
This means that Darkness needs to infect others in order to carry out its will.

In the past, Darkness had a physical form understanding the fragility of that, Darkness shed this form. First introduced in UX and also briefly mentioned in Kingdom Hearts III, it seems the next story will begin to rotate around the relationship between the Master of Masters and Darkness. Now we're talking about Darkness with a capital D.
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Is Darkness the next antagonist for the series going forward?Īfter many years of Sora and his friends fighting the idea of humans taken over by darkness or the Heartless/Nobodies that were creations of darkness, there has been a development. What Questions Does This Bring Up About the Future of Kingdom Hearts? Where each of these portions of Darkness is in the present day is a completely different story though, and what the Master of Masters has been up to since Daybreak Town that has us most recently seeing him in the world of fiction, Quadratum, is another question for another day. One of these parts of darkness we've already met in the form of Vanitas this is how he was able to create the Unversed as beings of pure darkness. We know of those darknesses, there's one for the Master of Masters, six for the foretellers, five for the future Union Leaders, and one to get left behind in the past. It was the Master's plan to use the Keyblade Wars to create a group of strong Keyblade Wielders who could trap these pieces of darkness within themselves and be strong enough to keep them trapped. The Master of Masters was aware of the darkness and how it split itself into 13 different pieces when it lost its physical form once again the theme of 13 darknesses is brought up. The Arc Pods are also the reason that Lauriam and Elrena, who later become Marluxia and Larxene respectively, wind up in the present day. Ventus took his pod and wound up unconscious in the Keyblade Graveyard, where we know Master Xehanort picked him up and began trying to turn him into the X-Blade. In this finale, we finally saw Ventus take one of the Arc pods into the future to escape the impending doom. How did Ventus get from Daybreak Town in the past to the Keyblade Graveyard in time for Birth By Sleep?Įver since Kingdom Hearts X got rebranded as Kingdom Hearts Unchained X and the Keyblade War was rewritten, fans have been confused by the introduction of Ventus as a character. This also paves the way for Dream Eaters to be linked in Kingdom Hearts III, calling upon the Keyblade Wielders of old, and even more so when all of the Keyblade Wielders return to help Sora fight the Demon Tide. It's also sweet that this scene transitions to a sleeping Ventus smiling, as if he knows all of those people that he spent time with in Daybreak Town are now safe and happy. but it also makes some of the scenes a bit more heartwarming.Īfter Sora has been recovered from the darkness, he heads back into Traverse Town, where he greets all of the different Dream Eater friends-now with the added context that we know he's helped save the world all these tragic lives have been stuck in.

This brings up some pretty weird repercussions as it redefines a lot of that adventure as you're hanging out with the reincarnations of dead children. We see the Wielders slowly fading away and their Chirithy transform into Dream Eaters-that's right, the same Dream Eaters that we spend time raising and collecting in Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance are the Chirithy/Keyblade Wielders from the events of Kingdom Hearts UX.

While the player chooses not to sleep, a lot of the other Keyblade Wielders decide that they do want to sleep. Here's the really dark part of the story. What happened to all of the Chirithy that used to watch over the Keyblade Wielders?
