Fraa Lodoghir

Fraa Lodoghir is the First Among Equals of the Centenarian Chapter of the Order of Saunt Proc at Muncoster. At the Concent of Saunt Tredegarh during a large Convox, he serves as the loctor (interlocutor) for Fraa Erasmas in a widely attended Plenary concerning the recent events at Orithena and contact with the Geometers.

First appearance and context

He is encountered in the Unarian nave at Tredegarh as crews erect a stage and speely projection for a Plenary. Before the formalities, he greets Erasmas and compliments his singing, asking where the piece was learned (Orithena). Identifying himself by office, he takes the stage with Erasmas, has microphones fitted, and formally opens the assembly in a voice pitched for the hall. The format he sets is an extemporaneous dialog rather than a prepared lecture.

Affiliations and roles

• First Among Equals (Centenarian Chapter), Order of Saunt Proc, based at Muncoster.
• Loctor for Erasmas at a Tredegarh Plenary; he conducts questioning drawn from notes provided by various interested parties as well as his own topics.
• Within Tredegarh’s messal customs, he claims Erasmas as his servitor and himself as doyn, directing where they will take sustenance and how service is to be rendered.

Actions and positions at the Plenary

• Frames the session’s scope as the Visitation at Orithena, preferring structured interrogation to a narrative account.
• Presses Erasmas about his peregrination and Orithena, at times with dry or baiting humor; he characterizes aspects of Orithena in skeptical terms while maintaining that evidence should decide disputed points.
• Advances a speculative argument about Orolo’s involvement: that an analemma might have been used as a signal, presented as three “mysteries” (why the probe landed at Orithena, why Orolo’s final acts involved an analemma, and how to construe his responsibility). Others in the nave protest the leap from conjecture to conclusion, and Erasmas answers by calling for evidence before assigning blame. Lodoghir’s framing is recorded here as his position, not established fact.
• Concludes the Plenary briskly once the central question has been aired, leaving the stage as the hall erupts into discussion.

Traits and presentation

• Age and bearing: described as a man in his sixth or seventh decade with a commanding stage presence.
• Dress: wears refined garments markedly more elaborate than a simple bolt.
• Manner: quick, impatient when interrupted, and adept at public rhetoric; the narrator characterizes him as a Procian rhetor who uses jests and sharply framed questions to steer the exchange.
• Speech and usage: punctilious about terminology and pronunciation (for example, stressing “interlocutor”) and teasing over old-fashioned versus current usage (“savant” versus “saunt”).

Current status

Active at Tredegarh during the ongoing Convox. After the Plenary, he reports a reassignment to dine at a Plurality of Worlds messal attached to Avrachon’s Dowment and directs his servitor (Erasmas) accordingly.