Schala

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Schala (Japanese name 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 urban legend, Schala received similar infamy with players on a quest to relocate her.

Schala sending the party out of the Ocean Palace. Magus, Lucca, and Frog can be seen.

After the King's death, Schala's mother, Queen Zeal became a power-hungry and unjust queen desiring to achieve 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 2300 A.D.; Melchior, the Guru of Life, to 1000 A.D.; and Janus ended up in 600 A.D., where he was brought up by Mystics and became a fearsome wizard known as Magus.

One of the endings reveals that Magus is going to search for Schala.

It was during this time that Crono and his friends finally found Queen Zeal inside the Ocean Palace. However, Lavos killed Crono and the Ocean Palace started to collapse. Schala sacrificed her own life to save Crono's friends by transporting them outside the Palace.

At the end of the game, when all of the playable characters go back into their own time, Magus leaves, trying to find Schala again.

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 commonly assumed to refer to Schala, although it eventually revealed itself to be a reference to Queen Zeal (Magus/Janus and Schala's biological mother) who resided as an immortal in the Black Omen, since the Guru of Time no longer repeats this message once the Black Omen has been destroyed, stating instead that "That poor woman can finally rest, now that the Black Omen is gone. She's reverted back to a human...". The message stating that someone close to one of the party members is in need of help actually was 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. Urban legends 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 [link].

Years later, this would later be addressed in Chrono Cross. In the sequel to Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, it is revealed that Schala was thrown into the Darkness Beyond Time (a Tesseract, or fourth-dimension, of sorts) after the kingdom's destruction. She was later fused into the defeated Lavos and the two eventually evolve into the Time Devourer. But Schala, trying to fight the Time Devourer's influence, sent her daughter/clone Kid to Lucca. With the Dragon God (which was also assimilated into the Time Devourer), Schala created a counterpart to Kid in Harle. Serge, the main character of Chrono Cross, must defeat the Time Devourer and set Schala free with the sacred Chrono Cross.

External links

• [Black Dream] A large website about both Schala and Schala Kid Zeal.

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