Heilan Rotham was a Human professor at the famous Lorrd University around the time of the Second Galactic Civil War. She was an old woman with white hair, pale skin, blue eyes, and was wheelchair-bound. Doctor Rotham's field of specialty was in tactile writing and recording methods, and she was considered the top scholar in her field in all of the galaxy. Rotham once assisted Jacen Solo in a translation of a collection of tassels left for him as a clue by Brisha Syo, secretly the Sith Lady Lumiya.