# Koom-Posh — The Coming Race character guide

> Koom-Posh in The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Koom, Koom - Posh, a Koom - Posh, the Koom - Posh

**First appearance:** 0014-xv

## Who they are

A Vril-ya title or character associated with governance.

## Relationships

### [Taë](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/tae)

_psychological_

Koom-Posh exerts a strange influence over Taë, using him as a pawn in subtle power games.

### [Taë](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/tae)

_psychological_

Koom-Posh exerts a strange influence over Taë, using him as a pawn in subtle power games.

## In the story

### [Chapter XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/chapters/xvii)

Described as a low stage of being with perpetual conflict, inequality, and savagery, contrasted with Vril-ya civilization.

### [Chapter XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/chapters/xviii)

Referenced as a political system; the narrator identifies as a citizen of a Koom-Posh, which Taë criticizes as a fleeting stage before Glek-Nas.

### [Chapter XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/chapters/xxvi)

Referenced as a form of popular government that the Vril-ya despise; the narrator imagines them confronting a Koom-Posh in America.

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