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|affiliation      = Doom Coalition
|affiliation      = Doom Coalition
|origin            = Gallifrey
|job              = Personal assistant
|origin            = [[Gallifrey]]
|first mention    = A Life in the Day (audio story)
|first mention    = A Life in the Day (audio story)
|first            = The Red Lady (audio story)
|first            = The Red Lady (audio story)
|appearances      = [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scenes From Her Life (audio story)|Scenes From Her Life]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gift (audio story)|The Gift]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sonomancer (audio story)|The Sonomancer]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Songs of Love (audio story)|Songs of Love]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Side of the Angels (audio story)|The Side of the Angels]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Stop the Clock (audio story)|Stop the Clock]]''
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|voice actor      =  Emma Cunniffe
|voice actor      =  Emma Cunniffe
|other voice actor = [[Caroline Langrishe]]
|other voice actor = [[Caroline Langrishe]]
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'''Caleera''', also known as '''the Sonomancer''', was a [[renegade Time Lord]] and a powerful psychic who was splintered across all of time, becoming the '''Red Lady'''.
'''Caleera''', also known as '''the Sonomancer''', was a [[renegade Time Lord]] and a powerful [[Psychic power|psychic]] who was splintered across all of [[time]], becoming the '''Red Lady'''.


== History ==
== History ==
=== As Caleera ===
=== Life on Gallifrey ===
As a student in the [[Time Lord Academy]], Caleera's tutors thought that she would not amount to anything. She was a powerful telepath and she wanted to learn how to control it, but her tutors wanted to suppress the powers. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scenes From Her Life (audio story)|Scenes From Her Life]]'') On orders from [[Padrac]], who sought to manipulate her self-worth so she would end up joining his later plans, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Stop the Clock (audio story)|Stop the Clock]]'') Caleera was placed as an assistant to the [[junior archivist]] on leaving the academy on the grounds that her past instability made her unsuitable for a more high-level position. She used her powers to empathise with [[Helen Sinclair|Helen]], playing on the similarities in their history. In her time in the archives she interviewed [[the Eleven]] as part of a research project, with the Eleven convincing her to amplify her powers so that she could contribute to his own plans. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scenes From Her Life (audio story)|Scenes From Her Life]]'') Padrac was manipulating her life all along, denying her opportunities so that she would later destroy the universe as part of his plan to save his world from its [[The Matrix|Matrix]]-projected doom. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Stop the Clock (audio story)|Stop the Clock]]'')
Caleera studied at the [[Time Lord Academy]] and was a talented student who was prone to [[daydream]]ing. In one class, [[Sepulchra|her Educator]] admonished her for this, leading to the discovery of Caleera's incredible psychic powers. Although she was greatly pleased to be special and wanted to hone her powers, she was given [[suppressant]]s and surgery by [[Swordfish (Scenes From Her Life)|a psychosurgeon]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scenes From Her Life (audio story)|Scenes From Her Life]]'') on [[Padrac]]'s orders. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Stop the Clock (audio story)|Stop the Clock]]'')


Caleera kidnapped [[Stormblood]] from the archives shortly before the Eleven's escape from Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Crucible of Souls (audio story)|The Crucible of Souls]]'')
She graduated with exceptional marks and was greatly upset when she was assigned to work as an assistant to a [[junior archivist]] for "a [[regeneration]] or two". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scenes From Her Life (audio story)|Scenes From Her Life]]'') One day, she was summoned to [[chancellor's office|Padrac's office]] and was charmed by him due to the low self-worth he had ensured she had. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Stop the Clock (audio story)|Stop the Clock]]'') She visited [[the Eleven]] in the [[Capitol prison facility]] and, on the day that he escaped, stole [[TARDIS (Scenes From Her Life)|an antique TARDIS]] and kidnapped her Educator, [[Stormblood|the Chief Archivist]] and her psychosurgeon. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scenes From Her Life (audio story)|Scenes From Her Life]]'')


