Holli Matalutke

Holli is a stoic, quiet, capable 41 year old pilot-turned-homesteader. She grew up on a northerly island, helping her family raise, train, and sell snowy broadwings. As with most things in her life, Holli had access to only the best of bloodlines and the best of trainers. As a youngster, she longed to leave her sleepy little island and fly in a real pegasus squad. Fiercely independent and stubborn, she left the family aviary with one of the better stallions to make a name for herself in the wider world.

Sadly, not long after she left, the old family home suffered a string of bad winters which devestated the herd and damaged many of the outbuildings. The letter from her father, asking her to return, came just a few weeks after Holli had become acquainted with a charming, happy fellow named Rorek Matalutke. Reluctantly, she left him and her squad behind to return to her family home, finding it in poor shape. For two years she worked to keep the homestead together, struggling to make ends meet and maintain the dwindling herd. After her parents passed, within two months of one another, Holli sold the old homestead and the remainder of the herd, eager to put it all behind her.

Far from her old home and the memories of a failed farm, Holli found a valley high in the Shandy Mountains that already supported a herd of feral deepwood broadwings. With pockets of old growth forest and several small streams, it was the perfect place to set up a new homestead. It didn't take long to file a land claim and then locate Rorek again to invited him to join her. He did, of course, and together they have made the Matalutke Homestead into a place to be proud of. Holli now lives on a thriving homestead with Rorek and their daughter, Sanna.