Carbon (character)

"Master Kale brought us all here, but we're wizards just like you. We were trapped in the gummy cave, but your Miss Madeleine sacrificed herself to free us. Now we're trying to fight back."

- Carbon

Carbon, known in Japan as Sorcerer・Black, is a mysterious sorcerer in Magical Starsign. He leads a group of magicians who were nearly sacrificed at the hands of Kale.

Personality
Although not much can be said about Carbon, his followers regard him as being very wise and considerate.

Appearance
Carbon is a pale-skinned man with unruly green hair and purple eyes. His body is cloaked in several purple and burgundy robes.

Magical Starsign
The party first encountered Carbon on the planet Shadra, where he and many others had taken refuge in the Chocomilk Caves. According to some of the wounded refugees, Kale tried feeding them to Shadra in its larva state, but most of them managed to escape. Carbon brought them all to Chocomilk Caves to hide from Kale, who deployed enigmas, pirate otters, and Space Police to capture those in hiding. At one point, the refugees were trapped in Chromagar Cave until Miss Madeleine sacrificed herself to free them, and she remained stuck there with high exposure to gummy fumes. If Madeleine were to be crystalized by the fumes, Shadra would absorb her magic and use it as energy for maturation. Carbon then informed the students about Kale's plan to free Shadra from the dark planet, as Craaken's book told of it devouring the sun and giving birth to another, which would annihilate and reset the Baklava solar system.

Before the students left to find their teacher, a horde of enigmas lead by an equillekrew stormed into the cave. Sorbet demanded that her friends leave it be, and how their top priority was finding Miss Madeleine, but they were stopped when a circle of Space Police flew in. Luckily, the fleet was commanded by General Knucklestorm, who joined Carbon in the fight against the enigmas. Later on, after the party defeated Shadra and parted ways with Madeleine, they were escorted by Space Police on a grand voyage back to Kovomaka. Along the way, they briefly met up with Carbon and the other refugees in Chocomilk Caves.

Trivia

 * Carbon's English and Japanese names likely come from 'carbon black', a material produced by the incomplete combustion of coal and coal tar.
 * Carbon shares a lot of similarities with Ganache Nighthawk from Magical Vacation.
 * A boy named Diecast in the Chocomilk Caves makes a direct reference to Ganache, citing him among many others as legendary wizards from Kovomaka.
 * In Bena Rikashi, there is another NPC named Carbon (町人・カーボン Chōnin・Kābon). This is likely a localization oversight.