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"cold blooded," "evil," "murderer..."

Bah!

He is none of those things. He is too cocky and proud for his own good. He has the means to defend himself most of the time, and while what we actually see does not depict him as wicked as the humans in the story seem to think he is, we know that if he's messed with, he can open a can of whoop-ass. He is cocky, arrogant, proud, powerful, vengeful, dark, introverted, and somewhat mysterious.

Regardless of what happened in between arriving in 600 AD and becoming the king of the mystics, consider this: when he was young, he possessed great power, but everybody said he possessed no magical ability whatsoever because he refused to use Lavos's power. He was the younger child, the one who, while might not be as burdened with responsibility, is equally if not more so burdened by the fact that he's ignored/overlooked, not listened to. I'm sure he tried warning his mother(and possibly father) about the dangers of using Lavos's power, but nobody listened to him. Afterall, what could he possibly know? he's just a dumb kid, right?

When the Mystics find him, at some point in time he finds acceptance with them. Obviously, they made him their damn king. I can see several reasons for his actions against Glenn and the rest of Guardia. First of all, who even started the war, and why was it started? We never know. The mystics may have been oppressed by the humans. Maybe they got sick of it and started a revolution. Maybe the humans simply saw them as a threat and went Dubya on the Mystics with a pre-emptive strike. who knows? Either way, he needed to show the people and the mystics that he was a force to be reckoned with. He might have had to mess with Frog to show his loyalty to the cause of the Mystics. Maybe he was trying to get the Masamune himself in hopes to defeat Lavos, since he knew that it was made of dreamstone, just like the pendant and Mammon Machine. Remember how he throws off his hood and attacks with a red rod of some sort, only to discover that it has no effect? Some have theorized that it was a staff of dreamstone. As for why he didn't pursue it any further after the encounter? Well, my guess is he figured because the Masamune was broken, it was of no use to him, either because it was simply a weak weapon, or without Melchior around, nobody could repair it.

He finds that by appearing to hate humans, he gains acceptance and loyalty(and appears loyal to their cause) from the Mystics. Also, if he started the war, it might have been just to distract the Mystics so he could summon and destroy Lavos. He really doesn't seem to give a rat's ass about the war or the Mystics at all. Ozzie even specifically says they were used by Magus.

He wants revenge, yes, but he wants his sister back. That shows that he has a soft side. He wants things to be as close to normal as they can be. He doesn't care about his mother anymore because he realizes she was way too far gone long ago. The one person who truly understood and cared about him, his sister, has been taken away from him. He wants her back. He wants to know that she's alright. I don't blame him one bit. While he might have stepped on people, I don't think he always had a choice.

And as far as telling the Mystics about Lavos... Maybe when he started trying to research and find out how he could possibly make Lavos appear, they confronted him to find out what he was up to, so he told them it was a powerful creature they could use to destroy the humans. If they think he's doing all this for the good of their cause, they're more likely to trust him and go along with it.

Magus is very simliar in personality and circumstances to that of Vegeta from DBZ. Neither one of them is inherently evil or bad. Both got caught up in a lot of BS beyond their control at young ages. Both lost their parents at young ages and were guided, at least in part, by a darker force. Both lost their homes and families as a result of some big catastrophe. Both of them plotted and put up a front until what they felt was the right time, at which point, they struck and tried to exact revenge on the main cause of their misery.

Corsair, you didn't get a chance to see how that confrontation occurred in the first place or the consequences surrounding it... Killing someone in self defense is not murder, and how did the Masamune break in the first place? Magus doesn't just go around destroying people for no reason. Notice how if he wanted to, he probably could have destroyed his mother, schala(obviously he wouldn't since he wanted to save her, or at least we're led to believe this), the gurus, and lots of other people that would have helped him to avoid what happened to Zeal, but he didn't. He saw that Lavos was the direct cause of his problems, and he waited and waited until Lavos showed up. If I were in his shoes, I would have just taken out my mother. No mother trying to pursue Lavos's power = no destruction of Zeal. Of course, I'd probably be viewed as some cold-blooded %#%*%!+ as a result, but that would honestly be the best option.

What he did to Glenn??? He turned him into a frog, whoopty-doo. It gave him extra agility. Cyrus probably struck first. Even if he didn't, he had a chance to escape, but instead he lunged at Magus with his last breath. We know how strong Magus is, so he could have easily just disposed of Cyrus in seconds. But what did he do? He waited until he was threatened by a foolish man who was hanging onto life by a tiny thread... In the words of Magus himself, "Play with fire, and you get burned." End of story.