[[Liv Chenka]] and [[Helen Sinclair]] found her trapped in a [[TARDIS (Scenes From Her Life)|TARDIS]] and wanted to help her escape. Caleera manipulated events to make Helen ask the Doctor to free her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scenes From Her Life (audio story)|Scenes From Her Life]]'')
=== As the Sonomancer ===
Anchoring the TARDIS in the [[Time Vortex]], Caleera sealed herself in a [[neural amplifier]] and tested her powers on various prisoners, using the three [[Time Lord]]s she kidnapped - now insane and calling themselves Lord Stormblood, Lady Sepulchra and Swordfish - as [[servant]]s. She used her powers to destroy the [[Voord homeworld|homeworld]] of the [[Voord]], attracting the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s attention. When he, [[Liv Chenka]] and [[Helen Sinclair]] arrived in the TARDIS, she exploited Helen's empathy to get the Doctor to help her, after which she destroyed the TARDIS and left with her powers strengthened. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scenes From Her Life (audio story)|Scenes From Her Life]]'')
 
Caleera went to the [[High Sierra]] in [[1905]] and gave [[the Gift|her Gift]] to [[Sam Sonora]], experimenting with her powers by having them amplify the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]] and destroy [[Earth]]. She later transferred the Gift to the Doctor, who thwarted her by using it to power [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] instead. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gift (audio story)|The Gift]]'')


=== As the Sonomancer ===
Now calling herself the Sonomancer, she planned to destroy [[Syra]] and encountered the Doctor once again, offering him the chance to join the [[Doom Coalition]]. He escaped her using the remainder of the Gift in his mind, after which she destroyed the planet and rescued the Eleven by teleporting him into [[the Eleven's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sonomancer (audio story)|The Sonomancer]]'')
She experimented with her powers to create a curse for the people of [[San Francisco]] which would amplify the earthquake of [[1906]]. She then gave the gift to the [[Eighth Doctor]], who used it to save Liv from dying. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gift (audio story)|The Gift]]'')


In her power she became the Sonomancer. She decided to use this power to destroy worlds and proceeded to destroy [[Syra]]. The Doctor tried to stop her from destroying the planet by trapping her in the mining station. She used her power to call [[the Eleven's TARDIS]] to save herself and the Eleven. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sonomancer (audio story)|The Sonomancer]]'')
[[File:Sonomancer and Eighth.jpg|thumb|left|The Sonomancer and the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Doom Coalition 4]]'')]]
The Sonomancer took up residence within [[the Matrix]] and searched for the plans for the [[Resonance Engine]], as well as distorting information to mislead the [[High Council]]. She discovered that the Doctor, Liv and Helen were still alive and informed Padrac that [[Jerasta|Chancellor Jerasta]] made contact with [[President (The Eleven)|the President]], after which he ordered her to destroy the [[Presidential TARDIS]]. She also wiped out the [[councillor]]s who opposed Padrac's plans and [[torture]]d [[River Song]] in the Matrix.


After escaping Syra she inhabited [[The Matrix]]. She used the timing of the [[Doomsday Chronometer]] to start her plans and to get plans for the [[Resonance Engine]]. She didn't like [[River Song]]. She trapped [[Livia]]'s ship in the transduction barrier and later destroyed it. She took River into the Matrix and tortured her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Songs of Love (audio story)|Songs of Love]]'') The Eleven asked her to use her powers to help the [[Weeping Angel]]s by creating darkness. ([[AUDIO]]'': [[The Side of the Angels (audio story)|The Side of the Angels]]'')
At the Eleven's request, the Sonomancer traced the Doctor so that he could follow and kill him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Songs of Love (audio story)|Songs of Love]]'') She assisted him by negotiating with the [[Weeping Angel]]s and causing a [[power cut]] in [[New York City]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Side of the Angels (audio story)|The Side of the Angels]]'')


