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Kingdom Hearts: Sinister

キングダムハーツ: 不吉な Kingudamu Hātsu: Fukitsuna
Developer(s)	Xelak
Genre	Action/Adventure
Game Modes	Single-Player

Kingdom Hearts: Sinister is a third-person RPG for the Playstation 3, PSP, and XBox 360.

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 |kana = キングダムハーツ: 不吉な
 |romanji = Kingudamu Hātsu: Fukitsuna
 |developer = Xelak
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-|mode = Single-Player
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+'''Kingdom Hearts: Sinister''' is a third-person RPG for the Playstation 3, PSP, and XBox 360.
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-{{Q|It was the worst time for an offworld invasion. The Civil War had reduced the Black Army's numbers by nearly 50%, and the Army of the South logged almost twice that. With the near-anarchy that had descended on the Southern Kingdom because of the loss of the war, the blight, or whatever it was, struck there first, reducing the population to nearly 25%. Then, anarchy DID become the government of choice in the south.<br>And now, the same things are happening in the north...| }}
-'''Kingdom Hearts: Sinister''' is a tale of the redemption of the heart and of an alternate Keyblade line. Taking place roughly 10 years after ''Kingdom Hearts II'', it hosts a cast of new characters and a plethora of new skills. It is scheduled to be released <strike>Summer 2010</strike> whenever I can get stuff up by [[User:Xelak|Xelak]]. (Although I've already released annotated versions of the first two chapters) [Note: Full story may never be released, as I had originally intended this to be a manga or novel and do not have the time to do either in detail, especially the manga]
-==Storyline==
-The story begins on a small backwater world that, so far, has escaped attention from any major force. This has led to the people that inhabit this world - humans, of course - to become completely arrogant and think that they are the only beings that exist, period. Or, at least, one certain nation has come to think that way.
-===The Northern Kingdoms===
-The world of Terra Nox has but a single continent on it, with two large landmasses connected by a small strait. The northernmost of these halves is a coalition of nations collectively known as the Northern Kingdoms. It is by far the most arrogant, corrupt, evil, and amoral little hellion of a state known in the Kingdom Hearts universe, and is the one kingdom that has come to think of their world as the only ball of life in existence. Magic is outlawed here, except if the magician is in the king's pay. Our main character is a captain in the army of this nation - called the Black Army of the North, and notorious for its cruel wartime deeds - but is starting to grow a conscience about what he does in battle.
-===The Southern Kingdom===
-Or, as it prefers to be called, the Coalition of Peace. They basically support the governing policy of diplomacy, not war, completely opposite to the Northern Kingdoms' thoughts. They keep only a small standing army, as opposed to the Black Army's large numbers on a regular basis. However, one thing the soldiers in the Southern Army ''do'' have going for them is that all of them, every single one, is trained in magic. One on one, a Southern soldier will always beat a Northern soldier.
-===The Civil War===
-When Kingdom Hearts: Sinister begins, the two countries have just had a devastating civil war that has reduced to ruins most of the major cities near the border on the strait. Because the fighting had been so intense, the two armies had been left destroyed, or nearly so, and the civilizations had begun to crumble. As the North watches, the South completely disintegrates as the result of a mysterious blight that claims the lives of nearly all the citizens. When the blight moves north across the strait, our main character finds it is not a disease at all, but something far darker...
-==Characters==
-===[[Kleatus Synestyr]]===
-Our hero of the story. Although he serves in the Black Army, and often agrees to everything those in command say and do, lately because of the decimation, mayhem, and violence of the Civil War, he has begun to realize the difference between morality and desire, which essentially for him could spell out the path to good - or to evil. The son of a former lord of the Northern Kingdoms, one of the governors of the provinces, his family was framed for a traitorous act and demoted into oblivion and obscurity. To counteract this and fulfill his father's dying wish to redeem the family, Kleatus joined the Black Army and dedicated himself to rising to the rank of General - a leader of one of the 5 armies of the north - or one of the 50 commanders, second in rank to the 5 generals. This dedication has become a sort of existence for him, and his whole life has been adapted to realizong this dream, while finding the perpitrator of the framing and take revenge on him. When the blight comes to the North, he is one of the rallying points for the remnants of the Black Army.
-===[[Rafael Ilyich III]]===
-Synestyr's best friend, a commander in the Black Army and the son of a minor lord, now inherit to the title as his father pines away for loss of his ex-wife, who illegally immigrated to the South but was killed in the war. He, too, is a rally point for his men, and is a courageous leader of his soldiers. Unlike the protagonist, though, he has no qualms about what he does in battle, and has seen his best friend go from being next in line for a big promotion to being under hard scrutiny. It is known that his grandfather was deeply jealous of Synestyr's family, because they (the family) were one of the leading noble families, but despite this he has made every attempt to be kind to our hero.
