Who Wears the Mask
Passing the Torch Part 1: Who Wears the Mask, a Pathfinder Society scenario written by Cole Kronewitter for tier 12-18, was released on June 26, 2019.
“For more than a decade, the infamous information broker, former Pathfinder, and thoroughly controversial mastermind Grandmaster Torch has pursued vengeance against the Decemvirate and the Society as a whole. Yet for all the Society's countermeasures, Torch has consistently procured seemingly unattainable intelligence that makes his schemes ever more dangerous. At last, the Society has identified his chief accomplice and informant who has evaded Society scouts by hiding out where Pathfinders are forbidden on pain of death: Mediogalti Island, home of the notorious Red Mantis Assassins. Yet Grandmaster Torch's imminent endgame threatens the whole Society, if not Absalom itself, and if the PCs are to uncover the plot and avert disaster, they must infiltrate one of the Inner Sea's most deadly cities and neutralize a powerful threat.
Who Wears the Mask is the first of two seeker-level adventures in the Passing the Torch series that concludes Season 10, and these adventures take place in parallel with the events of Pathfinder Society Special #10-98: Siege of Gallowspire. This adventure is followed by Pathfinder Society Scenario #10-23: Passing the Torch, Part 2: Who Speaks for the Ten. These two scenarios are intended to be played in order.
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Scenario overview
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This is the first scenario in the Passing the Torch campaign arc:
Recurring characters, concepts, and locations
The following characters, concepts, or locations can be found in this scenario, but also significantly appear in the publications listed below:
- Azir (The Glass River Rescue, Port Godless, The Shattered Shield, Who Wears the Mask)
- Bleaching (Corpses in Kalsgard, Down the Verdant Path, Who Wears the Mask)
- Ethereal Plane (Abducted in Aether, Excising Ruination, The Green Market, The Hao Jin Hierophant, King Xeros of Old Azlant, Night of the Gray Death, School of Spirits, Trapping the Hag's Claw, Who Wears the Mask, Year of the Shadow Lodge (scenario))
- Eylysia (The Jarlsblood Witch Saga, Wardens of Sulfur Gulch, What The Helms Hide, Who Speaks for the Ten, Who Wears the Mask, The Wounded Wisp)
- Grandmaster Torch (Assault on Absalom, Betrayal in the Bones, A Bitter Bargain, Delirium's Tangle (scenario), The Eternal Obelisk, Exiles of Winter, The Frostfur Captives, The God's Market Gamble, The Golemworks Incident, Grand Convocation 4712, Halls of Dwarven Lore, In the Grandmaster's Name, The Mantis's Prey, The Many Fortunes of Grandmaster Torch, Race to Seeker's Folly, The Refuge of Time, Rivalry's End, Salvation of the Sages, Sanctum of the Sages (scenario), Silent Tide (scenario), Snakes in the Fold, The Sundered Path, The Unseen Inclusion, Valley of Veiled Flame, A Vision of Betrayal, Way of the Kirin (scenario), Who Speaks for the Ten, Who Wears the Mask, Words of the Ancients)
- Ilizmagorti (The Labyrinth of Hungry Ghosts, Who Wears the Mask)
- Mediogalti Island (Hall of the Flesh Eaters, Hrethnar's Throne, The Labyrinth of Hungry Ghosts, Who Wears the Mask)
- Red Mantis (A Bitter Bargain, Blood Under Absalom, The Mantis's Prey, Web of Corruption, Who Wears the Mask)
- Tar-Baphon (Birthright Betrayed, Escaping the Grave, Flooded King's Court, From the Tome of Righteous Repose, Grim Symphony, In Burning Dawn, In Glorious Battle, Killer in the Golden Mask, Library of the Lion, Lodge of the Living God, Of Myths and Legends, Putrid Seeds, Reaver's Roar, Return to the Grave, The Shattered Shield, Siege of Gallowspire, The Tireless Path, Who Speaks for the Ten, Who Wears the Mask)
- Vahlo Huovar (Who Speaks for the Ten, Who Wears the Mask)
Map support
The following Pathfinder Flip-Mat or Pathfinder Map Pack products are used in this scenario along with two custom maps:
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- Works by Cole Kronewitter
- Artwork by Jesper Ejsing
- Artwork by Eric Belisle
- Artwork by Ernanda Souza
- Artwork by Rob Lazzaretti
- Artwork by Kent Hamilton
- Artwork by Eva Widermann
- Artwork by Corey Macourek
- Artwork by Jason Engle
- Artwork by William Liu
- Artwork by Eric Lofgren
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