Crono

クロノ

**Crono** *(*クロノ, Кроно*)* is the main protagonist of *Chrono Vendian*. He is also a playable character in *Chrono Trigger: The Zodiac Era* and *Chrono Trigger: Age of Omen.*

## Profile

### Personality

Crono is idiosyncratic. He is willing to place his life on the line for the sake of others.

## Appearance

Crono has red spiky hair. He wears a short-sleeved white shirt underneath a light blue tunic, a black belt along with yellow pants, a pair of dark brown boots and bracers. He always keeps a katana close at hand, wielding his katana with his left hand.

## Story (*Chrono Trigger: The Zodiac Era)*

**––—Spoiler warning: *Plot and/or ending details follow.––—***

### Rendezvous

Before heading to the Dimensional Vortex, at the group's rendezvous point, Terra makes a statement, fearing the perils the party could face if they are become separated. Fearing she'd likely not make it far, Crono reassures her that, while they don't know what will occur there, she'd be fine as long as she has hope.

### Mountain Volcano

Within the Mountain Volcano, the party advances through the cavernous pass and are lead to another grotto resembling the first grotto from before. Here, they encounter the Once-King Dalton. Terra, confused on this new foe, Crono explains that this Dalton that stands before them is nothing more than a mere apparition, an imprint of time's fabric and explains this '*little show is beginning to reveal itself.'* Ignoring as much as possible and continuing his articulation, exclaims to Crono, he cannot fool to him. Dalton continues to articulate, blaming Crono for the loss of his labor, wealth and royal underlings. Before fading away, he makes it clear, the matter still isn't over. Terra questions Dalton, only for Johnny to believe the puzzle is just beginning to piece itself together.

Proceeding further in the Grotto, Crono gets a heavy feeling of longing and hears a voice calling to him, as Terra did before. The party advances forward only to be greeted by the Steel Shade. After defeating the Steel Shade, the apparition fades and the party are absorbed in a gate leading them to the Temporal Research Lab.

### Inner Seal

At the Inner Seal's Core *(era 12000 B.C.),* the party encounters a deactivated Mammon Machine. Crono exclaims to the party of the machine before them, knowing the name of it without struggle. Steiner wonders how Crono knows much of history's relics and Crono pauses and replies its just part of his memory. Returning his attention back to the Mammon Machine, Crono uses Dreamstone on the device, pointing out that the stone is made from the same red rock as Schala's Amulet.

As the machine activates, Crono reacts to the device in a bizarre way, unable to fight against it and is temporarily left out of the party as they take down the device.

### Normal Ending

In the ending scene, Crono appears at Year 1000 A.D., waking up to a voice calling him the name, "Crono".

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## Gameplay

Crono wields katanas in battle. He wields black magic Thunder, Thundara and Luminaire. His skill set is Tech. Frenzy allows Crono to attack a foe up to four times simultaneously following the given action input. This action is omitted via gambit setup. Scan allows him to perceive more detail about foes.

Luminaire, as the most powerful damage-wise in *Chrono Trigger: The Zodiac Era,* it subjugates the battlefield. Crono, however, has lower magic power than characters such as Terra and Rydia, and is seemingly wasted upon him, as his physical attacks are more worthwhile in battle. Equipping Crono with the Rainbow and Prism Spectacles can replace a reliance upon this skill. However, should this skill be used, the player can equip Crono with Schala's Amulet, to compensate for Crono's low magic.

By default, Crono uses Punisher Mode as both his attacks and default stance.

### Abilities

DEFAULT
 Luminaire
 Thunder
 Thundara
 Thundaga
 Raise

## Quotes

* *"To bring someone back... You'd need an egg."*
* *"But all you need is hope..."*
* "*We may be different, but that doesn't mean we can't come to together to save her again."*
* *"Come on! We've defeated the Devourer which binds Schala!"*
* *"We can take this foe, no problem."*

## Behind the scenes

### Chrono Vendian

A demo of Chrono Vendian was shown August 31st, which depicted a Guardia Forest remake with different weather and day/night conditions as well as the game's presumed-to-be battle system. Based from this, it presumed Chrono Vendian was to be a remake of Chrono Trigger. The project has gone silent since September 15th, 2021.

## Other appearances

* *Veracity Kingsglaive Unveils*
* *The Zodiac Era Demo*

## Trivia

* Frenzy tech is Crono's strongest, non-magical attack.

* Crono's Frenzy tech has a 1/16 chance of attacking two, three, or four times in a row regardless of action or gambit execution.
* If Crono uses Super Saiyan, he will say the following line: "*What ARE you doing?! I thought you said something about a nice little slide show?*", also known as his one and only speech in the original Chrono Trigger. The text was altered from *"What ARE you two doing?!"* to *"What ARE you doing?!"* to fit the battle scenario.
* In the rtl version, Crono alludes to the time egg during the rendezvous event, stating, *"if one would want to grant someone a second life, they would need a egg"* and further implying, *"They thought they failed when they tried it on me.*"
* In early versions of Crono's 3D model, he would boast a grand total of 145,000 polygons. The character model uses 39,000 polygons just for the hair alone and was the most detailed 3D model out of all others, just surpassing Nyx by 15,000 polygons. This was toned done to fit within limits of the engine. Other features such as facial structure had been toned down and lacks facial hair in the English releases.

## Musical themes

"Adumbrated Crono" is the eponymous theme of Crono in *Chrono Trigger: The Zodiac Era*. The theme plays during a Victory Fanfare.