Anchan Guide: Quest Line, Ability and What the Patch Notes Confirm

Who is Anchan?

Anchan is one of the six playable mages in The Magus Circle, and her name surfaced in the official patch notes the way most mage facts do on this wiki: through a bug worth fixing. Her trail so far:

The 1.0.2 entry is the most informative single line about her kit: active abilities in this game are cooldown-based skills (the mages roster outlines the three kit layers — skill trees, abilities, starting spells), and Anchan’s was prominent enough that a softlock inside it broke runs badly enough to hotfix on day one.

The “Where’s Anchan?” Quest Line

The 1.0.6 hotfix did two Anchan things at once — fixed the “Where’s Anchan?” scene and added the “Where’s Anchan?” quest line. The title is doing double duty: it is both a literal bug report about a mage who was hard to find and the name the developers gave her introduction quest. If you cannot locate her in the manor, update first — the scene she appears in was buggy on earlier builds.

The manor itself is where mage story beats live: the mansion guide covers the hub area, and the 1.1.0 patch fixed “hidden notes never appearing in the mansion if Rum meets Coffee first” — a reminder that mage interactions gate on each other in sequence. See Coffee and Rum for their own trails.

Kit Details: What Is Still Pending

Her passive, active-ability effect and numbers, skill tree shape, and starting spell are not yet verified in public sources. The game’s own systems make them capturable — the 1.1.2 patch’s Hub spellbook now lists every unlocked spell with all upgrades, which makes cross-checking a mage’s kit far easier than at launch. Kit rows land on this page as they are confirmed.

Sources

Official patch notes: 1.0.2, 1.0.6 and current hotfixes (Steam news), Steam store page, and launch-week reports from the Steam community forums. Screenshots © By Witchlight.