Toma Dimple

Toma Dimple is an Etrandish-born Halfling Magician, the leader of the Community of Antanath, and an important figure in the movement to revive Halfling Paganism.

Life
Toma Dimple was raised by his parents in the craft of working on a tobacco plantation and making pipeweed. However, at the same time, he would also sneak out of the house during the evenings to get taught Magic by an elderly wizard. When Toma was thirty-two years old, his parents died, and thus he inherited the plantation - he continued their craft, albeit as a magician, with magic to aid himself. With the aid of elements, he was able to create excellent high-quality pipeweed. He was fourty-one years old, when he married the daughter of a Halfling merchant in Grandfolk. She gave birth to two sons, Shoma and Tivó, who learned their father's vocation. Toma often had to hustle between Grandfolk and his plantation. Before the big change in his life, he would spend his days smoking his pipe while setting on a chair in the garden, while his sons and wife were working. But, when it he was in the mood for it, he went adventuring in the greater world.

When Toma was 55 years old - in 811 - his life changed completely, as he dediceded to move away from Etrand and create a completely new community. He was never much of a religious person, but around 810, he started seeing religious visions that told him to return to the faith of his ancestors, and create a new homeland for his people, where they shall no longer face foreign oppression. Many halflings followed him into this new home, where they created the Community of Antanath, also erecting a temple for the gods of their ancestors.