pon14
03-30-2007, 10:11 PM
Hear is some info from The Kingdom Key
What We (they) know
Sora has to be the main character of Kingdom Hearts 3. Without Sora,
1) it's not Kingdom Hearts, seeing as creator Tetsuya Nomura said himself, "Kingdom Hearts is Sora's story.
2) Because the franchise would take serious financial losses, for the upsetting of many, many fans of the series. Unlike Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts is an on-going story and each title does not stand alone.
The 3 armored people in Sunset Horizons are new characters. They are not anyone we've seen before, including Sora, Riku, or Kairi. Nomura said so himself. However, they are related to people that were already in the game. This is not to say that they are related by blood. Also, this does not apply to the blurry figure on the horizon in the secret trailer, as far as we know.
The line from Sunset Horizons, "It all began with birth by sleep", does NOT apply to Roxas' creation. Yes, in the KHII intro, Roxas comes out of Sora's sleeping body. However, Roxas was not born then. He was created the exact second Sora turned into a Heartless during Kingdom Hearts I, which was well before Sora went to sleep.
The soul does not turn into a "Souless" when one goes Heartless. The Heart turns into a Heartless, and the body and soul remain behind, making a Nobody. So the soul is part of a Nobody.
The third icon that Roxas draws on the table in the Twilight Town Mansion is the Kingdom Crown, the crown that Sora wears around his neck. It's not some mystery symbol. You can see it clearly from the right angle.
Roxas and Namine are most likely not the "lost two". They are very much found, and now reside in Sora and Kairi respectively. Roxas's and Namine's roles in the KH story are pretty much over, and the slightest chance they would appear in KH3 would be for flashbacks. If, in an extreme scenario, they do appear, it would be to aid Sora and Kairi with whatever they need help with, but as it stands now, they are fused with original selves now and most likely will not appear anyway.
What they don't know
Whether Kairi has a keyblade or not. She used one given to her by Riku in Kingdom Hearts II, but does that mean she now has that as her own keyblade? We're not entirely sure. She may have been able to use it simply for that one battle, or she may be able to use it in the future.
The identity of the Knights. Some have speculated that they are the "Chasers", which was a quote from the secret trailer. A Chaser is defined as both "one who chases" or "one who engraves metal." This may mean these are the makers of the keyblade. Others believe these are the original keyblade wielders. Some think they are a new enemy group, such as the Heartless.
The meaning of the "crossroads" made out of keyblades, as seen in the secret trailer. It could be that they represent the paths of Light, Darkness, Twilight, and Dawn. It could be the same paths as seen in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. However, they could also be plain, ordinary dirt paths.
Whether or not Ansem the Wise is dead. His machine exploded, and wen the light cleared he was simply gone. He could have died, yes, but he could also have been digitized, or sent to another world. We don't know. However, when he did vanish, so did all of the remaining truths about his research of the heart. The Kingdom Hearts story has yet to be completed without this crucial information, and in order to search for the answers to his mysterious experiments, a likely scenario may be that Mickey searches for any known whereabouts of him.
Depending on how “lost” Ansem the Wise is, Mickey could very well endanger himself by searching for him, and may become as “lost” as well. (The Lost Two?)
In the Secret Ansem Reports, Ansem states he found a battered Xehanort at his door with shattered memories. Many have speculated how he could have arrived in that state, but the fact remains that he had no memories prior to meeting Ansem the Wise. Similarly, when Kairi arrived at Destiny Islands, she had no recollection of her past or where she came from either. We now know that she came from Hollow Bastion/Radiant Garden, but still, her and Xehanort’s pasts are cloudy. One could say that their forgotten past lives are “lost”. Similarly, how did Xehanort get his name? Did he retain that memory, or did Ansem think up this name for him? If Ansem did, what is the origin of such a name, one that is an anagram of X and "No Heart"?
Keyblades have a visible sentience or related force when choosing masters. Just how that sentience is present is the question. They could be like magnets to the strongest hearts, or have an inherent “ability” to decide who will wield them. It could be an instinctual ability, built-in program, or a conscious will to follow whoever has the strongest heart (some say a heart for each realm: light, dark, etc). Many on our forum believe the keyblades are tools created by those known as “chasers”, and function in a way to bring order to each of their respective realms (ie light/dark). With this purpose, the keyblades have the ability to choose whoever is most fit for that role. However, from the legend that states that some wielders bring peace while other bring chaos suggests that the keyblades don’t necessarily have a choice between who is good or evil; they just choose according to the strength of heart, biased as it may seem.
Twilight/Nightfall and Dawn. To this day, we don't know what these are, whether they're realms, or paths, or something completely different. Many believe they're realms, some believe they're just paths, connecting Light and Darkness. The paths in the secret trailer are also similarly inconclusive. They could be alluding back to the paths depicted in CoM, and they probably are, but nowhere does it say that this is actually the case.
