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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[]
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[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Karras sound folder kar0609g
- ↑ Karras sound folder kar1602I
- ↑ Karras sound folder kar1602R
- ↑ A log book of donations (left one)
- ↑ A log book of donations (right one)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 New Scripture of The Master Builder - page 35
- ↑ Karras sound folder karvic02
- ↑ Conversation between two nobles at Angelwatch
- ↑ Account of Friend Manus
- ↑ Karras sound folder kar1601C
- ↑ Conversation between a Mechanist Mace Guard and Friend Vilnia
- ↑ New Scripture of The Master Builder - page 16
- ↑ "Sabotage at Soulforge" briefing
- ↑ "Sabotage at Soulforge" ending
- ↑ Karras sound folder kar1602E
- ↑ Casing the Joint briefing