Cornel MASON

Cornel MASON is the current Emperor of the Masons and a prominent world leader during the events of Terra Ignota. He has close relations with most of the leaders of the world, and is the sole person legally allowed to sentence anyone to death.

Appearance
Cornel MASON is "sixty-three years old and solid as Atlas, not an athletic body but the strength of a man long reconciled to never letting go. His face is bare, his skin a clean, Mediterranean bronze, his black hair short in the Roman style." He usually wears an iron gray Mason suit with the left sleeve dyed black to indicate his power of capital punishment. Upon the breach of the Sanctum Santorum, he reverses these colors, showing only a sleeve of gray to indicate the faint possibility of mercy.

Personality
Cornel MASON is described by Mycroft as "the world's dad," and lives up to the description as a symbol of stern, powerful, masculinity. He believes wholeheartedly in the power and importance of the Masons, and behaves as the ideal autocratic power, trying to do what is best for his subjects while also permitting no dissent.

Relationships
Cornel MASON, like most of the world's leaders, is a part of Madame D'Arouet's bash', and was her former lover until she married Isabel Carlos II of Spain. J.E.D.D. Mason is his adopted child and heir. He thinks very highly of Martin Guildbreaker, and is generally on decent terms with the other world powers of his secret bash'. He was in love with Apollo Mojave, though it appears the feelings were unrequited.