#ffwiki for some other things. i think i only did the other optional dungeon. the one with rubicante and ultros.

[cornelianlute]

                     Please do not take my headcanons!

                   PERSONALS DO NOT TAKE INTERACT!

Nestled in the back of the Chaos Shrine lies the Labyrinth of Time - a complex dungeon housing the Master of Time who has roamed countless eons, Chronodia.

Chronodia created the labyrinth to lure those with the powers of the Warriors of Light to them - to weed out the weak so that only the strong remained. Its labyrinth is a test to see who is worthy of the power of time - a power that even the wisest of sages covet and can hold. Chronodia's power and final form is determined by how many blue seals have been broken in the labyrinth. Its most powerful form uses all Four Fiends of Chaos as well as the power of Chaos himself against the Warriors. 

As a traveler through time, Chronodia came across Garland and sensing a confliction in him between love and power, cursed him. A symbol of its power, Chronodia left a black orb in the Chaos Shrine (a long since abandoned place of worship that mankind forget its reason for existing in the first place), for him to find, but it would take an orchestration of events to ensure that Sir Garland, the bravest knight in all of Cornelia, would arrive at such a desolate and forgotten place. 

The growing monster population, the darkening of the crystals, the fusion between one man's hatred and the four elements of the world in a desire for power, for strength, and to live forever through all of time... was not caused by one misunderstanding, one rejection from the princess of Cornelia, but an eternal being that was the flow of time itself. 

A being that would sit back and watch as a fraction of its power caused Garland to fall to darkness, turn him more monstrous as a result (of both darkness and time), and would after seeing the Warriors of Light receive Bahamut's blessing and put an end to the Four Fiends of Chaos in the present make itself known to them and challenge them. Would they be worthy of its power? Ending the cycle that had begun to make this Master bored? 

                          * S.tra.nger of P.ara.dise Related *

                                                 *spoilers below*

In terms of relating to SoP, because ngl I hate the whole Lufenia = bad shit and I'm honestly with @/magitekelite / @/falsestalwart when it comes to what it should have been (imo) with it being the circle of sages and making like a pact with that dickass Shinryu (or maybe even being Onrac because their forgotten civilization is literally just a footnote at this point), maybe Chronodia is like homies with dickass Shinryu? Because idk. I'm still confused how Jack and co. somehow got time powers at the end of SoP just from blowing up the manifestation of Chaos. So I will probably develop this idea or loose thread / strand / whatever, in the future. Idk. I think it’d be interesting too if Chronodia also had ties with The Creator from IV:TAY (as much as I dislike the end of that game), but we’ll see what I come up with. lol

Also there’s a dude in some blackish, purple robes with green hair that leads the Warriors of Light to the back of the Chaos Shrine where the Labyrinth of Time is and I think it’s just supposed to be the form Chronodia chose to lead them there. I might do something with this in the future too.