Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD ReMix ♦ Secret Ending! “Most Keyblade Masters inherit a Keyblade that has been passed down. This long history has seen the number of apprentices grow. The number of passed down Keyblades has also grown, but, among them there is one blade older than others… The very Keyblade that Master Xehanort wields.
In case anyone in the fandom doesn’t know this yet, I want to share one of my favorite little pieces of KH trivia.
Xigbar’s title comes from a German folktale, the story of the Freischütz (lit. free shooter) which dates back as far as the 14th century. The tale is of a marksman who makes a deal with the Devil for magic bullets that will hit (or alternatively kill) whatever the marksman wills – they are bullets guided by the will of the marksman. Often the number is given as 7 bullets. Because no deal with the Devil is ever purely good for you, the catch is that while all the bullets will fly true and hit their mark, the Devil gets to guide the final (alternatively 7th) bullet.
If the Xehanort = Devil analogy isn’t obvious, let me clarify. Braig makes a deal with Master Xehanort for power (implied for the Keyblade, or just for adventure?) back in Birth By Sleep – but the deal ends up with him slowly being Norted. In the end, Braig has made a deal with the devil – and while he’s getting power and excitement, in the end, we know Xehanort is the chessmaster, and we know Xehanort will be firing that final bullet.
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