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*'''Dactyl:'''Dactyls are a form of transport in the Prehistory era of Chrono Trigger. They are winged reptiles that can be ridden. The chief of Laruba Village keeps the secret to riding Dactyls. When Ayla prepares to assault Tyranno Lair, she uses Dactyls to reach the mountaintop keep. Marle is able to use dactyls freely in Prehistory after defeating the Tyranno Lair. In the game, dactyls function like the Wings of Time (obtained much later) by allowing Marle to fly around the world and traverse oceans, mountains, and other barriers they could not cross on foot.
*'''Dactyl:''' Dactyls are a form of transport in the Prehistory era of Chrono Trigger. They are winged reptiles that can be ridden. The chief of Laruba Village keeps the secret to riding Dactyls. When Ayla prepares to assault Tyranno Lair, she uses Dactyls to reach the mountaintop keep. Marle is able to use dactyls freely in Prehistory after defeating the Tyranno Lair. In the game, dactyls function like the Wings of Time (obtained much later) by allowing Marle to fly around the world and traverse oceans, mountains, and other barriers they could not cross on foot.
*'''Epoch:''' The Epoch can access any of the key time eras in Chrono Trigger. The party initially seeks it after being sealed out of the Antiquity time period by [[Schala]], following the advice of Gaspar. It does not rely on pre-existing Gates to operate. Once aboard the Epoch, Crono can access the Time Gauge. This gauge dominates the console of the Epoch and allows the pilot to select a destination time period Era. The Epoch is theoretically able to travel anywhere in time Era, the areas of note that the party usually travel to with it are Prehistory (65,000,000 BC), the Antiquity (12,000 BC), the Middle Ages (600 AD), the Present (1000 AD), the Apocalypse (1999 AD), the Future (2300 AD), and even the End of Time. At first, it operates the same way that the Gates do, depositing the travelers at the same physical location in different eras in time. This limits its use as a spatial transport. As shown in a cutscene, the Epoch possesses engines that cause it to hover in mid-air. The ship creates a time distortion directly in front of it, and the massive rockets at the rear of the ship propel it into the distortion. This has the effect of propelling the ship and its passengers forward, although they do not move in space at all. When the Epoch arrives at its destination in time, the lift engines shut down, lowering the Epoch to the ground in the same physical location. At a certain point in their adventure, the party loses the Epoch to Dalton. He modifies the ship with technology aboard the Blackbird, giving it the ability to fly. After he is defeated, the party regains use of the now flight-enabled Epoch. Using it, the time travelers can access any era or location in any point in time, which is necessary for certain side quests as well as reaching the Black Omen at any point in history.
*'''Epoch:''' The Epoch can access any of the key time eras in Chrono Trigger. The party initially seeks it after being sealed out of the Antiquity time period by [[Schala]], following the advice of Gaspar. It does not rely on pre-existing Gates to operate. Once aboard the Epoch, Crono can access the Time Gauge. This gauge dominates the console of the Epoch and allows the pilot to select a destination time period Era. The Epoch is theoretically able to travel anywhere in time Era, the areas of note that the party usually travel to with it are Prehistory (65,000,000 BC), the Antiquity (12,000 BC), the Middle Ages (600 AD), the Present (1000 AD), the Apocalypse (1999 AD), the Future (2300 AD), and even the End of Time. At first, it operates the same way that the Gates do, depositing the travelers at the same physical location in different eras in time. This limits its use as a spatial transport. As shown in a cutscene, the Epoch possesses engines that cause it to hover in mid-air. The ship creates a time distortion directly in front of it, and the massive rockets at the rear of the ship propel it into the distortion. This has the effect of propelling the ship and its passengers forward, although they do not move in space at all. When the Epoch arrives at its destination in time, the lift engines shut down, lowering the Epoch to the ground in the same physical location. At a certain point in their adventure, the party loses the Epoch to Dalton. He modifies the ship with technology aboard the Blackbird, giving it the ability to fly. After he is defeated, the party regains use of the now flight-enabled Epoch. Using it, the time travelers can access any era or location in any point in time, which is necessary for certain side quests as well as reaching the Black Omen at any point in history.
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Crono! Oh, Crono, you're back! We... We were all waiting for you to come back. You can't... Don't ever leave us like that again! A lot of things happened, Crono. While you were away... First, we...and then... And after that I... so we... But... Crono! Are you even listening? There's so much I still have to tell you.
~ Marle to Crono after reviving him

