Falco Vorpatril was a District Count of Barrayar and the senior member of House Vorpatril. He was known as a political moderate, alternatively considered a conservative Progressive or a progressive Conservative. His residence in the capital was Vorpatril House. While Count Vorpatril was only a very distant cousin of Lord Ivan Vorpatril, who held his title from another source, he was an associate of Ivan's mother Lady Alys Vorpatril and on occasion lent her the use of his armsmen.