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 {{Infobox Individual
-|individual name = Andred
+|alias        = [[Torvald]], Prisoner 56789-Gamma-Beta
-|alias =
+|species      = Time Lord
-|image = [[Image:Andred.jpg|250px]]
+|job          = Commander
-|race = [[Time Lord]]
+|job2         = Castellan
-|home planet = [[Gallifrey]]
+|affiliation  = Celestial Intervention Agency
-|home era = [[Rassilon Era]]
+|spouse       = Leela
-|appearances = [[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'' <br> [[BFG]]: ''[[A Blind Eye]]'' <br> [[BFG]]: ''[[Lies]]''
+|first        = Weapon of Choice (audio story)
-|actor = [[Christopher Tranchell]] <br> [[Andy Coleman]]
+|appearances  = {{Il|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Inquiry (audio story)|The Inquiry]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Blind Eye (audio story)|A Blind Eye]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lies (audio story)|Lies]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Pandora (audio story)|Pandora]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Insurgency (audio story)|Insurgency]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Imperiatrix (audio story)|Imperiatrix]]''}}
+|voice actor  = Andy Coleman
 }}
+{{Andreds}}
+Following a [[regeneration]] in [[the Vaults]], [[Andred]]'s '''next incarnation''' took on the identity of [[Torvald]] to infiltrate and investigate the [[Celestial Intervention Agency|CIA]].
-'''Andred''' was from the [[House of the Redlooms]]. He fell in love with [[Leela]] 'the savage'. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'')
+Andred remained undercover for several months and was, as a result, unable to develop his own personality. After a period of imprisonment and some time on the run, Andred was appointed [[Castellan]] by [[Darkel]] and assisted [[Valyes]] in purging the [[Time Lord Academy|Gallifreyan Academy]] of [[alien]]s before deciding to do what was right and become the man that [[Leela]] fell in love with.
-:''Certain elements of the [[Virgin New Adventures]] and [[Gallifrey (audio series)|Big Finish - Gallifrey series]] are incompatible.''
+Before Andred could save [[Taylor Addison]]'s life, he was stabbed in both hearts by a [[Pandora]]-controlled [[Romana II|Romana]] and died.
-==In one instance==
+== Biography ==
-Andred was made Castellan following [[Spandrell]], his cousin [[Redred]] was captain of the [[Prydonian Academy|Prydonian Chapterhouse]]. Leela became pregnant to him. ([[NA]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]'')
+=== As Torvald ===
+[[Andred (The Invasion of Time)|Commander Andred]] [[regeneration|regenerated]] after a fight with [[Torvald]], whom he killed, and told the rescue party that he was Torvald's second [[incarnation]] so that he could infiltrate the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] and investigate the possibility of [[neo-conservatism|neo-conservative]] elements. Only when his [[regenerative dissonance]] began to pass did he realise the emotional harm that he would be causing [[Leela]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Blind Eye (audio story)|A Blind Eye]]'')
-==In another instance==
+To become Torvald, Andred entered the archives and secretly replaced Torvald's [[biodata extract]] with his own. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Inquiry (audio story)|The Inquiry]]'', ''[[A Blind Eye (audio story)|A Blind Eye]]'') He became [[Narvin|Coordinator Narvin]]'s right-hand man but ultimately found no evidence of plots against [[Romana II|President Romana]] in the CIA. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Blind Eye (audio story)|A Blind Eye]]'') Living as Torvald for many months, however, reprogrammed him and made him take on some of the real Torvald's beliefs and traits. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lies (audio story)|Lies]]'')
-After spending many years with Leela, [[Castellan]] Andred became suspicious of certain activities by the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]], and in particular suspected Coordinator [[Narvin]] of violent anti-alien tendancies, in contradiction to [[Romana II|President Romana]]'s new policies. He made attempted overtures towards Narvin, claiming that his wife Leela had shown him the incompatability of off-worlders living on Gallifrey. Narvin easily saw through Andred's ruse, and when Andred invited Narvin to meet him in the Citadel catacombs, he guessed that Andred might try to assassinate him. He sent his most trusted agent, [[Torvald|Commander Torvald]], in his place. In the confrontation, Andred and Torvald shot each other. Torvald was killed outright while Andred was forced to regenerate. Sensing an opportunity, Andred changed clothes with the unrecognisable corpse of Torvald and claimed his identity when found by guards. Believing Andred killed, Narvin covered up the incident and denied all knowledge of why Andred had suddenly disappeared, before eventually telling Leela that he had been killed by Torvald. Andred, meanwhile, continued to act as Narvin's loyal henchman in the hopes of uncovering any plot, sometimes working with Presidential bodyguard Leela. He finally revealed the truth to Leela, Narvin and Romana when they went back in time and confronted the real Torvald on one of his missions at a point before his death. ([[BFG]]: ''[[Weapon of Choice]]'', ''[[Square One]]'', ''[[The Inquiry]]'', ''[[A Blind Eye]]'')
