"The world is not just a single entity.
Another world similar to ours exists in another dimension."
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--1. Sequence of events up to the big split (1010 AD)----------------------------
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Note: The story of Chrono Cross supposedly happens 20 years after the main time
period of Chrono Trigger (1000 AD), putting Chrono Cross in 1020 AD. Whenever
someone in Chrono Cross refers to an event occurring 10, 14 or whatever years ago,
I will use 1010 AD, 1006 AD, etc. The point is, in Home and Another, THIS ALL
HAPPENED BECAUSE IT WAS BEFORE THE HOME/ANOTHER SPLIT.
- 65,000,000 BC -
"...the planet began its dream..."
An advanced race of reptilian creatures called Reptites rule the earth alongside
the dinosaurs (which they evolved from). Their ruler, Azala, dislikes the new
species on the block (intelligent apes) and decides to destroy them starting with
Laruba village.
Crono & company fall out of the sky searching for the Dreamstone to reforge the
sword Masamune. The warrior supreme of Ioka village, Ayla, enlists the help of a
few friends from the future to disrupt Azala's plans. In exvhange for their help,
and being beaten by Crono in a drinking contest, she hands over the Dreamstone
and joins his team. Now, ideally this could lead to peaceful coexistence between
Reptites and proto-humanity but....
The alien creature Lavos crashes into Azala's castle like a meteor, causing an
ice age which kills off the Reptites allowing humanity to rise. Lavos eventually
burrows into the planet's core while its energies spread, slowly mutating the
environment of the planet. Humans develop big smarty-brains and rule over
everything. At this point, a dimension splinters off from the main "reality" where
the Reptites were NOT killed off. They evolve in harmony with the will of the
planet and build a big flying city called Dinopolis. See section 4.
Crono & Co. put the Sun Stone in a solitary cave so it can start storing solar
energy for the next few million years.
Ayla marries Kino (um, a likable, scrawny guy from Ioka).
Chrono Trigger: Unnatural Selection, subquests, the PSX version ending.
Chrono Cross: Fort Dragonia (H), Chronopolis
- 65,000,000 BC until 12,000 BC -
"...and you shall be as gods...."
Lavos sleeps, slowly devouring the planet from the inside like the porcupine
spiked worm he is, and still corrupting everything. Okay, this isn't actually
explained, but somehow, a group of humans manages to get lots of power from
DreamStones and discover magic. Led by Zeal, they use their power and the
DreamStones to elevate themselves and their culture above the rest of humanity,
who are still slugging it through the ice age. Seriously! Zeal and her Zealots
(couldn't resist) live on a big, flying subcontinent! The 3 wisest men of the
Zealots become the gurus Belthasar, Melchior, and Gaspar. The Zealots, under
the guidance of the Queen and the Gurus create many wonders, such as the airship
Blackbird and the Sun Stone.
CONJECTURE:
I shall assume during this period that Melchior creates the Masamune and
possibly the Einlanzer at this time. I say this because Doreen is happily
bouncing around Zeal in 12,000 BC but no sooner. Gaspar researches biology
and the nature of Nu, which somehow evolve into BeachBums and Land Octopi
by CC. ^_^ Balthasar goes into technology and begins preliminary preliminary
work on Time Travel technology and robotics.
Now Queen Zeal has two children: Schala (oldest and heiress to the throne) and
Janus (protective little brother). Both are raised and tutored by the 3 gurus and
their mother. No mention of a father, hmmmm. Eventually, Queen Zeal discovers a NEW
power source: Lavos. The Zealots construct the Mammon Machine out of DreamStone
to channel Lavos' power into rechargable DreamStone pendants, which draw out the
power and feelings of the wearers, who serve Queen Zeal, who serves Lavos now. Her
prolonged exposure to Lavos' energies is corrupts her mind and her children, and
the gurus, worry what she will do next. She gives Schala a special pendant that
apparently has the power to bend time/space, reach across dimensions, and, umm...
activate a special function of the Mammon Machine. Zeal's plan seems to be to
unite herself with the sleeping Lavos and take all of its stolen power for herself
and Zeal. This would leave Schala to take her place as ruler of the Zeal people in
her image. The Zealots begin building the Undersea Fortress/Black Omen to carry
out her ambitious plan (I guess they need to get closer to Lavos). Schala, Janus
and the gurus realize that her plan is a VERY BAD THING.
