficent that they, and the entirety of the events in Union
X by extension, are not in the real world
•Before the Keyblade War, wielders collected Lux from worlds of the future
projected by the Book of Prophecies
•After the war, the Master and Foretellers vanished, preventing access to the
worlds projected by the Book of Prophecies
•As a backup plan, a data version of Daybreak Town was developed that also
contains read-only copies of the worlds visited before the war, alongside the
new worlds of Enchanted Dominion and Castle of Dreams, so that the wielders
can continue their tasks unimpeded
•Even data copies of all the wielders are available to get around the rulebook’s
stipulation of having wielders fighting each other (called Shift Pride)
•Knowing that Maleficent would try to gather the Princesses of Heart from these
worlds due to the Book of Prophecies, the Master did not include Radiant
Garden, making it impossible for Maleficent to succeed or learn anything about
this seventh world
•Darkness tells Maleficent that she must be returned to the future
•Maleficent says that time travel to the future is impossible, but Darkness claims
to know a way
Begin to believe

397. Lauriam’s Search
•Since entering the datascape, Lauriam has been searching the data
worlds for his sister Strelitzia, who was supposed to become a
Dandelion, but has gone missing
•Meeting with a woman named Elrena, the somebody of Larxene and
someone who was once in Strelitzia’s former party, he begins asking for
his sisters whereabouts
•Neither Elrenaor her Chirithy have much information, but mention that
she was always trying to find “someone who didn’t talk much”
•After conversing with the other Union leaders, the group realizes that
the person Strelitzia was trying to find was the player
•Ephemerand Lauriam meet the player and ask about Strelitzia, but the
player also knows nothing
•Lauriam leaves telling the player to keep his sister in their heart, while
Ephemerspends the rest of the day with the player

398. Viral Load
•Brain tells Skuldand Ventus that while the Keyblade War has been removed from the Dandelion’s memories,
the data Daybreak Town is still headed for a programmed destruction
•Brain claims to have come up with a plan to become a “virus” and overwrite this program
•Around this time, several “glitchy” appearing characters begin to appear throughout town
•Elrenasees and informs Lauriam about a glitchy replay of Strelitzia’s last moments
•Ventusand Skuldsee a glitchy apparition of Ava and the Master discussing the Dandelions
•Brain, in the control room, says that it has already begun
•The player and Ephemernotice glitches above the Clock Tower and head over to investigate

399. Viral Load
•After Ventus, Ephemerand the player arrive, fending
off some Heartless and Darklingsin the process, the
three head into the control room to meet Brain
•Brain explains how the worlds broke apart after the
Keyblade War, and the creation of the data-backups
•Brain explains that the glitches have been caused by
the unexpected connection of a world that doesn’t
exist at this current time or place, and this
connection has trapped everyone in the data version
of Daybreak Town
•Brain wasn’t able to completely sever the
connection, only stabilize it, and the group sends the
player to investigate this new location, which is
actually a collection of the game worlds from Wreck-
It Ralph
(again, yes, really)
•The player follows Ralph, believing him to be the
source of the glitches in Data Daybreak Town

400. Viral Load
•The five Union Leaders meet again, discussing the glitches of Ava
and Strelitzia previously observed and the group confirm that
they are in the data Daybreak Town, despite being sure that they
were in the real world before the glitches started happening.
•Brain believes that the sudden connection of the Game Central
Station suggests that it was made to be cut off from the start to
serve some hidden agenda
•Brain re-states his intention to become a virus and overwrite the
program, and while he doesn’t have a plan yet, he pulls out a
copy of the Book of Prophecies and begins to read…
Access through backups
Can’t use Book of Prophecies
post Keyblade War
(Union Leaders can go here)
Can access Data Worlds in
Data Daybreak Town
(most wielders are here)
Data Disney Worlds/Lux Gathering
Sudden Connection traps
everyone in the datascape

401. Viral Load
•In a flashback, we see Brain receiving his role
from Ava, who hands him the Book of Prophecies
and slips in the memo containing the names of
the Union leaders between the pages, trusting
that he’ll understand her message when the time
comes
•In the present, Lauriam meets with Brain,
reasoning that Strelitzia must have known exactly
when the Keyblade War was about to happen,
when no one else would have.
•Brain, having a look at the Book of Prophecies,
and the memo containing the list of the Union
Leaders, mutters “I knew it…”, before sending his
Chirithy on an errand

402. Reveal of a
Replacement
•Brain calls Ephemerfor a meeting on the cliffs near
town, and admits that he has a copy of the Book of
Prophecies to act as an additional insurance policy in
case something went wrong with the data worlds
•Brain also shows Ephemerthe Master’s list of Union
leaders and the one the Book was supposed to be
given to, revealing two things
•Brain was not the intended recipient of the Book of
Prophecies by the Master, but was given it by Ava
anyway in an attempt to change the future
•Strelitzia was initially supposed to become a Union
Leader, but has been replaced by someone else
•Brain believes that this replacement was not part of
Ava’s plan, and is the sign of something else going on…

403. Reveal of a
Replacement
•As a peaceful snow falls over the datascape, four of
the five Union leaders meet at the cliffside
•Brain explains the situation to Ventusand Skuld, and
reveals that Ventuswas not on the list to become a
Union Leader and has taken Strelitzia’s place
•Ventusis shocked by the revelation, and is positive
that Ava spoke to him in an abandoned house in
Daybreak Town
•The group believes that Darkness disguised itself as
Ava to manipulate events, and as Ventustries to
recall the meeting, he has a brief flashback to
Strelitzia’s death and collapses

404. Absconding
aboard an Ark
•Meanwhile, Darkness leads Maleficent into data Daybreak Town
•Darkness tells Maleficent that in order to return to the future she must reach the clock
tower of Data Daybreak Town
•From the tower, she can return to the real world and find a device called the Ark
(lifeboat in the
English localization)
•The Ark was intended to be a way to escape from the world, but was left incomplete,
unable to sustain the passenger's body during transport
•Using the unfinished Ark will sever Maleficent’s heart from her body and allow her to cross
time once again
•Darkness notes that in order for the heart to grow a new body upon return to the future, a
person needs two things:
1.Someone who has memories of her at the future destination
2.A “medium” which can be used to reform her body
•While Maleficent remains unconvinced, Darkness reassures her, as it has read parts of the
Book of Prophecies, and Maleficent is written into the future

405. Absconding aboard an Ark
•Curious about how Darkness knows so much and why it is
pushing her to return to the future, Maleficent begins
questioning Darkness
•Darkness claims it is an “old friend”, and that it needs her to
move to the future to act as a waypoint
•Before she can question what it means, the two arrive at the
room containing the Ark, revealed to be the mysterious machine
Sora and co. briefly encountered in the End of the World in the
first game
•As Maleficent begins to leave, she is interrupted by Lauriam, and
the two engage in combat
•In the ensuing clash Lauriam is knocked unconscious, one of the
seven pods on the Ark is destroyed, and another is used by
Maleficent to return to the real Daybreak Town
•While unconscious, Lauriam dreams of meeting with his sister in a
field of flowers before she vanishes
•Upon returning to the real world, Maleficent asks Darkness if it
plans on joining her journey to the future, seeing as it has no
physical body to inhibit it
•Darkness elects to remain, needing to attend to some unfinished
business

406. The True Enemy
Revealed
•The group (minus Lauriam) return to the Foretellers Chamber, with a still-in-shock Ven remaining in
his room, dreaming of the encounter with Strelitzia.
•Darkness was the one who attacked Strelitzia, commanding a controlled Ven to take her rulebook and leave
her for dead, before shapeshifting into Ava on the way out
•The other Union leaders recognize the threat that Darkness poses and wonder why Strelitzia was
targeted, as an injured Lauriam enters the room
•Furious, Lauriam demands answers from the group, while Brain recognizes that Darkness’ plan is to
manipulate and divide them as the Foretellers did, intensifying their negative emotions
•Ventus enters and confesses that he is responsible for Strelitzia’s death
•Lauriam raises his Keyblade at the boy, but is blocked by Ephemer
•Ventus collapses and Darkness emerges, pleased it can finally show itself

407. The True Enemy
Revealed
•The formless Darkness that emerged from Ventus admits that it has no greater purpose or goal, it
simply is
•When Lauriam questions why it took Strelitzia, Darkness says it acted upon Ven’s wish for friends
and power by making him a Union leader, with little care of the consequences
•It easily fends off a furious Lauriam, while Brain begins questioning it further
•Darkness explains that Ven was selected as its chosen vessel as it was written as such the Book of
Prophecies
•Darkness further elaborates that he watched the Master, it’s “old friend” write the book, though it
claims it has no reason to side with him
•Darkness has always been present among them, simply waiting to be acknowledged
•Answering Brain’s final question, the Darkness that emerged from Ven admits that while there are
more of them, it is currently the only one present
•Satisfied, Brain summons his Keyblade, the Master’s Defender which will eventually be passed down
to both Eraqus and Aqua, and rallies Ephemer and Skuld into battle
•While this is occurring, the player, finally solving the issues at Game Central Station, begins their
return to data Daybreak Town

408. The True Enemy Revealed
•While putting up a valiant effort, eventually all of the Union leaders are defeated by
Darkness
•Brain deduces that the Darkness must have a goal, as it would not have appeared
otherwise, with Darkness admitting that it wants to infect the datascape
•It also admits that in order to gain enough of a will to act as an individual rather than a
collective, it required a host to separate into pure portions of dark and light, which is
why it possessed, and later left, Ventus
•The player returns, and stands alongside all of the Union leaders, except for a still
unconscious Ven
•Lauriam suggests that the group use the Ark to escape the datascape, but Darkness
mocks their naiveté
•When the Ark is activated, the data Daybreak Town will be destroyed and the entire
datascapewill be shut down as a last-ditch defence mechanism to seal Darkness
within the data world
•With Maleficent’searlier use of the Ark, the world is already set to be destroyed
•While the others begin to wonder if they’re being used as pawns in a larger game,
Ephemerstates that he doesn’t believe Ava would set them up to be used as fodder
and the group gets their second wind

409. The True Enemy
Revealed
•Unfortunately, due to the formless nature of Darkness, the
group cannot harm it
•Ventusawakens and emits a bright light, pushing the
darkness back
•Ven realizes that since he is now without darkness, a being
of pure light, he can take Darkness into himself and give it a
physical form that can be defeated
•Against the wishes of the others, Ventusjumps into the
Darkness
•In the real world, Luxu watches as Daybreak Town’s
destruction begins, mentioning that the Dandelion’s time is
running short

410. The True Enemy Revealed
•After the battle, Lauriam apologizes to a recovering Ven, before briefly
considering striking him down if Darkness simply fused with him rather
than being destroyed
•A vision of Strelitzia reminds Lauriam that these feelings of hatred are
what Darkness wants, and he must let them go
•Elrenaarrives looking for Lauriam, reporting that her Chirithy seems to
have seen someone looking like Strelitzia wearing a white robe,
accompanied by a figure in a black coat
•The group is shocked by this information, as it could only either be Luxu or
the Master himself
•Brain realizes that a copy of Strelitzia's data must also exist, and seems to
have been activated somehow
•The group agree that their best bet is to get to the real world using the
Ark, and head for the basement

411. A Light to the Future
•In the present day, the Darkness that left with
Maleficent begins to check on the datascape, when
Luxu arrives, carrying a body in a white cloak
•Darkness questions why Luxu is here, as his role is to
only observe, with Luxu answering that the Master
told him to be here
•Placing the cloaked body into the Ark, he sends this
“True Dandelion” off into the future
•Darkness reiterates its goal of expansion, both into
the data world, and into the future, following along
with any users of the Ark
•Luxu reasons that since Darkness initially became
formless in order to defeat the forces of light, but
since then their will has faded
•Darkness requires a physical body to distinguish
between the one or the whole, or else its will shall
continue to fade
•Luxu knows that in addition to the Darkness that
made it out with Maleficent, there are five other
Darknesses with their own will in the data worlds
•Luxu, declaring that while he can’t help the
Dandelions, he can help himself and summons No
Name, lunging towards the Darkness

412. Countdown to
Destruction
•Back in the data world, the group confirm that only five pods are left
intact
•Upon checking the console in the Ark, they confirm that Darkness was
telling the truth, as the Daybreak Town in the real world is starting to
crumble apart
•With five pods and seven people, they need to decide who leaves the
data world now, as without an escape route, there will be no
survivors for the next world
•Brain explains that anyone still stuck in the data world should just fall
into slumber, but someone has to leave in order to perform a rescue
attempt later
•Brain and Ephemeragree to split up, with Brain going back to the real
world to try and save who he can from there.
•Elrenainsists to stay behind since she isn’t a Union leader, but
Lauriam implores her to come along as she has given him hope in
finding Strelitzia
•The Player and Skuldagree to stay with Ephemer, while the rest of the
party departs
•While Lauriam loads Ven into one of the pods, Brain gives Ephemer
the Master’s Defender and the Book of Prophecies, which were
intended for him from the beginning
•Ventus, Brain, Lauriam and Elrenaall use the Ark, escaping the data
world

413. Countdown
to
Destruction
•Once in the real world, Brain begins searching for a way to extract
the other Dandelions. He can’t get them all out with the time that
they have for everyone, but has a plan to get Ephemer, Skuldand the
player out
•He tells Lauriamand Elrenato get back in the Ark and head to the
future, wanting to ensure that at least one of the Union leaders is
able to get out
•Brain plans on sending two of the pods back to the data world so
that there’s enough to extract the three, hoping that this will work
•Using the memory of his sister as a waypoint, Lauriamand Elrena
agree to leave, and are sent through the Ark along with the still
unconscious Ventus
•After sending them through, Brain is approached by Luxu, who asks
what he intends to do…

414. Countdown
to
Destruction
•In the data world, the player, Skuldand Ephemerare
confronted by the four Darknessesstill in the data world
•They request that the group simply open their “gate”
before they leave, wanting to infect other worlds
•The Keybearersrefuse, and the Darknesses threaten to
possess one of the trio to force them to open the gate
•As the three prepare for battle, Ephemertells the others
to get in the lifeboat and leave, intending on sacrificing
himself
•The player suddenly strikes Ephemerand has seemingly
become possessed by Darkness.
•Ephemerand Skuldstill refuse to open the gate, even
when promised the return of their friend
•The final battle begins with Ephemerand Skuldfacing the
Darkness possessed player, who tells the other four to
stay out of it

415. Countdown to
Destruction
•Despite their best efforts, Ephemerand Skuldare defeated.
•Reacting quickly before the final blow, Ephemershoots his Keyblade through the player’s heart and hurls
them and the four formless Darknesses through a gate
•In the real world, Luxu and Brain continue their conversation, with Luxu asking where the other Union
leaders are
•Brian gives Luxu a head count, with one escaping (Lauriam), and two stuck in the data world (Skuldand
Ephemer) while one is gone (Strelitzia)
•Brain explains his plan to get the other three out, and his intention to wake and evacuate as many
Dandelions as possible before the world ends
•Luxu corrects him saying that while normal worlds fall into slumber when they succumb to darkness, the
data world is different
•The datascapewas built as a cage to trap Darkness in the event it could not be destroyed, and if it falls to
darkness, the data world is completely destroyed
•Distraught, and wanting to save the Dandelions, Brain states he’ll find a way to save them, no matter
what it takes
•Luxu admires Brain’s tenacity, and ominously says that
“It’s a shame this lifetime is the only one you’ve got”…

416. Countdown to
Destruction
•Back in the data world, Ephemerand Skuldenter the pods sent back
by Brain, reluctantly leaving their friend behind.
•On the other side of the gate, within the entry to Game Central
Station, the player awakes with the other four Darknesses… before
the player begins to laugh, amazed at how easy it was to fool them
•The player locks the other end of the portal that Ephemeropened,
trapping the Darknessesand themselves within the data world
•Collapsing, the player apologizes for trapping Chirithy as well
•The two embrace in a flash of light and disappear
•In the real world, Ephemerand Skuldsadly look on as Daybreak Town
begins to collapse, before entering their pods once again and
heading towards and unknown future

417. LORE:
The True
Keyblade War
•In a series of flashback scenes set before the events of χ, the Master of
Masters reminisces about his past, the nature of Darkness, and the
future with Luxu
•The Master was once a young boy when the first Keyblade War began
•This battle, surprise, surprise, was also a clash between light and
darkness, which went on for an unknown length of time
•The beings of darkness in this conflict first appeared in human forms,
with the conflict continuing until the time of χ, with that Keyblade War
potentially marking the end of the real one
•Darkness was able to change shape and hide among people, preventing
the war from ever ending.
•The Keyblade War fought in χdestroys the world, with the Dandelions
selected to use light to rebuild it, becoming cornerstones of the new
world
•Luxuasks if these wielders will be able to return home once their task is
finished, with the Master ominously replying “Maybe not all of them”

418. LORE:
The True
Keyblade War
•Luxuis hesitant about the plan, believing that ending and restarting the
world is akin to simply running away
•The Master chides Luxufor his hasty belief, admonishing him for
overthinking the situation, jumping to conclusions and treating his ideas
as the answer without considering other possibilities
•The Master says that Luxuwill understand in time, as long as he keeps
moving forward, frustrating the boy, who doesn’t like the idea of
waiting for something to happen
•The Master assures Luxuthat there is a way to win against darkness,
one that requires careful planning, and several lifetimes worth of time
•Luxuasks if the Master ever spoke with Darkness, who admits that he
has, but it was like talking to someone with a completely alien thought
process, and there can be no peace between them
•Luxuasks what would happen if Darkness would target the Dandelion’s
with the Master admitting that they may be in danger
•The Master also mentions that Darkness has an aversion to the pure of
heart (such as when Ventus attacked the Darkness that possessed him
within the data world)

419. LORE:
The True
Keyblade War
•Luxu again shows his concern for the Dandelions, but the Master
tells him that the fact that the Book foretells a future with light
means they’ll be fine, though he admits to not looking into the
future of each individual member
•Knowing that Luxu won’t let this go, the Master agreed to let Luxu
“watch” over them as well since its part of his role; as long as he
does not directly interfere.
•In an extension of the “Case of Luxu” scene, the Master elaborates a
little more on the Black Box, giving Luxu a hint, telling him that once
the Ark activates, Daybreak Town will have fulfilled its purpose
•Luxu must oversee the end of the world before escaping to a new
world as fast as possible
•The Master explains that Daybreak Town’s purpose was to
strengthen the Dandelions and send them into the future using the
Ark, where they can stop the darkness, completing the part of the
Master’s plan

420. LORE:
The True
Keyblade War
•In a final conversation with Luxu, taking place right before leaving
with No Name and the Black Box, the Master elaborates more on his
plan
•After again summarizing the need for the selection of the Dandelions
and moving them into the future where they can put an end to the
darkness, the Master explains how darkness lost their form and
individual will
•“From seven, all is fulfilled. From thirteen, chaos is born.” There were
thirteen individuals
(ugh)who made up the original Darkness
•While these thirteen cannot be destroyed in their formless state,
they eventually lost their will, continued to spread and derived their
own form, giving birth to the Pureblood Heartless
•Those that did not become Heartless retained their will, but require
bodies with strong hearts to possess

421. Lore:
The True
Keyblade
War
•The Master finally reveals the crux of his plan to Luxu
•Darkness cannot be destroyed without a physical form, and the Master selected Luxu and the five
Foretellers for this exact purpose
•He trained them to become resilient enough to withstand darkness even if it overtook their hearts.
•Selecting his six apprentices, he plans to use the seven of them to trap the seven most powerful of the
thirteen Darknesses, go their separate ways and destroy their respective pieces
•The Master admits that he used the passage about the traitor to plant doubt into the Foretellers and use it
as bait for Darkness to possess their hearts
•Of the remaining six pieces, five will possess the Union leaders, and the last one will be trapped in
Daybreak Town as it is destroyed
•This is the true purpose of the Keyblade War
•Luxu, horrified, lashes out at the Master believing the sacrifice to be too great.
•The Master chides Luxu’ssentimentality, reminding him of what the Master lost as a boy
and believing that it must be done
•He also admits that he does have a backup plan, and does not plan on permanently
sacrificing anyone
•Wordlessly, Luxu leaves with the Black Box, while the Master says to himself that he
knows he can count on Traitor Luxu

422. A Conversation
Between “Friends”
•In a meeting between the Master and Darkness, the
Master states that Daybreak Town was designed in a
series of stages
1.Countless Keyblade wielders are brought together
2.As they face adversity and watch their leaders
disappear, their numbers rapidly decrease while a
select few learn to stand on their own
3.The remaining Keyblade wielders must decide on
what to do when directly faced with darkness in
an isolated environment
4.When all the Ark’s pods are used, the world will
end and a “new day will dawn”
•Darkness questions the Master as to why he would
waste all this time and effort despite having knowledge
of all things through the Book of Prophecies
•The Master corrects it, stating that the Book does not
tell them everything, only what his eye in No Name
sees
•If it did, the Master would not have let Darkness see it
at all

423. A Conversation
Between “Friends”
•The Master explains that the actual purpose of the Book is to
act as a waypoint for the Master himself to travel through
time
•Luxuhas the memories required for travel
•The Gazing Eye within No Name is the medium for the Master
to rebuild his body
•With both of these, and advanced knowledge of when and
where he can go, the Master can potentially show up
anywhere recorded in the Book of Prophecies
•The Master explains that while an important step, it is not
the final goal
•Darkness mentions that the seven pods must be for the
“seven crowns for the seven lights”, but the Master says
that they’re for anyone who will use them
•The Master laments how no matter where he travels, his
“friend” Darkness is always right behind him. The Master
expresses his desire to spend some time alone, with
Darkness questioning where he plans on running this time
•The Master mentions that through No Name, he has
knowledge of a world he can’t conceive: one beyond the
boundaries of light and darkness. One beyond imagination,
where voices and sight can’t reach. A world of fiction.