-===[[Abraham Kasslegard]]===
-The main antagonist of ''Sinister'', this army commander is Synestyr's main opponent in the Black Army, and is the reason he is under harsh scrutiny for his actions. Kasslegard holds a deep hatred of Synestyr, believing him to be a hopeless upstart who doesn't know his place, and makes every attempt to let him know as such. During the ending weeks of the war, Abraham was said to be seen wielding a mysterious power in battle - the forbidden power of darkness.
-===[[Claudius the Chosen]]===
-The High Mage of the Royal Family, a man of great power, skill, and evil. It is he who has access to the forbidden texts of magic that are stored away in the Royal Library, and he is said to be able to wield an incredible weapon of great power. He is by far the evilest character so far in ''Kingdom Hearts: Sinister''.
-===[[Abyline]]===
-A mysterious young girl who suddenly attacks Kleatus in the North Forests. Not much is known about her besides the fact that she, like Kleatus, can wield a Keyblade.
-==Story Arc 1 - The Invasion==
-(I would like to make a note that these chapters are told in a "manga summary"-form, like what is used on the Bleach Wiki.)
-'''Chapter 1'''
-Story Arc 1 of ''Kingdom Hearts: Sinister'' begins as the Civil War between the Northern and Southern Kingdoms is degenerating into regional skirmishes, due to a sudden plague that has begun claiming the lives of citizens. Although hatred between the Kingdoms still exists, no central power is controlling either force. [[Kleatus Synestyr]] is a captain in the Black Army, the battle force of the Northern Kingdoms, with his best friend, [[Rafael Ilyich III]]. Being a right-minded soldier, he is able to organize, with Rafael's help, several thousand Northern soldiers into an organized retreat deeper into the North that he believes wil save lives, not knowing that the entire nation has become affected by the scourge. However, during one march through a minor mountain rage, Kleatus' party was suddenly and brutally assaulted by mysterious, shadowy creatures revealed by a traveling monk to be the deadly [http://kingdomhearts.wikia.com/ Heartless]. Picking up his scavenged army's pace into a forced march, Kleatus lead them into the verdant but shadowy forests of the Northern Kingdoms, where he was again attacked by a force of Heartless, this one far larger and powerful than the previous. Cut off from Rafael during the fighting, Kleatus and his remaining men were forced into a corner, where the Heartless steadily closed in.
-'''Chapter 2'''
-Soon, one by one, the Heartless began defeating and absorbong Kleatus' soldiers, using their hearts to reproduce. While fighting, Kleatus noticed that ordinary swords - like his - had little or no effect on the shadowy creatures, while swords blessed or enchanted by magic could harm them. Despite this, all of Kleatus' men were quickly defeated. Picking up a sword magicked by the High Mage, Claudius, Kleatus fought for his life, but was soon overwhelmed. Then, just as he was about to be defeated by the Heartless' overwhelming numbers, the sword he had obtained suddenly flashed before him, changing shape into a long, black, katana-shaped sword, with a massive handguard and - strangest of all - at the tip, black cross tilted at an angle, like the one appearing on his family's crest. Using this new weapon, he was able to defeat all of the Heartless, as he suddenly found his strength was, it seemed, ten times greater. Then having destroyed all of the Heartless, the sword flashed again, changing shape back into the sword he had obtained; but this time, the sword had a chain hanging from the pommel, ending in the same cross he had seen on the mysterious sword. Sheathing his new sword, he ran off into the forests to search for Rafael.
-'''Chapter 3'''
-Rushing deep into the forest, Kleatus encounters more and more Heartless, and is able to defeat them all, aided again by the appearance of his mysterious new katana. Finally, he nears a clearing near the forest's center, and there, to his despair, he finds a torn piece of Rafael's uniform, stained with blood. Believing his best friend to be dead, Kleatus sinks to his knees and mourns. However, he is interrupted by and arrow whizzing over his head. Drawing his regular sword from its sheath, he whirls around to face his enemy, only to find it is - a [[Abyline|young girl]], who appears to be only eighteen years old, or younger, who is wearing an old brown cloak.. It is she who was wielding the bow. Thinking her to be no threat, Kleatus turns, only to have an arrow imbedded in his shoulder.Turning again, he pulls the arrow out of himself, and asks the girl why she is attacking him, when he has no quarrel with her. She replies, passionately, that she does have issues with him and sweeps aside her cloak to reveal a South Army mage's uniform. Kleatus is surprised that the South Army accepts young people, especially women, which the North does not do. The girl yells at him that she's not surprised he's ignorant, as all Northern people are. Kleatus tenses up but says he'll let the comment slide because he has other things to do. Turning away again, the girl suddenly moves with blinding speed and places herself in front of him, with an arrow aimed at his heart. She then says that she hates all Northern soldiers and doesn't care if he has personal issues with her or not, and suddenly releases the arrow. Kleatus is forced to summon his new sword, and moves with equal speed, blocking the arrow. The girl expresses great surprise, wondering "why he has one too". Confused, Kleatus is about to question her statement when she says, "I'll show you mine" and summons her own, similar weapon - a sword-like blade with odd, teeth-like protrusions!