Chrono Trigger: Silly Zeal people, secret message from Gaspar in Zeal, Undersea
Palace, people in Terra Cave 12,000 BC, people in 65,000,000 BC
- 12,000 BC -
"...You know, she really does look like Rita Repulsa..."
Um, Crono and our other heroes fall out of the sky (again) on the ground. They
notice the groundlings in Terra CAve don't look too far advanced from Ayla's
time. They tell our heroes to check Zeal if they want advancement. So, they
fight and teleport their way to the floating Zeal subcontinent where they learn
about the Queen, her kids, the Gurus, Zealot society, the Mammon Machine, and the
VERY BAD big plan.
Queen Zeal uses the Mammon machine to summon Lavos to the completed Undersea
Palace, even though the "Mysterious Prophet", Schala and Janus rebel against
her. Crono, using the "red knife" given to him by guru Melchior, disrupts Lavos'
energies and summons Lavos' true form. Crono sacrifices himself to try to save
everyone else from getting killed by an awake and cranky Lavos.
Marle uses the Time Egg to warp to the exact moment of Crono's death and replace
our mute hero with an exact replica. Thus he is saved. What, you mean you DIDN'T
save him? Meanies!
CONJECTURE
That "red knife" looks a lot like the "red rock" from Ayla's time which was
used to repair the Masamune. Yes, the DreamStone, which is forged into the
Masamune. If anyone remembers the exact scene, when Crono plunges the knife
into the Mammon Machine, it transforms into a sword that looks a LOT like
the Masamune. Then Masa & Mune explain the pendant/sword thing. What I believe
is that Melchior gave Crono the knife knowing that Crono only wanted what was
best for his friends, family, and the world. The "red knife" drew out his hopes
and dreams and was transformed into the first Masamune. Crono's goodness was
passed on through subsequent generations until we get to 1005's mass murder.
Of course, this whole thing falls apart if the red knife disappeared with the
Mammon Machine and Lavos, but the three spirits remain so Crono and Melchior's
sentiments probably lived on with them, even if the original knife/sword was
destroyed or taken into the Tesseract.
Schala uses her pendant's power to get our heroes out. Janus is pulled through time
to between 560 and 580 AD. The guru Gaspar ends up in London England circa the
Victorian era--I mean the End of Time. The guru Melchior ends up in 1000 AD near the
demihuman "Mystic" kingdom of Medina. The guru Balthasar ends up (and dies?) in
2300 AD. Lavos gets reeeallly cranky and sends waves of power through the earth to
the sky, causing the Zeal continent to fall down and go boom.
Schala is pulled into a dimension outside of time and space (the Tesseract) where she
encounters either--
A. a piece of Lavos within the Mammon Machine pulled in with her (possible)
B. a Lavos Spawn from a dark future eradicated from time (possible)
C. true Lavos (also possible, less likely)
D. All of the above (um, no.)
Anyway, they merge to become the Time Devourer.
The queen, who is in the process of uniting with the real Lavos, raises the Undersea
Fortress, transforming it into the Black Omen.
Oh, remember the Mysterious Prophet? Well, he's everyone's favorite scythe
wielding sorceror, Magus. Crono's friends show him mercy, despite Frog's middle
English protests and he joins them to go after Lavos. I mean, Lavos did take
his sister, so it's an "enemy of my enemy is my friend" thing.
You mean you DIDN'T recruit Magus? BOO TO YOU!
Later, Queen Zeal's dumb servant Dalton abducts the guru-designed super airship, the
Blackbird after the Zeal continent falls. He also borrows our heroes' time ship, the
Epoch and gioves it a cool flight upgrade, and a really dumb name. Our heroes kick his
butt from here 'til eternity and get Epoch back, dammit.
Our heroes "borrow" the Zeal Sun Stone, since they drained then abandoned its power
for the Mammon Machine and Lavos.
Chrono Trigger: events occurring in 12,000 BC era
Chrono Cross: CT kids on Opassa beach.
- 12,000 BC until 7,600 BC -
"...the Black Omen sparkles in the sun..."
