Kingdom of Zeal
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The Kingdom of Zeal is a fictional nation in Squaresoft's console role-playing game Chrono Trigger. It floats above the planet in 12,000 B.C. avoiding the ice age raging on the surface below. Geographically, it consists of one major and three minor continents. A system of teleportation devices called "skyways" facilitates transportation between the floating continents and also with the planet surface. There are three major cities: Zeal Palace (the capital city), Enhasa, and Kajar. Queen Zeal rules the kingdom as an absolute monarch. Other notable denizens of Zeal are the queen's advisor Dalton, the three Gurus Belthasar, Gaspar, and Melchior, Masa, Mune, and Doreen, Princess Schala, Prince Janus, and the newly-come Prophet.
Zeal is a paradise created by magic. All of Zeal's technology is based on magic, and only magic users are permitted on the floating islands; humans unable to practice magic, known as the "Earthbound", are enslaved by Zeal and forced to reside on the planet's surface. The major source of energy for the Kingdom is magic channeled by the Mammon Machine from the immortal alien parasite Lavos, although previously they used the Sun Stone and other sources of natural power.
Hoping to more fully harness Lavos' power, Queen Zeal orders the construction of a large undersea facility, the Ocean Palace, to bring the Mammon Machine closer to Lavos. However, bringing the Mammon Machine into such proximity to Lavos accidentally awakens it from its underground slumber. Upon awakening, Lavos showers the planet surface and the sky with flame before burrowing back into the earth. Zeal is destroyed, and the mass of the floating continents crashing into the planet causes tremendous tidal waves that kill most of the population on the planet and submerges most of the "Earthbound" land for a while.
Zeal's destruction heralds the end of the Age of Magic for humanity, but Lavos' awakening brings about the end of the planetary ice age. A few survivors among the Earthbound and the denizens of Zeal survive to rebuild civilization in this new temperate land.
On the western side of the continent, Dalton is guarding a huge aircraft called the Blackbird, which was built by the Guru Belthasar. In the center is the capital city where Queen Zeal reigns.
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