Nimrod Pennyroyal
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Nimrod Pennyroyal is a recurring character in the Hungry City Chronicles, written by Philip Reeve. He is first introduced in Predator's Gold and remains a major character for the rest of the series.
Pennyroyal is a friendly author of adventure books which purportedly retell his travels across the world. Their authenticity is somewhat suspect, but they remain bestsellers.
Toward the end of Predator's Gold it is revealed that Pennyroyal is actually a fraud, and that he does indeed simply make up his stories. His true cowardice is revealed when he shoots Tom and steals his airship to escape an incoming city. However he does seem to have some grains of authentication, for instance when Tom says Pennyroyal believed "the Ancients had machines called 'eye-pods' where they could store thousands of songs on tiny little gramophone records." Pennyroyal perhaps redeems his past when he kills the Stalker Fang with an anti-Stalker gun and writes a new book closer to the truth, however no one will publish it after his books had been revealed as lies in a newspaper called The Speculum.
As a character, he bears many similarities to Gilderoy Lockhart; both are egotistical frauds who write misleading books.
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| Books: | Mortal Engines, Predator's Gold, Infernal Devices, A Darkling Plain |
| Characters: | Tom Natsworthy, Hester Shaw, Wren Natsworthy, Shrike, Anna Fang, Nimrod Pennyroyal, Theo Ngoni, Magnus Crome, Thaddeus Valentine |
| Organisations: | Traction Cities, Traktionstadtsgesellschaft, Anti-Traction League, Green Storm |
| Other: | Municipal Darwinism, Sixty Minute War, Stalkers, Jenny Haniver |
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