Also, I had a kind of outlandish theory about who Sliske's master could be. It's a personality match, and while it involves a little outside the box thinking it mostly makes sense lore-wise. I am mostly sharing it to perhaps get the gears turning in someone else's head, not necessarily because I believe it to be correct:
The Strange Face at the Dominion tower could be his master, or perhaps one of his kin (if they had somehow survived). We never are really given an explanation as to how the tower was created, but given the information from this quest it is very possible that the staff of Armadyl was somehow involved, namely because it is meant to cleanly fuse elements together. Sliske remarks to the voice that he "does not know" the staff could be used in that way, and the voice replies "Yes, the staff can be very useful" (or something to that effect, not sure if that is 100% correct from memory). If the Strange Face's mother were in possession of the Staff of Armadyl, she (as a very powerful mage) could have very plausibly figured out the relationship between the Staff of Armadyl and souls in order to essentially grant her son immortality alongside the Founder. And though a time-frame isn't given exactly for when the Strange Face was created, we do know that there is a large span of time during which the staff was in possession of Zamorakian forces, namely during the God Wars where it was MIA and after Zamorak's banishment. And the family crest displayed so proudly in the tower is clearly influenced by the symbol of Zamorak.
I theorize that his mother was a Mahjarrat, who had two children. One would have been fully mahjarrat, but quite incapable in battle, the other half mahjarrat. As demonstrated by Enakhra (who is so good a match besides the fact that she has never had any children, *sigh*), some Mahjarrat can extend lifespans but with the consequence of causing disease and sickliness, explaining the sickly nature of the Strange Face as a child.
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