Baker
Baker is a Frankenstein following the Refinement of Gold. He is composed of body parts all from at least a dozen young men, all of varying ethnicities, leading to those unable to see his disfigurements being unable to tell what ethnicity he is.
Biography
Baker was given life when his creator took his body to the top of the Empire State Building, so that lightning could imbue it with The Divine Fire. However, he was presumably abandoned. At some point he spent 20 years in the desert of Arizona, before returning to civilisation. Once he found casual work at a city construction site. He tried, to begin with, to join in with the other men’s lunchtime conversations, but he kept screwing up his idioms, for he found himself confused by the different, complex modes of address the other men use.
The complex series of social cues and unsaid rules that otherwise simple men use to govern their conversation are beyond Baker, and every time he tried to chip in, there was an awkward silence. It was the beginnings of Disquiet for the men on the site, and frustration for Baker, as the working relationships of the men disintegrate around him. His colleagues grew more careless and spiteful. Soon, he had to leave.
Personality
Baker’s cause is his Throng; the genuine love he has for the two others he travels with lead him to acts of self-sacrifice and courage, but his belief in his companions doesn’t allow him to accept that one day, thanks to Torment or simple selfishness, they’ll let him down.
