Freya Caste: Relief and Persuasion
Vizards specialize in bodily modification. Through intensive surgeries, heavy drug doses, and implantation, members of Freya can literally transform a normal human into a crippled husk, or elevate a terminal case to full health. Their mastery of the human form allows them to wield any number of crippling toxins and target the most crucial organs in battle.
On the one hand Freya officers repair damage inflicted on their allies, and on the other hand they are gifted with some of the most insidious abilities to be found in the Army of Masks. This almost bipolar area of specialty inspires the respect of the other Castes, since applying even a little too much medicine can turn into poison.
Freya members tend to be quite disconnected, either detached out of medical objectivity, or concerned with the body only as a machine, to be tinkered with and then discarded. Any request for help from this Caste is not to be made lightly, as too much often ends up not enough
They are the most esoteric and diverse of the Castes, and also the smallest of the four. Healing is the primary specialty of most of its rank-and-file troops, but almost all bear a secondary, specifically combat-oriented specialty, often dealing with poisons or strategic dismemberment, and among the upper ranks there are few that engage in battle the same way. Traitors to this Caste are often dealt with using unspeakable cruelty, but generally defectors are few.
Publicly the Freya Caste is referred to with warmth and tenderness, and these are attributes which officers in charge of public relations like to reinforce. The rumors, however, which often persist concerning this Caste deal in those members with less friendly personalities.
