Revelation: Chirithy is a Dream Eater

[Sign]

Kingdom Hearts X[chi] has developed a history of introducing important concepts to the main scenario, and these days, its reputation far precedes it. Each new story update ties it deeper and deeper with the lore and history behind Sora's adventure, and this most recent one is certainly no exception.

The latest Kingdom Hearts X[chi] story update for Daybreak Town revealed an incredible piece of information about a key character, Chirithy. For those of you unaware, Chirithy is a grey and black Scottish Fold with a bright pink purse and white cape. Each player is assigned their own Chirithy, who acts as a familiar of sorts for the player; delivering messages from the Foretellers as well as guiding you throughout your adventure. While most Chirithy share the same appearance (light gray with darker stripes), we've also seen another that appears significantly darker. This darker Chirithy belongs to Ephemera, a player from an opposing union who we encountered upon our last visit to Daybreak Town.

In the latest update, we, along with Ephemera, continue trying to get into the tower to learn more about the strange dreams we've been experiencing as of late. We defeat every Heartless that stands in our path, but it isn't before long that Ephemera makes the decision to stop for today and resume tomorrow. Being the eager young wielders we are, we happily agree to meet our newfound friend the following day to continue our adventure. However, that meeting was not meant to be.

We spend the entire day waiting, and waiting, and waiting, but Ephemera never shows up. Our Chirithy, realizing what had happened, arrives to comfort us. As the player lifts him up to embrace him, Chirithy's cape flaps upwards to reveal a Dream Eater Spirit symbol on his back!

So, Chirithy is actually a Spirit? But how? That would mean we're in the Realm of Sleep! And what of Ephemera's darker Chirithy? Does that mean he's a Nightmare? 

What do you think could be happening? What significance do you believe this revelation holds for the future? Let us know!

Thanks to Kazr10, you can read translations of the scene below. A subtitled video is now available:

Cutscene 1:

Ephemera:
これで借りは返せたかな？
ちょっと待って。
今日はやめとこう。
時間が掛かりすぎた。
このまま侵入して、部屋を探すのにも時間が掛かりそうだ。/ ユニオンのミッションから長く離れてると、さすがに怪しまれる。
これで塔への侵入経路は確保できたし、/ また次の機会に待ち合わせて調べないか？
よし、じゃあ、俺たちは今日からユニオンを越えた友達だ。
じゃあ、明日の正午、広場で待ち合わせしよう！

With this I've returned my debt.
Hang on, let's stop here for today. We've spent too much time.
If we enter now, we will be spending more time to search the room.
If we are away from our missions for too long, we will seem suspicious.
Since we have obtained our way in, let's meet up again for the search.
Alright! We are friends across unions.
Let's meet up at the plaza tomorrow afternoon.


Cutscene 2:

Chirithy
どうしたんだい？
ニコニコしちゃって、何かいいことでもあったの？
そうか、友達、ができたんだね。
ボクにはいないから、それがそんなにいいものなのかわからないけど。
え？キミ？
そうか、友達か・・・・・・
エヘへ。

What's up? You're grinning by yourself.
I see. You've made a, friend.
I don't have any, so I do not know if such a thing is good or not.
Huh? With you?
I see, friends huh......
Ehehe

Cutscene 3:

Ephemera:
ごめんな・・・・・・　（プレイヤー名）・・・・・・

I'm sorry...... Player......

Cutscene 4:

Chirithy:
どうしたの？昨日も今日もミッションに行かずに・・・・・・
もう今日は帰ろうよ。
・・・・・・
きっと何か事情ができたんだよ。
友達が約束を守れない時は、よっぽど大変なことがあったんだよ。
心配かもしれないけど信じてあげようよ。
キミが悲しめばボクも悲しいよ。
だってボクも友達でしょ?
わわ。

What's wrong? You haven't been to any of you missions these couple of days.
Let's go home for today.
......
I'm sure something must have come up.
For a friend to not protect his promise, something very serious must have happened.
I know you're worried, but you just have to believe.
If you're sad, I will be sad too.
Because we're friends right?
Wawa (a sound made when feeling warmhearted)

 

[Blackdrazon]

I'm pacing such a tight circle I'm practically biting my own tail. We were all so sure that Daybreak Town had been broken into several pieces - The Keyblade Graveyard, Hollow Bastion, who knows - that the possibility that it might never have been destroyed at all never occurred to us! I propose that, after the apocalypse, Daybreak Town fell into the Realm of Sleep, the first of many worlds consumed by the Darkness.