I am assuming that everything in this time frame happened just as it happens in
Chrono Trigger, not that Chrono Trigger says a whole lot. Let's just say the Black
Omen sits there, awaiting the Lavos Event. Humanity keeps chugging along.
Any evidence to the contrary is welcome.
BUT, after Lavos is erased, there is no Black Omen....oops.
- 7,600 BC - [This is 10,000 years ago from 2400 AD]
"...Reptites bad..."
True Lavos reaches across dimensions and draws Chronopolis back in time as a backup
plan against Crono and friends. At the same time, the flying city of Dinopolis
(Terra Tower) is pulled across dimensions and drawn back in time by the planet to
counter Chronopolis. You see, Dinopolis was the planet's ideal, and their Dragon God
the source of their power. In other words, the planet needed some Lavos-free backup.
There is a battle between Chronopolis and Dinopolis (or the inhabitants thereof
anyway, assumed to be evolved Reptites). The humans win and FATE divides the
Dragon god into the 6 lesser dragon gods of El Nido. What's left of Dinopolis settles
into the sea and becomes Sky Dragon Island. Um, I suppose the last surviving reptites
go out and cultivate some of the demihuman races or something.
Chrono Cross: Chronopolitan spectres
- 7,600 BC until 600 AD -
"...By the great dragon gods!..."
At some point, FATE and the researchers at Chronopolis create the islands of El Nido.
They are populated by people from Chronopolis who have had their memories of the future
erased. FATE needs humanity to grow and develop to a certain point so that she and
Chronopolis will be around by 2400 AD. She installs "Records of Fate" are placed
throughout the land to guide the thoughts and actions of the people so that history
remains mostly unchanged. In other words, FATE and the Chronopolitans were making
sure that, at least in some timeline, they exist, because El Nido has to exist for
FATE to exist, and vice-versa. It's a complete self-referencing loop (see section C).
Put simply, it's like being your own great-grandmother or father.
By the way, the 6 Dragons sit and watch humanity grow and develop, and sense the pain
they cause to the planet and environment. Though they don't show it until one big
scene on Disc 2, (and are likely kept sedated by FATE), the Dragon gods are NOT
pleased with humanity. At all. EVER. And yes, they'd like to be free of FATE's
control so they can get 65 million years of revenge on Lavos and his "children".
The El Nido, Guardia, Porre, and Medina (Mystic-Demihuman) kingdoms and races rise
and develop under the ever-watchful eyes of FATE.
Young Janus is "adopted" by Ozzie, Slash, Flea, and the rest of the "Mystic" race.
I'm assuming since he didn't look like most normal humans (thanks to Zeal) he fit
in just fine. He vows to take revenge on Lavos (and his mom) for what they did
to him and his sister, so he delves into Shadow magic and becomes an extremely
powerful sorceror. He becomes the Magus (impressive music) and gathers power
to himself as the champion of the demihumans of Medina. He then declares war on
Guardia and Porre on behalf of the Mystics. The Guardian knight Cyrus and his squire,
Glenn, try to use the holy sword Masamune (y'know, I actually liked "Granleon"
better) to defeat him; but Magus deflects its power, shatters the Masamune, kills
Cyrus, and turns Glenn into a (the) Frog. Defeated and shamed, Frog goes into hiding
to train for the time when he can get revenge on Magus, still holding on to a piece
of the Masamune. He also sort of becomes an famous anonymous hero righting wrongs and
assisting Guardia in the war here and there.
Chrono Trigger: events transpiring between Frog and Magus, flashbacks
Chrono Cross: Belthasar, in Terra Tower, Chronopolis spectre who says that
Chronopolis was drawn 10,000 years into the past, 2400 AD - 10,000 = 7,600 BC)
- 600 AD -
"...We three embody the dreams of Melchior..."
Ok, here goes...DEEP BREATH
Crono and Lucca end up here searching for a present princess Nadia who has been
mistaken for a past Queen Leene. Nadia, aka Marle, is briefly ripped from
existence because her ancestor Leene may have been killed by Yakra. Magus' servant.
Crono and Lucca receive the assistance of Frog in rescuing Leene and kicking
Yakra's butt, thus allowing Marle to exist again (I wonder how she liked the
Tesseract?).