424. Epilogue
•As the data world is destroyed, the Chirithies of
each wielder take the hearts of their partners,
keeping them safe while they sleep, and fusing
to form the Spirit Dream Eaters seen in Dream
Drop Distance
•The player decides not to undergo this process,
instead having their heart transform into a new
one
•Flashes of a new life are shown before the
player of a blue hooded figure taking care of a
baby first in a city, and then on Destiny Islands
•As flashes continue, we see the baby grow into
a young man, who will one day leave the island
and become a Keyblade wielder alongside his
best friend. A young man named Xehanort.
•Before fading away, the player smiles saying it's
not over yet, as their Chirithy wishes them
goodnight

425. Epilogue
•In a series of additional epilogue
sequences, we find out what
happened to the people who used
the Ark

426. Epilogue
•Ephemerseemingly remained in the
present, floating amongst the ruins
of a decimated Daybreak Town

427. Epilogue
•Maleficent, true to Darkness’ word,
returns to the future using her cloak
as a medium and the memories of
Flora, Fauna and Merryweatherto
reform in the tower of Master Yen
Sid, as shown in Kingdom Hearts 2

428. Epilogue
•Lauriam awakens in a field of flowers

429. Epilogue
•Elrena lies unconscious on a cliff in a
thunderstorm

430. Epilogue
•The still resting Ventus is found in
the badlands of the Keyblade
Graveyard by someone, presumably
Master Xehanort, the Darkness still
trapped within him

431. Epilogue
•The fate of Skuld is unknown

432. Epilogue
•Luxuis once again shown with No
Name and the Black Box in the
badlands, uttering “May your heart
be your guiding key”, before
removing his hood and revealing
that his face is very similar to Brain’s

433. Epilogue
•Another scene shows Brain awakening in an
unknown city, greeted by a hooded individual
named Sigurd, who returns Brain’s hat
•Sigurd asks Brain to return to headquarters
with him, mentioning that his escape from
Daybreak Town and subsequent arrival on this
day was predetermined
•Sigurd confirms that Brain is the only one who
arrived at this time
•As the two make their way to Sigurd’s HQ, Brian
sees a statue of Ephemerin the fountain square
with Master’s Defender in hand
•Sigurd informs him that Ephemerwas the
original Keyblade Master and founder of this
city, called Scala ad Caelum
•Brian, with tears in his eyes, says that Ephemer
was a good friend as the two continue their
journey…

434. Fan Art Links
•Slide 349 –FitMarshmellow
•Slide 397 -Pun-Rii
•Slide 403 –Hallelujah
•Slide 408 –ArcaneKeyblade5
•Slide 410 -@monnizou
•Slide 422 and 423 –neobbq
•Slide 435 –Walo-888

435. FIN

436. I will face the long darkness
"No one can save you. And no one wants to."

437. •The story initially continues where 3D left off,
with Yen Sid discussing their next move with
Riku, Kairi and Mickey
•For the upcoming fight with Xehanort, they’ll
need to find and save Terra, Aqua and Ventus
•Yen Sid recalls that while Ven is in a secure
location, Aqua is the only one who knows
where he is
•When she went MIA when trying to find Terra,
the knowledge of Ven’s location was also lost,
making her rescue a priority
•Mickey explains that the last place she was
seen was within the Realm of Darkness,
recounting his own journey before KH1

438. •0.2 picks up properly after the Secret Episode of
BBS, with Aqua wandering through the Realm of
Darkness
•She comes across the remnants of the Castle of
Dreams, and is attacked by some Heartless
•As time does not flow within the Realm of
Darkness, she isn’t sure how much time has
passed in the Realm of Light
•She reminisces about her life before falling into
the Realm of Darkness, realizing that the former
inhabitants of the Castel of Dreams were also lost
to darkness

439. •As Aqua restores the bridge to the castle by
manipulating time, she is soon attacked by
an amalgamation of Shadows referred to as
the Demon Tower
•After defeating the Demon Tower and
moving into the castle she seems to
encounter Terra
•Panicking and thinking that the Realm of
Light was dragged into darkness, she tries
to talk to Terra, but he doesn’t respond,
merely an illusion
•As the illusion of her friend disappears,
Aqua realizes that if the world is empty, the
inhabitants may still be alive

440. •Reaching the ruins of the Dwarf Woodlands, Aqua
sees Snow White’s casket, an illusion of Ventus
within it
•Seeing this illusion reminds her of her promise to
awaken Ven, though she laments that she hasn’t
been able to fulfill this promise yet
•Seeing a mirror, she touches is and her reflection
pulls her through
•In the mirror world a phantom version of herself
appears, a personification of her doubts and
insecurities which torments the real Aqua on her
journey through the mirror
•Due to being stuck in the Realm of Darkness for
so long, her negative emotions have grown to
take on a physical form

441. •Moving into the remains of Enchanted Dominion, Aqua
pursues more illusions of Ven and Terra
•Continuing through the forest, she encounters and
defeats several Darksides, eventually catching up to the
illusions
•Terra speaks to her this time, but is unable to see Ven
•He admits that she is seeing him as she remembers as
that’s what her hearts wants, and can only speak to her
because his heart has ties to darkness

442. •Terra warns her that Xehanortis
searching for Ventus, with Xehanort
taking control while Aqua is turned
away
•After getting her to reveal that Ven is in
the Chamber of Waking, Terra tries to
fight back against Xehanort, warning
her that Xehanortis a part of him now
•A Darkside grabs Aqua and Ven, with
Aqua going unconscious, the last thing
she sees being Terra chaining Xehanort
down

443. •Further in the Realm of Darkness, an unconscious Aqua
drops her Wayfinderwhich is picked up by King Mickey
•Mickey finds Aqua and wakes her up, but the two are
attacked by the Demon Tower
•After forcing it to flee, Aqua and Mickey catch up, with
the King admitting that it’s been ten years in the Realm of
Light since the battle at the Keyblade Graveyard
•She explains what happened at the end of BBS and how
she got trapped in the Realm of Darkness
•Mickey also tells her about the Heartless, their attack on
the worlds, and how they’ve been dragging the worlds
into darkness

444. •Mickey tells Aqua that to stop the Heartless, they need
to lock the door between the Realms of Light and
Darkness from both sides to protect the worlds
•Mickey entered the Realm of Darkness when another
world was consumed and has been searching for the
Keyblade in the Realm of Darkness that can seal the
door
•He followed a familiar light to Aqua, and returns her
Wayfinderwhich led him to her, recalling the phrase
said by Keyblade wielders in the past “May your heart
be your guiding key.”
•The presence of her friend helps Aqua, and with the
knowledge that Terra, though missing, is still fighting,
she agrees to aid Mickey and find a way for both of
them to escape to the Realm of Light

445. •The two continue their travels, eventually
ending up at the ruined Destiny Islands
•She tells Mickey about meeting the young
Sora and Riku, with the King explaining that
they are the ones helping him
•With Sora first getting his Keyblade here,
Mickey believes that its dark world
counterpart is somewhere close by
•The two are attacked by a larger swarm of
Shadows called the Demon Tide, but are able
to defeat it

446. •Moving into the island’s Secret Place,
they see a door inside the cave which
once contained Destiny Islands’ Keyhole
•Inside they find the Kingdom Key D,
which Mickey claims as his own to close
the Door to Darkness
•Mickey explains that in addition to
locking the door, they’ll need help from
both sides to get the door shut, and
while Aqua volunteers, Mickey says that
this job has already been taken

447. •The two soon make it to the Door to Darkness, and
while Mickey states it’s a door to “Kingdom Hearts” he
admits that it isn’t a complete Kingdom Hearts
•As Riku (who doesn’t see the two) arrives at the door
to shut it, another Demon Tide emerges and tries to
attack the boy
•Aqua tries to seal it, though it breaks free, attacking
her and Mickey
•This attack tears Mickey’s shirt off, an essential point
of KH continuity
•Aqua is pushed back through the door to Destiny
Islands, which disappears shorty after
The former apprentice of Master Yen Sid.
Punished Mickey

448. •Aqua is forced to fight the Demon Tide alone, though her
recent talks with Mickey and Terra have reignited her will to
keep fighting, knowing that she will return to the Realm of
Light someday
•Mickey is saddened at losing his friend again, but is forced
to carry on with his mission and help close the Door to
Darkness
•With AnsemSoD’sdefeat and the Door to Darkness closed,
the worlds consumed by darkness begin to be restored
•Aqua rests on the beach laying the Master’s Defender
beside her on the shore
•As Destiny Islands returns to the Realm of Light, Aqua is
forced back into the Realm of Darkness, separated from her
Keyblade
•She eventually makes her way to the Dark Margin,
approaching Ansemthe Wise as shown in the Secret
Episode of BBS

449. •With Mickey’s story concluded, Riku is upset that Mickey
never told him about Aqua’s sacrifice to help him
•Yen Sid reveals that he told Mickey not to tell him or Sora
about this, knowing the two would recklessly try to save
her, even if they weren’t ready
•With the Mark of Mastery completed, the wizard instructs
Mickey and Riku to return to the Realm of Darkness to save
Aqua (presumably thanks to the properties of the Kingdom
Key D)
•He also tells Kairi that she will undergo Keyblade training
with Lea
•While initially repulsed due to her prior kidnapping by Axel,
Mickey assures her that he has changed
•With new clothes from the Good Fairies to shield them
from the darkness, Riku and Mickey set out on their journey
to find Aqua

450. •Having finished playing with the Dream Eaters in Traverse Town, Sora
returns, meeting with Yen Sid alongside Donald and Goofy
•While surprised to see that everyone else has already left, the boy
receives his new mission
•Xehanort’s attempted use of Sora as a vessel knocked our poor boy
back down to level 1 again, even losing the Power of Waking he
should have obtained in 3D
•Yen Sid tells him that Chip and Dale are currently analyzing the data
Ansemthe Wise hid within Sora’s heart, having been retrieved by Riku
in 3D and potentially giving clues to the whereabouts of their missing
friends

451. •Yen Sid tells Sora that he must learn the Power of Waking since he
failed to do so last time
•The former Master suggests that Sora visit Hercules, who went
through a similar experience in KH2
•The three head out in the Gummi Ship, though with the old methods
of travel closed, they can’t quite figure out how to navigate
•Goofy recalls the phrase “May your heart be your guiding key”
(apparently said by Yen Sid this whole time) which reminds Sora of
the strength of his heart and opens a path to Olympus
•With this, the three friends head out on their next adventure to save
those missing and put an end to Xehanort’s convoluted machinations
once and for all

452. Fan Art Links
•Slide 437 –branden9654
•Slide 440 -@detteiu_de
•Slide 443 –GAOZ
•Slide 443 –Tryflozn
•Slide 450 –Awkward Zombie
•Slide 452 –Thekingblader995

453. FIN

454. Face your fears

455. •KH3 opens in a world consisting of a white castle city, one of
several across a large expanse of ocean
•Within the castle a chess-like board game between a younger
Xehanortand Eraqus, currently apprentices in their Keyblade
studies, is being played, each player representing darkness and
light
•Xehanortponders about the Keyblade War and the Lost Masters
who started it, particularly what they planned on doing with
Kingdom Hearts
•Quoting the prophecy of the Lost Masters “on that land shall
darkness prevail, and light expire”, Xehanortlooks at the Gazing
Eye of the No Name Keyblade , believing that the future is
already written
•Eraqusdoubts that anything is inevitable, believing that it may
be possible for light to prevail and that Xehanortmay be
surprised
•Xehanortreplies that he hopes so, and their game continues
Alba&Ater

456. •In the present, Sora again returns to his
Dive to the Heart, now surrounded by
the memories of his past adventures
•After once again picking through a set
of choices to determine his stat
growth, Sora is swept up by a tidal
wave into a never-ending sea and sky
•He fights a semi-transparent Darkside
before we see a retread of the ending
of 0.2, with Sora, Donald and Goofy
setting off to visit Hercules for advice
on how Sora can regain his lost power
•And now after almost 15 years since
KH2 we begin Kingdom Hearts … 2.9
apparently
Oh, you think you’re funny, huh
Mr. Nomura?

457. •Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Jiminy, soon
arrive on Mount Olympus and run into
Hades, who’s finally fed up with
Darkness, Heartless and other KH
terms and has decided to just do his
movie plot with the Titans, blowing the
group down to Thebes
•Maleficent and Pete also convene with
the god of the underworld, asking
about a “Black Box” which Hades
directs them towards
•SDG reunite with Hercules and aid him
in saving Theban citizens from a fire
that has spread throughout town
•Unfortunately for Sora, Hercules
admits that he can’t quite explain how
he got his own strength back

458. •As they venture through Thebes, the group
briefly encounter Maleficent and Pete, who note
that Sora appears weaker than he used to be
•Pete accidentally let it slip that they’re looking
for the Black Box, before the two leave to attend
to more pressing matters.
•After saving some more citizens, Xigbarappears,
mocking Hercules, believing that his status as a
“true hero” is only due to his divine parentage
and that acts of sacrifice such as those he
performs for the citizens of Thebes or Meg don’t
work out well for normal people
•Xigbartells Sora that while hearts are powerful
when connected, putting too much power into
those connections may break them for good
•Despite this, he urges Sora to continue his
journey to find the hearts connected to his, and
see “what destiny has in store” for him before
disappearing

459. •After clearing out the Heartless from Thebes and saving the remaining
citizenry, the group ascend Mount Olympus to save the Olympians
•After defeating the Rock Titan on the ascent, SDG and Hercules
encounter Hades and the remaining Titans at the summit
•After fighting the Titans, they are able to free Zeus, who permanently
defeats the Titans with help from Hercules, forcing Hades to retreat
•Sora concludes that he must regain his strength on his own and find
something to fight for with all his heart
•Maleficent and Pete, still hunting for the Book of Prophecies and the
Black Box soon dig up the box Hades pointed them towards, which turns
out to be Pandora’s Box rather than the Black Box they are searching for
•Disappointed that it isn’t what they are looking for, the two leave, Xigbar
watching overhead, seemingly saying “May your heart be your guiding
key”

460. •Meanwhile, Riku and Mickey have since begun their
trip through the Realm of Darkness to rescue Aqua
•Riku recalls his prior visit to the Realm and his meeting
with Terra all those years ago, now believing he has
the strength to protect what matters
•They eventually make it to the Dark Margin where
Mickey believes that Aqua should be, though her trail
has gone cold
•Mickey believes that she has gone deeper into the
darkness than they can currently follow, and they
aren’t prepared to go further
•Suddenly, several Shadows appear and merge
together into a Demon Tower

461. •Riku and Mickey are able to defeat the swarm of Heartless, but another
one soon appears and swallows Riku
•Within the darkness, Riku hears a voice call out to him, asking him if he
needs help as Riku passes out
•Riku (now with shorter hair) reawakens next to Mickey, who was able to
drive the Heartless away
•While the new gear provided by Yen Sid protected them well, Riku’s
Keyblade was broken (since when can they break?!) in the struggle
•Realizing that they’re no match for the Heartless there, they decide to
regroup at the Mysterious Tower and return later
•Riku initially has concerns about leaving Aqua here even longer, but Mickey
assures him that she’s like Sora: strong of heart
•Before leaving, Riku lays the broken Way to the Dawn in the sand,
intending to leave it for the “other me”

462. •SDG, Riku, and Mickey regroup at the Mysterious Tower,
with Riku telling them about their failure in the Realm of
Darkness
•With no one available with a strong enough connection
to Aqua to locate her, Riku and Mickey decide to visit
some of the worlds she journeyed through in search of a
clue while they ready their gear for a second attempt
•Yen Sid gives them new outfits to give to Kairi and Lea,
also donning Sora in a new outfit, along with a “gift”
from Chip and Dale
•The wizard also gives Sora an item called a Heartbinder,
a tool that enhances Sora’s natural gift for connecting
with others that lets him summon additional allies
•With an utterance of the Master of Master’s
catchphrase, the group disperses

463. A New
Adventure
•Now in his new outfit, Sora receives a call on his new
Gummiphonefrom Chip and Dale
•They discuss the data they received from Sora’s
heart left by Ansemthe Wise and found by Riku
•They are joined by Ienzo, who along with Aeleusand
Dilan, wish to help Sora and stop Xehanort
•After reintroducing himself, he confirms that the
data revealed the presence of other hearts inside
Sora, which Sora assumes belongs to Roxas
•To deepen his connection with Roxas and potentially
find some clues on how to restore him, the group
head to Twilight Town, beginning KH3 in earnest

464. •Immediately after landing, SDG meet Hayner,
Pence, and Oletteagain, who are running from a
Demon Tide Heartless
•After a short battle with some Nobodies and the
Demon Tide, Sora explains that they are searching
for Roxas
•Haynersays that while the name seems familiar, he
can’t recall meeting Roxas
•Donald and Goofy explain that a connection
between them and their data-selves who did know
Roxas, might be why, using the pictures from KH2
as evidence
•After taking their own photo together, the gang
decide to look for clues at the Twilight Town
mansion, saving a rat named Remy (referred to
only as “Little Chef”) on the way there

465. •Upon reaching the mansion, Sora looks into the room
where Naminéstayed, triggering some of Roxas’s
memories
•Venturing to the mansion’s computer room, Pence enters
the password for Ansemthe Wise’s DTD network, but the
transporter to the virtual Twilight Town is inaccessible
•Ienzocalls to assist them, and upon accessing the data,
reveals that Ansemthe Wise made a virtual copy of Roxas
along with the town, which could be used to help bring
him back
•Ienzoalso warns Sora that Even has gone missing since his
recompletion in 3D, and may be working for the true
Organization
Sora, listen very carefully. Have you
tried turning it off and on again?

466. •Leaving the manor, SDG are stopped by AnsemSoDand Xemnas
•The two taunt Sora, telling him that separating Roxas will be very difficult, and even if he did,
Roxas would not have a body to inhabit and putting him in the virtual Twilight Town would be
absurd
•Goofy points out that the two Organization members are able to coexist despite coming from
the same person, so Sora and Roxas should be able to do the same
•They tell Sora that if he truly wants to bring Roxas back, he can simply surrender his heart to
darkness and become a Heartless again
•The two leave, summoning some Heartless and Nobodies to attack the group

467. •Returning to town, the group meet Scrooge McDuckwho thanks them for saving Little
Chef, the head chef at his most recent business venture, giving them a gift
•As they leave, Sora asks that Hayner, Pence, and Olettekeep wishing for Roxas in their
hearts, in the hopes it will bring him back (like Sora did in KH1)
•AnsemSoDand Xemnas watch from a nearby roof, soon joined by Xigbar
•They explain to Xigbarthat they have been ordered to guide Sora along, and if he strays
from their path, they are permitted to destroy him
•Xigbarstates that if Sora is destroyed, they would lose a potential vessel, implying that
they still want Sora as a Seeker of Darkness and that they don’t actually have their
thirteen ready yet
•Xemnas replies by saying that in the event they can’t use Sora as a vessel, they have
other contingencies in place to guarantee their thirteen Seekers of Darkness
What’s that boys? The real reason I
opened my bistro in Twilight Town?
They dinnae have health inspectors!
Save’s me a pretty penny!

