Talk:Warfare Overseers/@comment-732225-20190123010350/@comment-16533050-20190123124500

To start with, your deduction is based off of data of a limited scope.

You say "observations made from 4 characters". I may be incorrect, but I assume the 4 you are referring to are Thaddeus Campbell, Yul Khulun, Liam Byrne and Álvaro Cardoza. Campbell and Khulun were both High Overseers, Byrne was a Vice Overseer and Cardoza was a Roving Vice Overseer, hence your supposition.

However, if this is your supposition, then it is flawed, as those "4" weren't the only Overseers to have appeared without their masks. Overseer Berthold, Teague Martin, and Leonard Hume also appear without their masks during the series. Each of those three wear the black uniforms of the common Warfare Overseer.

Now, one could argue that Teague Martin lost his mask when his fellow Overseers chained him in the pillory by the Office of the High Overseer. One could also argue that Berthold took his off before grabbing his sister and making a run for it before they persecuted her for being a witch. And finally, one could point out that Hume was in charge of a small force of Overseers himself, a minor commander so to speak.

However, none of that matters, as we aren't given the specific reasons why each are unmasked. Most likely they're not wearing their masks so that the player can tell who they are. Campbell, Hume, Martin, and Byrne were all potential targets and needed to be readily identified. Having their masks would have complicated this. Berthold was a potential side-quest and as he was fighting two of his fellow overseers, it made it easier for the player to identify him in case they wanted to give aid.

Your original point was that only certain ranks of overseers had the option to not wear their masks. This cannot be proven. We don't know if they wear masks when abroad or not. What is proven is that Unique Overseer characters important to the gameplay are shown without their masks; the fact that most are of a higher rank is happenstance.