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The Spymaster

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The Spymaster	comment	The Handler of handlers, moving spies about all over the world. He is easily made a villain because this role lends itself to deception, morally questionable decisions and a We Have Reserves mentality. Though sometimes a spymaster can be an anti-hero, feeling The Chains of Commanding and considering The Needs of the Many. Thus, he is typically cold and dour, though sometimes he has a heart of gold. If rebellious or wildly anti-heroic protagonists work for him, he may have a long-suffering air, as he's the one who has to deal with many of the consequences of their hijinks. Few viewpoint characters are Spymasters because the role is basically office work: sitting at a desk, writing letters, reading reports, etc. It's hardly exciting; The Protagonist is more likely to be a field agent reporting to him because that is where "the action" is. Thus, he is more likely to be the Big Good if he's working with The Hero. He is often The Chessmaster, and frequently morally questionable because Spies Are Despicable. Compare Knowledge Broker for when the Spymaster is operating freelance.
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The Spymaster / int_109f7814	comment	Mycroft Holmes in Sherlock. In "A Scandal in Belgravia" he hires Sherlock to take care of an delicate case regarding the Royal Family, Sherlock snarks "So why don't you have one of your men take care of it?" Mycraft casually points out that they are all untrustworthy since "They all spy on people for money."
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The Spymaster / int_135f4195	comment	Thufir Hawat in Dune, one of the few intrigue tales that shows the spymaster's perspective.
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The Spymaster / int_16404929	comment	Mr Waverly in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Girl from U.N.C.L.E..
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The Spymaster / int_16cfb2e5	comment	In The Witchlands, Mathew owns a chain of cafÃ©s, which are popular not because they serve good coffee (they don't), but because they're a front for a network of spies and one can buy more than just a vaguely coffee-like fluid there.
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The Spymaster / int_16fc4335	comment	Heralds of Valdemar: In The Collegium Chronicles, Herald Nikolas acts as Valdemar's spymaster, in addition to his public duties as the King's Own Herald. No one suspects him of running an intelligence ring on top of his full-time job as personal adviser to the monarch and duties as a father. The protagonist Mags is trained as a spy by Nikolas, joining him undercover as a pawnbroker and fence in the capital city's poorer districts. In the sequel series The Herald Spy, Mags begins to set himself up as Nikolas's successor, inheriting Nikolas' agents in the city and establishing his own, while Nikolas shifts his focus to the kingdom at large. In the reign of Queen Selenay several hundred years later, this duty has been passed down to Herald Alberich, in addition to his own public job as Weaponsmaster.
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The Spymaster / int_19b87fc	comment	Summer Crowns: Orton Merryweather becomes Master of Whisperers to King Stannis. As Lord Intendant, Tybero Istarion serves as this to the Dragonhunt after the Second Sons are reorganized to be their Secret Police within Myr.
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The Spymaster / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: Varric Tethras is referred as "Dwarven Spymaster" in Dragon Age II, though it can be a borderline Informed Ability since you don't actually see him do any spying or intelligence-gathering. In fact, he has a veritable spy network spanning Kirkwall to gather intelligence first for the Dwarven Merchant Guild and his merchant brother, then for Hawke. You do get a few hints, mostly just those few people that were just leaving as you came in to talk to him. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, the Warden's former companion Leliana takes over this job for the title organization, having worked in more-or-less that same capacity for the Divine in the prior decade. Varric also joins the Inquisition but freely admits that Leliana is a better spymaster than him and sticks to the field agent (read: party member) duties.
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The Spymaster / int_1d12c0af	comment	Star Wars: Poe Dameron establishes that C-3PO, of all people, serves in this capacity to the Resistance, using a network of droid informants Hidden in Plain Sight across the galaxy in order to acquire intelligence.
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The Spymaster / int_210767ac	comment	In Crusader Kings there are five council positions: Chancellor, Marshal, Steward, Lord Spiritual and Spymaster. Having a better spymaster than your enemies is crucial to discover plots and execute your own. Oh, and you better make sure he stays loyal to you, or else...
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The Spymaster / int_22119589	comment	Alias had a villainous example in Arvin Sloane, and heroic examples in Jack Bristow and Marcus Dixon.
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The Spymaster / int_22126d33	comment	Andor: Luthien Rael is essentially this, as he acts as a middleman and coordinator for a number of rebel cells, trying to bring them all together into a cohesive whole that will eventually become the Rebel Alliance.
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The Spymaster / int_222c2051	comment	Chuck has General Beckman.
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The Spymaster / int_22f14ef2	comment	Colonel Hunter from Callan.
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The Spymaster / int_230b3240	comment	Bob Ritter from the Jack Ryan novels is the CIA's Director of Operations, which means that he's the man who manages all of the CIA's human intelligence assets.
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The Spymaster / int_2372359	comment	Javelin from The Belgariad is the head of Drasnian intelligence (the best spy network in the world) and is also the direct handler of Hunter, a spy whose identity is known only to him. As a (borderline anti-)heroic version of The Chessmaster, he can seem a bit ruthless at times — in the sequel pentalogy, he even orders the crucifixion of his own niece as one of the cultist traitors captured during a city siege. She's actually the current Hunter, and it's all part of a plan to infiltrate the cult by letting the cultists' rescue attempt succeed.
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The Spymaster / int_24b673e7	comment	In Earth's Alien History, the Director of the Department of Extra-Normal Operations (DEO) serves this role for the Terran Treaty Organization.
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The Spymaster / int_24bc2351	comment	Salthar in the Spaceforce (2012) novels is head of the Tayshak, the 'semi-clandestine' department of the Taysan Court which conducts internal and external espionage. Given that Taysan culture is squeamish about all such things and recruits only misfits and functional sociopaths as agents, Salthar finds himself in charge of a real rabble of potential rebels and seems to have difficulty in managing them.
