The Destiny Islands is a crucial world in the Kingdom Hearts universe, featured as the tutorial stage of the first video game installment, and as minor location in the rest of the series. The homeland of heroes and villains alike, including Sora, Riku, Kairi, and Young Xehanort, the Destiny Islands is amongst the worlds that it was taken over by the darkness before it was restored by Sora in the epilogue of the game. It also appears in the villain tournaments, reprising its role to that of the original video game installment.