A Pavulean from Surface Detail. The Pavuleans are an intelligent herd species with a pair of short trunks as manipulator appendages and are among the younger Involved species of the galaxy. The Pavulean government ran a virtual afterlife for their dead. This was fairly typical for a species at their level of technology, less typical and far more controversial was the running of a virtual Hell for those that were judged to be have done wrong.





The Culture Books were written by Iain M Banks