The issue of the artificial worlds bordering Daybreak Town still exists. It's now clear why the Foretellers needed artificial worlds: those worlds aren't in the Realm of Sleep. The game may even be after Sora and Riku woke up the remaining sleeping worlds, leaving the Foretellers with nothing to work with. (EDIT: Of course, Shard's post below reminds me that the Realm of Sleep may be functionally timeless).

I have a feeling that if the Foretellers are using Data technology, they didn't invent it themselves. I suspect the Data technology came from the outside, via our cloaked friend. Who seems more and more likely to be an Organization member, someone who either used the data worlds as a bridge, or a Keyblade user who could Dive... which is even more worrying. The more paragraphs you go in my post, the more guesswork you're going to encounter. Best case scenario is that it's Riku, but how likely do you think that is given how the Foretellers have been behaving?

Presumably the Emblem Heartless got in through the data worlds. Or... maybe they're Nightmares in disguise? This is as new to me as it is to you.

Additional questions: Who is Ephemera? Who are we?

 

[ShardofTruth]

The realm of sleep is still a big unknown, even after Dream Drop Distance. Where does it exist? When does it exist? What are the seven keyholes of sleep exactly?

Before the Keyblade War there could be a different connection between all realms so maybe (probably not though) [chi] will shed some light on this.

The issue of the artificial worlds bordering Daybreak Town still exists. It's now clear why the Foretellers needed artificial worlds: those worlds aren't in the Realm of Sleep. Given the time period in which they seem to be set, it may be that it's currently the present day, maybe even after Sora and Riku woke up the remaining sleeping worlds, leaving the Foretellers with nothing to work with.

That's a really cool theory.:biggrin:

 

[Sephiroth0812]

Chirithy a Dream Eater?
Yeez, that opens a whole other can of worms, especially since Dream Eaters are supposed to be confined to the Realm of Sleep, a realm where time does not flow at all and which Heartless cannot reach.

Considering all worlds besides Daybreak Town are "illusions" (or dreams???) it does again throw up the question of where Daybreak Town itself is located.
However, if we go by the premise that in the old, united world before the Keyblade War the different realms like RoL and RoD didn't exist per se, it is also entirely possible that the Realm of Sleep didn't exist as well and the "Dream Eaters" like Chirithy were just another "race"/species native to the old, united world.

 

[Axel92]

This is a big big big NEWS!!!

I wonder if, after DDD, Daybreak Town was restored to the Realm of Light. It seems so as we can "see" from the unseen footage of KH3!

And now that it is restored, event its inhabitants are alive again: can we meet the Foretellers?

 

[Sign]

Reposting Kaz's translations again because I always forget the CMS can't handle special characters:

Cutscene 1:

Ephemera:
これで借りは返せたかな？
ちょっと待って。
今日はやめとこう。
時間が掛かりすぎた。
このまま侵入して、部屋を探すのにも時間が掛かりそうだ。/ ユニオンのミッションから長く離れてると、さすがに怪しまれる。
これで塔への侵入経路は確保できたし、/ また次の機会に待ち合わせて調べないか？
よし、じゃあ、俺たちは今日からユニオンを越えた友達だ。
じゃあ、明日の正午、広場で待ち合わせしよう！

With this I've returned my debt.
Hang on, let's stop here for today. We've spent too much time.
If we enter now, we will be spending more time to search the room.
If we are away from our missions for too long, we will seem suspicious.
Since we have obtained our way in, let's meet up again for the search.
Alright! We are friends across unions.
Let's meet up at the plaza tomorrow afternoon.


