Larna

Larna
Species:	Time Lord
Place of origin:	Gallifrey
First appearance:	The Infinity Doctors
Appearances:	PROSE: Unnatural History PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles

Larna was one of the Infinity Doctor's best students at the Academy when he taught on Gallifrey.

Biography

Larna developed a friendship with the Doctor during her time at the Academy, where she learned from the High Council about a prophecy about Gallifrey falling after a number of attacks from different species. To try and stop the Doctor leaving for the Station, she committed suicide with a knife, but she was resurrected by Omega at the Doctor's request. Larna set off to tidy up the "side-effects" from the Effect, which had caused history to change. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors)

Larna travelled to the Shoal in Gallifrey's past, where she began monitoring a temporal cicatrix and sent information back to Gallifrey. During this time she met Marnal, a Time Lord who had been sent to destroy the Shoal, as well as Ulysses, Penelope Gate, and Saldaamir. She told them that she was from their planet's future and described the prophecy of Gallifrey falling. A single Time Lord would have a hand in all of those events, and he would find the Lost Scrolls of Rassilon and lead Gallifrey from darkness. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles)

Larna worked for Daniel Joyce in Berkeley, San Francisco in 2002 on the Advanced Research Project. Joyce asked her to keep an eye on the nanocircuitry web for him. (PROSE: Unnatural History)

A young woman with long blonde hair in an extraordinary piece of haute couture was one of the four surviving elementals. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles)

Appearance

When meeting Ulysses in the Shoal, Larna wore a collarless scarlet jacket and had long blonde hair that fell to her waist. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles) In San Francisco, she was a serious young woman with reddish-blonde hair. (PROSE: Unnatural History)

Behind the scenes

• Larna's name appears to be a reference to "Lady Larn", the name given to Susan before her travels with the Doctor in Eric Saward's story Birth of a Renegade.

Promotional picture of actress Renee O'Connor used by Lance Parkin on social media to represent Larna as she appears in The Infinity Doctors ^[+]Loading...["The Infinity Doctors (novel)"].

• In 2024, Lance Parkin made a post on social media in which he used a picture of actress Renee O'Connor as Gabrielle in the fantasy TV series Xena: Warrior Princess to illustrate "Patience, the Doctor's student".