468. Hyperbolic
Time Forest
•Kairi, now amid her training with Lea in Merlin’s
secret forest, writes a letter to Sora
•She writes that she’s warmed up to Lea who is
constantly apologizing for the harm he caused
them in the past
•When Lea questions if she wants to send the letter,
she admits that she writes them not to send, but as
something for herself
•As the two eat sea-salt ice cream, Lea has a vision
of Xion, making him cry
•While he can’t remember what brought this on, he
asks Kairi to refer to him as Axel, which she accepts

469. •Mickey and Riku, looking for leads to find Aqua,
are escorted by Dilan to the town square of
Radiant Garden, the last place she was spotted
before falling to the Realm of Darkness
•The two go over the facts as they know,
recounting the recruitment of an amnesiac young
man named Xehanortby Ansemthe Wise, his
subsequent betrayal, and the creation of Ansem
SoDand Xemnas
•They also recall that while both were defeated,
Young Xehanortgathered them and other
incarnations of himself to form the Real
Organization XIII
•Mickey pieces together that since Aqua says she
saved Terra, and Ansemthe Wise recruited a
young looking Xehanortand not the old man he is
familiar with, Xehanortmust have possessed
Terra, explaining his absence
•This makes sense with the info given by Master
Xehanortin 3D, where he said that one of their
friends belonged to him, likely referring to Terra
•Since Master Xehanortis an old man again, and
Terra is absent, Mickey believes he is another one
of the thirteen darknesses
•Finally, up to speed, Riku and Mickey decide to
warn Sora and Merlin about the danger
Possession
Amnesia
+ Time
Gift YX Time
Travel for Dummies
Time Travel to
Gather Real
Organization
XIII Members
for old
Xehanort
Succumbs to
Darkness
Q: Wha happen to Terra/What is a Xehanort?
Possession
Dies Dies
Master Xehanort Terra
(friend)
“Terra-Xehanort”
“Apprentice Xehanort” Xemnas
Ansem
Seeker of Darkness
(bodiless, can time travel)
Young Xehanort
You
Evil you/Ansem
with a body
A: The old man is back again, where’s Terra?

470. •In a distant world, a youth with white hair is
fighting a horde of robots alongside his two
companions
•As a modern looking city is destroyed around
them, the young man reaches out towards a
woman as the world around them is destroyed
•In actuality, this sequence is an advertisement
for a video game called Final Fantasy XV Versus
XIIIVerum Rex being watched by some of the
characters from Toy Story
•Once SDG arrive and clear out some Heartless,
they introduce themselves to the toys, who
confuse Sora to be a toy of the protagonist of
Verum Rex, someone named Yozora

471. •Woody introduces himself and the other toys, though Buzz is
suspicious, as the appearance of Sora and the Heartless has also
coincided with the disappearance of their friends and owner
•With the only info they have being the presence of a black coated
figure at the nearby Galaxy Toys, the two groups agree to team up
and investigate the mall, now filled with Heartless controlled toys
•The figure is soon confirmed to be Young Xehanort, who came to
this world to observe how hearts connect to one another, which
may aid the Organization obtain the Seeker of Darkness they are
missing
•To test the connection of hearts, he created an identical copy of the
world, moving Woody, Buzz and the other toys present within the
copy

472. •Buzz dismisses the idea that the world is split it two, but before they can
argue further, the group must rescue some of the other toys who were
kidnapped during a fight
•Clearing out the different stores and rescuing their friends, the two run into
Young Xehanort again who summons a Heartless to possess Buzz
•Young Xehanort claims that the toys grew hearts due to their bonds with
their owners and intends to test those bonds by raising suspicion and
distrust in the group, throwing Sora into the Verum Rex game and
kidnapping Buzz before disappearing again

473. •SDG and Woody eventually catch up to Young Xehanort, who has
observed that Buzz’s separation from Andy produces significant
darkness
•While Sora insists that the connection between the two won’t fade
over time, Young Xehanortsays that the power of loneliness surpasses
that of friendship
•Woody, sick of this anime bullshit, calls Young Xehanorta loser who
has no friends and has never been loved, and saves Buzz
•Young Xehanort, despite having his ideology thoroughly
deconstructed, considers this a success as the connection between
Buzz and Woody prove that any object or vessel can contain a heart
•He summons a large Heartless before leaving, telling Sora to “find the
hearts joined to his” as he fades into the darkness

474. •The group defeat the Heartless, though Woody,
Buzz, and the other toys don’t return to their
proper world
•Buzz apologizes for not trusting them, now
believing that if they follow their hearts, they will
eventually find Andy again as SDG leave
•Back on board the Gummi Ship, Sora receives a
call from Mickey and Riku, with Riku reminding
Sora (who due to CoMforgot all of this), about
the replica program in Castle Oblivion
•He notes that since replicas change their
appearance based on the heart in control, it could
give Roxas a body if his heart is placed within one
•The groups also exchange information on the
whereabouts of Maleficent, the Organization, and
Terra’s possession before hanging up, moving on
to the next world

475. •SDG continue their journey through the Kingdom of Corona,
largely following the events of the film, unlike Toy Box
•SDG aid Flynn Rider in guiding Rapunzel back to the
Kingdom, encountering Marluxia (not Lauriam, as he’s a
Nobody again), who is one of the members of the True
Organization XIII
•He re-introduces himself to Sora who has forgotten who he
is, revealing that Rapunzel has a heart of pure light
•As such, he requests that Sora protect Rapunzel from
darkness, as the Organization's goal is to “complement the
light”, not fight it

476. •Ultimately, Rapunzel gets to Corona, but is soon
recaptured and sent back to the tower by Gothel
while Marluxia meets with SDG again
•Content to leave Rapunzel in the tower where she
will not be harmed, the scythe user explains that
should Sora and co. fail to gather the seven
Guardians of Light, the Organization will be forced to
use the “New Seven Hearts” for their plans instead
•SDG and Flynn leave to save Rapunzel, with SDG
fighting a Heartless spawned from Gothel’sDarkness
while Flynn is saved from a mortal wound by the
princess
•With the threat of Gothelgone and no sign of
Marluxia, SDG leave
•Maleficent and Pete, who continued their search for
the Black Box in this world, also leave the world
empty-handed

477. •In Radiant Garden, Mickey and Riku question Ienzoabout the
Replica Program
•Ienzoreveals Even’s absence to the two, reasoning that since
he shouldn’t be able to use a dark corridor to leave, he was
likely taken by a member of the Organization
•Knowing that the Organization would certainly have a need for
Replicas, they leave to warn Yen Sid and Sora about the
potential threat
•In the Keyblade Graveyard Saïxspeaks with the former Even,
now Vexenonce more, who has rejoined Organization XIII
•Saïxis surprised that he would willingly give up his heart and
become a Nobody again, but Vexenassures him that his death
at Axel’s hands isn’t giving the Guardians of Light any points for
trust
•Claiming to only care about his research and the completion of
the Replica Program, Vexenis immediately put to work in the
development of their final vessel

478. •SDG, now taking the appearance of monsters, enter a Monster’s Inc. factory,
soon encountering Sulley, Mike, and Boo
•While initially hostile, Sora soon relaxes after realizing that they aren’t trying
to scare the girl, with Sulleyconfirming that despite some of the signage and
leftover equipment, the company runs on laugh power now
•The group are soon attacked by Unversed, the creatures from BBS derived
from the negative emotions of Vanitas which Donald and Goofy recall from
over eleven years prior
•Realizing the danger, the group decide to send Boo home, dealing with
Unversed and Heartless as they proceed throughout the factory
•Along the way they encounter a returning Randall, who reveals that an
unknown benefactor fixed the door he was banished through
•Despite his wish to return to using negative energy and using a variety of traps
throughout the factory, Sora and co. continue with little issue

479. Join your heart…
with mine!
•In addition to Randall, the Unversed, and the Heartless, an
Organization member, presumably Randall’s benefactor, briefly
appears to change one of the machines into a large Unversed before
leaving
•Upon defeating Randall and sending him back through the door he
came from, Sora locks it with his Keyblade, preventing his return
•Before they can get Boo through her door, the Organization member
reappears, revealing themselves as Vanitas, who Sora recognizes
from his Sleeping Worlds journey
•Vanitas explains that the negative energy of scream canisters still in
the factory, and the terror his Unversed generated in children,
allowed him to reconstruct his heart, though he is still incomplete
•Vanitas reveals to Sora that Ven’s heart sleeps within him, and that
he plans to take it back
•Before he can do so, Sulleypicks him up and throws him through a
door, throwing that door through another and repeating this a few
times before grinding the last one in a woodchipper. Pixar 2, Anime
edgelords0.
•Finally returning Boo home, SDG leave their new friends and regroup
on the Gummi Ship

480. •Finally finished Ansemthe Wise’s data within Sora, Ienzocalls SDG
and confirms that there are actually three hearts inside of Sora
besides his: Roxas, one which has been inside Sora for about as
long (hmm…), and a third which has been there for much longer
•With Vanitas confirming one of them belongs to Ven, SDG wonder
who the unknown heart belongs to…
•While only found upon completion of post-game battlegate
challenges, KH3 does offer several Secret Reports which expand
on points in the lore from a variety of perspectives, including
Ienzo’s data analysis
•In these notes, Ienzonotes that manual extraction of these hearts
isn’t possible, as they have melded deep enough within Sora’s
own that doing so would harm the boy
•Ienzorealizes that a vessel for each must be prepared, and spark
of some sort is required to wake them up
•If alternate bodies can be secured and a spark, in the form of the
connections they have with people who they cared for and cared
for them, can be made to show them the way into their bodies,
Roxas, Naminé, and these two others should be able to be
brought back whole
Secret Report Ienzo

481. •His notes continue, Ienzonoting that while complete digitization of hearts is impossible, a partial
reconstruction is
•Using the data from the virtual Twilight Town, which contains a record of memories of both Roxas
and Naminé, he theorizes that by using replicas in combination with this data, they can get proper
bodies ready for the two Nobodies
•From there, all it would take is the right spark to awaken their hearts, and transfer them into
these new bodies
•However, with Even still missing, Ienzois limited on their next step, and can’t prepare complete
replicas alone
•As he works through the data, he reminisces about his time as a boy working with Ansemthe
Wise, now determined to restore Roxas and Naminéand prove that his master had good
intentions with his research
Secret Report Ienzo

482. •SDG soon find themselves on a snowy mountain within
Arendelle, briefly encountering a fleeing Elsa before she
ascends further up the mountain
•They are quickly confronted by Larxene who, like her co-
conspirator Marluxia, is keeping an eye out for members
of the New Seven Hearts
•While she believes that Elsa may be one of them, the
nature of her powers makes it ambiguous
•After getting stuck in a maze, watching a 1:1
performance of “Let It Go”, getting shoved off the
mountain and being forced to put together an annoying
snowman, they finally reach the ice palace again with the
rest of the Frozen cast. I hate this place.

483. •The events of the film continue, with SDG getting
pushed down the mountain again, when they see
Hans, emanating darkness and carrying Elsa away
•Teaming up with Marshmallow, they witness
Hans's attempt to kill Elsa and the freezing of Anna
•Hans is consumed by darkness, which also
envelops Sora and co. who are forced to battle his
Heartless
•Anna is returned to normal, with Larxene
observing that both Anna and Elsa are members of
the New Seven Hearts
•Before vanishing, Larxene reveals that they have
all the members of their Thirteen Seekers of
Darkness, and that Sora had better hurry if he
wants to keep the New Seven Hearts safe

484. •In a flashback set just after the BBS “Blank Points” scene, Aqua confirms to Ansemthe
Wise that she felt a brief connection between the Dark Margin and Destiny Islands (Sora
and Riku leaving at the end of KH2)
•They decide to stay on the beach, knowing that someone would come for them both
•In the present, the two are confronted by AnsemSoDwho asks his former master about
an amnesiac girl he experimented on while still ruler of Radiant Garden
•AnsemSoDwants to find the girl’s memories for some unknown purpose, and tries to
take Ansemthe Wise by force
•Aqua tries to fight, but doesn’t fare well without a Keyblade, knocked into the ocean of
darkness by the Dark Figure
•As she falls into the water, the power of darkness consumes her completely, leaving a
distraught Ansemthe Wise to be kidnapped by his former apprentice

485. •Some of the Secret Reports elaborate on this girl, simply referred to as “Subject
X”, who can only recall four friends, a key, and the phrase “May my heart be my
guiding key”.
•She made friends with Isa and Lea during her time as a research subject at
Radiant Garden, eventually escaping the prison with help from “a man with an
eyepatch”, obviously Braig/Xigbar
•As Ansem’sApprentice, Xehanorttook many notes on Subject X, initially
describing her amnesia and known facts provided by her, but also taking an
interest due to their shared status as amnesiacs
•With Ansemthe Wise ceasing his research into the heart, Xehanorttook the
opportunity to use Subject X to continue this work, initially under the purpose
of using it to reclaim her memory, believing he could use the information to
reclaim his own
•Xehanortwas able to glean information from her regarding the age of fairy tales,
and the possibility that she leapt through time, likely indicating that Subject X is
actually Skuld from the χ-saga
•This would likely inspire his later use of time travel, when combined with his
“etched’ memories as Young Xehanort
•Ansemthe Wise eventually caught on to Xehanort’swork, hiding the girl away
•Undeterred, Xehanortdecided to take her place as the first subject in his grand
experiment: his submission to darkness and subsequent splitting into a
Heartless and Nobody
Secret Report
Subject X &
Apprentice Xehanort

486. •Chip and Dale also give Sora a call, informing him that Merlin
wishes to speak with him about Winnie the Pooh’sbook, which
has lost Sora’s picture
•After some match three minigames, Pooh tells Sora that
though Sora told Pooh he would always be in his heart, Pooh
can’t feel Sora there any more
•Sora tries to reassure him, but can feel that their connection
has grown weaker, possibly due to his almost-possession by
Xehanortin 3D
•With the book restored, Sora explains what happened and
voices his fear of separating from his friends
•Donald, Goofy, and Merlin reassure him, saying that he’ll
always find a way back somehow, and that whatever is lost can
always be found again
Thank you, Sora. Thank you for agreeing to go to
the Winnie the Pooh world one last time!

487. •Riku and Mickey reconvene with SDG, with Sora telling the others what
Larxene said, though Mickey doubts its veracity
•Sora also tells the two about the Organizations search for the New Seven
Hearts, which Yen Sid explains that afterfulfilling their duty in KH1, the
pure lights of the Seven Princesses of Heart moved to new hosts for some
reason *coughmarketingcough*
•Sora notes that Kairi still has her powers and must still have her prior
status, along with the previously identified Rapunzel, Elsa, and Anna
•They also relay that Ven’s heart is inside Sora, though only Aqua knows
where his body is, meaning that saving her is still the priority
•Yen Sid instructs Sora to keep growing in strength until he can use the
Power of Waking while Riku and Mickey give the Realm of Darkness
another shot

488. •Back with the Orgnization, Larxene asks Marluxia why
they were selected by Xehanortwhen they had
previously betrayed him as Xemnas
•Marluxia states that they aren’t worth more than
puppets, and Xehanortis only concerned with filling
out his ranks to gain thirteen vessels
•Demyx, also inducted into the Organization and
having been turned back into a Nobody, soon
appears, revealing that he was “benched” and
replaced with a replica, to Larxene’sdelight
•Marluxia explains to Larxene that the replicas have
become significantly more advanced since the Riku
Replica from Castle Oblivion
•By the time Vexenis finished his work, they will
apparently be indistinguishable from real people

489. •With this new information, Larxene realizes that she was
incorrect when telling Sora that the Seekers of Darkness
were ready, though an appearing Xemnas dismisses the
concern
•He believes that this will make the Guardians panic and
rush to complete their mission
•Larxene asks why Demyxof all people was brought into
the Organization, with Xemnas going on to explain his
reasoning for selecting the members of the original
Organization XIII…
•Amid his explanation, Luxord also appears, revealing his
membership in the new Organization, brought in by
Xigbarwho is also trying to find the Black Box

490. The Original
Organization XIII
•The first six members (I-VI) were the original
apprentices of Ansemthe Wise, while
members VII and VIII joined Ansemthe Wise
shortly before Xehanortmade his move
•XIII was able to use a Keyblade, so Roxas was
a no brainer inclusion
•Xemnas reveals that members IX-XII were
selected as the legacy of ancient Keyblade
wielders rests within them, even if they
don’t remember
•While we know this to be true for
Marluxia/Lauriamand Larxene/Elrena, the
somebodies of Luxord and Demyxdidn’t
show up at all in the χ-saga
•We still don’t know anything about these
two before their inclusion in the
Organization to date, making them a bit of a
mystery for future titles
I
II III
IV
V VI
VII
VIII
XIII
IX X XI XII
? ?

491. •SDG find themselves back in the seas of the Caribbean,
before suddenly falling past the edge of the world and into
the endless desert of Davy Jones’s Locker
•The eventually regroup with Captain Jack Sparrow and the
group sent to rescue the captain
•While hearing the recap of the events of the deal between
Davy Jones and Jack, the mention of a box containing Davy
Jones’s heart catches Sora’s attention, reminded of the Black
Box that Maleficent is looking for
•Vexenand Luxord, also in this world, are scheming to take
the box, interested in how Davy Jones continues to live
without a heart
•Luxord offers to search the world due to his greater
familiarity, allowing the scientist to leave and continue his
work on creating the perfect replica

492. •While the crew are able to escape from Davy Jones’s
locker, they are attacked by a large Heartless
•Tia Dalmawhispers something to Sora before he fights
the Heartless off, the boy falling into the ocean in the
aftermath
•SDG wash up on an island seemingly meeting with Jack,
the four eventually finding a new ship: The Leviathan
•It’s revealed that Tia Dalmaoffered him all the power
and freedom on the sea he could need if he “freed
her”, though he isn’t sure what that means
•Encountering Luxord, it’s revealed by Jack that Davey
Jones’s box is located aboard the Flying Dutchman, with
the Nobody leaving search for it
•The Jack the group are with is revealed to be a fake
constructed by Tia Dalmato aid them, and that the real
Jack is somewhere else about to confront Davy Jones

493. •In the ensuing battle, Sora tells Luxord that the box in
this world houses the heart of Davy Jones and can’t be
what the Organization wants
•Luxord says that nobody knows what’s in the Black Box,
only that it contains “Hope”, as he summons the Kraken
as a distraction
•Luxord tries to steal the box from Jack in the confusion,
but is knocked overboard by Jack’s awful breath
•Ultimately, Davy Jones and the Kraken are defeated, with
an onlooking Vexendisappointed that the heart in
question was the physical organ and not the usual KH
nonsense
•As Sora leaves, swearing to find the other Guardians of
Light, the Leviathan dissipates into the white crabs
associated with Tia Dalma
Disgusting! Why is it...pulsing like
that? That’s not a heart! Where’s
the light and darkness?!

