**Name**: Mateo Kasun

**Age**: 38

**Nationality**: [[location:Earth:Euryalia|Euryalian]] (Neiphil), [[location:Mars|provisional Martian]]

**Politics**: Mostly manages to be apolitical, but favours Neiphil independence. Notably does //not// favour the violence that some supporters of that view occasionally use.

**Education**: Medicine and sorcery.

**Dreams**: Young Mateo wanted to be a biologist specialising in avians. It didn’t pan out, but he might still wax poetic about birds sometimes.

**Hobbies**:

  * Mateo actually likes the mind-numbing work of looking for new spells.
  * He paints abstract art in his spare time with minimalist colours (more for lack of variety of paint colours on Mars than a conscious choice, but he’s come to like it). This is more expensive than it sounds, since paint is usually not for private use on Mars – but, being a sorcerer, he can afford it.
  * He likes going for walks on untampered Martian soil, i.e. with a space suit.

**Strengths**:

  * polite
  * meticulous
  * good with calculated risk (“courageous” minus associated spontaneity)

**Weaknesses**:

  * anxious
  * not very good at spontaneity
  * might endanger himself too easily depending on circumstances

**Appearance**: Probably dark-skinned with brown eyes and black hair a bit beyond shoulder length usually bound in a ponytail, looking stockier than the relative pushover he is (but his physical strength is neither a strength nor a weakness). Maybe he has a small scar or two from an early low-tier spell he messed up.

**Pets**: A cat, [[:character:Adhafera]] (or just “Haffy”).