"Only in the protected valley was there peace, and among the quiet plants of the Pod People. These did not foresee the evils they would suffer from; they felt only the joy of abundance of their plants and the herding of their Nebrie grubs. They tended all things that grew, above all the giant Pod plants in whose vast seed-pods they made their villages; there they though only of laughter, food, and music. Their music stayed simple and unchanged -- alas, the only joy left in our suffering world."

"Pod People" is a convenient redering of apopiapoiopidiappididiapipob. the name they use among themselves, signifying roughly "master garderners who live in bulging plants."

The Pod People have left no records of their own; our knowledge of them comes mostly from fragmentary remains we have recovered, from references of Aughra, and from Gelfling pictures and carvings. They had reached an advanced stage of symbiosis with the Pod plant, but had also cultivated many other fruits and vegetables. They had domesticated the Nebrie grub, their totem animal, from whose milk they make cheese and whose actions gave them auguries. They had also domesticated the Fizzgig, an active quadruped that they occasionally used for keeping watch on plant tendrils.

Their music, to judge by instruments illustrated here, was based on ideas of harmony quite close to our own.

Text from The World of the Dark Crystal by Brian Froud,
Henson Organization Publishing/Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1982
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