Apart from his brown skin, the Martian, Sevni dzu Regelin Coruthan, as described in III, pp. 23-24, sounds almost exactly like a Chereionite in a Merseian naval uniform:
long legs
lean waist
broad chest
hairless skin
high cheekbones
domed forehead
narrow chin
long, pointed ears
flat nose
large golden eyes
black uniform with silvered collar
There is also a peaceful race in Starfarers that look exactly like Merseians but that has to be a joke on Anderson's part.
What we know about these Martians:
forty thousand years of recorded history
aristocratic society
technology learned from Terrestrials
the greatest and oldest city, Zuneth, destroyed in the war
some of the Vannzaru language is supersonic
Tarketh dzu Zanthevu = Archate of Mars
Regelin represents the Archate in one district on Earth
his family has an "...an old castle on the edge of the Purple Gulf..." (III, p. 31)
Aycharaych has a castle at Raal on Chereion.
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Chereion is a lot like pre-Mariner SFnal concepts of Mars.
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