What i dont get is How could crono be killed? HE was the strongest person on the planet for Yoda's sake! He destroyed lavos. I dont understand how he could lose in a duel (assuming that shadow was him in the PSX ending)
I personally dont think he was killed but im still wondering how the hell Guardia Fell. Crono NAturally wouldent let that happen. And i would love to know how porre raised the greatest army ever known in order to conquer guardia (then theres the whole thing of motive for doing so)
The whole Situration is very frustrating.
Easily. One man cannot victor against an entire army, no matter what his strength. You cannot think of this as a video game with Crono having 9999 health, or whatever else may be. I am certain he could slay a dozen, or a hundred, but overwhelmed he could indeed be slain. All heroes, even the great ones of legend, die. Herakles, Achilleus, Agamemnon, Beowulf, King Arthur... all of these were mighty warriors in their day, some unparalleled. King Arthur was the mightiest of knights, for example. Agamemnon was a mighty warrior, too, but he was killed by his very own wife upon returning home to Mycenae. The point of the matter is that strength does not preclude the invincibility of a hero. There are two lines from fantasy that I know of that best represent this; the first is from the Fall of Gondolin and, though I do not remember the precise words, it is something to the effect that 'the few cannot stand against the many'; the second is what Pippin says of Boromir in Return of the King: 'the mightiest man may be slain by one arrow, and Boromir was pierced by many.' Boromir was the hero of Gondor, and that is no mean kingdom: it is the last stronghold of old Numenor, and its returning king was last of that race. And looking further back, other heroes of that vein in Tolkien's writings share similar fates. Isildur, who cut the Ruling Ring from the hand of Sauron himself, was slain: he was killed by orcs as he fled from the disaster at the Gladden fields. This is probably the best example of what I am saying. Isildur performed a feat similar to what Crono did: he defeated one of the great evils of his world. Yet he even so died to the arrows of a mean soldier of the enemy. Fate has its way with men, even with heroes, after all, and the mighty are not apart from chance and destiny. That is how Crono may die: by mischance, or by an ill arrow, or by being thronged about by too many foes. He is mighty, but not immortal.
As for Guardia falling... it had stood for near on a thousand years. It's time had come. Name me an empire that has stood unconquered for such a span! Rome, maybe? But that is only from its earliest days upon the Palatine hill, to the very last days of the Emperor Romulus - 1200 years. Egypt was longlived, but not in such a long span. There were some 26 dynsties in its reign, broken into three kingdoms, seperated by periods of foreign rule. Likewise the Babylonians, the Assyrians, and Hittites... every kingdom falls under its own weight in time. It is a law of our world, and any world in which mankind would exist. The might of Porre, also, is not so surprising. Remember that the size of Guardia is shown as but a part representative of the whole (after all, such a small town would never amount for a kingdom.) Likewise Porre would perhaps be shown as this. It's speed of conquest is also not to be wondered at. It is likely that in the time of the Mystic conquests, they were held as allies, like the Latin league against the enemies of Rome in Italy, in the time of the Old Republic of Rome. In time, however, Rome turned upon its one-time allies, and one by one, they became part of Rome proper. Carthage arose to challenge them twice: first in the mid 200s BC, then again at the turn of 200 under the masterful general Hannibal. Yet both times Rome emerged victorious, finally destroying Carthage in the third war some fifty years later - more of a destruction than true war, however. The eyes of Rome then turned to other places. Consuls, with the power of Imperium, were given command of armies to conquer in areas: Julius Caesar, one of these, was given charge of the armies in Gaul, and once having defeated that army, crossed the Rubicon into Italy, marching on Rome herself. Thus began the end of the Republic and, with the ascension of Caesar Agustus, the Roman Empire. But this all was step by step. To the peope of the time, it would have seemed that Rome slowly took greater and greater powers. Here and there some tried to stop them, unsuccessfully. Some yet remained allies in certain wars, but later became enemies. It may well be that Guardia was one of these sorts of kingdoms. Porre likely marched on many places, and Guardia kept herself safe - and pacifistic as was her wont - until the eyes of Porre turned on her. Then there were none to come to her aid, and she fell. That would easily and realistically account for the seeming swiftness of Porre's rise: they had already begun their conquests a hundred years before, but seemed yet friendly because they were the allies of Guardia.
