The Kingdom Hearts franchise made a name for itself as an action RPG set in the wondrous
worlds of Disney, but it goes far deeper than this simple premise implies.
The franchise weaves one of the most convoluted tales in gaming history.
Kingdom Hearts χ started as a browser-only game in Japan, but it received a mobile port
under the name Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ.
Beginning more than 100 years before the events of the first Kingdom Hearts game, it tells
the story of the Master of Masters, a mysterious being who could see the future.
He has gathered six apprentices and given five of them copies of the Book of Prophecies.
The book predicts an impending Keyblade War that would destroy all light in the universe,
leaving darkness to prevail.
These five apprentices, called Foretellers, create their own armies of Keyblade wielders,
named Unions.
These Unions try to gather Lux , or fragments of light, to prepare for the looming darkness.
Meanwhile, the Master gives the sixth apprentice, Luxu, a lost page from the Book of Prophecies,
which reveals that the five Unions would turn on each other.
This event would set the Keyblade War in motion.
Luxu is tasked with manipulating the five other apprentices into doubting each other
in order to fulfill the prophecy.
Foreteller Ava and one of her warriors, Ephemer, learn about Luxu's intentions.
To prevent darkness from taking over, Ava sends Ephemer and many other children, called
the Dandelions, to the other worlds, hoping that their scattered light will keep the darkness
at bay.
Birth By Sleep takes place 10 years before the first Kingdom Hearts game and follows
Keyblade apprentices Ventus, Terra, and Aqua while introducing the franchise's main villain,
Xehanort.
Xehanort's goal is to forge the legendary X-blade, which is different from regular keyblades.
He wants to use the X-blade to unlock the door to Kingdom Hearts, which will hopefully
spark a new Keyblade War for Xehanort to watch.
To forge the X-blade, Xehanort needs a clash of light and dark at the Keyblade Graveyard,
the battleground of the legendary Keyblade War.
Four years before Birth by Sleep, he extracted all the darkness from the heart of Ventus,
who was apprenticing under him at the time.
This created a new entity, Vanitas, a dark replica of Ventus.
In a final battle at the Keyblade Graveyard, Ventus and Vanitas merge together, creating
a weak version of the X-blade that's destroyed in a battle with King Mickey and Aqua.
Meanwhile, Ventus fights Vanitas in his mind, vanquishing the darkness at the cost of fracturing
his heart.
To recover, Ventus' heart recuperates within the heart of Sora.
Before Ventus and Vanitas merge, Xehanort takes over Terra's body using the darkness
in Terra's heart.
Terra's mind, however, takes over his Keyblade Armor, which is able to defeat the Terra-Xehanort.
The Terra-Xehanort escapes, but slowly begins to lose his memories in the process.
Aqua enters the Realm of Darkness in order to save Terra-Xehanort's body, and the now-amnesiac
Terra-Xehanort eventually becomes an apprentice to a scientist called Ansem the Wise.
Terra-Xehanort later becomes evil, releasing his heart to create a Heartless confusingly
named Ansem, Seeker of Darkness.
Simple, right?
"There is so very much to learn.
You understand so little."
Kingdom Hearts introduces Sora, Riku, and Kairi as their home world is destroyed by
darkness.
Riku embraces the darkness, Sora lands in another world, and Kairi disappears entirely.
Sora soon meets Donald Duck and Goofy, who are looking for their missing friend, King
Mickey.
Mickey disappeared in order to find a way to combat the rise of shadowy creatures called
Heartless that have been invading various worlds.
Meanwhile, Maleficent is searching for the seven Princesses of Heart.
By gathering them, Maleficent hopes to unlock the Door to Darkness, where Kingdom Hearts,
the heart of all worlds, resides.
She convinces Riku to join her search, promising him they'll also find Kairi.
Eventually, Riku does find Kairi, but she is comatose without a heart.
Sora, Donald, and Goofy reach Maleficent's headquarters, where Riku, possessed by Ansem,
confronts them
Upon defeating Riku, Sora learns that Kairi is the last Princess of Heart.
Her comatose state comes from the fact that her heart is trapped within Sora's.
Using Riku's dark Keyblade, Sora frees Kairi's heart at the cost of releasing his own, turning
him into a Heartless.
The pure light of Kairi's heart, however, restores him.
Ansem uses that moment to travel to the End of the World, a place that lies between the
Realms of Light and Darkness.
Sora, Donald, and Goofy chase after the villain, who stands in front of the Door to Darkness.
Ansem opens the door in an attempt to embrace the darkness, but Kingdom Hearts attacks him
with pure light.
Sora, with the help of King Mickey and Riku, re-seal the Door to Darkness, but Riku and
King Mickey end up trapped on the other side of the door.
While searching for King Mickey and Riku, Sora. stumbles upon Castle Oblivion, one of
the headquarters of Organization XIII.
This evil group is made up of Nobodies, strong-willed people who retained their bodies and souls
after losing their hearts.
These Nobodies want to create their own Kingdom Hearts to reclaim the hearts that were once
theirs.
While travelling through the castle, the protagonists' memories get rearranged by a Nobody named
Naminé.
Namine was created when Kairi's heart was freed from Sora's body, but she doesn't have
the memories of either Kairi or Sora.
Sora defeats all the Organization members, and Naminé agrees to fix the protagonists'
memories, leading them to fall into deep sleeps.
Meanwhile, Riku escapes the Realm of Darkness with the help of Ansem the Wise, now named
DiZ.
Riku enters Castle Oblivion, where Organization XIII attempts to lull him back to the dark
side.
