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|journalKH3='''Master Xehanort'''<br>The most powerful Keyblade Master of them all.<br><br>Master Xehanort's pursuit of the World's true nature and obsession with the Keyblade War led him to give his heart over to darkness. He tried to forge the χ-blade and trigger another Keyblade War, but three young Keyblade wielders put a stop to him.<br><br>Now, he has created a new Organization—the real Organization XIII—and intends to divide his heart among its other twelve members to create thirteen darknesses.<br><br>'''The Boy in Black'''<br>He and his best friend would often match wits playing chess between training sessions.<br><br>'''Xehanort'''''{{RM}}''<br>During a training journey in preparation for his Mark of Mastery exam, a certain Keyblade wielder was given a coat that wards off darkness from a mysterious figure.

'''Xehanort''', also known as '''Master Xehanort''', is a major character in the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series and the central antagonist of the [[Dark Seeker Saga]]. Xehanort is the main playable character of ''[[Kingdom Hearts Dark Road]]'', which takes place during his youth and explores his journey to becoming the [[Seeker of Darkness]].

Xehanort is a [[Keyblade Master]], a descendent of [[Ephemer]], and a former teacher to [[Ventus]]. He believes that darkness and light should exist in perfect balance, and for this reason, he seeks to conquer [[Kingdom Hearts]] and recreate the worlds according to his wishes. Through his many different incarnations, including [[Terra-Xehanort]], his Heartless [[Ansem, Seeker of Darkness]], his Nobody [[Xemnas]], and the time-travelling [[Young Xehanort]], Xehanort is ultimately responsible for the series of events that repeatedly threaten the worlds with destruction, including the mass release of [[Heartless]] into the [[Realm of Light]], the creation of the [[Nobody|Nobodies]] and [[Organization XIII]], and the formation of the [[real Organization XIII]]. He has brought tragedy to many that have crossed his path, including [[Sora]], [[Riku]], [[Kairi]], [[Terra]], Ventus, and [[Aqua]].

Refusing to simply give up, the classmates meet outside to discuss their next move. During their discussion, Baldr show up and reveals the death of the  upper classmen. Revealing that he stumbled upon a world that contains an underworld of lost spirits, Baldr directs the group to search [[Olympus Coliseum]], in an attempt to make contact with the spirits of the slain wielders. Traveling to this world, the group encounters [[Hades]] and are transported to the Underworld. Once there, Xehanort, Eraqus, and Bragi encounter and fight [[Cerberus]], only to be saved by Baldr. Upon escaping, Xehanort begins to suspect that something simply isn't adding up, but does not let Eraqus know his suspicions on Baldr just yet. Xehanort and Eraqus encounter the souls of the four slain upperclassmen, who reveal their suspicions that something much more sinister was responsible for their deaths, pulling the strings from behind the scenes. Imploring for Xehanort and Eraqus to find the truth, the four classmen finally depart. When Xehanort, Eraqus, Urd, and Hermod run into Hades again, he attempts to make them permanent residents of the Underworld, until a dark corridor suddenly opens and sucks the wielders in. Within the corridor, Urd and Hermod are suddenly slain by a figure cloaked in darkness. Xehanort and Eraqus almost fall victim to the same figure until Odin appears and rescues the pair, bringing them back to Scala ad Caelum.

Scala ad Caelum is then suddenly attacked by the forces of darkness. While Odin leaves to deal with the threat, Xehanort reveals that he suspected that Baldr had been corrupted by darkness following the death of his sister and is now picking off their fellow classmates. Baldr appears possessed by darkness and by the time Xehanort and Eraqus arrive at the tower, they are too late and witness Baldr unleash a Heartless to murder Vidar, Vali, Vala, and Vor. Tearfully saying goodbye to Vor, Xehanort and Eraqus confront Baldr at the top of the tower who reveals his true plans. The darkness controlling Baldr was manipulating Vidar to summon Kingdom Hearts so that it may restructure the world towards its own designs. While Xehanort is finally able to gain the upper hand on Baldr, the darkness clouds Xehanort's mind, revealing to him that it's not one of the ancient darknesses, but a new variant formed from the wielders. Revealing that darkness has been able to grow in this manner through others and that Xehanort himself would be a worthy vessel, the darkness is then shocked to find Baldr's sister's heart has taken residence in Xehanort's, in an attempt to get her brother free. While Baldr is temporary restored to his senses and restrained by Odin, Baldr reveals that he felt destined to darkness with so many light-obsessed wielders by his side. The darkness eventually overtakes him once again and snuffs out the remaining light of his sister's spirit.

