Kingdom Hearts Lore Explained! (Origins Of Key Blades, Keyblade War, And More!) | The Leaderboard 

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daniel226 the real question is Why use children? Like use people Terra aged Keyblade users that would much more practical

Raul Philip Goco I thought it was because children have more pure light or whatever so they can’t succumb to darkness as easily

@@raulphilipgoco403 Gabe Naps The reason children were chosen was due to the Light in their Hearts being stronger then adults, while it's true adults can have strong Hearts filled with Light the children weren't really given much time to grow up since the Keyblade War started two years after the unions formed.

While no hard numbers are given it's safe to estimate the number being in the hundreds to thousands with up to over 10 MILLION if they use the Download numbers.

@@AngelOfChaos32 that makes a whole lot of sense now. Thanks for clearing that up

Yes. Way to the Dawn is basically Soul Eater but transformed into a Keyblade. Before that when it was Soul Eater it wasn’t a Keyblade.

@@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE Basically the Soul Eater was a 3rd of a keyblade, the incomplete form of Way to the Dawn!

Not keyblade tho and nobody can just unlock Hearts as you can see in Kingdom Hearts 3 it's an acquired skill said by cerithy in kh3 finnal battle trailer

Wait wait wait what? Where’s he get it then? How did it become a keyblade? :o I thought the universe gave him a keyblade to get out of the realm of darkness at the start of Re:COM Reverse?

@@tristanneal9552 DIZ got riku out of the relm of darkness and into castle oblivion

Agreed.

I agree they did an amazing job. But I think it's ok if people want to politely correct some errors and misconceptions.

The video is great, but there’s nothing wrong with extra information in the comments I think

I’ve watched like two videos of explaining the story about KH and it was roughly about 30-40 minutes but this one was actually really easy and simple to remember. And only in 15 minutes which is convenient.

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They missed some minior stuff but well you can tell it wass not half assed.

They skipped all of BBS though?

@@crome2021 I mean, wouldn't you?

*13 So says Nomura

Actually 4309 hours

That’s 358/2 Days + 13 hours

Icaruspotion 16 years, I was born the same year as KH 1

I can certainly hate Master Xehanort with a fiery passion.

People knew it wasn't Vanitas did the whole thing. He just brainwashed. Is it similar to Riku event? But with Ansem Sod?

Roxas?

@@kaizen2840 He was still in Sora's heart and was safe from Xehanort's darkness.

Dude I've played every game I just think they could have gotten a professional the RU-vidr HMK she did do a pretty good job just you you want to understand Kingdom Hearts better go watch HMK

I do, HMK is one of my favorite youtubers. But there’s nothing wrong with people who don’t understand the games talking about it. At least she actually explained it WELL.

Yeah people really don't understand that if you play the games it lays out the plot right in front of your face, as long as you remember the important plot points in each game it's pretty easy to know what's going on, it's a SERIES, it's supposed to have a lot of plot points that span over several years

No, dude, it is complicated because Nomura keeps adding stuff to it. I've played all the games and there are a few continuity errors. I understand the plot but its way too complicated for people to just "play all the games" and it'll make sense. I'm 26 I've played every single game, I have all the final mixes and I preordered kh3. Even then I had to take weeks and even months to wrap my head around this plot. I digress.... My main issue with KH was 0.2. I recall blank points cutscene where Aqua meets Ansem the Wise in the realm of darkness, and that is supposed to be about how she learned about Sora, this kid she met years ago out saving the world., she's surprised. However, when you play 0.2 Mickey tells her about Sora sooooo it kind of ruins Blank Points in my opinion. Why act surprised if Mickey already told you? "Let your heart be your guiding key." Yen sid never said that at all throughout the games. lol and to top it all off.....we have time traveling in this joint.

Then Riku and Mickey and Sora all got out of the realm of darkness but Aqua can't for some reason. Then Yen Sid forbid Mickey to tell Riku or Sora about it so they couldn't rescue her. Even though they are going to need all the help they can get for the new keyblade war.

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It was tough for us to explain to ourselves! Glad it helped you!

Soul Eater did not evolved into Way to the Dawn. They are to different weapons that look alike. A sword cannot evolve into a Keyblade. Riku summons Soul Eater on numerous occasions in Dream Drop Distance.

AnimeShitlord THANK YOU! I don’t know why this bothered me but I’m glad that someone else in the comments realizes that we’ve seen like 5 different versions of Kingdom Hearts.

Ansem's line on having sacrificed children in the name of his research is part of the reason I'm slightly leaning towards a theory of him being the Master of Master, but it isn't really that fleshed out much (though they do have some similarities). The children would have been those who died during the Keyblade War. The other children that I was thinking of is like you said in your comment: humans that were turned into emblem heartless. Though, you are definitely reminding me that I wanted to read the Ansem Reports in their entirety before KH3's release.

