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Keyblades unlock pathways to different worlds. There was a huge war over Kingdom Hearts and the most powerful key, the x-blade. Most Keyblade wielders were killed.

Two wielders, Eraqus and Xehanort, grew up to become masters and trained three new students: Terra, Aqua, and Ventus. Xehanort plotted to discover the ancient X-Blade by manipulating the students. A battle ensued which ended in the death of Eraqus, the damnation of Aqua, Xehanort's merger with Terra (creating an almost entierly new entity), and Ventus' heart seeking refuge in a young boy named Sora.

Years later Terranort (having not retained any memories from either past life) works with a scientist named Ansem who is researching the pathways to different worlds. They discover and distrupt Kingdom Hearts, which cause a darkness to spread throughout the Multiverse. From this darkness emerge the Heartless, creatures who feed on malicious intent. As this happens, new keyblades reveal themselves to their masters, Sora and Riku. They find the keys are effective in sealing away the darkness and learn how to traverse throughout the Multiverse.

As the two new keyblade wielders (along with Mickey Mouse, Yensid, and other allies) fight to free the worlds of Heartless, they discover beings known as Nobodies. Nobodies are born when Heartless take the life (heart) of someone and their bodies become empty shells. The strongest of these empty shells form a group and are driven to find Kingdom Hearts in an attempt to become whole again. Their methods are brutal, and they do this with total disregard for the people they harm in their quest. The keyblade wielders defeat this group and lock all pathways linking the worlds together, stopping the Heartless from doing anymore harm.

After saving the multiverse, Sora and Riku continue their training to become keyblade masters. It is during this time they discover what happened to Xehanort and the other keyblade wielders of the past. During his travels, Sora sacrificed himself to save his friends causing him to lose his heart, thus forming a Nobody. However, due to Sora's powerful will, he was able to return to his human form with the help of a Princess. We learn that his Nobody was actually the keyblade wielder who found sanctuary in Sora's heart all those years ago, Ventus (who now goes by the name of Roxas due forgetting his name). Roxas, however, took a part of Sora's being/memories when he split from his heart. This meant Roxas (Ven) had to merge once more with the boy in order to make Sora whole again.

In addition to all this, Sora discovers that their actions have led to the resurrection of Xehanort who still wants the X-Blade. So now the remaining keyblade wielders have a new task: Free the keyblade warriors of the past from their suffering and stop Xehanort from ruling Kingdom Hearts.
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