494. •Back with Kairi, now in her new
outfit, it’s revealed that her and
Lea’s training has almost
concluded
•Kairi believes that if they can
bring Roxas back, they should be
able to do the same for Naminé
•Lea tells Kairi how he became
friends with Ventus when he was
younger and was surprised when
meeting Roxas, who looked
identical, though didn’t tell Roxas
since he didn’t want him to
disappear as well
Hyperbolic
Time Forest

495. •Riku and Mickey, now back in the Realm of
Darkness, face off with another Demon Tower,
now equipped with new weapons
•Riku is now using a much lamer looking
Keybladecalled Braveheart, while Mickey is
using a fusion (they can fuse?!) of his Kingdom
Key D and StarseekerKeybladescalled the Star
Cluster
•While they are doing better than before, it may
still not be enough, as Mickey is soon trapped
by the Heartless, his Keybladeflying out of his
hand

496. •Both sage and seeker head to the Twilight Town manor,
unaware that they are being watched by Hayner, Pence,
and Olette
•Ansemthe Wise asks to stop, not wanting to cause
further harm, though the Seeker of Darkness guilts the
sage, blaming him for all the people lost during their
research
•Ansemthe Wise explains that he stopped his experiments
upon the disappearance of the mysterious girl previously
mentioned, now only wanting to atone for what he did to
Roxas and Naminé
•AnsemSoDsays that the girl’s memory will help solve a
mystery relating to the upcoming KeybladeWar, but
Ansemthe Wise doesn’t agree

497. •Hearing Roxas’s name, Haynerand co. rescue
Ansemthe Wise, and try to attack the Seeker of
Darkness, obviously coming up a bit short
•The four are able to make an escape due to the
sudden appearance of some Dusks which attack
AnsemSoD, who seemingly lets them go
•Hayner, Pence, and Oletteask Ansemthe Wise
what they know about Roxas, but they are
approached by Vexenbefore they can answer
•The scientist reveals that he sent the Dusks to
rescue them, and is actually acting as a double
agent against the Organization, wanting to atone
for his actions as well
•Ansemand Vexenmake their way to Radiant
Garden, where Vexencan execute the next part of
his plan…
I would have gotten away with it
too if it weren’t for you meddling
kids and your mangy Dusks!
↓
← +

498. •Upon his initial recompletion, Even was weakened, giving him
time to think about his time on the Replica program
•He recalls that he made twentyinitial vessels, most of which were
failures with none of them granted numbers
•The first successful prototype was Repliku, while No. i(Xion) was
almost completely human, though she became unstable over time
•With this foundation, he began work on others, but it was cut short
before completion due to his… sudden termination of employment.
•He notes that Xehanortlikely has plans for these unused replicas
•Shortly thereafter, he is visited by a member of the Organization who
offered him a place in the Organization, an offer he accepted to gain
access to the Replica Program data and atone for his actions
Ignore me.
I’m not a
canon
replica.
I’m only
in the
manga
Secret Reports Vexen

499. •In later notes, Vexenlearns about Xehanort’s requirement for
twelve vessels along with his real self, with Vexenand Demyx
treated as reserves
•He also notes the others who abandoned their humanity like him
to rejoin the Real Organization XIII
•While initially puzzled at how Young Xehanort, Xemnas, and
AnsemSeeker of Darkness can be present when the old man is
the only one of this time, he soon understands that Xehanorthas
been using the old replicas as containers
•Xehanortrecruited Vexento refine these old replicas to become
closer to the real thing, which he happily obliges
•Vexenuses the opportunity to create these improved replicas,
able to become complete people, intending to pass on as many as
he can to those who truly deserve them
You told me that you had no moral
scruples and only cared about
scientific progress!!!
lied. I
Secret Reports Vexen

500. •SDG soon arrive in a large city called San Fransokyo, fighting
some Heartless who give the local Big Hero 6 some trouble
•After introducing himself, Sora explains what the Heartless
are, and agrees to run through a course and help train the
novice hero group on how to fight them
•It’s kind of nice seeing Sora be recognized as the more
experienced one for a change, and the training montage is
pretty cute
•Later that evening Sora listens to Hiro discuss his brother’s
death and the creation of Baymax, with Sora comforting the
young hero
•He also has a vision of Roxas, Hayner, Pence, and Olette
eating ice cream in Twilight Town, and realizes that this is
one of Roxas’s memories

501. •The group are later attacked by some dark cubes which Hiro compares to an old invention of his
•They encounter the person who summoned the cubes, another member of Organization XIII who is revealed to be a younger lookingRiku
•Pulling out a chip which Hiro designed as a combat program for Baymax, he puts it within the cubes before leaving
•After defeating the cubes, “Riku” takes the chip back, with Sora unsure of what to do about the situation
•Goofy and Donald reassure him, as since he is with the Organization, he obviously isn’t the real Riku
•The group guess that he must be a time-travelling Dark Riku from when he was possessed by AnsemSeeker of Darkness
•Dark Riku confirms that he did come from the past, and he and time travelling individuals required vessels waiting in the present to Xehanort’s plan to
succeed
•He also states that Vexen’sReplica Program is finally complete, allowing the time-travelling members to be full people
•When asked why the Organization needs to be in San Fransokyo, Dark Riku says that he’s attempting to see if a heart can be recreated from data, akin to
what Sora and Ienzoare doing to bring Roxas back
•Using Baymax as an example that a machine can have a heart, he promises to put the chip “back where he found it” before leaving

502. •Regrouping at Hiro’s, the boy confirms that the current version of Baymax is
the second, the first disappearing during the micro-bot incident
•Maleficent and Pete continue their journey to find the Black Box, briefly
confronted by Dark Riku who asks why the two are snooping around
•He warns Maleficent that if she isn’t careful, she’ll be consumed by darkness
again, but otherwise leaves them alone
•While the dark fairy recognizes Dark Riku, she isn’t sure exactly what time
period he is from
•The team confront the cubes again, with Dark Riku also showing up, telling
them how the fear and despair sown through the city allowed the cubes to
gather data on emotions
•This, along with the positive emotions gained from fighting the team, would
ideally form a complete heart from the old chip, which he intends to place
within the original Baymax
•After fighting Dark Baymax, they remove the chip and destroy it, allowing
Hiro to restore the original Baymax to his initial programming
•With the city safe and Hiro having two Baymax's, SDG leave, hoping that Sora
can use the Power of Waking soon
Two?!

503. •Sora receives a call from Chip and Dale, explaining that
Riku and Mickey are in trouble in the Realm of Darkness
•With Mickey’s Keybladebeing the only way in unless
Sora wants to pull an AnsemSoD, Sora uses his heart to
guide him and sets off for Destiny Islands
•On the beach, the group finds the long-abandoned
Master’s Defender, unlocking the door to the island’s
Secret Place to use as a door to the Realm of Darkness
•While Donald and Goofy wish to join Sora, Sora insists
that he must do this alone, as if things go wrong, at least
Donald and Goofy will be able to carry on the mission in
the Realm of Light

504. •Trapped in the shadows, Mickey sees another figure pick up his Keyblade, seemingly
recognizing it
•The darkness sheds from this figure, who is revealed to be Aqua, corrupted by darkness
•Now referred to as Anti-Aqua, she accuses the King of abandoning her in the Realm of
Darkness for over a decade, describing her struggles of fighting within the Realm even without
a Keybladeand despair at being alone for so long
•Declaring that Mickey and Riku will share her misery and rage, she prepares to attack
•Riku’s heart is contacted by that of his Replica, now with a repaired Way to the Dawn, and
who was the person who offered him strength last time they were in trouble
•Riku fight’s Anti-Aqua, who is also supported by the Demon Tower

505. •Despite his strength, Riku is nearly
overwhelmed, his last thoughts of Sora
•At that moment, the door to the Secret Place
opens, bringing Sora into the fight
•The two combine their strength, using the
GaybladeCombined Keybladefrom 3D to
cleave the Demon Tower in two, freeing Mickey
•Sora faces off against Anti-Aqua while Riku falls
back to keep the King safe
•Eventually, Sora defeats Aqua and purges the
darkness within her
•As she falls into the water, Aqua wonders if this
is the end before seeing a hand reach down
towards her…

506. •Aqua wakes up on Destiny Islands, seeing
visions of Terra and Ven before they change
into Riku and Sora
•Initially believing that Destiny Islands fell to
darkness, she is corrected by Riku who
confirms that she is finally back in the Realm
of Light
•Breaking down into tears, the group share a
hug at finally getting Aqua back after over a
decade

507. •Meanwhile, in Radiant Garden, Vexencontinues his plan to betray the
Organization
•He meets with Demyxwho agrees to the plan after some convincing,
Demyxhappily agreeing since it means he doesn’t have to fight, and he is
so under everyone’s radar that no one would suspect him
•Vexenreveals that in addition to his own personal redemption he is also
doing this under orders from one of Xehanort’s chosen who also wishes to
betray him and atone, but can’t do more without Xehanortgetting
suspicious
•Demyxbrings a spare replica which Vexenmade to Ienzoin Ansemthe
Wise’s study, also bringing the rescued sage himself
•After an emotional reunion with Ienzo, Dilan and Aeleus, the four get to
work on using the replica to bring Roxas back

508. •With Aqua saved, Sora, Donald and Goofy accompany her to find Ven’s
body
•The Sora watches in awe as she uses the Master’s Defender to convert
Castle Oblivion back into the Land of Departure
•Finding Ven’s comatose body, she tries to wake him up, but his heart still
hasn’t returned
•Vanitas appears, impressed at the Castle Oblivion trick, and wishes to
claim Ven’s body for himself
•Aqua, tired of being seen was weak, erects a barrier and fights Vanitas
alone to protect her friend and prove her strength

509. •After a brief fight, Vanitas targets Ven’s body forcing Aqua to
take the hit and get knocked out
•As Vanitas prepares to stab her with his Keyblade, Sora reaches
into his heart, talking to Ventus who tells him that it’s his time to
leave
•Sora claims he hasn’t found the Power of Waking to get him out
yet, but Ven assures him that it was always with him from the
start. Sure, whatever, why not.
•As Ven’s heart returns to his body, he leaps out of the throne
and charges at Vanitas
•Vanitas, not wanting to get into a five on one fight, flees
•Sora and Ven finally meet in person, Ven initially surprised at
how much he looks like Vanitas, but thanking the boy for
keeping him safe all this time
•Ven and Aqua also have a touching reunion, before the group
head back to the Mysterious Tower

510. •The Keybladewielders to form the seven guardians of light have now
assembled: Sora, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Ven, Aqua, and Lea
•Aqua tells Kairi of their prior meeting at Radiant Garden, though Kairi was too
young to remember
•Ven is surprised that Lea is here, with the redhead being generally confused
at the fact that everyone seems to already know each other
•Jiminy, Chip, and Dale have supplied everyone with Gummiphoneswith
encyclopedias designed to get everyone up to speed (take my job why don’t
ya!)
•The group resolve to beat Organization XIII and work to save Terra, Roxas and
Naminé, with Donald and Goofy promising to aid them in any way they can
•Outside, Aqua and Ven gaze at the stars, catching up and express hope at
doing this again, but with Terra by their side
•Ven also states that while comatose he’s had dreams of strange people and
animals, likely hinting at his lost memories from his time in the χgames or his
time viewing Sora’s memories

511. •Maleficent and Pete agree that their hunt
for the Black Box has been fruitless, and
while Pete believes that it doesn’t exist,
Maleficent corrects him by stating the box
doesn’t exist yet
•With another KeybladeWar on the
horizon, Maleficent believes that they
need to wait for the box to appear after
the KeybladeWar
•Meanwhile, Lea spends the evening at the
clock tower, eating his own ice cream
while carrying two more, subconsciously
recalling Xioneven if he can’t remember
her entirely

512. •Saïxappears, not wanting to fight, but simply to talk, noting that Lea has
taken to Twilight Town as his home and pointing out the extra ice cream
•The pair reminisce on how they used to sneak into Ansemthe Wise’s castle
and spoke with a girl, the Subject X that both Ansem’spreviously referred to
•In the Secret Reports written by Saïx, he recalls their first time finding
Subject X in the castle dungeons, and their developing friendship with the
girl during their subsequent break in attempts
•Freeing this girl was the reason Lea and Isa became apprentices under
Ansemthe Wise, but they were never able to find her before they were
turned into Nobodies and became members of the Organization
•Knowing the girl was used as Xehanort’s test subject, the two tried to rise
the ranks and get close to Xemnas to find any leads, though they had no
success
•In time Saïxbecame a pawn of Xehanort, and tells Lea to give up on trying
to get his friends back, Lea countering he’ll bring them all home, including
Isa
Secret Reports Saïx

513. •Sora, Riku and Kairi rest up at Destiny Islands before they
leave to confront the Organization
•Riku has a heart to heart with Repliku, who’s pulling a
Roxas/Ven and residing his heart within Riku’s
•Replikuexplains that after his death at Castle Oblivion in
CoM, his heart wandered the Realm of Darkness until he
saw Riku in trouble
•Replikuclaims that he intends to tag along with Riku for a
while as he still has some unfinished business
•Sora and Kairi, unaware of the situation, talk alone and
exchange Paopufruit, vowing to protect each other

514. •With the nine, counting Donald and Goofy, Guardians of Light
ready for battle, the group arrive at the Badlands outside of the
KeybladeGraveyard, confronted by Master Xehanorthimself
•He speaks of the KeybladeWar of the past, wondering if the
current group will be worthy of the light spoken of in legend
•One by one, AnsemSoD, Xemnas, Vanitas, and Young Xehanort
arrive taunting the heroes, declaring that their light shines too
brightly, and that it must be extinguished before the truth can be
seen
•The Seekers of Darkness disperse as a massive swarm of Heartless,
Nobodies, and Unversed arrive as an initial wave of enemies
•After a long fight, the group is able to hold their own, eventually
decimating the horde and continuing through the valley

515. •Proceeding onward, the group sees what appears to be Terra
•Ven, unaware of the Terra-Xehanortsituation (didn’t read the intel I guess) rushes
ahead, with Aqua going to hold him back
•She demands that Xehanortlet her friend go as “Terra’s” hair tuns white,
confirming that he is one of the Seekers of Darkness
•Terranortdeclares that before the Guardians even face the Seekers of Darkness,
they’ll be stripped of their hearts though the χ-blade will still be forged
•Despite Sora’s refusal to give in, Terranortswiftly cuts down Ven and Lea, before
moving to take out Kairi
•Sora defends Kairi as a human shield, but the blow is parried by Goofy, with Donald
using every ounce of his power in a single spell despite warnings from Goofy and
the King

516. ZETTAFLARE
•For the uninitiated, “Flare” (also known as “Nuke” in early
localizations) is a non-elemental Black Magic spell in Final
Fantasy typically considered one of the most powerful castable
spells in the series
•Higher versions of the spell, such as Megaflare (10
6
), Gigaflare
(10
9
), Teraflare(10
12
), Petaflare(10
15
), and Exaflare(10
18
) are
often exclusively associated with various versions of the
summon Bahamut, a recurring character who is usually the
most powerful summon in any given Final Fantasy game
•Zettaflare(10
21
) has only been utilized by threecharacters
across the whole Square Enix Catalogue
1.The big spoiler penultimate boss of Bravely Default, juiced up
on power from a god of destruction
2.The version of Bahamut from Final Fantasy XVI
3.Donald Duck

517. •With the scale of this feat established, Terranortis
essentially vaporised on the spot (sorry Aqua and
Ven)
•He makes the game over pose and everything.
Donald killed Xehanort’s strongest incarnation in one
go, what a lad
•Donald unfortunately collapses from the exhaustion,
with Sora shocked at how fast a third of their team
has gone down
•Riku tries to snap him out of it as Demon Towers
come together into a sprawling tornado of Heartless
•The storm sends Aqua into a shock, seemingly due to
the sheer amount of Heartless and still traumatized
from her time in the Realm of Darkness

518. •The storm blasts away everyone except for Riku and Sora,
who is left screaming at the loss of his friends
•Riku tries to get him up, with Sora refusing, believing that
he is worthless without his friends
•Riku tells Sora that he doesn’t really believe that, and
stands strong against the storm as Sora watches
•Despite his bravery, Riku’s strength isn’t enough and both
he and Sora are consumed, our heroes seemingly failing
•“And so, as foretold, darkness prevailed, and light
expired…”

519. Ater& Alba
•Seemingly concluding their game,
the younger version of Xehanort,
still a student learning the
Keyblade, declares victory over
Eraqus
•Eraqus, undeterred, simply asks if
it’s his move, surprising Xehanort
•Eraqusstates that it isn’t over
summoning more pieces to his side
of the board, claiming that some
light comes from the past
•Sounds like an illegal move, but
sure I’ll bite

520. •Sora awakens in the realm of endless sea and sky
seen at the start of the game, now translucent
•After a brief exploration he is met by a Chirithy,
who explains that he has entered a place called
the Final World
•This place is the limbo between life and death,
with the nothingness of death existing just beyond
this place
•People who end up here are those who have died,
but have someone in the living world holding on to
them
•The Chirithyreveals that Sora has briefly appeared
in this place before on his visits to the Station of
Awakening, since the realms of sleep and death
touch, allowing for the occasional cross-over

521. •The Chirithyconfirms that some tie to the
living world is the only thing keeping Sora
from dying, and if he wants to get back to
the living world, he must put himself back
together
•Sora conceptually puts himself together by
running around the Final World collecting
avatars of himself, gradually regenerating
his body
•During this time, he encounters a number
of stars: representations of the lingering
spirits of other people in the Final World,
unable to move on due to their
relationships with their loved ones

522. •Among the stars is Naminé, sent here after Kairi
fell to the storm
•Sora insists that he’ll bring himself and the
others back, vowing to thank Naminéin person,
as the thanking between their data counterparts
didn’t count
•Naminéreveals that she has been able to
contact Terra in his memories, using her powers
to trace the connection from memories people
he has met before (presumably going from Sora
to Ven to Terra)
•Between BBS and 0.2, she encouraged him to
follow his guiding light to ensure she isn’t lost to
darkness, explaining his appearance in 0.2
•This was revealed in a Kingdom Hearts concert of
all things, making the jokes about KH content
even more absurd
•Naminétells Sora that she’ll try to contact him
again and see if he can somehow turn the tide of
the battle

523. •Sora also encounters another star with no
name, who is surprised that Sora appears as a
person
•She tells Sora that someone took away her
name and everything else about her, and that
she has been waiting for a particular person to
find her
•She claims that this person has had their heart
replaced with that of someone else and no
longer remembers her, though she knows that
she would be missed if they could
•Sora encourages the star not to give up hope,
offering to help reconnect the pair
•The star whispers the person’s name to Sora,
though we don’t hear it

524. •With his business complete, Sora asks the Chirithyhow he
could help gather his pieces, but Chirithysays that the same
rules don’t apply to him
•Chirithyis waiting here for a friend who lost their memory, and
believes that their former friend is happier with their new
friends anyway
•Sora asks for a hint on how to save the others, with the Chirithy
telling him to use the Power of Waking to restore the hearts of
those lost
•Sora briefly reawakens at the point where he and Riku were
defeated
•Upon their defeat, Sora uses the Power of Waking to find Riku,
following a light within a dark void

525. The Power of
Waking
•He finds himself taken to Olympus where he
and Jiminy (who again, has been here the
whole time), observe a unique Heartless
called the Lich take Riku’s heart from his body
•After smacking it around a bit, Riku’s heart
returns to his body which promptly
disappears
•Jiminy tells him not to worry, and that he’ll
likely return to the place he fell in battle, just
as Sora did
•The two pursue the Lich through all the other
worlds, saving the hearts of their friends one
by one using the Power of Waking

526. •During this venture, Young Xehanortbriefly appears,
telling Sora that the Lich is a special Heartless which,
instead of consuming hearts to make Heartless, captures
them and ferries them into an abyss of darkness
•He continues to explain that if he continues to chase it
thoughtlessly, he’ll end up in that same abyss, as he did
during the Mark of Mastery exam in 3D
•He chides Sora, stating that the Power of Waking’s
purpose, in addition to waking sleeping hearts, is to use
hearts as an intermediary to travel to worlds
•What Sora is doing is traversing worlds (presumably by
his connection to the world/heart of a world) to reach
the hearts of those recently deceased
•Young Xehanortwarns Sora that abusing the power of
waking in this way is taboo and incurs a high price for
those who abuse it in this way, telling Sora that there is
no saving him
The Power of
Waking

527. The Power of Waking
•After saving his friends, Sora finds himself back in the void, but with
Kairi by his side, who is revealed to be the light that kept him from
fading away
•Sora tells Kairi that he feels strong with her, with Kairi insisting that she
simply believed that he’d be safe
•The Guardians of Light, now resurrected at the point just before their
prior defeat, head forward to face their enemy again
•I’m not a fan of this overall section as it feels like a bit of a crutch just
to set up some things for future titles
•The Power of Waking feels like it does whatever the plot demands and
isn’t explained well in the slightest
•I’m also not sure what Xehanort’s plan is here? If he wants the χ-
blade/Kingdom Hearts, he can simply use the people who are right in
front of him to do it, instead of sending Terranortto merc them all and
go after the New Seven Lights (I guess?), or do this whole resurrection
song and dance
•I’m sure it’ll be waved away later as one of his infamous “plans for
every eventuality”, but it feels sloppy

528. •The Guardians confront Terranort, thought it initially plays out
identically, with Ven and Aqua still running up to him despite how
this went last time
•Before he can strike Ven down, Terranortis stopped by the
Lingering Will, sent by Naminé
•Terra’s phantom armour relishes at his second chance for revenge,
quickly overpowering Terranortas the two take their battle
elsewhere
•With their numbers intact, the group are prepared for the flood of
Heartless that soon arrive, with the large storm forming once
again
•Undaunted, Sora charges ahead, seeing a vision of Ephemerwho
offers his help
•Across the KeybladeGraveyard, a flurry of Keybladesfrom fallen
union members (the names of various Union χplayers) rally
around Sora and aid him in destroying the storm of Heartless

529. •With their initial obstacles defeated with aid of lights from the past, they
are soon confronted by Dark Riku, who summons a shadowy version of
Xehanortalong with anotherswarm of Heartless
•Xigbarappears, telling the Guardians that this is their final test to see if they
have what it takes to face the Seekers of Darkness
•Seriously, does Xehanortwant Kingdom Hearts or not, they’re right THERE
man!
•They consider breaking into smaller groups or using a large time spell to get
by (though this would put Mickey out of commission), and things seem
bleak until the sudden arrival of Yen Sid
•Parting the sea of enemies, the wizard tells the Keybladewielders to go
ahead and face Xehanort
•Donald and Goofy stay behind to back up the ex-master, assured that Sora
can handle himself

530. •Sometime later, the Guardians and Seekers
meet at the crossroads of the Keyblade
Graveyard
•Xehanortis pleased that all twenty pieces of
the χ-blade have finally come together to
forge the ultimate key and achieve his goal
•Thrusting No Name into the dirt, Xehanort
forms a large labyrinth called the Skein of
Severance, forcing the Guardians of Light to
split up to take on his vessels
•The old master watches atop a large pillar as
his vessels disperse and engage the Guardians
of Light in battle as the next KeybladeWar
finally begins
XEHANORT:
IF YOU WANT TO SAVE YOUR FRIENDS,
SOLVE MY MAZE!

