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==Plot== | |||
{{Spoiler|CT's plot}} | |||
===Setting=== | |||
''Chrono Trigger'' takes place in a fictitious alternate timeline of Earth, and the characters have to travel through time to battle enemies, make friends, gain allies, gather equipment, and obtain magic for their quest. The time periods the characters travel range from [[65,000,000 B.C.]] at the dawn of civilization to [[2300 A.D.]], a post-apocalyptic time period. The party gains access to the period known as the End of Time (represented as year ∞), which allows them to travel to other time periods. The party eventually acquires a machine capable of time travel, known as the 'Wings of Time', renamed 'Epoch' by the party. This craft is able to warp between time periods without the party having to go through the portals located at the End of Time. | |||
===Characters=== | |||
{{main|List of Chrono Trigger characters}} | |||
[[Image:Chrono Trigger Artwork1.jpg|thumb|right|The cast of Chrono Trigger (excluding [[Magus]]).]] | |||
''Chrono Trigger'' 's seven playable characters (with one of them being optional) come from different eras in the game world's history. ''Chrono Trigger'' begins in [[Present]] with [[Crono]], [[Marle]], and [[Lucca]]. Crono is characterized as a fearless young man with an interest in the art of wielding [[katana]]s. Marle is a sheltered girl living within the [[Guardia Castle|Castle]], daring but reckless, who on one occasion slips out of the castle and attends the [[Millennial Fair]], flouting the decorum of her royal lineage. Lucca is a friend of Crono's and a mechanical genius who wields a [[gun]]; her home is filled with laboratory equipment and machinery. | |||
From the era of [[2300 AD]] comes [[Robo]], originally designed as "R-66Y", a robot with a helpful and near-human personality created to assist humans and outfitted with a powerful robotic arm, which it uses to attack. Found lying dormant in the future, Robo is repaired by Lucca and joins the group as an act of gratitude. | |||
The fiercely confident [[Ayla]] dwells in 650,000,00 BC. Unmatched in raw power, Ayla is the chief of the [[Ioka Village|Ioka Tribe]] and leads her people in war against a species of humanoid reptiles known as [[Reptite]]s. | |||
[[File:Chrono Trigger original characters.jpg|thumb|left|From left to right: the daughter of a fairy king, a tin robot (top), a monster man (bottom), an inventor girl, the male protagonist, a demon king, a primitive girl, and an old sage.]] | |||
The last two characters- [[Frog]] and [[Magus]]- originate in [[600 AD]]. Frog is a former squire once named [[Glenn (Chrono Trigger)| Glenn]]; Magus turned Glenn into an anthropomorphic frog and also slew his friend [[Cyrus]]. Chivalrous but mired in regret, Frog dedicates his life to protecting [[Queen Leene]], the Queen of [[Guardia]], and avenging Cyrus. Meanwhile, [[Guardia]] in 600 A.D. is in a state of war against the [[Fiend]]s (known as Mystics in the SNES and PS versions), a race of demons and intelligent animals. Under the leadership of Magus, a powerful sorcerer, they wage war against humanity. While Magus appears to be a powerful magician, in his seclusion he contains a long-lost past, a time when he used to be known as [[Janus]], the young prince of the [[Kingdom of Zeal]], which was destroyed by [[Lavos]] in [[12000 BC]]. The incident propelled him forward in time, and as he ages, he plots revenge against Lavos and broods over the fate of his sister, [[Schala]]. Lavos, who awakens and ravages the world in [[1999 A.D.]], is an extraterrestrial parasitic creature that harvests DNA and the Earth's energy for its own growth. | |||
The characters of ''Chrono Trigger'' were designed by Akira Toriyama based on sketches from the story planner Masato Kato. The development team wanted a diverse cast to reflect the various eras visited by the player; while working on the in-battle actions of the game, they decided to include a playable character that was neither human nor robot. Kato drew sketches for a cast of eight playable characters, comprising a male protagonist, the daughter of a fairy king, a tin robot, a monster man, an inventor girl, a demon king, a primitive girl, and an old sage. Pig and monkey characters were also considered. Six of the initial ideas were reworked by Toriyama, while the old sage character was scrapped and the monster man replaced with Toriyama's own frog man design. | |||
