Bran Mac Mufin

**Bran Mac Mufin** (or Bran Mak Mufin) was the one-time leader of the Pigts.

## History

When he first met Cerebus, he was leading the Pigts of the Red Marches.

He later came to Iest to serve Cerebus when Cerebus became Prime Minister, returning to his side when Cerebus became Pope.

He killed himself with a dagger in the hotel where Cerebus was staying while Pope.

## Quotes about Bran Mac Mufin

* "Throughout (Bran's) myriad previous lives, his pattern has remained, unfortunately, consistent; marked by a rise to prominence, influence and leadership in the environment in which he finds himself; followed by the consolidation of that authority into a reign which engenders nearly absolute fealty. His ensuing conversion to another leader's cause and standard brings about the consequent fracturing of hi own constituency whose loyalty, freely given, is to him alone and not some manner of spiritual currency, as is his misunderstanding, to be spent as he deems fit. the resultant isolation from his followers is punctuated by a swift decline into sycophancy, idolatry and rationalisation. In the end, there comes an Event of Crisis which precipitates disillusionment, despair and ritualistic suicide. In its turn, this brings about the Fall of the Object of his new and abiding faith. At each conclusion, as a kind of penance, peculiar to himself, he resolves that his spirit will remain forever earth-bound in its corpus of the moment. The Grand Folly in this, of course, is that the decay and decomposition of his physical form is as inevitable as the onset of the seasons." - Suenteus Po
* "Your destruction of the Pigtish idol had called forth a travesty of that idol in human form. Having chosen to have faith in you. .instead of the icon. . .Bran saw suicide as the only honorable recourse open to him. . .In the absence of the genuine idol, is it possible that Necross/Thrunk might have fulfilled some part of your fractured destiny?" - Dave

## Basis

Bran Mac Mufin is a parody of Robert E. Howard's celtic barbarian chieftain character Bran Mak Morn, a king of the Picts.

## Appearances

* *Cerebus No. 5*
* *Cerebus No. 34* and *Cerebus No. 35*
* *Cerebus No. 37*
* *Cerebus No. 40* and *Cerebus No. 41*
* *Cerebus No. 42* - cameo or mention
* *Cerebus No. 43*
* *Cerebus No. 66* and *Cerebus No. 67*
* *Cerebus No. 71* and *Cerebus No. 72*
* *Cerebus No. 75*
* *Cerebus No. 80*
* *Cerebus No. 89* - cameo or mention
* *Cerebus No. 102*
* *Cerebus No. 112* - cameo or mention
* *Cerebus No. 156* - cameo or mention
* *Cerebus No. 161*
* *Cerebus No. 196* - cameo or mention
* *Cerebus No. 300* - cameo

## Dave Sim on Bran Mac Mufin

* "...Bran's High Society look was intended to look like Zeppo..."

* **Ray:** The Pigt shaman who kills himself suffers a Death of the Soul that has cataclysmic repercussions. But Bran repeatedly kills himself and gets re-incarnated - how?

**DAVE:** Faith. The pigt shaman was essentially an "ancestor worshipper," which, to me, is probably the lowest grade of faith: that your dead relatives are efficacious in some way. Bran had faith in Cerebus and Cerebus, as a natural magnifier, magnified that faith at many levels within Bran Mak Mufin. He consciously lost faith when he killed himself, but his conscious faith was only one level and not as important a one as the other levels Cerebus had reached (with Bran's acquiescence). He literally had faith that wouldn't die.
## References

 1. ↑ *Cerebus No. 5*
2. ↑ *Cerebus No. 161*, page 4
3. ↑ *Cerebus No. 196*
4. ↑ *Cerebus No. 48*, "Aardvark Comment"
5. ↑ Dave's Q&A March 2004