kh x story rough draft points

KINGDOM HEART-TO-HEARTS

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"Don't Assume your DREAMS are just FANTASY. If you can IMAGINE a world, BELIEVE in it...and DIVE in." -- Kingdom Hearts 3 Trailers (2017)

Ladies, Gentlemen and that wonderful rainbow in between! Welcome everybody to a special stream event in between SamuraiSnake's Kingdom hearts First-Time Playthroughs. This iiiiiis...

KINGDOM HEART-TO-HEARTS!!!

This is your host. Kingdom hearts nerd, co-streaming goober and today your personal Master of Master, StarMech! And Snake has given me the permission to invade the airwaves in order to bring you all a crazy semi-podcast and information dumb as we prepare ourselves for the Kingdom Hearts 3 playthrough. A move that was made completely legal and on his own free will and totally not a secret plot to conquer the stream spotlight and rise as yourmechanical overlord. That'd be silly.

Of course with me I got the real showrunner of the stream. KOF fan, Sega Saturn afficionado and our not-so-spiky keyblade wielding hero, SAMURAISNAKE!

And of course we cannot ignore our other co-host. The Blue Oni to my Red Oni. Jack Garland supporter and one with a rage that could rival Donal Duck. Heeeeere's Khyleigh!!

So, how are you two feelin' tonight?


[[ONLY IF ADRI AND GREG ARE HERE: I have with me my fellow Kingdom hearts lorekeeper...or rather, just the few people I could get in short notice. First, we have comicbook reviewer, Halo playing and not affiliated with anyone called Gilgamesh. Here's my buddy Gregzilla!

And last but not least, we have a fellow KH fan, rat enthusiast and the only Princess of MY heart. Adri!!]]

Now, as we prepare everything I want to make note that this is part of Snake's first-time playthrough of the Kingdom hearts series. So I'll ask for no spoilers in chat, and also understand that I will NOT be recaping the whole franchise up to this point cause that's like 14 games and we only have so much time. So if anyone is watching with no knowledge like a certain brother o mine who insisted in doing so. Tough luck, you'll have to wait for me to explain in someday in the future!

Now this is how basically gonna be. I'm here to get Snake up to speed on the games we will not be able to play, as they accessibility being mobile games is not something available. However, there's enough story morsels to savor over as we head towards Kingdom Hearts 3. So basically as its show in screen, I'll be talking a lot, snake is gonna be confused and ky will definitely tr to plot my death! Of course I'll pause to let Snake ask about anything he wants to be reminded of or heck, may throw a curveball every now and then haven't decided. I'm heavily sleep-deprived working on this so this may be a huge disaster whooo knows!

Anyways - WHAT WE WILL COVER SPECIFICALLY - is the story and content from Kingdom Hearts X, Kingdom Hearts Back Cover to a degree and Kingdom hearts Union X, all part of what the fans nickname the KEY SAGA. This one happen to kinda melt in an odd position since it started BEFORE KH3 was out but ended after, so there are somepoints that were technically revealed AFTER KH3 but won't be any mayor spoilers for that game's plot.


SPECIAL THANKS.

Everglow - One of the best channels to watch Kingdom Hearts cutscenes in good quality, all organized in chronological order and constantly updated, as well as the best resource for fully translated KH x and union x story around.

Damo279 - USed plenty of his recap videos to get a consisted summary of the x and union x plotlines. They also have been working on a full FANDUB of those games which is very well made. Right now only part 1 is out which covers the entirety of KH x.

Website shootouts - Wanna shutout the site kingdom hearts inside for letting me find the previous channel as well as both the regular and fandom kingdom heart wikias for helping me with all the research and resource gathering.

B mask - I also wanna shootout the channel B-mask, which didn't really help me with this but I wanna shootout it because it was my motivation behind trying to explain KH lore to these chuckleheads. Their video "kingdom HEarts ain't so dumb" is a fantastic summarization of why I love the franchise, although probably should watch it after KH3.

