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{{Infobox Individual | |||
|image = Azmael.jpg | |||
|alias = Professor Bernard Edgeworth | |||
| | |species = Time Lord | ||
|[[ | |job = High Chancellor | ||
| | |affiliation = Celestial Intervention Agency | ||
|affiliation2 = High Council | |||
| | |origin = [[Gallifrey]] | ||
|spouse = Azmael's wife{{!}}Wife | |||
|first = The Twin Dilemma (TV story) | |||
|appearances = {{il|[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]''}} | |||
|actor = Maurice Denham | |||
|[[ | }}'''Azmael''', sometimes called '''Azmeal''', was the first [[High Chancellor]] and first true [[renegade Time Lord]]. He emigrated from [[Gallifrey]] to the [[planet]] [[Jaconda]], where he ruled compassionately until [[Mestor]] deposed him. | ||
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| | == Biography == | ||
|- | === Early life === | ||
Like all [[Time Lord]]s, Azmael was taken from his family at the age of eight for the selection process in the [[Drylands]]. Staring into the [[Untempered Schism]] as part of a Time Lord initiation rite, Azmael reacted by running away from what he saw in the Schism. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') According to the writings of [[Postar|Postar the Perfidious]], this occurred very early in [[Time Lord history]]. | |||
When [[Rassilon]] abdicated [[Lord President|the Presidency]] of the [[Time Lord]]s, the government was restructured on a more stable basis, and Azmeal became [[High Chancellor|Chancellor]] to the new Lord President, [[Lord Cardinal|Cardinal]] [[Pandad]]. The increasingly-secretive Rassilon took Azmeal into his confidence about the position of the [[Great Key of Rassilon|Great Key]] to the [[Eye of Harmony]], also decreeing that to make sure no Time Lord would ever both be in charge of Gallifrey's government and in power over the Eye, Azmeal could never be allowed to ascend to the rank of President, nor any other Chancellor after him. | |||
|[[ | Azmeal gained Rassilon's trust to such an extent that when the Founder discovered the [[regeneration cycle|twelve-regeneration]] limit when fruitlessly attempting his thirteenth regeneration, it was Azmeal whose help he enlisted to help with his last shot at [[immortality]]: Azmeal worked the machines as Rassilon's mind was the first full Gallifreyan intelligence to be uploaded into [[the Matrix]]. | ||
However, following the [[Civil War]] between [[Pandad]]'s Gallifrey and the rival presidency of [[Morbius]], it was decreed that the [[Lord President]] and [[High Chancellor]] needed to belong to the same [[Chapter]], to minimize friction. As Pandad's successor [[Helron]] was an [[Arcalian Chapter|Arcalian]], Azmeal was put "out of a job". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') | |||
|[[ | === Teaching at the Academy === | ||
| | He was not too displeased to lose his political position, as it freed his schedule to study the secrets of [[the Matrix]] which his master [[Rassilon]] had just barely begun to show him upon his death. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') He tutored the [[First Doctor]] at the [[Prydonian Academy]]. The [[Sixth Doctor]] considered him as the best one he ever had. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'') They both held a great respect for one another. Azmael was present when the Doctor was expelled from the Academy. He was [[Coordinator]] at this time. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') | ||
At some point during [[the Doctor]]'s [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]], the Doctor and Azmael had an encounter in which Azmael [[Alcohol|drank]] so much the Doctor had to throw him into a [[fountain]] to sober him up. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'') As the Doctor lacked [[money]], Azmael had to pay. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (novelisation)|The Twin Dilemma]]'') | |||
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| | In his studies, Azmeal progressively discovered hints that the minds of the dead Time Lords were not static records of memories, but rather active as [[Matrix Lord|disembodied intelligences]] still guiding things from the shadows with Rassilon as their leader. Azmeal's growing influence over the Matrix, which they still did not understand themselves, led to Helron and his government planning to remove Helron from Gallifrey in his final incarnation, in forced [[retirement]], as a way to stop him from studying it further. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') This was an offer which [[Salyavin|Professor Chronotis]] was the only Time Lord ever to actually accept. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shada (novelisation)|Shada]]'') | ||
=== Leaving Gallifrey === | |||