-'''Chapter 4'''
-Kleatus is shocked that the girl has a weapon like his. She asks him where he got his Keyblade, but then corrects herself and says he probable stole it from the real wielder. Kleatus is taken aback at the new events, and questions out loud what a Keyblade is. The girl says this reinforces what she thought, that he stole it, but Kleatus yells back that that's not true, and that it just popped into his hand while he was fighting the Heartless.
-Now it is the girl's turn to be surprised. She says to herself that it's impossible for someone so evil to recieve a Keyblade, but then, noticing the design and color scheme of Kleatus' weapon says that it's probably a Sin Key, so it makes sense. Kleatus replies across to her, saying he can hear her, and that he's not evil. He also comments that she hasn't answered his first question, about what a Keyblade is. She tells him, readying for battle, that a Keyblade is "a chosen weapon of the gods that has the power to change the world", and then says to him that he'll probably get ideas into his head to make the world all evil, or something. Kleatus replies that, for the last time, he's not evil and then asks why she hates him when she doesn't even know him. She replies, yelling, that it's because all North soldiers are the same and would sooner murder and innocent family than think about something nice. Kleatus is a bit surprised at this statement, but the girl ignores him and goes into a flashback about how, at the start of the war, her whole family was killed when a North mage cast a Dark Fire spell on her house, thinking enemy South soldiers were in there. Beginning to cry, she tells Kleatus how she joined the South army to get revenge for her family, and says that, throughout the war, Northmen proved themselves to be no different than the ones that destroyed her house morally speaking. As she weeps, Kleatus lowers his Keyblade and says that he's sorry. This sends her into a rage as she cries that she doesn't need his pity, and attacks him with incredible speed. Kleatus is forced to use his newfound Keyblade powers to keep up with her, and finds that he can match her speed, eventually gaining the upper hand. After knocking her Keyblade out of her hands, Kleatus holds his sword to her neck. The girl waits, and, finally realizing that Kleatus sin't going to kill her, expresses her surprise at his mercy. Kleatus then turns his Keyblade back into a sword, and sheaths it, beginning to walk away. He then replies that not all North soldiers are the same, and is about to leave when she asks him to stop, ansd asks him why he was kneeling. He begins to explain why, but is suddenly interupted when his old rival, Abraham Kasslegard, moving with ''twice'' the speed Kleatus was earlier, appears in front of them.
-'''Chapter 5'''
-Both Kleatus and the girl are immensely surprised at Abraham's appearance, especially at the speed at which he arrived. Standing between the two, Abraham first mocks Kleatus, asking why he's surprised, since that wasn't even "fast" for him. He then proceeds to challengs Kleatus, betting him that he can't take the necklace from around his (Abraham's) neck. Kleatus is at first intimidated by Abraham's abilities, but then thinks about the girl's safety, assuming that as soon as he finishes with Kleatus he'll kill her or do worse, since she's southern. He accepts, and Abraham laughs, saying that Kleatus was always impetuous and brash, jumping into things before thinking. He suddenly calls out the start and dashes behind Kleatus, but Kleatus whips around and blocks Abraham's attack with his Keyblade. The two face off for a moment, and in the interlude the southern girl thinks that the only explanation for Abraham's speed is that he's a Keyblade wielder, and notices that he hasn't even summoned it yet. She then comments to herself on the magnitude of difference between an unreleased and a released Keyblade, and suddenly realizes that if Abraham is faster than the two of them ''without'' summoning his Keyblade, he must be incredibly fast. As the focus returns to the fight, Kleatus suddenly throws Abraham's attack off and whirls behind him, only to find Abraham resting comfortably on a branch of a nearby tree. Abraham remarks at how slow Kleatus is, and suddenly turns serious, summoning his Keyblade. He leaps down from the tree, and apparently stands there, but Kleatus suddenly finds himself with a huge gash in his side. Sinking to his hands and knees, Kleatus notices Abraham's expression become surprised, as he remarks that "he missed". Kleatus then realizes that the reason he didn't see Abraham move was because he moved to fast for him to see. Abraham then says he'll finish it, but suddenly gasps and coughs up blood. He sinks to his knees, and Kleatus realizes that he stopped because the girl had stabbed him with her Keyblade. Abraham then laughs, saying that he'll get them ''all'' for this. He then suddenly vanishes, and Kleatus thanks the girl. She acts mildly surprised at the courtesy, but then says that the only reason she did it was because she'd rather fight him than Abraham, and remarks that their fight isn't finished. Kleatus laughs but falls because of his injury, coughing up blood, and says it could be over, as he's about spent. She walks over to him, and stands over him, but says that, unlike him, she doesn't fight unarmed opponents. Kleatus laughs weakly again, but then blacks out because of his injuries.
