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| | |aka = The Dragon-King |
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| |first = Interference - Book One (novel) | | |first = Interference - Book One (novel) |
| |appearances = [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]'' | | |appearances = [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]'' |
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| '''I.M. Foreman''' was a [[Gallifreyan]] [[monk]] who lived on [[Gallifrey]] but was driven from the [[monastery|monasteries]] following [[Rassilon]]'s [[Intuitive Revelation]]. They were not a [[Time Lord]], but were able to [[regeneration|regenerate]] due to their order having received its own version of the [[Rassilon Imprimatur]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]'')
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| | '''O'Salamander''', also known as '''the Dragon-King''', was the fifth incarnation of a [[Gallifreyan (Interference)|Gallifreyan]]. |
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| == Biography ==
| | He was half-man, half-[[lizard]], but so constantly in flux that observers could not subsequently recall which side was which. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]'') |
| Having been [[exile]]d to the wilderness after the dissolution of the old religious orders, I.M. Foreman found twelve individuals, all of whom had no [[memory]] of who they were, but who he eventually [[deduce]]d to be his future twelve [[incarnation]]s. Together they formed the thirteen acts of [[I.M. Foreman's Travelling Show|I.M. Foreman's One-Species Nongenetically Engineered Travelling Show]], a complex [[space-time]] event that could [[time travel|travel]] through [[time]]. As a [[priest]], he had been given the gift of [[regeneration]], but in those days it was much less stable than modern regeneration, meaning that each incarnation tended to absorb the [[DNA]] of whatever they encountered in their life at the time of their regeneration, each of their incarnations being increasingly less [[human]] as they moved on from their original body.
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| He eventually arrived on [[Dust (planet)|Dust]], where his true nature was revealed to the [[Third Doctor]] and [[Sarah Jane Smith]]. When the [[Remote]] attacked the planet, Foreman's first twelve incarnations were forced to release Number 13, the most unstable of all his regenerations, which tried to eat everything and absorb it into its own structure. | |
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| In order to conclude the [[time loop]] and prevent the death of the past twelve Foremans causing a [[paradox]], the Doctor directed the other incarnations into the show, linked it to [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], and sent them back to Gallifrey's distant past. Arriving at its destination with no arrival site prepared for it, their Travelling Show exploded as it ended up back in the Dark Times just before the first I.M. Foreman found the show. The resulting explosion and the fall from the ship triggered a regeneration for all twelve aspects, each of them changing into their next self while losing their memories due to the trauma of the damage and the limitations of their current ability to regenerate.
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| Back in the present, after Number 13 consumed the attacking Faction Paradox fleet, the Doctor was able to convince it to blend with the planet Dust to turn it into a new, vital world. With the crisis concluded as the planet grew more vibrant, Foreman's [[consciousness]] formed a bond with [[Magdelana Bishop]] and inhabited her body with her consent. In this form, Foreman spent two days in the company of the [[Eighth Doctor]], during which she talked with him and spent the night with him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]'')
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| == 76 Totter's Lane ==
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| Foreman's show spent some time in 1964 at [[76 Totter's Lane]], where its arrival retroactively created a [[junkyard]] so that it would have a form to occupy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'') This was the same junkyard where the [[First Doctor]] encountered [[Barbara Wright]] and [[Ian Chesterton]]; [[Susan Foreman]] adopted her surname from the lettering on the gates. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') When the [[Third Doctor]] learned of Foreman's existence, he realised that the TARDIS had been drawn to the scrapyard in 1963 because it had sensed the show's future presence there. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'')
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| == Incarnations ==
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| I.M. Foreman's thirteen [[incarnation]]s were as follows:
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| * I.M. Foreman was the original incarnation, he put out his own [[eye]]s to increase his natural [[telepathy]], and used [[stigmata]] as his "act" in the show to represent the blood that carried the genetic potential.
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| * Mohandas, the Geek was mostly [[humanoid]], but gave off a strong scent of the animal matter he had consumed; had made it his life's mission to consume everything he could.
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| * Melmoth, the Map of Scars was a human figure covered in scars that represented the various [[genetic code]]s of the creatures that he had consumed in his previous life.
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| * Mr Zarathustra, the Walking Brain: A humanoid with an enlarged [[head]], capable of communicating only via telepathy.
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| * O'Salamander, the Dragon-King was half-man, half-[[lizard]], but so constantly in flux that observers could not subsequently recall which side was which.
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| * John Salt, the Missing Link was a humanoid covered in albino [[monkey]] [[fur]].
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| * Mould, the Worm-Boy was a man who crawled along the ground on his [[belly]] like a [[maggot]]; noted as having a habit of leaving goo on Foreman's boots.
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| * The Goofus, the Living Armoury: The only incarnation to incorporate [[machine]]ry.
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| * Ezekiel, Master Aerialist was the only incarnation to develop [[wing]]s, but the results were less than promising; observers noted that Ezekiel would only be capable of gliding at best.
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| * Queen Nitocris, Mistress of Serpents was a very [[serpent]]-like female incarnation.
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| * The If represented the [[Time Lord]]s' links to their time machines, it possessed raw time-travel [[biodata]] that allowed it to perceive the [[past]] and [[future]] of anyone it met.
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| * AKA, the Metamorph was a representation of all the [[DNA]] that Foreman had absorbed over the course of his lives, constantly shifting forms from one moment to the next, resulting in AKA representing a blur more than a single lifeform.
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| * Number Thirteen was a raw force of nature and the essence of everything the previous twelve had consumed. Number Thirteen existed to consume as much life as possible, and was kept contained for centuries until the final "act" on [[Dust (planet)|Dust]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]'')
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