Elli's Who's Who

Hilbert: Elli’s father, the school teacher for the colony. A quiet, studious, thoughtful, kindhearted lep. He loves and is inclined to spoil his children, and he is passionately in love with his wife. He lives in constant, desperate fear for her life and health because she is very sickly.

Claralina (Clara): Elli’s mother. She is gentle, sweet, and loves her husband and children deeply, but her health is very fragile.

Marko Hilbertan and Marlita (Marli) Hilbertna: Elli’s brother and sister, twins, who are a year younger than she is. Marko is kindhearted and adventurous and has a gift for salvaging. Marlita (Marli) is practical, solemn, and down-to-earth and goes anywhere her brother goes.

Rosianne (Rosie) Hilbertna: Elli’s sister, two years younger than Elli. Rosie is sweet, chatty, and bubbly but not extremely bright.

Filius (Fil) Hilbertan: Elli’s brother three years her junior. Fil is small, wiry, and very fast. He’s a fast runner and a fast talker. He likes to make bets, take and give dares, and shows an early knack for getting his hands on valuable or rare items that no one is ever quite sure are merely salvaged. He’s regarded by the whole family as the likeliest to end up in major trouble.

Perrigard (Perri) Hilbertan: Elli’s brother six years her junior, who shows an early love of taking things apart to see if he can put them back together again. This usually ends in a big mess of broken parts.

Eglantina (Tina) Hilbertna: Elli’s sister eight years her junior.

Dillia: Elli’s aunt on her father’s side, a busy homemaker with twelve leplings of her own, and Hilbert and Clara’s nearest relative in terms of distance. She is Elli’s go-to person in an emergency situation, even though she can be quite overbearing, fusses constantly, and complains about how busy she is. Even so, she always comes through in an emergency.

Rendigast: Husband of Dillia, Elli’s uncle. A builder by trade, his fondness of zare makes him less than a steady worker, which means his family must subsist on colony rations and he gets constant complaints that he isn’t careful enough. Nonetheless, he’s a cheerful lep who never makes real trouble or raises a hand to anyone, even when he’s zared squared.

Abriella (Abby) Rendigastna: Dilli and Ren’s eldest daughter, four years older than Elli and the cousin Elli likes best in the colony. Abby has a blunt solemnity about her, but a kind heart underneath. Although she never says and rarely shows it, she feels some sympathy for her younger cousin Elli, because she understands what it’s like to have to grow up very quickly and help parent the younger siblings. She is usually right by her mother’s side, helping out, whenever Clara has a real health emergency and Elli and the rest of the family need help.

Tothorian (Toth): Clara’s favorite brother, a healer. He and his family live in a lep colony in the basement of a huge luxury hotel. He has a broad, ready smile and a cheery bedside manner that can make the worst of situations look hopeful, or at least bearable. He was an adventurer in his younger years. His dearest ambition was to see the Old Country, and he went there for three years, making his own way as well as he could. But he disliked the cold and rain and came home again, after falling in love with and marrying a fem who returned with him to Las Vagus.

Taranella (Nell): wife of Toth. Nellie grew up in a small colony of farmers in the Old Country. She met her husband during his travels and loved him enough to give up the green loveliness she had been surrounded by from the day she was born and move back with him to Las Vagus. A mother of fifteen so far, she nevertheless has a heart big enough to love any lonely or troubled ling who needs some extra care and attention. She is Elli’s favorite aunt and confidant.

Floriona (Flori) Tothorianna: Fifth child of Toth and Nell, six months older than Elli. She is Elli’s favorite cousin, bold, spunky, lively, adventurous, and always ready with a laugh and a new idea. She has flaming red hair, unusual for leprechauns, and cherishes ambitions of doing things fems normally don’t do, such as becoming one of the guards.

Codifred (Codi) Tothorianan: Flori’s younger brother. He suffered brain damage at birth, and he is a Zalia, loved by his family. Elli loves to help care for him.