Judge Underwood

Real Name: Judge Abraham "the Bey" Underwood
Title: Bronze Beylik, Counselor
Court: Autumn
Mien: A purplish-skinned gentleman with glinting yellow fingernails. His neck is too long, limbs too thin. His eyes are misted over with shadow, but his gaze is weighty and intolerant. The modest mantle that marks him as one of the Ashen Court manifests as glittering brass engravings that scroll round his shoulders and down his arms.
Mask: A well-groomed elderly man, dressed formally regardless of the occasion. He carries himself like a man well aware of his purposes, and of yours.
Known Information: He's from Waco, and not just regular-freaky Waco. Like, 1950's Waco, back when everyone up there was wearing bedsheets and burning crosses.
The Judge was never anyone's "old buddy" or "guy I used to work with" that could hook them up. He escaped his Keeper some forty years ago, and on his way out, Abraham had the misfortune of discovering an ancient spearhead that bound his fate to the Order. The just-freed slave wanted no part of anything reminiscent of Faerie, however, including magical orders. He hid in Austin for years, dodging his peers by burying himself in the mortal world. He picked up his old work as an attorney, and lived comfortably for a time.
Then, he was elected Judge. That's when they found him, and insisted on his joining the Order. Abraham was standoffish among mortals, and doubly so with his fellow Bey, but recognized that explicit dissent would be met with retribution. Still, he would have his way, somehow. Didn't escape for this frivolity. He went with them, and they tried to forcefully assign him to a freehold in Houston, but luck was on his side.
Thomas Hope was making rounds in the then-local Deep Hedge with Bill Howdy, seeking noble Lost to support his project: a new freehold in East Austin. Abraham shrugged off the solemn "associates" escorting him, and pledged his services purely out of spite. It didn't matter which freehold he joined, the Bey with him decided, so long as he was doing his Fated work.
Judge Underwood has been Treehouse's Bey and Counselor ever since. He remains in his own comfortable home off the property, and has kept his office as Judge. He uses the Autumn Court to get things done, and done his way, so he maintains power by grooming Treehouse's Autumn Kings to be passive and apolitical, unconcerned with matters of their throne. This forces anyone who wishes to make proposals or enter into any kind of negotiations with the Leaden Mirror to come to the second-in-command: Him.
Rumors: Old Stick-in-the-mud. He's slimy. Used to be a dirty cop, or a sleazy politician, when he was mortal. Probably had a hand in many a lynching. He looks mean. He probably beat up dogs and shot kids, back when he was a dirty KKK cop.
Hollow: None known
Category:NPC
Category:Changeling
Category:Treehouse
Category:Autumn Court
Category:1990s