Marcano Moreno - I also wanna thank my older brother for providing me with a fancy logo for this whole thing and even if kidna pointless caus language barrier I'll shoutout his channel marciano moreno. IF you understand Spanish and you want nice educative videos about super interesting andcultural facts, check him out. Fantastic stuff.

But with all that done, let us venture into this, shall we!?

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KH X and unchain x - The master of masters settles in daybreak town and passes down the teachings of the keyblade to his 6 apprentices: the foretellers and Luxu. He trained them in all the ways to use the keyblade, or in fact created the keyblade we are not truly sure. However, he trained them and placed them as leaders of As we learned before, the Master gave them keyblades and created a particular keyblade, No Name, to carry his Eye, magically embedded so it'd watch and record everything it witnesses thruought history, allowing the Master to basically gaze into the future. Since only one eye is in there and the other is, well, with him. He'd be able to see everything that has and will happen as long as that eyes continues into the future. This plan work as he was able to write a whole book about it: The book of prophecies, which he created copies (even if slightly altered ones) and handed to all of his apprentices.

With No Name created, he handed it to Luxu, asking him to go out into the currently singular world with it and a mysterious black box and simply stay away from the events that'd soon happen. Then pass No Name to his own apprentice, so that he can then pass it to his apprentice and so forth, always making sure to still keep tracks on the keyblade as it passes from generation to generation until it reaches its "rightful wielder", as he vaguely states.

As we know from Back Cover - The Master of Master entrusts each Foreteller with a copy of the book of prophecies and a role only they knew, forbidden to ever tell each other of which one they were. They were tasked to form an Union, for them to teach other younger children of daybreak town to fight the darkness and hoard and safeguard the light in their respective unions.

As we also know, the fortellers were to see what happens at the end of the book and freak out that a war would break and cause light to be extinguished by darkness, and the Master would inform them that he'd disappear and that a traitor would appear amongst them.


That's where YOUR story in x start, as a player, you take the role of one of these kids, pick an Union and proceed to travel through illusions of worlds created from the power of the book of prophecies to hone your skills and face the awaiting darkness. As every keyblade wielder under and Union, we are handed a Chirithy of our own. This precious Lara Jill Miller-voice lil fluffball is in a way the proto-Dream Eater, a watcher of dreams and loyal protector of one's wielder. They help us collet the light and support us when battling darkness alongside other members of our Union, not allowed to really interact with others outside of it.

that is until the introduction of an important character. This is Ephimer. A young boy from another Union which our Player character befriends. This lad has been searching for another friend he lost some time ago and in doing so, had started to question the nature of the rules that they were given. He's the one who theorizes that the worlds we travel may be illusions, and the heartless we fight in the game are fakes and that the light we been gathering is actually the light of the world itself they are standing on. Him and the Player soon end up having a dream of someone sneaking into the clock tower of daybreak town, a place only meant for the foretellers, through a secret passage  and are enticed into going there.

When we find the secret entrance, the two decide to not step in until tomorrow, as to not rise suspicion from any of the leaders. However, when the next day comes and the player goes to meet up with Ephimer, he's nowhere to be seen.

However we do meet another important character in our story. this is Sterelitza, A young lass who is also a keyblade wielder rookie. She sees the player feeling sad and hoped to help him cheer up, but she was too shy to engage in conversation so she leaves, however, we will see her later in this story.

Some time and patches later, we meet another person: Skuld. She tells the player that Ephimer appeared to her in her dreams and told her to warn the player about the upcoming Keyblade War.

However, there's little time for that as the clocktower bell tolls sometime later, tensions break and the war is starting. children all over are starting to get corrupted in pursuit of defending the light, becoming Darkling heartless, and attacking each others while the rest continue to battle each other in the War.