Also, after assisting Guardia's army on the bridge, they realize that Guardia
needs to WIN the war against Magus for Marle's timeline to be properly restored.
For this, they will need the legendary hero.
Unfortunately, Frog is still too busy blaming himself for Cyrus' death and for
recently losing Cyrus' Hero Medal to that bratty little Tata to help out our
heroes. So, Crono, Marle, and Lucca decide to locate the Masamune for Frog
and reforge it. Well, first they find the other half, after battling the spirits
of the sword, Masa and Mune. They also get back the hero medal. Doreen, the third
spirit has decided not to bother THIS time around for whatever reasons. They
notice that the sword has Melchior's name on it so they visit 1000 AD to find him.
Melchior makes them jump back in time to prehistory to get the DreamStone (see
above). Lucca and Melchior reforge the Masamune shiny and new and Frog decides
it is finally time to go after Magus.
They go in, layeth the smacketh down upon Ozzie, Flea, and Slash, fight a gadzillion
other monsters and come upon Magus, who is conjuring up a big spell to try to
destroy Lavos. Unfortunately, our heroes screw up everything (at least from Magus'
perspective) and everyone gets to go back to 12,000 BC. for a while.
Ok, later on (sorta), Our heroes find that Cyrus' ghost is haunting an old manor up
north. Our heroes exterminate the monsters, and have the manor repaired. Finally,
Frog must confront the ghost of his old friend and they make their peace. In
gratitude for finally being able to rest, Cyrus gives his dreams to the Masamune
turning it into the best sword in Chrono Trigger.
Magus "settles some differences" between him and the terrible trio (by wiping the floor
with Ozzie, Slash, and Flea) and Medina finally settles on peaceful existence with
humans.
Robo and Fiona plant a forest!
Frog gets turned back into his human form, Glenn. (Source: PSX Chrono Trigger Ending)
(*NOTE This is NOT the Glenn from Chrono Cross)
- 600 AD - 1000 AD -
I am assuming that everything in this time frame happened just as it happens in
Chrono Trigger. Let's see, kingdoms expand and grow, people have descendants,
a desert becomes a forest, a robot becomes a saint, a mayor learns generosity, and
a bunch of other stuff, like...
CONJECTURE:
While the Zenan demihumans are pretty peaceful, the El Nido demihumans are having
issues. Many settle their differences and live with humans in Guldove. Others,
who aren't so forgiving, settle in Marbule.
Any evidence to the contrary is VERY welcome.
- 1000 AD -
The Guardia Millennial Fair, Crono meets Marle, (who somehow inherited a Zeal
pendant) and a grand, headache-inducing romp through time and space begins.
Crono is charged with high treason and kidnapping but, busts out (with help
from everyone's favorite genius, the great Lucca Ashtear! HO-HO-HO!). Well,
it turns out that the chancellor/prosecutor is none other than Yakra
XIII trying to settle a 400 year old score (not to mention rule Guardia) but
our heroes make sure he doesn't get very far.
Melchior and Lucca reforge the Masamune, and, much later on, forges nifty
Rainbow weapons, armor, and accessories for our heroes from the Sunstone
and the giant Rainbow shell.
Crono is proven very innocent and by right of virtue, a hero, at his trial
by all the people from different times that he has helped (thanks Lucca!)
Crono and Marle get married after a balloon ride. Awwww.
Crono learns to speak ^_^
Chrono Trigger: beginning, middle, and sidequests, PSX Special Ending
- 1003 AD -
"..the life force known as 'Serge'..."
Lucca and her family (Lara and Taban) decide to start an orphanage. She finds
and adopts baby Kid wearing Schala's pendant in the forest (or maybe in 1004
since she's 16...or has a late birthday)
Serge, the assassin of time, second Chrono Trigger, arbiter of the Frozen Flame,
and bearer of cool Swallow weapons is born to Marge and Wazuki. Leena, daughter
of Miguel, a close family friend, is also born.
Chrono Trigger: PSX special ending
Chrono Cross: Serge, Kid, and Leena are all 16-17. more basic subtraction.
(1020 - 17 = 1003)
- 1005 AD -
"...The sword that conquered darkness?"
The Masamune is stolen from Guardia Castle by an unknown person. This person
uses it to kill many people in Guardia. It is assumed that this event turns
the sword evil.
