Guillaume Maspier
Guillaume Maspier was a member of the Vyones town council in the 12th Century.
History
As a member of the town council, Guillaume Maspier, arranged to revoke Blaise Reynard's commission and award the position of sculpting gargoyles and grotesques to Gerome Mazzal. At the Vyones Tavern, Reynard accused Maspier of accepting kickbacks from Mazzal.
Later that evening, while he and Mazzal were wandering the streets drunk, the Stone Golem, Grimalkin (the embodiment of Reynard's wrath), murdered the two men on the village streets. ("For Not Everything With Wings...")
Characteristics
Appearances
- "For Not Everything With Wings..." (First Appearance)
Real World Background
In Clark Ashton Smith's short story "The Maker of Gargolyes", Guillaume Maspier is a respectable clothier of Vyones. As in the Gargoyles comic, he and his friend Gerome Mazzal are among the first victims of the stone 'cat-headed monster' supernaturally animated by Blaise Reynard's hatred of the people of Vyones. Mazzal is savagely mauled to death by the stone construct while Maspier alone survives to tell the tale.
