Toopka

Toopka, who we first meet in Dragonquest, bumped into Kale in the Vendela marketplace, where the moonbeam cape "snapped shut" on the little doneel child, and asked for help. This led to a whole bunch of trouble a tumanhofer merchant, Henricutt Tellowmatterden, not only wanted the city guards to do something to Toopka (either put her in jail or send her off to be a village slave) for stealing food when she was hungry, but wanted Kale and Dar arrested for training and aiding the young doneel. Maye, the owner of The Goose and the Gander, helped settle the argument with Magistrate Hyd. Magistrate Hyd made Toopka a ward to Kale and Dar. She is friends with a blind tumanhofer orphan, Sittiponder, who told her many things and wonderful stories that he heard from his voices.

In Dragonknight, Toopka is the one who finds the book that awakens all the knights in a wall, then gets Bardon to save Kale. She is only mentioned in Dragonfire. However, in Dragonlight, she develops a hard lump in her chest. Wulder removes the lump and she presents it as a gift to Mot Angra, along with Gilda and Sittiponder. The giant dragon eats them instead and is destroyed. Years later, she visits Kale, revealing she is all grown up, and she and Dar are now married, and the story that she had told Kale on their journey to the Northern Reach had been about her long ago.

Toopka's Story
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful donnel who was going to get married. The man she was going to marry ran a place where children could come and get food and play games and sleep in a bed. One night a robber broke into that place. He scared the children and took a sack of coins and killed the man.

The next day, the doneel came and cried. She told Wulder she would do anything to be His servant because she no longer wanted to have anything to do with people. Wulder came and touched her (chest). Wulder said that He would give her what she wanted because it was what He wanted too. She would serve Him. She carried a heart for Him, a gift of peace, and a life that slays the enemy. Then Wulder went away, and she didn't cry anymore.

One day she will deliver what she carries, and everything will be better.

(Toopka is that woman.)