+Andred was sent to the [[Third Moon of Kikrit]] as a [[Time Technology Assessors|Time Technology Assessor]] to investigate the possibility of the construction of illegal [[space-time vessel]]s. He, [[Ba'aruk]] and [[Scragbite]] were tricked by [[Nepenthe]], who posed as [[Sardinopoulos]] and escaped with the [[Timonic Fusion Device]], which Andred was then sent to recover from [[Gryben]] with Leela and [[K9 Mark I]]. Their cover was blown by [[Mephistopheles Arkadian]], who knew the real Torvald and believed Andred to be his next incarnation, and the device's detonation turned out to be a ruse. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Weapon of Choice (audio story)|Weapon of Choice]]'')
+Andred was called as a [[witness]] for the [[inquiry]] into Romana's response to the Gryben incident and told [[Darkel]] that he had seen the device himself. Narvin sent him on a second mission to recover the device from Gryben with Leela and, after a battle with the [[Servitor (Square One)|Servitors]], the mission was successful. He later arrested [[Irving Braxiatel]] on Narvin's orders and, after saving Narvin from Leela, told her that he had been forced to kill her husband. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Inquiry (audio story)|The Inquiry]]'')
+=== Exposure ===
+Andred joined Narvin in investigating the [[temporal displacement]] of [[Cecelia Pollard]] in [[1939]]. He encountered Sissy and Leela but he and [[Muriel Joy]] were separated from them when the two women were drawn into the same train on a different [[time track]]. When Arkadian named Torvald as his accomplice, Andred took Romana hostage and took her into the [[Presidential TARDIS]] which she then piloted into the path of the train. Scared that this would kill Leela, he told Romana who he really was.
+After telling Leela the truth and explaining that he had not originally realised how much pain the ploy would cause her, she called him her enemy and said that her husband, for whom she had grieved, was indeed dead. He begged for [[forgiveness]] but she walked away from him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Blind Eye (audio story)|A Blind Eye]]'') For his deception, Andred was imprisoned and held under [[Wynter (Lies)|Castellan Wynter]]'s charge, with [[Darkel|Inquisitor Darkel]] once trying to get Narvin to hire him at the CIA. Leela did not visit him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lies (audio story)|Lies]]'')
+=== Assisting Darkel ===
+Andred was released from his cell by Darkel ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Pandora (audio story)|Pandora]]'') and, on her orders, accessed the [[APC Net]] with Narvin's codes and learnt about [[Pandora]] before killing [[Archivist (The Inquiry)|the Archivist]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lies (audio story)|Lies]]'') He went on the run into the Vaults, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Pandora (audio story)|Pandora]]'') where Wynter and Leela separately searched for him without success. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spirit (audio story)|Spirit]]'')
+At the main water-pumping station, Andred stopped [[Gillestes]] from infecting the water supply with the [[Dogma Virus]] and, after speaking with Braxiatel, decided to hand her over to Wynter himself to gain full credit. He was given his freedom and assisted in the hunt for Pandora with Leela and [[Kosh|Captain Kosh]] after she possessed the dying Wynter, later being appointed Wynter's successor as [[Castellan]] by Darkel. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Pandora (audio story)|Pandora]]'')
+Andred worked closely with [[Valyes|Acting-Chancellor Valyes]] as he tried to identify other [[Free Time]]rs at the [[Time Lord Academy|Gallifreyan Academy]], expelling a number of off-worlder students and banning those who remained from accessing [[the Matrix]]. He encouraged [[Taylor Addison]] to seek the [[Great Key of Rassilon]], whose death Darkel planned to use to show that children of the other [[Temporal Powers]] could not handle Gallifreyan technology. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Insurgency (audio story)|Insurgency]]'')
