Kingdom Hearts (series)/Timeline: Difference between revisions

|[[File:Missing Image.png|200px]]||One day, believing that the newborn [[Xehanort]] was the fabled "Child of Destiny", the blue cloaked figure takes him to [[Destiny Islands]] for safety, watching as Xehanort grows up. As Xehanort grows up, he starts having dreams of Player's adventures and their experience in the Keyblade War; these memories resided in the heart of his caretaker, who Xehanort formed a connection with due to the excptional strength of his heart. Eventually, the cloaked figure passes away, their task complete.||[[File:KHUCHI icon.png]]<br>[[File:KHDR icon.png]]

|[[File:Missing Image.png|200px]]||Master Odin sends a group of seven upperclassmen on a trip to other worlds to prepare for their [[Mark of Mastery Exam]]. On this journey, [[Hoder]], [[Heimdall]], [[Helgi]], and [[Sigrun]] meet an unfortunate end at Maleficent's hands.||[[File:KHDR icon.png]]

|[[File:Missing Image.png|200px]]||Master Oding informs Xehanort and his classmates of the seven upperclassmen's disappearance. The young wielders are tasked with finding their whereabouts. One of the group, [[Baldr]], remains behind, as his sister Hoder is one of the missing.||[[File:KHDR icon.png]]

|[[File:Missing Image.png|200px]]||Baldr learns of his sister's death, falling into a deep depression. Over the course of a week, his exceptionally sensative heart is overtaken by darkness. He emerges convinced that he must purge the light.||[[File:KHDR icon.png]]

|[[File:Missing Image.png|200px]]||While investigating [[Dwarf Woodlands]], [[Vor]] consults the [[Magic Mirror]] about her future, confirming her doubts about her current trajectory. As Xehanort, Eraqus, and Vor continue to search the world, the uppserclassman [[Vidar]] reveals himself. He offers Vor the opportunity to join him in completing some important task, and the two depart despite Eraqus's protests.||[[File:KHDR icon.png]]

|[[File:Missing Image.png|200px]]||After regrouping in Scala ad Caelum, Eraqus and [[Bragi]] leave in search of Vor, while Xehanort, [[Hermod]], and [[Urd]] decide to look for more answers in [[Beast's Castle]]. There, Urd encounters another one of the upperclassmen, [[Vala]], who offers Urd a chance to join their mission. Urd declines, and [[Vali]] returns the magic rose, which the upperclassmen had mysteriously stolen from the [[Beast]].||[[File:KHDR icon.png]]

|[[File:Missing Image.png|200px]]||Xehanort, Hermod, Urd, Eraqus, and Bragi reunite in Agrabah's [[Cave of Wonders]], all searching for the Magic Lamp. Upon reaching the artifact, Vidar and Vor appear. They explain that the upperclassmen were plotting to steal items that are central to each world's order, thus disrupting the order and forcing a pure light to emerge from the chaos.||[[File:KHDR icon.png]]

|[[File:Missing Image.png|200px]]||Xehanort and his peers return to Master Odin, who determines that the young wielders are not equipped to handle the sitation. Odin informs his pupils of {{c|Darkness|character|true darkness}}, the thirteen ancient formless Darknesses that pose a serious threat. He reveals that Vidar is gathering pure lights to summon [[Kingdom Hearts]], hoping to purge the worlds and, with them, true darkness.||[[File:KHDR icon.png]]

|[[File:Missing Image.png|200px]]||Baldr unexpectedly returns to his peers, explaining that he was tasked with learning more about darkness and relating his sister's fate. To help continue their investigation, he opens a gate to [[Olympus Coliseum]]. The wielders are split up in the [[Underworld]]: Xehanot and Eraqus make a deal with [[Hades]], Baldr and Bragi are left to fight [[Cerberus]], and Hermod and Urd try to regroup with the others. Hades summons the four felled upperclassmen's spirits from [[The Final World]], allowing Xehanort and Eraqus to learn more about what had transpired.||[[File:KHDR icon.png]]

|[[File:Missing Image.png|200px]]||Baldr, who had previously been hiding his darkness, turns his Keyblade on Bragi, but is quickly and decisively overpowerd. Deciding that Baldr is unfit to be a vessel, Bragi tells him that he is choosing to disappear forever. Bragi walks off, never to be seen by any of his classmates again.||[[File:KHDR icon.png]]

|[[File:Missing Image.png|200px]]||Xehanort, Eraqus, Hermod, and Urd are hurled into a [[Corridor of Darkness]]. Hermod and Urd try to resist but eventually succumb to the darkness, with Baldr delivering the finishing blow. Xehanort and Eraqus collapse, but they are found by Master Odin.||[[File:KHDR icon.png]]

