Roylee is perhaps one of the most unattractive people currently residing on Pern. He is about 5'9", with limbs that are too long for his body. His arms hang down well past the middle of his thighs, and his fingers are long and callused. With feet that look two sizes two big it is hard to imagine this man as graceful. He has narrow shoulders and a narrow waist.
His mix matched body parts are nothing compared with his face. Lips that are thin are pale hide teeth that are crooked. His nose is long, narrow and pointed, as is his chin. If pale, he looks almost sick. All in all with his long gangly body and skinny face he looks rather like an Eel. Except for his eyes. There is something in his eyes that make up for everything odd about his appearance. When he smiles his eyes light up like a child’s, and when he looks at you it is as though he really sees you. Not just what you are wearing or what color your hair is, but you...who you are inside. Somehow he sees what it is about every person that makes them beautiful. Even the rotten ones have a good side he says. He is not an especially smart man, but he is most certainly a good man.
Roylee tends to keep to himself. He know that people think he is funny looking and he doesn't really minds the stared and laughter. He just doesn't think he has to put up with it. He enjoys his time alone. That is part of what drove him to take the job as night watch man at Tuan Cothold. He had been guarding the llama herds at night for almost four years.
Brief Description of History:
Roylee had been wandering almost a year when and earthquake devastated his small home. He lived on a small farm with his elderly mother and father. He was the only child. Not surprising when you think of how he looked coming out. One look and his mother refused to have more, fearing she would have a daughter as ugly as her son. The woman took every chance she had to tell you Roylee that she wished he had never been born. She did everything she could to make him want to run away and die. She threw things at him, rocks turnips, tools even hot soup and food. Fortunately she fell one day and hit her head when he was about twelve. After that she seemed to have forgotten who he was and for the most part left him alone preferring to be out in the garden with her old dog. Fortunately his father was a better person than Roylees mother. He saw how his wife treated their son and took the time and effort to teach his son that he was special, that no matter what he looked like on the out side it was who he was on the inside that counted. He taught Roylee that to see thru beauty one must look beyond the surface and deep into the soul.
When the earth quack struck and took both his mother and his father from him he was lost, but not for long the lessons his father taught him drove him to venture out into the world and find the beauty in it. And that trek brought him to Tuan Cothold a place that in his mind was very much in need of some beauty.
Description of Pet:
Roylee was one of the lucky folk on the southern continent. In his thirty second year he was given permission to try for a wher egg by the wher master. His reputation as a kind and gently being had helped him out greatly since when it came time for him to talk to the Wher Master all he could do was stutter and mumble about the companionship and how it would help his work. Then it was on to the queen wher who took a little more convincing.
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