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Oberic
Wizard Oberic
Default Spellbooks

Icon Book NatureIcon Book NatureIcon Book NatureIcon Book NatureIcon Book Nature

Icon Book ChaosIcon Book ChaosIcon Book ChaosIcon Book ChaosIcon Book Chaos
Default Retorts Mana Focusing

Oberic is one of the 14 Wizards featured in Master of Magic. His default profile is Icon Nature5 Icon Chaos5 Mana Focusing.

Description[]

Oberic is an elementalist, a wizard who comprehensively studies Nature, Chaos, and the yin-yang relationship they exhibit in shaping the world. Unlike the powers of Life and Death, these two realms can potentially be wielded by a single person. Mature elementalists display world-impacting prowess, calling down fire and storms and moving the mountains. Oberic is proudly self-reliant; he can evoke elements flexibly and condense Mana Crystals from them with ease.

Oberic is a male of High Men stock. Diverging from his portrait, his full body cutscene artwork indicates that he has total albinism, with ghostly white skin and hair and red eyes. He wears a yellow wizard robe and a dark green sculpted dragon headpiece.

Playing as Oberic[]

Oberic'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 unofficial patches. Selecting either his default profile or his portrait prevents him from being encountered as an opposing Wizard.

Oberic's Default Traits[]

This profile introduces the Icon NatureGreen and Icon ChaosRed combination. There are heavy-duty monsters to call forth and very pointed combat spells to throw, and they require financing.
Mana Focusing makes Oberic more efficient at producing raw Icon Mana Mana, but please note that since research and skill are very critical to development, one should always strive to allocate as little of their precious Icon Power Power Base to mana as they can. See the strategy section of Mana Focusing for ideas on creative mana generation/saving.
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

Oberic as an Opponent[]

If not chosen, Oberic may appear randomly among the computer-controlled opponent Wizards. Spellbooks and Retorts 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 NatureNature or Icon ChaosChaos aspects rolling up into a single color. Taking this into account, Oberic's typical traits are predicted below.

Wizard Oberic
Oberic
Personality Objective
Lawful 45% Perfectionist 38%
Peaceful 18% Expansionist 21%
Chaotic 14% Militarist 21%
Ruthless 11% Theurgist 20%
Aggressive 11%
Maniacal 1%

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 Oberic knows all spells specified in the table below. The known spells of a randomly generated opposing Oberic 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 NatureWar Bears
Icon NatureStone Skin
Icon NatureSprites
Icon NatureWater Walking
Icon ChaosFire Bolt
Icon ChaosFire Elemental
Icon ChaosEldritch Weapon
Icon ChaosHell Hounds
    Icon NatureWater Walking
Icon NatureSprites
Icon NatureGiant Strength
Icon NatureResist Elements
Icon ChaosFire Bolt
Icon ChaosEldritch Weapon
Icon ChaosHell Hounds
Icon ChaosWarp Wood

Trivia[]

  • Oberic is based on Elric, the protagonist of Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion series (1972). Elric of Melniboné is an albino and likewise described to have a headpiece and yellow robes.
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