Matthis (Addalw) - Dave B

Matthis (Addawl)(Edit)

DoB: 14/01/10,149

Addawl is shorter than most. His thinness is more due to poor diet than constant exercise. His "beard" is several days' stubble and his hair dark brown. His eyes are (to you) ridiculously pale.

Addawl's parents died when he was very young, leaving him and a dependent (I shall say a younger brother) growing up scavenging and selling junk near the Arrakeen spaceport. He eventually got a job at the Thopterport as a mechanic, until his brother was killed in some unspecified way that Addawl blames partly on the Harkonnen but mostly on himself.

Having nothing left in the city, he decided to go find his distant cousins. Or get eaten by a Worm, he wasn't fussed.

His continued survival surprises the hell out of him.

Mattis sabotaged a Harkonnen ornithopter so that it would crash a little way out of the city, but the engine couldn't be turned off. He arrived at the spot just as it crashed. The vibrations of the engine and beating wings meant that a worm arrived quickly, and after it had devoured the ornithopter, Mattis ran towards it, vaguely wondering what would happen.

As he reached the worm, he noticed the rings, and jammed the crowbar he was carrying into the join between two segments. He almost lost his grip as he was suddenly wrenched upwards, but managed to cling on, marvelling at what he had done.

Not knowing how or where to steer, Mattis simply hung on for dear life. Eventually, the worm tired near a mountain of rock, and Mattis was able to jump off the worm as it sank under the sand. As he walked toward the mountain, he realised that there were people on the rocks, and the next thing he knew, he was surrounded by them. He was too tired to fight as they took the litrejohns from his back and bundled him into a cave in the mountain.