Fraa Orolo

First Appearance and Context

Orolo is shown leading structured conversations in the New Library as Apert approaches, opening with pointed questions drawn from leaves of an old questionnaire. During the opening of the gates, a fid recalls Orolo's yarn about a math that "floated freely in time," a teaching device tied to his idea of slight time slippage between loosely linked causal domains.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• An Avout in a Decenarian Math, he is a cosmographer and theorician who organizes and conducts structured interviews with artisans from Extramuros. He asks Fraa Erasmas to serve as his amanuensis during these exchanges.
• Leads a practical observing program described by a fid as “orbital mechanics,” carried out praxically using the community’s instruments at the Starhenge. Calculations from his group point to a nearby target observable with their telescopes; one fid speculates it may be an asteroid (not confirmed in‑text).
• Supervises and teaches in workspaces connected to the Mynster, including a small heated chapel on the starhenge roof where he lectures his fids. As part of instruction he provided a photo‑mnemonic tablet bearing the image of Saunt Tancred's Nebula to a fid for study.
• Coordinates observing access through hierarchs: when he needs consecutive clear nights, he presents a plan to the Primate, who can direct the Master of the Keys to set portcullis access so that his math may reach the rooftop instruments.
• In discussions about outside movements, he references interviews with extramuros artisans such as Flec and Quin and frames “Warden of Heaven people” as a current guise of a Moshianic iconography, while deferring judgments about extramuros authorities to the outward‑watching warden.
• Previously, he consulted with authorities ahead of Apert about moving valued materials to the labyrinths and anticipated precautions and crowd behavior during the opening.

Relationships

• Mentor to Fraa Erasmas, whom he invites to act as amanuensis and whom he tutors in cosmography.
• Leads a working group that includes fids contributing calculations (e.g., a peer who reports computing orbital trajectories).
• Engages artisans such as Flec and Quin in interviews that inform his understanding of life outside the walls.

Descriptions/Characteristics

Methodical, probing, and precise in speech, Orolo favors firsthand observation rendered into words over mechanical capture, consistent with the Cartasian Discipline. He employs teaching devices such as “Causal Domain Shear” while marking them as illustrative. He is quoted by a fid as saying that “boredom is a mask that frustration wears.”

Current Status/Location

Active within a Decenarian community during a decennial Apert, mentoring fids and directing a praxic observing effort tied to the starhenge. He continues to coordinate within Discipline and through hierarchs for access and security, while maintaining structured dialog with visitors from outside.