As this is going on, Ava is forming the Dandelions: A group of wielders from multiple Unions that will avoid the War and protect the light when everything goes south. After a few quests and some long b-plot involving a nightmare chirithy, the Player learns from Ava that Ephimer is okay and he and Skuld have joined the Dandelions. Her role was to find the ones most resistant to darkness, and take them away to a special world, where the painful memories of the keyblade war would not touch them, and there would be no clash of Unions to create negative emotions that darkness can exploit, so they can survive the endtime and then salvage the aftermath so humanity can continue living. The offer is given to the Player, but the player still has to think about it.

Ava's role also dictated she would appoint 5 new leaders that would watch over the dandelions, specifically chosen by the Master. Ephimer and Skuld were two on this list. Out of this list of five kids, one of them was circled in red by the Master, which would be given a new copy of the book of prophecies. The special world the dandelions would be sent would be a data copy of Daybreak Town created by the Master, which is also part of the fake worlds the player and the others been traveling across the game; All data creations by the Master of Master to keep the wielders sharp and to basically backup the data of everything and everyone in Daybreak Town. Everyone send there would have their memories of the war erased by their Chirithy and remain there safe while the outside world went to shit.

These five new leaders would be these particular characters: Ephimer, Skuld, Brain, Sterelitza and her older brother Luriam.

Fate, however, had other plans. Days before the war started, Sterilitza was looking for the Player, and was lured away by someone. As she entered an abandoned old house she was then attacked from the shadow and killed by another keyblade wielder. Not defeated, not sent into the shadow realm. Just flat-out iced.

Meanwhile, Ava herself, while still carrying her role for the sake of the children, she still wanted to defy the Master's prophecy somewhat, hoping things wouldn't end so bleakly. As such, she didn't give the book of prophecies to the leader circled in red (which we never learn who was meant to) but gave it to Brian instead; As she knew he was smart and strong to find an answer to how to avert calamity. Moments later, she was confronted by Luxu suddenly appearing, who decided to reveal to her the true nature of the traitor, something that shook Ava immensely.

Since the player does not get to join the Dandelions in time, he is sadly drafted into the War, having to fight keybalde wielder after keyblade wielder, as well as fighting the foretellers themselves, including a strangely somber Ava, before the struggle becoming too much for the player and he collapses.

At first it seems that the Player dies but is saved at the last second by Skuld Ephimer, who appears to him and takes him to this data Daybreak Town and becomes part of the Dandelions, at the cost of his memories of the keyblade war being erased. As far as the player knows at that point, everything seems a-ok and nothing bad happened.

As KH x ends, the new union leaders gather. However, with sterelitza gone and none of them really knowing who was actually chosen, they were met with someone ELSE as the firth leader: A boy named VENTUS. Big surprise, Ven is actually thousands of years old! hooray!!

This is where Union X begins. The Union leaders continue training the remaining wielders, us as the player continue doing our missions as if nothing bad had happened, and Lauriam, with the help of his friend Elrena continue looking into the disappearance of his sister.

As this continues, and the player gets to re-establish their friendship with Ephimer, strange glitches start occurring around town, this is what reveals to the leaders that they are in fact living inside a simulated Daybreak Town. These glitches turns out to be caused by an accidental connection to a brand new data world that somehow connected into daybreak town due to both being virtual. This world turns out to actually be Game Central Station, the setting of Wreck-it Ralph! This goes into a whole sidestory where we explore the games of wreck-it ralph, deal with a cybug that ate and fused with a darling, fight king candy, etc.

Meanwhile, Brain finally deduces that Sterilitza was supposed to be a leader and that the darkness had somehow pulled some strings to infiltrate into the data world.

Of course, all suspicion falls on Ventus, who continues to claim he was visited by master Ava and asked to join as a leader, making even more confusion of what could the truth be. Emphimer, Skuld and Brain come to explain this to him and then, memories of past actions manifest in Ventus, and in horror he realizes the truth: the ava he saw was an illusion by the darkness, who had possessed his body and used him to ice Sterilitza.Poor kid can't catch a break. The sheer shock causes him to faint and he's taken back to the tower.