-'''Chapter 6'''
-When Kleatus next awakes, he finds himself in a strange bed in a strange, single-roomed home. It is rather small, with only the bed he is in, a fireplace, and a table with two chairs. He notices the faint outline of a trapdoor on the floor next to him. Getting out of the bed, he finds himself fully dressed, just as he was, and takes a step only to collapse to the floor. Suddenly, the door to the cabin (as it is revealed to be) is opened and the mysterious girl walks in, and notices Kleatus on the floor, saying that she figured he would try to walk while he was still injured. Kleatus groans and tells her to shut up, but she suddenly reveals her Keyblade and holds the tip of it to his throat, noticing both menacingly and jokingly that he is far weaker than she is right now, so he'd better "shut up and do what he is told". (At the bottom of this particular page is a note from the editor to make any jokes that are felt like being made) After crawling back to the bed and sitting on it, Kleatus asks why she rescued him from what he knew was death. The girl, who has begun cooking in the fireplace pauses for a moment, and then simply replies, "Because it seems wrong to kill a helpless opponent." Kleatus laughs quietly and asks if she still plans to kill him, to which she replies that she doesn't know yet. After finishing the preparations, she turns around and introduces herself as [[Abyline]]. Kleatus studies her for a moment, and then replies that his name is Kleatus - "Kleatus Synestyr, to be exact."[[Abyline |&nbsp;]]Abyline nods but says nothing but instead goes over to the table, which Kleatus now notices has a book on it. Sitting down, she opens the book, and begins reading silently. The cabin is left in silence, and Kleatus chooses to lay back on the bed and, in his own words, "catch a few winks". However, he wakes up later to find that he has been asleep most of the day. Abyline is gone, and a chill has entered the small cabin. The door has been left open, and Kleatus can see that it has begun snowing outside. He thinks nothing of this, saying to himself that it ''is'' winter, bvut as he walks over to close the door (noting that he can do so with ease), he notices that the snow outside has been shuffled up, as if someone had left tracks, but he notices that just beside the door, out of view to anyone on the other side of the treshhold, is a necklace, with a torn chain.
-It is the crest of the Kasslegard family. Abraham had returned to keep his promise.
-==Story Arc 2 - The Rescue==
-'''The Rescue 1 (Chapter 7)'''
-Kleatus, after a moment's shocked contemplation, immediately steps into action. Grabbing Abyline's left-behind cloak, he throws it, as well as his sword-belt, on, and runs out into the snow. As he goes, he is able to follow the ill-covered tracks into a forest, but shortly thereafter finds himself completely lost, with no snow beneath the leafy treetops. With no bearings, and no idea where he is geographically in regard to the Kingdoms, he is about to give up when he finds a scrap of Abyline's jacket - the one she was wearing when he fell asleep. At first, he seems confused, but quickly dismisses it as he searches for a trail. Later on, he sees some of the lower, new growth branches on the trees have been broken, and, making a line between Exhibit A and Exhibit B, he is able to discern Abraham's general direction. As he quickly runs that way, he thinks to himself the variables in what he's doing: he has no idea how long it's been, or whether or not Abyline is still alive. "For all I know, this could be a trap..." Regardless, he decides to continue.
-(The last part of the chapter simply featured a montage of scenes of Kleatus journeying, finding clues, fighting Heartless, etc.)
-'''The Rescue 2 (Chapter 8)'''
-(The montage continues, but stops after about a dozen panels)
-Kleatus finds himself in an abandoned village, torched and blackened, with the Black Army insignia painted on every door, and grafitti covering the walls, After a short, contemplating pause, he searches the houses thoroughly, only to turn up empty-handed. In the last house, however, he finds a stale loaf of bread, and, remembering the missed lunch at Abyline's cabin, suddenly finds himself ravenous. As he begins to devour the bread, he suddenly notices two small chuldren standing at the door of the cabin, staring at him and his meal with the eyes of the starving. At first ignoring them because of his Northern training, Kleatus suddenly comes short and is surprised to find himself feeling guilty. After thinking for a moment, he gets up, walks over to the children, and hands the remainder to them. After a moment of intense gratitude, they scamper off into the quickly falling night. Curious for a moment, he begins tailing them, interested at where they are going. After following them through the forest, he sees them enter a cave, with firelight glowing from inside. Sneaking in, he follows a large main passageway - avoiding other "orphans" he encounters, until he finaly finds himself at the entrance to a large main room. And there, sitting on a throne carved from rock, is a tal,, human-like Heartless!
-==Keyblades in ''Kingdom Hearts: Sinister''==
-See [[Keyblade (KHS)]].
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