B00DPX9ST8 EBOK

by Parkin, Lance

  1242 - Sanctuary [340]

  The seventh Doctor and Benny made an emergency landing in the Pyrenees. The Doctor discovered a plot to recover the skull of Jesus Christ from the heretical Cathare sect, even as Benny fell for the knight Guy de Carnac. The Church forced an attack on the Roc of the Cathares sanctuary and set it afire, but the Doctor found the skull was a fake. The Doctor and Benny escaped the destruction - it’s possible that Guy de Carnac did also...

  c 1245 - Guy de Carnac: The Quality of Mercy [341]

  Guy de Carnac protected a space traveller from an Inquisition, and helped him return to his people.

  = On Roma I, only Seres (China) stood against the might of the Roman Empire thanks to their Great Walls. They had little contact with Rome. By the mid-thirteenth century of our calendar, Roman roads and bridges linked every part of the world. The Seric Navy under Zheng He launched attacks on Roman ports, and war raged for twenty-eight years as the Serics made great territorial gains.

  Then Emperor Yung Lo met the Roman Emperor Cosimo. They agreed that rather than destroy the world with a devastating war, they should settle the matter on the toss of a coin. Rome won, and Yung Lo knelt at the feet of his new Emperor. The merging of Roman and Seric philosophies led to a new golden age. A perfect world was built. [342]

  River Song and the eleventh Doctor visited Easter Island; the inhabitants made many statues of him. [343] Marco Polo was born in Venice. [344]

  A sub-set of Zygons - called Zynogs (sic) - were exiled from Zygor, the Zygon homeworld, as punishment for breaking the oldest of Zygon laws: using the body-print of another Zygon. The Zynogs’ original forms were destroyed, and they were trapped within stunted forms incompatible with Zygon body-print technology. Some Zynogs found a technological means of transferring their essences into brain-dead individuals. [345]

  According to the Doctor, the Zygons hailed from “the deepest, murkiest fathoms of space”. [346] The arachnid Xaranti destroyed Zygor. [347] The Zygons retaliated and destroyed the Xaranti homeworld in Tau Ceti. The Xaranti consequently became nomadic. [348] A Zygon spacecraft crashed in Loch Ness. While awaiting a rescue party, they fed on the milk of the Skarasen, an armoured cyborg creature that was often mistaken for the locals as a “monster”. [349] Another Zygon craft, commanded by the warlord Hagoth, crashed elsewhere on Earth. The crew entered hibernation, but would later revive and promote industry throughout the twentieth century. [350]

  In the Middle Ages, Stangmoor was a fortress. [351] A medieval knight was kidnapped by the Master using TOM-TIT. [352] When Marco Polo was 12, English crusaders occupied the African port of Accra. [353]

  The Doctor was based for a time around 1268 at Ercildoune in Scotland. He cured a crippled stable hand called Tommy. Two years later, the Queen of the Charrl contacted Tommy from the far future, promising him immortality in return for his stealing the Doctor’s TARDIS. Tommy came to be known as the wizard Jared Khan. [354]

  In 1270, a mysterious doctor who tended King Alexander sent his stable boy Tom away. The legends of Kebiria claimed that the Caliph at Giltat was visited by mysterious demons, the Al Harwaz, who promised him anything he wanted - gold, spices, slave women - if his people learnt a dance, “dancing the code”. The arrangement continued for a time, until the Caliph broke the agreement and flying monsters destroyed his city. [355] In the 1270s, Marco Polo witnessed oil seeping out of the ground in the vicinity of the Aural Sea. [356]

  In 1271, Marco Polo left Venice to explore China. [357]

  c 1273 - The Time Warrior [358]

  The third Doctor arrived from the twentieth century on the trail of the Sontaran Linx, who had kidnapped scientists and pulled them back in time. For his own amusement, Linx was supplying a local warlord, Irongron, with advanced weapons. The third Doctor and Sarah Jane -- who had stowed away in the TARDIS - thwarted both Linx and Irongron, and the destruction of the Sontaran’s ship also destroyed Irongron’s castle.

  Marco Polo arrived in Cathay in 1274, the same year the beautiful maiden Ping-Cho was born. Three years later, Polo entered the service of Kublai Khan. [359]

  1278 (29th August) - Asylum [360]

  An alien dispatched from 1346, now hosted in Brother Thomas of the Franciscan Order, tried to further philosopher Roger Bacon’s research into the Elixir of Life - a possible cure to the impending Black Death seventy years hence. The fourth Doctor and Nyssa prevented the alien from disrupting history, and Nyssa dislodged the alien presence from Thomas’ mind. Bacon burned his unsuccessful Elixir Manuscript, but the Franciscan Order imprisoned him for twelve years for committing “heretical” research into alchemy. Bacon would become renowned to future generations as a great philosopher, not a scientist.

