Makina

Makina was the chief adviser to the royal family of Q'ten Lo going back for three generations and a major, though largely unseen, antagonist in Volumes 13 and 14. Makina was a female demi-human who claimed to be getting too old to maintain her "youthful beauty".[1] After her death, her soul took on the form of a giant mass of malevolent shadows. Makina's personality was extremely similar to that of Malty S Melromarc to the point where Naofumi believed he could have mistaken her for Malty had the timeline matched up.[2] Makina repeatedly proved herself to be both highly treacherous and manipulative as well as spoiled and entitled.

Makina did not care about anyone else but herself as everything she did was to satisfy her own greed. She looked down on others and arrogantly believed herself to be invincible, but she learned the hard way that this was not true. Makina was also shown to be heartless and psychopathic as she coldheartedly ordered the deaths of several innocent people and children, simply for getting in her way or for defying her. Makina was extremely knowledgeable in matters concerning souls. She was able to take possession over an individual's body by boring a hole through their soul without killing them.

Makina was one of the chief conspirators of the plot to force the rightful prince of Q'ten Lo, Raphtalia's father, out of the country and installed a puppet ruler in his place in the form of an infantile Ruftmilia and would rule through him for the next decade slowly driving the country to ruin in order to satisfy her own whims. She destroyed historical documents and move the capital away from traditional ground. She also befriended and trained Shildina in the ways of the oracle, using the chance to bore a hole through the priestess' very soul in a plot to take over her body for herself once hers has worn out sufficiently.