|[[ | By one account, Azmeal left Gallifrey to escape Helron's goons and continue his experiments. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') By another account, he left for [[Vitrol Minor]] because he was merely tired of his life and wanted to make a fortune. Knowing that his knowledge and experience could be used against the Time Lords by their enemies, the [[High Council]] found him guilty of various fabricated charges in his absence and condemned to [[death]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (novelisation)|The Twin Dilemma]]'') with Helron sending a warrior race ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') of [[Seedle Warrior]]s to execute him. | ||
On Vitrol Minor the Seedle Warriors committed [[genocide]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (novelisation)|The Twin Dilemma]]'') destroying the planet and its inhabitants to bring Azmeal back to Gallifrey for his trial. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') Azmael began his own legal proceedings against the Lord President and High Council in response; however, they bought witnesses and accused him of hiring the Seedle Warriors himself in a bid to gain exclusive rights to Vitrol Minor's [[mineral]]s. Angered, Azmael shot down the High Council with a [[laser rifle]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (novelisation)|The Twin Dilemma]]'') becoming the first official [[renegade Time Lord]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') Disgusted with what he had done, he left his homeworld once more. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (novelisation)|The Twin Dilemma]]'') The next High Council cautiously allowed him to make his escape. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') | |||
As the first of many [[Renegade Time Lord]]s to formally renounce the values and laws of [[Gallifrey]], Azmeal became an inspiration to a whole generation of young [[Time Lord]]s at [[Time Lord Academy|the Academy]], including [[the Doctor]], [[the Master]], and [[the Rani]], who deemed that [[Rassilon]] had been right to pronounce Time Lord society decadent upon his deathbed and that a change must be undergone. In turn, each of the three left Gallifrey, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') as did others of their classmates, such as [[Drax]] and [[the Monk]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') | |||
| | === On Jaconda === | ||
|- | Azmael travelled for several years, earmarking [[Titan III]] in [[Maston Viva]] as a place to escape to should Seedle Warriors be sent after him once more, before settling on [[Jaconda]] where he was elected as their leader. Months after his election, the [[Gastropod]]s attacked. To save the [[Jacondan]]s, Azmael surrendered to [[Mestor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (novelisation)|The Twin Dilemma]]'') | ||
Mester used a [[telepathy|telepathic]] link with Azmael to dominate his mind. Mestor forced Azmael, who used the name Professor Bernard Edgeworth, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (novelisation)|The Twin Dilemma]]'') to kidnap the two young genius identical twins [[Romulus Sylvest|Romulus]] and [[Remus Sylvest]]. By this time, Azmael had reached the end of his [[regeneration]] cycle. | |||
Recently regenerated himself, the [[Sixth Doctor]] and Peri came to [[Titan III]]. There they saw the wreckage of a ship and rescued Lieutenant [[Hugo Lang]]. While exploring some tunnels on the asteroid, Peri and the Doctor were captured and taken to meet Azmael. The Doctor recognised Azmael as a friend from their homeworld of [[Gallifrey]]. Co-operating with Mestor to save his people, Azmael abandoned the Doctor and [[Peri Brown|Peri]], letting them be taken captive. However, when the Doctor and Peri were able to follow him to Jaconda. After being attacked by the Doctor due to post regeneration trauma, Azmael sided with the Doctor when his observations revealed Mestor's true plan to trigger a solar eruption that would destroy Jaconda and send Mestor's eggs out across the universe. When Mestor took possession of Azmael's body and the Doctor destroyed Mestor's real body, Azmael, with Mestor's [[consciousness]] within him, forced himself to die by attempting to regenerate. Since Azmael had already used all twelve of his regenerations, initiating a thirteenth regeneration resulted in both his and Mestor's deaths, which Mestor was unprepared for. ([[TV]]:'' [[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | |||
* Azmael debuted in ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'' in [[1984 (releases)|1984]]. The following years, the short story ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'' and the novelisation ''[[The Twin Dilemma (novelisation)|The Twin Dilemma]]'' independently adapted his backstory from that episode. These sources differ in several aspects, such as Azmael's motivation for leaving Gallifrey and the spelling of his name. These discrepancies may be explained by the attribution of ''The Legacy of Gallifrey'' to the writings of "[[Poster|Poster the ''Perfidious'']]", although such a link has never been drawn in an in-universe source. | |||
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