The Masquers

The Masquers are a small group within the Ascendancy, and are very secretive even towards other members of said group who are not themselves Masquers. Though they serve the Conqueror Gods as the rest of the Ascendancy do, the Masquers secretly also worship the Forsaken Priest as "the Mask of God," believing that when he was corrupted, he became "the Shattered Mask," and that eventually, he will return to his pre-corruption status as "the Risen Mask." This is because the Forsaken Priest formerly acted as an emissary from King Elegance, to whom the Ascendancy refer as "God," to humanity. The source of their belief that the Forsaken Priest will eventually return to his former state is unknown, but likely stems from the Forsaken Priest himself.

The Masquers are an uneasy ally of the Order of Orders; the two groups both worship the Forsaken Priest, with whom they seem to have contact, but the Order sees the Masquers as untrustworthy and deceitful, perhaps hypocritically, given their own nature.