Editing Judge (section)

===Carmine===
[[File:E528e400-5366-4abe-af7c-0e6640179052 prudentj skinny man in red fur coat with red hair and red beard (1).png|alt=Rough looking man clad in red fur with red hair and beard.|thumb|The Carmine Exile, Judge of War and Violence]]
A Carmine handles monsters and those who kill monsters; justice in its most brutal form.<ref>“She handled monsters and those who kill monsters,” the woman in white said. “She handled matters of war and murder, carnage, blood, and execution. Justice, in its bloodiest form.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/16 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.3]]</ref>

The domain of a Carmine is reached by traveling for a day and then following an animal seen on the edge of the road.<ref>“This is it,” Matthew spoke through the open window, as he turned off the engine. “The cue we’re supposed to follow.”<br>[...]<br>Matthew explained, “The only people liable to follow a random animal are those with nowhere to go, or people who know what the animal is about and want to find the Carmine Beast. Essentially, the only people the Carmine beast wants at its doorstep in the first place.”<br><br>“What kind of people does it want?”<br><br>“Hunters and the hunted,” Charles said.<br>[...]<br>“It says a lot that the animal we’re following is injured,” Matthew observed. “Our witness described following a giant canine, it was howling in pain and mourning, and it was injured.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/16 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.3]]</ref> It might appear as a blood-soaked clearing filled with predators, with plants appearing white by contrast with the blood, with a throne of bones.<ref>Following the animal wasn’t easy, but it was bleeding, and the blood trail helped.<br><br>Until it didn’t.<br><br>There were more places here where blood had stained the ground or painted green leaves, grass, weeds, and moss with crimson. Blood in the traces of snow that spring hadn’t yet erased. Blood in soil, in sand, in what might have been peat.<br><br>Until there was more bloody ground than ground without blood.<br>[...]<br>Past those branches was a bit of a cliff, and then a clearing.<br><br>In that clearing, the ground was so blood-soaked, so much more ''red'' than anything Avery had seen, that the leaves couldn’t hold color, and were whiter than snow. Trees were cast in blacks and greys, and moisture, where it appeared, beaded crimson and thick.<br><br>Bones had been dragged to a central location, and the bones had formed an arrangement, crushed or pushed into place by a weight and framing that Avery instinctively ''knew''.<br><br>That something belonged here, in that nest of bones, and it was absent. There were animals here, all carnivores, but they were listless, bowed. Lacking. Again, they were missing something. She could feel the absence like a weight on her chest.<br><br>A throne without its Queen. Servants without a master. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/16 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.3]]</ref>

A Carmine might take on killers, monsters, heroes, and villains.<ref name=":5" />

The Carmine of [[Ontario]] was the [[Carmine Beast]], formerly an [[Anima]] representing dangerous predators,<ref name=":9" /> she took over the position after the previous judge retired.<ref>A man covered in wounds sat naked on the throne. He stared at her, his gaze level.<br><br>He was retiring, she knew. Partially out of expectations. Partially because he was done. He was tired, and it was clear in the gaze and the way he sat, even though he was strong, blood-slick, deep brown skin stretched over taut muscle.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/08/03 Excerpt] from [[Summer Break 13.1]]</ref> The Chinese equivalent may be the [[Wikipedia:Vermillion Bird|Vermillion Bird]], associated with fire but distinct from a [[Wikipedia:Phoenix|Phoenix]].<ref name=":0" />