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I guess I should also say the DS ending had Magus losing his memory which is significant to CC I think? Only I'm pretty sure my nosing about CC and CT stuff looking for translated supplementary material for after i finish the games revealed Kato saying that this guy who is Magus isn't actually Magus or something like that. Like he was the amnesiac Magus in Radical Dreamers but not actually iN CC? Maybe? I dunno.
In Radical Dreamers, Magus actually appears in many incarnations and he's kind of a central figure to the plot besides Kid. He was removed in CC because the director wanted the players to use the rest of the cast and worried that Magus would hijack the plot and player attention. So they changed the character he was suppose to be into a different character who has little to do with the plot. Didn't stop fans from figuring it out which character it was but there is a shout out to the real Magus in the plot, though the new DS ending kind of contradicts it a bit.

But Balthazar is going to be back? That's pretty intriguing. I thought it was a pretty bleak and understated horror show for that poor guy. Cast into a post-apocalyptic future but trying his best to hold onto hope, to hold onto sanity, in order to avert this disaster. Our heroes owe him everything yet not a one of them ever recognizes what he must have gone through.
I really shouldn't say more about it. I don't want to ruin it but at the same time the way the game explains it is kind of confusing.

I never really understood what was going on with Schala's Pendant anyway. I take it was a piece of Lavos or maybe part of the meteor that Lavos fell with? Was Lavos on a meteor like Jenova or did it just collide with the planet all on its own? I could sear CT just said the pendant was part of a stone that fell from the sky but even then I'm not sure if I'm remembering that right.
It's not so much its origin as much as what it can do.

The game is vague about details of Lavos arrival but most fans feel he was traveling in a meteor shell and he was the bulk of it. There is some confusion in the scripts concerning whether the shell was actually made of Dreamstone and thus explain why it seems to have a symbiotic relation with his power or whether it was just plain old ice and rock. Neither game gives a satisfactory answer. The nature of the Frozen Flame doesn't help any.