MEANWHILE, MALIFICENT has been roaming around. Not a data maleficent, nor a old Maleficent, but specifically Maleficent right between KH1 and 2! Here we go: When Riku, possessed by Ansem SOD used that weird keyblade and stabbed her, making her turn dragon and then being killed by Sora. She lost her physical body and ended up drifting through space and time. She remembered the words of one xehanort who told her that without a physical body she could travel through time and so tried to posses herself at the time of Bbs, but seems that, perhaps as the MOM had planned, confused it with the simulation of those events from the data world of KHX and so ended upwaaaay back in the past.

Pised off that she basically ended up defeated in the same way as before, she cursed the skies in anger, which drew the attention of something or someone. A strange being manifested itself, calling itself Darkness. No, not something of darkness, but AS darkness. Darkness as an entity rather than Darkness as a energy. From now on we will call this Ancient Darkness for reasons I'll explain later.

Ancient Darkness allowed her to exit her simulation and arrive in the data Daybreak Town and lead her to the tower basement where she found the ARKS. A series of SEVEN pods hinted ALL THE WAY ON KH1, which would allow whoever used them to be transported to the real daybreak town years later. She tried to take one for herself but was found by Lauriam who battled her. However, Maleficent was successful and knocked Lauriam unconscious, accidentally destroying one of the arks in the battle. She and the ancient Darkness took another of the pods and escaped the data world arriving at the real daybreak town. In the real daybreak town awaited a second series of Arks which, unlike their data versions, would catapult its occupants into the future by rendering the person into nothing but their heart and launching them at the speed of light to their destination

This destination requires a waypoint to anchor to, which is composed of two things: A medium or object which the body will reconstitute into and someone who remembers the person, their memories acting as an anchor for the heart to reach. In maleficent's case, that happened in KH2: When her raven arrived at the mysterious tower and dropped her cloak in front of the faries (the medium) and the fairies' memories of Maleficent (the memory). Thats why when they saw the cloak they were all "We must remember her name" and stuff but failed and she popped right back up. KINGDOM HEARTS TIME TRAVEL EVERYBODY (I WISH FOR DEATH). the ancient darkness knew about all this and that maleficent had a waypoint into the future, because they managed to take a peek at the Master of Master's book some time ago, which allow them to conduct this plan.


With the Ancient Darkness and MAleficent out of the datascape, Maleficent took one of the real world arks and the darkness stood behind, where it was confronted by a returning Luxu carrying what it seems to be a body with him.


So, in order to keep count:

-Data Arks-
5 working pods
1 used
1 destroyed

-Real World Arks-
6 working pods
1 used

Back with the unconscious Lauriam, he dreams of a memory of him and his sister, which then is interrupted by...another strange version of Sterilitzia, wearing a white cloak. This shocks him and causes him to wake up and then still weak, shambles his way back to regroup with the others.

Ventus wakes up too, now remembering everything and rushing to meet the others as well. The rest of the leaders discuss what happened, coming to the conclusion that Ven did not do this intentionally, and was possessed by someone, but Lauriem arrives, overhearing everything and becoming angry that they had not told him his sister was murdered, just in time for ven to arrive and confess. Furious, Lauriam tries to attack Ven, who breaks down in anguish and, as part of this plan, makes the ancient darkness inside of him manifest out, revealing itself.

they tell them of their and their brethren intentions, to spread rage, expand and infect everything across the worlds, in order to survive and become stronger. As such, it decides to spread through the dataescape, with the intention to infect the data worlds of Game central station, as they hadn't been touched by darkness while also revealing a big secret: that the data world of daybreak town was going to self-destruct as part of the MoM's plan, to erradicate the darkness.

