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==Biology==
==Biology==
In their natural form, the Gwanzulum appeared as large, monstrous heads with muscular, stubby arms and legs.
In their natural form, the Gwanzulum were large, monstrous heads with muscular, stubby arms and legs.


The Gwanzulum were telepaths who could read their target's mind and take take the form of individuals from their target's memories. They were parasitic energy leeches, draining life-force from and ultimately killing their targets.
The Gwanzulum were telepaths who could read their targets' minds and take take the form of individuals from their memories. The gwanzulum were parasitic energy leeches, draining life force from and ultimately killing their targets.


==History==
==History==

Revision as of 02:47, 17 September 2011

The Gwanzulum were a shape-shifting species stranded on the planet Adeki.

Biology

In their natural form, the Gwanzulum were large, monstrous heads with muscular, stubby arms and legs.

The Gwanzulum were telepaths who could read their targets' minds and take take the form of individuals from their memories. The gwanzulum were parasitic energy leeches, draining life force from and ultimately killing their targets.

History

The Gwanzulum were the oldest shape-shifting race, predating the Whifferdills and the Kymbra.

During a conflict known as the Shaper Wars, the Gwanzulum all but wiped out the Whifferdills. The wars ended with the last of the Gwanzulum being stranded on the planet Adeki. They drained the life force of the Adeki natives, and remained alone on the planet.

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The Doctor encounters a Gwanzulum in its natural form, and six more masquerading as his past selves.

The Seventh Doctor encountered the Gwanzulum when he stopped on Adeki for a fishing trip. Reading the Doctor's mind and beginning to feed off his life-force, the Gwanzulum took the forms of the Doctor's past companions and selves in order to trick him into letting them aboard the TARDIS. Horrified by carvings in a tunnel wall describing the Shaper Wars, and by an uncharacteristic suggestion of his "Fourth self" to violently wipe out the monsters, the Doctor saw through the Gwanzulum's deception and made his escape alone. (DWM: Planet of the Dead)

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