Martin Chang was the engineer and top forge-master of the Deceiver, creating all the relics and artefacts that were the source of its Long's power. A fiery, iconoclastic young humanist, he joined the Deceiver as a relatively new member out of a humanitarian desire to preserve truces and save lives and quickly rose in a meteoric manner through the ranks. After the Deceiver's dissolution, he rejected serving another Hour as did Ioannes and Kildare. Rather, he took the majority of the Deceiver's remaining loyalists and sought to rebuild the Deceiver. Secretly leading his followers to join teh Assemblage, he sought to turn it into a new organization aligning with his humanist goals, but after infiltration on the part of the opportunists and the devastation of the Assemblage, he left it in disgust with his remaining people. Now he wanders the ruins of the 5th, just trying to save lives and rebuild society. However, a few of his cabal deserted, leaving him and his organization weaker, especially with the departure of his lieutenant [[Eleanor Touré]]

=== The Opportunists ===