Belthasar
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Chrono Trigger
Full Name: Belthasar
Age: Indeterminate
Species: Human
Home Time: 12000 B.C., 2300 A.D.
Home Area: Zeal, Keeper's Dome
Belthasar is the Guru of Reason from Zeal, architect of the Blackbird and Epoch, and a great assistant to Crono's quest to save the world. In his heyday in the magic kingdom, he designed the aforementioned craft, as well as the Ocean Palace, and was regarded with much respect among the people of Zeal. In the Lavos Timeline, he attended the Ocean Palace's christening, and was thrown to 2300 A.D. due in the Ocean Palace Incident. There, with his Nu assistant, he lived out the rest of his days in loneliness, finishing the Wings of Time, and setting up the Poyozo dolls that would later help the heroes of time in their effort. He then succumbed to the onset of insanity due to his solitary existence in the Keeper's Dome, and copied his memories to the Nu assistant. With his aid, Death Peak was surmounted, and Crono was saved from the new Ocean Palace Incident in the Keystone Timelines. The party afterwards gained the use of the Epoch, which was later recognized as one of Belthasar's projects by Dalton and outfitted with wings for misuse.
Belthasar's dialogue suggested a quick wit and a presence of joviality. A common misconception regarding his lines in the Keeper's dome about missing Schala's presence and a warning to not climb Death Peak are often believed as conveying that Schala is in the future, and wants to ascend the peak. This has no support, however, and his words are intended to warn Crono's party of the danger.
Chrono Cross
In the alternate future timeline that Crono and his friends created by defeating Lavos, Belthasar was hurled into a version of 2300 A.D. where human civilization had continued to develop to a futuristic stage of technology not unlike that once possessed by the Kingdom of Zeal. It was here that he learned of Lavos' new incarnation, the Time Devourer. Belthasar thus attempted to play his skill and wisdom against that of Lavos, and indeed the Earth itself. He planned out all of the events of Chrono Cross in excruciating detail in order to get Serge to travel to the Tesseract and defeat him once and for all, restoring time to a stable state and freeing Schala from eons of captivity at the hands of Lavos. Belthasar engineered both the supercomputer FATE and his Neo-Epoch, a one-seater time machine powered by antiprotons, in order to make it happen. He also utilized two of the original Seven who defeated Lavos -- Lucca and Robo as the Prometheus circuit, in his plan. Belthasar's nigh-on-supreme intellect and his ultimate goodwill can be inferred from all of these actions.
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--Hadriel 23:36, 3 Apr 2005 (MST)
From: Characters (Chrono Trigger)
From: Characters (Chrono Cross)