What they think the story line is like
Long ago, before Sora’s story began, keyblades were more common than in the times depicted in Kingdom Hearts I + II. Though still rare, they were granted to many powerful people. But these people were very shortsighted, and didn’t see how their weapons could tip the scales in their struggles against each other. At this point, the original creators of the Keyblades came together once again, realizing that such a catastrophe as the massacre that would inevitably occur in the wars of these foolish Keyblade wielders. They came to be known as “Chasers”. They guarded the balance of the realms, both the Light and the Dark, for they were equal, and the realms themselves served no motive in actuality.
There was eventually a great Keyblade war between the realms, and so the Chasers stepped in to keep it from happening. This was done successfully, but there was one who opposed this. Not clad in the armor like the rest of them, he stood up against them, feeling that their keeping the balance was not objective, that they should leave the world as it was, and that the balance would keep itself. However, the more he revolted, the more he became emotional, easily influenced by belief, and goals. He no longer had the true ideals of the Chasers in mind. He fought three leaders of the Chasers, who easily overpowered him. They needed to do away with him, so they left him, nearly dead, and devoid of his memories, in Radiant Garden. They would wait for him to choose the right ideals, for he, like all Chasers, had no heart, in order not to be influenced.
But he didn’t choose the right ideals. He studied with Ansem the Wise, and became known as Xehanort. Xehanort became hungry for power, and he found that power in darkness. He then willingly gave up the heart he didn’t have for that power. He may have had no heart, but he was still complete in being. His body and soul were left as a Nobody, to be called Xemnas. The rest of him became a spirit, roaming the lands looking for a suitable body to inhabit. He was not “part” of the physical world, and therefore didn’t “exist”. But soon he found Riku, who was quite suitable for him to inhabit. He called himself Ansem, stealing the name from Ansem the Wise. Ansem was then able to return to the physical world, using Riku as his vessel.
This was only made possible by the fact that when the Chasers removed his memories, they had to implant them in his Keyblade, which would be returned to him once he returned, but that didn’t happen.
Sora dreams of the battle, and of Xehanort’s outrage against the Chasers. The next day, Sora, Riku, and Kairi receive a letter in the bottle from King Mickey, explaining the rise of a force that could spark a new Keyblade War. But things become confusing for Sora when he learns that these are not the forces of Darkness he is fighting, but the forces of Light. What’s worse is, the only way he knows to oppose them is by fighting to represent Darkness. Sora can’t accept working for them, so the Chasers contact him. They tell him that he doesn’t work for Darkness, but simply of his own devices to keep the balance of the Realms intact.
The Chasers then go on to decide that it is possible to remain objective and neutral even with a heart, as opposed to what they once believed. In light of this, Sora is inducted into the Chasers, in order to fight the forces of Light and restore balance to the Realms.
Note i wrote none of this it is all by They kingdom Key
What We (they) know
Sora has to be the main character of Kingdom Hearts 3. Without Sora,
1) it's not Kingdom Hearts, seeing as creator Tetsuya Nomura said himself, "Kingdom Hearts is Sora's story.
2) Because the franchise would take serious financial losses, for the upsetting of many, many fans of the series. Unlike Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts is an on-going story and each title does not stand alone.
The 3 armored people in Sunset Horizons are new characters. They are not anyone we've seen before, including Sora, Riku, or Kairi. Nomura said so himself. However, they are related to people that were already in the game. This is not to say that they are related by blood. Also, this does not apply to the blurry figure on the horizon in the secret trailer, as far as we know.
The line from Sunset Horizons, "It all began with birth by sleep", does NOT apply to Roxas' creation. Yes, in the KHII intro, Roxas comes out of Sora's sleeping body. However, Roxas was not born then. He was created the exact second Sora turned into a Heartless during Kingdom Hearts I, which was well before Sora went to sleep.
The soul does not turn into a "Souless" when one goes Heartless. The Heart turns into a Heartless, and the body and soul remain behind, making a Nobody. So the soul is part of a Nobody.
The third icon that Roxas draws on the table in the Twilight Town Mansion is the Kingdom Crown, the crown that Sora wears around his neck. It's not some mystery symbol. You can see it clearly from the right angle.
Roxas and Namine are most likely not the "lost two". They are very much found, and now reside in Sora and Kairi respectively. Roxas's and Namine's roles in the KH story are pretty much over, and the slightest chance they would appear in KH3 would be for flashbacks. If, in an extreme scenario, they do appear, it would be to aid Sora and Kairi with whatever they need help with, but as it stands now, they are fused with original selves now and most likely will not appear anyway.
What they don't know
Whether Kairi has a keyblade or not. She used one given to her by Riku in Kingdom Hearts II, but does that mean she now has that as her own keyblade? We're not entirely sure. She may have been able to use it simply for that one battle, or she may be able to use it in the future.
The identity of the Knights. Some have speculated that they are the "Chasers", which was a quote from the secret trailer. A Chaser is defined as both "one who chases" or "one who engraves metal." This may mean these are the makers of the keyblade. Others believe these are the original keyblade wielders. Some think they are a new enemy group, such as the Heartless.
The meaning of the "crossroads" made out of keyblades, as seen in the secret trailer. It could be that they represent the paths of Light, Darkness, Twilight, and Dawn. It could be the same paths as seen in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. However, they could also be plain, ordinary dirt paths.
