The Void Masque (or Herald of Tenebrau) is a Shadow Aligned mob. Like the Slurper, it equips itself as an item in the head slot, but its mechanics are very different from a normal mob. Rather than attack mobs or players, it possesses certain other mobs and possesses dead player characters.
When masked mobs spawn this way, 6-12 Void Masques will spawn near the Shadow Rift if a player is nearby. Their only function is to quickly move away from the player and the Rift, and then disappear when they leave the player's screen. The player cannot interact with a Void Masque in any way. This is similar to how Brightshade Gestalts leave the Lunar Rift — no player needs to be next to the Rift for the effects on the world to happen.
When an eligible mob or a Character dies to a possessed mob, a Void Masque appears from above, rebirths the mob or Character and possesses it, taking over its head equipment slot.
Looking at a Void Masque will simply display its name as "Void Masque." However, if the Character has a Shadow Affinity perk unlocked, it will display its real name "Herald of Tenebrau".
It now deals 5 Planar Damage if it didn't already have planar damage.
The player cannot give items to them/make any trades.
Talking mobs (such as Pigs) no longer speak their normal lines.
Mobs do not sleep unless forced to by e.g. Pan Flute.
Possessed Characters will never sleep.
Mobs do not eat food on the ground.
Masked mobs with herd mentality still defend their unmasked allies. For example, a masked Bunnyman attacks the player if they attack an unmasked Bunnyman.
If the masked mob dies, the Void Masque dies and its loot along with the masked mob's loot is dropped. If a Void Masque is forcibly removed (e.g. by a Slurper), the Void Masque and the masked mob die immediately.
Masked mobs are also hostile to anything that does not have either a Void Masque or one of the Masques (which are dropped by Void Masques) equipped.
If a masked mob kills a Character (except Wanda), an Inthralled Corpse/Deadelgänger spawns in the Character's place. It always has 150 Health regardless of which Character it is. If the Inthralled Corpse dies, the skeleton it leaves behind will not show information on the Character when examined.
The following creatures are possessed by a Void Masque if they are killed by another creature with a Void Masque:
Sometimes masked mobs will say phrases. All masked mobs will say the same phrase at the same time.
Tenebrau
Tenebrous
salutations
friends
dark
benevolent
no fear
Cursed light
Sweet pall
Be free
liberate
Ever night
Dim embrace
love
Friends
Joyous
Welcome
Resist not
Surrender
No pain
No feel
Forever we
Many worlds
One we
In peace
Protect ye
Under the veil
Trivia
The player can get and equip a Void Masque mask using c_give("shadow_thrall_parasitehat"). With this mask, the player can also infect other creatures. This only works in a cave provided that the Shadow Rift is activated.
The mask will be invisible in the inventory and unequipping it will cause it to break.
"Deadelgänger" is a portmanteau of the words "dead" and "doppelganger".
Attention: The following categories are only for the players look up the page based on their first impression, they have nothing to do with the actual categories/behavior/function/tags of these creatures
Attention: The following categories are only for the players look up the page based on their first impression, they have nothing to do with the actual categories/behavior/function/tags of these creatures
Attention: The following categories are only for the players look up the page based on their first impression, they have nothing to do with the actual categories/behavior/function/tags of these creatures
Attention: The following categories are only for the players look up the page based on their first impression, they have nothing to do with the actual categories/behavior/function/tags of these Mobs
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