Talk:Monster Army/@comment-77.77.217.130-20190913175930/@comment-27031093-20190913200216

Men of magic have appeared in games outside of the Rance series (Mamatoto, for example) and don't follow the same naming pattern as the rest of the Monster Army-affiliated monster types, so it wasn't totally clear whether they were considered to be a standalone monster or a variety of soldier in the Monster Army. They're pretty mysterious in general, all things considered; they appear semi-often but have had no information provided about them.

Since they only appear alongside the Monster Army when they show up in the Rance games, it's a safe enough assumption that, at least at one point, they were considered to be soldiers of the Monster Army within the continuity of the Rance series.

Rance X complicates things a bit since men of magic don't appear at all in it and a new type of magic-using monster soldier called a magic monster soldier is introduced. Were men of magic retconned out of existence from the Rance games? Are men of magic now considered to be a species of guy monster and an entirely different thing from magic monster soldiers? There's no way of knowing for now.