Editing Original Mammoths

From Tardis Wiki, the free Doctor Who reference
Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.

The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then publish the changes below to finish undoing the edit.

Latest revision Your text
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Conjecture}}
{{Infobox Organisation
{{Infobox Organisation
|image = Isobel and mammoth.jpg
|image = Isobel and mammoth.jpg
Line 7: Line 8:
|bases = [[Alter-time realm (Cobweb and Ivory)|Alter-time realm]], [[Terra Primagenia]]
|bases = [[Alter-time realm (Cobweb and Ivory)|Alter-time realm]], [[Terra Primagenia]]
|leader = [[Cernunnos]]
|leader = [[Cernunnos]]
|members = {{il|[[Taranis]]|[[Luigsech]]|[[Graelyn Scythes]]}}
|members = [[Taranis]]
|only = Cobweb and Ivory (short story)
|only = Cobweb and Ivory (short story)
|appearances = [[PROSE]]: ''[[White Canvas (novel)|White Canvas]]''
|appearances =  
}}
}}
The "'''Original Mammoths'''" ([[PROSE]]: ''[[White Canvas (novel)|White Canvas]]'') were the original form of the [[mammoth]]s, as they existed in the [[time before time]]. They were ruled by [[Cernunnos]] and were the rulers of the [[painted warrior]]s and [[human]]ity, whom they created using [[loom|breeding-engines]]. They had great [[psychic power]]s. The [[anchoring of the thread]] reduced their kind to the non-magical beasts who were then hunted to extinction by humanity, but a few Original Mammoths had survived with their power unbroken, and would go on to initiate the [[War in Heaven]] against the [[Great House]]s, becoming [[the Enemy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cobweb and Ivory (short story)|Cobweb and Ivory]]'')
'''Original Mammoths''' were the original generation of [[Mammoth]]s, native to the [[Dark Times|time before time]]. They were ruled by [[Cernunnos]] and were the rulers of the [[painted warrior]]s and [[human]]ity, whom they created using [[loom|breeding-engines]]. They had great [[psychic power]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cobweb and Ivory (short story)|Cobweb and Ivory]]'')


== History ==
=== Origins ===
In the time before time, there existed [[Alter-time realm (Cobweb and Ivory)|cities carved into gigantic ivory tusks]] where [[scholar]]s and [[Philosophy|philosophers]] rode on the backs of [[steam]]-powered mammoth [[skeleton]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') These cities were inhabited by the mammoths. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cobweb and Ivory (short story)|Cobweb and Ivory]]'')
In the time before time, there existed [[Alter-time realm (Cobweb and Ivory)|cities carved into gigantic ivory tusks]] where [[scholar]]s and [[Philosophy|philosophers]] rode on the backs of [[steam]]-powered mammoth [[skeleton]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') These cities were inhabited by the mammoths. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cobweb and Ivory (short story)|Cobweb and Ivory]]'')


After the [[Time Lord]]s [[Anchoring of the thread|eradicated irrationality from reality and created history]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') Cernunnos ordered the humans to hunt mammoths to [[extinction]]. A trace of loyalty to mammoths remained in humanity's collective [[memory]] for billions of years. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cobweb and Ivory (short story)|Cobweb and Ivory]]'')
After the [[Time Lord]]s [[Anchoring of the thread|eradicated irrationality from reality and created history]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') Cernunnos ordered the humans to hunt mammoths to [[extinction]]. A trace of loyalty to mammoths remained in humanity's collective [[memory]] for billions of years, and Cernunnos was eventually resurrected in the [[posthuman]] era by a group led by [[Linemica]]. These posthumans built a planet for the mammoths, [[Terra Primagenia]].


=== Return and the War ===
Cernunnos found [[Alter-time realm (Cobweb and Ivory)|the remains of a pre-Anchoring time mammoth city]] with the unwitting help of [[Avus]], and used it as a base to begin planning to undo the [[anchoring of the thread]] in [[War in Heaven|a War]] against the [[Great House]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cobweb and Ivory (short story)|Cobweb and Ivory]]'')
[[Cernunnos]] was eventually resurrected in the [[posthuman]] era by a group led by [[Linemica]]. These posthumans built a planet for the mammoths, [[Terra Primagenia]].


