Rorek Matalutke

Rorek is 47 years old and a pilot by trade. He’s daring, boisterous, energetic, and jovial. Having grown up in a family of pilots (they are actually known as "The Flying Family" by many locals) Rorek has been riding pegs more or less his entire life. His family was a loving one, but competitive in the extreme, leading him to recklessness as a young adult.

Joining with a posse for a nymbak herding drive, Rorek specialized as a chaser (one who goes after stragglers and herds them back into the main group) and still does to this day. This being his primary occupation, Rorek is seasonally absent from the homestead, but is always eager to return to his wife and daughter.

Rorek and Holli met on a nymbak drive when she saved him from falling to his death after a nymbak ram knocked him out of the saddle. The pair bonded quickly, to the point that when Holli returned to her parents' homestead, he offered to go with her. She declined, but Rorek didn't forget the feisty redhead. When Holli finally appeared like a messanger from heaven to offer him a place on her homestead, he accepted at once. (If you want to make him laugh, ask him about the time his wife proposed to him. It's a tale worth hearing.)