Masked Servant

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Masked Servant
Behaviour
Alertness	unknown
Aggressiveness	cannot attack
Speed	unknown
Attack
Primary Attack	cannot attack
Health
Flees at	when alarmed
Other
Variations	Male and female Combatant (Masked Guard)
Behind the Scenes
Appears in	Thief II: The Metal Age

Masked Servants are ordinary people like vagabonds, street scum and prostitutes, that were turned into mind-controlled laborers by mechanist technology and Precursor Masks. They could do all kind of things like cooking, cleaning and gardening while being utterly loyal and never needing rest and could even travel on their own. As such they behave similar to the regular Servant in that they are harmless, seek out odd noises and flee on the first sign of danger although they do not engage in conversations.

Appearance

They wear blue cloth and metal masks that cover their entire head that look similar to the mechanist angel; and metal plates on their chest, shoulders, waist, genitalia, hands, feet and the front of their lower legs.

Mind Control

They all appear to have two personalities. The first is a remnant of their former lives and memories, featuring constant mumbling, namely that they are cold, soft crying, and begging for death—and second, 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 very well be connected to the mask or to the Guiding Beacon.

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. 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

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 perhaps indicating that partial submersion 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.

Dead bodies along with Precursor Masks.

The stasis tubes.

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).

Purpose

• A Rust Gas container.
• A Cultivator.

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Karras sought the support of the Nobility and gave them out as gifts to them during a party at Angelwatch under the guise of them being mentally feeble inmates that would otherwise be confined to an asylum, but in truth they were a secret weapon and were placed in the gardens of the nobles to destroy all organic life and bring forth Karras's vision of The Builder's paradise. Each Servants contained a Cultivator and rust gas canister in addition to being controlled by Karras himself through the Guiding Beacon. Upon giving the signal, they would release the deadly rust gas through their mouth and as part of a chain reaction between the gas and the plant life in the Nobles' gardens would be capable of destroying all organic life within The City and perhaps beyond.

Trivia

• A total of thirty Masked Servants have been created.
• Twenty "subjects" had been provided by the City Watch.