And yeah...the FF probably has nothing to do with the MM...the MM was constructed by the Gurus using Dreamstone. I don't consider anything in RD to matter outside of RD itself.
If you deny what RD's light has to offer on some issues, then you shouldn't even be here. RD is just as valuable and creditable information as CT and CC.
You obviousally haven't been paying attention to the links, have you? How Schala "communes" with the machine. How in RD, the Flame gave her a chance (obviousally this was a time when Crono and co didn't interfer). And even Belthasar talks about it, but it's a red shard. In RD, the FF is a shard too. I think it only looks like a rock in RD because of the graphics at the time.
As the palace collapsed around
her, Princess Schala was sucked
into a dimensional vortex along
with the Lavos Mammon Machine.
Schala and Lavos became unified
into one even more powerful
entity that would evolve into
the Devourer of Time.
It says nothing about the MM actually going to the DBT. When was sucked into the vortex, she actually entered a parallel timestream and on the way met Lavos, heard Serge etc. As for the Machine, it could have gone somewhere else, like lets say.. to the bottom of the ocean.
BTW, I think that that quote could possibly be about Schala in the original, Lavos timeline.
It fixes a few things. Like how the machine was still there with Zeal, even thought Schala was missing. I mean, we don't know what happened to Schala in the original time line, obviousally. So anything's open. I mean, Lucca only says that it happened 13,000 years ago, but she doesn't refer to what timeline, or to even Crono and co.'s interferance in Zeal. It could be possible that 1) Crono's Schala is the reincarnated Schala that we have in RD. 2) The Schala who is in the DBT is the Lavos timelines. 3) The Original Schala from Lavos' time line is the Kid who in 1020AD went back in time to do stuff (If Kid had to do it in 1020 after the events of CC, that cause a loop, so both Kids could be different) or 4) You tell me.
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