Well this is s theory I was thinking about the other day, just wondering what people think before building on it to create a real scenario that could have occoured. If people poke holes through this idea then I wont worry about it
Reasoning behind my TheoryRecently I had a thought about the rise of Porre as a major military force and the consequent fall of the kingdom of Gardia. In the compendium's encyclopedia I stumbled on the following statement which is in regards to Porre's sudden technological advancement.
These technological wonders might have been introduced from the future by an intervening force, which would satisfy the requirement that the help originated from outside the flow of history.{1}
First, this illustrates the point that the 'influence from outside of the normal flow of time' does not necessarily have to be an individual or group of people, but could be an item, technology or other powerful knowledge (magic?).
However the statement makes the point that because the influence is from outside the normal flow of time, it may involve time travel from the future (because time travel was technologically not possible before 1000AD).
This is where my thought differed, my idea is that perhaps Porre comes into some ancient
past knowledge that allows it to become a major military force. This ancient knowledge would have remained hidden if not for others who had accidentally changed history which satisfies the help from outside the normal flow of time.
Kato: "Porre had some kind of intervention or help originating outside of the original flow of history." {1}
This statement seems to me deliberately worded to exclude a major independent event occouring specifically to enhance Porre's power. The words "original flow of history" to me refer to the history before Crono and party went on their quest. With this in mind the statement could then mean that the 'intervention from outside' may have been a side effect of Crono's adventure that affected 'the original flow of history'.
So what I am getting at is that perhaps the cause of the fall of Gardia was a side effect of the actions of Crono and his party in a past era.
My theoryAs explained above, my theory is based on the idea that Crono and party (or Magus) may have accidentally taken actions that effected history so that something of great importance survived and helped Porre to become a military power.
The obvious place to start is a place in the past where more powerful technology and knowledge (than in 1000AD) existed, my choice being Zeal. It can be seen that the inhabitants of Zeal placed great importance on writing and recording information, all the cities have many book shelves full of articles. There are also libraries and what seem like scholars reading and cataloging within these libraries (this point is reliant on my memory but I'm sure that there is at least one library in Zeal).
I believe that either Magus or Crono's party in some way caused some of the inhabitants of Zeal to hide/protect/store their treasured knowledge in such a way that this ancient library/archive of information could survive that Fall of Zeal and the 13,000 years afterwards.
As some parts of Zeal are seen in 1000AD (forest ruins/sealed pyramid), I believe that the place or containers that the ancient technology/information is stored in may also have survived and may be accessible to the people of Porre. This is pure speculation but perhaps the building on the inaccessible isle in the lower right of the Zeal islands could have been a library which may have fallen in the area of 1000AD Porre, if protected in some way some of the books may have survived.
I am unsure of what of exactly what the technology could be, where/how Porre may have stumbled on it, what Crono or Magus did to cause the survival of the information. But maybe there is some grain of information in the Chrono Trigger universe that could be interpreted to allow more details to be explored.
Final WordsWell unfortunately I'm not going to get time to go through and find instances that could help back up this theory so I'm just putting it forward as is, maybe someone will notice some detail that may credit it or completely discount it.
I haven't really presented this as well as I'd hoped. Please note that I'm not putting forward something that I believe should be taken as the absolute truth. This is a theory, maybe possible but really just speculation.
Thanks for reading,
criticism and comments welcome
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Sources.
1. Article- The rise of Porre:
http://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/The_Rise_of_Porre.html