  In 1283, a meteorite from the Jeggorabax Cluster - a dark nebula on the cusp of the Bezeta-Vordax system, said to contain entities created by emotions - fell to Earth in the Weserbergland Mountains in Lower Saxony. The next year, the people of Hamelin’s collective fear of rats caused the energy within the meteorite to manifest as the Pied Piper - a being who needed fear to survive, and stole Hamelin’s children to create it. In the centuries to come, aspects of the Piper would steal children for similar effect. [361]

  Hughes de Chalons, a Knights Templar, took refuge in a hidden chamber beneath the Sphinx in 1287. A woman bearing the seal of the Knights gave him a box of scrolls, and said he was the new Guardian of Forever. [362]

  1289 - Marco Polo [363]

  Kublai Khan refused permission for Marco Polo to return to Venice. In 1289, Polo led a caravan across the Roof of the World to the court of the Khan. He took with him Tegana, the emissary of the Mongol warlord Noghai, and Ping-Cho, who was destined to marry a 75-year-old nobleman. They discovered the first Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan - along with their blue cabinet, which Polo decided to present to the Khan. They traversed Cathay and the Gobi Desert, arriving at Shang-Tu. Tegana’s plan to murder the Khan was exposed, and he killed himself. In gratitude to the travellers, the Khan returned their cabinet.

  Astrolabus claimed to have an appointment with Marco Polo. [364] Jared Khan narrowly missed acquiring the TARDIS at this time. [365] The Forgill family served the nation from the late thirteenth century. [366] The Doctor met Dante and acquired his business card. [367] The Doctor met William Tell. [368] The Doctor met Robert the Bruce in the early fourteenth century. [369] He also visited the citadel that became the Kremlin. [370]

  The Doctor slayed a dragon in Krakow. [371] The fourteenth century saw the rebirth of the organic statues of Es-Ko-Thoth Park in the city-state of Tor-Ka-Nom. [372]

  Seth was a grand schemer in fourteenth century Rome known to the Doctor. He would go on to be known as Vance Galley, Van Giefried, Virgil Gaustino, Vincent Grant and the twenty-fourth century entrepreneur Varley Gabriel. [373] The Cardiff Rift transported a fourteenth-century plague victim to the twenty-first century. [374] King Philip IV of France moved against the Knights Templar in 1307. Hughes de Chalons was captured while enjoying the pleasures of a whore’s bed. [375]

  In March 1314, the last key members of the Knights Templar (Grand Master Jacques de Molay; Geoffrey de Charnay, the Order’s Preceptor of Normandy; and Hughes de Chalons) were burnt at the stake. de Molay’s nephew, Guillaume de Beaujeu, procured a relic sacred to the Order - the finger of John the Baptist - and secured it in his castle in Arginy. [376]

  In the 1300s, a “demon” fell from the sky near a convent near London. A “sainted physician” (i.e. the Doctor) “smote” the demon and it disappeared. This created The Legend of the Blue Box, which was commemorated in stained glass at the church later built on that site. [377]

  The Doctor almost gave William of Ockham a nervous breakdown trying to get him to work out the history of the planet Skaro. [378] The Monk calculated that if his plan to prevent the Norman Conquest had worked, then mankind would have developed aircraft by 1320. [379]

  1320 - Remaissance of the Daleks [380]

  The fifth Doctor dropped off Nyssa to look into an anomalous time tr
ack in Rhodes, 1320, then ventured off to investigate a second anomaly. Nyssa made the acquaintance of a Mulberry, a member of the Knights of Templar, but they both fell down a wormhole to Petersburg at the time of the American Civil War.

