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'''The Familiar''' were a race of barely sentient, [[water]]-dwelling, hive-minded creatures. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dead of Winter (novel)|Dead of Winter]]'')
{{rename|[[Familiar (Dead of Winter)]] to disambiguate from the more general sense of familiar as an attendant spirit/animal, especially since three out of five currently incoming links to this article seem to refer to this definition}}
'''The Familiar''' were a race of barely sentient, [[water]]-dwelling, hive-minded creatures.
 
== Characteristics ==
The Familiar were purely benevolent in nature, but impressionable; if they encountered the wrong person with enough influence, they would willingly follow him or her. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dead of Winter (novel)|Dead of Winter]]'')


== History ==
== History ==
The Familiar popped up quite often throughout [[Earth]]'s history — most often in anecdotes told by lonely travellers who had been "guided across a treacherous moor" by the supposed spirits of long-dead loved ones or friends that appeared to them. These "living ghosts" were in fact the Familiar, who read could read people's thoughts and use the information to create a near-perfect double of the one they loved most, solely for the altruistic purpose of helping them. {{Fact}} After the [[Rory Williams]] got the Familiar to heal the [[Eleventh Doctor]], his accumulated pain was too much for it and it was destroyed. However, a ghost of it remained and the Doctor used it to give Maria, one of its creations, back her mother.
The Familiar popped up quite often throughout [[Earth]]'s history — most often in anecdotes told by lonely travellers who had been "guided across a treacherous moor" by the supposed spirits of long-dead loved ones or friends that appeared to them. These "living ghosts" were in fact the Familiar, who read could read people's thoughts and use the information to create a near-perfect double of the one they loved most, solely for the altruistic purpose of helping them. After the [[Rory Williams]] got the Familiar to heal the [[Eleventh Doctor]], his accumulated pain was too much for it and it was destroyed. However, a ghost of it remained and the Doctor used it to give [[Maria (Dead of Winter)|Maria]], one of its creations, back her mother. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dead of Winter (novel)|Dead of Winter]]'')
 
== Characteristics ==
The Familiar were purely benevolent in nature, but impressionable; if they encountered the wrong person with enough influence, they would willingly follow him or her.{{Fact}}
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Familiar (Dead of Winter) to disambiguate from the more general sense of familiar as an attendant spirit/animal, especially since three out of five currently incoming links to this article seem to refer to this definition

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The Familiar were a race of barely sentient, water-dwelling, hive-minded creatures.

Characteristics[[edit]]

The Familiar were purely benevolent in nature, but impressionable; if they encountered the wrong person with enough influence, they would willingly follow him or her. (PROSE: Dead of Winter)

History[[edit]]

The Familiar popped up quite often throughout Earth's history — most often in anecdotes told by lonely travellers who had been "guided across a treacherous moor" by the supposed spirits of long-dead loved ones or friends that appeared to them. These "living ghosts" were in fact the Familiar, who read could read people's thoughts and use the information to create a near-perfect double of the one they loved most, solely for the altruistic purpose of helping them. After the Rory Williams got the Familiar to heal the Eleventh Doctor, his accumulated pain was too much for it and it was destroyed. However, a ghost of it remained and the Doctor used it to give Maria, one of its creations, back her mother. (PROSE: Dead of Winter)