Cernunnos found [[Alter-time realm (Cobweb and Ivory)|the remains of a pre-Anchoring time mammoth city]] with the unwitting help of [[Avus]], and used it as a base to begin planning to undo the [[anchoring of the thread]] in [[War in Heaven|a War]] against the [[Great House]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cobweb and Ivory (short story)|Cobweb and Ivory]]'')
=== Moving against the 10,000 Dawns ===
Early on in this war, a faction of Original Mammoths led by [[Taranis]] learned of a prophecy according to which they would be destroyed by forces from the [[10,000 Dawns]], a grouping of universes beyond the one where the war was being fought. Finding holes between their universe and the 10,000 Dawns, they sent [[painted warrior]]s through to abduct their supposed foes, including the [[Firmament]] but also the entire population of the Dawns and especially [[Graelyn Scythes]], who would supposedly become "she-with-the-golden-arm" wielding a [[gauntlet (White Canvas)|gauntlet]] belonging to the Mammoths' [[Great House|foes]].
In actuality, however, the Mammoths had been manipulated with independent operator [[Auteur]], who hoped to use the power of the 10,000 Dawns and the gauntlet to single-handedly overwrite the war. Disguised as "[[the Emissary]]", Auteur followed Graelyn, [[Lady Aesculapius]] and [[Archimedes Von Ahnerabe]] back to the Mammoths' alter-time realm, where she revealed her true motives and took the gauntlet for herself, using it to turn most of the Mammoths and their painted warriors into [[fiction]] before inflicting the same fate on Graelyn's friends and on the temporally-frozen 10,000 Dawns natives who had been abducted by the painted warriors. Wanting to make up for his error of judgment, Taranis transmuted himself into a [[stuffed animal]] who still retained his metaphysical power, before Auteur herself could turn him into pure fiction. Graelyn, meanwhile, found her own way to mess up Auteur's ritual, deaging herself into a [[baby]] in such a way that Auteur would have to raise her up again until Graelyn was old enough to write her own ending to her own story, before which the ritual could not complete itself.
Over the next seventeen years, as she grew up again in [[Auteur's Town]], Graelyn hung on to the Taranis stuffed toy. Thanks to his influence, she was slowly able to remember her original life in the form of [[dream]]s. Eventually, after she remembered the events immediately preceding her deaging, she was able to rescue her friends from fictionality and confront Auteur, also restoring Taranis to his true form. This turned out to be precisely what Auteur had hoped, as it counted as Graelyn "bringing an end to her story", and resulted in everything within the Town, including the mammoths, being fictionalised again. However, this reversal of fortunes was temporary as Graelyn managed to trick Auteur into fictionalising herself, leaving behind the gauntlet, which she put on an used to reverse everything that had happened, restoring all 10,001 fictionalised universes to reality. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[White Canvas (novel)|White Canvas]]'')
=== The Christmas Needle Agreement ===
On the day following the end of [[the White Canvas]], representatives from both the [[10,000 Dawns]] and the [[N-Space|universe of the war]] gathered at [[the Needle]] to negotiate [[Christmas Needle Agreement|an Agreement]] whereby which neither reality would attack the other ever again. This included representatives both of the Mammoths and of their [[Time Lord|foes]].
After the signing of the official treaty, [[Graelyn Scythes]] found [[Taranis]] and, in thanks for all his support during these seventeen years, impulsively gave him a [[Dawn (organisation)|Dawn]] badge as a token of gratitude. Overestimating the significance of the gesture, Taranis felt compelled to return it by imparting upon Graelyn the sigil of the Original Mammoths, which marked her in some deep and honoured way as metaphysically a [[mammoth]] in her own right, "granted the privileges of the herd and song, (…) and known to all to have the spirit of the tusk". As this new state of affairs was evidently a much greater guarantee of the Mammoths never attacking the 10,000 Dawns again than the signing of any written treaty, she carefully did not explain the insignificance of the Dawn badge, instead telling Taranis that he was welcome in [[Spiral (reality)|Spiral]] at any time in a way which implied, without lying outright, that this was what the badge meant. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[White Canvas (novel)|White Canvas]]'')
=== After the War ===
In the [[post-War universe]], Cernunnos was stranded on [[1774]] [[Earth]] in a weakened state. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'', ''[[Cobweb and Ivory (short story)|Cobweb and Ivory]]'', ''[[Grass (short story)|Grass]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Political Animals (comic story)|Political Animals]]'') As late as [[1804]], [[Thomas Jefferson]] believed that woolly mammoths still roamed the [[North America]]n midwest and even sent an expedition to find one. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Grass (short story)|Grass]]'', ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'')
In the [[post-War universe]], Cernunnos was stranded on [[1774]] [[Earth]] in a weakened state. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'', ''[[Cobweb and Ivory (short story)|Cobweb and Ivory]]'', ''[[Grass (short story)|Grass]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Political Animals (comic story)|Political Animals]]'') As late as [[1804]], [[Thomas Jefferson]] believed that woolly mammoths still roamed the [[North America]]n midwest and even sent an expedition to find one. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Grass (short story)|Grass]]'', ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'')


