Birth by Sleep Umm question -Spoilers-

In ventus's story, a flashback is shown with ventus training under Master Xehanort. What I don't understand is, ventus is being attacked by heartless. The heartless did not exist until Master Xehanort took over Terra's body and began research with Ansem. Is it just something I missed?

 

No, Heartless have existed long before MX. Remember the story Kairi's grandma tells her? Well, supposing that is what truly happened to separate all worlds, the Heartless probably started showing up because darkness started "existing" in the worlds. It is the emblem Heartless that wouldn't have shown up until after Apprentice Xehanort started doing his experiments.

 

Okay, I was just confused. I also found it weird that no heartless show up in birth by sleep other than in the flashback. If they existed, why aren't they alongside the Unversed?

 

I don't know. They probably weren't as common in the world of light before Apprentice Xehanort experimented with them. That and Nomura/the game making team probably wanted to focus more on the Unversed rather than Heartless/Nobodies. I mean, you never see Nobodies throughout KH1 but they're everywhere in KH2. Wasn't that they didn't exist, just that Nomura didn't have them figured out beforehand.

 

there weren't as many heartless in the world until Apprentice Xehanort and Ansem the wise began experimenting with creating heartless.

 

Ah I see, and I believe in KH1 there is only mention of nobodies in the Secret Ansem reports. But I don't remember for sure.

 

go to the Kh wiki and read the reports... They are all there! XD