Pliny au Augeus
SupportingPliny au Augeus appears as a beautiful, slender Gold with smooth skin as flawless as a Pink's and a thin but pleasingly muscular build that suggests grace over brute strength. His coiled and scented hair is bound in a tight complicated braid behind him. Large glittering golden eyes peer out from beneath extravagant peacock-like eyelashes that dominate his face along with a pointed hawkish nose and thin lips coated in muted or serious black lipstick that often form a reptilian smile. He wears a too-tight embroidered silk tunic or severe dark coat accented by a dragonfly pin, presenting an elegant, almost feline noble whose delicate kittenish appearance belies the ruthless political predator within.
Pliny au Augeus emerges in the Red Rising Saga as a cunning and exquisitely manipulative Gold politico, whose feline elegance and reptilian smile mask a ruthless predator in the cutthroat world of Society's elite. Debuting in Golden Son as the scheming advisor to House Augustus, he orchestrates betrayals with surgical precision, embodying the poisonous intrigue of the Golds. Though his arc is confined to this pivotal book, Pliny's brief but brilliant machinations leave a lasting scar on the power struggles, highlighting the fragility of alliances in Darrow's rising rebellion.
Physical Description
Pliny au Augeus appears as a beautiful, slender Gold with smooth skin as flawless as a Pink's and a thin but pleasingly muscular build that suggests grace over brute strength. His coiled and scented hair is bound in a tight complicated braid behind him. Large glittering golden eyes peer out from beneath extravagant peacock-like eyelashes that dominate his face along with a pointed hawkish nose and thin lips coated in muted or serious black lipstick that often form a reptilian smile. He wears a too-tight embroidered silk tunic or severe dark coat accented by a dragonfly pin, presenting an elegant, almost feline noble whose delicate kittenish appearance belies the ruthless political predator within.
Evolution
Golden Son
Pliny au Augeus appears as a beautiful, slender Gold with smooth skin as flawless as a Pink's and a thin but pleasingly muscular build that suggests grace over brute strength. His coiled and scented hair is bound in a tight complicated braid behind him. Large glittering golden eyes peer out from beneath extravagant peacock-like eyelashes that dominate his face along with a pointed hawkish nose and thin lips coated in muted or serious black lipstick that often form a reptilian smile. He wears a too-tight embroidered silk tunic or severe dark coat accented by a dragonfly pin, presenting an elegant, almost feline noble whose delicate kittenish appearance belies the ruthless political predator within.
- Serves as the primary advisor to Octavia au Augustus, manipulating court politics with subtle intrigue.
- Betrays Augustus by secretly allying with House Lune, plotting to undermine her position.
- Conspires against Darrow during the Institute aftermath, using poison and deception to neutralize threats.
- Orchestrates a failed assassination attempt on Darrow, revealing his role as a key enemy in the power vacuum.
- Meets his demise through exposure of his treachery, underscoring the perils of overreaching ambition.
Relationships
Pliny positions himself as a politico adversary to Darrow, scheming from the shadows as Augustus's advisor before betraying her to target the rising lowColor infiltrator; this antagonism peaks in Golden Son with direct plots against Darrow's survival and influence, ending with Pliny's downfall without reconciliation or evolution across further books.
Book Appearances
Golden Son
First appears Ch 4