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The Spymaster / int_251cef2a	comment	Mary Spalding on Intelligence (2006).
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The Spymaster / int_25302c90	comment	In Once Upon a Spy, the unnamed intelligence agency that Chenault and Tannehill work for is headed by a mysterious woman known only as 'the Lady'. She is very much a Distaff Counterpart of M.
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The Spymaster / int_25d97c04	comment	Arthur; he's the movie's answer to M. As the head of the agency, every Knight answers to him.
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The Spymaster / int_280a7192	comment	He's succeeded by, among others, Maria Hill, Daisy Johnson, Tony Stark, Norman Osborn (who replaced S.H.I.E.L.D. with H.A.M.M.E.R.) and the below-mentioned Steve Rogers.
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The Spymaster / int_2a04866b	comment	Guild Wars' Nightfall campaign introduces the Order of Whispers, a secret organization tasked to watch against evil, and the return of a certain forgotten god in particular. Their Crazy-Prepared leader is known only as The Master of Whispers.
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The Spymaster / int_2a458d08	comment	Zones of Thought: Subverted in A Fire Upon the Deep. Vendacious is said to be incompetent at every government position he's tried, except spymaster. It turns out that he's a Double Agent and is only providing information fed to him by the Big Bad.
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The Spymaster / int_3199e98a	type	The Spymaster
The Spymaster / int_3199e98a	comment	In A Practical Guide to Evil every faction has one: the Black Knight Amadeus has Eudokia the Scribe running his part of the eyes of the empire, Dread Empress Malicia has her secretary Ime (whose name literally translates to secret) running her part of them. Especially Scribe is so competent that her boss, the Black Knight, can joke to be all-knowing. Highlights from the Scribe's and Ime's work: knowing everything right down to her homework about a trouble-making orphan in the country the empire occupied (Ime), being able to count all the misdeeds city watch officiers did in their carrier and effortlessly blackmail them to murder another officier on the spot (Scribe), having enough agents and inside knowledge in a country the empire is warring with to instigate a rebellion against the government that is blamed in internal rivals (both).
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The Spymaster / int_32926c5b	comment	Tarkin's Fist: Commander Yutu serves as the New Empire's Director of Intelligence, and oversees the Empire's signal intelligence and interrogations of American astronauts captured on Mars.
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The Spymaster / int_34d050c6	comment	J. Gander Hooter from Darkwing Duck.
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The Spymaster / int_3501cc23	comment	Gentleman Bastard: "The Spider", a.k.a. Dona Angiavesta Vorchenza, in The Lies of Locke Lamora. The secret head of Camorr's Midnighters, an order of secret police that reports to the Duke himself. It helps that the Spider goes unnoticed because she's a seemingly harmless old widow. At the end of the book, the position is handed off to two people, Don and Dona Salvara.
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The Spymaster / int_39fe00f1	comment	In Dragon Age: Inquisition, the Warden's former companion Leliana takes over this job for the title organization, having worked in more-or-less that same capacity for the Divine in the prior decade. Varric also joins the Inquisition but freely admits that Leliana is a better spymaster than him and sticks to the field agent (read: party member) duties.
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The Spymaster / int_3ab71c22	comment	Dungeon Keeper Ami Has King Albrecht's loyal advisor, The Spymaster. Whose name is not revelaed for obvious reasons. Despite being in the side of the heroes, he always seems to know exactly what just happened in the Underworld or what Sailor Mercury has achieved a day or two after it happened. In addition, Jered and Umbra fill this role for Ami herself.
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The Spymaster / int_3f13a30c	comment	Harry Pearce in Spooks.
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The Spymaster / int_4037825e	comment	Zhuge Liang in Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
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The Spymaster / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: Bob and other knowledgeable agents identify Archangel Uriel as God's personal spymaster and "black ops guy".He is, however, limited by not being able to affect a person's free will. He cannot give information or knowledge that would otherwise change a person's choice, but rather give them help for a choice already made. Even with this severe limit on a being who states he is capable of destroying galaxies, he knows humanity well enough and can see multiple futures and pasts, that a tiny nudge at the right moment will hit three or more birds with one stone. Nicodemus Archleone is the bearer of Uriel's opposite number, Anduriel, who has the title "Master of Shadows". He was Lucifer's second-in-command during the War on Heaven and cast out from Hell into a Coin to terrorize earth. Befitting his name, Anduriel can spy from anything that casts a shadow unless it falls within a protected domain. As befitting his mythical persona, Donar Vadderung aka Odin is also one of these, and states that "Nicodemus knows very nearly as much as I do." Think about that for a minute. It doesn't hurt that he also visits loads of families every Christmas night, in his alternate form as Santa Claus. Vadderung is also, unlike some examples, a Genius Bruiser: He doesn't seem to do much front-line stuff, but from what we see in Changes and Cold Days, he is very, very capable of messing up an enemy's plans face-to-face if need be. He will also accept payment in information. When Harry phones him to meet him, he speaks in a bugged room knowing the listening side will send agents to follow Vadderung. Vadderung knows this and it will help him learn how the agents do their work so he can take that into account.
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The Spymaster / int_43a5cc6b	comment	An Empire of Ice and Fire: As per canon, Varys serves as Master of Whisperers to the royal court of Westeros until he's killed by the Waif on Littlefinger's orders. By the time of the sequel The Mystery Knight, Arya Stark-Baratheon has ascended to the position.
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The Spymaster / int_4522fd1	comment	Ayla from the Whateley Universe gives us the inside scoop on how a Spymaster is made. Mostly, Ayla uses Charisma, Intelligence, and Boatloads of Money.
