Makiel

Makiel
Cradle character
Information
Gender	Male
Position	Abidan Judge 001: The Hound
Affiliation	Abidan
Home	Outpost 01: Oversight

Tags

• rank: Abidan Judge
• designation = zero-zero-one / #001
• office = The Hound
• symbol = three-headed dog
• division = Fate
• hq = Outpost01 : Oversight
• weapon = The Sword of the First Judge (two-handed)
• presence = Purple Eye

Related Links

• Abidan
• Vroshir

Hound Division

Makiel and the Hound Division of the Abidan supervise Fate. They tap into the Way to read the past and the future, and to deal with any deviations that may jeopardize one or more worlds.There are Thousands of Hounds.

The story of each universe is written in Fate. Fate governs the natural lifespan of each Iteration. It isn't a detailed plan that determines every action of each person, but rather a force like gravity that pushes a world toward a healthy life ending in that Iteration's natural death.

Since humans tie the universe to the Way, people figure prominently in Fate. One individual life is unlikely to affect the destiny of an entire Iteration, but their actions might be a necessary step toward a world's continued existence. Or its end.

Descriptions

Makiel the Hound of Fate, The First Judge himself, had an unremarkable appearance. He looked like a natural human, as though his genetics had remained the same since birth. Suriel, and every other Abidan she knew, had altered themselves in some way to improve their performance. Rumor said that Makiel never had, and that he worked solely on natural talent, but of course he would never allow a scan to confirm those rumors.

He had dark brown skin, slightly wrinkled like a man in his fifties, and silver at the wings of his black, short hair. He was trim and solidly built, with a square jaw; He looked like a soldier. Only his eyes stood out, blazing a bright violet.

Personality

Makiel is something of a leader among the seven Judges, though the Eledari Pact technically gives him no authority over his peers. This is a tradition continued from the original Makiel, who first realized the need for such a pact and organized its creation.

He is rigid and inflexible, utterly dedicated to the enforcement of the rules that protect existence. This mindset has led him to clash with Ozriel, who tends to value his own will over externally imposed guidelines. He has tried many times to recover the Scythe and Mantle of Ozriel in order to pass the title to a different, more worthy bearer, but the Reaper has eluded or defeated him at every turn.

“What are my odds of getting two other Judges to work with me against the Vroshir directly?” [Not high.] Suriel preferred her Presence to answer numerically where possible, even when regarding scenarios that were technically incalculable. When it didn’t, that meant the scenario was truly uncertain. [It is a shame that those who rise to become Judges tend to be unusually individualistic,] her Presence continued. [Forceful. Difficult to persuade, even with objective facts.] (Reaper ch 2)

Ability

In combat power alone, he was once considered capable of assuming the role of Razael, though he declined the mantle. His prediction skills rival that of Ozriel’s. He is capable of tracking over a thousand threads of Fate at once, over hundreds of different worlds.

No wonder Makiel’s Hounds worshiped him so. He was worth a division all on his own.

Weapon

Massive two-handed sword, passed down from the first Makiel.

Makiel met the blow with the Sword of the First Judge, the weapon that had been the symbol of order since the ancient Abidan had risen from Cradle so long ago. (Bloodline ch 18)

Headquarters

The main HQ for the entire Abidan Court is on the world of Sanctum, but Makiel moved his own Hounds of Fate operational center far away, to Outpost 01, also called Oversight.

• Outpost 01

Also known as Oversight. Makiel himself had created this system, hand-selecting the fragments from the void and binding them together with the force of his will. He had positioned it here, manipulating the Way to enforce natural laws.

This system is in the center of The Way just as the heart is the center in a network of veins. One blue-and-green planet of standard size orbited by no less than sixteen moons. Each of the moons was so close that it almost looked like they skated along the planet's surface, city lights blanketing every surface over all the seventeen spheres.

The inhabitants of Outpost lived as naturally as they would in an Iteration, but with an endless blue sky devoid of sun or stars. Twelve billion people lived here, and the vast majority of them were not Abidan. They were simply people. They went about their lives, living and dying with no knowledge of the greater cosmos.

This was the headquarters of Makiel’s First Division: the Hounds.