The Judge

Your character is extremely ruthless but also very intelligent, often teaching and philosophizing to his fellow mercenaries. He tends to avoid personal confrontation, but is perfectly willing to murder people in the most brutal ways imaginable if they are his enemies. The Judge is perennially calm, and expresses few emotions over the course of the novel.

He was an immensely cruel being, demonstrating his love for cruelty such as buying two puppies just so he can throw them off a bridge to their deaths. The novel also heavily implies that the Judge is a pedophile and a child murderer, luring children into his clutches with sweets. A child goes missing in nearly every town that he visits, and he is, on several occasions, seen with a naked child in his room. He is first seen entering a revival to falsely accuse a priest of being an imposter, as well as an illiterate, zoophilic criminal wanted for pedophilia, agitating the people in attendance of his service to the point where they kill the priest on the spot.

The Judge later met a group of nomadic mercenary scalp hunters who were out of gunpowder and at risk of being overtaken by a group of Apaches. They encountered Holden sitting on an enormous boulder in the middle of the desert, as if he had been waiting for them, even though there was no way he could have known that they were coming. The Judge climbed a mountain with them, and collected coal while he was there (amongst many other scientific pursuits). The Judge later lead them to a small area of volcanic activity, while Apaches were following them closely. When they arrived he collected sulfur, then mixed that with the coal, urine, and other minerals, producing functional gunpowder. The Judge than created a false surrender against the Apaches. However, when the natives approached the mercenaries, Holden and his fellow men brutally killed them all. Shortly after, the Judge formed a partnership with the captain of the gang, a small dark-haired man named Joel John Glanton.

The Judge was involved in several more conflicts with natives, including a raid that resulted in the slaughtering of multiple babies and defenseless non-combatants. After a year, Glanton and most of his gang were slaughtered in a conflict with Quechan Native Americans. Holden was one of the few that managed to survive. The other four remaining members of the Glanton Gang (the Kid, Benjamin Tobin, Davvy Brown, and Louis Toadvine) encounter the Judge after the Glanton Massacre. After Davvy Brown and Toadvine leave, Holden suddenly attacks Tobin and the Kid, stalking them across a field before the duo is forced into hiding in order to escape him. The duo manages to get into San Francisco, but Tobin goes missing, and is implied to have been killed by the Judge.

The Kid encounters Holden decades later within a saloon, although the Judge has apparently not aged at all. Holden describes the Kid as a disappointment, stating that he held in his heart "clemency for the heathen". He then follows the Kid into an outhouse, dragging them into a stall before he implicitly rapes and kills him. The Judge is last seen frantically dancing naked in the dance hall attached to the saloon, claiming that he will never die.

The Judge is extraordinarily strong and durable. He is able to hold a heavy howitzer under one arm, break An arm with ease and crush a man head so hard that him started to bleed from his ears, Holden also as incredible stamina being capable Of walking vast stretches of desert without ill effect. His large size betrays his capacity for stealth, and he often appears and disappears like a phantom without anyone noticing. It is these traits that suggest the judge is not in fact human, but a demon of some sorts.

Judge is an appointed judge of law and enjoys all the privileges that come with such a position, including the ability to negotiate for the pardoning of criminals, while his jurisdiction is not known, he can cite the word of the law from several jurisdictions from memory. He has extensive knowledge of many branches of science, including geology, botany, history, chemistry and archeology, and is able to draw lifelike portraits of people and objects (so lifelike he frightened a superstitious indian by drawing a portrait of him).

He is skilled at hiding his atrocities and never leaves behind any evidence. He is able to speak several secondary languages, including Spanish and Dutch. He possesses great strategical and tactical prowess, so much so it causes Tobin to believe he cannot be overcome in battle.

The Judge is a man of strange appearance. He has an enormous frame and is close to 7 feet in height. His skin is extremely pale, to the point of being described as fluorescent and purely white in coloration, his lack of pigmentation is possibly the result of albinism, as exposure to direct sunlight is painful to him, evidenced by how desperate he was to purchase a hat from Toadvine to protect himself from the harsh sunlight of the desert,According to Tobin he weights 150kg.

He also lacks any hair, including eyebrows, facial hair and body hair, raising the possibility that he suffers from an autoimmune disorder such as alopecia universalis that has caused him to lose all his hair. Physically, Holden is very strong, being capable of lifting a Howitzer with ease, and using a large rock to kill a mule in a single blow. In contrast to his apparent age and strong features, the Judge has a strangely childlike element to his appearance, having hands and feet that are small in proportion to the rest of his body, and possessing a childish aspect to his face.

The Judge is often partially or entirely nude, but (when clothed) will tend to wear clothing typical of his era; such as longcoats, linen shirts, boots, and wide-brimmed hats. Often, the Judge can be seen smoking a cigarillo.