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Xehanort

Fictional character in Kingdom Hearts

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Xehanort is a fictional character from the Kingdom Hearts series by Square Enix, in which he serves as the main antagonist of the "Dark Seeker Saga" story arc. He was introduced as the original form of the Heartless "Ansem, Seeker of Darkness" in the first game and the Nobody Xemnas in Kingdom Hearts II. Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep reveals the human elder Xehanort who, like his alter-egos, wishes to harness the power of the mythical Kingdom Hearts to recreate the universe in his image. While Kingdom Hearts III is the last major installment focusing on Xehanort, the 2020 mobile game Kingdom Hearts Dark Road explores his childhood and descent into villainy.

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This entry incorporates text from “Xehanort” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.