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For the hired servant, see Servant.

The Masked Servants were city people like vagabonds, street scum, prostitutes...[1] that were rounded up by the City Watch and turned into mind-controlled laborers by the Mechanists.[2][3] They were given to the Nobility as gifts in exchange for their support during a party at Angelwatch.[4][5][6] According to Karras they could do all kind things like cooking, cleaning and gardening while being utterly loyal and never needing rest.[7][8]

Mind Control[]

They all appear to have two personalities; one which is a remnant of their former lives and memories - constant mumblings that they are cold, soft crying, and begging for death - and a controlling personality that inhibits their free will, making them seek assistance from armed guards when anything out of the ordinary occurs. This personality could well be connected to the mask or to the Guiding Beacon.[6]

Masked Guard[]

Another type of Servant can be encountered inside Soulforge Cathedral. When Manus asked Karras why he insisted upon making more Servants, suggesting that devout Mechanists would be more proficient, Karras came up with the idea to turn other Mechanists into Masked Servants (Masked Guards in DromEd), that would be far more loyal and pure in the eyes of the Master Builder than normal humans could ever be.[9] This decision came late in the story, as can be seen by the shoddy transformation. Their teal hoods appear to be clamped down by the top corners of the masks and blood can be seen running down their chest armor. It is likely that they were given no choice about the matter, as they can be heard to beg Garrett to kill them and, when slain, thank him.

Creation[]

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The Servant laboratory.

Not much is known about the mental re-formatting process the Mechanist used to turn ordinary people into completely obedient slaves but Precursor Masks played a large role in it. Two servants can be seen standing in large stasis tubes in a laboratory in Eastport Mechanist Seminary indicating that partly submerging is a step in it. The dead bodies in the hidden chamber underneath the laboratory suggest that many attempts were needed to successfully create a servant or that some subjects were unsuitable to be transformed. Laboratory Equipment is also found inside the laboratory but it is unknown what role it plays in the process.

As the process of making the Servants is unknown, so is the state of the subjects condition (alive, dead, or re-animated). The dead bodies kept at the Servant Laboratory in the Eastport Mechanist Seminary are all dead, whereas the bloody uniforms of the Masked Guards suggest that they were alive when operated on or only recently dead (as blood can flow for up to ten hours after death).

True Purpose[]

Their true purpose however were as weapons developed by Karras in order to destroy all organic life. The Servants contained a Cultivator and rust gas canister and could be controlled by Karras.[10][11] Upon activation they would releasing the deadly rust gas trough their mouth and, with the plant life in the nobles garden, destroying all organic life.[12][13][14]

Trivia[]

  • A total of thirty masker servants have been created.[15][16]
  • Twenty "subjects" have been provided by the City Watch.[1]

References[]

NPC's
Standard Guards Sword Bafford Sword Guard · Bafford Front Gate Guard · Bafford Sergeant · Bank Sergeant · Common Sword Guard · Constantine Sword Guard · Gervaisius Guard · Mage Sword Guard · Opera Sword Guard · Ramirez Sword Guard
Bow Bafford Bow Guard · Bafford Front Gate Guard · Common Bow Guard · Constantine Bow Guard · Mage Bow Guard · Opera Bow Guard · Ramirez Bow Guard
Factions City Watch City Watch Guard · Sheriff Bow Guard · Sheriff Sword Guard · Sheriff Helmet Guard · Sheriff Sergeant
Hammerites Hammerite Guard · Hammerite Priest · Hammerite Novice · Hammerite Smith
Mechanists Mechanist Mace Guard · Mechanist Crossbow Guard · Mechanist Priest · Mechanist Helmet Guard · Mechanist Crossbow Diver · Mechanist Mace Diver · Mechanist Frogman · Mechanist Masked Guard · Mechanist Worker
Pagans Pagan Warrior · Pagan Shaman · Unarmed Pagan
Keepers Keeper Elder · Keeper Enforcer · Keeper Instructor · Sparring Partner
Hand Mages Water Mage · Earth Mage · Air Mage · Fire Mage
Criminals Assassin · Thief Bow Guard · Thief Sword Guard · Thug
Creatures Animals Burrick · Cat · Frogbeast · Insect Swarm · Rat · Rust Mite · Spiders (Yellow · Green · Chaos)
Magic Air Elemental · Fire Elemental · Glyph Statues (Gargoyle · Human · Giant Human)
Other Ape Beast · Bugbeast · Crayman · Craybeast · Eyeball Plant · Kurshok · Rat Beast · Tree Beast
Undead Apparition · Cradle Staff · Fire Shadow · Hammer Haunt · Puppet · Zombie
Builder's Children Combat Bot · Mechanical Cherub · Spider Bot · Worker Bot
Non-Combatants Actor · Harmless Apparition · Masked Servant · Nobleman · Opera Guest · Servant · Shrimp
Unused Albino Spider · Clockwork Eye · Ramirez Sergeant · Scurry Bot · Spectre · Sweel · Water Elemental
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