Ascian Masks on Gaius’s belt: Fandaniel and….?

[Rosenstrauch]

I've got the door open that at least one of those masks might be a real risen-sundered kill, if for no other reason than SE seems to be rushing them into the woodchipper as fast as possible.

I'll take this to its heartbreaking extreme. Though I can't remember the source for this claim, I believe someone once mentioned that several of the Ascian Overlords inexplicably used the Lesser Ascian models, complete with generic black masks. And Gaius has not two, but five Ascian masks on his person: two red and three black. Because of that there's the possibility that Gaius hasn't just offed one Overlord, but up to five. Now, the known deceased Overlords are Nabriales, Igeyorhm, Lahabrea, Emmerololth, Mitron, Lohgrif, Emet-Selch, and Elidibus. That's eight, and with five more masks, well...

Fandaniel is still alive. But there's a distinct and very unfortunate chance that he's the only Overlord remaining at this point.

EDIT: To explain. There are two branches of thought on this. Emmerololth was around as late as patch 2.3, commenting on our victory over every primal up to Ramuh. But the Eureka plotline would later reveal that she died somewhere around patch 2.1, rendering her very first appearance a plot hole. It's possible that filling in this plot hole will retroactively be the reason Gaius was carrying five masks. Fandaniel was his latest quarry, but he never succeeded in catching him, and one of the masks instead belongs to Emmerololth.

Alternatively, one of the masks is Fandaniel's, and he just... escaped Gaius regardless. Either way, the result is potentially the same: Fandaniel's the only one left, errant Emmerololth be damned I guess.