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'''Time travel''' though not frequent in the {{Main Series}} franchise | '''Time travel''' is a recurring, though not frequent, theme in the {{Main Series}} franchise. As each instance directly ties into a game's story at a crucial junction, be ware of spoilers when reading ahead. | ||
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After returning from his adventure from [[Uptaten Towers]] to [[Whealbrook]], The {{Hero 5}} meets a [[Hero (Dragon Quest V)|mysterious man]] at outside the church who wants to look at the [[Gold Orb]]. He gives the older man a chance to look at the treasure and (apparently) receives it back, but later loses it when Bishop [[Ladja]] destroys the Orb. | After returning from his adventure from [[Uptaten Towers]] to [[Whealbrook]], The {{Hero 5}} meets a [[Hero (Dragon Quest V)|mysterious man]] at outside the church who wants to look at the [[Gold Orb]]. He gives the older man a chance to look at the treasure and (apparently) receives it back, but later loses it when Bishop [[Ladja]] destroys the Orb. | ||
Years later, The {{Hero 5}} and his [[Party (Dragon Quest V | Years later, The {{Hero 5}} and his [[Party (Dragon Quest V)|family]] discover that the Orb was needed to allow for [[Zenithia]] Castle to rise to the sky and are pointed by to the [[Faerie Palace]] by Queen Treacle of [[Faerie Lea]]. The palace's Queen Caramel is unable to help directly, but produces a [[Gold Orb#Gold bauble|Gold bauble]] which The {{Hero 5}} holds onto while looking at a painting in the area that takes him back in time to [[Whealbrook]] village so that he can exchange it with his younger self's orb. | ||
In the remakes of the game, after winning the game, the other portrait in [[Faerie Palace]] allows The {{Hero 5}} to travel to the past of [[Lofty Peak]]. This new mission allows for him to acquire more [[Knick-knack]]s and to meet both [[Pankraz]] & [[Madalena]] in their youth. | In the remakes of the game, after winning the game, the other portrait in [[Faerie Palace]] allows The {{Hero 5}} to travel to the past of [[Lofty Peak]]. This new mission allows for him to acquire more [[Knick-knack]]s and to meet both [[Pankraz]] & [[Madalena]] in their youth. | ||
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Time travel is used to access this game's post-story content. After defeating [[Mordegon]] and holding a memorial service for {{Veronica 11}}, who sacrificed herself to mitigate the destruction caused by the death of [[Yggdrasil]], the party can visit the [[Tower of Lost Time]] in the [[Lost Land]], using the [[Wheel of Time]] to open the door to the tower. There they meet the [[Timekeeper]], a [[Tockle]] who watches over the flow of time in the tower. She shows them [[Time's Sphere]], the crystallization of all that has taken place in [[Erdrea]], and informs the party that the only way to restore {{Veronica 11}} is to turn back time to before she died; however, only one person can go, one with the power of the {{Luminary}}, and he may never return to the present time. Using the [[Sword of Light]], the {{Luminary}} strikes Time's Sphere, transporting him to [[Arboria]] before Yggdrasil's death. He then uses the [[Sword of Shadows]] -- obtained from defeating Mordegon in the future -- to kill [[Jasper]] at the [[Heart of Yggdrasil]], as it breaks through his previously impervious barrier. The party later defeats [[Mordegon]] again, freeing [[King Carnelian]]. The heroes then go on a quest to obtain the strength needed to destroy the ultimate impending evil known as [[Calasmos]], residing in [[Erdwin's Lantern]]. | Time travel is used to access this game's post-story content. After defeating [[Mordegon]] and holding a memorial service for {{Veronica 11}}, who sacrificed herself to mitigate the destruction caused by the death of [[Yggdrasil]], the party can visit the [[Tower of Lost Time]] in the [[Lost Land]], using the [[Wheel of Time]] to open the door to the tower. There they meet the [[Timekeeper]], a [[Tockle]] who watches over the flow of time in the tower. She shows them [[Time's Sphere]], the crystallization of all that has taken place in [[Erdrea]], and informs the party that the only way to restore {{Veronica 11}} is to turn back time to before she died; however, only one person can go, one with the power of the {{Luminary}}, and he may never return to the present time. Using the [[Sword of Light]], the {{Luminary}} strikes Time's Sphere, transporting him to [[Arboria]] before Yggdrasil's death. He then uses the [[Sword of Shadows]] -- obtained from defeating Mordegon in the future -- to kill [[Jasper]] at the [[Heart of Yggdrasil]], as it breaks through his previously impervious barrier. The party later defeats [[Mordegon]] again, freeing [[King Carnelian]]. The heroes then go on a quest to obtain the strength needed to destroy the ultimate impending evil known as [[Calasmos]], residing in [[Erdwin's Lantern]]. | ||
