Simon Voltaire, the Master of Paris, is the powerful Spark who rules over Europa's version of the City of Light. He is characterized as being content to stay at home defending only his own area and working in private inside Europa's version of the Eiffel Tower on his own projects, but maintaining the peace of Paris with an iron hand and the politest lawmen, who are normally given a wide amount of latitude to deal with problems. He has been described as once being the apprentice of the master-Spark Van Rijn.