Lo Pan | |
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Default Spellbooks | |
Default Retorts | Channeler |
Lo Pan is one of the 14 Wizards featured in Master of Magic. His default profile is 5 5 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, 5 5 Channeler is hardly game-breaking compared to some of the other mischief one could make with 12 picks.
- Arguably overpriced, channeling is still a 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 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
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 Sorcery or Chaos aspects rolling up into a single color. Taking this into account, Lo Pan's typical traits are predicted below.
Lo Pan |
Personality | Objective | ||
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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 | ||||
Nagas Psionic Blast Phantom Warriors Floating Island |
Fire Bolt Fire Elemental Eldritch Weapon Hell Hounds |
Dispel Magic True Psionic Blast Phantom Warriors Confusion |
Fire Bolt Eldritch Weapon Hell Hounds Warp 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.