'the Master'

"Nothing to see there, friends!"

- The Master, "A Helping Hand".

The Master, or the Master of Necromancy (as he styles himself in The Falador Parade), whose real name is Master Vadas (as revealed in Night of the Sea Slug), is a character in Gielinor. He is a Necromancy Master living in Hemenster with his apprentice, Raiah Gestoff. As his pseudonym suggests, he is a Master, and therefore very adept, in and of the Dark Arts.

Gielinor
The Master first debuted in a small cutscene in "The Battle of Ardougne".

Two months after that, he agrees to make Dancus Frumac a special potion that would bring him to life ("Stories of Hemenster"). He and his apprentice, along with Dancus, go on a long journey to find 3 missing ingredients for the potion, which they do eventually obtain ("A Twist in the Plan"). When Dancus is brought back to life, an unfortunate visit from the Asgarnian Imperial Guard ensues, and the Master was arrested. He is broken out by Raiah and Dancus, accidentally killing Sir Vyvin in the process ("Revival's Road"). A few days later, when a storm hits Hemenster, he uses some spells and freezing potions to almost end the storm then and there, but it is Dancus who stops it in the end ("The Lake"). After Tarqinder and Tony de Fillo come to the village to warn of a forthcoming sea slug attack, and a huge climactic change brought on by the Falador Parade ("A Helping Hand"), the Master teleports to Falador to stop it. He evades the sea-slug possessed White Knights, and eventually meets up with his old apprentice, Hecate ("The Falador Parade" and "Night of the Sea Slug").