Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the so-called "heart of Africa". Charles Marlow, the narrator, tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between what Conrad calls "the greatest town on earth", London, and Africa as places of darkness.
Characters of Kingdom Hearts
is the foremost antagonist of the "Kingdom Hearts" series. He is indirectly introduced in the original game as a Heartless researcher named , revealed in "Kingdom Hearts II" to have assumed the identity of his mentor Ansem the Wise. The prequel "Birth by Sleep" would formally introduce Xehanort as an elderly Keyblade Master who acquired the means to transplant his heart into the bodies of others and orchestrated the events of the games up to "Kingdom Hearts III" to suit his agenda.