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At a Glance
The Night Masks is a guild, of sorts, for thieves and assassins and various other shady types. The organization is limited to Westgate, but wields a great deal of power within that city. They seek to absorb or destroy other local organizations including the Shore Patrol.
Organization
The Night Masks are organized into three distinct groups, with different types of hierarchies and titles, mainly to confuse infiltrators and spies.
- The Deys of Night are low-level thieves and fighters who make up the bulk of the guild’s membership
- The Sultans of Sunset are mid-level thieves, fighters, and wizards who lead Dey cells
- The Midnight Maharajas are mid- and high-level thieves and clerics of Mask who plan guild activities
- The Shadow Society is a sort of secret police, within the Night Masks; they spy on guild members as well as other residents of Westgate
Leaders
The Night Masks, including all the smaller subgroups, are led by a council of five called the Pentad. The members of the Pentad are not known to the general members, to minimize the risk of betrayal; like most other criminal organizations the leadership of the Night Masks is careful and paranoid.
- Cedric Cormyr is the Night Masks’ head accountant, but to the public he is known as a low- or mid-level priest of Mask
- Dhejja Vhammos is the lead strategist for the guild; the rest of the world knows her as the warden of the Watch Dock (harbormaster) and the twin sister of Lord Thontal Vhammos (the patriarch of that family and one of the rulers of the city)
- Hildegard Bombaster is the Night Masks’ recruiting officer, but as far as everyone else knows she is the owner of the Gatereach Inn
- Oswald Guldar is the external security officer for the guild, and the second-in-command of the city militia, as well as the bastard son of Lord Dathguld Guldar (another one of the city’s rulers)
- Tayker Palehand is the Night Masks’ internal security officer, and he has no “day job” in the public eye
Members
Sources
Primary Sources
- Lords of Darkness [11989] page 6
- Dungeon #19: House of Cards, page 39
Passing Mention
- Champions of Ruin [17872] pages 7, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 74, 80, 90
Other Resources
- Search for Night Masks on the FR Wiki
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