The Court of Masks
The Court of Masks, are the highest ranked court in the Legions of the Shadowlands. This court is exclusively filled with the denizens of the lower planes. the court has no leader for it is the court of the Dark Lord, to whom all are subservient.
It is known that in the lower planes there are demons, devils and yugoloths. The devils and demons in the court of masks are those who swore service to the Dark One and later the Dark Lord in the earliest days of the Legions of Darkness. This pact is known as the binding of masks. Each one was granted a whole mask in a perfect mirror of its face, this mask marked their agreement to serve and can never be removed unless the Dark Lord wills it.
The masks allow each fiend to remain in the material plane when slain, though with a small amount of time to reform. But this near immortality has costs. When a masked devil or demon is slain, two beings not one are created each with half the power of the prior being, one of these entities is a demon and the other a devil. This mainly has repercussions relating to the intense internal hatred between these two kinds of fiend.
The yugoloths are mostly are not bound to the Court of Masks due to their operations as mercenaries however some few individuals have chosen to take the binding of masks however their reformation does not have the same negative consequences as for those devils and demons who are slain.
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