Mushroom mages are purple walking mushrooms with darker purple spotted caps and a long orange tongue. They have gained the ability to cast ice magic on their opponents as revenge against mushroom-hunting humans. In the NES version of Dragon Quest IV, they have a slightly different appearance that makes them look more like Morphean mushrooms, with pale green stalks and neon green spots on their purple caps.
Foul fungi with a deep-seated disdain for mushroom pickers. They are skilled spell casters and have significantly more smarts than their mush-brained kin.
Mushroom mages began appearing in Version 6.0 of the game. They are able to cast Kacrack and Moreheal, as well as having the ability to plant toxic mushrooms on the ground that damage and can envenomate any characters standing near them when they burst.
Mushroom mage appears as a C-rank monster of the Nature family that can be scouted normally from any banner. It can participate in the Stump chump and Blossom Bullfinch's Battle Roads as a party member.
Crack-type Spell Potency +5%/Stats Up Zam Res +25/Stats Up Crackle Potency +5%/Stats Up Ability MP Cost -5% Crack Res +25/Stats Up Crackle Potency +5%/Stats Up Ability MP Cost -5%
Perks
Basic perks
WIS +3 Crackle Potency +2% N/a
Leader perk
None
Awakening perk
Crack-type Spell Potency +5%: Raises Crack-type spell potency by 5%.
The mushroom mage's Japanese name, Mage Matango (マージマタンゴ,Mage Matango?) is derived from the 1963 Japanese horror film Matango about a group of castaways on an island who are slowly transformed into mushrooms. It was released in the United States in 1963 under the name Attack of the Mushroom People.