Whether or not Ansem the Wise is dead. His machine exploded, and wen the light cleared he was simply gone. He could have died, yes, but he could also have been digitized, or sent to another world. We don't know. However, when he did vanish, so did all of the remaining truths about his research of the heart. The Kingdom Hearts story has yet to be completed without this crucial information, and in order to search for the answers to his mysterious experiments, a likely scenario may be that Mickey searches for any known whereabouts of him.
Depending on how “lost” Ansem the Wise is, Mickey could very well endanger himself by searching for him, and may become as “lost” as well. (The Lost Two?)
In the Secret Ansem Reports, Ansem states he found a battered Xehanort at his door with shattered memories. Many have speculated how he could have arrived in that state, but the fact remains that he had no memories prior to meeting Ansem the Wise. Similarly, when Kairi arrived at Destiny Islands, she had no recollection of her past or where she came from either. We now know that she came from Hollow Bastion/Radiant Garden, but still, her and Xehanort’s pasts are cloudy. One could say that their forgotten past lives are “lost”. Similarly, how did Xehanort get his name? Did he retain that memory, or did Ansem think up this name for him? If Ansem did, what is the origin of such a name, one that is an anagram of X and "No Heart"?
Keyblades have a visible sentience or related force when choosing masters. Just how that sentience is present is the question. They could be like magnets to the strongest hearts, or have an inherent “ability” to decide who will wield them. It could be an instinctual ability, built-in program, or a conscious will to follow whoever has the strongest heart (some say a heart for each realm: light, dark, etc). Many on our forum believe the keyblades are tools created by those known as “chasers”, and function in a way to bring order to each of their respective realms (ie light/dark). With this purpose, the keyblades have the ability to choose whoever is most fit for that role. However, from the legend that states that some wielders bring peace while other bring chaos suggests that the keyblades don’t necessarily have a choice between who is good or evil; they just choose according to the strength of heart, biased as it may seem.
Twilight/Nightfall and Dawn. To this day, we don't know what these are, whether they're realms, or paths, or something completely different. Many believe they're realms, some believe they're just paths, connecting Light and Darkness. The paths in the secret trailer are also similarly inconclusive. They could be alluding back to the paths depicted in CoM, and they probably are, but nowhere does it say that this is actually the case.
What they think the story line is like
Long ago, before Sora’s story began, keyblades were more common than in the times depicted in Kingdom Hearts I + II. Though still rare, they were granted to many powerful people. But these people were very shortsighted, and didn’t see how their weapons could tip the scales in their struggles against each other. At this point, the original creators of the Keyblades came together once again, realizing that such a catastrophe as the massacre that would inevitably occur in the wars of these foolish Keyblade wielders. They came to be known as “Chasers”. They guarded the balance of the realms, both the Light and the Dark, for they were equal, and the realms themselves served no motive in actuality.
There was eventually a great Keyblade war between the realms, and so the Chasers stepped in to keep it from happening. This was done successfully, but there was one who opposed this. Not clad in the armor like the rest of them, he stood up against them, feeling that their keeping the balance was not objective, that they should leave the world as it was, and that the balance would keep itself. However, the more he revolted, the more he became emotional, easily influenced by belief, and goals. He no longer had the true ideals of the Chasers in mind. He fought three leaders of the Chasers, who easily overpowered him. They needed to do away with him, so they left him, nearly dead, and devoid of his memories, in Radiant Garden. They would wait for him to choose the right ideals, for he, like all Chasers, had no heart, in order not to be influenced.
But he didn’t choose the right ideals. He studied with Ansem the Wise, and became known as Xehanort. Xehanort became hungry for power, and he found that power in darkness. He then willingly gave up the heart he didn’t have for that power. He may have had no heart, but he was still complete in being. His body and soul were left as a Nobody, to be called Xemnas. The rest of him became a spirit, roaming the lands looking for a suitable body to inhabit. He was not “part” of the physical world, and therefore didn’t “exist”. But soon he found Riku, who was quite suitable for him to inhabit. He called himself Ansem, stealing the name from Ansem the Wise. Ansem was then able to return to the physical world, using Riku as his vessel.
This was only made possible by the fact that when the Chasers removed his memories, they had to implant them in his Keyblade, which would be returned to him once he returned, but that didn’t happen.
Sora dreams of the battle, and of Xehanort’s outrage against the Chasers. The next day, Sora, Riku, and Kairi receive a letter in the bottle from King Mickey, explaining the rise of a force that could spark a new Keyblade War. But things become confusing for Sora when he learns that these are not the forces of Darkness he is fighting, but the forces of Light. What’s worse is, the only way he knows to oppose them is by fighting to represent Darkness. Sora can’t accept working for them, so the Chasers contact him. They tell him that he doesn’t work for Darkness, but simply of his own devices to keep the balance of the Realms intact.
The Chasers then go on to decide that it is possible to remain objective and neutral even with a heart, as opposed to what they once believed. In light of this, Sora is inducted into the Chasers, in order to fight the forces of Light and restore balance to the Realms.
Note i wrote none of this it is all by They kingdom Key