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[WARNING: Long post, spoilers from KH series, especially KH3 and X [Chi] Saga, please note that English is not my first language]

Recently, thanks to the new KHIV trailer, I found myself needing to refresh my memory due to the events of the X [Chi] Saga and Dark Road, and some theories about them. Probably this turmoil of thoughts has brought me to think intensely about that and in those days I just made up a theory.

In short words, for me the Master of Masters (MoM for now on) never wrote a Book of Prophecies. I don't negate he has written a book, but it does not contain any prophecies at all. It is just... a book. He has pretended to be a book full of prophecies in order to manipulate History itself.

Here is what I think.

MOM'S EYE

The first point is more like a consideration than a theory. It revolves around a question: how are we sure that MoM's eye really sees into the future? I mean, we know that time travelling is established, but seeing into the future is another matter. This story of detaching an eye to see into the future by putting it onto a Keyblade is itself pretty fuzzy.

We currently have no direct proof that he is working. We are taking it at face value (pun intended). As players, we never read the Book of Prophecies; we only see other characters discussing it, especially for the last page. And characters in-game cannot know about the veracity or not of the book. They all assume that MoM is actually a foreteller.

And if you are asking me why put an eye into a Keyblade if the purpose is not to gaze into the future, the answer is simple and MoM himself told that to one of the True Darknesses: the eye serves as his vessel to travel into the future and reconstruct his body.

THE VISIONS OF DISNEY WORLDS AND STORIES

Now, probably a lot of you would point out that the Book of Prophecies has the power to project copies of future Disney worlds and their stories. Therefore, that book has to contain actual prophecies. Let's just say that it is actually true that he saw the future. However... there is a huge contradiction.

In the visions, we see versions of Disney's worlds that mimic what will effectively happen during the Seeker of Darkness saga. So that means that he had witnessed those events, right? Well, here is the problem: that supposed vision of the future should be limited to the whereabouts of No Name in order to witness those events. Remember that the book does not generally contain the future, but what MoM has seen through his eye and he pinpoint that the book contains only what he supposedly see.

Let's just recapitulate where No Name was in the recent period:
- Dark Road: No Name was with Master Odin at Scala ad Caelum. Remember at that time many worlds were still rebuilding (see Agrabah for a notable example);
- Birth by Sleep: No Name was with Master Xenahort, who was primarily on Keyblade Graveyard;
- KH1 and KH2: Master Xenahort was not able to summon No Name because he had lost his heart;
- KH3: No Name was with Master Xenahort, who was primarily on Keyblade Graveyard

In other words, here are the only relevant events that No Name from Dark Road onward:
- The fall of Baldur and the near destruction of Scala ad Caelum (Dark Road);
- The battle at Keyblade Graveyard and the "birth" of Terra-Xenahort (BBS);
- The fall into Darkness of Terra-Xenahort and the other apprentices of Ansem the Wise (between BBS and KH1);
- The attempt to make Sora the 13th vessel of Master Xenahort at World that Never Was (3D, chronologically at the beginning of KH1, however Master Xenahort was here due to time travelling);
- The second Keyblade War at Keyblade Graveyard (KH3)

The stories of Disney Worlds were not witnessed by No Name, and yet here they are. And while we can think that No Name travelled in all Disney Worlds, in the vision some specific characters and situations belong to events in BBS, KH1 and KH2 - and we have seen that No Name has not witnessed that. So, why are they here? Well, my thoughts here are that we have to be a little bit meta: the visions had those events to be enjoyable for us, the players. But I think that what the keyblade holders in Daybreak Town actually saw was different.

But I think that in the books MoM has just written something likeable but no prophecy at all. After all, we know that a similar innocuous book, like the Jiminy Journals, is able to project visions of memories with the proper tools, so why should the book of MoM be different?

WHY DO THAT?

If my theory holds, the question "why do that?" comes naturally. First of all, remember that the main purpose of MoM is to defeat the 13 True Darknesses. Everything he did was to achieve that goal. He has no limit to achieve that goal; remember that he had no problem to actual cause a f**ing war where a lot of children have died!! In comparison, what is a fake Book of Prophecies with the ability to project what was written on it?

I just realised that in the series, actually, no one questions if MoM has really seen into the future. They all just assume that without a problem; at the best, they think about trying to change a foretold future. Everyone assumes the total veridicity of the book, and I think that is the main point of MoM's plan: everyone, Darknesses included, is playing a part that they thought was already established, when it was only something by him.

Because, in some sense, yes, the Book of Prophecies is actually full of prophecies... but self-fulfilling prophecies! They actually happen because people think that they will do, so they take actions thinking to go toward a foretold future, but they are actually causing that future itself. MoM even took in thoughts the fact that Ava, Luxu, and maybe also Brain would have tried to change the course of action - as MoM wanted!

Not to mention the Book conveniently stops at the second Keyblade War. I think that the point of that world was to summon the Black Box (that apparently was in Unreality until that moment) and the Lost Masters. Since, at least according to Maleficent, the Black Box was supposed to appear after the war, no matter the winner, why stop the narration at that point? Let's remember that Luxu is also aware of the return of Foretellers, so MoM has told him about that - and yet, the Book stopped just before.

Why? Although we don’t know exactly the plan, he has to expected that at the end of the second Keyblade War, won by the light, both Black Box and Lost Masters would return (I would say that the box contains something to that). I think at that point, MoM would have been returned to continue his plan with his presence. After all, he already do that manipulating Xenahort. Furthermore, the Last Page was used to manipulate Darkness to enact the second Keyblade War, convincing it of the sure victory but not mentioning a second possible income.

Furthermore, probably the book is written in a vague way to maximise its results. Talking about a “traitor” or a “dark seeker” or a “child of Destiny” it is not referring to a specific person - everyone can be it. The point is not WHO is it, but that every actor plays they part.

In fact, I would say that he knew that the plan would take so long, centuries or even millennia, so it has ensured to set up all the events thank to a fake Book of Prophecies, knowing that everybody would had act according to it or try to change it, then using the time travel to go in the future at the end of his “autopilot” plan and take the final part of it.

What do you think?

REMEMBER: as someone wiser than me said, this is just a theory, a game theory. It is just food for thoughts, no pretends to be right or wrong, just a way to enjoy the game now that we are coming back with KH4!

So, since Fortune’s Weave it is in the same world of Three House, it’s Fire Emblem should be the same. However, there is a problem. For years I thought the Fire Emblem was the Crest of Flames, which we know it could be inserted in other people via experiments and magic. So I would probably though that the Crest will play a crucial role also is FW.

However, I don’t remember which writer say that, but apparently the true Fire Emblem is the banner with the Crest of Flames that appear in all 3H routes, Crimson Flower aside. But if this truly the case, then would imply that FW’s Fire Emblem will be another one?

Despite it is short, I am struggling to understand what it means. Apparently it is spelled T-I-U-?-A, with the question mark because I don’t understand what is the third Tengwar, first time that I see that.

Of course, I have not idea which language is. Any thoughts?