===Story=== | |||
{{see also|Timeline of Chrono Trigger}} | |||
In 1000 A.D., Crono and Marle watch Lucca and [[Taban|her father]] demonstrate her new [[Telepod|teleportation device]] at the Millennial Fair. When Marle volunteers to be teleported, her [[pendant]] interferes with the device and creates a time portal that she is drawn into. Crono and Lucca separately recreate the portal and find themselves in 600 A.D. They learn that Marle's presence has created a [[Wikipedia:grandfather paradox|grandfather paradox]] by preventing the recovery of Marle's kidnapped [[Queen Leene|ancestor]]. Crono and Lucca, with the help of Frog, restore history to normal by recovering the kidnapped woman. After returning to the present, Crono is arrested on charges of kidnapping the princess and is sentenced to death by the king's dubious adviser, The [[Chancellor]]. Lucca and Marle help Crono flee, haphazardly using another time portal to escape their pursuers. Upon arriving in the year 2300 A.D., they eventually learn that an advanced civilization has been wiped out by a giant creature known as Lavos that appeared in 1999 A.D. The three vow to find a way to prevent the destruction of their world. | |||
After meeting and repairing Robo, Crono and his friends begin to travel through time, assisted by [[Gaspar]], an old [[Guru|sage]] at the End of Time, to collect more allies, items, and information and face Lavos. Their party expands to include Ayla and Frog. They come to learn that Lavos was an alien being that descended upon the planet millions of years in the past and began to absorb DNA and energy from every creature on it, eventually having enough power to rise and raze the planet's surface in 1999 A.D. However, Lavos' presence had been discovered by [[Queen Zeal]] in 12,000 B.C. The Queen believed she could summon Lavos and harness its power to achieve immortality, and caused her son, Janus, and the three Gurus, Gaspar, [[Melchior]], and [[Balthasar]], to be spread throughout time, preventing them from collaborating and stopping Lavos' return. | |||
Janus vowed to learn how to summon the beast himself so that he could destroy it. He took the alias of Magus and gained a cult of followers, who believed that he sought Lavos as a means to usurp the planet from humans. The party initially mistakes Magus as the cause of Lavos' emergence but later comes to learn the truth. They travel to 12,000 B.C. and storm the [[Ocean Palace]] to prevent the Queen from summoning the being. However, they are ill-prepared for their assault and as Lavos attempts to kill them all, Crono sacrifices himself to protect everyone. Magus fails to defeat Lavos, and the creature's power causes a tsunami that destroys Zeal and covers most of the world in water. The Ocean Palace then rises into the air, becoming the [[Black Omen]], which, if not destroyed, exists in all future time periods. The group turns to Gaspar for help and he gives them a device called a "[[Chrono Trigger (item)|Chrono Trigger]]" that is able to replace Crono with a doppelganger moments before his death. The group collects the necessary components for the process and travels to 2300 A.D., where on [[Death Peak|"Death Peak"]] they activate the [[Chrono Trigger (item)|Chrono Trigger]], which takes them back to the moment in time just before Chrono is killed and swaps him for a doll that resembles him to absorb the attack, saving his life. After gaining enough power, Crono and the others assault Lavos and are able to defeat it, thus saving the future of their world and closing all time portals exiting throughout the land. | |||
If Magus joined the party, he departs to search for his missing sister, Schala. | |||
[[Crono's Mother]] accidentally enters the time gate at the Fair before it closes, prompting Crono, Marle, and Lucca to set out in the Epoch to find her while fireworks light up the night sky. Alternatively, if the party used the Epoch to break Lavos's outer shell, Marle will help her father hang [[Nadia's Bell]] at the festival and accidentally get carried away by several balloons. Crono jumps on to help her, but cannot bring them down to earth. Hanging on to each others arms, the pair travel through the cloudy, moonlit sky. | |||
==Development history== | ==Development history== | ||
