High Elven Mage

The High Elven Mage is an advanced Magic Tower that appears in Kingdom Rush: Origins, unlocked in stage 9, The Crystal Lake. The High Elven Mage fires triple magical bolts that can hit up to three enemies at once.
==Description==
High elven mages cast awesome high energy triple bolts! A taste of Tel'Quesir magic. (Main bolt: 31-54 damage, 2 auxiliary bolts: 5-10 damage each)
==Abilities==
===Timelapse===
 "Just a sec..."
Phases enemies out of the battlefield for 5 seconds, dealing magical damage. (Cooldown: 16 seconds)
Level	Cost	Maximum Targets	Damage
1 	225 	2 	100
2 	225 	3 	135
3 	225 	4 	150
===Arcane Sentinel===
 "Seek and destroy!"
Summons magic sentinels that seek and attack nearby enemies at long range.
Sentinels have about twice the range of the High Elven Mage itself. First, Sentinels start circling around the mage for 4 seconds to charge energy. Charged and ready Sentinels start to seek and attack targets, shooting 10 bolts over 5 seconds. This cycle takes 10 seconds.
Level	Cost	Damage per Bolt	Number of Sentinel
1 	300 	16-32 	1
2 	300 	16-32 	2
==Range==
* 28% wider than the Level 1 Mystic Dais
* 12% wider than the Level 2 Arcanist Dais
* Same as the Level 3 Eldritch Dais, and Wild Magus
==Strategy==
*The High Elven Mage specializes in taking down small numbers of high-level enemies. Fully upgraded, the Mage can deal the flat-out highest DPS of the entire game. However, the mage is poor against large swarms because it has no AOE damage.
*Timelapse separates enemies from their group, giving your towers and troops time to deal with the first few foes before the other enemies can join in. This is very useful at choke points where you absolutely do not want be overrun. Having two High Elven Mages near each other with Timelapse allows the towers to constantly hold that enemy or enemies in place, so long as other foes do not intervene by taking the attacks instead. Especially useful with Twilight Golems.
*High Elven Mage is quite powerful against flying enemies, with Arcane Sentinels to quickly destroy groups of Gloomies and Timelapse to prevent Cloud Stalkers from overwhelming your troops.
*Timelapse is unable to kill targets even if the inflicted target's health is the same or less than the damage; it can only bring it down to 1 health.
*Wild Magus is better than High Elven Mage against one or large groups of enemies. High Elven Mage is better than Wild Magus against enemies of more than one, but smaller than a large group.
==Related Upgrades==
== Related Achievements ==
 PHANTOM ZONED Keep enemies out of time for a total of 1000 seconds.
 RED FIVE Complete any stage with 5 active Arcane Sentinels.
==Quotes==
* "Clear your mind."
* "Time is like an ocean."
* "Seek and destroy!"
== Trivia ==
* "Seek and destroy!"
** A popular song of the same name which comes from the album "Kill em all" by the metal band Metallica.
** It is also a military phrase, the meaning of which is reasonably self-explanatory.
*"Tel'Quesir" is a reference to a Dungeons and Dragons term for the elven races, the "Tel-quessir/Tel'Quessir/Tel'Quess". The term encompasses Sylvan Elves (The common elf), Eladrin (High elves), Drow (Dark elves), and many more.
*"Time is like an ocean." is a reference to Prince op Persia: the sands of time, a videogame in which the main charachter is able to recall time and freeze enemies in time. In the intro, the Prince says: time is an ocean in a storm.
==Gallery==
High-time.jpg|Timelapse
High-sent.jpg|Arcane Sentinel
Category:Kingdom Rush: Origins
Category:Towers
Category:Magic Towers