  The Malus, a psychic probe from Hakol, arrived in Little Hodcombe. [381] The ninth Doctor, Rose and Jack “only just escaped” Kyoto in 1336. [382]

  Aliens emerged from a null dimension and into London in 1346. They took control of human bodies, which were vulnerable to a plague that the aliens knew would arrive in two years. They discovered that philosopher Roger Bacon wrote of a possible cure for the plague, and sent one alien back several decades to ensure Bacon’s research succeeded. The alien’s host in that era, Brother Thomas, survived and felt drawn to the aliens in 1346, but they failed to heed his warnings about the futility of their efforts. [383]

  Cardogan Castle suffered a large outbreak of the Black Death shortly before the plague’s end. [384] The black diamond of Ernfield, a cursed gem, was said to have been stolen from a mid-fourteenth century temple. [385]

  c 1350 - TimeH: Kitsune [386]

  While investigating the history of mischievous fox-spirits - the kitsune - Emily Blandish briefly visited medieval Japan.

  Guillaume de Beaujeu, age 62, went off to war in 1354 and didn’t return. The finger of John the Baptist remained at the Castle of Arginy. [387] The Doctor was at the university of Prague when it opened. [388] On the planet Skaro, a small, squat blue-skinned warlike race had evolved... the Daleks. [389]

  c 1360 (November) - The Art of War [390]

  A Krashok warship materialised several miles from London, having fled into the past using a Dalek temporal shift device. The tenth Doctor and his companion, Gisella, pursued the Krashoks to prevent their activating the fake Eternity Crystal in their possession - an act that could have triggered an explosion large enough to destroy Earth. The Doctor incapacitated the Krashoks with sonic waves, and medieval knights slew many of them. The surviving Krashoks returned to the future with both the real Crystal and Gisella, and the Doctor followed them.

  The Canavitchi faked the Turin Shroud in an attempt to slow man’s progress. [391] The Phiadoran Clan Matriarchy came to power in the Phiadoran Directorate. They ruthlessly weeded out their political opponents. [392] Cartophilius lived in Italy under the name John Buttadaeus. [393]

  The Doctor met Chaucer in 1388 and was given a copy of The Doctour of Science’s Tale. [394] The Doctor drank ale with Chaucer in Southwark. [395]

  Around this time, the Doctor acquired his ticket to the Library of St John the Beheaded. [396]

  The Renaissance

  The Daemons inspired the Renaissance. [397]

  The cult named Sodality achieved limited time travel through a book linked to the Daemons, and used conventional and psionic science to alter the course of human development. Select individuals were born as time-channellers (humans with the innate ability to travel through time) or time-sensitives (empathic humans who served as the channellers’ navigators during time-jumps). Through such individuals, Sodality hoped to gain command of time and space travel. [398]

  By the end of the fourteenth century, wire-drawing machinery had been developed. [399] Constantinople was renamed Istanbul. [400] The Doctor was present at the Battle of Agincourt. [401]

  The Doctor assisted the great-great-great grandfather of the Duke of Medici in some bother with the Borgias. [402] A renegade Time Lady, also a friend of the Doctor, founded a restaurant on Earth during the time of the Hapsburgs. [403] Upon the murder of his father, Vlad III took the name “Dracula” - which means “son of the dragon”. [404] Legends about a “beast” which terrorized the German town of Orlok circulated in the Middle Ages. [405] The planets of the Radzera system fell into a pattern of constant war. [406]

  From the time he was knee high, Richard III was a subject of huge interest to alien time tourists and academics. Random time travellers would repeatedly show up to question Richard about the future murder of his nephews - one of history’s greatest mysteries - and had strong views about whether he should kill the boys or not. This puzzled Richard, who at around age 12 had no intention of doing anything of the sort. By accident, Richard discovered that most of the travellers were afraid of someone called “the Doctor”, and he continually dropped the Doctor’s name as a means of making the visitors leave. [407]

  Many of those who died in the Nor’ Loch, Edinburgh, from the fifteenth century onwards were likely to be resurrected by the Onk Ndell Kith in 1759. [408] An unknown race established itself on the planet Helhine, then fell to ruin. [409]

  w - Sutekh sent hordes of Mal’akh to fifteenth century Earth, where they became involved in the conflict between the European Christians and the Ottoman Turks. He withdrew his forces after the Great Houses, to protect their involvement in this crucible of history, signed a treaty with the Osirian Court. Ellainya of the Great Houses, a.k.a. Merytra, was bound by blood into Sutekh’s service. [410]

  The Doctor tripped the Word Lord’s CORDIS on the lost twenty-seventh letter of the English alphabet, which made him crash into the entire alphabet, and caused the Great Vowel Shift. [411]

  c 1454 - The Aztecs [412]

  The Aztec priest Yetaxa died and was entombed around 1430. When the first Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan emerged from Yetaxa’s sealed tomb, Barbara was taken for the reincarnation of Yetaxa. She attempted to use her “divine” power to end the Aztec practice of human sacrifice, knowing it would horrify the European conquerors in future, and hoped this would save the Aztec civilisation from the Spanish. Her efforts failed.

