Hoodsman

Detective Chief Inspector Daniel McMillan is an Obrimos of the Guardians of the Veil. He is a member of the Gregson Five and is dating Anglerfish. It is heavily rumoured that his lack of Legacy is due to a determination to join the Quiescent.

History
Daniel had an uneventful childhood. He did well enough at school, but didn't stand out; he was competent at sports, particularly rugby, but was seldom on the first team. And he Awakened gazing into the heart of the bonfire one November the Fifth, finding a sudden startling connection to the inferno. Nobody else noticed anything untoward in the way the flames suddenly roared higher, the intensity deepening from orange to stark white.

He refused to join an Order at first on what seemed like ideological grounds. He engaged in intense if shallow debates with representatives of all the Orders, but primarily, he marked himself out as headstrong and confident.

He maintains, indeed, that his magic is not especially important to him, though he's known to use Mind and Life magic in conjunction during his job; he's said to have a signature Rote, the Lie Detector, the casting motions of which are primarily focused around a particular methodology to preparing cheap instant coffee from a crapped-out vending machine.

He was appointed Sentinel without election by Firebrand when he was just transitioning to CID, with Firebrand openly declaring that 'someone who understands the police is going to be needed'. Demdike, at that time, began to directly court him to the Guardians of the Veil, which nearly backfired; he assumed she was hitting on him.

Hagstone, meanwhile, nominated him for entry to the Gregson Five, with Bomber having recently passed away. He was elected unanimously and chose to accept the invitation.

Shortly afterward Demdike introduced him to her husband, and he reconsidered her invitations. It seemed to be the perfect opening; he had access to police resources and those of the Gregson Five. This would give him information from the best information brokers then active in the Consilium by the Bay, and the jobs with all three appeared to work together.

He is often called upon to deflect attention from the Consilium's activities from mundane authorities, a job he does willingly but with a certain degree of exasperation.

He's best known within magical circles for discovering the identity of a thief who was skimming Tass from owned Hallows and Demesnes throughout the Consilium - apparently without trace, until that was no longer the case - and is best known as a police officer for a now-legendary interview in which seemingly random jumps in conversation pieced together a confession which implicated an entire web of criminals in related crimes after a simple bust for passing counterfeit money.

Following the creation of the Consilium of the Stone Circle, Hoodsman was appointed the first Guardians Of The Veil Sentinel, a position to which he was later re-elected.