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The Spymaster / int_45a5656f	comment	This is pretty much a stock character archetype in BattleTech fiction — whenever the narration focuses on the setting's movers and shakers (or even just a commanding officer worried about operational security), it's usually a pretty safe bet that their respective spymasters won't be far away. In fact, the main plot of the now-classic Warrior trilogy pretty much revolves around Justin Xiang Allard, son of the spymaster of the Federated Suns, becoming first an arena champion, then an intelligence asset, and finally a spymaster in his own right for the Capellan Confederation.
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The Spymaster / int_465d8bdd	comment	The Game (2014) has 'Daddy'.
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The Spymaster / int_468bebb0	comment	It's not a major focus of the narrative, but as ruler of Anhk-Morpork, Lord Vetenari of the Discworld novels maintains a large network of spies and informers. When protagonist Sam Vimes expresses surprise at being reminded of this, his wife Sybil asks if he thought info came to Vetenari in dreams.
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The Spymaster / int_49ad83ee	comment	In World of Warcraft we have Mathias Shaw, leader of SI:7, the Kingdom of Stormwind's intelligence agency. He goes into the field more often than most of his ilk, to the point that he occasionally introduces himself as 'Shaw, Mathias Shaw.'
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The Spymaster / int_4c095a1f	comment	The Transformers has Soundwave, Decepticon Communications Officer and the master of a loyal cadre of spy cassette minions.
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The Spymaster / int_56e10d85	comment	In the Tolkien's Legendarium, readers frequently interpret the role of Radagast the Brown as a spymaster for the Istari and White Council. His gimmick being that he would use animals (such as birds) as his eyes and ears. He is also said to be a master of shapes and hues, possibly indicating that he is a Master of Disguise. This is frequently offered as a proposed reason for Radagast's overall reclusiveness and seeming inactivity during the War of the Ring as opposed to Gandalf's conspicuous involvement and Saruman's treachery. Tolkien appeared to be inconclusive regarding his original claim that Radagast failed in his mission (he really only says that "Only Gandalf stayed true to his original mission" and it is a given that Saruman can definitely be said to have failed). Gandalf's high respect for Radagast does not seem to mesh with the any notions that Radagast was neglecting his task. Readers tend to speculate that Radagast may have been doing the job for which he was sent and that not all of the Wizards were intended to employ the same methods or even necessarily work openly or together. Radagast is occasionally credited with the unexpected appearances of the Eagles in various instances, as well as the Thrush who delivered Bilbo's message to Bard in The Hobbit. As a spymaster, Radagast would understandably be very low key and indirect by necessity.
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The Spymaster / int_5d55ca9	comment	Cosmic Dash: Ij Far is The Federation's spymaster. He met Mara during the "Grounded" arc, and accepted her help gathering evidence on a weapon smuggler, before "officially" hiring her. He's been shown to work with his Imperial and Neutrality counterparts when the situation calls for it.
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The Spymaster / int_60156176	comment	In the Vorkosigan Saga, Simon Illyan is the head of ImpSec the spying and counterspying organisation of Barrayar. He also plays the role of Da Chief to Miles. Illyan's predecessor, the legendary Captain Negri, was this in spades.
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The Spymaster / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: Nick Fury: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. takes a very hands-on approach to this job. He's pretty much the Memetic Badass of the Marvel Universe. He's succeeded by, among others, Maria Hill, Daisy Johnson, Tony Stark, Norman Osborn (who replaced S.H.I.E.L.D. with H.A.M.M.E.R.) and the below-mentioned Steve Rogers. Recently, Steve Rogers served his country in this manner upon returning to life, operating as a Nick Fury-esque spy. Pete Wisdom, while not the head of his agency (at first — by the time of Captain Britain and MI13, he's taken the job), serves as the closest thing to a counter-part Nick Fury has in MI-13, Britain's paranormal agency, and is similarly hands-on. The Red Skull more or less had this job when he was with Those Wacky Nazis. Recurring Iron Man foe Spymaster lives up to his name with his own organization, the Espionage Elite, as well as being a master industrial spy himself.
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The Spymaster / int_680b3afa	comment	The Ancient in Beastmaster knows all there was, is and will be (he makes reference to humanity's future). He teaches this in a lesser extent to his sorcerers, who he gives a magic crystal ball to see anything they please, item which apparently he doesn't need to see himself.
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The Spymaster / int_6873fde2	comment	Louis Goliath of Doctrine of Labyrinths. Although he's perfectly willing to use hideous methods, from physical mutilation to Mind Rape, to further his ends, he never does anything spitefully or without considering the consequences— indicating a detachment that seems to scare Mehitabel more than his atrocities.
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The Spymaster / int_6a4bddd6	comment	Recurring Iron Man foe Spymaster lives up to his name with his own organization, the Espionage Elite, as well as being a master industrial spy himself.
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The Spymaster / int_6b879da2	comment	Jules Sevier in Amante Doree from Somewhere Beneath Those Waves. He's a particularly nasty example, since he deliberately sets up one of his own spies in order to discredit an honest investigator.
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The Spymaster / int_6d95abec	comment	In The Witches of Karres, there's Sedmon of the Six Lives.
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The Spymaster / int_7244e221	comment	In The Traitor Son Cycle, Kronmir is a spymaster for hire, who creates and maintains networks of spies and assassins wherever his current employers want him to.
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The Spymaster / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Enabran Tain, the only head of the Obsidian Order to ever survive long enough to retire. When the Dominion decided to crush the Obsidian Order and Tal Shiar as a prelude to invading the Alpha Quadrant, they lured him out of retirement to destroy him as well: even in retirement he was simply too dangerous and powerful to ignore.
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The Spymaster / int_76e7de99	comment	Forgotten Realms has a lot of Cloak and Dagger stuff. The most interesting case is Inselm Hhune, a member of Knights of the Shield inner circle. For supporting Tethyr's new queen he was given a duchy not requiring much ruling and the post of spymaster. The fun part is that Lord Hhune quietly hates his king (he planned to marry the queen himself), but knows that Haedrak works with Harpers opposing his semi-secret society and got more than enough damning information on him. Since he has no clear idea how much the king is aware of his personal spy network, Lord Hhune just to be on the safe side surrenders more information that he'd like to, which in turn raises the risk of infiltration.