Although this time travel undoes the devastation experienced in the normal timeline, it also undoes many of the Hero's feats, such as how [[Mia]] and [[Ryu]] are back to their cursed forms. As such, several side-quests open up in all previously visited locations, and the party can return to these characters to peacefully restore them to their normal selves again. | Although this time travel undoes the devastation experienced in the normal timeline, it also undoes many of the Hero's feats, such as how [[Mia]] and [[Ryu]] are back to their cursed forms. As such, several side-quests open up in all previously visited locations, and the party can return to these characters to peacefully restore them to their normal selves again and avoid much of the strife found in the terrible future. Furthermore, this instance of time travel is not the creation of a new timeline as seen so often in other media, at least not in the traditional sense: it is in fact a transmigration of all souls of Erdrea into a new universe through the power of the Luminary and the Time's Sphere. This is evidenced by Veronica suddenly bursting into tears and feeling immense gratitude for her friends once the time of what would have been her death comes to pass, and other characters such as [[Kai]] and [[Michelle]] recalling glimpses of their bad future and sticking together this time around. | ||
Eventually, the {{Luminary}} and his party defeat [[Calasmos]] and restore the Timekeeper to her true self, [[Serenica]], and send her back in time to reunite with [[Erdwin]]. | Eventually, the {{Luminary}} and his party defeat [[Calasmos]] and restore the Timekeeper to her true self, [[Serenica]], and send her back in time to reunite with [[Erdwin]]. | ||
{{spoiler|end}} | {{spoiler|end}} | ||
==={{DQM3}}=== | |||
{{spoiler|start}} | |||
{{Psaro C}} is informed of [[Rose]] being kidnapped when in the depths of [[Estark's Crypt]] as in the original story, and races off to [[Rosehill Tower]] to rescue her. Upon finding her safe and sound in her room, [[Toilen Trubble]] bursts in and accuses her of being a fake meant to distract Psaro while the real Rose is in grave danger. The player is presented with a choice of who to believe, but Rose will cry ruby tears at being doubted and the scene will play out the same regardless of what the player chooses. Toilen storms off in frustration, and later that same day a bat flies into the tower to whisper to Rose. The elf maiden laughs that her job is done and reveals herself to have been a [[succubat]] in disguise all along just as Toilen said, bragging about how convincing her ruby tears were. Realizing that he has been fooled, Psaro rushes off only to find the real Rose dying after having been beaten by humans seeking her tears. | |||
The events of the finale of {{Dragon Quest IV}} then take place, with Psaro too wrought with grief to respect Rose's final wishes of abandoning his plans for human genocide and using the [[Secret of Evolution]] to destroy the world. Becoming a mindless beast, Psaro slaughters all around him indiscriminately, including the game's cast of characters, until he is confronted by the Chosen Ones and slain on a [[Psaro's Peak|a cliffside in Nadiria]] by the {{Hero 4}}. | |||
This sad fate is avoided by Toilen using the [[Sands of Time]] he half-inched from [[Dr. Helix Helix]]'s laboratory earlier in the game. He had survived Psaro's transformed rampage and plucked him from death with the magic of the sands, sending them back to the stand off with the succubat in Rosehill Tower. With her ruse in shambles the bat tries to kill Psaro directly but is dealt with, moaning [[Aamon]]'s name before dying and exposing the demon as the mastermind of the plot. With the subterfuge dealt with, Psaro and Toilen sprint off to save Rose. As the elf makes no mention of her death in the previous timeline, nor do the other characters fear Psaro due to his rampage, it seems that only Toilen and Psaro remember the terrible future. | |||
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Revision as of 11:43, 10 March 2024
Time travel is a recurring, though not frequent, theme in the Dragon Quest franchise. As each instance directly ties into a game's story at a crucial junction, be ware of spoilers when reading ahead.