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| * In the nightmare, [[Vansell]], [[Azmael]] and [[Borusa]] are also seen. | | * In the nightmare, [[Vansell]], [[Azmael]] and [[Borusa]] are also seen. |
| * Two members of the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] travel from the future, who know that [[Mortimus]] will cause trouble once he leaves Gallifrey, and that another member of the Deca has a very important destiny. After studying the individuals in the Deca, they find that this individual is the Doctor. | | * Two members of the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] travel from the future, who know that [[Mortimus]] will cause trouble once he leaves Gallifrey, and that another member of the Deca has a very important destiny. After studying the individuals in the Deca, they find that this individual is the Doctor. |
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| == Notes ==
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| Several aspects of this novel seem designed to spoof [[Virgin Books]] ''Doctor Who'' ranges.
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| * The title of the novel is taken from {{w|Divided Loyalties|an episode}} of the TV show [[Babylon 5]], which was very popular in the mid 1990s. In homage to the ''[[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]]'' trend of naming chapters after songs from indie bands, each chapter in the book is the title of a song by {{w|Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark}}.
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| * The book is set between the TV episodes ''[[The Visitation (TV story)|The Visitation]]'' and ''[[Black Orchid (TV story)|Black Orchid]]'', despite the fact that there is no gap between those two stories. For the Toymaker, it apparently leads into ''[[The Nightmare Fair (TV story)|The Nightmare Fair]]'', though it is incompatible with various elements of that story.
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| * Each character receives a lengthy "flashback" dream sequence full of unnecessary background information and references to previous episodes. Many of these contradict the very episodes they reference: for instance, the [[Rassilon Imprimatur]] is presented as a real thing that a person needs in order to travel through time, despite ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]'' only including it as a lie and despite the on-screen evidence of the Doctor's many [[companion]]s. Similarly, [[the Master]] is called by the name "Koschei", despite that the [[Second Doctor]] didn't recognise him by that name in ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]''.
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| * Later, the dream sequences are revealed to have been created by the Toymaker to frustrate the Doctor and his companions. The Toymaker's statement that he was tormenting the Doctor "because I have the power to, and I can!" acts as commentary on the [[Virgin Books]] authors' attitudes toward adding backstory to characters from the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' television series.
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| == Continuity == | | == Continuity == |
