Time Egg

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A Time Egg is a mysterious and enigmatic device capable of allowing time travel. The only individuals in history capable of creating them are Belthasar, Gaspar, and Lucca (though her prototypes were incomplete). The materials involved in its construction are unknown, as are its mechanics, though it most likely utilizes arcane magic to function. Specifically, it utilizes miniature black holes; according to Lucca's notes, "by rotating a single point of supergravity, space-time continua can be drawn in, thus making it possible to transform that singular point which pulls in everything else into a ring formation. Using this ring as a Gate between dimensions, it is be possible to travel back and forth between various space-time." The Time Egg can be then be described as a self-contained Gate, allowing the user to travel to whichever era he or she pleases. Activating the Time Egg is a different matter. The Chrono Trigger was such a device, and several stipulations surrounded its activation. These were spelled out by Belthasar and Gaspar; specifically, they noted that the Time Egg would have an effect equal to the amount of effort given toward the achievement of its intended purpose; that if it were being used to save a person from death, that the person in question must be important to the space-time continuum; that a clone would be needed to satisfy the second requirement.

The veracity of these stipulations is unknown, as it would suggest that the Time Egg has the ability to differentiate important persons in the scope of history. The second note about one's importance to the continuum may have been simply a warning against causing unnecessary historical change by preventing death. In any event, the extent of the ability to use a Time Egg at will is unknown; when Serge used one to travel to the Darkness Beyond Time, its purpose had been previously spelled out by Belthasar as well. Another mystery involves what occurs to the Time Egg after its use.

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