In this series, are there three people using the title "Bloodedge", or only two?

[User J]

Blazblue's story line has to be one of the hardest to follow out of any video game I've ever played. I find it practically impossible to fully make sense of it, anyways, I've always wondered, are there three different characters that use the title Bloodedge in this game? From my understanding there's," Ragna the bloodegde" the main protagonist, and than theirs just "Bloodedge," who was the original owner of Raga's sword and coat, and there's Naoto Kurogane, who for whatever reason keeps being associated with the term "bloodegde" via his weapon and the books titled "the bloodedge experience." This is confusing, and you can't find many answers in regards to if there are three or only two people using this title.

[Rook]

The main character is Ragna the Bloodedge. The title comes from Bloodedge, a warrior who held off the Black Beast for a year back during the Dark War in order to give the Six Heroes (Hakumen, Jubei, Nine, Trinity, Valkenhayn, and Terumi) time to recuperate and eventually finish it off for good. Bloodedge was the original owner of Ragna's sword (Blood Scythe/Aramasa) and his red coat.

You can read about Bloodedge in the Phase 0 light novel (which has been fully fan-translated into English). If you want spoilers as to who Bloodedge really is, then he is actually Ragna himself, who was transported back in time during the events of BlazBlue Chronophantasma without his memories. Ragna assumes the name Bloodedge and fights off the Black Beast. He gives Celica his coat and sword, and Jubei would eventually give them to Ragna when he was training him.

As for Naoto, he is essentially his timeline's version of Ragna. He comes from the Bloodedge Experience light novels. The term Bloodedge as it refers to Naoto is the name of his Drive ability.

[Sauvagess]

Originally posted by WhiteStork:

From my understanding there's," Ragna the bloodegde" the main protagonist, and than theirs just "Bloodedge," who was the original owner of Raga's sword and coat

These two characters are actually one and the same. BlazBlue's story revolves around time travel loops and alternate universes, so when Ragna receives the coat and sword from the fallen Blood Edge, he goes on to fight the Black Beast, which is the culmination of the old Ragna and 𝛎-13 (who is a clone of Ragna's sister Saya) falling into the Kiln of the 13th Hierarchical City of Kagutsuchi which sends them/it into the past to initiate the Great Dark War.

Naoto is a different character from an alternate universe that presumably fills the same role as Ragna does, though with a different course of events.
EDIT: The person above me summed it up better.

[Rook]

Originally posted by Sauvagess:

Originally posted by WhiteStork:

From my understanding there's," Ragna the bloodegde" the main protagonist, and than theirs just "Bloodedge," who was the original owner of Raga's sword and coat

These two characters are actually one and the same. BlazBlue's story revolves around time travel loops and alternate universes, so when Ragna receives the coat and sword from the fallen Blood Edge, he goes on to fight the Black Beast, which is the culmination of the old Ragna and 𝛎-13 (who is a clone of Ragna's sister Saya) falling into the Kiln of the 13th Hierarchical City of Kagutsuchi which sends them/it into the past to initiate the Great Dark War.

Naoto is a different character from an alternate universe that presumably fills the same role as Ragna does, though with a different course of events.
EDIT: The person above me summed it up better.

I read "Kiln of the 13th Hierarchical City" as "Kiln of the First Flame" at first.

[Sauvagess]

Probably doesn't help that it was originally translated as "cauldron"