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The Spymaster / int_78e64a1f	comment	In Bad Future Crusaders, Featherweight serves as this to Queen Twilight, being in charge of the Changeling spies deployed around Equestria. He even refers to himself as "the Queen's ears" at one point.
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The Spymaster / int_79ab0b3c	comment	Tortall Universe: Sir Myles of Olau is the spymaster for Tortall â€” at least, he's the one everyone knows about. The primary spymaster is Alanna's husband George. George trained his daughter Aly, and she puts the skills to good use in the Trickster's Duet when she works for the raka in the Copper Isles. She eventually becomes the rebels' spymaster, takes down the Rittevons' own spymaster, and becomes the spymaster for the country when the revolution succeeds.
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The Spymaster / int_7df1939b	comment	Immersion Breakers: Each nation has its own. The Realm's is simply the Royal Spymaster. The others are the Jarl's Housecarl, the Shogun's Chief Ninja, the Watcher for the Western Door, the Tlatoani's Shadow, the Mansa's Herald, and the 'Tailor' to the Empress.
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The Spymaster / int_7e88ac08	comment	"Control", Robert McCall's former boss in The Equalizer.
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The Spymaster / int_81946ca2	comment	From A Symphony of Eternity there's High Princess Monasâ€™ Zulanasai de Harkonian, nicknamed "Cainblessing" by her allies, and the "Fire Princess" by her enemies, the most feared being in the Empire, if not the Galaxy itself. Besides being a Lightning Bruiser, she's such a great Spymaster that she's able to take information that may seem trivial to anybody else and use it to discover the enemies' greatest secrets.
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The Spymaster / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: One of the Jager generals absent from the Mechanicsberg meeting is referred to as "da sneaky one", presumably he acts as the Heterodynes' spymaster. He's eventually revealed to be Axel Higgs. Oglavia SpÃ¼dna serves as this for the Wulfenbach empire.
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The Spymaster / int_8889afa3	comment	On the Rogue Trader roleplaying game, the Seneschal player class is half this, half Battle Butler, with the Flavor Text describing him as the man that creates vast intelligence networks on every port for his Intrepid Merchant master, as well as managing the day-to-day nuances of an interstellar trading empire (which in Warhammer 40,000 fashion includes the assassination of enemies of his master or even the deployment of armies).
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The Spymaster / int_892aa56a	comment	Murdoch Mysteries: Terrence Meyers. He says Terrence Meyers is of course not his real name but he uses it whenever he interacts with Station House 4. He's a top-level spy who works for British crown and Canadian government, and he reports directly to the Prime Minister of Canada (who, during the show's run, is Sir Wilfrid Laurie).
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The Spymaster / int_8a3fb349	comment	Amanda Waller and Sarge Steel have both filled this role for the U.S. Government.
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The Spymaster / int_8b4c8618	comment	The protagonist (of a sort, though he's not the POV character) of Joker Game is Lt. Col. Yuuki: The Chessmaster, Magnificent Bastard and Spymaster, all in one.
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The Spymaster / int_8da301a6	comment	Chasing Dragons: After the Sunset Company conquers Myr and converts it into the start of a new kingdom, Robert appoints Gerion Lannister to serve as his Master of Whispers. And he seems to continue in that capacity even after replacing Ned as Hand. Due to the High Turnover Rate of Westeros' own Master of Whispers (as they all either resign or get fired for failing to foresee one or another of the rebellions against Stannis), and because Westeros' ambassador to Braavos is very placid at his job, Owen Merryweather (Westeros' consul to Braavos-occupied Pentos) serves as Stannis' de facto spymaster in Essos. Donys Rahtheon serves as both Master of Whispers and Master of Coin for the Targaryen exile court. Lady Shipwright sets up her own private spy network, composed of her former associates from when they were all pleasure slaves, for the sake of furthering her newfound noble house's status. To combat foreign espionage, Gerion and the Blackfish merge resources to create the Office of Foreign Inquiry, with the Special Branch (aka medieval black ops unit) of it being headed by Baelish.
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The Spymaster / int_908a8fe9	comment	While Steve Trevor was essentially a spy in the original Wonder Woman comics his characterization and ablilties drifted over the reboots, up until he was turned into DC's equivalent of Nick Fury.
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The Spymaster / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time: Subverted with Pedron Niall's well-known spymaster, Omerna, who is an incompetent decoy; all the spying is actually done by his secretary. Moghedien plays this role for the Forsaken. She's not that impressive power-wise by their standards and knows it, but is incredibly sneaky and treacherous (she's named for a kind of tiny but deadly spider from the Age of Legends). Her tendency to underestimate the "primitives" of the current Age, however, landed her in hot water on several occasions and ended up getting her severely punished by her superior, Moridin.
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The Spymaster / int_919c4f7d	comment	Radiant Historia has Heiss, head of Special Intelligence, which deals in espionage and other sneaky business for the nation of Alistel. SpecInt's existence is not a secret, and interestingly there is some tension between them and the army.
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The Spymaster / int_95bd5a8e	comment	Hiram Burrows in Dishonored was the former Spymaster of Dunwall before he staged the assassination of the queen and took over as the new ruler.
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The Spymaster / int_9be153a3	comment	Duchess Grendine from Terry Mancour's Spellmonger Series. She maintains a sinister alter ego known as "The Mother", the head of the castali intelligence apparatus known as "the Family". Father Mutio Vitelleschi, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, pretty much serves this function for Pope Urban VIII.
