Post-Palace Questions (SPOILERS)

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So far, I've taken it as a reference to a black masked underling just messing around trying to cause general discord. Plenty of off-screen black mask machinations haven't really amounted to anything big. Lady Amandine's killing spree, the kids in Little Ala Mhigo trying to summon Rhalgr, and wasn't there also talk of them visiting the other camps in Thanalan? That would explain why the Alacran summoned voidsent, and why the Corpse Brigade have been behaving strangely. For all we know, there are dozens of times a black mask has just wandered in and nudged someone in a direction that they were considering, but would otherwise have abandoned as too evil, too dark, too risky, too just plain wrong.

EDITI went back and made sure to bold/red the "so far", lol. This isn't a very strong inkling, just my first impression. Robed figures and masked men often turn out to be Ascians, but when that's all you have to go on, how hard is it for that to be a red herring? (Well, that and the Darkness, obv.) The robed figure could simply mean "The Mage" (and "The Mage" could also refer to an Ascian! /crosseyed). We'll see where it goes from Floor 50 to 100!