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Magus (Chrono Trigger)Magus is a fictional character, who is a playable character in the Super Nintendo video game Chrono Trigger. Magus is the leader of the Mystic race, and is waging war against the humans in the year 600 AD. Ten years before, he killed the character Frog's best friend Cyrus, who was also the strongest knight in the kingdom of Guardia at that time. The only way to defeat Magus is to use the Masamune sword, which is currently broken into two parts; the hilt and the blade. Crono climbs into the Denadoro Mts. and faces Masa and Mune to retrieve the blade. Once he does this, he goes to Frog's house to get the hilt. With some dreamstone, Melchior is able to fix it into its original splendor. Then, Crono and Frog go to Magus' fortress to defeat him. They succeed, and are thrown into a time gate. Magus goes into another one, and they are separated for the time being. Later in the game, they learn that Magus was once called Janus. He was the prince of the kingdom of Zeal. His sister was Schala, and his mother was Queen Zeal. When Lavos appeared in the Ocean Palace, Janus was thrown into 600 AD, where he became a fearsome mage. After being defeated in his castle, Magus was warped to the kingdom of Zeal, and acted like a prophet, using his knowledge of the era. When Lavos appeared in the Ocean Palace, Magus tried to kill him, but didn't succeed in exacting his revenge. Instead, he was beaten, and couldn't save his sister Schala. Afterwards, the party has the option of fighting and killing him, or allowing him to join their party to help defeat Lavos. At the end of the game, he returns to the Zeal era to look for Schala. Magus has three minions: Ozzie, Slash, and Flea. They are each named for different rock and roll stars: Ozzy Osbourne, Slash from Guns N' Roses, and Flea from The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Some believe that Magus, Magil from Radical Dreamers, and Guile from Chrono Cross are the same character, and that they are from differing dimensions. They all have blue hair, hover along the ground rather than touching it, and use dark magic. Also, Magil and Guile both wear masks, and Magil is called "Gil" in some translations. Masato Kato, chief scenario writer and visionary, has directly stated that Magil from Radical Dreamers is Magus, although hiding his identity, and that Guile was originally planned to be Magus in Chrono Cross -- a design that was scrapped due to the problems of representing his story among the forty other playable characters in the game http://www.gamepro.com/sony/psx/games/features/7033.shtml.
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