Schala
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| First game | Chrono Trigger |
| Designed by | Akira Toriyama |
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| Given name | Schala Zeal |
| Native time period | 12,000 B.C. |
| Weapon | none |
| Magic element | Unknown |
Schala (サラ Sara?) is a fictional character from the video game Chrono Trigger, where she is the princess of the magical Kingdom of Zeal. She is largely the caretaker of her brother, Janus, and her pendant is able to harness the power of the Mammon Machine.
Although an NPC, Schala's later disappearance from the story line surprised fans. Two years before the Final Fantasy VII Aerith rumour, Schala received similar infamy with players on a quest to relocate her.
After the King's death, Schala's mother, Queen Zeal became desirous of achieving immortality. The Queen ordered the construction of the Ocean Palace in order to gain the opportunity to extract more power from Lavos. Schala and the Gurus knew this would end in disaster, but she nonetheless obeyed the Queen's orders, out of fear as well as lingering devotion to her mother.
At the completion of the Ocean Palace, Lavos awakened, and created four different time gates, each leading to another time era. The Gurus and Janus (Schala's brother) were sucked into these portals. Gaspar, the Guru of Time, was transported to the End of Time; Belthasar, the Guru of Reason, to some years before 2300 A.D.; Melchior, the Guru of Life, to some years before 1000 A.D.; and Janus ended up some years before 600 A.D., where he was brought up by Mystics and became a fearsome wizard known as Magus.
In the modified timeline, Crono and his friends found Queen Zeal inside the Ocean Palace. However, Lavos killed Crono and the Ocean Palace started to collapse. Schala saved Crono's friends by transporting them outside the Palace. She is not seen in-game again.
At the end of the game, when all of the playable characters go back into their own time, Magus leaves, trying to find Schala.
[edit] Disappearance
In the final subquests of the game, each quest is hinted at with a specific message by the Guru of Time. The final one is particularly ambiguous ("One of you is close to someone who needs help... Find this person... fast."), and was sometimes assumed to refer to Schala, although it eventually revealed itself to be a bad translation by the localization team; it was supposed to inform the party that talking to members at the End of Time would give clues about sidequests. Though the message disappeared after the completion of the Black Omen dungeon sidequest and was replaced by the latter message quoted, many fans continued to insist there was a Find Schala subquest because she was so notable in the fans' eyes. Rumours quickly spread on the internet of such a quest removed from the final print of the game (either as a joke or honest mischief) which could be hacked in various suspiciously roundabout ways. This situation would be eerily repeated in another Squaresoft character, the playable character Final Fantasy VII's Aerith. Examination of a beta version of the game eventually ruled out any possibility that Schala was planned as a playable character [1] in the final stages of the game.
Less than one year later, this would be addressed in Radical Dreamers.
In the other Chrono Trigger sequel continuity (in Chrono Cross), it is shown that Schala was thrown into the Darkness of Time after the kingdom's destruction. She was later fused into the defeated Lavos and the two eventually evolved into the Time Devourer. But Schala, trying to fight the Time Devourer's influence, sent her daughter/clone Kid to Lucca. Serge, the main character of Chrono Cross, must defeat the Time Devourer and set Schala free with the Chrono Cross. Interestingly, Schala's hair is blonde in Chrono Cross in contrast with the blue hair from Chrono Trigger.
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[edit] External links
- Black Dream - A large website about both Schala and Schala Kid Zeal.
- "Schala's Theme" at OverClocked ReMix - A collection of arranged versions of Schala's Theme.
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