That first scene is so in-depth and all, but I'm too distracted by that lucky emblem lol

I've updated the OP with goldpanner's translations! Video will come later today :)

HOoooooooooooooooooo, 'kay... A clouple of thoughts:

Thanks for the translation, it's still super confusing.

The only thing that still makes sense to me is how the Book of Prophecies pulls worlds from the future to the real Daybreak Town, which are projected there. These worlds are connected through the portals we always see but exist in the same plane as Daybreak Town. Also the worlds grow somehow, or the connected Daybreak Town grows by connecting to more worlds or something like that. This was explained earlier by Ephemer and fits the single world description of the age of fairy tales.

The Keyblade War scattered these worlds so they can't be reached anymore. Instead a data simulation of the pre-Keyblade War Daybreak Town including the connected worlds was created. Now another world (WIR) is connected to the seemingly real Daybreak Town, which results in doubts if it is the really the original Daybreak Town, simply because of the data world phenomena.
So far so confusing.

What I don't get are these passages.

One thing I noticed about the Darklings is that they don't demand Lux anymore, they're just shouting "Y o u a r e d i f f e r e n t " every time they show up.
Do they mean Player (whose memories have been altered) by that or are they referring to the state of the worlds?

It's also funny that Blaine/Brain is casually talking about the Keyblade War while one of the regular Dandelions is in the room, foregoing the tenet that regular Dandelions should not even know it happened. Ephemer and Ven too don't bat an eye.

So that makes the third translation I've read for this and I THINK all three together more or less paint a pretty clear picture.

It starts out with explaining things we already know which is that originally there was a real Daybreak Town and the MoM/Foretellers essentially made a bunch of subworlds within this one world. A lot like how Pooh's world exists in Twilight Town or Tron's exists in RG. In this case the subworlds were the projections summoned from the book of prophecies. After the keyblade war happened the whole world we disconnected and that was that.

Post keyblade war all the dandelions were sent to a new world, a new daybreak town. Because the MoM knew they wouldn't have someone who understands how to manifest the contents of the book of prophecies he had to take special measures. He created digital copies of all worlds he summoned from the book, and as we know two other worlds Enchanted Dominion and Cinderella's castle that weren't summoned from the book. In the case of ED he specifically avoided summoning it because he didn't want Maleficent to have a gateway into the past. THEN he linked up all these to a digital daybreak town as well, basically it's a KH2 case where we had a real twilight town with a digital one connected to it, or a Coded case where we had a real Mickey's castle connected to a digital Mickey's castle.

Now everyone simply assumed that they were standing in the real Daybreak Town but it turns out the current evidence supports the idea they have been inside of the Digital Daybreak town. Which begs the question then who or what is in the REAL Daybreak Town among other things. But on top of then a world that's not part of time (other translations have said outside of time) has connected to this one and they don't know what. The connection is causing problems in their world and so they need to go investigate it.

My guess is that given all this stuff happen only AFTER "Darkness" told Maleficent there is a way to return to her own time and wants to get her back to her own time, that "Darkness" is responsible for this. I bet the idea is that there exists worlds that are not part of the normal flow of time. From a world like that I imagine looking in from the outside the timeline is just a bunch of indiscriminate points to choose from. So travel to world outside of time THEN you use that is a waystation to travel back into time, but this time get to choose your destination with some restrictions I imagine and probably a heavy cost.

This might actually explain what the deal with KH3's secret ending is then as well.

I suppose this confirms that the Daybreak Town of Union Cross is made of data, but I do wonder if the whole theme of Dream Worlds will ever come back up. In back cover Ava literally says that the world they are travelling to will seem familiar, but it is made out of dreams and dreaming seemed to play an important role in the early story of Chi, I wonder if that concept has been more or less abandoned now in favour of data worlds? Thanks again for the translations KHI team and Goldpanner

Thanks for the updated videos Sign and your explanation, that makes a lot of sense.

Regarding Castle of Dreams: That's also bugging me. Because it didn't appear in KHX and that scene with Darkness it's often assumed that it's also a Data-only world like Enchanted Dominion. We see it in Strelitzia's flashback though, which has to happen pre-Keyblade War in the Book of Prophecy worlds.

I've never been this confused about a Kingdom Hearts plot point since time travel was implemented. It's almost as if Nomura loves using convaluted storytelling as a signature trait for the franchise.

Reuploaded with a minor tweak: Where Brain says "the worlds were constantly expanding" should be singular, referring to more worlds coming into existence and expanding the larger world entity that encompasses them.

That's my guess.

Tried to throw together a graphic to explain everything as simply as possible, any critiques/corrections are welcome.

Edit: Revised pic

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Our translation went with Game Central Station "not existing in the timeline" because it seems more likely to be a conclusion Brain would be able to reach, as that world wasn't around before the war and there's probably no mention of it in the Book of Prophecies? Which (like Hirokey has already mentioned) may suggest that it was only recently created by an unaccounted party and this is the first known record of it.

But overall, I feel like the concept of worlds that are unaffected by time seems to be a perfect fit for data worlds? Like, all that matters is that a route has been established to them.

Say for example, Brain's route to Game Central Station is cut off, leaving Ephemera and Player stranded. Sometime in the future, a new route to that world is created. Since it's data and hasn't been touched since, all of its contents remained unchanging. Ephemera and Player would be able to escape through that new route and emerge at a different point of time than when they entered.

Just a theory anyways.

Possibly related, KH3's glossary entry for Datascapes also added the lore that "Inside a datascape, time can be made to loop infinitely, and the impossible becomes possible."

Nice infograph Sign, that makes a lot of sense.

Say what you will about Nomura, but his in-universe explanations for time-traveling really make his iteration of time-traveling very limited and intuitive.

That graph is fantastic thank you Sign! Hey I know people on gamefaqs were having problems understanding the latest update would it be okay, so long as I credit you of course, if it go share it there?

I dont have much to add here but I'm thinking that existing "outside of the timeline" may simply refer to GCS being a world that can't be physically reached, that doesn't physically exist anywhere in space/on any real world map whether in the past, present OR future, much like datascapes, dream worlds, 100 acre wood, and Space Paranoids. Therefore it's my assumption that game central station is a world similar to space paranoids, and may play a similar role/serve a similar purpose to it. In this case it may specifically function as a world that provides connections to various other worlds born from videogames, other worlds made of data, and now data daybreak town too. Perhaps we'll learn more about Verum Rex here?

Japan is so lucky! Why do we have to wait and be behind on the story updates?