Xehanort can see the future? (Back Cover Spoilers)

[drumstickwielder]

So after watching Back Cover, I gave it some thought and realized that maybe Master Xehanort was able to have "incredible foresight" in DDD because he actually could see the future, and he could do this because of his keyblade.

ALRIGHT, so, to start of, the Master of Masters, when you go read his character bio in Back Cover, is said to have an eye that can see into the future, which is how he wrote the book of prophecies. He gave each of his apprentices a copy of the book, except for Luxu, who he gave his keyblade. Why did he not give Luxu a book of prophecy? Because his eye is in the keyblade, and holding the keyblade gives you the power to see the future. So, Luxu is tasked with finding his own apprentice, so eventually his keyblade gets passed on. Whether it goes directly from Luxu to Xehanort, or takes a while to get there, doesn't matter. Once Xehanort has that keyblade, he can see into the future. Thus, he is able to lay the groundwork for the whole series, and is able to plan all his time-travel bull-honkey.

Any of this is open for contention, but I have an interesting aside to this theory: how limited is his foresight? Clearly he has had failures throughout the series, but he always seems confident that things will go his way. Does he know he will fail along the way but ultimately succeed? Does he only see a vague idea of what will happen? Does another factor (a certain spikey-haired person) ruin his plans? hmmm...

 

[SkeithTheTerror]

If Xehanort is able to see into the future, I'm pretty sure what he sees is vague. He has had failures, he had originally planned to turn Riku, Roxas, all of the original organization 13, and Sora into vessels, but he had failed. If he had specific foresight into the future, he would have avoided those failures. I believe his foresight is really vague. He knows there will be final encounter between the seven and thirteen, but he doesn't know who is on what side or which vessels he'll currently be in. Time Travel is dumb

 

[Audo]

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Because his eye is in the keyblade, and holding the keyblade gives you the power to see the future.

That is not technically what is said.

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Master's eye being in the Keyblade allows the Master to see the future (because it's his eye). Nowhere does he say that the person holding the Keyblade can see the future (after all, the Master doesn't hold the Keyblade anymore once he gives it to Luxu). The Master also explicitly says that Luxu cannot have the Book of Prophecies (aka, he cannot know the future he is about to live and record) because that will cause a paradox, which would suggest Luxu does not see the future at all through the Keyblade, instead, he is living its present.

Furthermore, none of the characters involved in Master Xehanort's time travel plot have access to that Keyblade. The time travel plot is primarily orchestrated by everyone except Master Xehanort -- Young Xehanort, Ansem, etc. Who all have specific moments where the game points out that they do not have access to Xehanort's Keyblade.

And again, when MX is holding the Keyblade, he is living in the Keyblade's present. When Master Xehanort reforms in KH3D, with his Keyblade, he explicitly says that the future is beyond his sight (which again, implies that the person wielding the Keyblade does not have the ability to see the future).

So far, the only thing concretely suggested by BC is that the Master can see everything the Keyblade sees, but that's it.

 

[hemmoheikkinen]

Talking about the Keyblade:

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this is probably a bit of a silly question, but seeing as how Luxu had the Kyeblade manifested and they eye was physically there seeing the events in the Keyblade Graveyard unfold, does that mean that the Keyblade has to be physically there, summoned in the area so that they eye can actually see what happening? So by just having the Keyblade won´t mean that it automatically records everything you do, but you have to actually and physically pull it out so it the eye can what going on?