Poltroyans
Names: PoltroyansPoltroyanPoltioyanPoltroyAmalgam of PoltroyPurple FolkPurple PipsqueaksPurple People
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 1 (Prologue)
Appearances
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B2
B3
B4
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 3Poltroyans are a very old race that survived its own atomic weapons era, the one exception to the link between atomic weaponry and racial suicide.
- Ch 57Poltroyans are short, with purplish-gray skin, ruby irises and bald mauve skulls; they hail from wintry planets and can pass as humans with wigs, makeup and contact lenses.
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 21Mauve-skinned, hairless, child-sized exotics who taught humans fetal educational techniques; they failed seventy-two emergent races as Proctors, and favor humanity.
- Ch 26With the Gi, they improvised a huge Christmas Eve fairground in Orb so human delegates would not miss their holiday.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 12Poltroyans, small lilac- or mauve-skinned beings, built an Irish-themed Saint Patrick's Day party for Concilium guests, making Ireland 'as we'd prefer it to be'.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 9Poltroyans are under a meter tall, violet-skinned with ruby eyes, famed for extravagant lifestyles and pearl jewelry.
- Ch 23Poltroyans are beloved small, bald, ruby-eyed purple beings whose individuality makes them effective advocates of Unity against Rebel claims of alien hive-mentality.