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The Spymaster / int_9d34190a	comment	In The Elder Scrolls series, basically any leader of the Blades, an Ancient Order of Protectors that has long served the emperors of Tamriel as bodyguards and spies, has qualified throughout history. This was actually the title of the highest ranking Blade in a larger area of interest during the height of the Third Empire. In Morrowind, "Spymaster" is literally the title of the rank of Caius Cosades, Vvardenfell's highest ranking Blade (he's also separately referred to as Director of Imperial Intelligence in Vvardenfell District, Eastern Provinces)note though dialogue mentioning the existence of open Blades serving in courts throughout the Empire and a document that refers to him as "Knight-Errant of the Imperial Order of Blades" implies that Spymaster may strictly speaking be a position more so than a rank even if that is how it is used in terms of game mechanics. His cover identity is ironically that of a stoner and he acts as the primary Quest Giver for the first half of the main quest.
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The Spymaster / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Varys "the Spider" in A Song of Ice and Fire is the Master of Whispers (and occasional private businessman on the side) and likes saying he gets his information from his "little birds". But, as you can tell from the title of the position, there have been several such spymasters advising the Iron Throne over the centuries, some more renowned (and faithful) than others. Take Brynden "Bloodraven" Rivers for one infamous, yet faithfully ruthless, further example of the breed. And, Not-a-Maester Qyburn for another.
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The Spymaster / int_9ef58add	comment	Pete Wisdom, while not the head of his agency (at first — by the time of Captain Britain and MI13, he's taken the job), serves as the closest thing to a counter-part Nick Fury has in MI-13, Britain's paranormal agency, and is similarly hands-on.
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The Spymaster / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU: Amanda Waller and Sarge Steel have both filled this role for the U.S. Government. While Steve Trevor was essentially a spy in the original Wonder Woman comics his characterization and ablilties drifted over the reboots, up until he was turned into DC's equivalent of Nick Fury. The fashionable (dig that scarf!) yet mysterious man known only as Control, in the WWII-set OSS feature in GI Combat. Appointed head of military intelligence by FDR after Pearl Harbor, Control also scouts civilian agents from all walks of life and dispassionately sends them on deadly sabotage and wetwork missions across Europe, Africa, and beyond.
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The Spymaster / int_a3d2bcec	comment	In the Modesty Blaise novels, Sir Gerald Tarrant is the head of a department of the British secret service, who occasionally passes jobs to Modesty and Willie that his agents are unable to handle. He's soft-hearted enough to feel bad about manipulating people, including Modesty and Willie, for the greater good, but not so soft-hearted as to stop doing it.
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The Spymaster / int_a50ae25d	comment	Operations Master Meth, the head of Imperial Intelligence in The Final Reflection.
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The Spymaster / int_a7ae79c2	comment	Star Wars: The Old Republic has Keeper, who serves as the head of Imperial Intelligence and the boss of the Imperial Agent. A large part of his job is to make sure that an Empire built on the foundations of habitual betrayal and psychotic supervillainy doesn't completely fall apart. Compared to most other Imperial figures in the game, he's largely an Anti-Villain who avoids the dog-kicking evil prevalent among other Imperial/Sith figures and is usually a Reasonable Authority Figure to the Agent.
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The Spymaster / int_a8269bb	comment	What About Witch Queen? has two: baron Hakan Madsen is the Royal Spymaster of Arendelle (while, at the same time, being the commander of Marines) and colonel Glenn Hunter holds the same position in Weselton. Madsen is more of a heroic example, and Hunter appears villainous, or at least Jerkass.
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The Spymaster / int_a877956	comment	In The Witcher, the fence Thaler is actually head of Temerian intelligence and the secret police.
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The Spymaster / int_aafda2ed	comment	Queen and Country: Paul Crocker, Director of Operations, is very much a Spiritual Successor to Neil Burnside.
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The Spymaster / int_ab42c63a	comment	The Chief in Get Smart.
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The Spymaster / int_af872a82	comment	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The series features Mycroft Holmes (Sherlock Holmes' brother), then later Harry Lime from The Third Man, and an aged Emma Peel in the modern day, as 'M', Britain's legendary spymaster (the title coming from the James Bond stories). They're all following on from the original 'M': James Moriarty.
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The Spymaster / int_b0666b59	comment	In the later parts of the first Neverwinter Nights, a female Player Character can strike up a romance with Lord Nasher's spymaster, who is given a surprisingly complete backstory but nevertheless has approximately zero actual influence on the plot.
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The Spymaster / int_b0e5cff4	comment	Mr Socrates from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids.
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The Spymaster / int_b0ecd178	comment	For Agent of Vega, see the Third Coordinator of the Vegan Confederacy.
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The Spymaster / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Varys is the King's Master of Whisperers. He claims his "little birds" are everywhere. In episode "Lord Snow" (season 1, episode 3), viewers quickly see the effectiveness of his network when he knows both Catelyn's presence in Kings Landing (despite her traveling incognito) and the reason she came. In House of the Dragon, both Mysaria and Larys Strong have their own network of informants. Larys seeks to remove the competition so he arranges for the brothel Mysaria runs to be burned down.
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The Spymaster / int_b42811ef	comment	In The Thirty-Nine Steps, Sir Walter Bullivant is the ranking intelligence officer to whom Richard Hannay must deliver his information about the enemy plot he's stumbled on. Sir Walter returns in the sequels Greenmantle and Mr. Standfast, sending Hannay out on new missions. John Blenkiron, introduced as one of Hannay's fellow agents in Greenmantle, is in immediate charge of the mission in Mr Standfast and proves his mettle as a spymaster when he goes head-to-head against the German spymaster Graf von Schwabing. In a later sequel, The Courts of the Morning, Blenkiron is again in charge of the operation.
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The Spymaster / int_b4290f43	comment	Dr. Harold Smith from The Destroyer qualifies because he can take on this role, although in most of the novels he is rarely seen playing this part; he does so in cases he doesn't need Remo's skills.