531. Round 1: Sora & Riku vs Xigbar& Dark Riku
•Sora goes to aid Riku, who is
struggling alone against Dark Riku,
Xigbar, and AnsemSoD
•AnsemSoDtraps Sora and Riku
within the arena, leaving shortly
after, allowing Sora and Riku to
battle their deadly opponents

532. IV
•Upon Xigbar’sdefeat, he laments that things would
have been different if he had a Keyblade
•While Sora and Riku dismiss his ramblings by stating
he is unworthy of one, the Freeshooterprotests that
he is worthy
•Xigbarreveals that he only joined Xehanortdue to the
master promising to bequeath No Name to him after
the war
•Leaving his arrowgunson the ground, Xigbarteleports
to the top of the maze, before backing off the side and
falling to his presumed death
•As his weapons fade away, Sora and Riku continue
their fight, focused now on Riku’s dark doppelganger

533. X
•Dark Riku is soundly defeated, protesting all
the while that he is the real Riku as he begins
to fade away
•Replikuemerges from Riku, explaining that this
Organization member was not the time-
travelling heart of Riku under Ansem’s
possession, but rather the past arrogant
version of Replikubefore his involvement with
Naminéand CoMdevelopment
•Replikupurges the heart of his past self, to be
sent back to its proper time, from the replica
before it can fade away
•The replica is left blank, and while he could
take it for himself Replikurefuses, saying that
there’s someone else who needs it more
•Riku realizes that Replikuis using the
opportunity to keep his promise to protect
Naminé, and promises to see his will through
as Replikufades away
•Watching over the now empty vessel, Riku
plans on going after AnsemSoD, while Sora
goes on to help the others

534. Round 2:Sora & King Mickey
vs
Luxord, Marluxia & Larxene
•As the day slowly goes on, Sora soon comes to the
aid of King Mickey, who is skillfully dodging an assault
from Luxord, Marluxia, Larxene, and Xemnas
•Xemnas traps the two within the battlefield,
eventually giving Luxord a boost in power before
departing
•Luxord traps the King in a card, challenging Sora to
one final game while Marluxia and Larxene continue
to attack the boy

535. IV
•Sora soon wins Luxord’sgame, with the
gambler offering Sora his most sincere
congratulations
•Before fading away, he tosses Sora a “wild
card” which he says could help turn the tables
should he need it
•Sora invites him to play again when Luxord is
recompleted, which the dealer accepts and
looks forward to
•With Luxord down, Mickey is now free to aid
Sora against the remaining two Nobodies
“Pot of Greed?” What does this do?

536. VI
•Sora and Mickey are able to take down Larxene,
who seethes at the fact that she lost a second time
to a “a bunch of losers”
•She begrudgingly admits that it’s better than
serving as one of Xehanort’s vessels
•When Sora asks why she joined the new
Organization if she didn’t want to join Xehanort,
she simply says that she was along for the ride
with someone else, which she playfully says is “her
secret”, obviously referring to her Castle Oblivion
co-conspirator

537. VII
•Alone, Marluxia is soon defeated and
begins genuinely laughing
•His memories from before the
Organization finally return to him, finally
on the cusp of reclaiming his identity as
Lauriam
•Before fading away entirely, he thanks
Sora for his aid
•With all of the Nobodies defeated,
Mickey leaves to face Xemnas, sending
Sora ahead to aid the remaining
Guardians

538. Round 3:Sora, Kairi & Lea vs
Saïx& ????
•Sora comes to the aid of Kairi and Lea who are facing off against Saïxand a hooded girl whose identity
remains concealed
•Though Sora’s presence is briefly able to put the Organization members on the backfoot, Saïx’sberserker
mode overwhelms the Guardians
•Xemnasarrives and mocks Lea for his defection, musing at how as Axel, he was once trusted to deal with
traitors
•Lea refuses to back down and tries to strike Xemnas, who grabs and breaks Lea’s Flame Liberator
•Torturing Lea within the KH2 laser cage, he prepares to slay the man using his blades, but is held back by the
hooded girl

539. XIII
•Xemnasmockingly asks the figure if she’s changing sides again, and while she tries to
remind Xemnasthat they need the Guardians alive, he disagrees, as they only need
his Heart to forge the χ-blade
•Ordering the girl to kill Lea, Sora steps in and begs her not to go through with it,
Roxas speaking the girls name from within Sora: “Xion”
•Using the data obtained from Vexen’srecords which Xionwas not erased from and
presumably through the mission conducted by Young Xehanort, they brought the
heart of Xionpre-Roxas/Axel to the present
•This seems to trigger a reaction in the girl, but Xemnasinterrupts and kicks Xioninto
Sora, transferring her heart/memories from Sora into her and removing her hood,
causing Lea to remember his old friend
•Before Xemnascan proceed with killing Xion, a light erupts from Sora’s chest, flies
off and blasts back down into the labyrinth

540. XIII
•As a shocked Xemnaslooks on, Roxasemerges, wielding both Oathkeeperand
Oblivion once more
•Xemnasguesses that he must have come back through the help of Ansemthe
Wise and Ienzo
•Roxas confirms his suspicions, elaborating that he was able to return using a
spare replica and the connections to others (Xionand Lea) to restore him
•Roxas mocks Xemnas’s“mastery” of manipulation, with the former member
not able to guess that some of those involved with his return are on his own
side and had long betrayed him
•Furious, Xemnasgrabs Kairi and takes her away to spite them
•With Kairi and Lea out of commission, Xionand Roxas step up to the plate as
Guardians of Light as the group take on Saïx
Not my wrist! How do you know my one weakness?!

541. VIII
•Sora, Xion, and (especially) Roxas deliver a savage
beating to Saïxwho goes down quickly
•Lea calls out Saïxfor letting himself be used by
Xehanort, with Saïxconfessing that he felt jealous
when Lea found new friends in Roxas and Xion
•Feeling forgotten and that Lea had abandoned their
quest to find Subject X, he feared that the same thing
would happen to him and that Roxas and Xionwould
replace him as well
•The two make peace as Saïxfades, promising to
reunite
•As Sora heads on to aid Aqua and Ven and find Kairi,
Roxas, Xionand Lea are left alone
•Xionbegins to cry, finally able to reunite with her
best friends, Lea not following too far behind as he
scoops them into his arms, joking that he should
have brought some ice cream

542. Round 4:Sora, Aqua & Ventus vs
Terra-Xehanort& Vanitas
•With evening swiftly approaching, Sora moves to the last clash
occurring within the Skein of Severence
•Sora arrives just in time to aid Aqua and Ventus in their fight against
Vanitas and Terranort, who survived his encounter with the Lingering
Will

543. XI
•After temporarily subduing Terranort,
Sora and Ven are able to finish off
Vanitas, his visor cracking to reveal his
face
•Sora is surprised at the resemblance
between himself and his enemy, with
Vanitas explaining that since he was
that part of Ven’s heart that was lost
and Sora was able to restore it, there’s
no reason the two shouldn’t look the
same
•Ven and Sora try to implore Vanitas to
join their side since he wasn’t really
given a choice in the matter
•Vanitas replies that he is darkness, and
is already by their side as the shadow
they cast
•Ven begrudgingly accepts his other’s
choice, watching as Vanitas fades away,
his heart presumably returning to the
time of BBS

544. IX
•With Vanitas dealt with, Aqua
and Ven try to awaken Terra
from within Terranort
•Unfortunately, Xehanort’s
personality remains dominant
and traps Sora, Aqua and Ven
in dark chains representing
their bonds
•Terranortraises Aqua and Ven
high, with the barely
conscious Ven whispering that
he kept his promise to find his
friends
•As Aqua and Ven plummet to
the ground, the Dark Figure
quickly leaves Terranort’s
shadow and catches the two
before they hit the ground

545. IX
•As the Dark Figure gently lays the two unconscious
Keybladewielders on the ground, Terranortexclaims that
this shouldn’t be possible
•The Dark Figure breaks the chains holding Sora before
subduing Terranortand ripping the bandages from its
mouth
•The guardian begins speaking in Terra’s voice, reciting the
Lingering Will’s vow to make things right and protect his
friends
•With the reveal that the Dark Figure has been Terra’s
heart all along, Sora takes the opportunity to purge
Xehanortfrom Terra’s body, allowing for Terra’s complete
restoration
•Terra tearfully reunites with Aqua and Ven, thanking them
for lighting his way back in this decade long struggle
•As the WayfinderTrio recover, Sora moves on, determined
to find the last remaining Seekers of Darkness

546. Round 5:Sora, Riku, & King
Mickey vs
AnsemSeeker of Darkness,
Xemnas,& Young Xehanort
•As day turns to night, Sora scales the Tower of Endings, the place where Master
Xehanorthas been observing the KeybladeWar
•He reunites with Riku and Mickey, and the three are confronted by Master
Xehanortand his lieutenants who have become instrumental in his work; Ansem
SoD, Xemnas, and Young Xehanort
•On his perch, Master Xehanortreveals that the defeats of the prior nine Seekers of
Darkness have forged nine copies of No Name, and that he only requires four more
to create the χ-blade
•Sora questions Xemnasabout Kairi’s condition, with Master Xehanortconfirming
that he is holding her hostage to ensure that Sora is motivated to participate in the
final fights necessary to forge the χ-blade
•Despite knowing that they’re playing into their enemy’s hands, Riku steps forward,
telling the old master that even if he does summon Kingdom Hearts, the assembled
Guardians will close it again
•Xehanortadmits that it may be the case, if they survive that long…
The thirteen darknesses and seven
lights have clashed nine times,
yielding these nine keys.

547. XII
•In a fierce clash of Keybladesand magic, Sora,
Riku and Mickey face off against AnsemSoD,
Xemnas, and Young Xehanort
•Despite their immense strength, the remaining
Seekers of Darkness go down one by one, unable
to overcome the three heroes
•As Young Xehanortis beaten, he merely laughs at
the group, reminding Sora that he is due to pay
the ultimate price for abusing the Power of
Waking
•Young Xehanortshows no remorse for his actions,
confident that he will simply go back to his proper
time, live the rest of his life, and become the man
observing the unfolding battle
Good-bye, Sora. Your time...
in this world is -

548. III
•With Young Xehanortdown, Xemnassoon follows, beginning
to fade away once more
•Sora demands to know what Xemnas’sheart feels and if all of
his actions up to this point have been worth it
•The former leader of Organization XIII bitterly admits that it
wasn’t, reflecting on how he treated his companions in the
Organization
•Xemnasdeclares that this is the first surge of emotion he’s
had in years, and wonders if the loneliness and pain he
currently feels is all there is to a heart
•Sora tells the Nobody that this pain is simply part of being
human, with Xemnasadmitting that it must take incredible
strength as he fades back to his own time

549. II
•Now alone, AnsemSoDsoon falls to the combined might of Mickey,
Riku, and Sora
•Upon his defeat, he reflects on the long journey he and Riku have
shared together, with Riku begrudgingly admitting that a part of him
will miss Ansem
•Ansemtells the three that they have become stronger than darkness,
admitting that he had realized a long time ago that this scheme
would never succeed
•He knew about the betrayal of some of their members, didn’t seem
to care
•Ansemuses his final breaths to encourage Sora and Riku, telling
them that there is far more things to seek and that they should go
and seek them

550. Final
Confrontation
•With his best followers defeated, Master Xehanortis
now alone and only needs one more copy of No Name
to reach his goal
•Beginning the ritual to summon Kingdom Hearts, he
invites Sora to face him in one last fight, but pulls one
last trick to ensure Sora is motivated to fight him
•Before anyone else can react, Master Xehanortkills
Kairi on the spot, her “clash” against him producing
the final key he needs, bringing forth the true
Kingdom Hearts (unless this gets retconned again
later)
•Sora, Riku, and Mickey are unable to stop Xehanort,
with Mickey’s own trump card, the Ultima spell, being
countered with a Stopzafrom Xehanort
•With the χ-blade complete, Xehanortflies into the sky
and corrupts Kingdom Hearts, forcing darkness to rain
across the KeybladeGraveyard

551. Final
Confrontation
•A crying Sora is comforted by a recently arrived
Donald and Goofy, as the remaining Keyblade
wielders catch up
•Mickey and Riku, now freed from the time stop,
have a plan
•Xehanort’suse of time travel essentially made
him an anchor for the other time travelling
Organization members, similar tohow his
younger self was able to initially gather the new
Organization XIII in 3D
•Due to his constant time travel malarky, he
himself is a sort of living “portal” in space and
time
•Mickey and Riku believe that they can use this
fact to trap him somewhere else while the
others contain the corrupted Kingdom Hearts
He’s a portal. And we can use that to trap him.

552. Final
Confrontation
•Mickey initially asks Aqua and Riku to help spring the trap,
but Sora refuses, volunteering to do it himself while the
Keybladewielders hold back Kingdom Hearts
•Before Sora can begin, Xionapproaches Sora, telling him
that she can feel that Kairi will be alright
•With the plan set up, Riku, Mickey, Roxas, Lea, Xion, Terra,
Aqua and Ventus raise their Keybladesand begin their
attempt to seal Kingdom Hearts
•Sora, aided by Donald and Goofy, forcibly open a portal to
somewhere unknown, dragging Xehanortin with them,
ready to bring an end to this old man’s madness
Kairi will be alright. I can feel it.

553. •In another secret report, a Xehanortwriting just before undergoing his
own Mark of Mastery reflects on his time as a student of the Keyblade
•He plans on venturing through several worlds written in old fairy tales,
with Eraqusapparently set to soon follow him
•He reflects how he was initially only familiar with his home of Destiny
Islands, yearning to explore the greater world
•Since then, with guidance from the future in the form of AnsemSoD, he
met darkness in many forms, believing that as terrifying as it was, it
could be mastered
•He notes that Eraqusis something akin to a Keybladenoble, descended
from the first masters from the age of fairy tales
•Xehanortswears to be his colleagues’ peer and equal, believing that to
do this he must learn to wield the power born from light and darkness
in proper balance
Secret Report
Student
Xehanort

554. •Sora, Donald, and Goofy
awaken on a pier in a beautiful
white city, one of many
scattered across a large ocean
•With their final preparations
complete, the group head
forward, spotting Master
Xehanort
•Chasing after him, they soon
encounter another Xehanort,
then another…
•Soon these twelve visions of
Xehanorttransform into
strange armoured avatars of
the fallen Thirteen Seekers of
Darkness, each bearing one of
their weapons

555. •Fending off these avatars, they
encounter the real Xehanort, surprised
at being transported to the training
grounds of his childhood
•This world is a nexus which all worlds
are said to originate from, a world called
Scala Ad Caelum, the city which
Ephemerbuilt from the ruins of
Daybreak Town so long ago
•Xehanortabsorbs his defeated avatars,
conjuring a demonic goat-like armour
and summoning No Name to battle the
three heroes
•In a sprawling fight taking them across
land, sea and sky, Xehanorteventually
ditches his armour and flees to the top
of the town’s castle

556. •Xehanortadmonishes Sora for thinking that he could
contain him in this world, summoning Kingdom Hearts and
the χ-blade to finish Sora off: declaring that there is “one
sky, one destiny!”
•The following battle is fearsome as Xehanort, now imbued
with the light of Kingdom Hearts, is stronger than ever,
giving Sora, Donald and Goofy their toughest battle yet
•Xehanorteven resorts to stealing all of the light from within
Sora, forcing him into the Heartless-like Rage Mode to beat
the light out of Xehanort
•When Xehanortis nearly beaten, Sora tries one final move
to put him down, which Xehanortbrushes off to strike Sora
down

557. •Sora, once again on the brink of death, hears the familiar
voices of Donald and Goofy calling out to him, determined
to see the journey that they started so long ago through
to the end
•Revived by the love from his friends, Sora, Donald, and
Goofy make their final stand as a trinity, their bonds of
friendship able to overpower the χ-blade
•With this final strike, Master Xehanort, at long last, is
utterly defeated

558. •The gravely wounded master refuses
to surrender, Kingdom Hearts
glowing in the skies above
•Xehanortexplains that his intentions
were to use Kingdom Hearts to purge
the world and start over anew with a
blank canvas, where he could ensure
a balanced world
•While not explained overly well, it could be
presumed that through his findings as a scholar and
scientist, he realized that while both darkness and
light are natural forces, they are not equally
balanced
•Instead, they are in a state of constant conflict and
flux, a conflict well represented by the Master of
Masters in his talks with Luxu about Darkness during
the χ-saga
•Sora refuses to accept his reasoning telling him that
destiny is beyond anyone’s control, Xehanort briefly
reminded of Eraqus in this moment

559. •Just then, the remaining Guardians of Light arrive,
having followed their hearts to Scala ad Caelum,
telling Sora that Kingdom Hearts stated to close
with Xehanort’sdefeat
•Terra faces down the man who ruined his life and
the lives of his friends, and tells Xehanortthat
“there’s more to light than meets the eye, as I told
you”
•Xehanort, recognizing that Eraqushas hidden
himself within Terra all this time, muses at his
friend’s tenacity, as Eraqusemerges and tells
Xehanortto surrender
•Despite some initial protestations, Eraqusgets
through to his old friend, Xehanortrecalling the
time as students learning the Keybladetogether

560. •Xehanortapproaches Sora, the ordinary child who was not bequeathed a
Keyblade, but simply wished to help his friends and stopped his schemes time
and again to do so
•Holding the life’s goal in his hands, he congratulates Sora, and gifts him the χ-
blade
•Eraqusturns to his students, profusely apologizing to the three for failing
them, asking Terra to look after Aqua and Ven in his stead
•Xehanort, barely clinging to life, is held by Eraquswho asks if he’s ready, with
Xehanortreplying that he is
•The two take on their more youthful appearances as they pass away, joining
Kingdom Hearts
•Sora gathers the others and uses the χ-blade to seal Kingdom Hearts away
once more
Very well done.

