The components for the 5th player include: 1 player board (black), 1 merchant token, 10 trading stations, and 7 markers in black, 1 cloth bag, extra tiles (4 followers, 17 extra character tiles, 4 extra technology tiles, money tiles), and 1 extra set of character tiles (104 character tiles from the base game).
All tiles are made of an extra-thick material coated with protective varnish.