Time travel simply confuses me, but I was initially very confused by the organization disappearing after failing to capture sora as a vessel, but then my friend told me about a time travel theory of "anchoring" where you require the version of yourself in the present that you wish to visit, in order to stay there. And since sora as a vessel would have been the present xehanort, all of the other xehanorts would have been able. To exist in that timeline. I'm not to sure on it, but I hope it clears a few things for some people.

But Sora wasnt a Xehanort then ...But Nomura did say that not all of the Norts were from the past . So some of them might have existed in the present .And everyone STILL faded..

That Master Xehanort! He knows everything! He's an evil mastermind!

I got this from the kh wiki: Certain characters, such as Ansem, Seeker of Darkness and Young Xehanort, are capable of traversing through time, although the exact means of travel are still unknown. However, as stated by Xehanort, there are many limitations on time travel in this way. First, the person must "dispose of their body". Second, the person traveling must have existed in some form in the time period they wish to go to. Third, the person can only "move in one direction with the flow of time", i.e. continually moving forward into the future or backward into the past. In addition, the individual is not allowed to alter the events of that point in time. Lastly, the traveler and all those displaced from their original time will eventually return to their respective periods, with all memories of their time travel erased.

 

it makes sense in a way

i think untill something thats going to be explained in KH3 they were to dispers anyways, even the one of them that is in the present since they werent in a real-time world but one inbetween reality and dreams, so even with sora they would have faded Sora would have just woken up in yensids tower as Xehanort and then all meet up at Keyblade Gravyard

But Sora wasnt a Xehanort then ...But Nomura did say that not all of the Norts were from the past . So some of them might have existed in the present .And everyone STILL faded..

 

can I get a link to that, but what I was getting at was that there is a certain amount of time that a time traveler can exist outside of their own time without said "anchor", but if there are north in the present then I guess my theory is busted.

can I get a link to that, but what I was getting at was that there is a certain amount of time that a time traveler can exist outside of their own time without said "anchor", but if there are north in the present then I guess my theory is busted.

 

Its discussed a few times in the DDD Ultimania interview . Its located in the interview section in the information forum under the May 12 2012 entry .

Edited August 21, 201213 yr by Flaming Lea

can I get a link to that, but what I was getting at was that there is a certain amount of time that a time traveler can exist outside of their own time without said "anchor", but if there are north in the present then I guess my theory is busted.

 

http://kh13.com/forum/topic/34430-spoilers-kingdom-hearts-3d-ultimania-nomura-interviews-completely-translated/

can I get a link to that, but what I was getting at was that there is a certain amount of time that a time traveler can exist outside of their own time without said "anchor", but if there are north in the present then I guess my theory is busted.

 

To be more specific:

— Were the 13 Seekers of Darkness, who were meant to be in different times, gathered by transcending time with magic?

Nomura: Just as it says in the story, to transcend time one must ‘first’ discard their form. As a result of the actions of the Brown Robed Figure, they all were in a state where they had gained the power to transcend time. The Brown Robed Figure explains the facts. The thirteen were summoned at the same time, this time thanks to Young Xehanort who borrowed that power. However, apart from Young Xehanort, that does not mean that all the members transcended time.

 

So the anchoring theory can still work, its just not Xehanort doing it.

Since there are some vessels existing in the present in that scene, if there was an anchor they all shouldnt have needed to fade at the end .The anchor should have kept them there .. But it didnt .

This anchor thing was not the reason they had to go back, for example, if a first version brings two other versions and then leave, in logic they (the 2 remaining) could still be there anchoring one another. I guess they were just out of mana, Nomura also said that AsoD acted as a portal or something, it must have some other plot power limitations.