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Guildbook: Masquers is a splatbook for Wraith: The Oblivion detailing the Masquers, users of Moliate.

Summary[]

From the White Wolf catalog:

Did You Die With That Face or Because Of It?
First thing you have to realize is that you're not meat anymore. You're plasm, son, and you know what I can do with plasm? I can do anything I damn well please. I can make you look like a movie star, turn your hands to knives, or twist you into a black-velvet painting of Elvis. And if you can't decide what you want to be, heck, I'll decide for you. Hold still. This won't hurt a bit.
O! That This Too, Too Solid Plasm Would Melt...
Pity the poor, misunderstood Masquers. Even among the outlawed Guilds, they're distrusted. And why? Just because they can change their faces in an instant, mold fearsome weapons from the plasm of their bodies, transmogrify other wraiths into tapestries and transform ordinary wraiths into the dreaded Barghests, some (dead) people are afraid of them. And yet, they all seem so nice...
Guildbook: Masquers is the third in a series of Guildbooks for Wraith: The Oblivion. Take a look inside the Guild with a proud reputation for treachery, deceit and impeccable taste. You might even like what you see. After all, when the Masquers can look like anyone or anything, everyone they meet is a potential client – or a potential resource. Go ahead, they're just dying to meet you.
Guildbook: Masquers also includes:
  • New arts for the Arcanos Moliate - everything you ever wanted to know about soulshaping but were afraid to ask.
  • Helldivers, Idunn, Fetches and all of the other Masquer specialists who make life in the Underworld more interesting.
  • The Masquers' fearful initiation rites, deadly combat secrets and more!

Chapters[]

Ghost Story: A Road of Steel and Souls, Part III[]

The Masquers make plans from the news of the Sandmen. Meanwhile, Lord Ember has an unplanned meeting with Slander.

Chapter One: Life at the Masque[]

The details of how the Masquers operate, how they initiate, and who they aggravate.

Chapter Two: Truths Told by Liars[]

The history of the Masquers, told by old and new points of view.

Chapter Three: Taking the Stage[]

The allies, enemies, and neutrals in terms of the Masquers.

Chapter Four: Chisel and Clay[]

New Arcanos arts, Merits and Flaws, and Artifacts.

  • New Skill: Soulshaping
  • Secret Arts:
    • Menu hover bulletMenu bulletMenu bulletMenu bulletMenu bullet Lizard Tail
    • Menu hover bulletMenu bulletMenu bulletMenu bulletMenu bullet Skinmold
    • Menu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu bulletMenu bulletMenu bullet Calcify
    • Menu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu bulletMenu bulletMenu bullet Desperation's Lash
    • Menu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu bulletMenu bullet Chorus of Throats
    • Menu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu bulletMenu bullet Volley
    • Menu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu bulletMenu bullet Chrysalis
    • Menu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu bullet Girding
    • Menu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bullet Cripple
    • Menu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bullet Kiln
    • Menu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bullet Soothe
  • Masquer Merits & Flaws:
    • Omnidexterous (2 pt Merit)
    • Fluid Corpus (5 pt Merit)
    • Forgettable (5 pt Merit)
    • Plasm Famulus (6 pt Merit)
    • Isolationist (2 pt Flaw)
    • Mutarophobia (3 pt Flaw)
    • Headless (4 pt Flaw)
  • Artifacts:
    • Quicksilver Mirror (Luxury, level 3)
    • Facade Brooch (Luxury, level 4)

Chapter Five: Faces[]

Character archetypes for the Masquers, pre-shaped just for the reader.

  • Deep Cover Fetch
  • Empty Romantic
  • Faithless Warrior
  • Helldiver Anthropologist
  • Twistfreak

Appendix: Dramatis Personae[]

A who's who of the important Masquers that can occasionally be recognized.

Background Information[]

The third in the Guildbook splat series.

Characters[]

  • Dame Katrin - Masquer
  • Panax
  • Thusimos
  • Fuke
  • Drusilla - Masquer
  • Overdone
  • Pantaloon, Harlequin
  • Miklos
  • Danika
  • Stone - Metal Martyr
  • Elena - Masquer
  • Fox - Metal Martyr
  • Inspector Elisha - Wraith that vanished without a trace
  • Tobias Schreck - Anacreon of Raleigh
  • Marshal Fullerman
  • Succubus Kharybdis of the Sable Throng
  • Morgan - Masquer
  • Theresa - Masquer
  • Ermanno Maecenas
  • Niccarai - Masquer, Vanished
  • Sarah - Masquer
  • Sorolla - Masquer
  • Marius Vieuzac
  • Sahrazad - Masquer
  • Molière - Masquer
  • Slander: The ultimate assassin in Stygia.
  • Cicely Grimaldi - Revenant Thrall of Zhukov's, Died, Masquer
  • Anastasa Zhukov - Tzimisce Vampire
  • Lord Ember: In which he appears to meet his end...

Terminology[]

Anonymae, Arrangers, Contracts, Corpus, Fetches, Grimaldi, Guild, Helldivers, Idunn, Masks of Notoriety: The Criminals of the Guilds by Marius Vieuzac (Book), Masquer, Metal Martyrs (Renegade Gang), Moliate, Plasm, Signatures, Skinmasking, Soulshaping, Warsmiths,

References[]

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