The Mage in the Iron Mask

The Mage in the Iron Mask is a novel by Brian Thomsen. It is the fourth in The Nobles series.

Summary[]

Selfaril Uoumdolphin, High Blade of Mulmaster, finds a twin brother, Rassendyll, held in the Retreat, where many inconvenient nobles live in seclusion. Donal Loomis, a Thayan exile, captures Rassendyl and tries to sell him to Dmitra Flass, Tharchioness of Eltabbar and wife of Selfaril, but Melker Rickman, leader of the Hawks, captures Rassendyl, sealing him in an iron mask, throwing him in a dungeon, and wiping out the retreat.

Passepout shares the cell for a night, causing him and Volo to be hunted as potential witnesses. Volo discovers the slaughter at the retreat along with Chesslyn Onaubra, a Harper. Rassendyl escapes and meets up with Passepout, who finds Volo and Chesslyn at the estate of Honor Falstaff, a blind former Hawk leader also hosting a cloak, Mason McKern. They discover Rassendyl's identity and that McKern's brother made the mask before being killed.

They develop a plan to overthrow Selfaril and replace him with Rassendyl, infiltrating the city and removing the mask. Selfaril is assassinated by a Thayan ambassador, sent by the Thayans expecting to fail and allowed to continue by Rickman, who wanted to overthrow Selfaril. The ambassador and Rickman are captured and executed, and Rassendyl takes his brother’s place.

Index[]

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Characters[]

Blough • Chesslyn Onaubra • Dela Alder • Dmitra Flass • Donal Loomis • Hoffman • Jembahb • James the Felon • McKern • Melker Rickman • Nathor • Passepout • Rassendyll Uoumdolphin • Selfaril Uoumdolphin • Slater • Thurndan Tallwand • Vitriole • Volothamp Geddarm • Wattrous

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Boston • Catinflas • Curtis Bernd • Idle • Jeremy Rickman • Kupfer • Loyola Ignato • Marissa • Master Bernd • Minx • Olive Ruskettle • Percival Gallard Woodehouse Shurleen Bernd • Smagler • Sparky • Storm Silverhand • Szass Tam • Ward T. James

Creatures[]

dwarf • horse • Mulan • vulture

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bowl-headed greenwood • cat • doppelganger • firbolg • gnome • human (Maztican) • lark • lich • mouse • phoenix • pteraman • specter

Locations[]

Regions

Moonsea

Settlements

Mulmaster

Building & Sites

Southroad Keep • The Retreat (monastery) • Seventh Dwarven Abbey • Sewers of Mulmaster • Smashed Plate • Tower of Arcane Might • Tower of the Blades • Tower of the Wyvern • Traveler's Cloak Inn • Wave and Wink

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Baldur's Gate • Cormyr • Dalelands • Dragon Reach • Eltabbar (tharch) • Hillsfar • Maztica • Melvaunt • Paths of the Doomed • Phlan • River Lis • Sembia • Shadowdale • Thay • Underdark • Westgate • Zhentil Keep

Organizations[]

Brotherhood of the Cloak • Harpers • Hawks • Red Wizards of Thay • shadowriders • Tyme Waterdeep Limited

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Blades (Mulmaster) • House of Bernd • Red Plumes • Stupendous Stagecraft Incorporated • Zhentarim

Religion[]

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Ao • Dumathoin • Morpheus

Magic[]

static cling

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Death Moon Orb • Devouring Portal • Nyskar's Nightblades • ritual of twin burnings • Runes of Chaos • Seal of Robert • Thakorsil's Seat

Other[]

Food & Drink

ale • Arabellan Brandy • coffee • egg • fungus flambé • juice • Kara Turan fate biscuit • salt • spice • tea

Miscellaneous

bandolier • eyepatch • linen • perfume • silk • tattoo • tobacco • tunic • wig

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coal • Pools • ruby • sulfur • Time of Tremors • Time of Troubles • Volo's Guide to All Things Magical (in-universe) • Volo's Guide to the Moonsea

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