Wednesday, 5 August 2015

The Priestess of Arkay (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)

First Appearance: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Played By: ?

A Priestess of Arkay from either the Breton or Imperial race, she is devoted to her master Arkay, who is the god of funeral rites and burials. She was with the Imperial Legion when the Dragonborn, Ralof, Lokir and Jarl Ulfric Stormcloak were brought to Helgen for their execution.


"The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim"

 The Priestess was asked by the Imperial Captain to "read" the Stormcloak prisoners their "last rites" before they were executed. She tells them all that their souls were being commended to the "immortal plains" of Aetherius and that they have the blessings of the Eight Divines, noting that "you are the salt and earth of Nirn." However she is cut off by a Stormcloak soldier, who demands that she "shut up" for "the love of Talos" and demands that they get his execution over with. She curtly replies to him with the phrase "as you wish" and moves away from the executioners block to watch the soldier have his head cut off by the Imperial Headsman.

When Alduin arrives and disrupts the execution- just before the Dragonborn can be executed- the whole of Helgen is thrown into panic and is burnt; with many townspeople and soldiers killed in the carnage. It was unknown whether or not she had managed to escape from the Helgen or if she had died.

Azura (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)


First Appearance: ?

Played By: Lynda Carter


Azura is the Daedric Prince (although depicted as female) and the ruler of the Moonshadow (her own realm in Oblivion). She has many forms of address throughout legend and across races such as; "The Queen of Dusk and Dawn", "The Queen of the Night Sky", "The Anticipation of Sotha Sil" and "The Mother of Roses" and although seen as a Daedric "Lord"- she is not perceived by "mortals" to being completely evil. Yet her followers do see that her methods, claiming her to be "cruel but wise." 

She has an animosity against Nocturnal and Ebonarm (the former a Daedra Lord the latter the God of War), whom see saw as her enemies. 

She is worshiped by the Dunmer (Dark Elves) of Morrowind, but is seen by other Dunmer and other mortals for being in alliances with Daedric Lord Molag Bal, who they consider to be one of the four evil Lords (Four corners of the House of Troubles). She has a festival on the 21st First Seed called Hogithum- where her worshipers have been known to try and summon her to the mortal world.



"The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim"


 After retrieving the broken Azura's Star from Ilinalta's Deep and bringing it back to Azura's Shrine, Aranea Ienith communes with the Daedric Queen of Dawn and Dusk, telling the “Mother of Roses” that her Dragonborn “champion” has returned her Star to her . Ienith tells the Dragonborn to put their hands on Azura's alter and let her speak to him personally.

Greeting the Dragonborn, she tells them that they have “followed my guidance through the veils of Twilight and rescued my star from Malyn Varen.” However she reveals that the star has been corrupted by Varen and severed her connection temporarily from her own artifact. When the Dragonborn questions if their was a way to “cleanse the star,” Azura tells them that there isn't as Malyn's soul is still trapped within the star and that it needed to be banished before she can do anything else- for the process would take too long if it was left naturally (longer than the Dragonborn would be able to live). However she tells the Draonborn that she can use her powers to send them within the Star to be able to get rid of the soul. Telling her that they are ready, she comments that they must have faith and that she will be watching over them.

After Malyn is killed within the Star, Azura proclaims that now the star is “free to purify itself” and that the Dragonborn should not worry as they will be returned “before you are cleansed.”

Back at the Shrine, Azura reveals that Malyn has now been “consigned to Oblivion” and that the Star has been restored, congratulating the Dragonborn for their help in this task. She tells them that as she has “destined” they are free to use the star as the Dragonborn sees fit. After being thanked, she tells them to remember that she “will be guarding over the threads of your fate in the Twilight” giving the artifact willingly to the Dragonborn.

Tuesday, 4 August 2015

Davenport (Doctor Who Series Four)

First Appearance: Doctor Who Series Four Episode Eight: "The Unicorn and the Wasp"


Played By: Daniel King

A footman in the country house of Eddison/ Curbishley family, Davenport had been in the service of the family for an unknown period of time, where he fell in love and began a secret relationship with Roger Curbishley (Lady Clemency Eddison and Colonel Hugh Curbishley's son).


