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The '''Pythia''' was a name as much as a title.
The '''Pythia''' was a name as much as a title of the matriarchal leaders of the [[planet]] [[Gallifrey]] prior to [[Rassilon]], who possesed powerful psychic powers, and had the power of [[precognition]]. The Pythia ruled a Gallifrey which was government by mystery and superstition. The 389th Pythia gave the legendary hero [[Ao]] a jewled periapt with a tongue of blue ice.


The '''Pythia''' was the leader of [[Gallifrey]] prior to [[Rassilon]], she ruled as part of a matriarchy, she ruled because she had powerful psychic powers, and could see the future. ([[NA]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'')
Near the end of her reign as Pythia the last Pythia was unable to see into the future, in an attempt to see further she recruited [[Vael]], a skilled Gallifreyan with psychic powers, to work with her and then spy upn Rassilon. When her plans failed of her future failed to come she send her followers to the planet [[Karn]] and then cursed Gallifrey with sterility and threw herself into an abyss below her temple.
Pythia's followers would eventually adopt the title of the [[Sisterhood of Karn]].([[NA]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'')


The Pythia ruled a Gallifrey which was government by mystery and superstition.
[[Category:Time Lord history|Pythia's Curse]]
 
The 389th Pythia gave the Legendary Hero Ao a jewled periapt with a tongue of blue ice. ([[NA]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'')
 
==Pythia's Curse==
Near the end of her reign as Pythia the last Pythia was unable to see into the future, in an attempt to see further she recruited [[Vael]] (a skilled Gallifreyan with psychic-powers) to work with her and then spy on Rassilon.
 
When her idea of her future failed to come she send her followers to [[Karn]] and then cursed Gallifrey with sterility and threw herself into an abyss below her temple. ([[NA]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'')
 
==Remnants of the Pythia==
The Pythia's followers fled to the planet [[Karn]] where they eventually became the [[Sisterhood of Karn]].
 
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Revision as of 08:11, 26 February 2008

The Pythia was a name as much as a title of the matriarchal leaders of the planet Gallifrey prior to Rassilon, who possesed powerful psychic powers, and had the power of precognition. The Pythia ruled a Gallifrey which was government by mystery and superstition. The 389th Pythia gave the legendary hero Ao a jewled periapt with a tongue of blue ice.

Near the end of her reign as Pythia the last Pythia was unable to see into the future, in an attempt to see further she recruited Vael, a skilled Gallifreyan with psychic powers, to work with her and then spy upn Rassilon. When her plans failed of her future failed to come she send her followers to the planet Karn and then cursed Gallifrey with sterility and threw herself into an abyss below her temple. Pythia's followers would eventually adopt the title of the Sisterhood of Karn.(NA: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)