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'''Xehanort's Report''' is a multi-page report written by [[Master Xehanort]], whose pages are scattered throughout the worlds of ''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep]]''. Every report in the game must be collected before the player can unlock the [[Final Episode]], though each page can only be obtained by a specific character. Like [[Ansem's Reports]], the full text of Xehanort's Report is listed within the hero's journal.

::<small>Ventus obtains Xehanort's Letter after leaving the [[Land of Departure]].</small>

:''Please accept my deepest gratitude for the invitation to witness your pupils' accession to the office of true Keyblade Master. It was a heavy mantle our Master placed upon your shoulders naming you Successor, but you have nonetheless persevered and raised two Masters yourself. I know it cannot be easy.''

:''Take care. I eagerly await our long overdue reunion.''

::<small>Ventus obtains Xehanort's Report I from a chest on the [[Deep Space#Launch Deck|Launch Deck]] at [[Deep Space]].</small>

:''Much time has passed since I left the home of my youth behind, and in the myriad worlds I have visited, I have gained much knowledge. On these pages, I intend to record a portion of that knowledge, and put the course of my life to paper.''

:''But was that the TRUE answer? Could there not be more to it than that? My heart sought knowledge, and so I sometimes visited other worlds—though such travel was forbidden unless duty required—and found what my heart sought.''

:''Our Master instructed us to don armor while traveling between worlds, so that we might shield ourselves from the darkness. But there, in the Lanes Between, I could feel the force of it—the power—and from then on, I forwent my armor's "protection." I had been told the darkness would devour me, but what terrors could it possibly hold, so long as I found the strength to control it?''

:''The World is vast—and the worlds within the greater World, uncountable. Like little islands, they dot a great Ocean Between which keeps them ignorant of each other, uncorrupted.''

:''Each world had its own order. Unlike us, they could not know of the World in its entirety, and we were never to enlighten them.''

::<small>Aqua obtains Xehanort's Report III from a chest in [[Radiant Garden#Merlin's House|Merlin's House]] at [[Radiant Garden]].</small>

:''In ancient times, no such buffers kept the larger World divided; there were no walls of light enclosing each smaller world the way they do today. Nothing prevented one from physically interfering with the next.''

:''Kingdom Hearts could be described as an aggregate of hearts. Worlds, too, have hearts, just like people; each world's heart is concealed from sight, beyond a hidden door. By gathering all the hearts of all the worlds in a single place, one may complete Kingdom Hearts.''

::<small>Aqua obtains Xehanort's Report IV after speaking with [[Yen Sid]] at the [[Mysterious Tower]].</small>

:''And when Kingdom Hearts is complete, it is said the one who opens its door will bring about the creation of the Next World. Such a feat is above any human. Or, to put it a different way: whoever opens that door will be reborn as something far greater than human.''

:''Some time later, the little light that remained in the hearts of the few gave rise to the World we know today: one made of many worlds behind just as many walls, so that the Keyblade War would not be repeated.''

::<small>Terra obtains Xehanort's Report V after completing [[Sinister Sentinel]] at the [[Mirage Arena]].</small>

:''At present, the lanes and corridors that run between the worlds may only be traversed by us Keyblade wielders, and those who have given themselves over to darkness.''

:''Now, in addition to the realm of light in which we reside, there is also a realm of darkness, and the realm between which connects the two. The realm of darkness is most forbidden; I am told none who set foot there have ever returned.''

:''There are three families of Keyblades: the Keyblades of light we wield, Keyblades of darkness, and Keyblades of heart.''

:''The first and second families differ only in origin; Keyblades of darkness are found in the realm of darkness, and are counterparts to the Keyblades we use in the realm of light.''

:''And, as stated before, opening this door arguably gives that person control over all worlds and all people.''

::<small>Aqua obtains Xehanort's Report VII after defeating [[Ventus-Vanitas]] at [[Keyblade Graveyard]].</small>

:''I have uncovered the Keyblade's ultimate mystery. You see, besides the three families of Keyblades, there is another "Key Blade." While it may sound the same when spoken, it is notated uniquely: "χ-blade." And make no mistake, while it resembles a normal Keyblade, it is something altogether different.''

:''If so, the walls that divide the worlds today are of little consequence. With the χ-blade, all their hearts could be instantly reunited--and the Keyblade War, refought.''

:''My brother pupil Eraqus thinks only in absolutes. He has persuaded himself that light is the only way, but forgets that light cannot exist without shadow. I believe a balance of light and darkness is what sustains our World, but too much of the darkness has been stamped out, disrupting that balance. Someone must tear down this tyranny of light and reorganize the World around the darkness which then creeps back in.''

:''Eraqus and I did not see eye to eye. I left, and wandered the World. This was perhaps the first time I felt truly free since that day I departed my boyhood home. But free to do what? I had already shown the Mark and become a Keyblade Master—but having been passed over as a Successor, all that remained to me was the road of teacher.''

:''Ordinarily, Keyblade Masters take pupils under their wings, malleable minds in which to impress the precepts of the Keyblade wielder and keep our profession alive for generations to come. Was my time drawing to an end, then, after all I had accomplished since casting away the place of my birth? Surely waiting for a quiet death would not do, not when there was still so much I needed to see for myself. Powers help me, I thought, my body is so old...''

::<small>Ventus obtains Xehanort's Report IX after leaving [[Destiny Islands]].</small>

:''We Keyblade Masters have a special gift. We can extract a heart, be it our own or that of another. By continuing this cycle, it is possible to remain in the world of the living forever.''

:''I would remove the darkness from his heart and split him in two. Then I would have my heart of pure light, and my heart of pure darkness.''

:''As was to be expected, Ventus lacked the constitution for such an ordeal. I was able to remove the darkness inside him and create Vanitas, a heart of pure darkness, but Ventus drifted into the clutches of sleep.''

:''Ventus' heart of pure light and Vanitas's heart of pure darkness...If both could be made strong enough to one day clash, I know the χ-blade would be forged.''

:''My legs took me there unbidden, and as I stood there on the same beach where I had made my choice so many years ago, I thought: not a single thing has changed. Here, in this quiet world, time marches in place. Content that Ventus would find peace here, I started to walk away—but just then, the boy held up his Keyblade. The light within him had not died.''

::<small>Terra obtains Xehanort's Report XI after defeating [[Terra-Xehanort]] at the [[Keyblade Graveyard]].</small>

:''Ventus and Vanitas were not matched in power; I could not train them, or Vanitas's darkness would gnaw away what little Ventus had left.''

:''I had found my vessel.''

::<small>Ventus obtains Xehanort's Report XII from a chest in the [[Keyblade Graveyard#Seat of War|Seat of War]] at the [[Keyblade Graveyard]].</small>

:''The time has come. I have received word from Eraqus that his pupils are to become true Keyblade Masters. Terra and Aqua...They will be easy now to lure into the outside world. But Ventus! I will get nowhere without him.''