Marle (Chrono Trigger)
Categories: Chrono Trigger characters | Tomboys | Fictional time travelers | Fictional princesses
| Image:Marle in Chrono Trigger.jpg | |
| Marle | |
|---|---|
| Real Name | Princess Nadia Guardia |
| Original Time Period | 1000 A.D. |
| Weapon | Crossbow |
| Magic | Water |
| Gender | Female |
Marle is a playable character in Squaresoft's Chrono Trigger.
Marle is the second character the player meets in the game, and is perhaps the second most important character in the game after Crono. The meeting of Crono and Marle is somewhat strange, as they meet by accidentally slamming into each other in the public square. So forceful is this collision that not only does Marle black out for a short time but she also loses her pendant, which Crono must find and return to her. Marle insists that she follow Crono around, as she claims to be from out of town. It turns out later that she is actually the Princess Nadia of the Kingdom of Guardia, in which the game takes place. Marle has been upset with her father, the king, and ran away temporarily to attend the Millennial Fair, which is where she ran into Crono in the first place. Marle and Crono walk around the fair together, and after a while Crono takes Marle to see an invention his friend Lucca has made. As it turns out, Marle's pendant is actually magical, having belonged previously to Schala, a powerful spellcaster from the ancient Kingdom of Zeal. The pendant interacts with Lucca's teleport pod, and she is sent backward in time 400 years, thus setting into action all the following events in the game.
Marle is a valuable character to have in your party throughout the game, as many of her special abilities are related to healing instead of attacking. For the first part of the game before your party learns to use magic, her physical attacks are somewhat weak. Later, she becomes a powerful force, as what she lacks in physical attacks she more than makes up for with her high magic stats and Tech combinations. She uses a crossbow as her physical weapon, and her magical attacks are manifested in the form of ice.
| Characters |
|---|
| Crono | Marle | Lucca | Frog | Robo | Ayla | Magus |
| NPCs |
| Belthasar | Cyrus | Dalton | Gaspar | Lavos | Masa and Mune | Melchior | Nu | Ozzie, Slash, and Flea | Schala | Queen Zeal |
| Eras |
| 65,000,000 B.C. | 12000 B.C. | 600 A.D. | 1000 A.D. | 1999 A.D. | 2300 A.D. | ∞ |
| Misc. |
| Chrono Symphonic | Epoch | Mammon Machine | Masamune | Chrono Trigger soundtrack | Kingdom of Zeal |