BoM/TWS Message Forum

> When a mask is made, it has to be polished afterwards. Is this a physical consequence of the spell, or a deliberately added component to test the readers perseverance?

As Nash said once, "You'd have to ask the asshole who made the book."

> I don't get how they could not be found out for a very long time.

There would clearly be some cases or situations where the weird stuff that happens around a golem would get attention. Surgery, for instance, or anything where there's a lot of blood. Fluid and tissue samples. But outside of those situations, what is there to tip off that there's anything weird? In the normal course of things, people lose or shed hair, skin, nail clippings, and waste. Hair cuts are the only thing where the disappearance might be noticed. But I think you're overestimating how much people notice such, and underestimate how easy it is for them to quickly brush it off.

> Eternal youth.

Masks are a bit like the Ruling Ring in that regard. Lots of advantages to having it, but if you do entwine yourself with it, you can never go back to having a normal life.

> Assuming that let’s say Will spends several years under a mask while someone else is using a mask of him and gets an arm chopped off, making two very different looking copies of Will, what would the end result be? Would we have the mask copying young, arm-having Will and that is the image that it would project on anyone else after that point? Or is it like a mind band where it updates in a sense giving us a combination of the two sort of like like a young but missing an arm version of Will?

Are you asking what would happen arm-having Will put the mask on? The answer is, nothing would happen. The mask is sealed so it can't copy anything anymore, and doesn't update itself, and however the imago evolves inside the mask, that is the way that it will continue to be.