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Kali is one of the 14 Wizards featured in Master of Magic. Her default profile is 
5 
5 Artificer.
Description[]
The ageless witch Kali delves into Sorcery and Death's mysteries such as they pertain to the creation of enchanted tools and armor. Her level of mastery in rune formations, shaping magical fields, binding souls into talismans, and who knows what other weird skills has earned Kali the retort of Artificer. Detecting the presence of other wizards stirring abroad, the witch has suddenly anchored her manor in a city and become wary.
Kali appears as a refined lady of the High Men, with carefully-managed black hair and makeup enhanced by gold jewelry. Based on character concept work done for Kali, her circlet guards her soul from time. Kali wears a cape, evening gown, and opera gloves, all in black.
Playing as Kali[]
Kali's portrait may be selected for a custom Wizard when starting a new game at any Difficulty setting above "Intro" in the official game, or respectively "Easy" in the unoficial patches. Selecting either her default profile or her portrait prevents her from being encountered as an opposing Wizard.
Kali's Default Traits[]
- This profile introduces the pairing of
Blue and Black, but the retort draws focus to the creation of Magical Items and access to some attractive Item Powers made available by this combination. Kali will be wanting to recruit Heroes to use her products.
- Players with experience using Artificer and Runemaster together (see the Hero Strategy article) will disparage Kali's build. With just Artificer, crafting will still be extravagantly long and expensive.
- Nevertheless, there are a couple of points recommending the lone retort. Kali will only be making items for use, and will otherwise be able to develop conventionally, never passing a turn creating an item to just smash for mana. Most importantly, she gets access to Flight, Magic Immunity, Invisibility, and Wraithform all at once, so her items can be par excellence without having to crack the hardest Nodes in the game in hopes of finding spellbooks.
- The default Wizards feature each possible combination of either one solid or two evenly-split Realms of Spellbooks, as per the following table:
Default Profiles Portrait Wizard Name Traits Portrait Wizard Name Traits
Merlin 5
5
Sage Master
Sss'ra 4
4
Myrran
Raven 6
5
Tauron 10
Chaos Mastery
Sharee 5
5
Conjurer
Freya 10
Nature Mastery
Lo Pan 5
5
Channeler
Horus 5
5
Archmage
Jafar 10
Alchemy
Ariel 10
Charismatic
Oberic 5
5
Mana Focusing
Tlaloc 4
5
Warlord
Rjak 9
Infernal Power
Kali 5
5
Artificer
Kali as an Opponent[]
If not chosen, Kali may appear randomly among the computer-controlled opponent Wizards. The AI does not cast 
Enchant Item or Create Artifact. Therefore, as an opponent in battle Kali behaves like a standard, ornery Sorcerer, and neither will her Heroes have loads of custom magical gear to loot.
Wizards' finalized Spellbook and Retort picks determine the worldgen die rolls for AI Personality and Objective. At the "Normal" Difficulty setting and above, there is a 20% chance of either her Sorcery or Death aspects rolling up into a single color. Taking this into account, Kali's typical traits are predicted below.
Kali |
Personality | Objective | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggressive | 29% | Theurgist | 37% | |
| Ruthless | 21% | Expansionist | 31% | |
| Lawful | 19% | Perfectionist | 19% | |
| Maniacal | 12% | Militarist | 13% | |
| Chaotic | 10% | |||
| Peaceful | 9% | |||
Higher Difficulties subject a Wizard's default profile to increasingly arbitrary adjustments, including exposure to random Realms and skills. At the "Impossible" setting, be prepared for anything.
Starting Spells[]
At the start of the game, a non-customized Kali knows all spells specified in the table below. The known spells of a randomly generated opposing Kali depend entirely on the type and quantity of Spellbooks. For more information see the Wizard article. How many spells are researchable throughout the game depends on this as well.
| Starting Spells depending on Master of Magic Version | |||||
| official patch 1.31 | unofficial patch 1.40 | ||||
| Nagas Psionic Blast Phantom Warriors Floating Island
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Life Drain Ghouls Weakness Dark Rituals
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Dispel Magic True Psionic Blast Phantom Warriors Confusion
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Life Drain Skeletons Black Sleep Mana Leak
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Trivia[]
- Kali is the name of the Hindu goddess of death and destruction, to which through her namesake she aptly shares spellbooks with Death.
- Concept art created by George Edward Purdy for the playable Wizards show drawings of a concept for Kali named "Karla, the Black Witch," who for her part was based on a sorceress in the Record of Lodoss War manga (1988), "Karla, the Grey Witch." Kali bears a close resemblance to the latter. Karla's circlet is, moreover, a personal artifact housing her inherited consciousness, making Kali's own Retort of Artificer somewhat in keeping with the original Japanese character's story. Tauron is based on a character from this franchise as well.