This is where we get a change of scene to Luxu and the MoM right before he departed. With the Master explaining his history to his apprentice:

- Light and darkness as a concept. Darkness as the ancient entity

-Master of master lived amongst the people before, and witnessed the events of the beings of light and the beings of darkness. Once mortal the beings of darkness shed their physical form to ascend into primal dark beings unable to killed. Able to eternally re-amass themselves and inhabit the hearts of those of light. The clash that resulted from that is what's marked as the first keyblade war. With time, because they sacrificed their mortal bodies, they ended up losing the ability of individual thought, becoming a sort of hivemind and losing themselves to just primal instinct; Their only method of losing themselves would be the inhabiting of other people's bodies. Out of these beings of darkness, only 13 remained with enough strength to retain their will, becoming powerful Ancient Darknesses.

From feeding into hearts and evolving by instinct, the ones outside of these 13 soon evolved and multiplied, becoming whatwould later be the pureblood heartless.

the MoM grew up witnessing this clash between the beings of light and darkness, losing many of the people close to him to the darkness and seeing them turn into twisted versions of themselves. As he grew, he devised a plan to finally put an end to it all

The master of masters reveals his reasoning behind manipulating the Foretellers: By training them to become strong of heart but seeping paranoia in them to brew negative emotions within them, they'd become the perfect bait for the Ancient Darkness; five vessels to catch 5 of the 13 of them. With their hearts filled with bad emotions, the ancient darkness would be lured into them to control them, but because their hearts were so strong, they wouldn't be able to get OUT of them, finally able to be dealt with for good. The Master also intended to use himself and Luxu to also trap 2 more Ancient Darkness inside of them, making it 7 trapped out of 13. The foretellers would go to war as intended and since the ancient darkness can't be destroyed without them having a physical form, it means that with the keyblade wielders and foretellers killing each other, they'd perish and take the dark beings with them. So basically "let me sacrifice my own kids and countless more to trap and kill these bastards for the greater good. You know, Prime-A hero material right there.

As for the remaining 6, that's where the second stage of his plan is revealed. While the data world the dandelions were in protected them from the damage of the keyblade war, it didn't protect them from the ancient darknesses to sneak in and attempt to sabotage everything. that was all in the design. The plan would be for the new appointed leaders to lure these darkness to them and then basically wipe the hard drive clean, erasing most of not all of the ancient darknesses for good.

Even Luxu was shocked and appalled by this act. To wipe so many innocent people for the sake of this conflict, but the Master convinced him this was for the best and assured him he did have a safety plan, probably a way to backup the data of everyone, as well as the ark plan: UNLIKE the foretellers, the new leaders were given the arks in order to travel out of the dataescape and then the other set to travel to the future and survive, so they can continue the keyblade legacy across the ages. With Luxu leaving with troubled thoughts, this was all in the plan too; As by doing so the Master was sure Luxu, Ava and the ancient darkness that would try and take a peek at the book would try and change what was written, only for the Master having taken that into accord and using the paradox nature of the prophecies to basically make everything that is suppose to happen happen without anyone realizing it. By Luxu wishing to alter some of the master's plan, he has defied his orders, making him into a "traitor", said traitor would be written in the book and the foretellers would misinterpret it as the traitor being one of them, leading into the keyblade war.

Back to the main union x cast, the ancient darkness explains that by having one of their bretherent escape with Malificent, they have solidified their future spread through the worlds, This one took possession of Ven because the book ofprophecies claimed he was a boy that could hold a great light and a great darkness inside of him in the future.the leaders try to fight it but are having a hard time until the player returns from game central station and helps them out against it.