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The Spymaster / int_b6afc77f	comment	True Potential: After Jiraiya is appointed as Godaime Hokage, he appoints Tayuya as his successor.
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The Spymaster / int_b6b17592	comment	The sequel introduces Champagne (or "Champ", as he prefers), the head of the Statesmen, who serves as Arthur's American counterpart.
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The Spymaster / int_bdc49dbe	comment	Angleton is the spymaster in The Laundry Files. Notably, it's not his real name; Bob notes that only he could have gotten away with using James Jesus Angleton as a Nom de Guerre.
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The Spymaster / int_bdcd318c	comment	Itachi is appointed as the head of Konoha's spy network in Son of the Sannin after Jiraiya becomes Hokage. It results in him having a somewhat strained relationship with his little brother due to how he'll often be absent for large stretches of time while meeting up with his various contacts.
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The Spymaster / int_c02ce5b4	comment	In House of the Dragon, both Mysaria and Larys Strong have their own network of informants. Larys seeks to remove the competition so he arranges for the brothel Mysaria runs to be burned down.
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The Spymaster / int_c0d295c4	comment	The announcer in Team Fortress 2, who is Playing Both Sides of the war between the teams, and goes so far as to cause a war-like battle between two enemies who became friends, simply to keep that fact a secret.
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The Spymaster / int_c0eae17	comment	Produce enough Spies in a Total War campaign and your faction leader might pick up a Spymaster as part of his Standard Royal Court. Though this does provide a global bonus to your espionage efforts, such tactics will increase your leader's Dread rating.
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The Spymaster / int_c2184f42	comment	Moff Nyna Calixte a.k.a. Morrigan Corde plays this role in Star Wars: Legacy.
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The Spymaster / int_c2359368	comment	The Red Skull more or less had this job when he was with Those Wacky Nazis.
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The Spymaster / int_c3e63db7	comment	In The Zombie Knight, Ivan "the Salesman of Death" is the spymaster for the Morgunov Abolishers, as well as being involved heavily with their revenue operations and negotiations with client states. On top of that, he's a fearsome combatant in his own right, as is anyone in the Abolish or Vanguard inner circles.
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The Spymaster / int_c506565e	comment	In Marque And Reprisal, the second book of the Vatta's War series, it is revealed that Aunt Gracie was a skilled spy, going so far as to bug the President's office when it seems he might have something to do with the coordinated attacks against the Vatta family and to scout out the best places for a sniper to take a shot at their home from, booby-trapping those spots with diseased ticks. For bonus points, in the first book, Trading In Danger, this character was explicitly and dismissively described as The Family Spy.
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The Spymaster / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm has a number: Nick Fury, who served as this to the Order of the Phoenix back in the day and currently runs SHIELD. He does remarkably well to keep up with a number of schemers who, to put it mildly, have other than ordinary means to find things out: while he gets less attention than the others, he can usually match Loki and Doctor Strange cryptic remark for cryptic remark, he trained Peter Wisdom, he catches Alexander Pierce red-handed at the end of the first book, and ultimately out-gambits Lucius Malfoy. Peter Wisdom a.k.a. Regulus Black, Fury's protege and counterpart at MI13, comes to prominence as this in the second half of the first book and during the sequel, going from senior Agent to the most powerful man in Muggle Britain (who's capable of bossing around/threatening the Ministry) at the tender age of 32. He makes a point to have a lever on everyone, and somehow figured out that Hermione was Wanda's daughter, being the only person without inside information or who was close to either individual to work it out. Lucius Malfoy, who served this role for Voldemort, returns to this role with a vengeance in the first book and spends almost the entire first book at least three steps ahead of everyone else, using his skills in this department to pull Uriah Gambit after Uriah Gambit on his fellow Death Eaters to control their finances, and usurp control of HYDRA. Then Nick Fury springs his trap in the finale, and Doctor Strange - the puppet-master of it all - reveals just how he's been controlled. Alexander Pierce casually runs both SHIELD and HYDRA - or rather, 'HYDRA's SHIELD-division' - and has been doing so for decades. And yet, no one suspects him or sees past his avuncular and grandfatherly demeanour until he lets them, or Nick Fury catches him. He even manages to successfully double-cross Lucius Malfoy, who's renowned for doing this to everyone else, and the sequel shows that even in prison he's basically just toying with his interrogators. Loki, post reformation, decided this was the best way to serve Asgard, with Carol noting that he not only runs Asgard's intelligence service, he effectively is its intelligence service (and occasional assassin). Being the Magnificent Bastard he is, understands the problem of training and planting spies throughout the world would be incredibly difficult, even more so if he wished to avoid the attention of other spymasters. So he doesn't even try: Instead, he uses taxi drivers, cleaners, and the homeless as informants. All three groups are already everywhere and hear much more than people think. So not only can he set up an invisible network everywhere, he can actually help the less fortunate at the same time by paying for information. The sequel, Ghosts of the Past, adds: General Aleksandr Lukin as the head of the renewed Red Room, who is moderately competent when he's sane. Unfortunately, Sanity Slippage rapidly ensues, which is why despite even Sinister's best efforts, he barely lasts two weeks in real time, as opposed to nearly a year. Alison Carter, the former Deputy Director of SHIELD who is reinstated after the Forever Red arc, repeatedly alludes to taking her supposed retirement relatively lightly (she occupied herself protecting Clark Kent and keeping an eye on Harry, indirectly, as his maternal grandparents were ex-SHIELD - and having those who were doing so on her behalf roasted over a slow flame when the truth of how he'd been treated came out) and who can verbally break Alexander Pierce in five minutes.
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The Spymaster / int_c72c2d06	comment	Star Wars Rebels gives us Agent Kallus of the Imperial Security Beureau. Played with, however, in that he isn't the leader of the ISB, but he's the only one seen on the series and is responsible for overseeing most Imperial spies throughout the show's first season.
