# Uncle Rick — Ralestone Luck character guide

> Uncle Rick in Ralestone Luck by Andre Norton.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Ricky, Sam, young Roderick, Roderick, VIII Great - Uncle Rick Walks the Hall Sam

**First appearance:** 0010-viii-great-uncle-rick-walks-the-hall

## Snapshot

The missing Ralestone ancestor whose disappearance two centuries ago left Pirate's Haven legally unmoored—and whose ghost, if the family believes in such things, still walks the hall.

## Who they are

Roderick Ralestone vanished in 1788, leaving his half of Pirate's Haven in legal limbo and his descendants—or someone claiming to be them—a foothold to challenge the current family's claim. Because no birth record survives to prove which twin was elder, the entire estate hinges on a question only the past can answer. Whether he is a ghost, a legal fiction, or both, Uncle Rick is the shadow the living Ralestones must reckon with.

## In the story

### [The Ralestones Come Home](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ralestone_luck_se/chapters/i-the-ralestones-come-home)

Mentioned as the ghost of Great-great-uncle Rick, said to walk in the Long Hall.

### [The Luck of the Lords of Lorne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ralestone_luck_se/chapters/ii-the-luck-of-the-lords-of-lorne)

Mentioned in the family story as the twin who fled with the Luck after the duel.

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