Timeless river and time travel

[Kingroxas]

Replaying over kh2 today (not 2.5) I came across the timeless river world which does not use the standard laws of time travel as explained by young mx in kh3d, can someone help here?

 

[Antifa Lockhart]

The door method is something different altogether, Xehanort's rules only apply to that type of time-travel, but Merlin is a time-traveler in the Disney movie as well as pretty much all Arthurian canon.

So essentially, Merlin's powers are literally exceptional.

 

[Ballad of Caius]

The door method is something different altogether, Xehanort's rules only apply to that type of time-travel, but Merlin is a time-traveler in the Disney movie as well as pretty much all Arthurian canon.

So essentially, Merlin's powers are literally exceptional.

Pretty much this. I sincerely doubt Merlin's time traveling powers will be touched upon any further than the secluded use it had on KH2.

 

[Kounelli]

I've actually wondered how Timeless River works myself, is it really a place from the past or just an alternate reality which Merlin has access to? I know the cornerstone was shown to originate from there, which signifies that Timeless River could have been in the past, but it just seems so out of place.

 

[DarkosOverlord]

I remember KH Mysteries' explanation on it... Timeless River is not an actual time travel experience.
It's more like... a bubble where time has stopped, accessible through Merlin's magic.
We can see that it holds a lot of differencies (characters from the "present" mantains their bodies, you can actually rewrite past events that affect the present), plus Sora can reach that place without having a version of himself at the arriving point.
And you cannot explore other places at your leisure, but only inside the bubble's perimeter (although I think that's also the world's design limitation)

So yeah, no time travelling as Xehanort does, but using a portal to visit a specific area.