Cutscene 2:

Chirithy
どうしたんだい？
ニコニコしちゃって、何かいいことでもあったの？
そうか、友達、ができたんだね。
ボクにはいないから、それがそんなにいいものなのかわからないけど。
え？キミ？
そうか、友達か・・・・・・
エヘへ。

What's up? You're grinning by yourself.
I see. You've made a, friend.
I don't have any, so I do not know if such a thing is good or not.
Huh? With you?
I see, friends huh......
Ehehe

Cutscene 3:

Ephemera:
ごめんな・・・・・・　（プレイヤー名）・・・・・・

I'm sorry...... Player......

Cutscene 4:

Chirithy:
どうしたの？昨日も今日もミッションに行かずに・・・・・・
もう今日は帰ろうよ。
・・・・・・
きっと何か事情ができたんだよ。
友達が約束を守れない時は、よっぽど大変なことがあったんだよ。
心配かもしれないけど信じてあげようよ。
キミが悲しめばボクも悲しいよ。
だってボクも友達でしょ?
わわ。

What's wrong? You haven't been to any of you missions these couple of days.
Let's go home for today.
......
I'm sure something must have come up.
For a friend to not protect his promise, something very serious must have happened.
I know you're worried, but you just have to believe.
If you're sad, I will be sad too.
Because we're friends right?
Wawa (a sound made when feeling warmhearted)

 

[Blackdrazon]

I wonder if, after DDD, Daybreak Town was restored to the Realm of Light. It seems so as we can "see" from the unseen footage of KH3!

And now that it is restored, event its inhabitants are alive again: can we meet the Foretellers?

This is a good point: the preview footage might very well have been showing Daybreak Town, and Sora does have weapons that resemble the Starlight. Meaning the world is... either back, never left, or Sora went there on his own. Hrmm.

 

[Sephiroth0812]

This is a big big big NEWS!!!

I wonder if, after DDD, Daybreak Town was restored to the Realm of Light. It seems so as we can "see" from the unseen footage of KH3!

And now that it is restored, event its inhabitants are alive again: can we meet the Foretellers?

I can't remember anything in the "unseen" footage of KH 3 pointing towards Daybreak Town. The new location shown was dubbed "Cable Town" or something and had more in common with Land of Departure rather than Daybreak Town.

In DDD Riku and Sora only restored the worlds they opened the sleeping Keyholes for and not any outside of those.
I haven't the quote right at hand but I recall that either in the Famitsu interview concerning the DDD Ultimania or in the Ultimania itself Nomura confirms that there are still other sleeping worlds not visited by Riku and Sora.

Highly doubtful about the Foretellers though as sleeping worlds only project dream incarnations of characters who were once its inhabitants, they project even those who have already perished as explained by Yen Sid during the course of DDD itself.
Furthermore, since the Foretellers were the ones to originally start the first Keyblade War and brought upon the near total annihilation of the universe as foretold in the book they originally intended to prevent, they should be as dead as someone can possibly get inside the KH-Universe at the current time where our heroes live.
(And frankly it would probably be better if these nutjobs stay as dead as possible because the universe already has to deal with a crazy Apocalypse bringer in the form of Xehanort, there is no need to add five more and make things even worse.)

 

[Blackdrazon]

Furthermore, since the Foretellers were the ones to originally start the first Keyblade War and brought upon the near total annihilation of the universe as foretold in the book they originally intended to prevent, they should be as dead as someone can possibly get inside the KH-Universe at the current time where our heroes live.

Geeze, I was so much happier pretending I was a data-being being used as a puppet than a ghost doomed to repeat the actions that led to the extermination of life as we know it!

(And frankly it would probably be better if these nutjobs stay as dead as possible because the universe already has to deal with a crazy Apocalypse bringer in the form of Xehanort, there is no need to add five more and make things even worse.)

Unfortunately for us, if they aren't part of the plot, nothing can stop them from becoming optional superbosses. Flee!


By the way, I like how tidily this revelation meshes with existing information. Dream Eaters are about the only creature in KH lore I can imagine being "created" in the way Chirithy recounted half the game ago, but it never occurred to me beforehand!

