About the Author: Why this character?

[Magus]

Why Magus?

Well, I guess because he's interesting.

Magus is confident, charismatic, intelligent, and without peer when it comes to magical talent.

He's relentlessly driven and although he's so hardened by his circumstances that he builds a monstrous persona around him, he still retains compassion - he's willing to go so far as saving the world as long as it means finding his sister who's been lost in time.

I also subscribe to the fan theory that Magus is the main character of Chrono Trigger - not Crono.

It's by the actions of his mother that his sister is lost and Lavos' (a world-eating parasite deep in the earth that shapes evolution in the way that the Reapers from Mass Effect did) awakening is accelerated (relatively speaking - it still takes thousands of years). It's because of his work in the middle ages that the party is given a focus, and once Magus' work comes to fruition, they blunder into the middle of a summoning ritual, defeat him, wake Lavos, and cause a disruption so severe that all of them are sent back through time and ruin his plan to destroy Lavos.

It's his actions in the ice ages that further shape the events and outcomes that allow the party to confront Queen Zeal and make an attempt to destroy Lavos. But again, Lavos is too strong when awake, and the party including Magus are defeated.

He's a dick, but it's mostly because he feels that other people just get in the way. In spite of this, once Lavos is destroyed, he heads back through the time rift despite the risks (with Lavos gone the time gates are meant to close forever) to keep looking for his sister.