Mathieu+Dubois

Birthday: 1797/3/2 Height: 5’9 Weight: 155lbs Eye & Hair: Green & Black Ethnicity: French Description: French Coureur des bois, who’s going to the New World to raise his socio-economic rank.

Mathieu likes wine, cheese, and the pointy peaks of Chamonix; but most of all, he likes women. He grew up outside the town of Chambéry, in France; the only child of a woodsman and his lovely wife.

Terrified at what he thought was a barbaric practice, Mathieu resisted any attempts to be conscripted once the war started. At first he got off by pretending to be mentally retarded whenever the imperial army came looking. During the first several years of the war he make a concerted effort to make sure that none of the ladies were too lonely for their husbands who had gone off to war. Eventually though, the army got desperate and he had to flee the country to the one place he knew the army would not want him: England.

Mathieu worked for a while in England and learned English. He had a mildly successful job guiding hunting parties of nobles who wanted to make sure they wouldn’t be unlucky. Ultimately, the war was still nearby in everyones memories, especially among the middle class who lost many men to the war; and it was difficult to overcome the mistrust that people there had for him. After several years of trying to make ends meet, Mathieu decided to sell out and try to make his own way in America. Besides, the British women were decidedly second-rate.

Gear: leather jacket, boots, gloves; a cape and plumed hat; bow & 2 dozen arrows (wrapped in a tarp); bedroll & camping supplies; hunting knife; a snare; poetry book; rucksack.