Xariel

Played by Jeff Mikoni

"To protect and serve? I dare say I've done a little of that."

Xariel is an angel of the Seventh House. Xariel always viewed death as a merciful gift, walking silently, reverently through crowded battlefields to release the dead and the dying.

Max Harris was a police detective, a child of the forties who served through some of the most turbulent events of the last century. He saw buildings burn when King died, he saw the Church turn away from austere majesty to earthy populism, he saw some of his closest friends die in Vietnam.

Max was a good cop, and his younger partner, Mitch Robinson, was sorry when the old man had to retire. There was no doubt, though, that Max's mind was starting to go.

As Max drank alone in his apartment each night, with only the voice of the radio and the crackle of old records to keep him company, he felt the holes in his mind grow larger and larger.

And one night, Max just wasn't there anymore, and Xariel returned to the world.