Ivory

Ivory is a wizard and master liar featured in the novella "Dragonfly." He's characterized as a handsome young man who smiles often and answers questions with more questionsLeGuin, Ursula K. "Dragonfly." .
=== In "Dragonfly" ===
After coming to the Isle of Way to get work, Ivory establishes himself as a wizard in service to the Master of Iria of Westpool. There, he performs various magic tricks, such as causing a fountain of wine to appear in the master's home, and is supposed to work magic for the family, though he doesn't do anything to heal (or even notice) the sickness of one of the daughters. This is not touched upon again, as he soon becomes interested in Dragonfly, otherwise known as Irian, and begins to devote his time to trying to sleep with her.
Irian and Ivory meet after Ivory allows his horse to be injured by Irian's dogs. She cares for the horse's wounds after chasing off her dogs as Ivory tells her about Roke. He becomes infatuated with her and her innocence, and offers to take her to Roke Island in order to get answers to her questions. His two main intentions are to get her to sleep with him, and to antagonize the master wizards of Roke by bringing a woman into their school, which is forbidden. He disguises her as a man in order to make the journey, and gets her to tell him her true name in order to cast a changing spell to make her lie more believable. Upon learning her true name, he becomes angry that it was so simple that he could've guessed it long ago, and so could have cast more effective seduction spells on her. It's then that he realizes how stupid his plan had been from the start, and, upset, he tells her, "I only wanted to make love to you." After she offers to have sex with him (possibly out of fear or simply wanting to give him what he wants), he tells her about how his plan to get her into the school would never work. He insults the old masters, and explains how he got kicked out of the school for breaking his vow of celibacy right in front of them. He is astounded at her innocence and determination to still get into the school, and denies her again when she offers to have sex with him, saying that they are too far past that point. He tell tells her what she must do to get into the school, and is said later to have left the island soon after.