Roderick Hastur is the second son of Mikhail Hastur and Marguerida Alton. He has an older brother, Domenic, and a younger sister, Yllana. Roderick or Rory like most young boys is prone to getting into everything, he served his term in the cadets and that seemed to calm him into being a responsible young man. He is said to have a roguish glint in his eyes and when he smiles a curl at the corner of his mouth. Rory's laran is a variant of the Aldaran Gift, he possess psychometry, the ability to read the history of objects. In Alton Gift He has a close friend another cadet Niall.