The Pantheon

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The Pantheon, (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"]) also known as the Pantheon of Discord, (TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith [+]Loading...["The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)"]) were a group of "vast powers", "creatures from beyond the universe", (TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith [+]Loading...["The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)"], The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])) reluctantly acknowledged as gods by the Doctor, who sometimes referred to this group as "the gods". (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"], The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"])

Sutekh, originally a member of the Osirian Court, (TV: Pyramids of Mars [+]Loading...["Pyramids of Mars (TV story)"], AUDIO: The Judgment of Sutekh [+]Loading...["The Judgment of Sutekh (audio story)"]) came to hold himself to be the King of the other gods making up this group. (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"])

Nature

Membership

Listing the gods of the group to whom Sutekh acted as "king" as well as symbolic "father mother and other to all", Harriet Arbinger, Sutekh's own Harbinger, cited:

Last of Harriet's list was Sutekh himself. (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"])

Another account listed Krampus as a member of the "Pantheon of Discord". (COMIC: Imaginary Enemies [+]Loading...["Imaginary Enemies (comic story)"])

Harbingers

"The gods" were known to create personal Harbinger, human-like creatures who heralded their presence. On Earth, Maestro's Harbinger went by Henry Arbinger, (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"]) and Sutekh's by Harriet Arbinger. (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"])

History

Early history

The Doctor had heard legends of the Pantheon of Discord when he was a child, and claimed to have fought the shadows and the changelings of the Pantheon in the past. (TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith [+]Loading...["The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)"])

Before coming to be acknowledged as leader of this extra-universal pantheon, (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"]) Sutekh was born as a member of the Osirian Court, (AUDIO: The Ship of a Billion Years [+]Loading...["The Ship of a Billion Years (audio story)"]) and acknowledged as such by the Fourth Doctor. (TV: Pyramids of Mars [+]Loading...["Pyramids of Mars (TV story)"] According to one account, Sutekh, believing that he deserved to take over the throne of the Osirian Court, since it owed its survival to him, made himself far more powerful than his fellow Osirians by taming the forces of the Outer Desert, of which even Ra was afraid, (AUDIO: The Ship of a Billion Years [+]Loading...["The Ship of a Billion Years (audio story)","The Ship of a Billion Years"]) also making a bargain with the Kotturuh, who allowed him to carry their "Gift of Death" himself. (PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times [+]Loading...["The Guide to the Dark Times (short story)","The Guide to the Dark Times"]) As King of the Gods, Sutekh was hailed by his Harbinger as the "god of Death". (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"])

The Trickster's schemes

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The Tenth Doctor told Clyde Langer about the Pantheon of Discord when he finally encountered the Trickster, one of ther members; Clyde thought the group's name would be perfect for a rock band, and the Doctor concurred. (TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (part 2) [+]Loading...{"part":"2","1":"The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)"})

Krampus in Leadworth

Krampus, a member of the Pantheon, found its way into reality by a Time Field in Leadworth. He managed to fully enter reality by getting Veronica, the spoiled daughter of the Mayor, to take his "gift for her". There he proceeded to send his servants to capture Amy, Rory and Mels-when they failed, he personally captured them and took them to the school library. In order for him to fully have power he needed Veronica's wish, when at first she didn't want to he persuaded her to do so by showing her an image of Amy's Petrichor brand. However his plan was foiled when Amy told Veronica that her hands were dirty, and what she thought was her doll was in reality a lump of coal used to coax Veronica to bring him to Leadworth. She threw it back into the mirror as Krampus and his goons were forcibly dragged back into where they had originally came from, presumably for good. (COMIC: Imaginary Enemies [+]Loading...["Imaginary Enemies (comic story)"]

Facing the Fifteenth Doctor

The Fifteenth Doctor bi-generated from the Fourteenth Doctor after the latter faced the Toymaker, who, upon being defeated, warned him that "his legions" were becoming. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])

The Fifteenth Doctor, early in his lifetime, reflected on the "whole pantheon of enemies" he'd face. (PROSE: "Heroes of Time" [+]Part of Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse, Loading...{"namedpart":"Heroes of Time","1":"Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse (reference book)"})

Indeed, early in his travels with Ruby Sunday, the two wound up facing the Toymaker's child Maestro. The Doctor recognised them as a "member of the Pantheon" and one of "the gods", but eventually managed to banish them back out of reality with the help of the Beatles. They had, however, warned the Doctor that "the One Who Waits" was "almost here". (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])

This came to pass in UNIT HQ when the Doctor discovered that, for some time now, his TARDIS had been "seduced" and overtaken by Sutekh, (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"]) the Osiran god whose body the Fourth Doctor had previously destroyed, aging him to death in his own time corridor. (TV: Pyramids of Mars [+]Loading...["Pyramids of Mars (TV story)"]) Heralded by his own Harbinger, Harriet, who had infiltrated UNIT, Sutekh revealed himself, with Harriet identifying him as the King of the group of gods also including the Toymaker, Maestro, and the Trickster, as well as several others and the Mara, (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"]) whom the Doctor had faced in the past without identifying them as members of a shared group. (TV: Kinda [+]Loading...["Kinda (TV story)"], Snakedance [+]Loading...["Snakedance (TV story)"])

Behind the scenes

  • In the Doctor Who: Unleashed episode associated with The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"], Russell T Davies mentioned that he and other writers liked to call the Pantheon "the Gods of Chaos", but was not sure that this was "official". He also clarified that, although he liked to come across as the Supreme Being of the Pantheon, the Toymaker was not actually its most powerful member, as hinted in The Devil's Chord itself with mentions of the Oldest One. The The Sarah Jane Adventures story The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith [+]Loading...["The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)"] had previously used the name of "Pantheon of Discord", but no link was established between the two groups until the airing of The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"], which conflated them by citing the Trickster among the members of the (not-so-)new Pantheon.
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