"The Unicorn and the Wasp"

Davenport was posted on the drinks duty for the Eddison garden party during the December of 1926. 

During Lady Eddison's explanation of "The Unicorn" and "his" latest theft of a pearl necklace belonging to the Lady Babington, Davenport gave the Doctor a drink (which he had asked Davenport for just before Lady Eddison's introduction) and began to circle the garden in preparation for the other guests. 

Davenport made Roger his "usual" drink, which the latter flirtatiously comments on the fact that it was just to his liking. Making another of the beverages for his "employer", he express his agreement to Roger's point of view that misbehaving youths- like the ones who had broken into the Reverend Arnold Golightly's parish church- deserved a "decent thrashing." Roger has to remind him with a "subtle" clearing of his throat to get back to his work, as he had giving obvious signs of their relationship that both the Doctor and Donna had picked up.

Later that day- at quarter past four- Davenport was sitting under a tree when Roger came to find him. The two hold hands and take a walk together through the ground. Yet this is all covered up by Roger to conceal their relationship. 

Davenport questions who would kill Professor Peach as he is wiping up in the kitchens- the news of the murder being talked about by the staff- commenting that he always was "asking questions about that book of his." Miss Chandrakala tells him that it was a "dead man's folly" and that it was not important.

After chasing the Vespiform down a corridor, the Doctor demands that it reveals itself. Davenport is among the confused people to emerge from the rooms- poking his head out of the same room that Roger was in and looking rather more disheveled than he had been earlier that day. 

Davenport wheeled Colonel Curbishley's wheelchair into the library, where the Doctor, Donna and Agatha Christie (the guest of honor at the garden party) were planning their next move. He tells Lady Eddison that Chandrakala had been on making her way over to see her when she had been killed (by a gargoyle). With that he goes to stand by Greeves, but keeps looking at Roger as Hugh declares that that their had been no children living in the house for years and would not be much chance of it either- in reference to Chandrakala's last words (alluding to being aware of his son's sexual orientation and his romance with Davenport).

Davenport was helping with dinner when the Doctor rushes into the kitchen demanding ginger beer to counter the effect of "sparkling cyanide" that had been used to spike his drink. He is shocked to be grabbed and even more shocked to see the Doctor trying to reverse the effect with various high protein foods. He looks perplexed when the Doctor expels the poison from his body (in gas form).

During dinner he is circulating the table on hand to serve when needed. Davenport is startled by the sudden lightning flash that knocks out the lights and blows out the candles. Having hidden from the Vespiform till the lights return, he is distraught at the sight of Roger's body (killed by the Vespiform with a knife in the back and his head down in a bowl of suit).

Donna feels sorry for the fact that Davenport is unable to "mourn" for his dead lover due to the attitude of the time.

Wiggins (Doctor Who Series Three)

First Appearance: Doctor Who Series Three Episode Three: "The Shakespeare Code"

Played By: Sam Marks


A young lute player living in 1599 Southwark- London, who was attracted to Lilith (a woman who was actually a Carrionite). He tried to impress her with his lute playing, but was torn apart by Lilith and her two "mothers"; Doomfinger and Bloodtide.


"The Shakespeare Code"

"This was like a Winter's moon, that lights the traveler's way. Her smile was like a summer bloom, that bursts then fades away. My love is light, my love is day, my love is my world."

Wiggins stood under Lilth's window in her house on All Hallow Street, where he serenaded her with his song (the quote above) and his lute playing. While he sings Lilith giggles and shows signs of reciprocating his affection: commenting that his "sweet music shows your blood to be afire" and asks "why wait we on stale custom for consummation," inviting him up inside. He grins delightedly saying that "tonight's the night", letting himself in as Lilith disappears from her balcony to wait for him.

Meeting him at the top of the stairs, Lilth asks him whether her is willing to enter, addressing him as "bold sir," which he gladly accepts. However upon entering and seeing the cauldron with other weird items hanging from the room Wiggins is disturbed and slightly scared, questioning how "one so beautiful" can't be where she lives. He apologies but expresses his feelings of disgust at the house, which he refers to as "foul." Lilith puts her finger on his lips, silencing him and telling him that his "sad words suit not upon a lover's tongue." She instigates a kiss, which she pulls away from a few minutes later, her facade lifted and revealing the true Carrionite form. He backs away terrified as she comments that "your kiss transformed me" and that as her "suitor" he should meet her "parents." She summons her two "mothers"- Mother Doomfinger and Mother Bloodtide (one appears behind him, while the other is in the rafters)- which terrifies him even further. 

