World Hearts & Destruction

by **Jaixe** Fri Apr 25, 2014 12:26 pm

As you may know from the Heartless Horde Control topic, worlds can be destroyed. Pretty much all of them can be destroyed in this rpg, with the exception of Castle Oblivion, but I'll explain that in a moment.

Destruction
Worlds are considered to be conquered by the Darkness when the Heartless successfully reach and devour the World Heart via the Keyhole. When conquered in such a fashion, the world begins to slumber and fragment, being considered completely gone and inaccessible after a day except through the Realm of Darkness.

Lockdown
However, World Hearts can be locked away from being destroyed in the Kingdom Hearts game, and they can be here too, through the same means. If a Keyblade wielder, during a Heartless Invasion, is capable of finding and locking the World Heart away via the keyholes, the world cannot be destroyed by the Heartless for a week. It will still be swarmed, and Heartless can still arrive and propagate, but the world is safe from total destruction.

Exceptions
Any world can be destroyed, with the exception of Monstro (who is not a world at all, he's a space whale) and Castle Oblivion. Castle Oblivion is an exception due to its nature. Master Aqua locked the Keyhole and furthermore manipulated the world to enter a sleeping state on the Twilight of Light and Darkness.

In its current form, it is a literal labyrinth that only Master Aqua can overcome for reasons not quite explained yet. However, Sora, Riku, Xemnas, Organization 13, the Heartless, nobody could find where the World Heart was, which is the Chamber of Remembrance. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that Castle Oblivion will be immune to Heartless Invasions. Not like anyone lives there anyway, though...