Padrac placed her in the [[Resonance Engine]] in order to amplify her powers so that she could destroy the universe. The Doctor tried to convince her that Padrac would discard her once his plans were completed, arguing that she could use her access to the Matrix to easily check if he was right and then laugh at him if he was wrong. She went into the matrix and found out that Padrac had manipulated her into this decision. Using her connection to the Matrix she fed Liv and Helen a message, first for Liv to destroy the Capitol shields and then to Helen to pilot a Battle TARDIS into the Resonance Engine. She was then fractured across time, becoming a form that would be known as the Red Lady. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Stop the Clock (audio story)|Stop the Clock]]'')
The Sonomancer located the plans for the Resonance Engine, which Padrac then built and sealed her inside with [[Ladonne]]'s help. However, she learnt of how Padrac had manipulated her life and how he did not love her after the Doctor convinced her to look into the Matrix, leading her to send a message to Liv to lower the [[Capitol]] shields and to transfer her powers to Helen, having her pilot [[Battle TARDIS (Stop the Clock)|a Battle TARDIS]] into the machine. Whilst the TARDIS was thrown into the Vortex, the Sonomancer was scattered across time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Stop the Clock (audio story)|Stop the Clock]]'')


=== As the Red Lady ===
=== As the Red Lady ===
When the Doctor first met Caleera as the Red Lady, she was a mysterious creature that appeared in the art of many civilisations. She later attacked [[Albert Kennedy]]. She was referred to in all of the documents that [[Liv Chenka]] and [[Helen Sinclair]] translated. She would kill anyone who saw her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Red Lady (audio story)|The Red Lady]]'') She did this as she was trying to find Padrac so he could pay for what he did to her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Stop the Clock (audio story)|Stop the Clock]]'')
Fractured across [[time]] and searching for Padrac, the Sonomancer became known as the Red Lady, inhabiting artwork and killing the first to look upon her unless they created more art. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Red Lady (audio story)|The Red Lady]]'', ''[[Stop the Clock (audio story)|Stop the Clock]]'') [[Francis McCallum|Dr Francis McCallum]] assembled a collection of all such art after the Red Lady killed [[Francis McCallum's mother|his mother]] and [[Francis McCallum's father|and father]] which [[Albert Kennedy]] donated to the [[National Gallery]] after his death.
 
[[File:Red Lady art.jpg|thumb|right|Artwork of the Red Lady. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Red Lady (audio story)|The Red Lady]]'')]]
The Red Lady killed Kennedy and [[Walter Pritchett|Professor Walter Pritchett]] before coming for the Doctor and Liv. The two were able to trap her by drawing a [[stick figure]] and writing a [[poem]] respectively, after which the Doctor removed the collection. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Red Lady (audio story)|The Red Lady]]'') Some remained, with a sealed vault in the [[Relic Room]] containing one of the last to survive. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Web of Time (audio story)|The Web of Time]]'')
 
Eventually, the Red Lady found Padrac in the Capitol as a discolouration on his cell wall which grew. She spoke to him before he was frozen, telling him that they would be together forever. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Stop the Clock (audio story)|Stop the Clock]]'')
 
== Personality ==
''To be added.''
 
== Appearance ==
Caleera was beautiful and had red hair. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Red Lady (audio story)|The Red Lady]]'', ''[[Stop the Clock (audio story)|Stop the Clock]]'') She wore green, which [[River Song]] thought looked good with her hair colour. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Songs of Love (audio story)|Songs of Love]]'')


In the [[Relic Room]], Professor [[River Song]] was pointed to a sealed [[vault]] containing one of the only remaining pictures of the "notorious" Red Lady. She and her guide [[Neon]] agreed it was best they did not enter, or look upon her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Web of Time (audio story)|The Web of Time]]'')
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Latest revision as of 13:23, 21 March 2024

Caleera, also known as the Sonomancer, was a renegade Time Lord and a powerful psychic who was splintered across all of time, becoming the Red Lady.

