Staff Adept

Staff Adept
Tier	1
Total Rice	30
Total Water	30
Total Training Time	--
Hitpoints	--
Melee	Blunt
Missile/Ranged	None
Strengths	Fire
Weaknesses	Magic
Prerequisite	Lotus Peasant trains at Training Yard.
Passive	Whirling Staff: Does area-of-effect damage when engaging multiple units in melee combat.

All that separates life from death is loneliness, suffering, and my iron staff.

— Staff Adept

The Staff Adept is a unit of the Lotus Clan.

About

Those novices who pass through the Rites of Initiation with quiet, stoic hopelessness demonstrate their kinship with Tausil, the Forsaken One.

These initiates endure endless, repetitive drills at the Training Grounds, repeat interminable chants of droning monotones, and maintain ceaseless and solitary vigils over the Tree of Corruption.

From existence, they gradually learn to accept emptiness as the sole truth among the distractions of life.

In combat, the Staff Adept moves quietly, with little apparent interest in his surroundings. Yet the emptiness of his soul gives him a painful awareness of - and loathing - for those who disturb his inner silence. He is utterly fearless, and is more than able to engage multiple opponents with the emotionless, technically perfect spins and flourishes of his staff.

For such a frail-seeming opponent, the Staff Adept finds pain surprisingly irrelevant.

Battle Gear

	Dark Canopy	Stamina: Drains Stamina
Can be acquired from any of Lotus Brothers.
Granted Tausil's insights into nothingness, a Staff Adept may spin his weapon overhead with such flawless precision that it deflects missiles from all nearby allies.

Gallery

Staff Adept Concept Art

Quotes (Move)

• "Your will be done...."
• "My life is yours...."
• "I am yours....!"
• "Show me the way...."
• "My weapon is yours....!"
• "My soul is yours....!"

Quotes (Attack)

• "I'll crush their skulls....!"
• "I'll knock them dead....!"
• "Break their KNEES!"
• "Crush them....!!!"
• "I will break your FACE!"
• "Bow to the Lotus!"
• "I will break YOU!"

Quotes (When engaging in melee combat)

• "DIE!"

Quotes (Kills)

• "You make me sick!"
• "Weak-minded FOOL!"
• "Your bones break nicely"
• "Spineless CUR!"
• "You're worthless!"
• "You die easily"
• "Heartbreaking"

Quotes (Heal)

• "Stronger than ever!"

Trivia

• Originally the "Dark Canopy" battle gear was named "Blinding Defence", implying that the "canopy" itself would blind the ally units affected by it.
• Though "Dark Canopy" is said to only deflect missiles, it deflects absolutely any non- melee damage, including damage- based Battle Gears and Dragon Fire. It is one of the reasons why the Lotus clan is overpowered, as "Dark Canopy" can be acquired in the first 5 minutes of the game.
• Staff Adept's "Whirling Staff" innate ability doesn't work, even if the Staff Adept perform the appropriate attack animation, i.e. swirling his staff like a pinwheel / windmill / airscrew. (1.50q). Instead, Liquid 'fixed' this problem by making the Staff Adept's weapon deal area-of-effect damage with every hit. Nevertheless, this area-of-effect is too small to be noticeable, only allowing the Staff Adept to damage enemies standing super-close to each other.