The players in a Harlequin troupe seem to take up fixed roles
both on and off the stage, their personal interactions always
suborned to the characters they portray. Of these singular
roles, the High Avatar and Death Jester are most easily
comprehended as those of a leader and a personification of
death. The Master Mime is a more complex figure and seems
to include the concepts of invisibility or shadow play.
This role crosses with that of the Shadowseer – a notorious psychic puppeteer in its own right, but with functions that also
embrace a nurturing aspect to offset the harshness of the
kingly High Avatar. Most curious of all is the so-called
Solitaire. An outcast generally shunned by the rest of the
group, the Solitaire appears infrequently at performances.
Only a Solitaire can perform the role of the entity that
brought about the legendary downfall of the eldar race, the
Chaos god Slaanesh, the being the eldar refer to as “She Who
Thirsts ”. ’
– Excerpted from De Libratii Xenostius Maxima,
Volume XXII, Addendum 95.0349.378 – ‘Additional apocrypha’.
Art by @magua-vida , commissioned by me. I really loved Masque of Vyle, I'm surprised there's not more art of them.