+=== Death ===
+After visiting [[Neeloc]] in the [[infirmary]], Andred ran into Leela. She reminded him of what his previous incarnation had been like and that had Darkel had her way they would never have been able to marry. Unsure of what he believed in, he told her that he would try to become that same person again and left to do what he knew to be right. Before he could stop Taylor, however, he was stabbed on each of his hearts by Romana, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Insurgency (audio story)|Insurgency]]'') who was controlled by Pandora. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Imperiatrix (audio story)|Imperiatrix]]'')
+== Legacy ==
+Leela believed that Andred's spirit would not be able to find [[peace]] until she had avenged his death. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Insurgency (audio story)|Insurgency]]'') She came to believe that [[Antimon|Commentator Antimon]] was responsible, but learnt from his recordings what had actually happened and blamed Romana. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Imperiatrix (audio story)|Imperiatrix]]'') Ultimately, she realised that blaming her was "wasteful" and knew that Pandora was the real one responsible. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Warfare (audio story)|Warfare]]'')
+Darkel told Narvin that it was a shame that Andred had been killed as he would have been a convenient scapegoat for the bombing at the Gallifreyan Academy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Imperiatrix (audio story)|Imperiatrix]]'')
+Andred was buried in [[the Outlands]]. Leela visited his [[grave]] during the [[Dogma Virus]] and told Andred that she was at least grateful that he had not been alive to witness the downfall of the city that he loved so much. She absolved him of responsibility for Torvald's death, believing that his [[blood]] was on Arkadian's hands, and said that she would see him again despite her blindness. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Panacea (audio story)|Panacea]]'')
+== Personality ==
+Living as Torvald caused Andred to be, as [[K9 Mark I]] described it, "programmed" to temporarily take on aspects of Torvald's personality, including his opinions. He came to support [[Free Time]] and to denounce [[Romana II|Romana]] and her reforms, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lies (audio story)|Lies]]'') despite [[Andred (The Invasion of Time)|his previous incarnation]] having been a liberal. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Weapon of Choice (audio story)|Weapon of Choice]]'') Leela felt that he did not have the same [[soul]] as the Time Lord she married. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lies (audio story)|Lies]]'')
+== Behind the scenes ==
+[[Andy Coleman]] was credited as "Commander Torvald" during [[series 1 (Gallifrey)|series 1]].
+{{High Council}}
+{{NameSort}}
-Andred was arrested and imprisoned for his deception, and earned the hatred of Leela for letting her believe he was dead. In his cell, he was visited by [[Inquisitor]] [[Darkel]] who conspired with him. She allowed him to escape, and after Andred visited the Archivist to collect evidence, Darkel had the Archivist murdered and Narvin framed Andred for the crime, forcing Andred to go on the run for some time, hunted by Leela. While in hiding, Andred caught one of the off-world students, Gillestes, about to introduce a [[Free Time]] virus to the water supply of the citadel. He handed her over to the authorities ([[Wynter]], his successor as Castellan following his original disappearance) in return for a pardon. After Wynter was attacked by the [[Pandora]] creature and mistakenly drank the quarantined Free Time virus, [[Irving Braxiatel|Chancelllor Braxiatel]] had appointed Leela as his interim replacement. After Brax's exile, Darkel returned Andred to the post of Castellan. Not long afterwards, Taylor - a student from Earth - had tried to locate the [[Key of Rassilon]]. While trying to prevent him, Andred was stabbed through both hearts by Romana, acting under the influence of Pandora. Leela once again grieved for her husband, who was buried outside of the city walls, and began to wish she could join  him in death. ([[BFG]]: ''[[Lies]]'', ''[[Spirit]]'', ''[[Pandora (audio drama)|Pandora]]'', ''[[Insurgency]]'')
-[[Category:Individual Time Lords]]
 [[Category:Castellans]]
+[[Category:Residents of Gallifrey]]
+[[Category:Murderers]]
+[[Category:Spies]]
+[[Category:Time Lords who have been inside the Doctor's TARDIS]]
+[[Category:Imposters]]
+[[Category:Members of the High Council]]
+[[Category:Leela's relatives]]
+[[Category:Andred incarnations]]
+[[Category:Arcalians]]