His lower right leg, upper left leg, lower right arm, and upper left arm have exposed muscles and (in the first two games) pulsating nerve-like appendages. Throughout the series, Magician is depicted as an armored, levitating humanoid with horns and talons. Upon defeat, Magician summoned Pandora's Box, attempting to activate clones of himself he was fatally wounded after a thrown grenade, declaring " Nothing can erase my pain" before exploding. In an unidentified building, they found Magician, who emerged from a large glass chamber and vowed revenge for the pain he had endured. After her partner James sacrificed himself to defeat Goldman's ultimate creation, the World, rookie AMS agent Kate Green collaborated with G to fight the incident back to its source. In 2003, Goldman staged a posthumous incident worldwide, wiping out most of civilization. Who are you? Nobody gives me instructions. Curien went insane, releasing the creatures in his mansion on December 17th and 18th, 1998, but kept the Magician in incubation. Īfter curing his terminally-ill son Daniel, Curien obsessively pursued controlling life and death through science the effort, funded by Caleb Goldman, produced hostile creatures and triggered staff walkouts. Curien could control Magician at will, but an unknown individual changed the creature's programming. However, Magician was also an unfinished project, lacking several pieces of armor on his body. Up to the point of being released, Magician was seen as a perfect creation alongside Chariot, Hangedman, and Hermit and was considered a masterpiece. He was incubated inside Curien's BioReactor, a machine that edited the DNA sequence in organisms. Magician, alongside Wheel of Fate, began life as a gene developed by Curien during his time as the DBR Corporation's research director. History Creation Main article: The House of the Dead (1996 video game)