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== History == | == History == | ||
=== Vampires === | === Vampires === | ||
The [[Fifth Doctor]] theorised that the Black Guardian played some part in the concept of vampires, seeing their potential as creatures of chaos, and somehow being responsible for the law of vampires not becoming "true" vampires until a full [[moon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Goth Opera (novel)|Goth Opera]]'') | |||
=== Prometheus and the Millennium War === | === Prometheus and the Millennium War === | ||
The Black Guardian, collectively with the other Guardians, removed [[Prometheus (The Quantum Archangel)|Prometheus]] from existence and imprisoned [[Kronos]], then known as Avatar, in the [[crystal of Kronos]] and threw it into the [[Time Vortex | The Black Guardian, collectively with the other Guardians, removed [[Prometheus (The Quantum Archangel)|Prometheus]] from existence and imprisoned [[Kronos]], then known as Avatar, in the [[crystal of Kronos]] and threw it into the [[Time Vortex]]. They later answered the call of the survivors of the [[Millennium War]] and granted their request to erase their memory of the war. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') | ||
=== The first quest for the Key to Time === | === The first quest for the Key to Time === | ||
The White Guardian sent the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana I]] on a quest to find the six segments of the [[Key to Time]], transmuted into a variety of forms and scattered across time and space. He warned them of the Black Guardian who would try to prevent the assembly of the Key. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'') | The White Guardian sent the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana I]] on a quest to find the six segments of the [[Key to Time]], transmuted into a variety of forms and scattered across time and space. He warned them of the Black Guardian who would try to prevent the assembly of the Key. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'') | ||
Circa [[1778]], the Black Guardian saved [[the Captain]] when [[Vantarialis|his ship]] crashed on [[Zanak]]. [[1978|Two hundred years later]], he served Queen Xanxia and pirated dozens of planets, including the second segment of the Key to Time, disguised as Calufrax ([[TV]]: [[The Pirate Planet (TV story)|''The Pirate Planet'']], [[PROSE]]: [[The Pirate Planet (novelisation)|''The Pirate Planet'']]) | Circa [[1778]], the Black Guardian saved [[the Captain]] when [[Vantarialis|his ship]] crashed on [[Zanak]]. [[1978|Two hundred years later]], he served Queen [[Xanxia]] and pirated dozens of planets, including the second segment of the Key to Time, disguised as [[Calufrax]]. ([[TV]]: [[The Pirate Planet (TV story)|''The Pirate Planet'']], [[PROSE]]: [[The Pirate Planet (novelisation)|''The Pirate Planet'']]) | ||
The sixth and final segment took the form of a living being, [[Astra of Atrios|Princess Astra of Atrios]]. The Black Guardian used [[the Shadow]] to try to prevent the Doctor and Romana from re-assembling the Key. After the Doctor defeated the Shadow and re-assembled the Key, the Black Guardian posed as the White Guardian and asked for the Key. Observing the Black Guardian's casual indifference to the life of Princess Astra, the Doctor saw through this ruse and scattered the Key through time instead. The Black Guardian swore revenge on the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'') | The sixth and final segment took the form of a living being, [[Astra of Atrios|Princess Astra of Atrios]]. The Black Guardian used [[the Shadow]] to try to prevent the Doctor and Romana from re-assembling the Key. After the Doctor defeated the Shadow and re-assembled the Key, the Black Guardian posed as the White Guardian and asked for the Key. Observing the Black Guardian's casual indifference to the life of Princess Astra, the Doctor saw through this ruse and scattered the Key through time instead. The Black Guardian swore revenge on the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'') | ||
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The Black Guardian rescued the [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Abby (The Judgement of Isskar)|Amy]] from an [[Ice Warrior]] ship which was plunging into a sun. According to Amy, he was not meant to get involved in their search as the [[Grace]] told her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Judgement of Isskar (audio story)|The Judgement of Isskar]]'') | The Black Guardian rescued the [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Abby (The Judgement of Isskar)|Amy]] from an [[Ice Warrior]] ship which was plunging into a sun. According to Amy, he was not meant to get involved in their search as the [[Grace]] told her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Judgement of Isskar (audio story)|The Judgement of Isskar]]'') | ||
After that encounter, the Guardian took them to many places but they could not find the fifth segment. The Doctor realised the Guardian was being methodical in his search; they could find the fifth segment by being heedless of order, their destination controlled by chaos. The Guardian sent the Doctor and Amy on their way and followed them. In | After that encounter, the Guardian took them to many places but they could not find the fifth segment. The Doctor realised the Guardian was being methodical in his search; they could find the fifth segment by being heedless of order, their destination controlled by chaos. The Guardian sent the Doctor and Amy on their way and followed them. In [[9th century]] [[Sudan]], he inserted himself into the time stream and became part of the events. As Lord Cassim Alibaba, he evaded taxes to fix the [[Djinni]]'s [[warp manifold]], which needed gold, (although platinum or plutonium would have been quicker) to create the [[orium]] needed. This was the fifth segment of the Key to Time. This evasion brought the [[Legate of the Caliph]], [[White Guardian|the embodiment of law]] in the region, to collect the tax. In the confusing welter of events, the Doctor and Amy were able to escape with the Key. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destroyer of Delights (audio story)|The Destroyer of Delights]]'') | ||
Stranded in | Stranded in 9th century Sudan, he was a shadow of his former self, unable to become what he once was. When the Doctor became trapped on the [[Teuthoidian]] ship, he heard a voice on intra-ship communications which he thought was [[Romana II]]'s and sent a telepathic communication to her 'answer phone'. The voice was [[Astra of Atrios|President Astra]]'s, a double of Romana. Romana received the Doctor's answer and found [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] in hyperspace. The TARDIS took her to some of its recent destinations, Mars and 9th[[File:Black_Guardian.jpg|thumb|The Black Guardian in this timeline. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]'')]] century Sudan, where she found the Black Guardian, who led her to believe that he knew where the Doctor was. By the time she realised this wasn't true it was too late. He had rejuvenated with the power of the sixth segment: Romana herself. Trying to achieve his final goal, the Black Guardian used the gathered freedom fighters to stop the White Guardian's Teuthoidian horde from getting the Key, locking the two Guardians in opposing balance once again. At that moment the Grace reappeared and sent the two of them back to howling void, to continue their eternal struggle. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chaos Pool (audio story)|The Chaos Pool]]'') | ||
=== The third quest for the Key to Time === | === The third quest for the Key to Time === | ||