[[File:Flashback The Keyblade Masters 02 KHBBS.png|thumb|Xehanort leaving Eraqus scarred after a heated discussion concerning the future.]]

[[File:Another Road 02 KHBBS.png|thumb|Master Xehanort encouraging Terra to harness darkness.]]

Later, Master Xehanort has Vanitas abduct [[Mickey Mouse]] to lure Ventus to the Keyblade Graveyard, where he reveals to Ventus the truth about his past and his plans to create the χ-blade. He adds that Master Eraqus has kept Ventus from venturing away from the Land of Departure in order to prevent the creation of the χ-blade, and that he never trusted Ventus enough to tell him the truth. Xehanort summons a dark vortex that sends Ventus to the Land of Departure, expecting him to confront Eraqus. He then calls Terra to him, telling him that Ven went to confront Eraqus on his own, and that he fears for Ventus's safety. He sends Terra after Ventus, and Terra arrives in time to protect Ventus, throws him through a portal to safety, and defeats Eraqus in battle. Although Terra and Eraqus both regret their actions, Xehanort appears and delivers the final blow against Eraqus, who dissolves into light in Terra's arms. Revealing his true intentions to Terra, for him to succumb to darkness, Xehanort tells Terra to return to the Keyblade Graveyard, where he will see Ventus and Aqua meet their ends. He then summons his Keyblade and uses it to unleash darkness on the Land of Departure, completely destroying the world and leaving nothing but the castle's remains, before departing.

[[File:Kingdom Hearts 06 KHBBS.png|thumb|200px|Master Xehanort summoning Kingdom Hearts during his battle against Terra, Aqua, and Ventus.]]

Terra, Aqua, and Ventus arrive at the Keyblade Graveyard, where Master Xehanort and Vanitas confront the three Keyblade wielders. Xehanort uses his immense magic to alter the landscape, summoning giant cliffs and creating a whirling stream of abandoned Keyblades that pursues the three friends. Terra is knocked onto the cliff where Xehanort stands, Ventus tries to attack him from behind, but Xehanort instantly moves behind Ventus and grabs him by the helmet of his Keyblade Armor. Terra is knocked off the cliff by the flying Keyblades while Xehanort flash-freezes Ventus and drops him off the cliff. Xehanort then creates an orb of magic which he launches into the clouds overhead, summoning Kingdom Hearts in the sky.

[[File:Blank Points 06 KHBBS.png|thumb|Master Xehanort converses with Terra within Terra-Xehanort's heart.]]

Both halves took a different part of the plan to forge the [[X-blade]]: Ansem manipulated [[Maleficent]] and her allies into collecting the [[Princesses of Heart]], while Xemans worked with Xigbar to create Organization XIII, so they could infuse Nobodies with fragments of Xehanort's heart to create the thirteen darknesses. However, anticipating that the Organization members would prove unsuitable as vessels, Ansem travels back in time due to lacking a body and approaches Xehanort in his youth, granting him the ability to move forward in time and tasks him with gathering many incarnations of himself from throughout time.