Background

Marle is a character in Chrono Trigger. She is the princess of Guardia. Her real name is Princess Nadia, and she is often at odds with her father, the King. Born in 984 A.D. Later in the game, an optional sidequest fleshes out the troubles between Marle and her father.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Marle’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!
Bored of royal life in the castle, she slips out to the Millennial Fair held at Leene Square in Truce. Here, she meets Crono but conceals her royal status from him. As the two enjoy the many games and foods at the festival, namely lollipops, which are her favorite, Marle tries out Lucca's Telepod, which reacts with her pendant and creates a time Gate, sending her to 600 A.D. Using her pendant, Crono travels back in time to rescue her. Shortly after arriving in Truce Canyon, Marle is either confronted by a search party or arrives at the Middle Ages version of Guardia Castle and is mistaken for her ancestor, Queen Leene, due to their parallel features and personality. Marle, quite humored by the misconception, plays along until Crono finds his way into the castle. Marle does not reveal her identity immediately to Crono but instead seeks an audience with him in the castle's private chambers. There, she reveals her identity. As the two are talking, a glowing green aura encompasses Marle and she evaporates in a spray of sparks. Stunned, Crono flees the room, bumping into Lucca in his haste. Finding her way to him via the Gate Key, she explains that Marle is, in fact, a Princess from their own time period and she realizes that this time period's kingdom has mistaken Marle for her kidnapped ancestor. Marle's ancestor, Queen Leene, went missing many days prior to Marle's arrival in the Middle Ages. A search party was called to find and rescue the Queen, but as Marle intervened in this time period and was mistaken for Leene, the search party was called off. Thus, the King and Queen did not produce an heir that would later mother Marle and created a grandfather paradox. Shortly after, the two hear the Chancellor mention that Queen Leene is hidden inside the Manolia Cathedral, west of the Castle.

To fix the timeline and bring Marle back, the two infiltrate the Cathedral, which is overrun by strange creatures and rescue Leene from Yakra who impersonated the royal Chancellor and held the Queen hostage in attempts to terrorize the monarchy. Marle, Crono, and Lucca return to their proper time period only to learn that a search party was called to find Marle, who was believed kidnapped by Crono. Using her authority, Marle demands the guards unhand Crono, but the Chancellor (of this time period) quickly overrules her. Placed on trial, Crono is accused of abducting Marle in attempts to thwart the throne, very similar to the event he attempted to resolve four hundred years in the past. Many scenes from the Millennial Fair play a role in this trial, but despite the verdict, Crono is imprisoned, pending execution.

Meanwhile, Lucca busts him out of jail and together they flee the Castle. Marle meets up with them and together, they take off for Guardia Forest, chased by Royal Guards and the Chancellor with the latter about to carry out Crono's death sentence himself. A Gate awaits them in the forest, and they use it to travel thirteen hundred years into the Future. After the team investigates Trann Dome, looking for a portal to take back to their proper time period, Robo joins the party. From this point forward, Marle's role in the story is optional. The player can decide to involve her or not. Including her introduces a plethora of different dialogue.

After the legendary Rainbow Shell is retrieved from Giant's Claw and stored in the Castle Vault, Marle's Father, King Guardia XXXIII is accused of selling the heirloom which was scheduled to be unveiled at the Moonlight Parade as stated in an ancestral will. The King claims he was not aware the artifact even existed. Marle, to prove her father's innocence, locates the shell in the basement of the Castle and brings a shard of it to the courtroom. The Chancellor, impersonated by Yakra XIII, attacks the party for ruining his scheme to usurp the throne. After he is defeated, the King and Marle share a touching scene where the King reveals hidden facts about the day her mother, Queen Aliza, died of a fatal illness. For the first time in years, Marle calls her father "daddy", and their problems are reconciled.

The PlayStation version of Chrono Trigger includes an FMV scene at the end that shows Crono and Marle getting married. While a second FMV depicts the fall of Guardia Kingdom in the year 1005 A.D, it is unknown what happened to Marle during this event, although if Doan is her descendant, she probably survived. In the sequel, Chrono Cross, Marle's fate is hinted at in Radius's statement about the Kingdom of Guardia was no longer being peaceful; she makes a cameo appearance alongside Crono and Lucca as ghosts at the Dead Sea and Opassa Beach.

