Rath'Hood

Rath'Hood was a priest of the Mask Council in Capustan.^[1] He represented the God Hood, and his wooden mask was the face of a skull.^[2]

In Memories of Ice

Just as the Siege of Capustan was starting, the Barghast, Hetan and Cafal, petitioned for an audience before the Mask Council. Hetan started to speak, but Rath'D'rek angrily interrupted her arguing that she was just about to make the same claim that the Barghast had always made--that Capustan sat on land stolen from their tribe. But this time Rath'Queen of Dreams detected an underlying meaning beneath the usual words and Rath'Burn and Rath'Hood quickly caught on. They were the only three members of the Council who knew that the holy remains of the Barghast ancestors had been gathered and hidden under the floor of the Council Hall. Hetan had come to claim them and bring them home to the White Face clans. The Council ultimately acceded to her demands and ordered the Gidrath to pull up the Council floor above where they were entombed.^[3]

Later, when the merchant Keruli burst unsummoned into the Council's chambers, Rath'Hood angrily confronted him and tried to summon the Council's Gidrath to eject the interloper. But Keruli had already discouraged their appearance.^[2]

After the fighting was over Itkovian spotted the priest at Jelarkan's Palace. A Gidrath survivor, a bull of a man who no longer seemed able to sleep, knelt before Rath'Hood.^[4] The man was likely Hood's servant, the Knight of Death, sent to aid the Mhybe, although Rath'Hood may not have been aware of his mission.^[5]

The Warlord Caladan Brood called for a parley between the victors of the siege and the representatives of the city. Rath'Hood, Rath'Burn, Rath'Shadowthrone, and Keruli rushed to the meeting by carriage ahead of the representatives of the other city factions. Rath'Hood felt the meeting's outdoor locale to be a calculated insult and suggested the Thrall as a more civilised alternative.^[6]

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