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 Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:42 am
Castle Oblivion (忘却の城, Bōkyaku no Shiro?) is a fictional castle in the video game Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. It serves as a fortified base for members of Organization XIII. Several members reside there, many with special rooms that cater to their interests (e.g., research labs, a fitness gym, a library). The lord of the castle is Marluxia, a lower ranked member of the Organization; all authoritative resonsibilities have been given to him by the Superior. Marluxia led the traitorious movement to overthrow the Organization that was the main plot of Chain of Memories.
The castle is thirteen floors high with an additional twelve basement levels. Since Marluxia is able to manipulate and attack with flowers, particularly the rose, the entire castle is decorated with them in its white marble walls. It is never made clear whether Organization XIII built Castle Oblivion or if they found it and took it for their own use. Many oddities fill the castle, including:
Cards. These cards control everything; they can be used to fight, open doors, change the structure of floors, etc.
White rooms. These rooms mold and change shape easily to a person's memories, and can be manipulated through "Map Cards," while "World Cards" can shape entire floors.
Strange crystals that can be used to save your progress.
Strange orbs that can transport the user to any floor they've been to.
Heartless, dark beings who steal hearts. An interesting point is that even though all the inhabitants and adversaries of Castle Oblivion, besides the real people (i.e. Sora, Organization XIII, etc.), are figments of Sora's memories, three new Heartless appear in Chain of Memories.
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1 Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
1.1 Sora's Story
1.2 Riku's Story
2 Kingdom Hearts II
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
The entire game of Chain of Memories takes place in the castle. Sora and his friend Riku, the protagonists of the game, ascend the castle as the story progresses, although they each have different experiences.
Sora's Story
Castle Oblivion's inner chambers.Immediately after the events of Kingdom Hearts, Marluxia approaches Sora and leads him to the castle to commence his plan. Sora ascends the castle searching for something he may have lost; he believes this something may help him rescue his friend Riku from the World of Darkness. As he goes up floors, his memories start fading, but he also starts remembering things he forgot about a girl named Naminé. Although Sora and his friends Donald Duck, Goofy, and Jiminy Cricket attribute this to the castle itself, they eventually learn that Naminé herself is responsible for the loss: she is a witch who replaced Sora's memories of his friend Kairi with those of herself. She used her power to create "worlds" made to mimic places he has been before; these worlds fill up the floors of Castle Oblivion. As Sora realizes the truth, he also realizes that he can't remember anything replaced; Naminé was far too efficient at her job. After she apologizes, Sora learns that she was manipulated by Marluxia into installing the false memories; until she personally met Sora, they had never known each other. Naminé promised to help Sora get his true memories back if they could reach the thirteenth floor; what is so special about this particular floor has not been clarified. At the top, Sora and Naminé find an odd, flower-like egg pod made of crystal. Naminé explains that if he sleeps in this, she will restore his memories back, but he will forget what happened in Castle Oblivion. It takes one year for this to take place, resulting in Sora being older in Kingdom Hearts II.
Riku's Story
Known as "Reverse/Rebirth". Riku follows a strange voice out of the World of Nothingness; it leads to the basement of Castle Oblivion. Receiving a card that takes him to Hollow Bastion, Riku finds and kills a memory of Maleficent. The voice happened to be Ansem, who plans on bringing Riku into darkness so he, Xehanort's Heartless/"Ansem", can control Riku again. As Riku ascends through the basements on his way to the ground floor, he clashes with several members of the Organization. Along the way, Naminé (with the appearance of Kairi) teaches Riku that his Darkness is his own, and he shouldn't be afraid to use it. At the 2nd basement floor, he learns that "Ansem" was in fact DiZ, an enigmatic man who knows a lot about both Riku and the castle, but unfortunately is very vague about this knowledge. DiZ reveals to Riku that the real Xehanort's Heartless/"Ansem" lurks in his own heart, and gives him a card to draw him out. After using the card, Riku engages and defeats Xehanort's Heartless/"Ansem". He then leaves the castle with King Mickey, having decided to walk the road to the dawn, a path in-between light and darkness.
