Porcelain Penny

Of the many human oddies that inhabit Baron Furkza's Museum of Mysteries, Porcelain Penny is arguably the oddest. Penny seems to be a normal teenage girl in most ways, but there is one very notable exception: instead of flesh and bone, her body is made of fine white porcelain. Although she occasionally makes appearances in other venues, Penny generally greets visitors in her parlor--one of the many special exhibits at the museum that charge an additional fee for admision. Visitors sit on benches in a roped-off portion of the room while tells her story. The parlor and the living quarters adjoining it are equipped with heavy carpeting and padded or cushioned surfaces for safety. 

Porcelain Penny by Art

According to her tale, Penny was born into the Seven Hills Tribe and lived an uneventful early life until one day when she was out foraging for berries when an old man riding on a large flying shield appeared and began chasing her. The old man eventually caught Penny, tied her up, and shoved her into a sack. After what seemed like a long journey on the flying shield, Penny was removed from the sack and led into a small locked cell in an ancient tower. During the several days she was locked in the room, she occasionally thought she heard children's voices outside, but none answered her when she called out. Occaionally the old man would appear and force her to drink some foul-tasting potion as a condition of being fed. 
After about a month, the old man gave Penny a potion that sent her into a strange hallucinogenic dream that seemed to last for weeks. When she woke up, she found herself in her current porcelain state. Before she had a chance to process her situation, Penny was thrust into daily life at the tower, where she and several other porcelain children acted as both servants of and apprentices to the old man, who they knew only as "The Master Wizard." According to the wizard, turning the children to porcelain was integral to their training; he would know they had learned all he had to teach them when they were skilled enough at magic to tranform themselves back to flesh and bone. 
The Master Wizard seemed legitimately dedicated to training his charges in the way of magic and could even be a good teacher at times, but he was quck to anger and his violent temper often resulted in apprentices getting broken. Some of these breaks were survivable, but many proved fatal. Penny saw many apprentices destroyed, but never knew one to "graduate" by returning to their felsh and blood form. When the old man died in his sleep one night, several apprentices fled the tower but Penny and several others remained, hoping to find the secret to returning to human form somewhere in the old man's library. 
In their porcelain state the former apprentices were unaffected by thirst, hunger, and most other biological needs (except for sleep, which they still required), they were able to devote most of their time to trying to find the antedote to their condition but this didnt' help them. As the years wore on, some of the remaining apprentices gave up and left and two were broken--one from a fall, one by an overly-playful bear cub. Eventually, Penny was left alone in the tower. Although she'd pored over every book in the wizard's colleciton multiiple times, she was no closer to finding the solution to reversing her condition. Despite her increasing certainty that the answer to her problem was not to be found in the tower, she feared that leaving would lead to her getting broken, so she stayed in the tower alone with only the old wizard's books to keep her company. 
Baron Furkza found Penny after hearing stories of the old abandoned wizards tour during his travels and deciding to investigate. On the verge of going mad form solitude, Penny jumped at the chance to leave the tower under the guardianship of someone who could protect her from the many dangers of the outside world. While her current life as an object of curiosity is certainly better than going mad alone in a tower, Penny still hopes to one day return to human form. She has consulted with and studied under a number of different wizards throughout the city, but so far hasn't had any luck finding her answer.