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The Spymaster / int_cac20f89	comment	Clayton Webb on JAG was this. He was also a chessmaster.
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The Spymaster / int_cc69e03e	comment	VGA Planets: The Romulan-expy Birdman faction has this as their schtick, with numerous cloaked spaceship designs and the ability to snoop information from enemy planets.
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The Spymaster / int_cd21bddf	comment	In Altair: A Record of Battles, SÃ¼leyman is the chief of spies for TÃ¼rkiye. He's constantly traveling to keep in touch with the spies stationed in each country of Rumeliana and recruit other potential spies. And he works under ZaÄŸanos Pasha, who is their superior and tells them what it is they have to do directly.
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The Spymaster / int_ce0eecab	comment	In the Federation of the Hub, Senior Commissioner Holati Tate, and (eventually revealed to be the grandmaster of them all) Pilch.
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The Spymaster / int_cec99ed9	comment	In the Safehold series, nearly every member of royalty we meet has The Good Chancellor and spymaster or their equivalents as their closest confidantes. Among main characters Prince Nahrmahn is made the Imperial Spymaster for the Empire of Charis, largely to focus his love of Machiavellian plotting to positive ends and because he's really really good at it.
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The Spymaster / int_cfb3b0c3	comment	Yancy Westridge and Albatross in Alpha Protocol. The former runs the eponymous Government Conspiracy, the latter runs The Conspiracy G22.
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The Spymaster / int_d1710608	comment	Sharpe: Major Hogan. Nominally an engineer, but, according to Sir Arthur Wellesley "a man with very diverse duties".
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The Spymaster / int_d3343e2f	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader: The von Valancius dynasty of Rogue traders maintains a "Master of Whispers" role in their retinue to serve as this role, though the incumbent, Kunrad Voigtvir, ends up removed by the same events that raises the player as the new Rogue Trader of the dynasty, and the player never actually gets around to filling in the role during the game, with Abelard Werserian, your seneschal, being the closest to filling in the gap. If Heinrix van Calox leaves the Inquisition, he can join you as your Master of Whispers in the epilogue.
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The Spymaster / int_d47b7f5f	comment	George trained his daughter Aly, and she puts the skills to good use in the Trickster's Duet when she works for the raka in the Copper Isles. She eventually becomes the rebels' spymaster, takes down the Rittevons' own spymaster, and becomes the spymaster for the country when the revolution succeeds.
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The Spymaster / int_d6d59994	comment	Number One from Cool McCool.
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The Spymaster / int_d78af2ac	comment	Kingsman: The Secret Service: Arthur; he's the movie's answer to M. As the head of the agency, every Knight answers to him. The sequel introduces Champagne (or "Champ", as he prefers), the head of the Statesmen, who serves as Arthur's American counterpart.
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The Spymaster / int_dc85cde0	comment	Coby's Choice: Following Hody Jones' defeat, Madam Finwaters becomes the Ryugyu Kingdom's spymaster in exchange for a noble title and official reign over the red light district that she already has de facto control of.
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The Spymaster / int_de242623	comment	Queen of Shadows: As General of the Shinobi, this role technically falls to Hiruzen by default, as his tribe is the best suited for infiltration and intelligence gathering. Shendu has his own "Master of Veiled Truths", a wizard named Ban Buwei.
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The Spymaster / int_e144ba19	comment	Varric Tethras is referred as "Dwarven Spymaster" in Dragon Age II, though it can be a borderline Informed Ability since you don't actually see him do any spying or intelligence-gathering. In fact, he has a veritable spy network spanning Kirkwall to gather intelligence first for the Dwarven Merchant Guild and his merchant brother, then for Hawke. You do get a few hints, mostly just those few people that were just leaving as you came in to talk to him.
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The Spymaster / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: The Big Bad of the first four books of the X-Wing Series is Ysanne Isard, Director of Imperial Intelligence, the de facto head of the Empire followong the Battle of Endor. Her fearsome skill at breaking captives down into Manchurian Agents, and the ruthlessness shown when she betrayed her own father to assume his position, have earned her the nickname "Iceheart". Opposing her is the good guys' own Spymaster, Airen Cracken of New Republic Intelligence, known and feared as "the Kraken" by Imperial operatives.
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The Spymaster / int_e80fa454	comment	Deande from Battleborn is the Spymistress of the Jennerit Imperium and right hand of Lothar Rendain. In secret though, she's been helping Jennerit rebels who disagree with Rendain's regime, and sabotaging Rendain's plans right underneath the Lord Commander's nose.
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The Spymaster / int_e90cee59	comment	In The Sandbaggers, Neil Burnside is a rare example where the spymaster is the protagonist. Of course the focus of the show was on the strategic side of espionage, so it fits.
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The Spymaster / int_efe1e0d1	comment	Project Moonbase has Mr. Roundtree, who leads the spies of the "Enemies of Freedom". He is pretty well-prepared, with extensive files and a Criminal DoppelgÃ¤nger infiltrator ready for almost every important person of the other faction, which he can slip in at a moment's notice. Aside from that, well, he's probably the blandest Red Scare master spy you're ever going to see in film.
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The Spymaster / int_f236a7c7	comment	Narses and Irene fill this role in the Belisarius Series. Irene deserves special mention because she is amiable and rather perky rather then being dour (the normal personality for this kind of character).
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The Spymaster / int_f4e799ee	comment	"Management" from Burn Notice (probably- we still don't know all that much about them...) Anson Fullerton along with Management. It helps to be the one all agents confide in.
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The Spymaster / int_f50072b	comment	The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: Memorizing Gaze, Secret Protector of the Hidden Guards, is officially identified as one of these in the sequel Picking Up the Pieces - the Hidden Guards are Equestria's secret intelligence division, who investigate potential threats to the nation. He even keeps Guards in his fellow Captains' headquarters to keep an eye out for other potential infiltrators.