They manage to win but as I said, the ancient darkness can't be destroyed in its etherial state and it just reforms. Ven wakes up to realize that, when the darkness possessed him, it absorbed all of his OWN internal darkness (the energy not the being) and so when it exited his body it left him as a heart of pure light: A perfect prison for the ancient darkness. He absorbed the ancient darkness into himself and then fell into a deep sleep, hoping that if he were to be destroyed after, it'd take the dark being with him.
 While unconscious, Lauriam visits him, apologizing for his outurst but also worrying on what they were going to do if the darkness still lived inside, questioning if they could go through it and actually kill a friend. Thats when another apparition of Sterilitza appears to him, the vision vanished when he is called by his friends and Elrena who tell her that they saw a figure that look like her sister, walking away with a guy in a black cloak. Luxu perhaps. Still unknown, some theorize he took some of Sterilitza's data into the real world, or perhaps there's something else. We don't know yet.

However we shift our attention to Luxu, back on the real world, carrying a body in a white cloak as he approaches the ancient darkness that escaped with maleficent. he ancient darkness was shocked since the book never said any of the master's apprentices survived right as Luxu placed the mysterious body inside another of the arks and send it to the future. Someone he calls "the True Dandelion" We don't know if it is steriletza or not, its still a mystery for future games.

That makes our counting:

-Data Arks-
5 working pods
1 used
1 destroyed


-Real World Arks-
5 remaining pods
2 used

The darkness is enrage as nothing in this fits the book. Luxu explaining that while he still believes his Master and will carry his mission, it's on his own to interpret his plan, which is probably WHY the master chose him to begin with. He put things together, noting only one of the ancient darkness is out there, another is fighting the others in the data world, and the rest were still trapped in the foretellers, the master and Luxu; Meaning 4 dark bein unacounted that must still be inside the simulation


We don't see what happens later when luxu rises his keyblade against the ancient darkness. We go back to see the union kids dealing with the fact the data world is starting to collapse. They arrive at the data ark room and see that there's only 5 usable pods remaining, They decide that 4 of the pods will be used by Lauriam, Elrena, the unconscious Ven and Brain, with the latter being trusted with finding a way to save all the dandelions from being erased completely. The player, Ephimer and Skuld will stay and keep the ancient darkness at bay in the meanwhile. Before he goes, Brain bequifs his keyblade to Ephimer: The Master Defender; The same Keyblade Eraqus held in BBS, as well as his copy of the book of prophecies.

With that 4 out of the 5 data pods are used. At the real world, Brain noticed they don't have a lot of time so he tells Lariam and Elrena to put themselves and Ven into the real world arks ad fling themselves to the future.

So we return to the counter:

Data Arks

1 pod remains

Real life arks
5 used
2 remain

as they are send away, Brain looks back and sees...Luxu. Luxu asks about the state of everything, then asks brain if he is gonna take one of the arks to the future. Brain says no; That he will find a way to send the arks INTO the data world to rescue ephimer, skuld AND the player and then send THEM to the future while he stays behind and researches a way to save everyone else in the data world. He doesn't want to leave anyone behind.

Luxu chastices him and teases him that that's not gonna happen. The data world was made so only a few would get out. All the remaining dandelions would be swept away alongside the ancient darkness inside as intended. He also explains to Brian the nature of the pods, which he didn't have all the info about, regarding the whole "needing a waypoint" bit. Oddly enough, unlike the maleficent situation, he says that one of the requirements is not a medium, but a vessel to posses. At what that means we don't know but sounds hella ominous.

Regardless Brian says that it doesn't matter, that he will take whatever long it takes to find a solution, which Luxu says: "that too bad this lifetime is the only one you got" before cutting to black.The outcome of what happens is left ambiguous except for something we see later.

Back with the player, ephimer and skuld. They are faced by the four remaining ancient darkness. Of course, it took like all of them to fight one of these dark being, fighting four of them would be a deathwish. the darkness beings bargain that they'll let them go if they used their keyblade to open the way to the other data worlds and allow them to infect them, and if they refuse, they'll just posses them anyways. Ephimer tells the player to take an ark and that he and skuld will sacrifice themselves to take them down, but then the player has another idea.