|[[File:Missing Image.png|200px]]||Scala ad Caelum falls under attack from Baldr's darkness. As Master Odin rushes to defend the city, Xehanort and Eraqus encounter [[Vali, Vala, and Vidar]]. Upon learning that Vidar had known about Baldr's darkness, Eraqus becomes angered and clashes with the upperclassmen. Ultimately, the fight calms down, and all of the wielders race to the central tower to rescue Vor.||[[File:KHDR icon.png]]

|[[File:Missing Image.png|200px]]||Baldr reveals to Vor that he – or, his darkness – was responsible for the deaths of Hoder, Heimdall, Helgi, Sigrun, Bragi, Urd, and Hermod. A fight breaks out, and Vali, Vala, and Vidar manage to save Vor from one of Baldr's attacks. However, Vor and the upperclassmen are struck down when Baldr's darkness manifests as [[Hringhorn]], leaving only Xehanort and Eraqus left to stop him.||[[File:KHDR icon.png]]

|[[File:Missing Image.png|200px]]||Atop Scala ad Caelum's tower, Xehanort and Eraqus meet with Baldr for the final showdown. Baldr explains that he is purging thirteen lights – the seven upperclassmen and his six classmates – in order to summon Kingdom Hearts, and had indeed manipluated Vidar into persuing the same. Xehanort overpowers Hringhorn, and Hoder's spirit emerges from Xehanort to quell Baldr. Baldr claims that he and Xehanort are alike, and urges his former friend to seek answers in the darkness. In the end, Xehanort is forced to finish Baldr with Master Odin's assistance.||[[File:KHDR icon.png]]

|[[File:Missing Image.png|200px]]||One month later, Xehanort and Eraqus place flowers in the cemetery at Scala ad Caelum. Xehanort, Eraqus, and Master Odin have all been greatly affected by the events that had taken place. Odin plans to retire, so he wants the wielders to prepare for their Mark of Mastery exam. As the two friends leave the cemetery, [[Luxu]] appears behind them. He lifts his hood, revealing Bragi's face.||[[File:KHDR icon.png]]

|[[File:Missing Image.png|200px]]||One year after the upperclassmen incident, Xehanort embarks on a journey to other worlds in preparation for their Mark of Mastery exam. Xehanort meets the Master of Masters and is gifted a [[Black Coat]] which will shield him from darkness. In exchange, the Lost Master only wants Xehanort to look at the hearts of others and broaden his view of the world.||[[File:KHDR icon.png]]

|[[File:Missing Image.png|200px]]||Seven years after the incident, Xehanort leaves Scala ad Caelum for good. After much deliberation, he has come to the conclusion that [[Kingdom Hearts]] is the only way to protect the world. Eraqus opposes him, beliving Kingdom Hearts to be too drastic a measure. Sometime following Xehanort's departure, Eraqus begins his dutiful watch over the [[Land of Departure]].||[[File:KHDR icon.png]]

|[[File:Missing Image.png|200px]]||Xehanort continues his investigation of anicient mysteries, but even though 64 years have passed since the upperclassmen incident, Xehanort cannot let something from his childhood go. In his dreams, he had seen a group of friends. Desparate for answers, he consults the Magic Mirror, who reveals that those friends were indeed real people. One of then, Ventus, is even still alive, having just arrived in the Keyblade Graveyard from the past.||[[File:KHUCHI icon.png]]<br>[[File:KHDR icon.png]]

|[[File:Missing Image.png|200px]]||Xeahnort brings Ventus to the Land of Departure, where he meets Eraqus's pupils [[Terra]] and [[Aqua]]. Eraqus welcomes his old friend, willing to put their past behind them. Xehanort explains that he belives Ventus could be the prophesised Child of Destiny – as Xehanort stands too close to the darkness, it would be better for a true heir to light to train the boy. Their musings are inturrupted as Ventus lets out a scream, his injured heart not being able to withstand the new environment.||[[File:BBS icon.png]]<br>[[File:KHDR icon.png]]

|[[File:Missing Image.png|200px]]||On his way out of the Land of Departure, Xehanort speaks with Vanitas about the original thirteen Darknesses. Many of ancient entities are trapped within the Lost Masters or in a data world; one, however, was said to be disguised as an ally of light. Xehanort probes Vanitas, himself a dark being, about what he knows of these original Darknesses. Although Vanitas denies any relation, Xehanort remains convinced that he is a true Darkness that was lingering inside Ventus.||[[File:KHDR icon.png]]