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The Spymaster / int_f5c28dbb	comment	1632 series: Fransico Nasi takes on the role as spymaster for the newly arrived Americans by the end of the first book of the series, building on extensive information networks spread throughout 17th Century Europe.
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The Spymaster / int_f5d65775	comment	Nick Fury, who served as this to the Order of the Phoenix back in the day and currently runs SHIELD. He does remarkably well to keep up with a number of schemers who, to put it mildly, have other than ordinary means to find things out: while he gets less attention than the others, he can usually match Loki and Doctor Strange cryptic remark for cryptic remark, he trained Peter Wisdom, he catches Alexander Pierce red-handed at the end of the first book, and ultimately out-gambits Lucius Malfoy.
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The Spymaster / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: It's easy to forget that whoever happened to be in charge of the Rangers at any particular time had this as their primary mission, until the Shadow War broke out and the Rangers were remade into a Badass Army. To a lesser extent, Commander Ivanova sometimes filled this role, gathering information from different sources for Captain Sheridan, in line with her role as the station's Executive Officer. In fact, it's a bit of a running theme that it's very difficult for anyone to do anything over a long period of time without her finding out about it somehow, even when it's ostensibly a secret they'd rather keep from her. And in the last season, Michael Garibaldi, then later Tessa Holloran filled this role for the Interstellar Alliance. G'Kar also did this for the Narn Resistance. Needless to say, with Babylon 5 pretty much being a City of Spies, you run into a lot of characters being the spymaster for various governments and organizations over the years.
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The Spymaster / int_f81856af	comment	In Star Frontiers, the Sathar are more likely to operate in this manner than directly against player characters. They recruit willing agents and sometimes brainwash others to act as saboteurs and informants. They are known for their ability to hypnotize people into seeing things from their point of view. Therefore, an unsuspecting person may act normal until it is time for him to carry out his function. The backstory explains that the Sathar realized that they could not defeat the United Planetary Federation in space combat, and thus chose a more indirect way to fight them.
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The Spymaster / int_fb3cb2a	comment	Ravenmark: Benjamin Allsworth from Scourge of Estellion is a nondescript, perpetually smiling dwarf who serves as the Sotran Trade Ambassador to The Empire. He also happens to be in charge of the Commonwealth's intelligence network. He frequently has dealings with his childhood friend and occasional rival Crumston Caldare, his halfling counterpart in the Empire. Both have "Spymaster" titles in their respective governments.
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The Spymaster / int_fc1d6ac6	comment	Count Sigismund Dijkstra is the Spymaster of the Kingdom of Redania and one of the principal players in The Witcher. He is noted to completely lack the stereotypical physical characteristics of the archetype, being very tall, overweight, thuggish-looking and fond of extravagant clothing. But he is also extremely brilliant and skilled at his job.
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The Spymaster / int_fe8ef766	comment	Recently, Steve Rogers served his country in this manner upon returning to life, operating as a Nick Fury-esque spy.
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Secret of Cerulean Sand / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Captain America (Comic Book) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Nick Fury (Comic Book) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Red Skull (Comic Book) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Sarge Steel (Comic Book) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Secret Warriors (Comic Book) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
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Star Wars: Poe Dameron (Comic Book) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Star Wars: Republic (Comic Book) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
The Kingpin (Comic Book) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Comic Book) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
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Modesty Blaise (Comic Strip) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
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Chasing Dragons (Fanfic) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Coby's Choice (Fanfic) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
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Earth's Alien History (Fanfic) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Legionnaire (Fanfic) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Next Grand World (Fanfic) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Reapers Among Fairies (Fanfic) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
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Son of the Seven Kingdoms (Fanfic) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Tarkin's Fist (Fanfic) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
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The Fansus (Fanfic) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
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The World of the Creatures (Fanfic) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Austerlitz / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Darling Lili / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Project Moonbase / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Spectre / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
The Constant Gardener / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
The Crossing / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
The Death of Stalin / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
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A Canticle for Leibowitz / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
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A Practical Guide to Evil / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
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Anno Dracula / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Aubrey-Maturin / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Belisarius Series / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
CHERUB Series / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
City of No End / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Deception Point / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Dragonriders of Pern / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Federation of the Hub / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Fire & Blood / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Gentleman Bastard / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Guild Hunter / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Jack Ryan / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Judge Dee / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Kim / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Lyonesse / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Mara, Daughter of the Nile / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Modern Villainess / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Modesty Blaise / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Oathbringer / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Ordinary Time / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Quiller / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Replica (Jenna Black) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Saga of Soul / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
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Sharpe / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
1632 / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Skin Game / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Somewhere Beneath Those Waves / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
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SporeWiki Fiction Universe / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
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The Saint / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
The Spellmonger Series / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
The Thirty-Nine Steps / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
The Traitor Son Cycle / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
The Witchlands / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Unfinished Tales of NÃºmenor and Middle-earth / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Wrong Time for Dragons / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
BlackfordOakesSeries	seeAlso	The Spymaster
FederationOfTheHub	seeAlso	The Spymaster
GeorgeWashington	seeAlso	The Spymaster
MaraDaughterOfTheNile	seeAlso	The Spymaster
OSS	seeAlso	The Spymaster
TheSpyMaster	sameAs	The Spymaster
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Who Needs Harmony (Roleplay) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
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Bomb Girls	seeAlso	The Spymaster
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Ravenmark (Video Game) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Sigma Theory (Video Game) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
VGA Planets (Video Game) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
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Immersion Breakers (Web Video) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Youth & Consequences (Web Video) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
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Agent Elvis / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
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Vikingskool / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Intelligence (2006) / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Nikita / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster

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