Episode 4 and we're going deep into the secret reports.

Specifically Secret Reports 12 and 13 from Luxu — because there's a word in there that I can't stop thinking about. And that word is reenact.

Because if the Keyblade War in Kingdom Hearts 3 is a reenactment — a staged event, a play, a depiction of something that already happened — then what we witnessed isn't a real war at all. It's manufactured. It's a performance. And the person at the centre of it has been explicitly called a scapegoat.

Xehanort. The villain of the entire Dark Seeker Saga. A scapegoat.

In this episode I dig into what that actually means — the biblical definition, the symbolism hiding in plain sight in Xehanort's armour and chess piece, and what it implies about the Master of Masters and the lost masters needing someone else to take the blame. Becau ...