All three rush at him and knock him to the ground, beginning to rip him apart as he screamed. As Doomfinger and Bloodtide continue their grotesque mutilation, Lilith declares that "Soon, at the Hour of Woven Words, we shall rise again and this fleeting world will perish." She cackles shortly after his final scream.

Saturday, 1 August 2015

Matron Casp (Doctor Who Series Two)

First Appearance: Doctor Who Series Two Episode Two: "New Earth"

Played By: Dona Croll 

The Cat-Kind head of the Sisters of Plenitude, Matron Casp worked at the New Earth Hospital where she headed up experiments on specially grown humans- which they viewed as just being "Flesh"- in the Intensive Care ward. 

She died in the year 5,000,000,023 when she was infected by all of the diseases known in the galaxy before plummeting down a lift shaft.


"New Earth"

Matron Casp joins the Doctor as he spoke with the Duke of Manhattan about the fact that he was cured from Petrifold Regression (which was thought not to have a cure for at least 1000 years later), where she comments that though "primitive species would accuse us of magic" it was due to the "tender application of science." The Doctor questions how she was capable of curing him, but she merely jests about "how on New Earth you might say" and claiming that the solution in the drip near the Duke was a "simple remedy". She denies the Doctor the formula, claiming it to be "patient confidentiality" before introducing herself to him. She remarks coldly that they were the Doctors in the facility after hearing the Doctor's name as a title.

Sister Jatt arrives and tells her that she is needed in Intensive Care. The two depart after excusing herself, where Jatt begins to report that one of the "patients" had gained "consciousness." Casp tells her that "we can't have that" as they make their way to the ward. 

Casp listens as Jatt informs her of the "Flesh's" crying during a "blood wash", showing her the specimen. She looks slightly shocked at the "Flesh" as it begs for their help, commenting that "it's" eyes are "positively sparkling" and  wondering how it was possible for it to be able to speak. After Jatt finishes telling her about Sister Corvin's thesis, she tells Jatt that she has seen enough and begins to walk away. The two discuss the review of "brianstem policy" if their is another incident, before telling Jatt to carry out "standard procedure" are "incinerate" the Flesh. 

Matron Casp and Sister Jatt respond to the alarm- which Cassandra (in Rose's body) sets off- where they run into Novice Hame on the way to fetch her. As she begins to tell her the situation, Matron calmly orders Hame to leave everything to them and return to her duties. 

Casp asks Cassandra if there was anything that "they could do to help," who skips pleasantries and calls her "whiskers." She demands that the Sisters of Plenitude give her money, but Casp rebuttals by saying that "the Sisterhood is a charity", which gladly accepts money but never gives it away. She refuses to Cassandra's demands for money and a yacht and tells her that there is no reason for her to reconsider the deal. When Cassandra challenges Casp about telling the City and N.N.Y.P.D about the experiments and asking how she was going to stop them the Sisters were not armed, Casp snarls the question "who needs arms when you have claws." 

She is taken aback by the release of "The Flesh" and is even more amazed that "the Flesh" were capable of speaking and "constructing an argument." As they withdraw her surprise turns to horror as one of "the Flesh" uses kills itself to release the others from their pods. She is unable to save Jatt from being touched, forcing her to flee. As she reaches the exit, Casp uses a phone to contact the main hospital and order the building to be put in a state of "quarantine." 

Casp had the same idea that the Rose and the Doctor (now Cassandra) had and began to climb a lift shaft to escape the lower levels. Upon seeing them, she angrily grabs Rose's leg and blamed her for the destruction of both the Sister's reputation and the release of "The Flesh." Cassandra snaps that she should "go play with a ball of string." As she declares that the "Human World" is nothing but "sickness," Casp is touched by one of "the Flesh" who infects her with the diseases. She is subjected to extreme agony and releases the ladder, causing her to fall to her death screaming
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Sister Jatt (Doctor Who Series Two)

First Appearance: Doctor Who Series Two Episode Two: "New Earth"

Played By: Adjoa Andoh

A member of Sister's of Plenitude, the Cat-kind Sister Jatt worked for the New Earth Hospital (just outside the city of New New York) where she was charged with overseeing and monitoring the experiments that the Sister's were carrying out on their "Lab Rats" in the Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital (hidden from knowledge and off all records).

