The Mask Council was composed of the High Priests and Priestesses of the Fourteen Ascendants represented in the temples of Capustan. They held their gatherings in the city's old Daru fort, the Thrall. The Council was an opposing power to Prince Jelarkan with whom they were frequently at odds. Their temples each maintained their own private company of highly trained and well-equipped soldiers, known as the Gidrath and totaling nearly three thousand in number. The temples' soldiers were often recruited from the best of the Prince's own troops, the Capanthall, who were limited by law to two thousand.