Time travel

Time travel though not frequent in the Dragon Quest franchise has been used as a means for some of the installments.

Occurrences

Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride

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After returning from his adventure from Uptaten Towers to Whealbrook, The Hero meets a mysterious man at outside the church who wants to look at the Gold orb. He gives the older man a chance to look at the treasure and (apparently) receives it back, but later looses it when Bishop Ladja destroys the orb.

Years later, The Hero and his family discover that the orb was needed to allow for Zenithia Castle to rise to the sky and are pointed by to the Faerie Palace by Queen Treacle of Faerie Lea. The palace's Queen Caramel is unable to help directly, but produces a Gold bauble which The Hero holds onto while looking at a painting in the area that takes him back in time to Whealbrook village so that he can exchange it with his younger self's orb.

In the remakes of the game, after winning the game, the other portrait in Faerie Palace allows The Hero to travel to the past of Lofty Peaks. This new mission allows for him to acquire more knick-knacks and to meet both Pankraz & Madalena in their youth.

Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past

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Time travel is a frequent means of The Hero and his party slowly restoring the world which was destroyed over the course of history aside from the island of Estard. Their means of visiting various regions in the past require them to acquire special fragments and placing them on the correct pedestals in the Shrine of Mysteries.