I don’t know about that. However, I wouldn’t put the possibility aside that he could be one of the Foretellers. Such as Ira or even Gula. If not that, then at least someone from the era of the Keyblade war. Because remember, in KH2 Ansem forbade Xehanort from continuing their reasearch. And he specifically says: “I forbid it! Forgot about this talk about that doors it the heart of all worlds. *That place Must not be defiled*.” Ansem says it like he knows what might happen if Kingdom Hearts is opened. And if he knows that, I wouldn’t put the possibility aside that he saw what it actually was back in the Keyblade war days. Maybe he’s actually Ephemer then? Ephemer did technically feel uneasy after what Ava told him. Of course this is just a theory so keep that in mind.

@@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE I think Master Xehanort himself might be someone from before the Keyblade War, remember this line from BBS: "I swore I would survive, and be there to see what awaited beyond the Keyblade War!", he would have been born after the Keyblade War, so I think the Master of Masters might have some influence on Xehanort's plans.

@daniel I thought that too. I even have a whole theory going on in my head that Xehanort is actually Luxu. Because remember, the MoM tasked Luxu by passing down his Keyblade to his apprentices and then him to his. But what if he didn’t necessarily do that? What if trained his apprentices as he was tasked, but decided to posses them and take their bodies as his own? Just like how Xehanort possesed Terra and Riku. And if my theory is right, I believe that the first apprentice is Ephemer. It’s this means that Xehanort is actually Ephemer being posssed by Luxu. Although at the same time, we do have to remember that Xehanort was trying to enact a Keyblade war during BBS. He could have said that line because he said he wanted to survive the Keyblade war that “was to come”. Not the one that already happened. So this whole thing about him being alive hundreds of years ago could be wrong.

@@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE you just got me thinking, but the Japanese story update for KHuX had Xehanort right? Wouldn't that mean he existed somewhere at that point in time because he was able to go back and warn Maleficent? He must have been someone. :/ Although, I really hope not Ephamer, I love that character too much. xD Anyways, we probably don't /really/ know how old Xehanort is, since we don't know how often he has been to the realm of darkness. So it isn't hard to believe that he could have been from the age of fairytales, especially if he is popping up back in time like that. That would also explain his connection to Ven and why he chose Marluxia and Larxene for vessels.

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Just a pancake reference?

Hold on. How come you have 13 likes. Hmmm.

What a meme

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It’s my favorite video game franchise. :)

Norted DetectiveBobbyFulbright TheSpiritofJUSTICE Awesome! 😄😁👍

Not to mention the game engine switch basically made them restart all their progress and they also had to get used to the new engine. So the game that is currently about to be released was probably first worked on in 2014 or 2015

Even tho they still got a few things wrong but they did a good job otherwise

To be honest the best way (if you cannot play the games) is to binge watch an LP of every game

@@artofthepossible7329 I'm halfway through Birth by Sleep...at least I think i'm halfway through it there's like three scenario's and I've lost track of where i am with them, and I believe I've nearly finished KH:2 I'm in the Land that Never Was. I was trying to play them in chronological order but I've basically been jumping from game to game so I've played bits and pieces here and there, tbh I'm really struggling with the gameplay as Kingdom Hearts is the only JRPG I've ever played and it's mechanics are not easy to wrap my head around. So while I am trying to catch up i'm mostly relying on RU-vid to get up to date, i'm enjoying every minute of it though.

@natbat Keep in mind that there are 2 more scenarios in bbs to play through. That being the Final Episode and the Secret Episode. You just need to obtain all of the Xehanort reports to unlock it. And just to point out, one of those is within Terra’s mirage Arena. After you complete the final episode, you should be able to unlock the secret. However, it’s very difficult to unlock the secret Episode if your playing on standard or below. So if your on one of those difficulties, I highly recommend just watching the cutscenes online. Trust me, the stuff in the Secret Episode is worth it.

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Would you mind clarifying the parts of the video that were incorrect here?

@@XavierZara Uhh, its pretty minor stuff, but here's a few of the more obvious ones to me. Soul eater (riku's blade in kh1) was not actually a keyblade, although it later turned into a keyblade called "Way to the Dawn". Its basically like what the organization members use for weapons, their still magical, but their not a keyblade. No one knows who actually summoned kingdom hearts, it may have been Gula but it hasn't been confirmed. He was just the first person to say he was going to try and summon it, which led to all the other fortellers also trying to gather power(in the form of light gathered from killing heartless) to summon Kingdom hearts themselves, for their own goals. This leads to the war, as now other keyblade wielders from other factions have the light, and by beating them you stop them from collecting more and you can steal it for your own faction. Thus the light collected from the heartless is slowly concentrated as you slay more people and fewer wielders remain, until Kingdom hearts can finally be summoned. The princesses of hearts shown in the video are likely not princesses of heart anymore, as a recent trailer showed us that the bad guys were searching for the "New" princesses of heart. There are actually 3 kingdom hearts, (however we never get to physically see the 3rd one, but we do see its shadow at the end of Kingdom hearts through the door to darkness) There's the one made from the heart of worlds from Kingdom hearts 1, the one made from the heart of men from Kingdom hearts 2, and the true kingdom hearts, which is made up of all hearts, not just the worlds, or men's which appears in Birth by Sleep and Back Cover. oh and we know more of the True seekers of darkness then this video showed, but I guess that could be in spoiler territory depending on weather you want to go into Kh3 having seen the trailers or not.

