Editing Makari (section)

== There's a zoggin' novel?! ==
There is indeed an official Black Library novel. It tells Makari's story, which is more or less his perspective of the story Big Ghaz himself, titled "Ghazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh!". As a framing device, an Ordo Xenos Inquisitor attempting to interrogate Makari with the aid of a [[Blood Axes]] interpreter to discover the backstory of Ghazghkull and hopefully some intel they could use against the Warboss. It gives a sort-of handwave that explains Makari's absence and his return in 8th, which dovetails nicely with existing lore: since Orks believe in reincarnation via Gork and/or Mork sucking up their souls and spitting them back out into the Materium to fight again, Makari died at the start of Ghazghkull's career as galactic warboss (Grotsnik threw him out of an airlock when Ghazghkull wasn't looking) and has indeed reincarnated. He's died and reincarnated numerous times, in fact, and Gork and Mork keep sending him back because he's been a great little henchman for Ghaz (and because his lieutenant Bullets had taken a liking to the Grot).

There's a bunch of other weird things, such as Orks not really seeing the difference between contradicting "facts" and whatnot, but it establishes that Makari has a Gork-and-Mork-gifted telepathic link directly to Big Ghaz himself, sort of like a gretchin [[familiar]].