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It is revealed by a resurrected [[Master Xehanort]] that, before the [[Keyblade War]] broke out, Kingdom Hearts was in fact protected by the [[χ-blade]], which he considers Kingdom Hearts's twin. However, in the wake of the Keyblade War, the χ-blade was shattered into twenty pieces, seven lights that would become the [[Princesses of Heart]], and thirteen darknesses. With the χ-blade no longer by its side to protect it, Kingdom Hearts was thus swallowed in darkness.{{storylink|Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance}}-->

Ten years before [[Sora]]'s first journey, Kingdom Hearts appears blue in the sky above the [[Keyblade Graveyard]], the site of an ancient conflict called the [[Keyblade War]]. Keyblade Masters affiliated with both Light and Darkness fought to obtain the legendary [[χ-blade]], a weapon capable of summoning and unlocking Kingdom Hearts. The war affected other worlds before ending with the fallen combatant's Keyblades littering the desolate world and the χ-blade scattered into seven lights and thirteen darknesses. Some time after, an aged Keyblade Master named [[Master Xehanort]] saw that the current system of light that resulted from the Keyblade War unbalanced a world order that needed darkness. To that end, Xehanort formulated a plan to recreate the χ-blade to cause another Keyblade War from which a new system of darkness would come into being.

As part of that plan, and to prolong his life, Xehanort needed an ideal vessel with an heart of darkness. Though he intended his apprentice [[Ventus]] to be that host, the youth's reluctance forces Xehanort to separate Ventus's darkness to create [[Vanitas]]. Though he expected Ventus's not to survived, his survival inspired Xehanort to set up events to create a χ-blade by reintegrating Vanitas back into Ventus once the two are of equal strength. Leaving Ventus in the care of his friend [[Master Eraqus]], who knew of his plan yet thought he abandoned it, Xehanort's search for the vessel led him to [[Terra]].  

At first, after manipulation of events, Xehanort's plans worked well, as he set the scene for his dreams to come into fruition. In the end, as Kingdom Hearts appears, Xehanort apparently succeeded in creating the χ-blade by Ventus's forced union with Vanitas and transferring his heart into Terra's body. However, as the χ-blade created by the unification of Ventus and Vanitas was unstable, [[Terra-Xehanort]] finds himself facing Terra's [[Lingering Will]] and is knocked out become being consumed in the χ-blade's explosion that sends him to [[Radiant Garden]]. Though eventually losing his memory, Xehanort entrusted a back-up plan to his co-conspirator [[Braig]] as the two become apprentices to [[Ansem the Wise]].

After Radiant Garden's fall, the ruins were taken over by [[Maleficent]] who rechristened the castle [[Hollow Bastion]]. Having been informed by Master Xehanort during his visit to her world, Maleficent searched for the Seven [[Princesses of Heart]], the maidens that possessed hearts of pure light. When brought together, these princesses would reveal the final keyhole and the way to Kingdom Hearts itself. Thus, Maleficent attacked many worlds with the [[Heartless]] in her pursuit of them, and managed to capture six by the time [[Sora]] arrived. All the while, Maleficent's progress was overseen by [[Terra-Xehanort|Xehenort]]'s Heartless, [[Ansem, Seeker of Darkness]]. After "Ansem" possesses [[Riku]]'s body, he creates a [[Keyblade of People's Hearts|Keyblade]] constructed from the hearts of the six other princesses and confirmed the comatose [[Kairi]] as the seventh. It would only after Sora sacrificed himself to release Kairi's heart back into her body that the path to Kingdom Hearts finally opened. With Ansem forcing Riku's heart to wander into the darkness, he disappeared into the darkness that poured out from the keyhole on the way to Kingdom Hearts.

After Sora was restored from his Heartless self, he once again went to Hollow Bastion, and sealed the Keyhole made by the princesses, holding off the great darkness. Regardless, Xehanort's Heartless remained a threat, so Sora and company ventured to the [[End of the World]], a place created out of the remains of the worlds taken by the [[Heartless]]. There, the Heartless thrived, and beyond it, in the eternal abyss, lay the unlocked door to Kingdom Hearts.

After a long battle, Xehanort's wounded Heartless reached the endless abyss, where the [[Door to Darkness]] lay, with the [[Realm of Darkness]] and Kingdom Hearts waiting behind it. Ansem forced the door to open, hoping for Kingdom Hearts to fill him with the power of darkness. However, Kingdom Hearts was revealed not to be darkness, but light. The light overwhelmed him, destroying him. But even with his defeat, the darkness that surrounded Kingdom Hearts threatened to overwhelm the [[Universe of Kingdom Hearts#Realm of Light|Realm of Light]]. In order to stop the Heartless threat, Sora was forced to close the Door to Darkness, trapping [[Riku]] and [[Mickey Mouse|King Mickey]] on the other side. Nonetheless, the sealing also restored the destroyed worlds, along with the barriers between them, while preventing billions of Heartless from invading the Realm of Light.