Blood

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Blood in a fuel tank. (DW: State of Decay)

Blood was an essential fluid of many life forms, Gallifreyans and Humans included.

Significance

Food

Some organisms consumed blood in order to survive, namely Vampires, Haemovores, Plasmavores and Saturnynians. (DW: State of Decay, The Curse of Fenric, Smith and Jones, Vampires in Venice)

The Three Who Rule would only drink the blood of the living. However, they killed villagers and used tubing to store their blood in the fuel tanks of the Hydrax. This was then fed to the King Vampire. (DW: State of Decay)

On their home planet, the Ogri subsisted on amino acids, but found that the blood of Earth life forms, including Humans, would also suffice. (DW: The Stones of Blood)

Other species, such as Vortisaurs and Androgums, did not subsist off of blood exclusively, but would consume it as part of a more varied diet. (BFA: Storm Warning, DW: The Two Doctors)

Practical Use

Mortimus used the blood of five species whose destinies the Time Lords had affected in a ritual to summon Artemis, the Chronovore. (NA: No Future)

Blood also formed an important part of some Faction Paradox rituals. Sometimes biodata would be extracted from the blood of a being to use in a Faction Rite or Ritual. (EDA: Alien Bodies)

Some species, including the Sycorax, used a form of hypnosis known as blood control. (DW: The Christmas Invasion)

Blood could be transferred to another by the process of blood transfusion. The Eighth Doctor once gave blood to his fourth incarnation via this process. (EDA: The Eight Doctors)

Judoon scanners checked blood to gather information on the units species. (DW: Smith and Jones)

Colour

There are many variations in blood colour.

This may have been the blood of the child who was harvested by the 456


Blood