Masamune (Maturation of)

Inquiry[edit]

In the second Ocean Palace Incident with Crono present, the Ruby Knife is plunged into the Mammon Machine and turns into the Masamune. How did this happen in the original timeline?

Answer[edit]

In Magus's flashback, Melchior clearly does not thrust any sort of item into the Mammon Machine, but it simply swept away to 1000 A.D. by a distortion. How, then, was the Masamune finished? Simple -- when Crono started traveling through time, the Prophet was introduced to Zeal. This means Melchior was locked up for at least a couple days before Zeal fell. In the Lavos timeline, he would not have been locked up, and would have been free to complete the Masamune in his laboratory.

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