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Theo Weiss
(played by Steve Hill)
Harry Houdini's brother -- Theo has retired from the stage, to work with Carl in an attempt to hinder the arrival of the Outside Ones. Theo's actions over the last six months have begun to cause others to doubt both his sanity and the morality of his decisions.
Antonio Grimaldi
(played by Kevin McHale)
Previously a medical student, and sometime rumrunner in the 1920s -- Tony is now a man of the world, searching out and experimenting with the more dark aspects of the Mythos.
Maxine Scott
(played by Renee Solberg)
Egyptologist and one of the only women ever to be initiated into a Bedouin Warrior Brotherhood -- she is a curious mix of strength and confidence, and innocence.
Edward Chandler
(played by James Johnston)
Industrialist, one time presidential candidate. The general public believes that Chandler is missing - presumed dead, but the US government is secretly looking for him -- to bring him to trial for crimes of high treason against the US.
Master Feng
(played by Tom Johnston)
Chinese Sorcerer, of indeterminate age. Feng pursues his own agenda, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering the others -- powerful in the ways of oriental folk magic.
Throckmorton Updyke
(played by Brian O'Rieva)
A portly, elderly bookseller from London (played by and godfather to Theo's wife) -- Throckmorton has recently had a couple of experience that prove that the ordered world is not as he has always believed.
Eleanora Jefferson
(played by Tess O'Rieva)
Elly is a black woman from the deep south -- who's now deceased cousin-in-law was a friend of Carl Ellis'. Elly believes she is guided and helped by the spirits of the dead who speak to her.
Representative Clay Morrisen
(played by Mike Blum)
A 78 year old ex-Texas Ranger, from Carson City, Nevada -- Clay is a fount of stories of the old west, as well as an experienced "critter wrangler" with a goodly number of Mythos encounters beneath his belt.
Frank Kelly
(played by Ken Perata)
A lawyer from Detroit -- now working with the US Government's organization that is attempting harness the power of the Outside Ones for it's own use.
Carl Ellis
(played by Chaz Engan)
Originally a radio engineer, now through his experiences and delving into the occult origins of things, Carl is now a mystic and a visionary. Though some would say that he is beginning to slide into madness due to having ‘seen too much’.
Auda Abisi
(played by Daniel Roher)
A conflicted man, a Moroccan in his early thirties, beset by personal demons and his own growing insanity. Removed from a position of great political power in Egypt, Auda is attempting to come to terms with his growing understanding of what the arrival of the Outside Ones will mean.
Erich von Drakheim
(played by Tom)
A Prussian officer and gentleman who has been working with Ellis and his expedition.
Redland Jack
(played by Rob)
Jack is a professor of economics who has been put on indefinite leave from his university. He is a wiry man, clean-shaven with a military cut, and generally dresses in an old-fashioned suit typical of academia. He joined the group in December 1931 when he was on the ship to visit his sister in the Faeroes.
John Elwar
(played by Kevin Glazner)
John is a working class American who took a job on the fishing trawler / freighter, the Augusta Queen, that Ellis hired to Sandø Island in December 1931. He is a former navy man with aspirations to be a writer (perhaps along the lines of Jack London). His sole published work is a story in Weird Tales entitled "The Thing from the Tundra" based on his research in Alaska. He bears a resemblance to Tyrone Power, with short dark hair and all-American looks.
Henrik Mueller
(played by John Kim)
An artist from Germany, who was hired to sketch the landscape of Sandø Island in December 1931, bringing him into contact with Ellis' expedition there. Henrik had dropped out of high school to volunteer in the Great War, then did odd jobs after the war until he got a job to help sketch findings with an Egyptological expedition. He could not find work upon returning to Germany, and emigrated to England where he is currently staying with his English uncle.
Bobby Hansen
(played by Richard Silver)
An American, mid-twenties, dressed in hard-boiled fashion. He is from Florida, Boca Raton. He is 5'10", and around 167 lbs. He was hired to track down a boy from Florida who ran away to the Faeroes, who turned up dead from influenza. He joined the others on their return from the Faeroes in late December 1931.
