Matilda Kip
Personal Information
- Nickname: Matty
- Adventuring Party: Friday Night Lites
- Class: Fighter
- Role: Front-line tank
- Physical description: Matilda started her adventures after training as an endurance athlete and has a slim physique. Carrying a shield as her party's frontline tank has had her focus more on upper body strength these days, but her physical build remains slim for her height. Her hair and eyes are the color of oxidized copper ore, and her skin is warm slate grey. The markings on her skin are natural, not tattoos. They are common to most goliaths, and even though family members may have similar patterns, each individual possesses unique markings.
- Gear: Matilda's core combat gear includes a Sentinel Shield that improves her perception and reaction time, a +1 Warhammer, and a suit of adamantine full plate. Additionally, she carries an assortment of other weapons and tools that she believes could be useful in different situations.
- Fighting style: Tavern Brawler and Rune Knight. Matilda doesn't have any formal combat training. Instead, she leans on her Goliath heritage and the power of ancient runes to maximize her size and strength. She'll use anything as a weapon against an enemy, even other enemies!
- Positive Traits: Matilda is compassionate, nurturing, and protective. She's the "mom friend" of the group. She possesses great courage, which is necessary when throwing herself into battle ahead of her team.
- Negative Traits: Matilda doesn't like to think too hard about problems. When confronted with a social conflict or a dilemma that is too difficult to solve, she either walks away from it or relies on her fists to "fix" the issue. Her tendency to fall into a leadership role means that she can sometimes be overprotective and controlling, and she treats her friends like children.
- Neutral Traits: She is a lonely, hopeless romantic. She believes she is a decent cook, but she is not.
Hometown
Matilda hails from Grindavik, a mountainous city where most homes are built on terraces or stilts overlooking a fertile valley where the city's food is grown. A river winds through the valley and cuts through the mountains surrounding Grindavik before plunging into a deep underground aquifer.
Family
Father:
Pascal Kip. Owner of Kip-up Construction. Pascal is a well-known businessman in Grindavik and has had a hand in most of the recent construction projects in the region. Inspired by a former employee's background, Pascal recently expanded his business into ship-building, and the first few orders have already set sail.
Mother:
Gilt (Pronounced /ɡɪlt/) Kip. Gilt is a seamstress, producing clothing from her small atelier. She specializes in affordable wool fabrics suitable for the cool mountainous climate and caters to the goliath population of Grindavik.
Siblings:
Garnese Kip. Matilda's elder brother. He serves in the Grindavik city guard, called the Mountaineers. He is on good terms with Matilda and is proud of her decision to finally be independent. Matilda idolizes Garnese, and her decisions as her party's tank often boil down to, "What would Garn do?"
Grandparents:
Gemma, Matilda's paternal grandmother. A retired carpenter and the previous owner of Kip-up Construction.
Connections
Adventuring Party Members:
Kier Katach, an orc artificer and Matilda's closest friend within the group. They began their adventures together in Grindavik, where Kier worked as a laborer for her father. She admires Kier and believes him to be a genius tormented by anxiety. Matilda is more protective of him than the rest of the party and sometimes struggles to differentiate her feelings of admiration and protection from more romantic inclinations.
Gir is a baby barbarian bugbear that the party discovered early in their adventures within a haunted mansion. He is wild, chaotic, and has latched onto Matilda as a surrogate mother figure. Matilda tries her best but doesn't know how to fill this role. She feels responsible for Gir but is also resentful of the unasked-for burden of responsibility that's been placed on her shoulders.
Zoya Featherborne is the group's main damage dealer, rogue, and scout. Her background seems to have something to do with the Feywilds and is shrouded in mystery. Matilda doesn't pry because it seems to upset her. Otherwise, she's friendly, stubborn, and excellent at her job.
Granak Stoneheart is a fellow goliath and seeker of knowledge. Formerly a cleric, he's recently taken up a paladin's oath and supports the party with powerful blessings. Matilda doesn't know much about Granak besides his love for mysteries and history.
Tyroneous Evolite is a native of Riport , a coastal walled city East of Nousha. He is a yellow and black Dragonborn wizard and the one to talk to for anything related to the arcane. Though he is very skilled with spellwork, Matilda believes he relies too much on expensive scrolls instead of his own innate talents. He is brash, excitable, easily frightened, and foul-mouthed, but Matilda still considers him a friend.
Heckin is the newest member of the Friday Night Lites . She is an Aarakocra bard that the party freed from a magical trap. Matilda thinks she's observant and quickly picks up on the group's needs under pressure. Matilda hopes that the bird decides to stick around.
Friends:
Lyndie Stonflot. A fellow goliath athlete, Lyndie was Matilda's best friend, workout partner, and rival. They competed fiercely, always trying to one-up the other. Lyndie was the faster of the two friends over short distances, though Matilda pulled ahead in feats of endurance. Lyndie was one of the few people Matilda said goodbye to when leaving Grindavik.
Enemies:
Lovers:
Had a brief, positive fling with Tae Eaglesplitter of the Feywatch party.
Matila Kip, posing for a snapshot in her casual gear after a long day of adventuring.
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