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

Life on Gallifrey[[edit] | [edit source]]

Caleera studied at the Time Lord Academy and was a talented student who was prone to daydreaming. In one class, her Educator admonished her for this, leading to the discovery of Caleera's incredible psychic powers. Although she was greatly pleased to be special and wanted to hone her powers, she was given suppressants and surgery by a psychosurgeon (AUDIO: Scenes From Her Life) on Padrac's orders. (AUDIO: Stop the Clock)

She graduated with exceptional marks and was greatly upset when she was assigned to work as an assistant to a junior archivist for "a regeneration or two". (AUDIO: Scenes From Her Life) One day, she was summoned to Padrac's office and was charmed by him due to the low self-worth he had ensured she had. (AUDIO: Stop the Clock) She visited the Eleven in the Capitol prison facility and, on the day that he escaped, stole an antique TARDIS and kidnapped her Educator, the Chief Archivist and her psychosurgeon. (AUDIO: Scenes From Her Life)

As the Sonomancer[[edit] | [edit source]]

Anchoring the TARDIS in the Time Vortex, Caleera sealed herself in a neural amplifier and tested her powers on various prisoners, using the three Time Lords she kidnapped - now insane and calling themselves Lord Stormblood, Lady Sepulchra and Swordfish - as servants. She used her powers to destroy the homeworld of the Voord, attracting the Eighth Doctor's attention. When he, Liv Chenka and Helen Sinclair arrived in the TARDIS, she exploited Helen's empathy to get the Doctor to help her, after which she destroyed the TARDIS and left with her powers strengthened. (AUDIO: Scenes From Her Life)

Caleera went to the High Sierra in 1905 and gave her Gift to Sam Sonora, experimenting with her powers by having them amplify the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and destroy Earth. She later transferred the Gift to the Doctor, who thwarted her by using it to power his TARDIS instead. (AUDIO: The Gift)

Now calling herself the Sonomancer, she planned to destroy Syra and encountered the Doctor once again, offering him the chance to join the Doom Coalition. He escaped her using the remainder of the Gift in his mind, after which she destroyed the planet and rescued the Eleven by teleporting him into his TARDIS. (AUDIO: The Sonomancer)

The Sonomancer and the Doctor. (AUDIO: Doom Coalition 4)

The Sonomancer took up residence within the Matrix and searched for the plans for the Resonance Engine, as well as distorting information to mislead the High Council. She discovered that the Doctor, Liv and Helen were still alive and informed Padrac that Chancellor Jerasta made contact with the President, after which he ordered her to destroy the Presidential TARDIS. She also wiped out the councillors who opposed Padrac's plans and tortured River Song in the Matrix.

At the Eleven's request, the Sonomancer traced the Doctor so that he could follow and kill him. (AUDIO: Songs of Love) She assisted him by negotiating with the Weeping Angels and causing a power cut in New York City. (AUDIO: The Side of the Angels)

The Sonomancer located the plans for the Resonance Engine, which Padrac then built and sealed her inside with Ladonne's help. However, she learnt of how Padrac had manipulated her life and how he did not love her after the Doctor convinced her to look into the Matrix, leading her to send a message to Liv to lower the Capitol shields and to transfer her powers to Helen, having her pilot a Battle TARDIS into the machine. Whilst the TARDIS was thrown into the Vortex, the Sonomancer was scattered across time. (AUDIO: Stop the Clock)

As the Red Lady[[edit] | [edit source]]

Fractured across time and searching for Padrac, the Sonomancer became known as the Red Lady, inhabiting artwork and killing the first to look upon her unless they created more art. (AUDIO: The Red Lady, Stop the Clock) Dr Francis McCallum assembled a collection of all such art after the Red Lady killed his mother and and father which Albert Kennedy donated to the National Gallery after his death.

Artwork of the Red Lady. (AUDIO: The Red Lady)

The Red Lady killed Kennedy and Professor Walter Pritchett before coming for the Doctor and Liv. The two were able to trap her by drawing a stick figure and writing a poem respectively, after which the Doctor removed the collection. (AUDIO: The Red Lady) Some remained, with a sealed vault in the Relic Room containing one of the last to survive. (AUDIO: The Web of Time)

Eventually, the Red Lady found Padrac in the Capitol as a discolouration on his cell wall which grew. She spoke to him before he was frozen, telling him that they would be together forever. (AUDIO: Stop the Clock)

Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]

To be added.

Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]

Caleera was beautiful and had red hair. (AUDIO: The Red Lady, Stop the Clock) She wore green, which River Song thought looked good with her hair colour. (AUDIO: Songs of Love)