Then a lone Darkling was followed by Ephemer and Player while traversing through the mysterious tunnel, still muttering the same phrase it did before. Inside the Clock Tower as glitches appeared Player, Ephemer and Ventus are soon are surrounded by a Darkling who utters 'not you.', which confuses the trio. The Darklings' pursuit continued after crossing the world line and following the Dandelions into the data world. Later on, the trio are absorbed by Nightmare Chirithy to due battle again, but ends in defeat. They continued their pursue for Lux eventually coming for Skuld and Player but flee after a fight. However, the Dream Eater's actions caused opposite reaction, leading to them giving into darkness and being turned into Darklings. With the incoming Keyblade War, a Nightmare Chirithy manipulated Keyblade wielders in an attempt to prevent them from fighting over Lux. However, as time passed and Darkness's numbers grew, people's hearts began to birth darkness on their own through negative emotions, eventually giving rise to the Pureblood Heartless. Story Before Kingdom Hearts χ ĭarkness originally had physical forms but cast them off in order to attack hearts directly, infecting and possessing many people and propagating more formless shadows like themselves.

1.12 Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance.

1.6 Between Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts.

1.5 Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep -A fragmentary passage.

1.3 Before Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep.

Heartless book series