  The tenth Doctor and Martha had a drink of chocolate in Aztec times. [413] They also visited the Italian Renaissance. [414]

  In the mid-fifteenth century, Scaroth gave mankind the printing press, although he kept a number of Gutenberg Bibles for himself. It was possibly this splinter of Scaroth that acquired a Ming vase. [415] During the first Easter of his reign, Vlad III invited two hundred boyars to his banqueting hall - and afterwards had them slaughtered for the roles they played in the deaths of his father and brother. [416] The Wandering Jew once shared a bottle of Tokay with Vlad Tepes, who was unable to end the man’s immortal life. [417]

  The Varaxil Hegemony developed a science based upon Odic power, an energy associated with the supernatural. They became such despised outcasts on so many worlds, they renounced their technology and began hunting down any beings who could innately channel Odic energy, imprisoning them on Varix Beta. [418]

  1462 (17th June to July) - Son of the Dragon [419]

  Turkish forces led by Sultan Mehmed II invaded Wallachia, part of what would later become Romania. Prince Vlad III (a.k.a. Vlad the Impaler, a.k.a. Dracula) ruled Wallachia and ravaged his people’s own crops, livestock and water supplies to stop his enemies making use of them.

  The fifth Doctor, Peri and Erimem arrived during this conflict, and Erimem wound up saving Dracula’s life. Dracula welcomed her as a guest at his palace, Poienari Castle. Events led to the Doctor being captured and Peri earning a death sentence, whereupon Erimem bargained with Dracula - in exchange for letting her friends go, she’d become his wife. The Turks surrounded Poienari, and the King of Hungary withdrew his support from Dracula. Erimem was released from her promise, and Dracula fled to Transylvania. Radu, Dracula’s brother, became the head of Wallachia.

  A legend concerning these events claimed that an archer (actually the Doctor) had warned Dracula of the impending siege of Poienari. It was further said that Dracula’s first wife threw herself to her death (a misinterpretation of Dracula briefly dangling Peri off the Poienari battlements), and the portion of the Arges River marking this point became known as Raul Doamenei, “the princess’ river”. The Doctor stole Radu’s journal to keep the name of Dracula’s “first wife” - even though he and Erimem hadn’t formally married - a secret.

  The “sons” of King Edward IV - who were historically fated to die in the Tower of London - were actually born as girls. Edward feared thi
s would throw the line of royal succession into doubt, and spark decades of fighting amongst the power-crazed nobility. He therefore announced that the girls were in fact boys: the future Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury. [420] In 1478, George, the Duke of Clarence, was convicted of treason against his brother, King Edward IV. He was slated for execution, but their other brother, Richard of Gloucester, quietly rescued him. George was believed dead and lived in disguise as Clarrie, the barkeep of The Kingmaker tavern. [421]

  In 1479, a wall was built around the parish of St. James - which would one day be known as Cardiff - to keep out plague victims. A little girl named Faith died, but a priest brought her back to life with a resurrection gauntlet. Her revival enabled an aspect of Death to manifest in St. James - its hold on Earth would have solidified had it killed thirteen people, but it had only murdered twelve when Faith stopped it. The gauntlet was hidden within St. Mary’s Church. [422]

  A “Northern chap with big ears” left a pair of messages for Peri and Erimem at The Kingmaker tavern on Fleet Street in London. They would receive the notes in 1483. [423]

  The year 1482 was full of temporal glitches, making it difficult for the TARDIS to land there. [424]

  1483 (April to October) - The Kingmaker [425]

  The wayward TARDIS deposited Peri and Erimem in Stony Stratford, 1483. William Shakespeare, having stowed aboard from 1597, snuck out of the Ship. Shakespeare presented himself to Richard III as “Mr Seyton”, someone from the future who advocated that Richard should murder his nephews.

  King Edward IV died, so Richard escorted the new monarch - his nephew, King Edward V - back to London. Along the way, Richard discovered that his nephews were female. He rounded up anyone who might know this secret, and executed Hastings, a friend of the old king. Three days after Richard’s discovery, Peri and Erimem arrived at The Kingmaker tavern and - based upon the Doctor’s messages - realised they were doomed to stay in 1483 for a time. They worked as waitresses there for about six months.