Statistics

Key: Early Game | Pre-Vortex | Post-Vortex

Tier: 8-B | High 6-B, likely 6-A. Higher with Epoch, 1-C with the Chrono Trigger | At least 2-C, likely 1-C

Name: Marle, Princess Nadia Guardia

Origin: Chrono Trigger

Sex: Female

Age: 16

Classification: Time Traveler, Princess, Archer

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: City Block level (Can fight and defeat Yakra who can cause massive earthquakes just from screaming and moving. Can easily knock out guards, has a sword that "strikes like lightning", can harm Fiendlords whose army laid waste to an entire village) | Large Country level+ (Can harm Fiendlords whose army laid waste to an entire village, Marle and co. use weapons using the sun stone’s power which is stated to have “near infinite power” defeated Lavos whose Rains of Destruction did this much damage, and his power was used to lift Zeal into the air), likely Continent level (Could harm and defeat Lavos who caused Zeal to fall). Higher with Epoch (One-shotted Lavos' shell, though it destroyed itself in the process), Complex Multiverse level with the Chrono Trigger (The Chrono Trigger has a condensed universe within it which transcends space-time beyond the multiverse) | At least Universe level (After becoming one with the Alabaster Shade in the vortex she fought Dream Devourer Lavos and was capable of harming it. Dream Devourer Lavos was capable of devouring dreams from an alternate dimension. Dreams are alternate universes in Chrono), likely Complex Multiverse level+ (Schala stated that all of existence would be ended, the cosmology of Chrono is this huge)

Durability: City Block level | Large Country level+, likely Continent level (Can tank giant metal blades falling on her and took hits from Lavos including his rains of destruction) | At least Universe level, likely Complex Multiverse level+ (Could withstand an attack that devours alternate universes)

Striking Strength: City Block Class | Large Country Class+, likely Continent Class | At least Universal, likely Complex Multiversal+

Lifting Strength: Unknown | Unknown | Unknown

Travel Speed: Peak Human | Superhuman (Covered large distances in a short period of time around each time period), Extra-Temporal with the Epoch (The Epoch uses it's speed to travel through time, being described to "transcend time") | At least Superhuman, Extra-Temporal with the Epoch

Combat Speed: Peak Human | Extra-Temporal (Can tag Lavos who flew to Earth from a distant star system in around 20 seconds. Can tag Queen Zeal who exists in the black omen which flows across all temporal dimensions and transcends space-time, existing outside of the flow of time itself. Along with the black omen being stated to “straddle time”) | Extra-Temporal (Could tag Dream Devourer Lavos, who exists in a plane beyond the borders of time)

Reaction Speed: Peak Human | Extra-Temporal | Extra-Temporal

Stamina: Superhuman (Was able to keep fighting through continuous battle sequences without tiring. Even at 1 HP they can still attack at full strength), higher with various equipment (Various equipment increase stamina)

Range: Standard Melee Range, Hundreds of Meters with Crossbow, Kilometers with Omnidirectional Magic Attacks (Should be comparable to Crono's magic), High Multiversal with Epoch (Can travel across alternate timelines which there are infinite of), Complex Multiversal with the Chrono Trigger

Intelligence: Genius (Should be as competent as Crono when it comes to fighting, in the ending "The Grand Flow of Time" she has become the new ruler of Guardia)


Powers and Abilities

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Acrobatics (Very acrobatic, can jump extremely high), Weapon Mastery (Is skilled with her various crossbows), Vehicular Mastery (Can drive the Epoch, and ride Dactyls), Time Paradox Immunity (Types 0, 1, 2, & 4. Was aware that the Black Omen was not always there, unlike everyone else who assumed the Black Omen always existed there. Unaffected by Lavos' temporal shifts. Changing a future in the Chrono Verse causes said future to be erased from existence though characters like Robo still exist even after defeating Lavos and causing the erasure of the future timeline from ever happening. Is unbound by the causality loop of fate that attempts to force a cycle to continue), Magic (Is a user of one of the four basic elements of universe, that being water/ice),Non-Physical Interaction (Can harm spectors & shadows, who can’t be harmed by guns or blades), Immortality Negation (Type 7. Can kill skeletons), Summoning (Can call upon friends from different time periods to come to their time period), Attack Reflection (Should scale to the other party members who reflected Dalton's magic), Acausality Negation (Type 5. Can fight and harm the denizens of the black omen, which transcends time and space and exists outside of it’s flow making it exist simultaneously in all time periods at once, Gaspar, the Guru of time describes the black omen as "straddling time"), Subjective Reality (In the world of Chrono Cross the world is stabilized by the observations of the one who views it with each world having it's own observer, along with this in one's dream exists truth, the observation of many made supercomputer's such as FATE once they sealed away the dragon gods become literal gods of fate in the world), Aura & Healing (With Aura, restores a small amount of HP to herself or an ally. Cure, restores a moderate amount of HP to herself or an ally. Cure II, restores a large amount of HP to herself or an ally), Mind Manipulation/Chaos Manipulation & Status Effect Inducement (With Allure, confuses an enemy), Ice Manipulation (With Ice, attack an enemy with ice. Ice II is an omni-directional attack that attacks all enemies with ice), Time Manipulation & Statistics Amplification (With Haste, halves time between turns for an ally, which essentially translates to increasing their speed via accelerating their time, can also counter other forms of time manipulation with this ability), Resurrection (With Arise, revives and fully heals an ally), Empathic Manipulation (With Twin Charm, when cast, the two assume their usual tech stances and several pink hearts circle the screen before entering an enemy. If successful, a white box wrapped in red ribbon is thrown into Ayla's hands and the screen displays which item was looted), Limited Plot Manipulation (Type 1. Marle and Lucca called upon the art director to change the ending of the game), Resistance to Extreme Heats (Can move around in a volcano just fine), Space-Time Manipulation (Unaffected by Lavos' temporal shifts), Temporal BFR (If Marle is sent through time she is sent to the End of Time where she can access points in time to return due to possessing a gate key), Ice Manipulation & Water Manipulation (Has a natural resistance to ice and water due to it being her element), Time Manipulation (Can enter the End of Time), Pain (Even at 1 HP the party can proceed to attack at full strength)