Kingdom Hearts II
In Kingdom Hearts II, Sora does not return to Castle Oblivion after he awakens, and it is only mentioned rarely. It is shown in the opening FMV recap of the events in both Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. Although Sora, Donald, and Goofy originally went to sleep in Castle Oblivion to regain their lost memories, DiZ persuaded Naminé to have them moved to the basement of his mansion in Twilight Town for safekeeping, since Organization XIII still had sway over Castle Oblivion. This would be a more secure spot for Sora and his friends to regain their memories.
The White Rooms (Naminé's Room and the room Sora slept in) in the mansion resemble a typical room from Castle Oblivion because Naminé created it with her powers like she created the castle for Marluxia. If you would go to those rooms, the command window will change its shape to match Castle Oblivion.
(Copied from Wikipedia)
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:33 am
Kriano appeared at the base that used to be the castle where The orginization was. A place of the past. A past he had to learn about.
He pushed open the door, Everything was slowly rusting. No one had been here for a while. Dust was begining to settle. Kriano activated the lights. "I hope I wasn't to harsh on Xenora..She just needs to get off my back, and why does she have that attitude problem?"
It's because I've been such a pain..What's happening to me?
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:23 am
Kriano found one of the old computors and looked up what they were trying to do... "Get Roxas Back.. I can do tha..Wait! I'm not with them anymore..And I never will be. But, what if I told Sora before they came to get him....? Then they would hate me, but it's the right thing to do."
He then turned and walked out of the castle. He had a mission.
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:07 pm
Axianna wandered a hallway, bored. "What am I doing here, anyway?" She didn't really expect an answer. She was talking more to herself than anyone who might be there. "Hello... anyone around?" She stopped and waited for an answer.
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:27 pm
Krano woke up in a strange room. Nothing was there. Just white walls. He was on a white stage, a castle behind him. It was just a prop.
He stood up and walked off the stage. As soon as he stepped of the stage a blade appeared and struck the stage. "Whoa!" Krano yelled, leaping back.
(Krano is in black. Kriano is Green. But he's dead..right?)
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:09 pm
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:59 pm
Krano picked up the sword, and weighed it in his hands.
This is the power to get back to your friends, but at what cost..?
"I'll....do anything!"
Are you sure, you can never go back...
"I'm sure. lend me your stregth!"
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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 4:10 pm
Axianna stopped. She heard the sound of... something.... somewhere in the castle. "Is someone here?" No answer. She started off down the hall. If something was here, she'd run into it eventually.
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Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:18 pm
Krano's new sword became something odd. It became a giant Key-ish shape, only with dragon features. (Like the head teeth of the key looked oddly like a dragon's head)
"Am I alone?" Krano said, looking around. It was kind of dark. Walking out the door, he slammed it behind him.
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:32 am
'A door slamming... there's someone here, alright. But where to start looking...?' "Hey, if there's anyone here, you better answer!" Axianna quickened her steps to try to find whoever seemed to be in the castle with her.
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:37 pm
Krano thought he heard something. A female's voice from the sounds of it. Walking around a corner he saw....A wall, with a giant crack down it. "I can break this....." Krano said alound, holding the blade....
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:04 am
"Hello? Hello? I know you're here!" Coming around the corner, Axianna saw someone standing there. "Hey! Who are you? Why are you here?"
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:53 pm
Krano turned around quickly, bradishing his blade-thing (Keyblade), "I'm Krano...Who are you..? What is this place?"
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:23 am
"The name's Axianna." She looks at Krano for a moment. "And you're in Castle Oblivion. May I ask why you're here?"
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 7:15 pm
"I..I really don't know. I just woke up in this place. It's funny, because you look familiar yet..I've never met you. Maybe I know a relative! That must be it!" He said Pounding one fist into another as a show of victory.
He looked around and sighed, "Uhhh, could you point me to the exit..?"
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