Fraa Orolo

First Appearance and Context

Orolo is an avout cosmographer at the Concent of Saunt Edhar. He is closely associated with rooftop observing at the starhenge and is first seen engaging visitors and fids with question‑driven teaching and practical demonstrations.

Affiliations and Relationships

  • Member of the Decenarian Math at Saunt Edhar.
  • Mentor to Fraa Erasmas; he parcels work to students, frames inquiries through questions, and emphasizes clear rendering of observations into words.
  • Periodic tension with Regulant staff over Discipline enforcement and access to instruments is noted in accounts.

Important Actions

  • Directed a praxic effort focused on northern‑sky observing and orbital‑mechanics questions; when rooftop access was sealed, he shifted practical work to ground level and distributed calculations to trusted helpers.
  • Before the rooftop closure, he recorded a single image to a photomnemonic tablet at the Telescope of Saunts Mithra and Mylax. According to Sammann of the Ita, a copy of this tablet was preserved and later shown discreetly to avout; Orolo himself had not seen the image at the time it was made.
  • In the wake of this, Erasmas proposes detouring to Bly’s Butte to search for Orolo. This itinerary is presented as a working hypothesis, not an established fact.

Descriptions and Characteristics

Deliberate, exacting, and Socratic in approach. He favors firsthand observation, concise aphorisms, and clear distinctions between what is seen and what is conjectured. Students commonly measure their plans against his “brilliantly simple” standard.

Current Status/Location

Anathem (Thrown Back) and last seen departing by the Day Gate; his current whereabouts are unknown. He is absent during a later mass Evocation directing avout toward the Concent of Saunt Tredegarh. A Peregrin caravan forms with a planned first search stop at Bly’s Butte; Orolo’s location remains unconfirmed.

Summary:

A cosmographer and avout of the Decenarian math who mentors Fraa Erasmas, conducts probing interviews with visitors, and leads a praxic orbital‑mechanics effort tied to observations from the starhenge. Known for a Socratic, question‑driven style; later Anathematized and Thrown Back following conflict over observations conducted while rooftop access was restricted.

Known as:
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