Ligorin the Azure is one of the oldest serving members of the Chromatic Council, both in terms of membership time and in her age. She is also one of the most highly credentialed Wizards in all of the RPR, with degrees from Yoxelts, Erodwiths and Bogsarth. She has worked on a long list of successful projects with Eladus in the past, making her an obvious pick for the Order.
She uses sign language to communicate, though the records do not mention the specific reason for this. We see it mentioned in passing in a newspaper clipping that quotes her:
As a member of the Order of Volcanic Tranquility, Ligorin proposed some very large-scale workings to combat the problem of Mount Ovation, including the idea of trapping the material from a volcanic eruption inside a pocket dimension (an idea that was eventually abandoned), and another involving arresting the flow of time itself in the local area of Mount Ovation. She works as a team with Eladus to create an enchantment to slow down or halt the continued build of pressure within the volcano.
But perhaps Ligorin's largest contribution to the order is acting as the voice of reason and of long-term planning. She recognizes that the problem is immediate and needs an immediate solution, but urges the Order not to forget that Mount Ovation will be a problem for centuries to come -- and that some solutions would create new problems.
In a journal entry, Eladus even complains about her:
Ligorin worries that after awhile she is being tuned out as a "naysayer" or "nitpicker," and appeals to Liri Starsprout to advocate for long-term planning as well.
When Eladus is caught meeting with a necromancer, it is Ligorin who talks Eladus into admitting fault and apologizing to the rest of the Order when the rest of the members are on the verge of panic about his deceptions.
She uses sign language to communicate, though the records do not mention the specific reason for this. We see it mentioned in passing in a newspaper clipping that quotes her:
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"If this is a problem that can be solved, we will solve it," she signed to our reporters before entering the palace. When asked if she had a message for the citizens of the RPR, she added, "Do not despair. Plan ahead for a long life."
As a member of the Order of Volcanic Tranquility, Ligorin proposed some very large-scale workings to combat the problem of Mount Ovation, including the idea of trapping the material from a volcanic eruption inside a pocket dimension (an idea that was eventually abandoned), and another involving arresting the flow of time itself in the local area of Mount Ovation. She works as a team with Eladus to create an enchantment to slow down or halt the continued build of pressure within the volcano.
But perhaps Ligorin's largest contribution to the order is acting as the voice of reason and of long-term planning. She recognizes that the problem is immediate and needs an immediate solution, but urges the Order not to forget that Mount Ovation will be a problem for centuries to come -- and that some solutions would create new problems.
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February 14th 585
Emnunydae,
I’ve run the numbers. Again. The problem is the scale we’re dealing with. If we dump all of the energy that your powering seal would extract into the other two enchantments, it will work to halt the build-up of volcanic pressure. It will also halt the energy processes of half the land. Crops never advancing in their growth cycle, citizens falling into forever-sleep. I think you can picture the rest. Do we sacrifice half the world in order to save the whole world?
If we don’t pull that energy out of the volcano, then the other two enchantments will not be enough to prevent an eruption, merely slow it down for a few years. I could find no stable balance with the pieces we have now.
Yours in Mystery,
Ligorin the Azure
Emnunydae,
I’ve run the numbers. Again. The problem is the scale we’re dealing with. If we dump all of the energy that your powering seal would extract into the other two enchantments, it will work to halt the build-up of volcanic pressure. It will also halt the energy processes of half the land. Crops never advancing in their growth cycle, citizens falling into forever-sleep. I think you can picture the rest. Do we sacrifice half the world in order to save the whole world?
If we don’t pull that energy out of the volcano, then the other two enchantments will not be enough to prevent an eruption, merely slow it down for a few years. I could find no stable balance with the pieces we have now.
Yours in Mystery,
Ligorin the Azure
In a journal entry, Eladus even complains about her:
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Every day Ligorin plagues me! She will not stop banging on about needing to create a solution not just for future generations, but future civilizations! I chose her for her far-reaching vision and ambition, and some days I must regret this decision. Perhaps if I had a solution that would work for this decade, I could do the work of finding a permanent solution. This is madness.
