Rolery

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.