 

[Beezenbatz]

I'm seeing some people say that Dream Eaters are confined to the Sleeping Worlds. Friendly reminder that this is not the case. Riku's able to bring his Dream Eaters into the waking world near the end of Dream Drop Distance because they came from Sora's dreams and Sora was still sleeping. They don't have to stay IN the dream; the dream just can't END without also ending their existence.

 

[YukiYashaH]

I'm dumb, so I can't make theories. So I'll just sit back and BE SURPRISED AS HELL, OMG

Spoiler Show

 

[Sephiroth0812]

Geeze, I was so much happier pretending I was a data-being being used as a puppet than a ghost doomed to repeat the actions that led to the extermination of life as we know it!

Unfortunately for us, if they aren't part of the plot, nothing can stop them from becoming optional superbosses. Flee!

By the way, I like how tidily this revelation meshes with existing information. Dream Eaters are about the only creature in KH lore I can imagine being "created" in the way Chirithy recounted half the game ago, but it never occurred to me beforehand!

I don't see anything of my statement ruling that scenario out. Depending on what the whole setting of X[chi] really is the data-puppets scenario could still be feasible. My statement was about what happened in the real original world of fairytales generations ago when the first Keyblade War came to an end and what then logically the current "state" of the Foretellers should be.
As we know that events cannot be altered once they have happened on the overall time axis, this is something that is set in stone and whatever the setting of Chi really is, a dream in the RoD or some data-construct, doesn't matter as its eventual outcome cannot be changed.
The only thing that remains is that Sora, Mickey, Yen Sid and all their allies might have a chance to prevent the whole thing from happening a second time.

Optional superbosses tend to be outside the main plot or foreshadowing of future development though, so the Foretellers being superbosses could easily be a glimpse for something in the new saga.
The main problem I pointed out there was that it would be quite problematic for Sora & co. to have to deal with the Foretellers and Xehanort at the same time. After they have finished the business with Xehanort, they may concentrate on any eventual returning Foretellers as well and kick them back to Oblivion if they make trouble again.

I'm seeing some people say that Dream Eaters are confined to the Sleeping Worlds. Friendly reminder that this is not the case. Riku's able to bring his Dream Eaters into the waking world near the end of Dream Drop Distance because they came from Sora's dreams and Sora was still sleeping. They don't have to stay IN the dream; the dream just can't END without also ending their existence.

Don't forget that this was only possible because of a) Riku himself being a Dream Eater (and Sora's personal one to boot) and b) The World that Never Was being a special world that can exist in the Realm of Sleep and the waking world at the same time, it is nowhere said that Dream Eaters can cross the barriers of the Realms in general.

 

[The_Echo]

OK, I'm more confused now than I have ever been in the history of this franchise.

So, here are some thoughts (they are racing)
1) Daybreak Town is a Sleeping World
This would let DT appear in KHIII now that the Sleeping Worlds have been woken up.
Fairly obvious how it would become a Sleeping World.

2) Why are there Heartless in a Sleeping World?
Sora and Riku both carried Dream Eaters into the real world because they still slept.
But would a sleeping person be able to encounter Heartless in their dreams if they're in a real world?
There are no Heartless in The Grid or The World That Never Was in DDD, although there are multiple development reasons for this and may not be strictly related to canon.

3) Chirithy has a maker. The master of the Foretellers created them.
Are Dream Eaters artificial, as Emblem Heartless are? They have a sigil, despite supposedly being naturally-occurring as Pureblood Heartless are.
Dream Eaters have recipes.

I have no idea what's going on.

 

[ShardofTruth]

In DDD Riku and Sora only restored the worlds they opened the sleeping Keyholes for and not any outside of those.
I haven't the quote right at hand but I recall that either in the Famitsu interview concerning the DDD Ultimania or in the Ultimania itself Nomura confirms that there are still other sleeping worlds not visited by Riku and Sora.

Maybe there are sleeping worlds Sora and Riku didn't visit, we're left pretty much in the darkness here.
I think this is the only interview about this topic that exists.

