Forum:Plot Questions

I am a huge fan of the Kingdom Hearts series and want to keep up with the storyline in Dream Drop Distance. While I understood most of the game's story, there are a few questions I'm desperate to get answered. Any help would be much appreciated.


 * 1) 1. Master Xehanort claimed that both "Ansem's" (Xehanort's Heartless) and Xemnas's doings were all part of his next master plan to create the X-blade, with his heartless capturing the Princesses (7 lights) and his nobody preparing 13 darknesses. If this was true, than why did "Ansem" say Kairi had no further use after the final keyhole was opened, then continue his quest to obtain kingdom hearts through an entirely different method (opening the Door to Darkness.) Also, Xemnas did not give up his plan to create 13 darknesses even after it became impossible with the death of several in Castle Oblivion. In his last secret report in Days, he claimed his higher ambitions began with merging through his created kingdom hearts. If all he wanted to do was find 13 vessels for his heart to recieve and clash them with the Princesses, why did he create a kingdom hearts in the first place? Merging with it like he almost did in KH2 had nothing to do with the X-blade.

2. Does Master Xehanorts plan to clash with the "seven lights" to create the X-blade refer to 7 keyblade wielders or the Princesses of Heart? Or would either work?

3. Did Mickey ever know that Terra became Master Xehanort's new vessel until it was mentioned at the end of Dream Drop Distance?

4. When exactly did Sora and Riku escape the Realm of Sleep and return to the real world? Was the whole time you played with Sora in TWTNW in the real world, an illusion, or in the Realm of Sleep? I watched the cutscenes again and still wasn't sure. Same for Riku.

I know I'm taking the story really seriously, but I've been really interested in it. Until this game I knew every aspect of the story and now it seems like its all slipping away. Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.