Lucern Portillon (Varaxil)
Proposed new name: Lucern Portillon (Varaxil)
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"Lucern" was a Varaxil who impersonated the son of Claude Portillon.
He was the brother of Finicia. He was always meticulous about everything he did.
As all Varaxils, he and his sister were hunting for individuals who could channel Odic energy. The two crash-landed on Vetter's Tor around the 1650s. By that time, using the WitchStar they had already imprisoned many such individuals, including a flux imp and an Erisi. However, now their plan to bring them back to Varax Beta could not be realised.
When the two Varaxils were discovered in Morris (The Witch from the Well)'s barn in their natural form, they killed Morris, his wife and the local priest, as well as the village squire's 17-year-old children, whose appearance they assumed using a transmutation matrix.
In the bodies of Lucern and Finicia Portillon, they continued searching for humans with Odic potential. John Kincaid prevented them from killing Agnes Bates, who unbeknownst to them was the mother of the twins they have impersonated. Kincaid's meddling with the WitchStar caused all the accumulated Odic energy to be absorbed by Agnes, making her impervious to the Varaxils' weapon.
After the Eighth Doctor persuaded Agnes to get herself locked up in a Lokic containment web, which was then buried in a well, and unable to kill Agnes in her witch state, the two Varaxils swore to wait until she would be undug to finish their mission. Little did they know that Agnes Bates was freed by the Doctor and only the residual Odic wave form was buried in the well. The WitchStar was also taken away from them by Claude Portillon.
They waited until the 2000s when the witch was released from her confinement. Unable to fight her, they were saved by Mary Shelley, who brought them into the TARDIS and took them back to the 17th century. For Mary and the Doctor this was the first meeting with the siblings. Consequently, their Varaxil nature remained concealed.
Lucern and Finicia managed to remain almost unseen by the village dwellers. Lucern, who observed the operations of the TARDIS, was able to returned back to the 21st century at first opportunity, leaving the Doctor stranded in the past but taking Mary with them. The siblings then stole the WitchStar from Aleister Portillon, a distant indirect descendant of Claude Portillon. They almost succeeded in killing the witch, but Mary Shelley found a way to prevent that inadvertently killing them in the process. (AUDIO: The Witch From the Well)
