Post by Havoc on Feb 18, 2007 16:38:38 GMT -5
Just a little help for those of you who might need to be reminded about basic Kingdom Hearts Terms, courtesy of Wikipedia.
Heartless are beings whose hearts were corrupted by darkness and without a body or a soul. They serve as most of the battles and challenges that the player must go through to complete the games. They come in a large variety of types, categorized by being Pureblood or Emblem. Emblem Heartless are artificially created and are labeled with a heart symbol. Pureblood Heartless are natural, inky black shadow creatures with bright yellow eyes. In contrast to the strongest Nobodies having human form, many of the stronger types of Heartless take on more monstrous forms. Though normally used by Xehanort's Heartless and the Disney villains under Maleficent, the Heartless usually obey those with the will to control them as Saïx of Organization XIII shows. The Heartless' method of entering worlds is to use the corridors of darkness, an unpredictable pathway that interlinks many worlds.
Nobodies are creatures without hearts. They are leftovers "born" in Twilight Town, existing as merely the body and soul of people who lost their hearts to darkness. As they lack hearts to possess light or darkness, they are shunned by both; they are nothing, according to the cosmology of the Kingdom Hearts universe, but still exist. Unlike Heartless, Nobodies attack people with definite planning and feel the need to be complete (finding and reuniting their bodies with their lost hearts, but they will do anything to obtain any heart in order to end their feelings of incompleteness). The members of Organization XIII, being the most powerful Nobodies because of the strong hearts they had when they were "whole," kept human form while weaker ones assumed malformed, inhuman forms that are able to alter their physical shapes via contortions and stretches. Most of the members of the Organization tend to control one type of Nobody, usually suited to their fighting style.
A keyblade is a large, key-shaped weapon wielded by several characters in the Kingdom Hearts series. No one knows much about these mysterious weapons, except that they have the ability to lock the doors to the hearts of worlds. The keyblade is rumored to choose it's own master, preferably someone who is pure of heart. However, there are many legends about the keyblade which revolve around that it can also be used as a tool of destruction should it fall into the wrong hands.
Keybearers are those that have the ability to wield a keyblade. So far, that consists of Riku, Sora, Kairi, and the three Chasers.
Organization XIII is a fictional group of thirteen Nobodies; Xemnas, Xigbar, Xaldin, Vexen, Lexaeus, Zexion, Saïx, Axel, Demyx, Luxord, Marluxia, Larxene, and Roxas. They sought to discover the mysteries that lie within the heart and use the power of Kingdom Hearts to become complete humans. As Nobodies, they lack emotion and morality, unable to feel guilt and remorse for their actions. Most members mask their true nature by pretending to have emotions, deceiving both themselves and those they meet.
The first six members of Organization XIII are Nobodies of the apprentices of Ansem the Wise, participating in his experiments with the heart. The assistants and Ansem built an underground facility in the Radiant Garden where they conducted experiments with the heart, using various test subjects. After speaking with the off-worlder, King Mickey, Ansem saw the immorality of what he was doing and ceased his involvement. The assistants and their leader, Xehanort, did not share his moral compunction and continued their experiments. This eventually led to tragedy and the creation of Nobody versions of the assistants. Xemnas, the Nobody of Xehanort, became the "Superior" and founded Organization XIII in order to learn about the secrets of the heart and to recover their hearts and become complete beings again. To that end, they deliberately send Heartless into various worlds with the expectation of Sora killing them, releasing the hearts inside the creatures, which then bond with Kingdom Hearts, the "heart of all worlds" located in the World That Never Was, granting more usable power for the Organization.
Heartless are beings whose hearts were corrupted by darkness and without a body or a soul. They serve as most of the battles and challenges that the player must go through to complete the games. They come in a large variety of types, categorized by being Pureblood or Emblem. Emblem Heartless are artificially created and are labeled with a heart symbol. Pureblood Heartless are natural, inky black shadow creatures with bright yellow eyes. In contrast to the strongest Nobodies having human form, many of the stronger types of Heartless take on more monstrous forms. Though normally used by Xehanort's Heartless and the Disney villains under Maleficent, the Heartless usually obey those with the will to control them as Saïx of Organization XIII shows. The Heartless' method of entering worlds is to use the corridors of darkness, an unpredictable pathway that interlinks many worlds.
Nobodies are creatures without hearts. They are leftovers "born" in Twilight Town, existing as merely the body and soul of people who lost their hearts to darkness. As they lack hearts to possess light or darkness, they are shunned by both; they are nothing, according to the cosmology of the Kingdom Hearts universe, but still exist. Unlike Heartless, Nobodies attack people with definite planning and feel the need to be complete (finding and reuniting their bodies with their lost hearts, but they will do anything to obtain any heart in order to end their feelings of incompleteness). The members of Organization XIII, being the most powerful Nobodies because of the strong hearts they had when they were "whole," kept human form while weaker ones assumed malformed, inhuman forms that are able to alter their physical shapes via contortions and stretches. Most of the members of the Organization tend to control one type of Nobody, usually suited to their fighting style.
A keyblade is a large, key-shaped weapon wielded by several characters in the Kingdom Hearts series. No one knows much about these mysterious weapons, except that they have the ability to lock the doors to the hearts of worlds. The keyblade is rumored to choose it's own master, preferably someone who is pure of heart. However, there are many legends about the keyblade which revolve around that it can also be used as a tool of destruction should it fall into the wrong hands.
Keybearers are those that have the ability to wield a keyblade. So far, that consists of Riku, Sora, Kairi, and the three Chasers.
Organization XIII is a fictional group of thirteen Nobodies; Xemnas, Xigbar, Xaldin, Vexen, Lexaeus, Zexion, Saïx, Axel, Demyx, Luxord, Marluxia, Larxene, and Roxas. They sought to discover the mysteries that lie within the heart and use the power of Kingdom Hearts to become complete humans. As Nobodies, they lack emotion and morality, unable to feel guilt and remorse for their actions. Most members mask their true nature by pretending to have emotions, deceiving both themselves and those they meet.
The first six members of Organization XIII are Nobodies of the apprentices of Ansem the Wise, participating in his experiments with the heart. The assistants and Ansem built an underground facility in the Radiant Garden where they conducted experiments with the heart, using various test subjects. After speaking with the off-worlder, King Mickey, Ansem saw the immorality of what he was doing and ceased his involvement. The assistants and their leader, Xehanort, did not share his moral compunction and continued their experiments. This eventually led to tragedy and the creation of Nobody versions of the assistants. Xemnas, the Nobody of Xehanort, became the "Superior" and founded Organization XIII in order to learn about the secrets of the heart and to recover their hearts and become complete beings again. To that end, they deliberately send Heartless into various worlds with the expectation of Sora killing them, releasing the hearts inside the creatures, which then bond with Kingdom Hearts, the "heart of all worlds" located in the World That Never Was, granting more usable power for the Organization.