Rolery was a
hilf from
Tevar on the planet
Werel. She is one of the main characters in
Planet of Exile.
She was a strange girl, born in the summer, when no children are born. (Remember the extremely long year of
Werel). Consequently, she had no friends her own age, and all the men were 20 years older and already married. Granted,
tevarian men can take several wives.
She fell in love with
Jakob Agat Alterra - a terran living in the city of
Landin. He took her as his wife, in spite of their differences and the (alledged) fact that she could never give birth to his child. As it turned out, the
terrans had slowly become more and more like the
hilfs, and maybe they did have children, or maybe they didn't.