Mage Meadowbrook

Mage Meadowbrook, or simply Meadowbrook, is a female Earth pony and figure of Equestrian legend first mentioned in season five's The Cutie Map - Part 1. She makes her first physical appearance in and her first in-show appearance in the season seven episode A Health of Information.
==Design==
Meadowbrook shares her name with a G3 Earth pony mare. According to the official My Little Pony art book The Art of Equestria, "Meadowbrook" was one of the other names Lauren Faust considered giving Fluttershy, who shares Meadowbrook's eye shape. M. A. Larson revealed that Meadowbrook's name was Jasmine Flower in the script for The Cutie Map - Part 1, which he thought "sounded a little more Eastern", and he guessed it was changed for "legal reasons".
In most of her appearances, Meadowbrook is shown wearing a bird mask based on real-life plague doctor masks. She speaks with a Cajun Louisiana accent.
==Depiction in the series==
Mage Meadowbrook is first mentioned in the season five premiere The Cutie Map - Part 1 and Part 2, where she is described as a great Eastern unicorn sorceress. In Part 1, Starlight Glimmer claims her "Staff of Sameness" to be one of Meadowbrook's nine enchanted items. In Part 2, Twilight Sparkle states that Meadowbrook only had eight.
 In A Health of Information, Meadowbrook is revealed to be a legendary healer known as the "Mystical Mask" and the subject of a folktale that Fluttershy's parents often told her when she was a filly. Long ago, she studied medicine under her mother and kept multiple journals. In one of her journal entries, Meadowbrook contends with a Swamp Fever epidemic that infects her mother and fellow villagers. While searching for a cure, she discovers that flash bees are immune to the disease-spreading flower's poison.
Using her healer's mask to shield herself from the bees, Meadowbrook collects some of their honey and uses it to develop a cure for the epidemic. Afterward, she dedicates her life to helping other sick ponies across Equestria. In the present, Meadowbrook is stated to have mysteriously vanished without a trace one day, and Cattail is her only known descendant. When Zecora comes down with Swamp Fever, Fluttershy cures her by using the notes and healer's mask that Meadowbrook left behind.
In the season seven finale Shadow Play, Meadowbrook is revealed to be one of the six "Pillars of Old Equestria" with Rockhoof, Mistmane, Flash Magnus, Somnambula, and Star Swirl the Bearded, representing the Element of Healing. Long ago, she and the other Pillars were brought together by the unicorn Stygian to battle a great evil. When Stygian later turned into the Pony of Shadows, Meadowbrook and the others sacrificed themselves to imprison him in limbo.
In present day, Fluttershy retrieves Meadowbrook's mask from Cattail for a ritual to free the Pillars from limbo. When the Pony of Shadows is freed along with them, Meadowbrook and the other Pillars team up with the Mane Six to separate Stygian from the darkness and banish it to limbo once again. She and the other Pillars later decide to travel Equestria to see what has become of their old homes and find their place in this new land.
In School Daze - Part 1, Meadowbrook's bust appears in the School of Friendship. In A Rockhoof and a Hard Place, Meadowbrook briefly appears selling potions out of her old Hayseed Swamp home.
In The Ending of the End - Part 1, Meadowbrook and her fellow Pillars face off against Lord Tirek, but they are easily overpowered and drained of their magic due to Tirek being empowered by the Bewitching Bell. In Part 2, she and the Pillars keep Tirek, Queen Chrysalis, and Cozy Glow busy while Twilight's friends escape. She is later present during the final battle against the villains and helps the Mane Six and Young Six defeat them. In The Last Problem, Meadowbrook attends Twilight Sparkle's coronation ceremony. She also briefly appears in Fluttershy's group shot during The Magic of Friendship Grows.
Mage Meadowbrook is mentioned by Fluttershy in one of the latter's past memories of A Health of Information in Memnagerie.
==Depiction in comics==
 In the IDW comics' , Mage Meadowbrook appears in a legend told by Cattail. In the story, Meadowbrook visits a town called Bridleberg that has been stricken by a seemingly incurable plague. Through her determination to heal the townsfolk, she manages to stop the disease by decontaminating the town well, which had been infested by a lichen. She is also mentioned to have spent the last years of her life obsessively searching for the Magenta Bloom, a rare flower rumored to cure any ailment—a search that hampered her long-distance relationship with Aqua Vine. Her dream is eventually fulfilled by Twilight Sparkle with assistance from Fluttershy, Zecora, Cattail, and Aqua Vine's descendant.
In , Mage Meadowbrook appears on cover A of and as the central character of . In the latter issue, Sunburst reads about Meadowbrook's exploits after eradicating Swamp Fever, written by Star Swirl the Bearded. During her travels of healing ponies across Equestria, Meadowbrook discovers the town of Mareidian plagued by a disease that causes the population to behave like zombies. She eventually traces the source of the disease to the town's tainted food supply, and she administers a cure.
Meadowbrook also appears on 's cover RI and in , in which she tries to cure herbivorous swamp animals from an aggression-inducing fungus. In , she joins Stygian and Rockhoof's mission against the Sirens; in subsequent issues, they and the other pillars banish the trio of villains before facing the Pony of Shadows from another dimension.
On page 3 and page 3, Meadowbrook appears in Stygian's nightmares.
In , Ocellus briefly takes on Meadowbrook's appearance as part of her school project. She also appears on cover A.
In the "Season 10" comics, Meadowbrook travels to the hidden kingdom of the Diamond Dogs with Rarity, Big McIntosh, and Maud Pie. She makes a brief appearance in a book during Zecora's backstory in . In the My Little Pony Annual 2021, the group arrives at Caninia. Meadowbrook voices confusion over the group receiving invitations from two queens, and she later presses Rarity to inquire about this. When they learn that Queen Jennino Lanternlight is sick, Meadowbrook offers to help cure her, which she accomplishes after discovering she is suffering from lead poisoning.
In , Meadowbrook tends to the injured Rainbow Dash after her flight back from Orinithia. She later reminds Twilight of how the magic of the Elements of Harmony were shared with the Pillars and the Young Six the last time they were used. In , Meadowbrook aids in the fight against the Knights of Order, providing the potion needed to free Morrigan's mind-controlled slaves, and she helps in finally defeating the Knights' leader Danu.
==Other depictions==
===Fundamentals of Magic===
Mage Meadowbrook appears in an illustration in episode 4 of Fundamentals of Magic, "Magical Objects".
===My Little Pony (mobile game)===
Mage Meadowbrook is a character in Gameloft's mobile game, and serves as a boss battle helper during the "Reflections of Harmony" event. Her in-game description states, "A Pillar of Old Equestria, Mage Meadowbrook is one of the greatest healers in the history of...well, anywhere! There isn't a disease she can't make disappear!"
==Merchandise==
Enterplay trading card series 4 #E93 mentions Meadowbrook.
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*Ponies with a similar name: Meadow Song and Meadow Flower.
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