What is Day of Lavos?

Day of Lavos is the anniversary of the 1999 Apocalypse. It is celebrated by Apocalypse survivors and their friends all over the world. Nobody remembers the exact time of the Day of Lavos. It is celebrated on a random day, usually around September, at 1.24 pm.

Why do we celebrate Day of Lavos?

There are three reasons for a survivor to celebrate the Day of Lavos:

• It's the only important historical event we can actually remember. It IS the History of modern Dystopian man.
  
  
• We see it, not as the death of the Earth, but as our rebirth. Like a phoenix, we rose out of the ashes and claimed our inheritance. We are children of time, sons and daughters of Lavos, temporally evolved human beings. The Arris Domer is a living Trigger Chrono, for they live in the presence of the Information Center and its ultimate Event.
  
  
• The genius that is the game 'Chrono Trigger' must be recognized again and again. It is a classic game, a beautiful work of art and a story worthy of any bard. Well, maybe not the prehistoric catgirls or the idea of a robot having a girlfriend, but...
  
  

How is the Day of Lavos celebrated?

All survivors are required to wear their ritual dome cloaks on Lavos Day wherever they are. Celebrations kick off at midnight on Lavos Eve with a ritual excommunication, symbolising the lack of gods in the Wasteland. Then Lavos is summoned in some abandoned area of time that nobody minds us totally trashing. The FF bridge theme is played to acknowledge the fact that Guardia is technically part of the Squarelandish Empire (we can NEVER book Nobuo Uematsu to sing it personally. WHY NOT?) and we play CT and/or Wasteland before going to sleep.

The next morning, we get up early to prepare for 1.24 pm. We play/sing songs relating to the Day of Lavos, play CT for a while, then at the actual hour we pile into the Epoch and go back to 1999 to see the real thing. Much drinking, dancing, setting fire to things and and hacking into the Arris Dome Info Center follows. Afterwards we invite local black mages and shadow mages to demonstrate the use of high-level spells such as Meteo, Flare and Ultima. Any other declarations, such as new children, plants or Lavos Spawns are announced. Afterwards, the Domers go off to do their own thing, usually ending up drunk in -65,000,000.

useful Day of Lavos links

Square's official Chrono Trigger timeline.

A Day of Lavos fanfic with pretty pictures.

A poem about the Day of Lavos.

the sound in Chrono Trigger when Lavos uses his 'destruction rains from the heavens' technique

The official Day of Lavos theme.

Lavos versus Jenova!

Doan's Lavos art gallery: KidPix Lavos
Day of Lavos-based animation.
Don't use the bucket!
Doan Lives!
Tux nukes the world in an imitation Day of Lavos.