I just finished the game for my first time... wow! Great storyline! All those "untolds, what if, could it be" reminds me alot of Planescape. Great stuff!
At the end, before the final fight, Kreia clearly states that she was stripped from the force. When we ask if she could have used other jedis beside us...
Kreia:
No, there were not. In times past and in times future, there are Jedi who will stop listening to the Force, those that will try to forget it, but maintain unconscious ties. {Quiet}And those, as in the past just as I, who have had the force stripped from them. But no Jedi ever made the choice you did. To sever ties so completely, so utterly, that it leaves a wound in the Force.It was a mistake to try to make you feel it again, I see that now. There is no truth in the Force. But there is truth in you, exile. And that is why I chose you.
My question is WHO stripped her from the force and WHEN does it happened? As she said, it was not a choice she made. So it's not like the exile who willingly disconnected himself from the force to survive the death of thousands people/jedi having "bonds" with him. So if someone stipped the force from her, I guess it had to occured before Malachor V.
Could it be the jedi council? As Vrook said first time you meet him, it is in the power of the council to strip someone from the force, but this hasn't happened in a long time and the council didn't do it to the exile. So can this be a reference to the council stripping Kreia of the force?
The question brought by this is, what is the soo terrible thing that kreia did to receive such punishment? I don't know when that stripping occured, but I cannot really say that it is because she always trained flawed padawans. To my knowledge, only Revan was reported as a flawed padawan before Kreia was sent into exile (and possible being stripped of the force at the same occasion). And if that was the reason, I found it a quite heavy punishment for only one flawed padawan.
So to get back on topic of the initial post, I like a lot the theory of Kreia being Kea. But my biggest drawback is that Kreia has been stripped of the force (possible by the council, but that's not certain) and that I see no reason at all for Kea tha Handmaiden's mother to receive this punishment. Having a child, leaving for the mandalorian wars... that can bring exile as punishment, but not removal of the force. And there are never mention of Master Kea being stripped of the force by the council. To me, she seemed like a respected Jedi Master until that her baby was discovered, that she followed Revan to war and was exiled.
=> EDIT: Ok, surely no big news for anyone reading the spoiler forum, but I see now that it is Nihilus and Sion who stripped Kreia of the force (as seen in the first movie when you talk to Keira about her background on the ebon hawk). So it's not the Council... I am almost desappointed <_<
So as Keira's removal of the force occured after Master Kea was exiled, then yes they could both be the same person. Btw, how does she recconnected to the force so easily? To be able to teach prescience stuff and jedi tricks to the Exile, you have to be more then barely reconnected to the forec, no?