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Ah it's true huh; we don't know much about the POH. I mean even though it mentions they're the light of the worlds and to protect them, Auroras heart is stolen and ED is fine. or when Kairi's heart was split up, nothing happened to her world. What connection do they really have? And was it confirmed Terranort experimented on her? I know he mentions finding her but as far as I knew the only mentions of experiments was the novel. I would have thought he wouldn't have risked it on someone

(con) he thought could be a princess. Keyblade wielders (and vexen) can sense light so I figured he just saw her, grabbed her and sent her on her way. But if it was confirmed then that's that. Also random thought, but about Scala, what do you think happened to it? It's built on the ruins of daybreak town so maybe it was destroyed too. Or Sora will visit it later. In any case, it's really pretty and I'd love to see it again.

Ah, sounds like you’ve got a bit of a misunderstanding on the “light of the worlds” thing. They’re not the light of their homeworlds, specifically (otherwise every world should have a Princess). Rather, they collectively hold the light of all worlds within them

And it happens a lot that their hearts are able to be removed from their bodies, but so long as the hearts themselves remain intact the greater World (or universe as we’d understand it) is fine. The Heartless invading in KH1 wasn’t because anything happened to the Princesses; it was due to Xehanort’s experiments creating the Emblem Heartless in the Realm of Light and they began spreading out of control and consuming worlds, which in turn weakened the borders between the Realms of Light and Darkness and allowed Pureblood Heartless to start flooding in, too. The Princesses were just necessary because their hearts can be used to forge the Keyblade of Hearts, which was “purely for the sake of the plan to make the keyhole appear in Hollow Bastion and force darkness to flood from that heart.”

Nothing would have happened to any world in particular if something happened to a Princess who resided there. And I doubt that anything would happen to the universe unless the light in their hearts was destroyed. And I presume that that’s why nothing happened when Kairi’s heart was split up, because the light within it wasn’t destroyed, just separated and easily put back together so long as you had the pieces

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I wasn’t necessarily referring to Terranort performing the Heartless experiments on her (though I imagine if he did, nothing would happen because of her Princess status. There’s nothing in her to turn into a Heartless. Heck, he’d probably want to run the experiment as proof that she was a Princess, but the Ansem Reports show that he’s not sure so I imagine he didn’t “I don't know if she holds the princesses' powers, but I will find out.”). The Heartless experiments weren’t the only experiments that they did, though. There were various interrelated studies about the heart going on at the time, notably memory-related ones that were performed on the amnesiac Terranort and Subject X (from KH3′s Secret Reports 3 + 4). The memory experiments led to the start of the Heartless experiments

Admittedly, it’s not entirely clear where or how Kairi fits into the various experiments in there. The only one that has been detailed regarding Kairi is Xehanort sending her to another world (which was absolutely an experiment in its own right to test her Princess of Heart status and connection to Keyblade wielders) but one particular scene in Dream Drop Distance implies that Ansem Seeker of Darkness was monitoring her for a good while after sending her away from Radiant Garden and could easily have intervened. Maybe pluralizing “experiments” wasn’t quite accurate, as they could all just be steps in the same larger experiment, but there is more to it than just “Xehanort tossed her into space and that was it”

But again, nothing concrete until Melody of Memory enlightens us on it. It might have just been the one, but if Xehanort was working for or being led around by the MoM and that resulted in Kairi’s destiny being changed as per the Melody of Memory trailer, then I feel like there must have been more involved in it than that

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Scala, hm? We really have so little information on Scala ad Caelum outside of the fact that it used to be Daybreak Town, it was populated exclusively by Keyblade Wielders, it’s described as a “nexus of all worlds,” and by the time of Dark Road there’s only one island that’s populated

I’ve heard theories that the Land of Departure could be Scala ad Caelum, but I don’t think it is. That’s a little too many identities shoved into one world (like, Daybreak Town to Scala to the Land of Departure to Castle Oblivion and then back to the Land of Departure? That’s a little much). Personally, I think the Land of Departure is most likely just another world that Keyblade Wielders claimed after the War, which is why the architecture is similar

(The Xehanort Reports in BBS do imply that the Land of Departure was where Xehanort and Eraqus trained so it could be the modern Scala, but I’m also pretty sure that they retconned a huge chunk of Xehanort’s backstory just to introduce Scala ad Caelum so there’s no telling what else they changed. Nomura’s interviews about Young Xehanort from DDD just do not line up at all with KH3 and Dark Road, so you’ve gotta take info regarding Xehanort with a grain of salt right now as we’re mid-retcon)

Really, the most likely thing for me right now is that Scala ad Caelum still exists out in the worlds, but it’s devoid of life. Dark Road’s description of the other islands being empty makes me think that they were once populated, but that everyone living there died off. Even the Scala of Xehanort’s time seemed pretty scarcely populated, and we know that a chunk of even them are going to die by some point in the story. It paints the picture of Keyblade Wielders slowly dying out, being so reluctant to interfere in other worlds that they can’t recruit faster than they’re losing people. And with Xehanort leaving and Eraqus taking the Land of Departure, there might just not be anything left there except graves

If I’m right about the Black Box containing the hearts of the Dandelions then maybe they could be given a home there at some point in the future, but... mmm. That’s getting a little overly speculative for me

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