Milk Build Guide: The Bunny-Ear Starter Mage in The Magus Circle

Who is Milk?

Milk is the face of The Magus Circle: a blonde witch whose wide-brimmed hat grows a pair of tall bunny ears, and the character the game keeps putting in front of you. She is name-labeled in official screenshots of the mansion hub, she is the subject of the credits illustration, and a player-captured death scene shows her announcing “…I died.” with the flat delivery of someone who has been through this before. If the game has a protagonist, it is Milk.

I'M DRAWIN' FLUFFIN' SPELLS OVER HERE — Aresima The Harpy — YouTube

I'M DRAWIN' FLUFFIN' SPELLS OVER HERE — Aresima The Harpy

Is Milk the intended starter mage?

Nothing official says “start with Milk” — but every signal points that way:

The pragmatic read: if Milk is on your character select from minute one, she is who the developers tuned the tutorial around. The mages roster compares all six once their kits are verified.

How should a first Milk run go?

Her exact kit numbers are pending in-game verification, so the honest advice is structural rather than numerical:

1. Read her starting spell’s shape first. Whatever sigil Milk opens with, you will draw it more than anything else this run — the drawing guide has the recognition tips that keep the lightning penalty off your back.
2. Bank one upgrade path before diversifying. Level-up cards multiply whichever spell you feed them; a single focused path beats four shallow ones in the first hour.
3. Plan her Leviathan extraction early. Every mage needs a personal extraction for the unlock grind — the Leviathan guide explains the per-character material tracking that makes Milk’s first extraction matter.
4. Turn on time-slow while drawing for the first evening. The comfort settings exist for exactly this phase, and the beginner guide lists which ones to flip first.

What is the Bunny Form connection?

The official tarot screenshot shows a card called The Magus whose listed effect is “Bunny Form” — the game winking at its mascot mage. The 1.0.6 hotfix strengthened that link: it fixed Bunny Form “interrupting Milk’s level up,” the most direct official tie between the form and Milk so far. Whether the form is a skill-tree node, an ability, or purely the tarot is still being verified. What the same screenshot confirms: tarot cards have upright and reversed versions with different effects — The Empress grants +10% Speed upright and +10% Mana Efficiency reversed — so Milk builds that want a form effect need to think about which orientation they are buying.

What is still unknown about Milk?

For transparency, the open questions this page will answer as they are verified: her passive, her active ability, her starting spell’s name and shape, her skill tree layout, and her unlock cost if she is not free from the start. Launch week has already proven the game names its systems in patch notes (see Coffee’s potion tutorial or Anchan’s ability hotfix), so Milk’s kit details should surface the same way — through play, not through rumor.

Sources: official Steam screenshots, the game’s credits, and launch-week player media from the Steam community. Screenshots © By Witchlight.