CONJECTURE:
The Masamune draws out hopes and dreams of the bearer, right? Well, it
seems as if the bearer has to have some damn powerful hopes and dreams,
if it wishes to counter the original goodness imbued in the sword by
Crono and Melchior (see 12,000 BC above), and the later generations of
virtue given the sword by Cyrus, Glenn, and who knows how many others.
Whoever did this must have been damn powerful, or serving someone
with a lot of power, and some bad dreams.
Chrono Trigger: PSX Special Ending
- 1006 AD -
"...res nullius..."
3-year old Serge is bitten by a Panther-demon. In order to save his life, his
father Wazuki and Wazuki's friend Miguel (Leena's father) travel by boat to
Marbule. However, a bad storm (caused by Schala reaching out to Serge from
beyond time) causes them to go off course and into the Sea of Eden. This storm
also causes FATE to shut down for a few minutes. With FATE's hold on them briefly
removed, the 6 lesser dragon gods use this time to create a 7th, the Lunar dragon
Harle, free from FATE's influence. She is the embodiment of the dark moon and her
purpose is to engineer the destruction of FATE and the release of the Frozen Flame.
Then she is to rejoin the Dragon gods to take revenge on humanity on behalf of the
planet...sorta. Poor Harle. If Kid is the beauty, then she must be the beast. Funny,
how at Harle's last moment, it's the opposite.
CONJECTURE:
My take on the whole Harle/Kid thing: Since the merged Schala/LAvos Time
Devourer creature is at the center of all this, wouldn't it make sense if
the dragons created Harle in the rough image of their silent mistress, as
Kid was also created in Schala's image? Just a thought...
Wazuki and Miguel find Chronopolis and enter it. Wazuki is told by a voice to
bring the child. Serge comes into contact with the Frozen Flame and becomes the
second Chrono Trigger, the arbiter of the Frozen Flame (the only one who can
access it now). This act, Schala's interference, and the 2400 AD time crash
splits off a version of Chronopolis into the distortion known as the "Dead Sea"
and FATE is denied access to the Flame. Serge is also healed and Wazuki brings
him back to Arni. Miguel stays, apparently chosen by FATE to be the Dead Sea's
(and the Flame's) guardian.
- 1006 AD until 1010 AD -
"...FATE has no mercy..."
Um, let's see....Serge grows up in Arni.
Wazuki's mind, already traumatized by seeing his son almost die in Chronopolis,
is consumed totally by FATE. He becomes the biological instrument of FATE and
is transformed into Lynx, the image of Serge's worst fear (big cats).
Lynx and Harle try to "convince" Lucca to release the Prometheus lock on FATE
(in Home's FATE, which still exists for now, no Dead Sea yet). This culminates in
a raid and the burning down of her orphanage. The Mastermune, purified and
merciful, send Serge and 2 frrrriends back in time to save Kid and the other
children. Sadly, before young Kid can even really thank her silent savior, the
Mastermune loses power and Serge returns to his own timeline, BUT current Kid
is snapped out of her coma (and gets her L7 tech if you did it right...)
Chrono Cross: kids on the beach, Mastermune flashback
- 1010 AD -
"...Angelus Erratus..."
Schala hears the cries of a little Serge across the dimensions. Serge is drowning
in Opassa beach. Schala creates a daughter-clone (Kid) who travels through time and
dimensions to save Serge from drowning. Kid is entrusted with Schala's pendant
and is then born into the universe proper in 1003 or 1004 AD. I assume she homed
in on when Serge was first born, and made that her target for her 'rebirth', even
though Serge doesn't get saved until future Kid travels back to save him.
THIS WAS THE START OF ALL THIS.
THIS WAS WHEN THE COGS OF FATE BEGAN TO TURN.
THIS IS THE ANSWER WITHIN THE FLOW OF TIME.
Thank you.
Chrono Cross: child Lucca on the beach at the very end of Chrono Cross, Serge's
grave he's 7 years old when he died CC takes place in 1020 AD and he's 17
years old (1020 - 17 + 7 = 1010).
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At this point, the world is split into 2 dimensions (called Home World and
Another World in Chrono Cross). Their timelines are described below as well
as I can figure them...heheh O_o
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