Rumors/ information concerning KH3 and the related

After typing that huge title I think you get the point, This is where I will post information That I have created and that I know of, THese are mainly rumors, and what has been confirmed, so hope you enjoy.


As much as Kingdom Hearts creator Tetsuya Nomura has on his plate at the moment, what with Final Fantasy XIII and Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+, he has confirmed work for Kingdom Hearts III. Much like Kingdom Hearts II, Kingdom Hearts III's first look can be found in the secret trailer at the end of Kingdom Hearts II.

This form of teaser trailer was used in "Another Side, Another Story" and "Deep Dive". Two trailers secretly found in Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix which hinted at Kingdom Hearts II and eventually, we learned that it was a teaser to the backstory of Kingdom Hearts II. This secret trailer can be found by completing certain tasks within the game. On the hardest difficulty, you just need to beat it. That's reward enough, apparently.

What Happened in the Secret Trailer ::.


The secret trailer begins with views of a barren wasteland, with text scrolling across the screen (quotes from Ansem Reports 8 and 9). Ansem Report 8 talks about Xehanort's machine that creates Heartless, while 9 has a line that may hold great significance to the trailer. The line reads "The Keyblade is said to hold phenomenal power. One legend says its wielder saved the world, while another says that he wrought chaos and ruin upon it."

The trailer then brings us to a deserty plain with dark clouds over head. A heavily armored soldier is standing by a great beast that has been slain, which quickly erupts into dust and then nothing. This first soldier has chrome armor with a helmet that has rabbit-like earpieces. He wears a cape and holds a giant keyblade over his shoulder which is of an unfamiliar design.

Three soldiers.
To his right, another armoured figure walks towards him, also dawning a cape. This character has ear-pieces that shoot backwards, rather than up. The tinted eyepiece is the same as the first soldier, the eyes are unseen. This second charater has larger forearm armour and is relatively thinner. He is not carrying a weapon.

To the first soldier's left is a third character. Much like the first soldier in appearance but there is something about this third soldier that looks feminine. The walk or the figure makes this last character have a female touch. This character is carrying a keyblade as well.

The characters moves towards the keyblades as the structure behind turns to dust.
As the three are close together, the first soldier moves towards three keyblades sticking out of the sand. The first keyblade in the line is Mickey's Keyblade, then there is The Kingdom Key, followed by Riku's Road To Dawn Keyblade. When the soldier moves closer to them, the ruin he was standing on vanishes into dust. The soldiers pick up the keyblades, the two with the pointed "ears" weild two blades each, the one with "ears" pointing back picks up the Kingdom Key and is holding another Keyblade.

There is a quick pan outwards and it is revealed that there are hundreds upon hundreds of keyblades sticking out of the ground. There are four pathes carved out, resembling a perpendicular crossroads of sorts.

Suddenly, there is a distant rumble, almost like an explosion. The three look into the distance and through the haze of the heat, an outline can be seen of a figure. Then the following captions show up on screen:

"It all begins with birth by sleep."
"Master of Keyblade"
"The Lost Two"
"Memory of Xehanort"
"Chasers"
"Keyblade War"
"It all began with... birth by sleep."


What We Know for Sure::.


A list of facts, based on speculations and theories from our forums, and how we know them to be true.

