Master De Snel is a trainer and the leader of the prestigious fighting academy, the Library of Scars in Jhelom. In Ultima VII, De Snel wielded considerable political influence in Jhelom as chief of the Library. Mayor Joseph, admitted to the hero that he feared De Snel, and felt that attempts to directly intervene with the headstrong fighter would only result in his assassination, posed as a duel. It would later be revealed that De Snel was the original chief assassin of the Fellowship, carrying out the same manner of work as Hook would in later years.