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Ol' Matilda (AKA Miss Mattie)


Quick Facts:
Title: Chief Livestock Broker
Region: Narnvak
Career: In charge of all livestock entering or leaving the Island (Sells/Trades companions)
Tokota: Several Toki's of the herding variety
Quote: "You short me one lousy token on this deal and I'll have those chickens turn on you with more ferocity than a pack of rabid weasels, ya hear?"
Details:
Appearance: Weathered, with wrinkled skin like tanned leather, indeterminate age, anywhere from 45-75, but don't be the fool that asks. Skinny as a rake but full of wiry muscle, always dressed practically for work in the pens with a set of elbow length leather gloves hanging from her belt. Eyes are a watery pale blue but sharp as an eagle’s, hair sun bleached to the colour of straw usually tied back in a practical braid.
Personality: Mattie is known to be blunt, which is not to say she's outwardly rude, but if she thinks you don't know what you’re talking about, she's the kind of lady to call you on it and set you straight with the next breath. Not always quick to speak, but she does listen to every word, mulling it over before stating an opinion. Kind in her own ways, keeps the dock workers in boiled eggs from her personal flock every lunch hour, and let's the local children ask a million and one questions about whatever new assortments of animals are in her pens at any given time. Occasionally let's people do a task or barter for certain companions.
Background: Matilda's father worked for the dock cargo master, and after a particularly costly loss of imported chickens, she paid for the surviving chicks and bet the cargo master she could raise em, breed em up hardier, increase their numbers and their value, and devise a way to contain them safer while they waited for export and crate them so they survived the trip out. She proved her point. From then on she improved care and transport of every other species that came off or went on a ship, and turned out to be a shrewd barterer to boot.
Rumors & Gossip:
  • "The woman is insane, who teaches chickens to attack when she has all those dogs available?"
  • "Miss Mattie will get you all the dogs you want in trade for those rabbits, plus three more!"
Original NPC inspiration by hildemar
NPC art by USERNAME