Talk:Corvo's Mask/@comment-112.198.82.245-20121019131338/@comment-1888015-20121019154356

Corvo was the Lord Protector because he served as the Empress' bodyguard.

When she died, his role was stripped away from him when Hiram Burrows and Thaddeus Campbell blamed him for her murder.

The mask has no correlation between his former role, it's just to protect his identity and himself from the rat plague.