There are only 2 wars, and only really one that matters. It took me a long time to really understand the course of events 1. The end of KH3 is not a keyblade war, but a clash between light and darkness. 2. There was a (presumably unseen) keyblade war that took place during the MoM's childhood, supposedly where he lost all of his original allies (we know nothing about this war at all) 3. There is no keyblade war during KHUX despite being a recreation of the events of kingdom hearts X (chi) Basically, the events of X happen which end in the keyblade war. This is officially when the foretellers split up and when Luxu absconds into the future with the Gazing Eye and the black box. The other foretellers all 'die' in the keyblade war (It is more likely that the war somehow sends them into the future to the end of kh3) Then immediately after X happens, UX happens, which is a data-recreation of the entire events of X, so the foretellers are suddenly back in the past and leading unions again. This persists up until the period where the keyblade war would've occurred, except that it doesn't, and the data foretellers still disappear along with MoM and Luxu. The events after the keyblade war in the data recreation of X's daybreak town are the events of KHUX, with Ephemer leading the new unions and eventually sending themselves into the future using the life-boats. Luxu is prophecized to have given his keyblade to his first apprentice 'during the chaos' which is presumably the keyblade war that occurred in reality before the data recreation.

It’s not that complicated. It’s just not good to explain it all in 14 minutes lol.

Norted DetectiveBobbyFulbright TheSpiritofJUSTICE I have to disagree, I used to read the whole Wiki for days just to correct a few things, and as I just said, it took me days, weeks even. I barely watched the vid, to be honest, so I am in no position to say if it is made well, hopefully it is.

@@airfords1503 from how short this is it's clear that they would miss out on a lot

Kh lore is actually pretty easy to understand since it's straight forward if you played the game... You could honestly mostly watch only cutscenes and you would be fine kh 3d and re:coded where the Titels that made it weird to follow with the data world and time travel

@@mondaiji679 it's not about if it's easy to understand or not its just that 15 minutes is not much time to explain it even in a summary

He’s obviously very much alive lol. My theory is that the Master of Masters is actually just a heart in a sack. Very similar to how Ansem was when he had the brown robe back in KH1. Now, he did this because his body is actually being held captive. Specifically, I believe he is trapped inside Kingdom Hearts itself. This is why he caused the Keyblade war and gave Luxu the no name Keyblade. He intended to have a catastrophic event fall into the pages of history and which later a young man named Xehanort would become obsessed with. Xehanort beleives opening kingdom hearts will grant him the power to make the world a better place. But what if that’s not what Kingdom Hearts is? Instead, it is just a prison where the MoM is being kept. And MoM wants Xehanort to release him.

@@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE ok thats genius and very american movieish at the same time

Norted DetectiveBobbyFulbright TheSpiritofJUSTICE can you explain how he got his eye down to daybreak town to put into No Name?

@diddy it was never stated how. Just that it “was”.

@@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE you must watch naruto cause that sounds like a straight up kaguya move

a lot of incorrect info...

At least it's not as bad as IGN

End of Pain from DDD, Darknaw and Chaos Ripper from BbS.

Riku never had a keyblade in the first one, if you're talking about Soul Eater it wasn't a keyblade.

Well keyblades are forged as imitations, and since thats one of the first keyblades created, it's probably fair to presume that people copied the gazing eye from it into later keyblade designs.

Can someone explain why back in the day during the keyblade war, everyone had a keyblade. But in the future there is only a few keyblades and you are considered special for having one. Is the kingdom key and kingdom key D more special than the others? They weren’t forged like the rest? They were already made from the beginning?

Yet we somehow condensed most of the lore into 14 minutes and 39 seconds.

they didn't D: well i know what i'm not watching

@King Swirl 👑 it doesn't free the hearts trapped in darkness it just send them back to darkness it also lacks the unlocking ability, it does turn into a keyblade during kh2 once riku fully balances light and dark abilities. You can think of it as half a keyblade.

@@zaster101 also its more like the oganization member wapeon yhey are magical device ho are powered by magic like a keyblade, but lacks the bonkers power of a real keyblade, basicaly they are keyblade proxyes

It’s my favorite story in media honestly. Even if it is a bit confusing at times.

@@BobbyTheGamerOfJUSTICE At least the soundtrack is Godlike.

Ventus never became roxas? Roxas only looks like ventus because ventus’ heart is inside of sora. So he’s Sora’s nobody but took on the appearance of ventus. This definitely should’ve been mentioned though since it’s a major part of the story

Lol. Sadly, this is true....

and this is a great sum up video for kh series actually