The [[Gendar (species)|Gendar]] [[religion]], where the [[Sun Builder]]s were cast as benevolent gods, also included "bogeymen" who were "furred, fell things of tusks and [[Vampire|fangs]] and [[Cernunnos|antlers]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Out of the Box (short story)|Out of the Box]]'')
The [[Gendar (species)|Gendar]] [[religion]], where the [[Sun Builder]]s were cast as benevolent gods, also included "bogeymen" who were "furred, fell things of tusks and [[Vampire|fangs]] and [[Cernunnos|antlers]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Out of the Box (short story)|Out of the Box]]'')
== Behind the scenes ==
* The Original Mammoths made a further licensed appearance in ''[[White Canvas (short story)|White Canvas]]'', a short story which crossed over elements of the ''Doctor Who'' and ''Faction Paradox'' mythos with the separate sci-fi series ''[[10,000 Dawns (series)|10,000 Dawns]]''. They were not given the capitalised name of "Original Mammoths" in an in-universe context until that short story.


[[Category:The Enemy]]
[[Category:The Enemy]]
Please note that all contributions to Tardis Wiki are considered to be released under the CC BY-SA 3.0 (see Tardis:Copyrights for details). If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource. Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel Editing help (opens in new window)

Insert: – — … ° ≈ ≠ ± − × ÷ ← → · §  Sign your username: ~~~~

Wiki markup: {{}}   |   []   [[]]   [[Category:]]   #REDIRECT [[]]   <s></s>   <sup></sup>   <sub></sub>   <code></code>   <blockquote></blockquote>   <ref></ref>   <references/>   <includeonly></includeonly>   <noinclude></noinclude>   <nowiki></nowiki>
Symbols: ~ | ¡ ¿ † ‡ ↔ ↑ ↓ •   # ¹ ² ³ ½ ⅓ ⅔ ¼ ¾ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞  
Characters: Á á Ć ć É é Í í Ĺ ĺ Ń ń Ó ó Ŕ ŕ Ś ś Ú ú Ý ý Ź ź   À à È è Ì ì Ò ò Ù ù    â Ĉ ĉ Ê ê Ĝ ĝ Ĥ ĥ Î î Ĵ ĵ Ô ô Ŝ ŝ Û û Ŵ ŵ Ŷ ŷ   Ä ä Ë ë Ï ï Ö ö Ü ü Ÿ ÿ   ß   à ã Ẽ ẽ Ĩ ĩ Ñ ñ Õ õ Ũ ũ Ỹ ỹ   Ç ç Ģ ģ Ķ ķ Ļ ļ Ņ ņ Ŗ ŗ Ş ş Ţ ţ   Đ đ   Ů ů   Ǎ ǎ Č č Ď ď Ě ě Ǐ ǐ Ľ ľ Ň ň Ǒ ǒ Ř ř Š š Ť ť Ǔ ǔ Ž ž   Ā ā Ē ē Ī ī Ō ō Ū ū Ȳ ȳ Ǣ ǣ   ǖ ǘ ǚ ǜ   Ă ă Ĕ ĕ Ğ ğ Ĭ ĭ Ŏ ŏ Ŭ ŭ   Ċ ċ Ė ė Ġ ġ İ ı Ż ż   Ą ą Ę ę Į į Ǫ ǫ Ų ų   Ḍ ḍ Ḥ ḥ Ḷ ḷ Ḹ ḹ Ṃ ṃ Ṇ ṇ Ṛ ṛ Ṝ ṝ Ṣ ṣ Ṭ ṭ   Ł ł   Ő ő Ű ű   Ŀ ŀ   Ħ ħ   Ð ð Þ þ   Œ œ   Æ æ Ø ø Å å   Ə ə 
Greek: Ά ά Έ έ Ή ή Ί ί Ό ό Ύ ύ Ώ ώ   Α α Β β Γ γ Δ δ   Ε ε Ζ ζ Η η Θ θ   Ι ι Κ κ Λ λ Μ μ   Ν ν Ξ ξ Ο ο Π π   Ρ ρ Σ σ ς Τ τ Υ υ   Φ φ Χ χ Ψ ψ Ω ω  

Please note: No personal information from you is required to edit on the Tardis Wiki. However, if you feel the need to divulge such information, be aware that it is illegal to do so if you are under the age of 13 (16 in some countries). (See also: Privacy policy)
  • Once you push "Publish", your changes will be visible immediately.
  • For testing, please use the Tardis sandbox.
  • On talk pages, please sign your comment by typing four tildes: ~~~~

Templates used on this page:

Retrieved from "https://tardis.wiki/wiki/Original_Mammoths"