Masracht of the Castle of the Prism is a major cosmological figure of the sublevels of the Ardisvala mega-dungeon, operating in the Bastion and Citadel of the Scar of the Sun, and the cosmological father of Arian / Caladan. The Seekers killed him at the close of the first cycle.
| Type | Character (antagonist) |
| Seat | Castle of the Prism (Prism Keep) |
| Spanish entry | Masracht del Castillo del Prisma |
Description
He fathered an avatar of the light pole (the Arian Line) while himself serving the corrupting pole. The Decadian doctrine does not fully resolve the contradiction; the Plata archive (Arkos) holds that cosmological paternity does not imply doctrinal continuity.
The Castle of the Prism is his seat in that deep domain; its name alludes to the crystallization of Ardisvala, whose mega-dungeon works as a stratified crystal of zodiacal platforms. In the sublevels Masracht was:
- the chief ally of Malakita, lord of the corrupted Knights of the Scar of the Sun;
- an operator of crystalline technology, probably connected to the Rudishva technology of the Beacon;
- with Malakita, the vampirizer of Caladan.
Death
- The Seekers descended to the Castle of the Prism to rescue the vampirized Caladan.
- In the sublevels they fought Malakita first, then Masracht, and killed both.
- The Seekers took over the Knights of the Scar of the Sun and the Castle.
- Caladan was freed from vampirism, and the Arian/Caladan line came to operate fully from the light pole.
The Plata doctrine calls his death a cosmic (not literal) parricide: the cutting of a corrupting filial line.
Open questions
- The end-of-Antiterra corpus (CFA) has a Prism Keep / Castle of the Prism that reappears as the domain of Auro, Horseman of War, with six Shards of the Nexus Crystal and a holographic projection. Whether it is the same fortress seen in two cycles or two homonymous structures is unresolved; they are not merged.