561. •Everyone returns to the KeybladeGraveyard, and
though exhausted and pleased with their victory,
Sora laments that Kairi has been lost again
•Sora decides to use the Power of Waking one final
time to bring her back
•Mickey disagrees, warning Sora that he might not
make it back even if he does find Kairi, but Riku tells
him to let Sora go, believing in his friend
•The main story of Kingdom Hearts 3 ends here, with
Sora holding out his Keybladein preparation to find
Kairi, with a series of Epilogue sequences following

562. Epilogue
•Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and Jiminy return to Disney Castle, with
Mickey and Donald reunited with Minnie and Daisy
•Yen Sid, Chip, and Dale, join them, fireworks shooting into the night
sky in celebration of their King’s return and victory

563. Epilogue
•At the Land of Departure, Aqua, Ven, Terra
pay their respects at a grave they constructed
for Master Eraqus, the Master’s Defender and
their Wayfinders used as a marker
•As they leave, the Chirithyfrom earlier
appears to Ven, though shies away initially
•Ven seemingly recognizes the Chirithyas his,
and happily embraces his companion,
introducing it to Terra and Aqua
•As of now, we don’t know if Ven has made a
complete recovery of his memories, so we’ll
have to see what the situation is here

564. Epilogue
•In Twilight Town, Lea, Roxas, and
Xion(now in new casual outfits),
are watching the sunset from their
spot on the clock tower
•The group is offered ice cream by
Isa, now recompleted and having
repented for his misdeeds
•The four are joined by Hayner,
Pence, and Olette, making the
clock tower a bit cramped before
a ship-shaped shadow appears
over the group

565. Epilogue
•In Radiant Garden, Ansemthe Wise has
retaken his position within his castle and
is completing the restoration of Naminé
in the replica body provided by Repliku
along with Ienzoand the recompleted
Even
•Naminéreawakens successfully, and is
escorted outside by Dilan and Aeleus
where she is welcomed aboard the
Gummi Ship by Riku, fulfilling the
promise to Replikuto watch over the
girl

566. Epilogue
•Sometime later, everyone (including Isa and
Hayner’sgroup) are enjoying a beach party at
Destiny Islands, with everyone generally
having a grand old time
•Everyone looks on to see Kairi and Sora sat at
their usual spot near the Paopufruit tree
•As the two gaze into the sunset holding hands,
Kairi begins to cry as Sora disappears
•It seems that Young Xehanort’swarning has
come to pass, as Sora’s abuse of the Power of
Waking has caused him to disappear…
•The exact details of this are further explored in
the ReMindDLC

567. Return of the Lost Masters
•With Xehanortdead, the KeybladeGraveyard remains silent as No Name crashes into the dirt
•The ancient Keybladeis soon picked up by a familiar sounding figure who claims that it’s “back where it belongs”
•The figure, is soon met by all of the Foretellers except for Ava, the presence of the Black Box and reaction of the
others confirming that this person is Luxu
•They seem confused at Luxu’sappearance, with Luxuremoving his hood and revealing none other than Xigbar

568. Return of the Lost Masters
•Luxu/Xigbarconfirms that this
appearance is just the latest in a long
line of vessels
•When questioned by Aced, Luxu
explains that he had a role to play and
after a verylong time, it’s complete
•The others seem surprised at Ava’s
absence, but Luxuconfirms that she
had her own role to carry out which
she accomplished
•The Black Box beside him, Luxubegins
to explain his role to his comrades, as
Maleficent and Pete watch from afar

569. Return of the
Lost Masters
•Back in the past, and his game against
Xehanortconcluded, Eraqussets up a
new game with new rules
•In this new game a single light piece
faces of against seven black pieces, each
with a mark of the Foretellers and the
Master of Masters
•This is the true end of Kingdom Hearts 3
and the end of the Xehanortsaga

570. •In a final set of secret reports, Luxurecounts how he
has finally seen the first KeybladeWar through, exactly
as described on the Lost Page
•He recounts the goal set to him by the Master of
Masters: to pass No Name down to one of the new
five union leaders of the surviving Dandelions and
continue to watch the future
•He knows that one of the five is someone the Master
did not select, a virus within his program, likely
referring to Brain who used the same term
•He mentions that this “virus” formed a plot to allow
the union leaders to escape to “another worldline”
•Worldlines in real life are defined as unique paths that
an object has as it travels through space and time, and
are part of complex physics well beyond my immediate
understanding
•Funnily enough “Brane” is also a physics term referring
to multidimensional objects in things like string theory
and quantum mechanics, so we’ll see how much
physics we’ll need to learn from this point on I guess
Secret Report
Luxu

571. •Luxugoes on to say that this is the same trick that
allowed the Dandelions to transfer to “other
worldlines” after the KeybladeWar
•Luxuinitially believes that they won’t have the
capabilities to do it, but recalls that the presence of
Maleficent within the Data-Daybreak Town may
interfere
•Even in a “world” where there was no Keyblade
War or Foretellers, Luxurecognized that the
presence of Darkness would end the world within
the Datascape
•Bequeathing No Name to one of the five Union
Leaders, presumably Brain based on the Union X
ending, he witnessed them escape to another
worldline to ensure a legacy of Keybladewielders
•With no Keyblade, Luxuwas left to fulfill his final
task no matter how long it took, even if he needed
to cast his body aside and inhabit vessel after
vessel to do it
Secret Report
Luxu

572. •Determined to meet “the Five” once more, Luxu
knows that sometime in this history of bequeathings,
someone will appear and try to reenact the Keyblade
War using his Keyblade
•When this scapegoat arrives, Luxuplans to use this
opportunity to finish his role, promising the awakening
of the Lost Masters
•In time Luxu, now Braig/Xigbar, was able to find
Xehanortand watched him at first from a distance, but
decided to intervene
•Playing up the act of a fool entranced by the
Keyblade’spower, Luxukept a close eye on his
Keybladeto make sure that the Gazing Eye within
remains safe for the Book of Prophecies to be written,
playing Xehanortfor a sucker the whole time
•With this new KeybladeWar beginning, Luxucloses his
final report by stating that the true and complete
Kingdom Hearts will soon open, and he will be able to
reunite with his old companions
•With this, Luxu’slong vigil reaches its conclusion,
promising that “He will return…”
Secret Report
Luxu

573. Yozora
•In a secret ending (yeah, another one) we
see Sora and Riku independently awake in a
modern city, which appears to be Shibuya, a
real section of Tokyo in Japan
•Interestingly, it is also the primary setting of
“The World Ends With You”, potentially
setting up some links there
•As Riku walks along, he is watched from
above by Yozorafrom the Verum Rex game
in the Toy Story world
•In the final scene, we see who is likely the
Master of Masters holding his hands in a
heart shape over the moon

574. Fanart
•Slide 473 – Charlieco
•Slide 475 – PhilVzQ
•Slide 478 – AwkwardZombie
•Slide 483 – AwkwardZombie
•Slide 485 - LilyPad1313
•Slide 522 – Qbaysan
•Slide 556 - ArcaneKeyblade5

575. FIN

576. Love for a lifetime

577. •The DLC begins continuing from the final scene in SDG’s Olympus
visit during KH3 with Xigbar(who we now know is Luxu) looking
over Pete and Maleficent saying “May your heart be your
guiding key”
•Xigbaris given a surprise visit from Luxordwho gives him a riddle
acting as a metaphor for their continuous search for the Black
Box
•Despite Xigbarattempting to tell Luxordto just follow his orders,
the gambler continues his questioning, after all if no one knows
what’s inside the box, then why is it so important that the
Organization finds it?
•Furthermore, Luxordquestions if the order was given by
Xehanorthimself, Xemnas, or the one who passed the message
along in the first place; Xigbarhimself

578. •Luxordreasons that Xehanortwouldn’t care since he’s focused
fully on getting the thirteen darknesses and seven lights to clash
•Xigbartries to play if off and say it was Xemnas, but Luxord
confirms that he had already asked the former Superior, leaving
Xigbaras the only possible candidate
•Xigbardenies that he knows what’s in the box, vaguely claiming
the he heard it contains secrets vital to Keybladewielders
sometime on his travels
•Luxordsees through the lie, believing that his real recent
interest in the box is because Xigbarlearned that others are
looking for it and he needs to keep connections between himself
and the box a secret
•Xigbaris directly questioned on his true nature before Luxord
drops the subject and leaves, “content to feign ignorance”
•Xigbar, alone and irate at the fact that someone came close to
learning his true nature, ponders who Luxordreally is…

579. •After a recap of the end of the main campaign of Xehanort’sdefeat,
and Sora preparing to leave and find the missing Kairi, we get another
flashback scene which we’ll also see later in Dark Road
•The Master of Masters lent Xehanort, then a young man who is about
to take his Mark of Mastery exam, a black coat and encouraged him to
tour the worlds and look into people’s hearts
•The Master, a stranger to Xehanort, asks Xehanortwhat he found on
his journey, with Xehanortclaiming he learned his reason for existing
•Xehanorttells the Master that he had seen many people with
darkness hidden behind a “false light” in their hearts, claiming they
are good while secretly desiring power under false justification,
growing their darkness

580. •Xehanortcontinues, admitting that while he understands this desire
for power, he can’t let them be until darkness consumes these
people as he believes this would throw the world into chaos,
disrupting what order remains
•While he isn’t entirely sure what he can do, he plans on waiting until
his Mark of Mastery to gain some clarity on the situation
•The Master encourages Xehanortto instead follow his heart,
regardless of the exam’s outcome
•Xehanortsomewhat agrees, as he can “sense” where he’s to go and
what he’s supposed to accomplish, even claiming that the black coat
that the Master lent him seems familiar to him
•This indicates that this is set sometime after Young Xehanort’stime
travel in 3D and subsequent defeat in 3

581. •The Master tells Xehanorthe’ll eventually leave the black coat
behind, telling him that if he possesses great power, he’ll be
able to control the darkness instead of the other way around
•When questioned on his identity, the Master warns Xehanort
that he could lie about it by making up numerous claims about
his identity, telling him that a person’s actions are more
important than what’s heard about them
•Xehanortpresses, despite the Master’s frustrations, who
eventually tells Xehanorthis name since there’s no harm
(though we don’t hear it)
•Xehanortseems surprised, even more so when this stranger
confirms himself to be one of the Lost Masters
•The MoM takes his leave leaving Xehanortwith “May your
heart be your guiding key”

582. KeybladeGraveyard
•In another scene set 75 years later (sometime after 3D but
before 3), we see Xehanortrecalling his meeting with the
MoM and laughing
•Xehanorttells Xigbarand Saïxof his encounter with the MoM,
Xigbarmore concerned that their plan to get Sora as a
thirteenth vessel failed and how their other members are
supposed to get to the present
•Saïx, the only one with middle management skills, confirms
that of the members in this time, Marluxiaand Larxeneare on
their mission to locate members of the New Seven Hearts,
while Luxordis out looking for the Black Box
•While Saïxquestions the latter mission, Xigbartries to talk his
way out of elaborating, a bemused Master Xehanortletting it
slide

583. •Saïxcontinues his report, confirming
that the heats of AnsemSoD, Xemnas,
Repliku, Vanitas, and Young Xehanort
were returned to their proper places in
time
•Xigbarnotes that this only makes
eleven, and that their short two for
their new organization
•Xehanortgoes on to elaborate that
with the destruction of AnsemSoD
and Xemnas, it restored both him as an
old man and Terra at the age he was
possessed by Xehanort
•However, while Xehanortwas restored
completely, Terra’s heart was missing
from his body, allowing Xehanortto
use his body as another vessel which is
how we got Terranortback

584. •When questioned on how they’re going to get vessel number XIII, Saïxgoes on to explain that Vexeninitially made a batch of
twenty replicas
•Of these the first twelve were failures, barely more than puppets
•Of the “successful” versions, Replikuwas the prototype, with No. i(Xion) being a mostly successful beta build
•Of the six remaining functional replicas, they can use them as vessels for the time travelling hearts of AnsemSoD, Xemnas,
Vanitas, Repliku, and Young Xehanortwith one left over
•While Vexenand Demyxare potential candidates for the new Organization, they aren’t optimal
•Instead, they plan to give the last replica a heart connected to Sora’s, with Saïxsuggesting they use No. i
•While Young Xehanortis working on transferring hearts and Xigbaris off doing things, it’s revealed that Saïxis the one who
will retrieve Even/Vexenfor their purposes, supplying additional evidence that he’s the other traitor Vexenmentioned in the
main game

585. •Finally done with the flashbacks, we meet up with Sora who has
re-entered the Final World and is meeting Chirithyagain
•Sora explains what happened to Kairi, with Chirithyexplaining
that this is going to be trickier than whatever nonsense he pulled
off in the main game
•Chirithyelaborates that the Power of Waking is meant to awaken
or restore sleeping hearts, not to restore those that have been
erased from existence
•While he got away with it sixtimes to awaken the Guardian’s
hearts in the main game, it altered the course of fate and broke a
nature taboo
•Chirithywarns him that if he does it again, he’ll not only lose all
his powers including the Power of Waking (nothing new for Sora
Aran), but he’ll also vanish from the world and be unable to
return on his own without his powers

586. •Despite this grave warning Sora insists that he must
make this journey to save Kairi
•Knowing that he won’t be stopped, Chirithytells Sora
how he can complete his goal
•Sora is to return to the time where he initially changed
destiny, the first encounter with Terranortand
subsequent defeat of the Guardians of Light, and pass
through the tear in time where he changed the future
•To keep it somewhat related to what the Power of
Waking is supposed to do, Sora will enter and pass
through the hearts of each of the guardians until he
reaches Kairi’s heart
•By aiding the Guardians in their emotional struggles,
Chirithybelieves that Sora can use the connections
formed to help her somehow
•The Dream Eater also warns Sora that he only has the
time between when he first altered fate and when he
left for the Final World after Xehanort’sdefeat to
complete this mission

587. •First entering Ven’s heart, Sora is
met by a voice calling itself
Darkness who mocks Ventus for
being too pure and careless
•Sora initially believes it to be
Vanitas, but the voice doesn’t
answer, instead appearing as the
Dark Inferno χHeartless

588. •Upon defeating the Heartless, Sora enters Aqua’s heart,
experiencing the sadness and fear she felt from her time in
the Realm of Darkness
•This stress caused her to hallucinate Anti-Aqua among the
Demon Tide and give up
•Sora faces Anti-Aqua as the embodiment of her trauma,
beating the depression out of his friend

589. •Sora awakens within his own heart, having
successfully passed through the tear in time and is
met by Naminé, unable to return to Kairi’s heart
•While initially confused as to why Sora is here, she
explains that while she couldn’t reach Terra’s heart
due to the immense darkness, she was able to bring
the embodiment of Terra’s thoughts to the battle: the
Lingering Will
•Unlike the main game, we follow Terranortand the
Lingering Will as they fight across the Badlands, the
former clearly exhausted
•The Lingering Will tells his former body that as long
as Xehanortis within him, he is a threat to his friends
and must be eliminated, even if it costs Terra’s own
restoration

590. •Seeing the situation getting a bit precarious, Sora asks Naminéif
she can get the armour to hold back a bit but unfortunately, the
armour is too enraged to listen to her
•Sora tells Naminéto return to the Final World while he intervenes
•Terranortseems to gain his second wind, summoning the Dark
Figure to grab the Lingering Will when Sora arrives and frees the
armour
•When questioned on his presence, Sora taunts Terranortby telling
him he’s not the only one who can time travel
•Sora soon ends up in the Dark Figure’s grip, but before Terranort
can kill Sora, the Lingering Will takes the hit and is destroyed
•Sora briefly clashes with Terranort, but is eventually knocked out
by a wave of darkness

591. skein of severance:
Round 1
•Sora finds himself back in the body of his past self,
now fighting the members of the Real Organization
XIII once again
•We get some additional scenes from these fights,
adding a bit more context on some events
•After defeating Xigbarand Dark Riku, Riku remained
in the arena long enough to meet Demyx, who was
sent by Ienzoto pick up the other replica vessel
•While initially wary of Demyx, Riku allows him to
take the vessel, urging him to be careful, as it is both
the vessel for Naminéand the memories of Repliku

592. skein of severance:
Round 3
•No notable scenes are shown for Round 2, but for
Round 3 we get some interesting info from the
combatants before Sora showed up
•Ven has been trying to reach through to Terra to light
his way home as he promised, calling out to him even
though he knows Xehanortis in control
•Ventus also tells Vanitas that he’ll be coming home to
his heart, believing that they are one and the same
•Vanitas laughs at Ven, explaining that he was simply
hidden within Ven for a long time until Xehanort
dragged him out, and was never a “part” of Ven
•This all but confirms that Vanitas is a form of the
Darkness that possessed Ven during Union X
•Terranorttries to get under Aqua’s skin to no avail,
beginning the battle until Sora arrives
•After restoring Terra, Sora realizes that Terra’s heart
within the Dark Figure, protected Sora from
Terranort’sattack

593. skein of severance:
Round 4
•Kairi and Lea make it to the arena to face No. i, Saïx, and Xemnas, with Lea asking who the hooded figure is
•Xemnasexplains No. i’s nature as an experimental replica recovered from Vexen’srecords and Young Xehanort’sexperiments in creating a heart, despite no one
having memory of it, with No. ialso having no memories
•Lea attacks No. i, shocked when she summons a Keybladeidentical to Sora’s, initially believing it to be Roxas
•Saïxrebukes this, saying Axel and Roxas’s names in a deliberate attempt at jogging Xion’smemory and restore the girl he harmed during his time at the original
Organization
•Upon clashing with No. i, Kairi confirms his words, noticing that it’s a girl under the hood

594. skein of severance: Round 4
•The fight continues as normal until Sora arrives, Saïx
knocks them all down and Roxas-through-Sora says
Xion’sname
•Within his heart, Sora finds Roxas’ own heart,
witnessing Xion’smemories leave his heart to return to
her and restore memory of the girl to those who knew
her
•Finding Roxas’ heart, he briefly converses with Sora,
asking for his help in reclaiming that connected his
heart with his friends from Xemnas
•Sora agrees, using the Power of Waking to free Roxas’
heart and allow for the boy’s restoration

595. •Sora possesses his past self, rushing Xemnasand working
with Lea, Roxas, Xionand Kairi to try and get the drop on
him
•Unfortunately, Sora and Kairi are caught and drained of
their energy, forcing Sora’s heart to leave his past self and
enter Roxas to aid him in his fight against Xemnasand Saïx
•The three are ultimately able to strike Xemnasand reclaim
their Recusants Sigil
•It turns out Xemnaswasn’t just adding X’sto names
because he thought it as cool, but they were the same
sigils that were used on Sora during the Mark of Mastery
•While the sigils will disappear with Xemnas’sdefeat, the
three wanted to reclaim it as theirs, seeing it as the
foundation of their bond
•As Roxas finishes explaining this, the fight continues as
previously, including Kairi’s capture at Xemnas’shands
skein of
severance:
Round 4

596. skein of
severance:
Round 5
•Having gone through the hearts of five
guardians, Sora needs to go through two more
to reach Kairi
•Unfortunately, he doesn’t make it in time, as the
Nort Court fight proceeds as normal, Kairi is
killed, and Master Xehanortobtains the χ-blade
•As past-Sora grieves and the other Guardians
meet him, future-Sora is contacted by Mickey,
still stuck within Xehanort’sStopzaspell
•He reveals that Xehanortdidn’t actually kill Kairi,
instead only crystallizing her
•As one of the New Seven Hearts, Xehanort
needed to keep her in reach in case he couldn’t
get access to Kingdom Hearts even with the
χ-blade

597. •Future-Sora decides to head through
Xehanortand into Scala ad Caelum
before his past self arrives
•He finds five pieces of Kairi’s heart
scattered across the city eventually
confronted by Xehanorthimself who
tells him that there are two more
•Xehanortrealizes that this isn’t the
same Sora he’s been fighting, taunting
Sora that he’s too late as they see that
past-Sora, Donald and Goofy have just
arrived and are fighting Xehanort’s
remaining replicas (the initial twelve
failures now donned in armour)
•Sora returns to his past body to fight
these replicas and while his past-self
fights armoured Xehanort, he weighs
his options

598. •Sora realizes he may be able to find the last two
pieces by tracing his heart’s connection to the
remaining two guardians, Riku and Mickey,
successfully making his way to Riku’s heart
•Back in the KeybladeGraveyard, the Keyblade
wielders are attacked by Xehanort’sReplicas,
who were released by Xehanortafter Sora’s
group destroyed his armour, now each armed
with a copy of No Name
•Blown into the sky and with the corrupted
Kingdom Hearts overhead, the group forms an
impressive defensive formation and are able to
hold off the replicas
•During the onslaught, Sora claims another piece
of Kairi’s heart

599. •Unfortunately, the replicas get the upper hand, knocking everyone but Mickey into the portals
scattered throughout the arena
•Riku tries to defend the King, but fails, though Sora is able to enter Mickey’s heart during this time
•Mickey, weakened and alone, faces off against the Replica Xehanortsin an MGS4 hallway walk and
seemingly destroys them with Sora’s help
•Sora claims the last piece of Kairi’s heart, and heads through the remaining portal to find the others

