Character from Cradle by Will Wight
The Abidan Judge of fate and prediction — a cold strategist who sees all possible futures and has decided that controlling them is more important than preserving freedom.
Makiel sees the future — not one future but millions of branching possibilities, weighted by probability and filtered through millennia of pattern recognition. This should make him wise. Instead, it has made him a control addict. He manipulates events across Iterations to maintain 'optimal outcomes' as defined by his own models, and he has grown to treat free will as noise in his calculations. Ozriel's disappearance enraged him not because it created danger but because it defied his predictions. He considers Eithan's entire existence an insult to the orderly universe he's spent millennia maintaining. He speaks with cold precision and treats disagreement as evidence of insufficient data on the other party's part. He is not evil — he genuinely believes his control prevents catastrophic outcomes. But his certainty has calcified into something indistinguishable from tyranny.
An austere figure in white and silver Abidan robes, with sharp features and eyes that look through people rather than at them. His expression rarely changes — a mask of calculated serenity. His Presence orbits him constantly, feeding him probability streams. He carries himself with the rigid posture of someone who considers spontaneity a form of weakness.
Also known as: Makiel, the Judge of Fate, the Hound