Jay, you have got to be THE most intelligent person ever. The dragons are clearly explained at least twice.
Look, Chrono Cross is a Squaresoft RPG. If you just sit down and expect to be spoonfed the plot, then Square isn't for you. They will give you 1+x=3, but it's up to YOU to find the x. You can't just say, "How do you know it's two? They never said, so I won't believe it!" No no. That's not how it works. There is no way you can fully enjoy a Square game if you don't actully use your brain and infer the obvious.
I agree with Chronos on almost everything.
Oh, and since you missed it Jay, I'll just show it to you:
Terra Tower is really a city of the Reptites from another dimension's future... It was originally "Dinopolis"... The castle of Azala's descendants, who achieved an evolution much more intimate with our planet. Dinopolis was drawn into this dimension's past about ten thousand years ago... This was done so that it would serve as a counter-balance against Chronopolis, which Lavos pulled here. Needless to say, a fierce battle ensued... In the end, Chronopolis emerged as the victor, and the Reptite's fortress was sealed away by FATE...But more important now is the role the Dragons play in all of this... Originally, the whole Archipelago of El Nido was known as the Sea of Eden. This was because it was where the Dragon Gods resided. But then FATE sealed away the Dragon Gods' powers, in effect becoming a god itself. Thus the islands where the new godhead, FATE, existed came to be called the Sea of Eden instead. Perhaps you didn't realize it, but you were used by the Dragon Gods to eliminate FATE! It was not true that the Dragon Gods sealed away the Frozen Flame... Rather, it's quite the opposite... It was FATE that used the power of the Flame to seal up the Dragon Gods. In reality, the Dragon Gods are in opposition to man, while FATE itself was actually the protector of humanity! The Dragon Gods were originally a singular plasma life-form... ...A living accumulation ofthe planet's energy! Originally it was a biological machine used to control the powers of nature in the future society of the Reptites. In order to control the natural energy itself, FATE divided the one Dragon God entity up into 6 weaker plasma life-forms... Then scattered them across the land and sealed them away. Their dragon-like appearance are just pseudo-guises... ...Temporary forms they take so that they can appear in this dimension. But all that changed when FATE was vanquished and its powerhold was eliminated! At that moment, the seven Dragons who had been rendered almost powerless and forgotten... traveled across the dimensions to reunite into a single entity!
There were six Dragons you knew of and one more hidden Dragon you didn't...
Like the second moon that once was lost, but later found... Although the same planet,
my world didn't have two moons! Look up at the night sky and you will see seven celestial bodies... Five stars and two moons... Five brother stars that correspond to the five colored Dragons, ruling like gods over the night skies... One moon that corresponds to the white Sky Dragon... And another darker, daughter moon to counterbalance them.
The Fire Dragon, the Water Dragon, the Green Dragon, the Earth Dragon, the Black Dragon, the Sky Dragon, and one more... The final Dragon... The dark moon Dragon... The one who was to work to free the other Dragons from their bondage by the FATE computer... The child the others created on the night of the electric storm that temporarily
caused FATE to loosen its hold on them... I believe you knew her as... Harle.
The Dragon Gods were the essence of nature on this planet... Perhaps we can consider what's happening as our planet's vengeance on us... To finally sweep away the unwanted humans from the face of the blue planet...
- Belthasar in Terra Tower
Stupid time/dimesion thing...hmmm, I wonder why that's the excuse for everything? Maybe, oh just maybe it's because THAT'S WHAT THE PLOT CENTERS AROUND? I'm sorry that CC contains a very well thought out and involved plot that happens to be above your head.
[ January 25, 2003, 07:57 PM: Message edited by: Rattan ]