600. •Tracing the connections between the
hearts of the Guardians of Light, Sora
restores Kairi at long last
•As the two embrace, a copy of
Armoured Xehanortformed by a fusion
of the replicas appears to battle the
two
•Working together, the two reunite the
other Guardians, save Mickey, and pull
out a final attack to obliterate
Xehanort’scopy
•After giving the Guardians a path to
reach past-Sora as he defeats Master
Xehanort, Sora and Kairi leave,
returning to the Final World

601. •Reuniting proper in the Final
World, Sora notices that he is
showing signs of fading away,
but brushes it off
•He introduces Chirithyto Kairi,
the two encouraging the Dream
Eater to come with them to
bring Chirithyto his friend
•As the credits roll, we see Sora
and Kairi at each of the places
shown in the main game’s
credits

602. Epilogue
The three watch the fireworks celebration at Disney Castle

603. Epilogue
Sora and Kairi encourage Chirithyto reunite with Ventus, watching on
and hidden from the others

604. Epilogue
Sora and Kairi watch the sunset at Twilight Town atop the clock tower
while eating sea salt ice cream

605. Epilogue
The two return to Radiant Garden, Kairi placing Naminé’sheart within
her prepared replica body

606. Epilogue
The remaining ending plays out as before, with Sora fading away while
sitting with Kairi in Destiny Islands

607. •The additional Limit Cut episode begins in the
Land of Departure, Terra congratulating Riku
on becoming a Keyblademaster, Riku simply
proud to have fulfilled his promise to Terra
•Aqua and Ven soon arrive to join Terra on a
journey to the Realm of Darkness to look for
clues about Sora’s whereabouts
•While Riku is unsure if Aqua should go, the
other Master promises she’ll be fine with her
friends beside her
•The three friends, together again at last, don
their KeybladeArmour and head through the
portal
Limit Cut Episode

608. •A year later, Riku is consulting the Hollow Bastion
Restoration Committee (yeah remember them) for any
assistance that they might be able to provide
•He explains the circumstances that led to Sora’s
disappearance and the leads they’ve tried so far
Limit Cut Episode
•Terra, Aqua and Ven continued
their search through the Realm of
Darkness
•Mickey, Donald, and Goofy have
been exploring worlds Sora has
visited prior
•The group in Twilight Town tried
searching Roxas and Xion’s
memories
•Kairi had Ansem the Wise and his
apprentices place her in a deep
sleep for a year to hopefully find a
connection to Sora (the details of
which are described in Melody of
Memory)

609. Limit Cut Episode
•Cid tries connecting his computer to those in Twilight
Town and Ansemthe Wise’s castle, and is able to
create data-based copies of both Sora and the
members of the Real Organization XIII
•Despite completing a series of thirteen hair-pullingly,
tooth-grindingly difficultboss fights, they get…
absolutely nothing. Hooray…
•Hope arrives in the form of the Fairy Godmother,
sent by Merlin and Yen Sid to speak with Riku about
recent dreams he’s been having about Sora, a city,
and the feeling he’s being watched
•Yen Sid believes that since Riku has been within
Sora’s dreams before during the Mark of Mastery, his
own dreams may be the key to finding Sora
•She also makes mention also believes the dreams of
the “other two” may help, the scene cutting to Kairi,
then the Final World…

610. Secret Episode
•Sora awakens in a version of the Final World taking
place at night
•He tries to call out for anyone, with a voice eventually
answering
•Following the voice, Sora is surprised meets none other
than Yozora
•It’s revealed that Yozorawas the person the Nameless
Star was referring to
•Yozoramentions that he’s heard of Sora, but doesn’t
give specifics on where they are, vaguely saying that he
isn’t in the real world and that Sora isn’t seeing his true
appearance
•He also asks why Sora is using the name “Sora” implying
he knows someone else who goes by that name

611. •All this serves only to confuse Sora, and Yozora
proceeds to attack the boy, the environment
around them shifting to Sora’s Dive to the Heart,
then to the Shibuya 104 Building
•Yozoraclaims that he was told to “save Sora” after
accidentally wandering into this place and going
through some trials
•The two battle, with two possible outcomes to
the duel
•If defeated (you will be, since Yozorais basically
an SNK boss and that’s saying a lot for this series),
Sora is crystallized with Yozoraapologizing and
vowing to save him before he ends up in the Final
World
Secret Episode

612. •Ultimately, after Sora wins against Yozora
(cursing that stupid KupoCoin all the while),
Yozorastates his power isn’t needed yet as he
fades into light
•Sora is dropped back into the Final World,
confused at what just happened
•Yozorawakes up in the back of a car, driven by
someone who sounds exactly like Luxordwho
asks Yozoraif it is “impressive”
•Both Sora and Yozorawonder if what they
experienced was a dream as Sora states that
none of this makes sense to him I’ve been having these weird thoughts lately.
Like, is any of this for real or not?
Secret Episode

613. Fanart
•Slide 600 - ArcaneKeyblade5
•Slide 611 - ArcaneKeyblade5

614. FIN

615. Why did he become the
seeker of darkness?

616. The Road Ahead
•Dark Road begins with Young Xehanort on Destiny Islands, feeling as though the world is much too small
•At this point in his life, he is haunted by dreams of a Keyblade wielder’s adventures (the player character’s adventures in χ) from long ago
•As we wonders if he could one day leave the island and meet those in his dreams, he is approached by the cloaked figure, known to us as the
time travelling AnsemSeeker of Darkness
•Ansem opens a dark portal, telling Xehanort that this is his chance to leave his home world and fulfill his dreams
•Xehanort walks through, ready to see what’s in store for him

617. The Road Ahead
•Time jumps forward to Xehanort’s time
with Eraqus in Scala ad Caelum
•The two briefly discuss the outside world,
with Eraqus asking Xehanort what it was
like on the “other side of the ocean”
•Xehanort deflects, sticking with his story
that he fell from the sky, landing
unconscious in Scala ad Caelum
•Eraqus doesn’t really buy this, and the
two head to class

618. Unexpected Departure
•Xehanort and Eraqus meet with their fellow
classmates before their Master, a man named Odin,
tells the group some dire news
•Seven of the upper classmenhave gone missing in
other worlds while undergoing their Mark of Mastery
Exams
•Odin explains the presence of other worlds, and
teaches the group how to travel to new worlds in
order to find their missing classmates
•The six lower classmenpresent are given this task,
while their seventh member named Baldr is given a
separate task
•As his sister is one of the missing students, Odin has
given him a separate task to keep him from worrying,
so he will not be joining the others
Odin
Baldr
Xehanort Eraqus Urd
Bragi Hermod Vor

619. Unexpected Departure
•The six agree to split into two groups of three, and
defer to Xehanort for any advice since he has the
most experience with other worlds
•Before leaving, the lower classmendiscuss the
current state of the worlds
•Even long after the Keyblade War, fragments of the
worlds are still forming with time flowing differently
between them
•Each world is operating on their own scale of time
and technology, and can contain anything to make
the upperclassmen go missing
•The group reaffirms the need to retain the order of
each respective world before donning their Keyblade
Armour and going their separate ways
Odin
Baldr
Xehanort Eraqus Urd
Bragi Hermod Vor

620. Unexpected Departure
•After briefly felling some Emblem Heartless in
nascent versions of Agrabah and Wonderland, both
groups reconvene in Scala ad Caelum
•While surprised at the presence of Emblem
Heartless, who were projections of the Book of
Prophecies in the past, the groups note that it is
unlikely that all of the missing class fell to them
•All six students promise to run if things get too
difficult before leaving, with Bragi poking fun at
Eraqus who says that “Running away is what Eraqus
does best!”

621. The Presence
of Darkness
•Xehanort recalls his apprenticeship was similar to his life on Destiny Islands,
and that while the place was different, the monotony and consistency of
day-to-day life was very similar
•He notes that the difference may lie in the interactions he had with his
friends at Scala ad Caelum; as even the smallest interaction can sway the
heart, either towards light or darkness

622. The Presence of Darkness
•While in Wonderland, Xehanort’sgroup waits for the other
students who were supposed to meet them here but soon learn
from the Cheshire Cat that they were captured by order of the
Queen of Hearts
•They intervene in their friend's mock trial, discovering that the
Queen rules Wonderland through fear, and that she is under the
influence of darkness
•The six students escape, with Xehanort and Eraqus both somehow
recalling Brain’s words that darkness can hide within people, with
the group now recognizing that the true threat is not the
Heartless, but the darkness within people’s hearts
•The two wonder if they could eventually fight someone whose
darkness was deep enough that they would be completely
unaware of it

623. The Purpose of the
Journey
•Xehanort recalls his journey through the dark
portal that brought him to Scala ad Caelum
•Xehanort was accosted by darkness as he went,
beginning to hear voices and stirring negative
emotions within his heart
•He realizes these emotions were from other
people that he had yet to meet, with some of the
emotions directed toward him in particular
•Xehanort soon understands that regardless of
where the emotions were coming from, they were
allowing him to feel something other than
emptiness for the first time in his life

624. One Year
Earlier
•A year before the game’s events we see the same flashback as at the start of
KH3
•During a game of Alba & Ater, Xehanort asks Eraqus if he knows anything
about the Keyblade War
•Xehanort prods Eraqus further, asking if he has heard of the Lost Masters
who started the war, which Eraqus denies
•Xehanort calls out Eraqus’sfaçade, as all prospective Keyblade users should
know of it
•Xehanort makes note of the Gazing Eye within the No Name Keyblade on the
wall, stating its ability to see the future, and how it has predicted that
darkness will prevail, and light will expire
•Eraqus has faith in light, stating that there is more to it than meets the eye

625. The Purpose
of the
Journey
•Xehanort and Eraqus, curious about the Queen’s darkness, decide to continue investigating
Wonderland, while the other group ventures on into other worlds
•After observing the fear that the other residents have of the Queen, Xehanort realizes that
her darkness is born out of her anger, and is what maintains that world’s order
•The group recall one of Odin’s lectures, where they learned that darkness in ancient times
could spread and infect people, but as time passed, people began to create their own
darkness using negative emotions
•Due to the vow that Keybladewielder's make to avoid disturbing world orders, Xehanort
reasons that the upper classmen may have entered a world ruled by darkness, and were
unable to oppose it
•Eraqusrefuses to accept such a possibility, but the students agree that in order to find the
upper classmen, they may need to pursue darkness, which seems to be drawn by the light of
Keybladewielders

626. The Purpose of
the Journey
•Eraqus recalls a meeting he had with Baldrthe week
before the upperclassmen went missing
•Baldr’ssister Hoderwas one of the trainees who left to
complete her Mark of Mastery exam
•Baldris uneasy as Hodrmentioned that “the ones who
return” will be made Keyblade Masters, seemingly
expecting that not expecting everyone would come back
safely
•Baldradmits that it doesn’t sound like any Mark of
Mastery test he has heard of and is worries that his sister
will be lost to darkness
•Baldralso reveals that Eraqus’sgrandfather may have
perished fighting darkness
•While Eraqus is not entirely sure himself, he admits that
hatred of darkness is within his blood and comforts Baldr
by assuring him that his sister would surely return safely

627. Cruel Clues
•In the Dwarf Woodlands, Xehanort and
Eraqus begin their search alongside Vor
•Vor is briefly separated from the group,
where she finds the Magic Mirror and
learns of its powers
•After regrouping, the three approach the
mirror to obtain information about their
missing classmates
•The mirror tells them that their
classmates are taking their own separate
paths, and before the group can ask any
further questions, they are attacked by
the Evil Queen, who traps them within
the mirror

628. Cruel
Clues
Hoder
Heimdall Helgi Sigrun
Vala Vali Vidar
•After escaping the Mirror, the group attempt to ask it for specifics about
Vidar, one of the missing students, before the man in question suddenly
arrives
•Vidar voices his distrust of Xehanort, and asks the group if Odin had sent
them, which they confirm
•Vidar refuses to return, stating that there’s something he needs to take
care of first
•Vidar offers Vor the chance to join their mission, which Vor eagerly accepts,
leaving Xehanort and Eraqus behind, as she was told earlier by the Mirror
that staying with her friends would slow her growth as a Keyblade Master

629. Cruel Clues
•Xehanort and Eraqus recall a meeting among all of the
lower classmen, where they discussed why each of
them wanted to become Keyblade Masters
•Eraqusinitially did it out of obligation, but grew
to want to defeat darkness
•Bragi simply wanted to do the right thing
•Urd wanted to learn and explore the worlds
•Baldrwanted to protect what was important to
him
•Hermod wanted similar things to the rest in
addition to wanting to uphold a greater order
•Xehanort wanted to try to someday meet the
friends from his dreams
•Only Vorhad no real reason to want to become a
master

630. The Key to Each
World’s Order
•With Vorgone, the remaining students
reconvene at Scala ad Caelum to discuss their
next step
•Eraqus and Bragi try to get to the Mirror
again, but it is under heavy guard
•Xehanort, who believed that the original
mission was more important, goes with
Hermod and Urd head to Beast’s Castle
•The three discover that an enchanted rose
was stolen by two wielders, likely more of the
missing students
•During a battle against some Heartless, Urd is
separated, but soon runs into Vala
•Impressed by her determination, Valamakes
the same offer that Vidar did for Urd, though
Urd refuses, insisting that her mission is to
bring the other students back
•Vala, now joined by Vali, returns the rose to
Urd, stating that the object is essential to
that worlds order, before leaving

631. The Key to
Each World’s
Order
•Unbeknownst to the other students, Vidar briefly
returns to speak with Master Odin
•Odin warns Vidar that the thirteen Darknesses
from the Age of Fairy Tales may soon return
•Odin explains to Vidar what we already know
from Union X:
•These are considered true darkness, have no
defined shape and are the source of most
darkness in the world
•Seven are trapped within the Lost Masters,
four are trapped in the “Realm Between” of
the Data World, and the remaining two were
supposedly destroyed in the world's
destruction, though there is no proof
•We know that one of these was trapped in
Ven when he was sent to the future, but the
whereabouts of the last one is still unknown
•Odin warns Vidar that he must be able to
distinguish between true darkness and the
other forms he will face
What do you mean you’ve never
played Union X Vidar? Don’t you
have a phone?

632. Uncertain
Order
•Xehanort, Hermod and Urd arrive at Agrabah, the last place Master Odin opened for their
search
•Urd tells her friends about her encounter with Vali and Vala, but is interrupted by the
appearance of Jafar, who tries to convince them to enter the Cave of Wonders and find the
magic lamp
•While Jafar is about as subtle as sledgehammer, Xehanort agrees, reasoning that he can at least
search further within the world
•The three soon run into Eraqus and Bragi, who reveal that Jafar sent them on the same mission
•Urd insists that they find the lamp, as it may be an object important to the world order, and
something that the other students might target

633. •The group find the lamp, and sure enough
Urd was right, as Vidar and Vorappear to
take it
•Vidar explains that the upper classmenare
seeking seven powerful lights to defeat true
darkness, hoping to draw them out by
causing confusion in the worlds
•Claiming that they need to replace the lights
that they’ve lost, Vidar states that they need
to defeat darkness at any cost to make sure
their efforts weren’t in vain
•Vidar asks Eraqus to join him in their shared
goal, and while Eraqus agrees with the goal,
decides that the price Vidar is paying is too
high
•Xehanort tells his friend that none of them
have the knowledge or experience to
decide, while also telling Eraqus that he may
have to make the same decision when he is
a Keyblade Master, but may know what to
do then
Uncertain
Order

634. Reason for
Disappearance
•The group meet with Master Odin and inform him
of Vidar’s plan
•Odin thinks back to his conversation with Vidar,
who asked how true darkness could be defeated
even as a formless thing
•Odin tells Vidar about the actions of the Lost
Masters, reasoning that by destroying the vessel
possessing true darkness, it may be destroyed.
Vidar refuses to accept further loss, and demands
another way
•Odin speculates that by summoning Kingdom
Hearts, which requires seven true lights, it may be
able to destroy darkness, but also purge all worlds
in the process
•Odin discouraged these methods as he is not
certain if true darkness is the real foe
•Odin relieves the lower classmenof their mission,
remarking that the “dark seeker” will finally be
upon them as the students leave
Don’t ever actually summon Kingdom Hearts
Vidar. It will destroy absolutely everything and
might not even work on true darkness. No one
even knows what Kingdom Hearts even is.
Kingdom Hearts is light,
silly.

635. Reason for
Disappearance
•The lower classmenare unsure what to do next, until they are
met by Baldr, who returned from his recently assigned task of
studying different kinds of darkness
•When the group begins explaining that while they would like to
simply ask the disappeared students why Vidar is going so far,
but can’t, Baldroffers a solution
•In his journey, Baldrfound the Underworld and suggests that
the group can speak with the fallen students there
•Eraqus accidently reveals their assignment to find the missing
students, and Baldrreveals the fate of one of the students, his
sister Hoder
•When she left for her Mark of Mastery, Baldrfollowed his
sister out of concern to Enchanted Dominion, where he
witnessed her death at the hands of Maleficent, sacrificing
herself to save him
•It was shortly after this that Baldrwoke up in the infirmary,
recovering from his injuries instead of getting an alternative
task like Master Odin said earlier

636. Reason for
Disappearance
•The six students head to Olympus Colosseum, and are soon met
by Hades who offers to show them the Underworld if they win a
tournament
•After winning, all six students are taken to the Underworld, but
Xehanort, Bragi and Eraqus are separated from the others
•Xehanortasks Hades if he would be able to find Hodereven
though she died in a different world
•Hades agrees, only on the condition that one of the students
remain behind within the Underworld as his servants
•Claiming he found Hoder(along with some “stragglers”), Hades
sends them on their way, before the three are soon attacked by
Cerberus

637. Reason for
Disappearance
•The three are soon joined by Baldr, who sends Xehanort and Eraqus ahead while he and
Bragi hold off the beast
•The two find Urd and Hermod, who double back to help Bragi and Baldrwith Cerberus.
•Baldrand Bragi seem to force the hound to retreat, before Baldrsays to Bragi that the
darkness in the Underworld is dense and that their usual methods won’t work
•Xehanort and Eraqus find not only Hoder, but also Heimdall, Helgi and Sigrunwho know
nothing of Vidar’s plan, but recount the events that led to their demise

638. Reason for
Disappearance
•The group tell the living students that all seven of the upper classmenarrived in Enchanted
Dominion and learned of Maleficent’scurse on Princess Aurora
•They agreed that they shouldn’t interfere with the world order, but sleep until morning to ask
Master Odin what they should do
•During the night Hoderleaves to confront Maleficent, the group splitting up to try and find her
•Heimdall, Sigrunand Helgi run into the dying Hoderwho soon fades away
•The three attack Maleficent and avenge their friend, but were all killed in the fight, awakening in
the Final World from KH3
•Eraqusremarks that it doesn’t sound like the formless darkness the Master talked about, but
believes that Maleficent would need to be dealt with eventually
•Heimdall suggests that light and darkness may be a matter of perception, and are based on a
conflict of ideals or beliefs instead of being absolute, thinking that a middle ground may be a
better option than maintaining a divide between light and dark
•Xehanort and Eraqus disagree and as the upperclassmen vanish, Hoderasks Xehanort for a favour

639. Reason for Disappearance
•Xehanort and Eraqusreturn, only finding Urd,
with Hermod searching for Bragi and Balder
•Hades appears, informing the group that one
of the two must die, and pressures them to
fulfill their end of the bargain
•After a brief battle, with Hermod returning
during the fight, all four are whisked away by
a dark corridor
•As they leave, Hades seems surprised by the
development, seeing a familiar person nearby

640. Reason for
Disappearance
•Scrambling to equip their Keyblade Armour,
Xehanort and Eraqus search for a way out
•Urd and Hermod try to do the same, with
Hermod collapsing
•Urd tells her friend not to give up hope,
recognizing a dark figure before the two are
struck down
•Xehanort and Eraqus soon collapse as well,
but Odin arrives to save them from the dark
figure, letting the three escape with the use
of the Master’s Defender

641. Seven Lights and
Thirteen Darknesses
•Recovered from their injuries, Xehanort
and Eraqus silently play their game as
Master Odin enters
•Odin tells the two not to blame
themselves, and confirms that they are the
only students of their class who survived
•Upon mention that they met Baldr, Odin is
surprised, but a sudden quake interrupts
before he can elaborate
•Odin summons No Name from its display
and leaves to evacuate the other students
(who?!?!), telling the two to stay put
•Xehanort and Eraqus leave anyway,
reasoning that the attacker is likely Baldr,
having succumbed to darkness when he
lost his sister and that he is likely the one
who killed Bragi

642. Seven Lights and Thirteen Darknesses
•The two realize that darkness is within Baldr
and likely caused him to kill Bragi and the
other students
•Eraqusstates his intention to purge the
darkness from Baldr’sheart, despite the
things he’s done, with Xehanort agreeing to
help him
•Vidar, Vali and Valaarrive, and Vidar confirms
that he knew darkness was within Baldras
Eraqus lashes out, blaming them for failing to
protect Hoder
•After a brief clash, Xehanort forces Eraqus to
calm down, and Vidar tells the two that Vor
left to report to Master Odin
•Baldr, shrouded in darkness, approaches, with
Xehanort feeling Baldr’spain within his heart
•Baldrridicules them for failing to gather the
seven lights, with his darkness confirming that
it is too late to save Baldrbefore leaving to
find Vor, summoning some Heartless to keep
the group busy
This is 100% your fault guys. Four
prospective Keyblade Masters vs Maleficent
and you all get washed? Get with the program!

