Divided Loyalties (novel)

Divided Loyalties
Doctor:	Fifth Doctor
Companion(s):	Adric, Nyssa, Tegan
Main enemy:	Celestial Toymaker
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Books
Writer:	Gary Russell
Release details
Release number:	26
Release date:	4 October 1999
Format:	Paperback Book; 22 Chapters, 252 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-55578-5
BBC Past Doctor Adventures
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Divided Loyalties was the twenty-sixth BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel. It featured the Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka. This was the first Past Doctor Adventures novel to feature this line up of Doctor and companions and the first full length novel to do so since 1996's Cold Fusion. This was the first, and as of 2014, only full length novel to feature the Celestial Toymaker.

Publisher's summary

There are some evils in the universe that need to be fought. And others that need redeeming...

Many years ago the First Doctor, a student at the Academy on Gallifrey, lost a friend to the mysterious and malevolent force known as the Celestial Toymaker. Now, in his fifth incarnation, the Doctor receives a telepathic call from his long-lost classmate, begging for help.

As he sets out to rescue his friend and exact revenge, the Doctor's companions become increasingly involved. Adric, determined to justify his place aboard the TARDIS, opts to face the Toymaker's game challenges while Nyssa, angered by the Doctor's actions, finds herself excluded by the people she thought were her friends. And what is the connection between the Toymaker and the planet Dymok, whose comatose inhabitants find a new saviour in the shape of Tegan Jovanka?

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Fifth Doctor
• Adric
• Tegan Jovanka
• Nyssa
• Sarah Townsend
• Henry Rugglesthorpe
• Matt Desorgher
• Oakwood
• Paladopous
• Stefan

References

Foods and beverages

• Adric doesn't know what pizza is.

Individuals

• While attempting to turn Adric against the Doctor, the Toymaker creates a hallucination of a childhood friend of Adric, who reminds him about some of the things he's run into with the Doctor, including Great Vampires, Tharils, the Tremas Master, the Ferutu and Terileptils.

Species

• Rassilon gave the Great Old Ones names. These included Hastur, Yog-Sothoth, Shub-Niggurath, Cthulhu, Melefescent, Tor-Gasukk, Lloigor, Gog and Magog, Nyarlathotep, Dagon and Raag, Nah and Rok.

Timeline

• Tegan left Earth (the first time) on 28 February 1981.

Time Lords

• The Doctor, while at the Academy on Gallifrey, was one of the Deca, an elite group that included Koschei, Ushas, Drax, the Monk and Magnus.
• In a flashback Vansell, Azmael and Borusa are also seen.
• Also in the flashback scene, the Doctor and Rallon meet up with Badger.

Notes

• Each chapter in the book is the title of a song by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.

Continuity

• The First Doctor, Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet previously encountered the Celestial Toymaker during their travels. (TV: The Celestial Toymaker)
• Jelpax was part of the team who foresaw Dalek dominion over all life. (TV:Genesis of the Daleks) This is contradicted by AUDIO: Ascension, in which Narvin orders Valyes to complete this task.
• In Adric's fantasy, Jiana mentions his fights against the vampires, (TV: State of Decay) Tharils, (TV: Warriors' Gate) the Master, (TV: The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis) the Ferutu, (PROSE: Cold Fusion) and the Terileptils. (TV: The Awakening)

External links

• Divided Loyalties at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Divided Loyalties at The Whoniverse
• The Cloister Library: Divided Loyalties