Ligorin worries that after awhile she is being tuned out as a "naysayer" or "nitpicker," and appeals to Liri Starsprout to advocate for long-term planning as well.
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April 10 586
Liri,
I understand that we have to move quickly. I understand that this council is composed of the most brilliant minds Eladus could find. Believe me, I understand vastly more than any of you guess. But this is, at the end of the day, a committee. Committees make compromises. They take a lot of brilliant ideas and mix them together into one mediocre idea. The spell we’re building is powerful and world-changing, oh yes, but it’s also a complex beast. It has no beauty to it. Call me a curmudgeon all you want, or say I’m out of touch, but mark me: the more moving parts, the more opportunities to fail. The more ways the process can be misunderstood. The more maintenance the spell will need. The more opportunities for something crucial to be forgotten. If not now, then later.
To keep the land of the RPR safe for as long as there is a civilization here, people will have to remember that there is a threat, continue to believe that that threat is real even when it hasn’t bothered them or anyone they know within their lifetimes. They will have to continue taking inconvenient, perhaps expensive actions, whose good effects they cannot see. It may be that by the time they receive the reminder they need, it will be too late for them to do anything.
People are the problem I’m worried about, even more than this volcano. My advice, from here to the end, has been to do everything we can to make our spell simpler, so that there is less to do to maintain it and less to forget. They tell me that we don’t have time to make something elegant, we must merely make something that works. Fine. Let’s make the thing that works now, and then go back when the crisis is over and make the thing that works for generations to come. We can take decades, even, if that’s what’s needed.
But we’re not going to do that, are we? As soon as this crisis is averted, we - and the resources we’ve been given to solve it - will be on to the next crisis. We’ll leave the next round of crisis management for a future generation, who will again have to scramble for a bandage solution as fast as they can because the mess is so great and so imminent.
Please, Liri. I have tried to talk to Emnunydae and Eladus about this, but they see me as someone who nitpicks every plan. You are perhaps the most down-to-earth of all of us. If you talk to them, they may listen.
Yours in Mystery,
Ligorin the Azure
Liri,
I understand that we have to move quickly. I understand that this council is composed of the most brilliant minds Eladus could find. Believe me, I understand vastly more than any of you guess. But this is, at the end of the day, a committee. Committees make compromises. They take a lot of brilliant ideas and mix them together into one mediocre idea. The spell we’re building is powerful and world-changing, oh yes, but it’s also a complex beast. It has no beauty to it. Call me a curmudgeon all you want, or say I’m out of touch, but mark me: the more moving parts, the more opportunities to fail. The more ways the process can be misunderstood. The more maintenance the spell will need. The more opportunities for something crucial to be forgotten. If not now, then later.
To keep the land of the RPR safe for as long as there is a civilization here, people will have to remember that there is a threat, continue to believe that that threat is real even when it hasn’t bothered them or anyone they know within their lifetimes. They will have to continue taking inconvenient, perhaps expensive actions, whose good effects they cannot see. It may be that by the time they receive the reminder they need, it will be too late for them to do anything.
People are the problem I’m worried about, even more than this volcano. My advice, from here to the end, has been to do everything we can to make our spell simpler, so that there is less to do to maintain it and less to forget. They tell me that we don’t have time to make something elegant, we must merely make something that works. Fine. Let’s make the thing that works now, and then go back when the crisis is over and make the thing that works for generations to come. We can take decades, even, if that’s what’s needed.
But we’re not going to do that, are we? As soon as this crisis is averted, we - and the resources we’ve been given to solve it - will be on to the next crisis. We’ll leave the next round of crisis management for a future generation, who will again have to scramble for a bandage solution as fast as they can because the mess is so great and so imminent.
Please, Liri. I have tried to talk to Emnunydae and Eladus about this, but they see me as someone who nitpicks every plan. You are perhaps the most down-to-earth of all of us. If you talk to them, they may listen.
Yours in Mystery,
Ligorin the Azure
When Eladus is caught meeting with a necromancer, it is Ligorin who talks Eladus into admitting fault and apologizing to the rest of the Order when the rest of the members are on the verge of panic about his deceptions.
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