===''Kingdom Hearts Re:coded''===

When Mickey returns to the [[Mysterious Tower]], [[Yen Sid]] explains that the destruction of Ansem and Xemnas will inevitably lead to Xehanort's resurrection. Musing that Xehanort will have left himself many paths to take and cryptically suggesting that there may be more than one version of Xehanort to contend with, Yen Sid instructs Mickey to summon Sora and Riku to the tower to take the Mark of Mastery exam.{{storylink|Signs of What's Next}}

At the same time, Terra revives separately from Master Xehanort. Xehanort had Terra's heart moved to the [[Dark Figure]] and then [[Terra-Xehanort]]'s heart from the past infused into Terra's empty body. {{storylink|Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind|Re Mind}} Following this, Young Xehanort arrived in Radiant Garden to return Braig and another former member of the Organization to Nobody state.{{storylink|Destiny}}

[[File:Seven Lights, Thirteen Darknesses 07 KH3D.png|thumb|200px|Master Xehanort speaks of the inevitable clash between light and darkness while fading away.]]

After Young Xehanort, Ansem, Xemnas, Dark Riku, and Vanitas vanished back into their respective pasts, Master Xehanort retreated to the Keyblade Graveyard with [[Saïx]] and Xigbar; Terra-Xehanort and [[Demyx]] were left on stand by, [[Luxord]] went looking for the Black Box, and [[Marluxia]] and [[Larxene]] went looking for the New Seven Hearts.

After reminiscing about his meeting with the Master of Masters, Xehanort discusses with Xigbar and Saïx how they would fill the second half of their new Organization. Saïx explains that they would turn [[Vexen]] back into a Nobody to refine the replicas for housing the time traveling hearts, and recreate the lost replica [[Xion|No i]] to take Sora's place, as it is connected to the Sora's memories.{{storylink|Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind}} This resulted in Demyx and Vexen being treated as reserves alongside the [[Replica Xehanort]]s.

[[File:The X-Blade 01 KHIII.png|thumb|200px|Master Xehanort facing off against the guardians for their final showdown.]]

[[File:Master Xehanort Final Battle 01 KHIII.png|thumb|200px|Xehanort summoning Kingdom Hearts during his final battle against Sora, Donald, and Goofy.]]

|[[File:A Fragmentary Passage 02 KHBBSFM.png|thumb|200px|Xehanort on the beach of Destiny Islands.]]

As an old man, Xehanort is bald except for thin eyebrows and a curled, silver goatee. His ears are pointed and his eyes are amber. He has broad, hunched shoulders and a crooked back. He appears overall as a somewhat feeble old man, certainly deceiving given his immense power. His clothing is the same as that worn by his eventual Heartless Ansem. It is composed of a white and black coat with a red inner lining, which is worn over a white shirt with two thin black belts, as well as white gloves and calf-high black boots. The major difference between the two outfits is that Ansem wears the shirt unbuttoned, exposing the Heartless emblem on his chest. However, there are a few minor changes as well; Ansem's coat has a gold lining on its edges, where Xehanort's has black lining. He sometimes wears a [[black coat]], which would later be worn by Xemnas and the Organization members, over this outfit.

In ''Kingdom Hearts III'', Xehanort has noticeable veins covering the his skull, due to the lack of hair.

In his youth, Xehanort had mildly tanned skin, grey eyes, and silver hair which both slightly spikes and falls past his shoulders in the back; it is styled similar to Terra-Xehanort's, albeit with four bangs framing his face, the back two thicker than the front two, and the two backward spikes on the sides are absent, the topmost one slicked back. He wore the same style of white shirt, which only reaches to his thighs, a black vest with a high collar, long armbands which cover his forearms, and dark grey pants stuffed into his boots, similar to those worn by Organization XIII but without the silver lining on top, much like those worn by the guards of Radiant Garden. After meeting the Master of Masters he is given a black coat.

File:Xehanort 05 KHDR.png|Xehanort as a newborn.

File:Xehanort 02 KHDR.png|Xehanort in his early teens before leaving Destiny Islands.