* Sora has to be the main character of Kingdom Hearts 3. Without Sora,
* 1) it's not Kingdom Hearts, seeing as creator Tetsuya Nomura said himself, "Kingdom Hearts is Sora's story.
* 2) Because the franchise would take serious financial losses, for the upsetting of many, many fans of the series. Unlike Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts is an on-going story and each title does not stand alone.
* The 3 armored people in Sunset Horizons are new characters. They are not anyone we've seen before, including Sora, Riku, or Kairi. Nomura said so himself. However, they are related to people that were already in the game. This is not to say that they are related by blood. Also, this does not apply to the blurry figure on the horizon in the secret trailer, as far as we know.
* The line from Sunset Horizons, "It all began with birth by sleep", does NOT apply to Roxas' creation. Yes, in the KHII intro, Roxas comes out of Sora's sleeping body. However, Roxas was not born then. He was created the exact second Sora turned into a Heartless during Kingdom Hearts I, which was well before Sora went to sleep.
* The soul does not turn into a "Souless" when one goes Heartless. The Heart turns into a Heartless, and the body and soul remain behind, making a Nobody. So the soul is part of a Nobody.
* The third icon that Roxas draws on the table in the Twilight Town Mansion is the Kingdom Crown, the crown that Sora wears around his neck. It's not some mystery symbol. You can see it clearly from the right angle.
* Roxas and Namine are most likely not the "lost two". They are very much found, and now reside in Sora and Kairi respectively. Roxas's and Namine's roles in the KH story are pretty much over, and the slightest chance they would appear in KH3 would be for flashbacks. If, in an extreme scenario, they do appear, it would be to aid Sora and Kairi with whatever they need help with, but as it stands now, they are fused with original selves now and most likely will not appear anyway.



Things We're Not Sure About::


A few notable things of MANY that we don't know for sure. Just keep these in mind as you make your own theories.

* Whether Kairi has a keyblade or not. She used one given to her by Riku in Kingdom Hearts II, but does that mean she now has that as her own keyblade? We're not entirely sure. She may have been able to use it simply for that one battle, or she may be able to use it in the future.
* The identity of the Knights. Some have speculated that they are the "Chasers", which was a quote from the secret trailer. A Chaser is defined as both "one who chases" or "one who engraves metal." This may mean these are the makers of the keyblade. Others believe these are the original keyblade wielders. Some think they are a new enemy group, such as the Heartless.
* The meaning of the "crossroads" made out of keyblades, as seen in the secret trailer. It could be that they represent the paths of Light, Darkness, Twilight, and Dawn. It could be the same paths as seen in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. However, they could also be plain, ordinary dirt paths.
* Whether or not Ansem the Wise is dead. His machine exploded, and wen the light cleared he was simply gone. He could have died, yes, but he could also have been digitized, or sent to another world. We don't know. However, when he did vanish, so did all of the remaining truths about his research of the heart. The Kingdom Hearts story has yet to be completed without this crucial information, and in order to search for the answers to his mysterious experiments, a likely scenario may be that Mickey searches for any known whereabouts of him. Depending on how “lost” Ansem the Wise is, Mickey could very well endanger himself by searching for him, and may become as “lost” as well. (The Lost Two?)
* In the Secret Ansem Reports, Ansem states he found a battered Xehanort at his door with shattered memories. Many have speculated how he could have arrived in that state, but the fact remains that he had no memories prior to meeting Ansem the Wise. Similarly, when Kairi arrived at Destiny Islands, she had no recollection of her past or where she came from either. We now know that she came from Hollow Bastion/Radiant Garden, but still, her and Xehanort’s pasts are cloudy. One could say that their forgotten past lives are “lost”. Similarly, how did Xehanort get his name? Did he retain that memory, or did Ansem think up this name for him? If Ansem did, what is the origin of such a name, one that is an anagram of X and "No Heart"?
* Keyblades have a visible sentience or related force when choosing masters. Just how that sentience is present is the question. They could be like magnets to the strongest hearts, or have an inherent “ability” to decide who will wield them. It could be an instinctual ability, built-in program, or a conscious will to follow whoever has the strongest heart (some say a heart for each realm: light, dark, etc). Many on our forum believe the keyblades are tools created by those known as “chasers”, and function in a way to bring order to each of their respective realms (ie light/dark). With this purpose, the keyblades have the ability to choose whoever is most fit for that role. However, from the legend that states that some wielders bring peace while other bring chaos suggests that the keyblades don’t necessarily have a choice between who is good or evil; they just choose according to the strength of heart, biased as it may seem.
* Twilight/Nightfall and Dawn. To this day, we don't know what these are, whether they're realms, or paths, or something completely different. Many believe they're realms, some believe they're just paths, connecting Light and Darkness. The paths in the secret trailer are also similarly inconclusive. They could be alluding back to the paths depicted in CoM, and they probably are, but nowhere does it say that this is actually the case.