Hazel is a Lepedia Dulcet (duhl´-sit). Dulcets are powerful musicians. Lepidias bring inspiration to all Chimians. They encourage creativity and confidence with their compelling songs.

Hazel is made of wool felt, cotton fabric and acrylic safety eyes. She has both machine and hand stitched details and is stuffed with polyester fiberfill. She is approximately 12” tall and 10.5” wide. She comes with a description card including her name and a copy of the Legend of the Chimians.

Legend of the Chimians
Chime was a fertile and prosperous land, filled with creatures as diverse as the imagination can conjure. Since the beginning of time all Chimians had coexisted in flawless harmony, each performing, without question, the duties they were most perfectly suited for. And, as it happened, the duties they were most perfectly suited for were the very things they enjoyed the most. In this manner the Chimians had carried on for as long as any could recall, until… the Explorers came.

The Explorers entered Chime through a portal from another land. They came and went with their tools and devices and strange behaviors, disrupting the balance that had always been. These Explorers believed their actions harmless, noble even. They were on a quest for knowledge and discovery. Their folly laid, quite simply, in their refusal to acknowledge that actions have consequences. In this case the consequences were dire and it was the Chimians who endured them.

Climates began to shift, food became scarce and habitats deteriorated leaving many Chimians hungry, without shelter and, far too often, orphaned. As time passed conditions worsened and the creatures of Chime grew fearful of the future. Explorers continued to enter through the portal and some Chimians grew curious about where they were coming from.

Before daylight one morning, while wandering through the wood, pondering their predicament, a band of young orphans hatched a plan. Two of them would go through the portal to investigate the other side. They wasted no time setting about their task and by sunset the two had returned, with such tales to tell! Word traveled quickly and creatures from villages far and wide came to listen to the stories.

It was decided, they would travel through the portal in search of new homes…