He fends them off with the help of King Mickey, but Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, still resides
somewhere in Riku's heart.
With the help of DiZ, Riku is able to defeat the darkness inside his heart.
However:
When Sora freed Kairi from his heart in Kingdom Hearts, he also freed his own, spawning yet
another Nobody named Roxas.
In 358/2 Days, Xemnas, the leader of Organization XIII, recruits Roxas, making him the 13th
member.
To obtain Kingdom Hearts, Xemnas sends Roxas on missions to eradicate Heartless.
While with Organization XIII, Roxas meets Axel and Xion.
Xion soon learns that she's a copy of Roxas, created by one of the Organization members.
Her existence is based on Sora's memories, which stops Naminé from fixing Sora's memories.
Xemnas convinces Xion to absorb Roxas and become whole, but Roxas defeats her.
Before she dies, she asks Roxas to set Kingdom Hearts free and ruin the Organization's plan.
However, shortly after, Roxas is attacked by Riku.
In order to win against the duel-wielding Roxas, Riku taps into the dark power within
him to win.
This causes Riku to take the form of Ansem, Seeker of Darkness.
Riku delivers Roxas to DiZ and Naminé, who wipe Roxas' memories and place him in a simulated
world.
Kingdom Hearts II begins with Roxas waking up in a simulated version of Twilight Town.
While doing part-time work, he is approached by some Nobodies, and he quickly unravels
the simulation around him.
Roxas discovers a mansion that houses a secret lab, where DiZ and Naminé are working on
Sora's memories.
They need Roxas to merge with Sora in order to restore his memories, and Roxas ultimately
agrees.
Sora, Donald, and Goofy awaken with no memories of their adventure in Castle Oblivion.
Fantasia sorcerer Yen Sid, who taught Mickey how to use the Keyblade, explains to Sora
that the Nobody army has begun attacking worlds alongside the Heartless.
These two armies are being used to harvest hearts for Organization XIII.
At the same time, Kairi is kidnapped by Axel, and the Organization keeps her hostage to
trap Sora.
Kairi tries escaping with the help of Naminé, but both get caught.
However, they're saved by Riku, who still looks like Ansem thanks to the events of 358/2
Days.
Sora eventually locates Ansem the Wise's study, where he learns that Ansem, Seeker of Darkness,
was actually Xehanort's Heartless.
Furthermore, he reaches the conclusion that Xehanort also had a Nobody, who he now knows
is Xemnas, leader of Organization XIII.
Sora travels to the World That Never Was, the home of Organization XIII.
While making his way through their lair, he runs into Riku, Kairi and DiZ.
By the end of the game, Kingdom Hearts has become massive.
DiZ uses a machine to convert Kingdom Hearts into data, rendering it harmless, but the
machine explodes, sending DiZ to the Realm of Darkness without his memories.
However, the explosion also restores Riku's appearance.
"Riku!"
"Wow!"
Riku teams up with Sora and together they're able to defeat Xemnas, the last Organization
member.
Sora, Riku, and Kairi return to live happily on Destiny Islands … until a mysterious
letter from Mickey arrives.
Coded begins with Jiminy Cricket attempts to find out what happened to his journal,
which was mysteriously wiped in Kingdom Hearts II.
While reviewing it, he stumbles upon a line he doesn't remember writing: "Their hurting
will be mended when you return to end it."
With the help of Donald, Goofy, and Mickey, the team converts Jiminy's Journal into data,
but it's full of bugs.
The journal also spawns a data version of Sora.
Mickey and Data-Sora work together to purge the journal of bugs in order to find out what
happened to it.
The journey brings Data-Sora to a climactic clash with a data version of Roxas.
Data-Roxas warns Data-Sora not to get consumed by the sadness of having forgotten people
who are important to him.
Upon defeating Data-Roxas, Data-Sora meets with Naminé, who reveals two important pieces
of information.
Firstly, she says that Sora is the "key that connects everything."
Secondly, the ones who are in torment, per the new line in Jiminy's Journal, are Terra,
Ventus, and Aqua.
King Mickey gathers this information and sends it to Sora, who is spending his time with
Kairi and Riku on Destiny Islands.
This is the letter that had mysteriously appeared at the end of Kingdom Hearts II.
Dream Drop Distance reveals that the deaths of Xemnas and Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, revived
Xehanort, who poses a new threat to the Realm of Light.
Yen Sid gathers Riku and Sora to put them through Mark of Mastery exams to make them
official Keyblade masters.
These exams send both Keyblade wielders to the dream worlds, or worlds that have been
destroyed by the Heartless.
During Sora's exam, he runs into Xemnas, Ansem, and a younger Xehanort from the past.
All three have time-traveled to capture Sora, meddling with his exam to put him in a coma.
They surround his heart in darkness, but Ventus' Keyblade Armor protects it.
Riku awakens and goes to save Sora.
When he arrives, the young Xehanort reveals that this timeline's Xehanort was revived,
and he has gathered 11 vessels, with Sora intended as the 13th.
These bodies will house parts of Xehanort's heart to become the new Organization XIII,
who will fight seven Keyblade wielders to create the new X-blade.
Sora is eventually saved by Riku with the help of Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and Lea —the
revived form of Axel who can now wield a Keyblade.
After bringing Sora's body to Yen Sid's tower, Riku frees Sora's heart from the Darkness.
When these events come to a close, Yen Sid declares that Riku is the only one who passed
the Mark of Mastery exam.
As for what happens next, you'll have to check out Kingdom Hearts 3.
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