Cyrus (Chrono Trigger)

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Cyrus is a non-playable character (NPC) in the Squaresoft video game Chrono Trigger.

Cyrus' Role

In Chrono Trigger, Cyrus was a childhood friend of Glenn (Frog, as the player meets him) and also was Glenn's mentor. After joining the ranks of Guardia's knights, he became the leader of the group, and was sent on various missions -- including the retrieval of the Hero's Medal from the Frog King and the procuring of the legendary sword Masamune. It was in one of these missions that Cyrus was killed by the dark wizard Magus. And in this incident, Glenn was transformed into Frog. Thought dead by Magus, Glenn wanted to avenge Cyrus with his medal in hand. During the quest to defeat Lavos, the team (Crono and company) visited the Northern Ruins. The first time around, Cyrus took the form of an angry ghost. He cannot be defeated. To gain access to the room behind him, you must travel back in time to 600 A.D. Visiting him at these same ruins in his original lifetime with Frog in the party yields a final blessing from the deceased knight and the Masamune's final upgrade in the game, making it one of the most powerful weapons available to the party. Cyrus' final characterization is that of a powerful, heroic, upstanding knight -- a role model for the soldiery and citizenry alike. From that point on, the Northern Ruins are renamed Hero's Grave. His special attack is called Nirvana Strike.

Chrono Cross

Cyrus the Guardian Knight is mentioned again in Chrono Cross in Pierre's Tech Skill Slap of Cyrus. If all parts of the Hero's Set are not acquired and equipped on Pierre, the attack will always fail (in Chrono Trigger, Cyrus is always mentioned as a hero).

Name Origin

The name Cyrus may come from Cyrus II the Great (576-529 B.C.), who was considered to be the first significant king of the Persian Empirechart of the period. Proving his mettle as a warrior, he overthrew his overlord and conquered the region. He was no less distinguished as a statesman than as a fighter -- the Cyrus Cylinder (537 B.C.), a declaration issued upon his taking of Babylon, was discovered in 1879 in Babylon and is currently kept in the British Museum.

Cyrus II is also mentioned twenty-three times in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. He is portrayed as the savior of the Jews, a people that at that time were in thrall to Babylon. He issued the decree of liberation for the Jews {Ezra 1:1-2), which allowed them to return and rebuild the Temple. The man was in a sense both a mentor and a warrior -- he gave his favor to the Biblical prophet Daniel.

 

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