Standard Equipment

*Bronze Bowgun: Bronze Bowgun is Marle's starting weapon in Chrono Trigger. It raises her attack by 3.

  • Iron Bowgun: Iron Bowgun is a weapon in Chrono Trigger. It is the second weapon for Marle, and boasts an attack power of 15.
  • Silver Bowgun: The Silver Bow (also known as Lode Bow in the SNES/PS version) is one of Marle's Bows in Chrono Trigger. With an attack power of 20.
  • Bandit's Bow: The Bandit’s Bow is an item in Chrono Trigger and is Marle's fourth bow. It raises her attack power by 25.
  • Shaman's Bow: The Shaman's Bow is a weapon in Chrono Trigger. With an attack power of 40, it is Marle's fifth bow.
  • Dreamstone Bow: Dreamstone Bow is Marle's sixth-level bow in Chrono Trigger. It raises her attack by 60.
  • Comet Bow: Comet Bow is Marle's seventh-level weapon in Chrono Trigger. It's shaft is described to strike like meteorites, and it raises her attack by 80.
  • Sonic Bow: Sonic Bow is a weapon in Chrono Trigger. It is the eighth bow for Marle. It raises her attack by 100 and inflicts the status effect stop.
  • Siren's Kiss: Siren's Kiss is a weapon in Chrono Trigger. With an attack power of 140, it is Marle's ninth bow. It has a base critical hit rate of 40% and inflicts the status effect slow.
  • Stardust Bow: Stardust Bow is a weapon in Chrono Trigger (DS). Designed as a bow for Marle, it inflicts Confuse and has an attack power of 150. It is described to strike like falling stars.
  • Valkyrie's Bow: Valkyrie’s Bow is a Bow in Chrono Trigger. With an attack power of 180, it is the eleventh bow used by Marle. It has a base critical hit rate of 40%.
  • Venus Bow: Venus Bow is a weapon in Chrono Trigger (DS). It is Marle's best bow, and will always hit for 777 damage, no matter the enemies defenses.


Notable Techniques

*Crows Bow Hit: If an enemy is right next to Marle instead of shooting them she will hit them with the hilt of her bow.

  • Cross Bow Shot: Marle shoots an enemy with her crossbow from long range.
  • Critical Hit: Marle shoots two crossbow's at once dealing massive damage to the enemy
  • Counter-Attack: When equipped with certain accessories Marle will counter when an enemy attacks her without taking up a turn.


Other

Standard Tactics: Marle's style of fighting is that of a mage & healer, with equipment she uses to defend from various physical attacks and magical spells. Marle is naturally better fighting with a team given her class so she normally will summon her friends across time to help her in combat and do various team attacks. If the enemy proves very powerful she might use the Epoch to ram it.

Weaknesses: As Marle's magic element is water/ice she is weak to the fire element. Though this is mitigated by various armors and headgears. She's also someone who does a lot of actions without thinking it through.

Note: The 50% of damage absorption does not mean they absorb 50% of the damage and take the other 50% of damage, it means that they convert 50% of the damage into health, while the other 50% is neglected.

Note 2: Marle's time paradox immunity is on a weaker scale as she is affected by time paradoxes during the beginning of the game, though this suggests it requires the direct death of her important ancestors in order for her to be truly affected.

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