Brown Mage

> "*I won't step outside of my keep. Terrible things outside, things that want to kill you...*"
> ― Brown Mage
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**Brown Mage** is a character in Everhood. They play a major role in the trading quest, giving the player the Golden Key. Their notes are found in different parts of Everhood and contain more background information about the world.

## Characteristics

### Appearance

Brown Mage is a tall humanoid with dark skin, blond hair, and long teeth. They have a white eye and a bright soulbound gem as the other eye.
They wear a big hat, a sleeveless coat, shoes, and striped pants, all in brown. Their hat has a pink and green feather fixed with a belt. Brown Mage does not seem to have any arms.

### Personality

They are quite an isolated and paranoid individual, being locked away in their keep away from any possible harm. They have a strange interest in ordinary objects, such as toilet paper or sticks. They get angry when Red kills Crocodile, who was being kept captive by Brown Mage. They tend to be forgetful as well, recognizing Red too late, just as they're about to kill them.

## Story

The player can first meet Brown Mage by talking through a pipe at the bottom of a tower in Midnight Town. They will ask them for Toilet Paper and say they will reward them with a Lava Lamp. The player can obtain the Toilet Paper via the trading quest involving multiple different characters. After Brown Mage receives Toilet Paper from the player, they reply that they lost their Lava Lamp and make another request for Batteries. The Batteries are obtained from a broken car in the Desert.

After giving Brown Mage the Batteries, they will make another request for a trampoline, but change their mind and allow the player access to their house, south of the fountain of Midnight Town. In Brown Mage's house, they request for a rare stick, another item obtained from the trading quest. After giving Brown Mage the Stick, they reward the player with a Golden Key, allowing them to open the locked treasure chest in Midnight Town's flower shop and the locked door on the west side of Mushroom Forest.

After the player retrieves Red's arm, they can go to Brown Mage's house and kill the paralyzed Crocodile in their room that begs for help. The Crocodile thanks the player, but Brown Mage will be upset and will not talk to the player anymore, which will make the Golden Key inaccessible if they did not collect it beforehand.

Aside from the exchanges between the player and Brown Mage in Midnight Town, more of their insight can be gleaned from their five notes scattered in different parts of Everhood. It is revealed through these notes that they have a great knowledge of their world and soulbinding gems.

## Trivia

* Brown Mage is the only mage to not have a talk portrait sprite utilized in their dialogue boxes.
* If the player is in "pacifist mode" after obtaining the arm and walks around the northeastern section of Cursed Castle, the Lost Spirit with a heart-shaped mask will reveal in a cutscene that they were once friends with Brown Mage.

## Gallery

Official Steam trading card artwork of Brown MageConcept sprite of Brown MageSprite of Brown Mage with no eyeSpritesheet of Brown MageSprite of Brown Mage's soulbound gemSprite of Brown Mage when they are a Lost SpiritWaiting Room cutsceneBrown Mage offers a Lava Lamp in exchange for Toilet PaperBrown Mage's houseBrown Mage during the Lost Spirit's Revenge battle