Editing Arbiter of Knives

{{Infobox Individual
|main alias        = 
|image             = 
|species           = Firmament
|father            = Arbiter of Eternity
|origin            = [[10,000 Dawns]]
|first mention      =
|first              = Rachel Survived (short story)
|appearances       = [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gendar Conspiracy (short story)|The Gendar Conspiracy]]''
}}The '''Arbiter of Knives''' , sometimes simply "'''Knives'''", was a member of the [[Firmament]], the species who were to the [[10,000 Dawns]] as the [[Great House]]s were to [[the Totality]]. She was the amoral daughter of their leader, the [[Arbiter of Eternity]], and as her name implied, was an incredibly skilled knife-fighter.

She wore a robe of a "cartoonishly intense" [[black]] colour, "flared gently at the boots like a bell". Every edge of it was trimmed with blue, and there was "a point at the crest of the hood like a wide beak". In a [[hologram|holographic]] [[Why We Need This Play|show]] created by [[Archimedes Von Ahnerabe]] using characters modeled on famous actors known to [[Rachel Edwards]], the Arbiter of Knives was "played" by [[Tracy Thoms]].

== Biography ==
The daughter of the even older [[Arbiter of Eternity]], the Arbiter of Knives was incredibly old, and, like him, eventually became extremely bored with her unchanging existence.

One day, after the Arbiter of Eternity complained that he had exhausted every book that had ever been written in the [[10,000 Dawns]] and lacked for entertainment, the Arbiter of Knives told him of the [[Book of Books]], a supernatural, infinitely-long tome which had found its way to [[the Totality|another universe]] alongside a cache of [[Faction Paradox (in-universe series)|books from the 10,000 Dawns]], which described [[War in Heaven|the great space-time war of the other universe]] as [[fiction]]. Though leery of attracting the attention of their [[Time Lord|counterparts in that universe]] and starting an interdimensional war, the Arbiter of Eternity authorised the mission so long as the Arbiter of Knives understood that he would deny all knowledge of it in case anything went wrong. 

The meeting was spied upon by operatives of the [[Great Assimilation]] and [[Dawn (organisation)|Dawn]], both of whom followed the Arbiter of Knives to [[the Totality]]. Dawn were the ones to find out how to access the books (which were being held by the [[New York Public Library]] in the [[21st century]]): they prevailed upon friends in low places to ensure that events surrounding a woman native to this universe, [[Rachel Edwards]], would not be monitored for a few days. However, the Arbiter caught wind of this, as did the Assimilation spies and local aliens known as the [[Strid]] — all of whom then tried to abduct Rachel. Eventually, the Arbiter fought her way to the room were the books were held, easily taking out representatives of local powers such as [[Cyberman|people in silver jumpsuits]], [[Time Lord|people in golden robes]] and [[Faction Paradox|people]] with [[Faction Paradox|masks]] who'd guilelessly shown up for the books with no knowledge of the interdimensional interlopers, and wanted to get their hands on the intel contained in the fictional books.

The Strid, however, were the ones to take hold of the Book of Books, and decided to auction it off between the three 10,000 Dawns factions now represented. The Arbiter offered the Strid their own [[planet]] in the Dawns, an offer matched and then outbid by the Assimilation, while Dawn refused to negotiate with the murderous aliens. In the end, however, Rachel managed to outwit the interdimensional visitors by threatening to kill herself, which would remove their protection and thus call down the wrath of the "Firmament-equivalents" upon them. Accepting she had been beaten, the Arbiter retreated aboard [[Arbiter of Knives's Factory of Crystal|her Factory of Crystal]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rachel Survived (short story)|Rachel Survived]]'')

{{10,000 Dawns}}

[[Category:Other dimension individuals]]
[[Category:Travellers between universes]]
[[Category:Individual time travellers]]
[[Category:Individual Firmament]]