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A Summon is a special character that can be magically called on to aid Sora in the Kingdom Hearts series. They have been present in Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, and Kingdom Hearts II, although the mechanics of using them differ from game to game.

Summon Items are found throughout the Kingdom Hearts universe. They are used to forge different magical aids called Summons that help Sora and his party in battle. In Kingdom Hearts, the items must be forged by the Fairy Godmother in Merlin's Study at Traverse Town before they can be used.

Kingdom Hearts II brings back the summon item; in this iteration, Sora immediately obtains the summon when the charm is found. In Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, summons take the form of cards in summon cards. They can be combined with other cards to create powerful sleights by stocking multiple Summons Cards of the same type.

Kingdom Hearts[]

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The Fairy Godmother helps Sora unlock four of the Summons in Kingdom Hearts.

In the original Kingdom Hearts, most of the summons are obtained by finding special gems called "Summon Gems" in various worlds. The gems can then be given to the Fairy Godmother, staying at Merlin's House in Traverse Town; she uses her magic to restore their spirit forms and release their powers, thus making the summon creatures available.

All of these summons are victims of the Heartless' quest to destroy the worlds. As explained by the Fairy Godmother, the summon gems are the crystallized forms of strong, good-hearted denizens that did not fall victim to the darkness during the destruction of their worlds, and so are able to be called into battle for a limited time.

Two summons out of the five, Genie and Tinker Bell, are allies from worlds Sora has visited, and join him of their own free will upon locking the Keyhole of their world. They do not need to be released by the Fairy Godmother before they can be used.

Chain of Memories[]

In Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Sora can obtain summon cards during his ascent of Castle Oblivion. These Summon Cards are essentially magic cards that enable Sora to perform summons. They are created from Sora's memories, so the summons are the same ones from Kingdom Hearts, with the addition of Cloud.

They also differ in how they play out, as playing or stacking a different number of cards has different results, much like Magic and friend cards (for example, one Cloud card will use a normal slash, while two make a Cross-slash, and three make an Omnislash). However, Sora is unable to activate cards while the summon is active, contrary to Enemy Cards. In addition, the Summon can be broken (or break other cards) at any point in its duration.

Kingdom Hearts II[]

In Kingdom Hearts II, summons come from special charms found scattered throughout the worlds, which Sora can immediately use without having to unlock them. The charms from Kingdom Hearts II work differently than the summon gems from Kingdom Hearts. While most of the summon spells in the first game gave a temporary body to the soul contained within the gem, the charms on the other hand actually teleports the summonable characters directly from their world.

Birth by Sleep[]

In Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, a new form of summon is featured, known as the Dimension Link (shortened as "D-Link"). Players can draw power from non-playable characters or summon one of the three main characters wirelessly from other players to aid them in action.

While Cinderella, King Mickey, Zack Fair, Experiment 626, Goofy, Donald Duck, and others are known as the non-playable D-Link characters, Terra, Ventus, and Aqua are the wireless D-Link characters.

Kingdom Hearts III[]

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