According to
dictionary.com the word 'chaser' means several things:
1. One who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.
2. A steel tool for cutting or finishing screw threads.
3. One that chases or pursues another: a chaser of criminals.
4.
Informal. A drink, as of beer or water, taken after hard liquor.
You can see the page
here.
The first two definitions can be used to say that The Chasers are actually people who
make Keyblades and that the Knights are just Keybladers. Considering that it was probably Xehanort's Heartless who helped make the Dark Keyblade Riku-Ansem used to fight you with, the mystery of it supports this theory too.
The most common definition is that a Chaser is someone who chases Keybladers or Keyblades for some intended goal, whether it be good or evil.
Some people say the Chasers are actually Keybladers. But what are they chasing?
XD And of course, there is the possibility they're drunkards. *snorts* Ri~~ight.
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Regardless of which of the
resonable ideas is correct in the end (if any of them are) I think Xehanort was one.
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Xell
That's why we come to the forums, to speculate what things
might be before the game comes out. Besides, it's fun seeing how correct or incorrect you were in guessing what something might be. I get a kick out of it.
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Keychainless Keyblades.
In a fanfiction I'm writing, I call them "Vrai" which is French (I think) for the words 'true' or 'real' or to something of that nature (I was using Babelfish I think). The idea is that Keyblades, when they're forged, they aren't given Keychains or names. So I agree with kire12 on the matter that the Keychain is simply Sora's memories/bond with the world he recieved the Keychain from and since they don't have names when initially forged Sora that names them as well. The "Vrai" Keyblades stay on the Keysmithers' (as I can't say Chaser) world and the Keyblades manifest themselves through the Keychain Sora's using.
This would also say that the world with the Keyblade feild is part of the Keysmither's world and that the feild is a Keep or a Weaponry of some sort.
So, why the Kingdom Keys have Keychains, I have no idea, by the "Vrai" theory, the Keyblades shouldn't have Keychains.
The Way to the Dawn Keyblade, I have an idea why it might have a Keychain according to my "Vrai" theory. (Only works) If the definition of a Chaser is someone who makes Keyblades (Keysmith), and if Xehanort is a Chaser than he helped Riku make the Dark Keyblade. Riku would've been able to make the Way to the Dawn then and
he made it
with a Keychain.