Just a little question, which I kinda know the answer to already, but just out of curiosity did Master Xehanort make Terra a Master? I'm replaying BbS and after defeating Braig, Terra and Xehanort have a conversation in which Xehanort says how Terra should have been the one given the Mark of Mastery, then finally refers to Terra as a Master.

 

Did Xehanort officiate Terra with the title of Master? I'm assuming as a Master himself, he can confer the title...

 

Or (more likely) was he just playing games with Terra, saying it in a way that's like "do what I say and that is what you'll be"?

 

Just curious.

 

but that's the thing

it's nothing to do with being a Master, it just happens

straight from the Nomura interview on the 20 Mysteries of the Series: "The Bequeathing is performed when a Keyblade Master
 touches someone using a Keyblade."

straight from the Nomura interview on the 20 Mysteries of the Series: "The Bequeathing is performed when a Keyblade Master
 touches someone using a Keyblade."

That already stands on shaky ground since for the longest time Sora's title was "The Keyblade Master"

But it also creates a strange standard for what it means to be Master. All it took to 'grant' Terra the power of the Keyblade Ceremony was for Xehanort to call him Master in a casual conversation and for Terra to raise his eyebrows? In that case, why is there ANY formality. Like if there is so little control over who BECOMES a Master, then really Yen Sid didn't have the power to choose if Sora or Riku became a Master in the first place

if anything it suggests it's an ability that people just sort of gain sooner or later

That already stands on shaky ground since for the longest time Sora's title was "The Keyblade Master"

But it also creates a strange standard for what it means to be Master. All it took to 'grant' Terra the power of the Keyblade Ceremony was for Xehanort to call him Master in a casual conversation and for Terra to raise his eyebrows? In that case, why is there ANY formality. Like if there is so little control over who BECOMES a Master, then really Yen Sid didn't have the power to choose if Sora or Riku became a Master in the first place

if anything it suggests it's an ability that people just sort of gain sooner or later

Yes you have a very good point. The way Nomura explains it is that no one person can really call you a Master, it's just something that happens. This is a topic that Nomura needs to delve deeper into, and maybe he will in KH3. For now all we know for certain is that anyone who wields a key blade can become a master if they have a strong enough heart. Also we know that only masters can pass on key blade inheritance. I don't think Master Xehanort made Terra a master. By the time Xehanort called Terra master, he had probably already been a master. Confusing I know but there is no good clarification yet about how to become a master. 

 

KH3D annoys me because the whole idea of this grand Mark of Mastery test doesn't make sense because I don't think Yen Sid has the right to decide who is and isn't a master.