'One of the glintstone crowns bestowed upon Raya Lucaria scholars whose pursuits were deemed worthy. Increases intelligence and dexterity to the detriment of HP. Scholars of the Lazuli Conspectus study Carian sorceries—a heterodox pursuit that views the moon as equal to the stars.' The Lazuli Conspectus is one of the four scholarly lineages at Raya Lucaria, Karolos studies comets, Olivinus meteors, Haima cannons-and-gavels, and the only one whose pursuit the academy considers heretical. Lazuli scholars are interested in Carian sorcery, the moon-magic Rennala's house brought to the academy through her marriage to Radagon. The conspectus's hue is the full moon ; its philosophical premise is that the moon is the stars' equal.

'Robe worn by scholars of the Lazuli Conspectus, singular among the greater Raya Lucaria Academy. These scholars, who sought to master Carian sorcery, instead learned to see the moon as equal to the stars. This robe, in the hue of the full moon, signifies their heresy.' The academy considers this premise treasonous. The stars in the academy's orthodoxy are the original source, fate's ancient givers, the firmament from which glintstone descended ; the moon is a passing phase, a Carian regional fascination. The Lazuli's heresy is the simple-sounding sentence : we have looked at both, and they are equal. Their robes, in their canonical full-moon blue, mark them on every campus walk as the scholars who said the unsaid thing. The academy did not expel them. It also did not give them a chair beside Karolos and Olivinus.