643. Seven Lights and
Thirteen Darknesses
•Baldrfinds the unsuspecting Vorand
recounts his descent into darkness, how
over a week, his grief turned to self-
hatred, and eventually anger at the
world
•His growing darkness urged him to purge
the world, plunging the thirteen lights
into darkness
•Baldrreveals his darkness to Vor,
explaining that this darkness is what
killed Hodor, and the two would go on to
kill Heimdall, Helgi, SigrunUrd, Hermod,
and Bragi
•Vorprepares to fight Baldr, and is
supported by Vidar, Valaand Vali who
appear to aid her

644. Seven Lights and
Thirteen
Darknesses
•Xehanort and Eraqus arrive in
time to see Baldrseemingly on
the ropes, until he summons a
large Heartless called Hringhorn
•The Heartless kills Vidar, Valaand
Vali, with Xehanort and Eraqus
attempting to fend it off
•Vortries to strike Baldrwhile he is
preoccupied, but Baldris kills her
as well before escaping to the
roof

645. Seven Lights and
Thirteen Darknesses
•Baldrexplains that the thirteen lights (i.e. the students from
both classes) must be given to darkness to summon
Kingdom Hearts, his true goal, as it would force the world to
be reborn in darkness
•His plan was to kill Hoder, forcing Vidar to seek revenge,
using the other three deaths as additional motivation
•When Vidar would realize he needed to kill Baldr, he would
be unable to do it, and decide to gather the seven lights to
summon Kingdom Hearts instead (I guess he doesn’t know
about the χ-blade requirement?)
•However, Vidar abandoned the goal completely, forcing
Baldrto kill the lower classmen, and continue his plan,
substituting the seven essential lights of other worlds with
thirteen lights from each of the students
•With only Xehanortand Eraqusas the last two sacrifices he
needs to complete his plan, Baldrtransforms into Hringhorn
and the three battle

646. Seven Lights
and Thirteen
Darknesses
•After an exhausting battle, Eraqus deflects a finishing strike from Baldr, telling Xehanort to purge the Darkness
from Baldr’sheart
•Xehanort instead moves to strike Baldrdown, but hesitates, before Baldrshrouds the area in darkness
•Baldr’sdarkness states that it is neither an ancient darkness or an outside threat, but born from Baldr’sheart,
growing in strength from the darkness of the people Baldrmet on his journey
•Hoder’sappears, having hid her heart inside Xehanort’sto speak to her brother one last time, which was the
promise Xehanortmade to her in the Underworld
•Hoderapologizes, but Baldrattempts to explain that he had the ability to feel whatever was the hearts of others
•While he felt only light in Hoderand Eraqus, he felt darkness in most of the others he met including himself
(and Xehanort)
•This darkness frightened him, and slowly gathered in his heart, becoming his own
•While safe with Hoderdue to her pure light, he eventually submitted once she died, warning Xehanortthat he
would be the same without Eraqusas his guiding light

647. Seven Lights and
Thirteen Darknesses
•Hoderreaches for Baldr, but both suddenly
summon their Keyblades, still distrusting each other
•Despite Xehanort’sinterference, Baldrtries to strike
down his sister but, but is held in place by glowing
chains from Odin which disperse the darkness
•Before they can remove his darkness, Baldrclashes
with Hoder, causing her to fade away as Baldrfalls
•Baldrremarks that he sees Xehanort in himself and
requests that he understand his cause, stating that
those with pure light will condemn those who use
darkness
•Baldrcharges Xehanort to seek the answers to
darkness and the unjustness of the world before
Xehanortwordlessly kills him
•Odin laments the loss of another student and how
destiny can be cruel

648. One Month
Later…
•Xehanort and Eraqus lay flowers at the graves of his
friends and those of the upper classmen
•Xehanort asks about Odin, who has grown depressed with
recent events, but still wishes for Xehanort and Eraqus to
perform the Mark of Mastery
•Odin also wants the two to be his final students, planning
to retire to another world once they have succeeded him
•The two go off to play chess once more, as a mysterious
figure enters the graveyard, stating that it “wasn’t him”
after all…

649. •In a flashback to just after Bragi and Baldrfought off Cerberus, it shows
how Baldrthreatens Bragi’s life, though Bragi is completely unphased
•He counters that Xehanort is onto Baldr, and if he returns without Baldr,
it will solidify Xehanort’s suspicions, dropping a familiar catch phrase in
the process…
•Bragi, or Luxurather, briefly considers taking Baldr’sbody, but mentions
that it would be difficult to keep a low profile
•Baldr, determined to see his plan through, decides to strike Bragi down
regardless, but leaves before he fades away
•Back in the present, the figure, revealing himself to be Bragi, mentions
that Xehanortwill be useful even if he isn’t the chosen one
Bragi? As if!

650. •One year after the main events of Dark Road, Xehanort
traverses through a dark corridor into the passages of
darkness once again, this time in preparation for his own
Mark of Mastery
•Feeling that the protection offered by his armour is
incomplete, Xehanort, like a rational person, decides to
remove his armour and see if he can handle darkness without
it
•Naturally, Xehanort immediately passes out… but is soon
found by a mysterious figure in a black coat, who refers to
him as “the singularity”
One Year Later…

651. One Year Later…
•Xehanort awakens in the Keyblade Graveyard, greeting by the stranger who saved him, known to us as the Master of Masters
•He explains to the young man that he used to be “more or less” a Keybladewielder, but is unfamiliar with the “Mark of Mastery” test Xehanort
mentions
•Xehanort, hesitant to trust this stranger, summons his Keyblade, but is shocked when the Master simply summons Xehanort’sKeybladeto his own hand,
temporarily taking it before relinquishing it back to the boy
•The stranger gifts Xehanort a black coat, telling him that while the armor is better for combat, the coat is can handle a lotmore darkness
•In exchange for this gift, he asks Xehanort to go throughout the worlds and look into people’s hearts, to see how complex emotions such as love
originate from feelings of either light or darkness, and return to him with what he finds

652. •Sometime during his continued tour of the worlds, he once
again comes into contact with his future self’s Heartless,
AnsemSeeker of Darkness
•This is the point where AnsemSoDgrants him the ability to
travel through time, tasking him to gather twelve other
incarnations of himself from across time to form the Real
Organization XIII as described in KH3D
•After carrying out his duties as “Young Xehanort” as shown
in BBS, KH3D and KH3, he returns to his proper place in
time
•While the rules of time travel prevent him from retaining
these memories, the experiences were engraved in his
heart and would act as a guide for himself in the years to
come…
•We then see the same scene between Xehanortand the
Master of Masters initially shown in Re:Mindwhere
Xehanorttruly begins his dark road to become the figure
which will haunt the rest of the series
The Young
Xehanort

653. 2 Years Later…
•2 years later, Xehanort and Eraqus return to their old classroom,
discussing what they learned throughout their travels in
preparation for the Mark of Mastery
•Xehanort says that one lifetime is too short, with Eraqus saying
that’s why people have to make the most of what they have
•Eraqus suggests finding people to carry on his legacy, but
Xehanort says he would rather simply do it himself
•When asked how many lifetimes would be enough, Xehanort
replies, saying that it would take fourteen; the first thirteen to
rebuild the world, and the last to explore it (hmmm)
•Eraqus states that his dream would be to stay true to light, and
guide people back from darkness
•Tragically, Eraqus states that knowing Xehanort, he would end
up going deeper into darkness if he tried to escape, and would
only get out with Eraqus’shelp

654. 4 Years Later…
•In a scene set four years later, Xehanort and
Eraqus are shown laying flowers on a set of four
graves, with Xehanort stating his intention to
leave Scala ad Caelum
•While Eraqus is against this, he does not stop
him, knowing that Xehanort will return since
they need to settle the score for their final game
•In a visit to Wonderland, Xehanort is arrested by
the Queen of Heart’s again, unsurprised that she
is still under the influence of darkness
My guess is no one’s ever loved
you before.

655. 7 Years
Later…
•7 years later, Xehanort and Eraqus, have finally
been Keyblade Masters for a year
•The two have an argument, with Xehanort
wanting to find Kingdom Hearts to destroy
Darkness
•Eraqus, the true heir, was given Master’s
Defender, while Xehanort was given the No
Name Keyblade, inheriting the will of the Lost
Masters
•Determined to follow his heart, Xehanort wants
to leave in search of answers, and Eraqus wishes
to stop him
•The two briefly clash as the scene fades

656. 54 Years
Later…
•54 years after Dark Road, the now elderly Xehanortvisits Eraqus,
now settled within the Land of Departure, and the same flashback
shown in BBS is shown
•Xehanort tells his friend that he intends to form the χ-blade and start
another Keyblade War to gain the light of Kingdom Hearts
•Eraqus vows to oppose his friends plan, and the two briefly clash
•Xehanort defeats and scars Eraqus using the power of darkness
•Xehanort leaves, with Eraqus remarking that Xehanort never knew
when to quit

657. 64 Years Later…
•64 years later, Master Xehanort
returns to the Magic Mirror in Dward
Woodlands
•After getting roasted for his lack of
hair, Xehanortasks the mirror if he
will ever meet the friends he met
within his dreams as a child (the
Union Leaders from Union X)
•The Mirror replies that some of them
do exist and directs him to the
KeybladeGraveyard, where Xehanort
finds none other than Ventus, who
recently appeared within the wastes
due to the events of Union X

658. 65 Years Later…
•65 years after Dark Road, Xehanort travels through a corridor of darkness with Ventus, who’s heart has
just joined with Sora’s and has slightly recovered from the forcible separation from Vanitas
•Xehanort recalls that the corridors are meant for spirits and emotion, never for living beings
•Living beings embrace these emotions, which corrodes their hearts with darkness, unless they wear a
black coat or Keyblade Armor for some sort of protection
•Xehanort rejects this notion, believing that a strong enough heart (like himself) could survive without
these protections
•Xehanort also recalls his first mentor, the blue robed figure seen at the end of Union X, who told him of
one inscribed in the Book of Prophecies referred to as a “child of destiny who can connect their heart to
others and feel what they feel”
•Xehanort believes that he must embrace the emotions within the corridor to gain strength and be
worthy of this title

659. 65 Years
Later…
•As shown in BBS, Xehanort and Ventus
arrive in the Land of Departure,
though this time we see the
conversation they had while Terra and
Aqua meet Ven for the first time
•Eraqus mentions the letter that
Xehanort had sent previously, forgiving
his friend for their conflict over ten
years ago
•Xehanort explains that he has been
training Ventus for the past year, but
believes that he is the child of destiny,
and requests Eraqus (the “true heir to
light”) to be the one to train him
•Ventusscreams (due to questions from
Terra and Aqua overwhelming him)
and the two go to check on the three

660. 65 Years Later…
•During the events of BBS, we see more of Xehanort’s discussion with
Vanitas at in the Land of Departure
•Vanitas is glad to be rid of Ventus, but Xehanort clarifies that
bringing Ventus to Eraqus was done for Ventus, not Vanitas
•Vanitas accuses Xehanort of betraying him, with the old master
warning the boy that while he may be a being of pure darkness, he is
no match for Xehanort
•The two walk, with Xehanort describing the thirteen original
Darknessesin the era of the Lost Masters, and what happened to
them
•He tells Vanitas that he knows one survived, disguised as an ally of
light
•Vanitas tries to brush it off, but Xehanort continues, stating that all
of the original Darknesseswere once connected, and that Vanitas
must know the others are
•Vanitas continues to deny it, but Xehanort wonders why such a being
of Darkness would need to hide, revealing that he knows that
Vanitas was not born from Ventus’s heart, but an outsider that was
within the boy
•Xehanort knows of Ventus’s exploits in the past from the dreams he
had as a boy, and knows about the original Darkness that his within
him
•Vanitas is notably shocked, asking Xehanort what he knows.
Xehanort asks the same in retort, but Vanitas refuses to answer

661. 9 Years Before
Dark roaD…
•In a series of flashbacks on we see how Xehanort got to Destiny
Islands
•As in Union X, we see a Blue Robed figure take the infant
Xehanort from his mother, a woman in the Scala ad Caelum of
Sigurd’s era who looks like Skuld(though is explicitly not her)
•The ancestor of Xehanort is revealed to be Ephemer
•The Blue Robe raises the child Xehanort on stories of a child of
destiny, who he believes is Xehanort
•The Blue Robe explains that the child of destiny is:
•A child who will come from Destiny Islands and eventually travel to
other worlds
•Feel the hearts of others
•Combine hearts with another to become one
•Save the world from darkness

662. 9 Years Before Dark roaD…
•Xehanort explains his dreams of the Union Leaders to the Blue Robe,
mentioning that one of the people from his dreams (the player) is like him
•The Blue Robe confirms that he has lived two lifetimes
•The first was as the player character themselves as shown in χ and Union X
•The second, in Scala ad Caelum, they learned that light would expire, and
darkness would prevail, but could be averted by the child of destiny
•Years later, before passing on, he hopes that Xehanort’s heart will connect
with others as it did with his, but worries that he may be vulnerable to the
darkness within others, ending KH Dark Road…

663. Fan Art
•Slide 624 -BenK_Animation
•Slide 645 –eksart
•Slide 659 –Keestar52
•Slide 664 -Siegvrit

664. FIN

665. An Oath to Return

666. Presenting Yoko Shimomura’s
“Best of Kingdom Hearts” Album
•Melody of Memory takes place during Kairi’s
year-long sleep described in Re:Mind
•In an attempt tofind out what happened to
Sora, Kairi agreed to slumber in Ansemthe
Wise’s computer lab in Radiant Garden,
while he and his apprenticed study her heart
to find Sora
•Most of the game serves as a recap of all
prior events (except the mobile games)
using gameplay similar tothe Theatrhythm
Final Fantasy spinoffs
•Eventually, Kairi makes her way through
Sora’s adventures with the Keyblade, finding
herself within the Final World once more

667. Memories of
the Past
•Kairi awakens a memory from her childhood in
Radiant Garden, running from Heartless before
being captured by Apprentice Xehanort
•Awakening inside an Ark/lifeboat from Union X,
Xehanortexplains that Radiant Garden will soon
be engulfed in darkness
•Believing that Kairi is a Princess of Heart,
Xehanortthinks Kairi should be able to resonate
her heart with that of a Keybladewielder and
lead Xehanortto their world, claiming it is their
only chance to save Radiant Garden
•Before sending her off, he warns her that if she
arrives “somewhere on the other side” instead
of a world of light or darkness, then all will be
lost

668. •After the memory ends, Kairi begins collecting
pieces of ascatteredversionofherheart,
encountering a living memory of Master
Xehanortbefore she finds them all
•Angered at seeing the man who caused so much
anguish for her and her friends, Kairi clashes
with the old master, who remarks that Yen Sid
has prepared her well
•Despite this, Kairi is soon beaten, but before
Xehanortcan strike her down, Sora’s Kingdom
Key manifests in her hand
•Kairi isn’t allowed to be cool even in her own
game, as Sora soon manifests in her placeto
fight Xehanort
•Xehanortnotes that Sora’s voice is unable to
reach them, making the master certain that he
now knows Sora’s true whereabouts

669. •After defeating Xehanort, Sora dissipates, and
Kairi claims the last heart piece she was looking
for
•Xehanortconcedes defeat, and agrees to give
Kairi the clue she needs, since he is a memory
that is part of her heart, even if a painful one
•Shifting between his prior incarnations, he takes
the form of Apprentice Xehanrot, reminding
Kairi of his last words to her before sending her
away from Radiant Garden before disappearing

670. •Waking up from her slumber, Kairi relays
Xehanort’swords to the scientists, the four also
taking note of Xehanort’swords about Sora
•Ansemthe Wise hypothesises that Xehanortis
referring to a world on the other side of reality: an
“unreality” or “fictional world” but even he isn’t
sure what to think
•Riku, just after the Limit Cut Episode of Re:Mind,
appears with the Fairy Godmother who explains
that to find Sora they need three keys: Riku’s
dreams, Kairi’s memories and one other
•Riku’s mention of his city dreams have Ansem
conclude that the city is a fictional world, different
from the Realms of Light, Darkness and Between,
as well as memories, data, or dreams as it can’t be
easily reached and must be outside of their reality

671. •The Fairy Godmother states that in addition to Riku
and Kairi, there is one more key person. One with a
strong will and a precious dream
•Transporting Riku, Kairi, and herself to the Final World
(Disney magic is busted remember), the Fairy
Godmother introduces them to the Nameless Star
who told Sora about Yozora
•The Fairy Godmother reveals that she came from the
world of unreality, but lost her form and can’t return
lest her heart be stolen
•While she can’t directly help in her current state, the
Fairy Godmother explains that Riku can use the
Power of Waking on the path the Nameless Star can
provide and go there himself

672. •The three tell the formless girl of
Sora’s current situation, and she
explains how she previously met Sora
•Riku describes his dreams of tall
buildings, and the girl gives a name
for where Sora potentially is:
Quadratum
•Agreeing to help save Sora, Riku
prepares to head to Quadratum
while Kairi (reluctantly) stays behind
to complete her training and tell
Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and Yen Sid
what they know so far
more power.

673. •Kairi returns to the Mysterious Tower, with Mickey ready
to rush of after Riku who has gone to an unknown world
alone, but is held back by the others and told not to be
so hasty
•Yen Sid realizes that Xehanortmust have known about
Quadratum for some time, but with the old master dead
they have no other leads
•The wizard recalls that during his time as a Keyblade
Master, he once heart that the ancient KeybladeMasters
did cross into other worlds which Xehanortlikely looked
into
•Yen Sid instructs Donald and Goofy to inform the groups
at Radiant Garden, Twilight Town, and the Land of
Departure of current events
•Kairi herself requests to train under Aqua, with Yen Sid
sending Mickey to investigate the connection between
Quadratum and the old KeybladeMasters in Scala ad
Caelum, ending Melody of Memory

674. FIN

675. Future Installments

676. •Missing Link is an augmented reality mobile
game (think PokemonGo) set right after Brain
arrives in Scala ad Caelum, bridging the gap
between Union X and Dark Road
•The main character is a “drifter” who recently
arrived in Scala ad Carlumimplied to be the
same one from Union X, this time on their
second life and will presumably shed light on
how they eventually became the Blue Robed
Figure in Dark Road
•Story details are scant, though promo materials
make mention of a conflict between “societies”
within the city, in addition to travelling to an
“Astral Plane” to battle Heartless

677. •KH4 will pick up with Sora in Quadratum, a realistic
city set up in Melody of Memory and “start” the Lost
Master Arc
•In most the debut trailer, we see a more realistic
looking Sora under the care of Strelitzia, who seems
to have somehow survived her apparent death in
Union X
•Throughout the trailer we’ve also gotten scenes of
Donald and Goofy who will return, two more figures
in black cloaks, and Heartless causing destruction on
a massive scale
•While no info beyond the initial trailer last year has
been shared, I’m sure we can be patient ;)
•Ifyou’vestuckthrough thislong,thanks! Consider
yourself caught up for the next stage of Nomura and
co’swild ride!

678. FIN