She was killed by one of her own "experiments" when a member of "The Flesh" touched her and contracted her with all the diseases that the galaxy were aware of by the year 5,000,000,023.


"New Earth" 

Sister Jatt escorted the Doctor to Ward 26 (her veil covering her face at first), while listening to his comments that although the place "looks nice" it needed a "little shop."  Removing her veil she remarks that "a hospital is a place for healing." She ignores his continued attempt of conversation about the shop and explains about the Sister of Plenitude's work and aim to heal the sick of New Earth.

She watches Frau Clovis berate the Doctor before moving him along to follow her request for the Duke of Manhattan to have "a little privacy." She comments that the Duke will be "back on his feet in no time", which the Doctor sees as unlikely since the illness that the Duke was admitted with (Petrifold Regression) was at that time supposedly incurable and he would be a statue. She tells him to "have faith in the Sisterhood", before asking whether or not he recognised a patient in the ward and commenting that it is unusual for her to get a request about visiting a patient without knowing who the patient is. However the Doctor tells her that he knows who he is looking for after spotting the Face of Boe at the far end of the ward.

When the Doctor reaches the Face of Boe, Jatt tells Novie Hame to take care of the Doctor. Before she leaves the Doctor asks her if she can locate Rose at the reception (who had been separated from the Doctor and possessed by the Lady Cassandra O'Brian) which she says she will do.

During the Doctor's conversation with Matron Casp at the bedside of the now cured Duke of Manhattan, Sister Jatt appears and tells her that she is needed in the Intensive Care ward. As they walk away she reports to her that another patient has become "conscious", which Casp replies is something that should not be allowed to happen.

Inside the Intensive Care Ward Jatt begins explaining to Casp that during a "blood-wash" one of "The Flesh" began crying, opening the pod to survey the "specimen." As "The Flesh" begs for their help, she tells Casp to notice the life in "it's" eyes. Casp asks how the Flesh was capable of
"having a vocabulary", to which Jatt replies by noting a thesis written by a fellow Sister- Sister Corven- about "the migration of Sentience," making a side comment that the paper was "well worth a read." Closing the pod on "the Flesh", the two discus reviewing their "brain stem policy" if another incident happens. Questioning what she should do with the latest specimen, Casp orders her to follow the "standard procedure" and incinerate it, which she carries out before following Casp.

Sister Jatt and Matron Casp respond to the alarm that Cassandra (in Rose's body) sets of and goes to confront her in the Ward. She listens to Cassandra's blackmail attempt, typing on her communicator but stops when the latter calls it "institutional murder."  

They watch as the first row of Flesh is woken up, where Jatt suggests that they withdraw before they are infected. They listen as one the Flesh tells them that they have learned about what and how the Sister's had infected them with and commits suicide in order to free the other Flesh from their pods. She expresses terror as she realises that the Flesh are all free and swears that they are free in the name of the Goddess Santori. She is backed into a corner, where she tries to bat them away with her paws. However one of the Flesh touches her face and she is infected almost immediately, dying in agony.

Sister Corvin (Doctor Who Series Two)

First Appearance: Doctor Who Series Two Episode Two: "New Earth" (Mentioned Only)

A cat-kind nurse dedicating her life to the Sisters of Plenitude, Sister Corvin worked at the New Earth Hospital outside New New York, where she helped create "The Flesh" in an effort to aid the Sister's mission in curing the sick of New Earth. She wrote a "thesis on the migration of Sentience" she had named "The Echo of Life" after the discovery of several cases of "The Flesh" began to speak and cry.


"New Earth"

While Sister Jatt is showing Matron Casp the latest case of one of "the Flesh" having consciousness, Jatt replies to the Casp's question of how a forced grown human can have a "vocabulary" by telling her of Corvin's thesis and remarking that it was "well worth a read," before closing the pod and carrying out incineration of the latest "case."