Fraa Orolo

First Appearance and Context

Orolo is seen at the Concent of Saunt Edhar engaging fids and visitors with tightly structured questions and demonstrations as the gates stand open for Apert, and he is associated early with rooftop observing and access to instruments.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• An Edharian Order cosmographer working within a Decenarian cohort, he organizes interviews, mentors younger avout, and directs a praxic observing effort that his team characterizes as orbital‑mechanics work.
• After a nighttime rooftop observing attempt at the Starhenge, access was abruptly sealed. Around the same time he was observed in a tense, private exchange with Suur Trestanas near the portcullis; the closure remained in effect while the Inquisition was present.
• He continues active instruction and field work; by report he and Jesry have conducted naked‑eye observations in the meadow.
• Longstanding affiliation notes within the concent recall that when he “came in,” the Edharians recruited an unusually large intake that year, still spoken of decades later.

Relationships

• Mentor to Fraa Erasmas, whom he enlists for note‑taking and instruction and whom he challenges with question‑driven teaching.
• Senior colleague to fids and peers who compute and observe under his direction.
• Fraa Paphlagon (of the Hundreders) is cited as having taught Orolo “half of what he knew”; Paphlagon was later Evoked at Voco from the Centenarian chapter.
• Regular, formal interactions with the Warden Regulant and other hierarchs concerning access, security, and Discipline at the rooftop.

Descriptions/Characteristics

Deliberate, Socratic, and exacting, Orolo privileges firsthand observation rendered into words. He is also remembered for a succinct aphorism—“Boredom is a mask that frustration wears.” Beyond cosmography, he keeps an avocation with the “library grape” and wine‑making; local grapes at Saunt Edhar produce a severe, acquired‑taste wine, while casks are valued for long aging.

Current Status/Location

Active at the concent during and after the opening, coordinating work, teaching, and seeking access to the rooftop instruments. He remains a central figure for fids choosing paths during Eliger, even as the starhenge’s status—and his exchanges with hierarchs about it—draw attention.