Where is Lavos after 1999 AD?

[JossiRossi]

Im guessing, that, Lavos probably died, after all those years, and where he died, a mountain formed over him, or he formed a mountain, and thus off spring was born onto deathpeak.

Except that there already was a mountain there, and that do you really believe something that can live for 65,000,000 years will die after 300? >.>

Deathpeak formed sometime after 1999 AD and before 2300 AD

[Wiesty]

Maybe Lavos was biologically programmed to die after releasing it's young? Lots of species do it.

Exactly, it probably knew that it had devistated the earth, and it began to give berth, and it died.

[Riv]

Here's the deal in my eyes:

--Lavos is always referred to as "parasitic." Now what parasite lives after the host dies?  Didn't think so.  The planet is already destroyed; this happens in 1999.  By 2300 this planet is dead, simply rotting away.  Soon everything will be dead.

--Death Peak is not a "natural" formation.  Simply by looking at the map it is discolored and stands out from the other mountain ranges in the game.

--"Lavos Reigns from atop Death Peak."  <-- could be a mistranslation such as "Someone close to you needs help" at the end of time.  We have no idea at this point if this was the original dialogue between the party and Belthazar.  
Also if you want to add quotes, go to Black Omen 2300 and Queen Zeal will remark that it is too late and Lavos has sucked the planet dry.  This means Lavos can no longer feed off the planet for it's own survival, either.

I think that Lavos erupted in 1999, causing destruction to the world, and likely once he erupted began to feed off the planet at a much more rapid rate once on the surface, likely mutating and growing into what we see as Death Peak - Lavos at this matured state then begins to reproduce, likely the parasitic spawn eat Lavos itself from within (absorbing the knowledge and DNA of the former by process) and from there will launch to new planets to repeat the life cycle of the "Evil Turtles from Outer Space" race.

[JossiRossi]

If you read the thread (and yeah it IS a big ass thread) most of your ideas are talked about and either proven as well as possible or rebutted.

[Riv]

I did, however, after 12 pages, it's hard to track everything said :p

I just was posting what my conclusion based on the plot and on what was said was.

[Chrono'99]

According to Kwhazit's translations, the "Lavos reigns from atop Death Peak" is pure invention by the NA version. It says nothing similar in the Japanese version:

Lavos disappeared briefly when he
was summoned away by a mighty
wizard who lived in Guardia, in the
year 600.
In 1999, Lavos claims this area, and
reigns from high atop Death Peak.
Lavos continues to replicate......
like a giant parasite, he is consuming
our world.

The time is Kingdom Year 600.
Magus summons it, and it briefly makes an appearance.
Kingdom Year 1999
It at last makes the surface its territory too.
And then, perhaps as if laying eggs, it gives birth to its own offshoots, one after another, from the place I called Death Mountain.
Lavos is an enormous parasite that nests in the planet itself.

[Hitman100]

Like others have said... Lavos may have so much power but it doesn't nessasarilly mean he is intellegent. Look at some of the animals on our planet. They have the power to reproduce and have children then they die off. Lavos probably just died off and his shell stayed. Then he spawned off. Maybe he has no real intellegent mind. Maybe it's just in his natural flow of life that they infest a planet to live and floursih. Gather energy, become strong, flourish and then unleash himself, have children and die.

[Jikkuryuu]

Awesome, my login is still good.
I like the idea that Lavos is just on another summit that can't be reached, but the earlier post about him not being visible on the world map screen is a good point. I figure he is hanging around in/under/as? the mountain while his spawn gets bigger and stronger and eventually the spawn (or just the damage already done by lavos) will cause a chain reaction and detonate the planet. That would give the spawn a boost, and would make some sort of sense from a reproductive standpoint. Lavos might not want to leave prior to that because reproduction is too tiring or because it's departure might cause damage on the scale of its arrival (some sort of 'wake', ozone hole, whatever). Heck maybe its means of departure would be to detonate the planet by itself, that would be tough for an immature spawn to survive if it cant take a little Flare .
The centralized spawn locations could be partially explained by the needles burrowing into the earth upon impact. Though that doesn't explain why there would be any on Death Peak unless it was thrust out of the ground and forced some spawn to the surface.
As for whether Lavos is a crotchety old man, dies in childbirth (or prior), reproduces by fission, or wants to repeat the process on another world is pretty much all conjecture at this point.