The Mage in the Iron Mask — Brian Thomsen

Volo Is Back...
Mulmaster--a center for commerce and industry...where an innocent man is imprisoned, his identity obscured by a magically forged iron mask.

Mulmaster--benevolently ruled by a council of nobles called the Blades...whose leader, the High Blade, brutally murdered his own father in order to succeed him on the throne and whose marriage to the Tharchioness of Eltabbar draws an uneasy alliance with the Red Wizards.

Mulmaster--nicknamed "the City of Danger"...the next stop on Volothamp Geddarm's research trip for his upcoming Guide to the Moonsea, and maybe his final resting place when the bailing out of a friend from the Mulmaster prison embroils Volo in a sinister plot that threatens the tenuous political stability of all Faerun.