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'' | [[File:GamemastersGuildIcon.png|right]]{{quote|text=''An administrative guild, existing as part of [[The Game|the Game's]] managerial staff. Its members are wholly dedicated to the smooth continuance of the game, prioritizing that end above all others.''|sign=Affiliation Description|source=}} | ||
The '''Game Masters''', known in full as the '''Oshiage Game Masters''', is an administrative [[guild]] located in Oshiage, [[Sumida Ward]]. | |||
Their [[Guild#Guild Masters|Guild Master]] is unknown. | |||
==Overview== | |||
The Game Masters are the ones who run [[the App]] and are in charge of making sure that the Game continues on forever, never-ending. They look to investigate and stop anything that they deem a threat to the stability of the Game's eternal continuance. | |||
They handle other affairs related to general game management such as approving locations in [[Tokyo]] that are valid [[Guild#Portals|Portal]] spots.<ref name="ch4">[[Event Quest:Main Quest:Chapter 4 Release Campaign|Chapter 4: Missionaries - Dogma City, Aoyama]]</ref><sup>1</sup> They also wrote up a treaty signed by all the [[Representative|World Representatives]] that forbade interaction with the Trophy for a set time in future [[loop]]s to ensure that the loops don't fall into complete destruction immediately. {{Transient icon|Alice}}'s role as a Game Master was to conceal info about the Game's reward, the Trophy, until it was made public.<ref name="ch9">[[Release Campaign:Main Quest Chapter 9|Chapter 9: Crafters - Karmic Engine]]</ref><sup>18</sup> | |||
Not all Game Masters are privy to the full details about the Game; Alice says that the Representatives know more about [[Exceptions]] than her. She also mentions an 'upper echelon' of Game Masters, hinting at an inner hierarchy within the guild. She elaborates that the upper echelon can rule if a certain event is an actual danger to the Game's continuance or if it is simply normal operation within the bounds of the Game.<ref name="ch9"></ref><sup>18</sup> | |||
= | The Game Masters hold a Portal in Oshiage known as the Tower of Babel, a looming tower that oversees the area.<ref name="ch12">[[Release Campaign:Main Quest Chapter 12|Chapter 12: Invaders ~Overture~ - The Game of Revolution]]</ref><sup>21</sup> | ||
{{ | Game Masters whose role in the current loop has ended are recalled back to the Tower of Babel, prohibited from contacting any outside sources. Since the World Representatives have begun to make their moves after [[Event Quest:Main Quest 8 Chapter Release Campaign|Chapter 8]], Alice's role as a Game Master has ended.<ref name="ch9"></ref><sup>18</sup> | ||
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|{{Transient icon| | Their guild icon depicts the mechanical familiars of the [[Game Masters#The Three Geniuses|Three Geniuses]] stylized over the Tower of Babel: {{Transient icon|Isaac}}'s crows, {{Transient icon|Bertro}}'s wolf previously known as Geri,<ref name="bertro">{{Transient icon|Bertro}} Research File 2</ref> and {{Transient icon|Curren}}'s mysterious giant robot only known as the Transcendental One.<ref name="ch9"></ref><sup>1</sup> | ||
===The Three Geniuses=== | |||
Isaac, Bertro, and Curren are three lab-grown Game Masters assigned as Guild Masters for the [[Guild#Three True Guilds|Three True Guilds]]: the [[Invaders]], [[Warmongers]], and [[Rule Makers]] respectively. Each of them were tasked with observing and recording the events of the loops, as well as determining the next step for humanity's evolution. Isaac believed in Plan A, evolution through assimilation. Bertro followed Plan B, evolution through battle. Curren was in charge of Plan C, evolution through cultivation. The fourth genius, {{Transient icon|Duo}}, holds his own backup Plan D, though it is currently unknown and he is not a Game Master himself.<ref name="ch9"></ref><sup>1</sup> | |||
===Administrative Privileges=== | |||
The Game Masters and [[Entertainers]] make up the Game's two managerial guilds. Because of its status as an administrative guild, members of the Game Masters and Entertainers have the exclusive privilege of being able to hold dual guild membership for the purpose of infiltration and internal investigation and hide their secondary affiliation. Those who hold dual memberships avoid revealing this secret in fear of being seen as a traitor.<ref name="ch12"></ref><sup>21</sup><ref name="ch13">[[Release Campaign:Main Quest Chapter 13 Prologue|Chapter 13]]</ref><sup>9</sup> | |||
===Relationship with the Entertainers=== | |||
Many members of the Game Masters and Entertainers form pairs together to oversee a given area. Examples of these pairs are {{Transient icon|Alice}} and {{Transient icon|Christine}} who watch over Shinjuku and Shibuya, as well as {{Transient icon|Sanat Kumara}} and {{Transient icon|Leannan Sidhe}} who are in charge of Taito's Akihabara and Asakusa areas. However, members of both guilds often butt heads due to their opposing beliefs; Entertainers tend to find Game Masters suffocating.<ref name="ch12"></ref><sup>21</sup> | |||
==Known Members== | |||
<onlyinclude> | |||
{{Catalog2 | |||
|title=Game Masters|flavor=ゲームマスターズ | |||
|{{Team member|Isaac|flavor=Assigned to [[Invaders]]}} | |||
|{{Team member|Bertro|flavor=Assigned to [[Warmongers]]}} | |||
|{{Catalog:Companion|name=Curren|override=icon_curren01.png|flavor=Assigned to [[Rule Makers]]}} | |||
|{{Team member|Alice}} | |||
|{{Team member|Jambavan}} | |||
|{{Team member|Sanat Kumara}} | |||
|{{Team member|Beowulf}} | |||
|{{Team member|Raven Arthur}} | |||
|{{Team member|Loki|flavor=Past Loop}} | |||
}} | }} | ||
</onlyinclude> | |||
==Backgrounds== | |||
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable" | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" colspan="3" align=center | '''Backgrounds''' | |||
|- | |||
| scope="row" colspan="3" align=center| Tower of Babel | |||
|- | |||
|{{Background|babel_tokyo_day|name=n}} | |||
|{{Background|babel_tokyo_evening|name=n}} | |||
|{{Background|babel_tokyo_night|name=n}} | |||
|} | |||
==Notes== | |||
* {{transient icon|Loki}} was mentioned to have been a member of the Game Masters in a past loop.<ref name="thor">[[Dungeon Quest/Thor|Thor's Memory]]</ref> | |||
{{Story Terms}} | |||
{{Comments}} | |||
==References== | |||