He fools everyone. Laying that the darkness didn't posse ven but him instead, he fights his friends and knocks them unconscious, fooling the ancient darknesses into thinking that's one of his homies. The player and the ancient darkness leave through an opened keyhole towards the data worlds, leaving ephimer and skuld to wake up and take the arks themselves.

The player reveals his second plan. As soon as they are crossing the cable towards game central station, a link between worlds, he reveals his ruse and uses his keyblade to seal both sides to the passage, leaving the player and the darkness trapped between data worlds, ready for erasure.

Meanwhle, Ephimer and Skuld arrived to the real world, assuming the rest had just taken the pods. not knowing all the stuff with the true dandelion, luxu and brain. All they can do is see outside to find the real daybreak town crumbling apart; the chaos of the keyblade war having left the one unified world crumbling to destruction. splitting apart and becoming what we would later know as the many separate worlds of the kh series.

As skuld and ephimer take the final two real arks into the future, not knowing what awaits them, ephimer can only think back on his friend, the player, and the happy memories they shared. The player meanwhile, reminising of the same, allows himself, the darkness and everything within the data daybreak town to be erased.

But remember baaack on Re:coded where I said that worlds of data, in a way, still behave similar to real worlds? Well, what did BBS, DDD and 0.2 taught us? that when worlds die, they fall to darkness, and when they fall to darkness they go into a deep sleep. That's whats happening to the player and all the remaining dandelions. They enter a deep sleep within the nothing ness. All the wielder's chirithies manifest and proceed to protect their users from losing their hearts to darkness. They absorb their wileders' hearts and allow them to contain them within, transforming them into the Dream Eaters we saw in Dream Dop Distance. Yen Sid did mention in 3d that dream eaters protect sleeping dreamers, so we basically witness this in the literal sense. yes, every single one of those spirit dream eatrs that helped us, even that stupid looking seal, was once a keyblade wielder! seal withing their chirithies and stay in those animal form until reawaken someday

The player's chirithy attempts to do the same but the player stops them, choosing to allow his heart to vanish and be reincarnated instead....

The player sees visions of the future. He sees a future life of him. In fact we get to know the player will live through two lifetimes, but that's a story yet to see. One of them however, is the one we see here. One of an old man receiving a white haired baby and taking it to a peaceful set of islands. The old man rising this white haired child and then passing away, as the young child leaves the island for something more...

As such, we reach the end of the union x story. Ephimer emerges from his ark to find himself in the ruins of of what was once his home, and so proceeds to rebuild. Skuld's fate is unknown. We see Maleficent's cloak carried by her raven, clearly indicating the events of her return in KH2, Lauriam and Elrena awake in whatseems to be dwaf woodlands, but their scenarios are more symbols of the future: He lies in a field of flowers and her under a raining thunderstorm, hinting at the certain somebodies...or rather nobodies that they'll eventually become.

We then see Ven, laying on the keyblade graveyard, which as we know from BBS, will then be found by master xehanort, putting the events of that game into motion.

We then see a shot of Luxu wandering through the desert, like we saw in Back Cover, but as he pulls down his hood we see.... Brain. As the master had told him, luxu would have to continue across the ages, keeping an eye on the no name keyblade to be passed on and on. And so, he had now possessed Brain's body to continue livingfurther. His first possessed body, in fact, as the man known as Luxu will hop from body to body across time, in order to carry his master's will...

But then we see Brain, our good boi Brin, waking up somewhere. Weird given his body was possessed, which further rises questions. He seems as confused as we are when he is met by a mysterious guy in a cloak, a different one from the typical black cloaks. His name is Sigurd and says he was waiting for his arrival. As he guides him through this mysterious city he presents him in front of a statue of the city founder: A statue of Ephimer, who continued on and carried the keyblade legacy into future generations.

There is one thing. What of the Master of Masters? Well there is one thing that i skipped. A conversation between him and one of the ancient darknesses. PErhaps the one he took with him and trapped.

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