The “World Submerged in Sleep” is a complex story, but there were worlds other than those that Sora restored in KH1, some that were not submerged in darkness. Like the worlds of the princesses and Dumbo’s, etc. In the end of KH1 it was established that some of those worlds were restored, but not all of them. Those that were neither in light nor in darkness, but those that were submerged in sleep.

The game quickly forgot about the seven keyholes of sleep, probably because there are more than seven to be found.

I'm seeing some people say that Dream Eaters are confined to the Sleeping Worlds. Friendly reminder that this is not the case. Riku's able to bring his Dream Eaters into the waking world near the end of Dream Drop Distance because they came from Sora's dreams and Sora was still sleeping. They don't have to stay IN the dream; the dream just can't END without also ending their existence.

So the master of the Foretellers is still sleeping, creating one Chirithy after another, probably somewhere down in the city of R'lyeh?

 

[Sephiroth0812]

This would let DT appear in KHIII now that the Sleeping Worlds have been woken up.

It wouldn't as not ALL Sleeping Worlds have been woken up. Only those which got their sleeping Keyhole opened during DDD were restored.

 

[The_Echo]

It wouldn't as not ALL Sleeping Worlds have been woken up. Only those which got their sleeping Keyhole opened during DDD were restored.

I edited my post while you were replying so I'll just paste it here I guess.

In DDD Riku and Sora only restored the worlds they opened the sleeping Keyholes for and not any outside of those.
I haven't the quote right at hand but I recall that either in the Famitsu interview concerning the DDD Ultimania or in the Ultimania itself Nomura confirms that there are still other sleeping worlds not visited by Riku and Sora.

The seven Sleeping Keyholes correspond with the seven pure Lights. This tells me that there are only seven Keyholes in the entire Realm of Sleep, regardless of how many worlds are sleeping. Also, there were two Keyholes unlocked in Traverse Town (which exists in both the Realm Between and Realm of Sleep simultaneously) and The Grid is not a Sleeping World.

I just checked the Ultimania interview and there's nothing related to the Sleeping Worlds there. I'll sift through the Famitsu​ interviews in a bit. EDIT: I found nothing. All I saw was Nomura saying that there were other worlds in the Realm of Sleep, and that not even Yen Sid knew which worlds Sora and Riku would visit.

 

[Some guy]

Well, everyone's assuming DT is in the RoS now; while I understand why, I wouldn't rule out DT being a data world yet.

Here's my theory: Foretellers' master (or foretellers? can't remember) creates dream eaters (chirities) to accompany and help the many keyblade wielders > Apocalypse > Chirities are traped into the RoS when the different planes come into existence > Chirities have offsprings or mutate or dream or something in the meantime, creating the DE we know today. The DE are clearly not part of the world's end retelling, so they had to come from somewhere ...

So Chirities' occurence in a data world can be explained as they were originaly there.

And I'm pretty sure all destroyed worlds fall into sleep (so sleeping worlds (and consequently the RoS) existed for as long as darkness existed), most came back at the end of KHI, some couldn't wake up and DDD address those ... Wasn't The Grid a sleeping world though? As for wether or not ALL sleeping worlds woke up after the seven keyholes were opened/sealed ... nobody knows.

 

[Lenneth]

Well.....Thanks for the Spoiler. the title alone is a REALLY big one. I came for the walkthrough help and found this...UGH

 

[Vanitas666]

^Agree about the spoiler thing, this might still get a English release one day as well.
(ps, I love that sig lol)

On another note I think Daybreak Town is connected to Traverse Town somehow and how it shows up when worlds are being destroyed, it's asleep (even though it didn't fall to darkness in KH I) and if I'm not mistaken is consistent of several worlds that have fallen to darkness.
I guess there could be 2 keyholes there because those keyholes belong to some other world that TT consist of but what are the odds of that right?

 

[Kazr10]

Well.....Thanks for the Spoiler. the title alone is a REALLY big one. I came for the walkthrough help and found this...UGH

To be very fair, only a few people are bothered with Chi. There are still many people out there who still regard Chi's "canon" storyline as bullshit and/or non-existent.

So spoon-feeding the information is practically the only best way to spread this knowledge around.