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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 2070603" data-attributes="member: 1879">Okay, there are several things going on here. One is the Elven Mask Wizard/Slaves. These were originally described as being rasied to be servile. The second is the Crown which drains life from the Emperor to help control the Mask and to lengthen their lives. The Third is the magical oath which bind the Masks. The fourth is the history to date. I don't think we are magically limited to a certain specific number of set oaths. I certainly wasn't envisioning that when I posted about them. I was thinking more that the empire is 3000 years old and things are simply done differently now. That having been said having more than one set of oaths governing the masks makes sense even contemporaneously. However given that there was a war of annihilation quite recently, and that the oaths must be sworn upon the Imperial Crown of Amethyst I don't see most of the mask being loyal to the houses. The emporer would have to be an idiot to put that much power back in the hands of the houses after the War of the Crumbled pillar. I think most masks would be what you term the Guardian masks, with loyalty to the Empire as a whole. Each Pillar should have a small set number of Masks allowed to them. As for what you term imperial oaths I was envisioning room for more than one agent. And more than one set of oaths sworn. We haven't really defined what the crown can do, or how rapidly the Masks gain their childlike outlook. For example perhaps it takes a good century for an Elf to lose their adult mentality, or only wizards are robbed of theirs. This leaves the possiblity of absolutely loyal imperial spies/courier/agents either as wizards in the first century, or just elves who aren't wizards. These may or may not be state secrets, or secrets within secrets. EG: The loyalty of the imperial courier corps is legendary, it is not well known that they are magically loyal, or that they sometimes have other jobs.</blockquote>

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