Hi guys, just joined today so take it easy on me haha.
To me, everything about the robed figure points to Terra, or Terra-xehanort.
The part where Nomura says " to transcend time, one must first discard the body". This could be what terra-xehanort was researching at hollow bastion under ansem the wise, time travel. It would also explain how he got a heartless and a nobody, 'discard the body to travel time'.
This would also explain why he would go back to get young xehanort as he would want a form of his true self, rather than just a shell like terra.
another idea,( as a lot of people believe it was ansem SOD who is the cloaked man) is that terra-xehanort found in his research that only his heartless can travel back in time, and humans can travel forward in time. Thus making himself turn to a heartless to pass the message to his younger self.
These she ideas have been ticking over in my head so hopefully one of you can confirm if they are a possibility or not?
cheers guys
LJC