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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the first short story in the ''[[Lethbridge-Stewart (series)|Lethbridge-Stewart]]'' series anthology ''[[Lineage (anthology)|Lineage]]''. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the first short story in the ''[[Lethbridge-Stewart (series)|Lethbridge-Stewart]]'' series anthology ''[[Lineage (anthology)|Lineage]]''. It served as both the prologue and epilogue to the anthology. | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
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* [[Lady Elizabeth Howlett]] | * [[Lady Elizabeth Howlett]] | ||
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* Sir [[John Lethbridge (The Soothsayer)|John Lethbridge]], Mary's father, attended [[James I]]'s [[coronation]]. | * Sir [[John Lethbridge (The Soothsayer)|John Lethbridge]], Mary's father, attended [[James I]]'s [[coronation]]. | ||
* The poets Benjamin Johnson and Thomas Dekker are mentioned. | * The poets Benjamin Johnson and Thomas Dekker are mentioned. | ||
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[[Category:Lineage short stories]] | [[Category:Lineage short stories]] | ||
[[Category:Stories set in 1603]] | [[Category:Stories set in 1603]] | ||
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The Soothsayer was the first short story in the Lethbridge-Stewart series anthology Lineage. It served as both the prologue and epilogue to the anthology.
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Visions[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Henry John Lethbridge-Stewart
- Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart
- Kate Lethbridge-Stewart
- Lucy Wilson
- Sir John Lethbridge
- Mary Lethbridge's mother
- Benjamin
- Lady Elizabeth Howlett
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Sir John Lethbridge, Mary's father, attended James I's coronation.
- The poets Benjamin Johnson and Thomas Dekker are mentioned.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- While he is Captain William Stewart here, in the Eighth Doctor's telling of his story in The Dying Days, he referred to him as General William Lethbridge-Stewart.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Mary sees a cocoa-skinned girl and a tall blonde woman with a soldier's bearing saving the world after Alistair dies. (PROSE: Avatars of the Intelligence, TV: The Power of Three)
- William Stewart was first mentioned in PROSE: The Dying Days. A footnote at the end of the story acknowledges this.
- Mary gets a vision of her future son, Henry John Lethbridge-Stewart, and learns she will die in childbirth. Henry John Lethbridge-Stewart appears in AUDIO: The Revisionists.
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