Despite his overwhelming malice, Xehanort has been shown to have some slight sympathy for his victims, such as when he takes pity on Ventus, following the rupture of his heart, and decides to leave him to perish peacefully on the Destiny Islands. All of Xehanort's other seeming virtues are revealed to have sinister intentions behind them, demonstrated when he only took Ventus as an apprentice and cared for him solely with the intention of making the boy his vessel once he was strong enough, and when he only accepted Master Eraqus's invitation to witness the Mark of Mastery exam win back Eraqus's trust following their falling-out and sabotage the exam to put Terra on the path to darkness so as to make him his new vessel after deciding to instead use Ventus for the χ-blade. Like his other incarnations, Xehanort puts on a polite façade to make other people do what he desires. In his final moments, however, and ironically, he admits to Sora that his true intention was to create a world devoid of corruption and develops a newfound respect for Sora upon his defeat at the boy's hands, allowing him to close Kingdom Hearts and telling him "very well done".

As a youth, Xehanort was the most level headed of his classmates. He would face any situation with the calculated calmness that would define his elder years but with more snark. Xehanort was also very deductive and is capable of reading individuals well, such as being able to deduce Jafar's more sinister intentions in obtaining the magic lamp from the cave of wonders after the latter staged a conversation with Iago to obtain it for the benefit of Agrabah. Unlike Eraqus, he did not believe that light and darkness representing good and evil are absolutes and felt there was more to them than just being opposing forces. Despite his collected nature, he was not immune to sorrow and anger. Though he was told by Odin to expel the darkness from Baldr, Xehanort decided at the last second to execute him for destroying his classmates. After the fall of his comrades, Xehanort had become more despondent and had resigned himself to his quarters for a time and visited their graves often. These events and Baldr's final words would push him to explore the worlds to learn more about the nature of light and darkness, shaping him into the man who would do what ever it takes to achieve his goals even at the expense of others.     

Overall, Xehanort is the true catalyst of all the events in the series so far, having been responsible (either directly or indirectly) for converting Terra into the first of his many vessels, arranging his younger self's quest through time, the Disney Villains' hunt for Kingdom Hearts, the creation of Vanitas, the Unversed, and the original [[Organization XIII]], the release of the Emblem Heartless and Nobodies, and the plaguing of the Sleeping Worlds with the Nightmare Dream Eaters. Xehanort has a few unusual tendencies and quirks, however, such as turning away from the people he speaks to, or over-dramatizing his hand gestures when delivering a speech, even flexing his fingers in a peculiar grasping motion.

Master Xehanort is a powerful Keyblade Master and a skilled magic-user. Able to teleport if he is in danger, Master Xehanort strikes opponents with powerful, fast-paced combos. He also can bombard foes with Fire, Thunder, Blizzard, and Earth-based magic. His magic skills are some of the most advanced seen in the series so far, as he is able to create massive rock formations and pillars, encase Ventus's body in ice, project a gust of wind powerful enough to send Ventus and Mickey flying from his hand, block Braig's Arrowgun shots without raising his arms, and telekinetically control the Keyblades covering the Keyblade Graveyard to attack Terra and Aqua. Master Xehanort's magical prowess is shown when King Mickey tries to confront him in ''Kingdom Hearts III''; Mickey attempted to wipe him out with an [[Ultima]] spell, but Xehanort countered with a [[Stopza]] spell so powerful, it reached far enough to immobilize Riku. He also possesses physical strength sufficient to grab a fully-armored Ventus by the back of the head and lift him into the air with one hand. His old age, however, somewhat hampers his mobility, forcing him to rely more on magic and cunning in battle, until he manages to [[Terra-Xehanort|possess Terra]].

Master Xehanort shows a great deal of skill in utilizing the heart and its capabilities, able to draw who he calls Vanitas out of the darkness of Ventus's heart when he unlocks it, to direct his heart into Terra's body to possess it after his defeat in the Keyblade Graveyard, or to steal the light from Sora's heart. Master Xehanort's greatest asset, however, is his intellect and capacity for manipulation. For over a decade, he has, directly or indirectly, influenced many of the hardships and suffering the worlds have gone through, and always has backup plans ready in the event his initial schemes fail.