Warlock

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A warlock was a name for a magic user, often with a negative connotation. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet [+]Loading...["Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)"], GAME: A Game of Daleks [+]Loading...["A Game of Daleks (game)"], etc.) The term was akin to "diabolist", "witch", (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet [+]Loading...["Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)"]) or "wizard". (PROSE: The Smugglers [+]Loading...["The Smugglers (novelisation)"])

Ben Jackson and Polly Wright convinced Tom that the First Doctor was a warlock, and they his "apprentices", to cow him into letting them go after they were locked up as suspects in the murder of Joseph Longfoot. (TV: The Smugglers [+]Loading...["The Smugglers (TV story)"]) According to another telling of these events, Ben used the terms "warlock" and "wizard" interchangeably, and called himself and Polly his "assistants" instead. (PROSE: The Smugglers [+]Loading...["The Smugglers (novelisation)"]) Yet another telling of these events saw Ben and Polly claim to be "warlocks" themselves. (GAME: The Smugglers [+]Loading...["The Smugglers (game)"])

The Third Doctor accused an alien who had learned to transfer his mind from one body to another, displacing the stolen bodies' original owners and leaving them as phantoms, of being a warlock. The alien denied this, claiming its power was natural and the essence of "life itself". (PROSE: Revenge of the Phantoms [+]Loading...["Revenge of the Phantoms (short story)"])

The Toymaker was understood to be a "warlock" by the people of a mediaeval realm after the Toymaker was forced to seek refuge there as the vassal of the local King. (GAME: A Game of Daleks [+]Loading...["A Game of Daleks (game)"])

Antipathy once referred to the inhabitants of the Homeworld as "those number-crunching warlocks" in conversation with Godfather Avatar. (PROSE: Of the City of the Saved... [+]Loading...["Of the City of the Saved... (novel)"])