Fraa Orolo

First Appearance and Context

Orolo is seen at the Concent of Saunt Edhar engaging fids and visitors during the opening, using careful questioning and demonstrations. He is closely associated with rooftop observing at the Starhenge and early discussions about keeping attention on the northern sky.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• An Edharian Order cosmographer in a Decenarian cohort, he mentors younger avout and directs a praxic observing effort characterized by orbital‑mechanics questions.
• After a nighttime attempt to observe from the roof, access to the starhenge was sealed; around that time he had a tense, private exchange with Suur Trestanas. While the restriction held, he organized extramuros work using a speelycaptor and a simple mount in his vineyard, and he parceled computations to students while shielding them from sensitive source material.
• Later, analysis of all‑sky data from Clesthyra's Eye reinforced that multiple satellites in near‑polar orbits cross the pole each night. Peers infer that Orolo had been timing passes to build a census of such "birds" so that anomalies would stand out; this is presented as reconstruction from their review rather than as a declared conclusion of his.
• His activities drew scrutiny from hierarchs, and he was Anathematized (Thrown Back) at a formal aut.

Relationships

• Mentor to Fraa Erasmas, whom he challenges with question‑driven teaching and occasionally enlists for sensitive observing work and notes.
• Teacher and influence: he credits Fraa Paphlagon with having taught him "half of what he knew." Community talk later treats Paphlagon's Evocation and Orolo's troubles as related, but this is presented as inference rather than established fact.
• Regular interactions with the Warden Regulant staff, including the exchange with Suur Trestanas noted above, in the context of access and Discipline around instruments and the roof.

Descriptions/Characteristics

Deliberate, Socratic, and exacting, Orolo privileges firsthand observation rendered into words. He is remembered for concise aphorisms (e.g., "Boredom is a mask that frustration wears"). He also offers two guiding remarks quoted by a pupil: that the concent is much like the outside world but with fewer shiny objects; and that one should look for things that have beauty because they suggest a ray shining in from a true place, a view aligned with the Hylaean Theoric World.

Current Status/Location

Anathematized (Thrown Back) and last seen departing by the Day Gate; present whereabouts unknown. Within the community, a later strain of rumor frames his expulsion as retribution for politicking during the season of Eliger, while others reject that account; in-text this remains rumor rather than an agreed explanation.