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Lo Pan
Wizard LoPan
Default Spellbooks

Icon Book SorceryIcon Book SorceryIcon Book SorceryIcon Book SorceryIcon Book Sorcery

Icon Book ChaosIcon Book ChaosIcon Book ChaosIcon Book ChaosIcon Book Chaos
Default Retorts Channeler

Lo Pan is one of the 14 Wizards featured in Master of Magic. His default profile is Icon Sorcery5 Icon Chaos5 Channeler.

Description[]

Lo Pan is a mystic who cultivates the body's core spiritual energy. His training has opened a path to a secret branch of planetary magic, the geomancy, Feng-Shui. Lo Pan can anchor his spellcasting anywhere on Arcanus and Myrror. He does not have to channel the extravagant amounts of mana that wizards usually require to cast spells in faraway battles and maintain their summoned creatures.

Lo Pan is a human male who, along with the heroes Shin Bo and Taki, come from settled peoples displaced from the Nomad race by longitude lines and culture. He has a black fumanchu beard and swordpoint eyebrows, and he wears blue and red silk Hanfu with swallowtails and a hat.

Playing as Lo Pan[]

Lo Pan'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 his default profile or his portrait prevents him from being encountered as an opposing Wizard.

Lo Pan's Default Traits[]

Lo Pan enjoys the unique status of being a 12-pick Wizard, owing to some oversight in patching the Channeler ability from the original version of Master of Magic. Luckily for everyone else, Icon Chaos5 Icon Sorcery5 Channeler is hardly game-breaking compared to some of the other mischief one could make with 12 picks.
Arguably overpriced, channeling is still a Icon Mana Mana solution. Lo Pan's strength does not come out in any singular battle, but rather in his ability to wage endless battles far, far away from the Fortress. To reach such happy circumstances quickly, make use of the reduced maintenance on summons and sustained enchantments. Chaos and Sorcery are replete with such spells.
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
Wizard Merlin Merlin Icon Life5 Icon Nature5 Sage Master Wizard Sss'ra Sss'ra Icon Life4 Icon Chaos4 Myrran
Wizard Raven Raven Icon Sorcery6 Icon Nature5   Wizard Tauron Tauron Icon Chaos10   Chaos Mastery
Wizard Sharee Sharee Icon Death5 Icon Chaos5 Conjurer Wizard Freya Freya Icon Nature10   Nature Mastery
Wizard LoPan Lo Pan Icon Sorcery5 Icon Chaos5 Channeler Wizard Horus Horus Icon Life5 Icon Sorcery5 Archmage
Wizard Jafar Jafar Icon Sorcery10   Alchemy Wizard Ariel Ariel Icon Life10   Charismatic
Wizard Oberic Oberic Icon Nature5 Icon Chaos5 Mana Focusing Wizard Tlaloc Tlaloc Icon Nature4 Icon Death5 Warlord
Wizard Rjak Rjak Icon Death9   Infernal Power Wizard Kali Kali Icon Sorcery5 Icon Death5 Artificer

Lo Pan as an Opponent[]

If not chosen, Lo Pan may appear randomly among the computer-controlled opponent Wizards. Their finalized Spellbook and Retort picks strongly influence these Wizards' die rolls for AI Personality and Objective. At the "Normal" Difficulty setting and above, there is a 20% chance of either his Icon SorcerySorcery or Icon ChaosChaos aspects rolling up into a single color. Taking this into account, Lo Pan's typical traits are predicted below.

Wizard LoPan
Lo Pan
Personality Objective
Aggressive 29% Theurgist 38%
Ruthless 20% Expansionist 30%
Lawful 18% Perfectionist 20%
Chaotic 14% Militarist 12%
Maniacal 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 Lo Pan knows all spells specified in the table below. The known spells of a randomly generated opposing Lo Pan 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
Icon SorceryNagas
Icon SorceryPsionic Blast
Icon SorceryPhantom Warriors
Icon SorceryFloating Island
Icon ChaosFire Bolt
Icon ChaosFire Elemental
Icon ChaosEldritch Weapon
Icon ChaosHell Hounds
    Icon SorceryDispel Magic True
Icon SorceryPsionic Blast
Icon SorceryPhantom Warriors
Icon SorceryConfusion
Icon ChaosFire Bolt
Icon ChaosEldritch Weapon
Icon ChaosHell Hounds
Icon ChaosWarp Wood

Trivia[]

  • The Lo Pan is the south-pointing compass used in Feng-Shui.
  • David Lo Pan is an evil sorcerer in the 1986 comedy Big Trouble in Little China.
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