Post by Squall Leonhart on Dec 7, 2006 18:32:06 GMT -5
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Name:
"La" (Fire), "Vos" (Big)
Nicknames:
Lavos, Time Devourer
Association:
The End of Time
Number:
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Complexion:
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Notable features:
Giant spiked shell, parasitic jaws
Weapons:
Spore-Spawns
Abilities:
The ability to absorb any life form, learn and manipulate it, as well as destroying or creating life as it sees fit. However, these abilities are limited to how much power it absorbs, and what the absorbed power allows him to do -- it must be an equal exchange, as too much will destroy his feeding source. He is able to severe the time stream, too.
Personality:
It lacks speech, it only feeds. Though sentient, it has no 'personality' so to speak.
Favorite Quote:
"Shrrrriiiiiiiiiek!"
Bio:
Lavos is a colossal, extremely powerful alien invader from unknown parts of the universe. He was originally named by Ayla, with La meaning "fire" and Vos meaning "big." Lavos fell to Earth in roughly 65000000 B.C. and burrowed deep underneath the planet's crust. From that position, he began absorbing DNA as creatures evolved on the planet. This course of action was part of Lavos's effort to create the best possible collection of genes to pass on to his spawn, who would then presumably travel to other planets and repeat the process. Lavos too had probably been born as a spawn on another ruined planet. Lavos landed directly on top of the Tyrano Lair, smashing the kingdom of the Reptites and eventually allowing humanity's rise to dominance. It is unclear whether the Ice Age ushered in by Lavos actually lasted millions of years, but it seems unlikely. As suggested by Chrono Cross, around 3000000 B.C. the ancestors of humanity came into contact with the Frozen Flame, a part of Lavos that was lost when he crashed to the planet. It rapidly accelerated human evolution, rendering modern Homo sapiens, including some with the ability to use magic. These magic-using humans formed the kingdom of Zeal in the era of 12000 B.C. They were responsible for many great feats of magic and science, including the Time Egg, the Blackbird, and the Masamune. Their downfall came when they attempted to harness Lavos's power through the use of their Mammon Machine. The effort failed, and resulted in Lavos's destruction of Zeal and its Ocean Palace, as well as his absorption of Zeal's princess, Schala in Keystone T-1 and on. With Zeal no longer around to oppress the humans who did not use magic, they emerged to form their own empires. Lavos largely waited under the planet's surface after that time, though he made a brief appearance in 600 A.D. to consume Magus after being summoned out of his Pocket Dimension by the warlock.
In 1999 A.D., Lavos erupted from the planet's surface, utterly devastating the whole of human civilization. This apocalyptic occurrence came to be known as the Day of Lavos. Thereafter, the intelligent machines still operated in remote areas. By 2300 A.D., only a few humans were left, and these were being systematically murdered by the berserk Mother Brain supercomputer. The ones that were still living were hungry and hopeless, as food was scarce after Lavos destroyed almost all life on the planet, while the food that was stored in the Arris Dome's cellar ended up rotting (the Seed of Life was presumably not planted until Crono and co. came along). Crono, Marle, and Lucca glimpsed this terrible state of affairs when they were catapulted into 2300 A.D. After viewing the footage of the world's end, they resolved to change history, and they eventually did defeat Lavos, banishing him and the post-1999 Lavos Timeline to the Tesseract and creating Keystone T-1.
From a historical standpoint, there are quite a few issues attached to Lavos. The archaeologist Dr. Luis Alvarez pinpointed one of them with his studies on the titanic crater in Chixulub, Yucatan. According to the radiometric dating conducted by his team, in 65000000 B.C. a massive nickel-iron asteroid pinned as between five and ten kilometers in diameter collided with Earth at that site. The ice age this asteroid brought on presumably ended Earth's Cretaceous period, wiping out the dinosaurs - events shown in the game and foreseen in Azala's lament after the player defeats him and the Black Tyrano. The kinetic energy the real-life asteroid had in its impact can be pinned within a range of a few hundred gigatons to as much as 100 teratons, outstripping the entire world's present nuclear arsenal potentially thousands of times over - all the more potent when one considers that Lavos survived more or less unharmed. Lavos, while very large, is not likely several kilometers across. Thus, in order to create and survive the impact, his shell would have to be far denser and more resilient than nickel-iron. Magic also could have had a hand in the impact dynamics - his magical abilities are demonstrably of the highest caliber.
Lavos's history with the evolution of the Chrono planet is quite storied - according to what data has been gleaned from the existing fossil record, modern man is no more than a few million years old. Lavos is treated as the being responsible for our evolution, even though Cross suggests that his part was indirect, played out via the Frozen Flame. The Frozen Flame does, however, serve as an uplink to Lavos - before the fight with the Dragon God in Cross, all of that game's characters speak directly with Lavos through the Flame. It is important to note that Lavos did not control all evolution. Magus states something to this effect, but it's a mistranslation. Chrono Cross supports this by making no mention of Lavos directly influencing the world save for humans, who were altered after contact with the Frozen Flame.
In the kingdom of Zeal, Lavos is treated as a god of sorts, especially by Queen Zeal herself. The Mammon Machine, designed to draw power from Lavos, derives its name from the Hebrew word for "sin," giving a clear indicator of the malevolent nature of Lavos's power. However, after Zeal's destruction, ironically at the hands of Lavos himself, both he and that kingdom faded into myth. By the time of 600 A.D., the only one who possessed any sort of reliable information on Lavos was Janus, who had by then renamed himself Magus and dedicated his life to destroying Lavos. He is effectively treated as a mysterious "Great Ancient" in the style of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu, an evil god bent on devouring humanity. It has been debated extensively whether Lavos is sentient or not in that regard.
After Lavos was defeated, he was sent to the Darkness Beyond Time. There, he intercepted Schala, who came in from the Ocean Palace Incident; he then merged with her to form a new being, the Time Devourer, capable of consuming all space-time at maturity. Belthasar planned every event in the game so that Serge could get his hands on the Chrono Cross artifact and destroy the Time Devourer. Within the confines of the Time Devourer rested both Schala, imprisoned for millennia in his body, and the true Dragon God, the biological supercomputer defeated by FATE and its fighter jets in 12000 B.C. Lavos was using the Dragon God in its separated forms in order to retrieve the Frozen Flame, a piece of him that splintered off when he crashed to Earth. The Frozen Flame acted as Lavos' eyes and ears during this entire endeavor.
