As promised,Kingdom Hearts Dark Roadhas returned with an update this early June aftera hiatus brought on by the coronavirus. Not only that, but the game claims that it will return to a regular update schedule from here on out. Precisely what that schedule looks like remains a mystery, though.
Regardless, the most recent update brings some exciting news as the official Kingdom Hearts Dark Road Twitter account revealed the names of four new characters. The series hasn’t had new faces sinceKingdom Hearts Union Crossintroduced Brain — one of the five new Foretellers — a few years ago.
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These four characters are the same onesKingdom Hearts Dark Roadteased earlier on when it was still consideredProject Xehanort. The Dark Road Twitter account describes them as the other friends Xehanort had aside from his brother-in-training, Eraqus. Their names are Urd, Herman, Bragi, and Vor.
Dark Roaddidn’t specify what kind of relationship each character has with Xehanort, nor did it detail any of the characters' personalities and beliefs. It looks like the game may want fans to uncover that information via playing, which makes sense.
However,Kingdom Heartsdoes like to reveal things about characters through the names they have. For instance, the name “Xehanort” is an anagram of “No Heart” and “X” (Death), which pretty much sums up Xehanort’s role in the series thus far.
With that in mind, fans may be able to glean something from the newKHcharacters' names. Each one comes from Nordic Mythology, so they already follow a telling theme. As far as the meaning of each one:
Kingdom Hearts Dark Roadis currently delayed, but Square Enix is striving for a release window of spring 2020.
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