ill-equipped to play the hero , sagandran assembles an unlikely group of companions to help him , including sir tombin quackford , a frog whose kiss to return him into a handsome prince was interrupted midway , leaving him a man-sized frog ; perima , a tomboy princess on the run from her royal fathers oppressive regime ; samzing , a powerful but eccentric and scatterbrained wizard ; and flip , perhaps the fiercest warrior and adventurer in the land , despite being a six inch-tall rodent .