Brandon An
Names: Brandon AnBrandon
First appears in Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl, chapter 21 (21)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl
- Ch 22Brandon An, level 6 with a huge magical hammer, is a night-staff worker at an eldercare facility in Wenatchee.
- Ch 26Brandon and Chris are maintenance workers at the eldercare facility, which let them engineer the fortress.
- Ch 26Brandon's giant maul crackles with lightning when he swings it.
- Ch 31Brandon plans to send the residents down to the third floor early, with all four caregivers going with them.
- Ch 37Brandon, Chris and Yolanda killed the Mind Horror neighborhood boss, a giant blimp; Yolanda and the brothers are now level nine.
- Ch 40Brandon, Chris's brother, works out how to weight the MOAB's bombs and insists on calling it the Bomb Chicken.
Book 2: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 3Brandon died holding off Shade Gremlins with Henry at the end of the third floor so Imani, Elle and others could escape.
- Ch 3Before dying, Brandon fought with his brother Chris, who left the party; Chris is alive but can't receive Brandon's messages.
- Ch 3Brandon asks Carl to find Chris, apologise for him, and tell him that Brandon loves him.
- Ch 8Brandon and Henry died protecting the group's escape from a horde of Shade Gremlins.
- Ch 20Brandon's last message asked Carl to tell his brother Chris that he loves him.
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 10Before dying, Brandon wrote a note regretting a fight with his brother Chris and never telling him he loved him.
Connections
- family ofChris Andrews 2brothers
- member ofMeadow Lark
- ally ofCarl
- createdThe Speedbump
- related toMistress Tiathagame guide
- friend ofCarl
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 22Meeting the eldercare group
Carl and Donut find Brandon, Chris, Yolanda, Imani and Agatha guarding 38 elderly crawlers outside the spiral maze.
- Book 1 · Ch 22Plan to storm the spiral
Carl decides to grind for a day, then return with Donut and the four caregivers to fight the borough boss and get the residents downstairs.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Borough boss battle begins
Carl, Donut, the four Meadow Lark staff and Agatha enter the spiral; it becomes a rave arena and the Ball of Swine charges them.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Popping the Ball of Swine
The ball wedges on the Speedbump; the group stabs until it bursts, raining dazed tusklings as the fortress collapses.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Slaughter of the tusklings
The group kills the confused, weaponless tusklings released from the Ball of Swine, needed to drop the stairwell's forcefield.
- Book 1 · Ch 27Borough boss defeated
Brandon crushes the Tuskling Dominatrix, ending the fight; Carl loots the Borough Field Guild and the stairwell forcefield drops.
- Book 1 · Ch 27Descending to the second floor
Carl and Donut go down the ramp to clear a path for the Meadow Lark group, but the door teleports them to a production trailer on a boat.
- Book 1 · Ch 31Floor 1 collapses
As episode four begins, the first floor collapses, killing over 700,000 crawlers while the Meadow Lark group moves into the storm shelter.
- Book 1 · Ch 37The resident train
The Meadow Lark group arrives with a wheelchair train, and Carl leads them toward the stairwell.
- Book 1 · Ch 38Escape to Big Shot Chicken
Carl's Protective Shell buys time; he carries Mrs. McGibbons through reversed gravity and dives into the safe room as the elemental pounds at the door.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Safe rooms to close before collapse
An announcement says all safe rooms will now close one hour before floor collapse, so the group can't simply wait out the elemental.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Carl changes the plan
After the elemental wipes out the grubs and returns to the door, Carl remembers Rory's words and starts piling out items to build something.
- Book 1 · Ch 40Building the MOAB
In the safe room, Carl, Brandon and Chris spend hours building a bomb-launching trailer for the chopper, after testing that the elemental is teleported away from the open door.
- Book 1 · Ch 40Path to the stairs cleared
With the elemental gone, an exhausted Carl tells Brandon to bring his people to the stairs while the way is still safe.
- Book 1 · Ch 41Farewell to Meadow Lark
Carl and Princess Donut torch the pupae and see Meadow Lark's survivors safely down the stairs, then head into the kobold quadrant.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Brandon's final message
Carl finds a message from the dead Brandon, sent as he held the line against Shade Gremlins on the third floor.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Carl reads Brandon's last words
Brandon's final message asks Carl to tell his estranged brother Chris he is sorry and loves him. Carl, shaken and furious, throws himself into training.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Imani warns Carl about Chris
Imani tells Carl that Brandon died, and his brother Chris, changed by his igneous race, broke away and is looking for Carl.