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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
=== Early life === | === Early life === | ||
Sabbath was born in [[1740]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sabbath Dei (audio story)|Sabbath Dei]]'') Since agents of the Service's past lives were erased, the details of his pre-indoctrination identity was unknown. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') | Sabbath was born in [[1740]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sabbath Dei (audio story)|Sabbath Dei]]'') Since agents of the Service's past lives were erased, the details of his pre-indoctrination identity was unknown. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') | ||
[[File:Young Sabbath.jpg|thumb|left|A young Sabbath Dei glimpses the [[Eleven-Day Empire]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses (comic story)|Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses]]'')]] | [[File:Young Sabbath.jpg|thumb|left|A young Sabbath Dei glimpses the [[Eleven-Day Empire]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses (comic story)|Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses]]'')]] | ||
He remembered glimpsing the [[Eleven-Day Empire]] as it passed from the British Empire to [[Faction Paradox]] in [[1752]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses (comic story)|Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses]]'') | He remembered glimpsing the [[Eleven-Day Empire]] as it passed from the British Empire to [[Faction Paradox]] in [[1752]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses (comic story)|Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses]]'') | ||
=== Working for the Service === | === Working for the Service === | ||
Sabbath was indoctrinated into the Service in [[1762]] at the age of 21. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sabbath Dei (audio story)|Sabbath Dei]]'') He specialised in engineering of the occult geometry of the Masonic movements. He was inducted on a Saturday (which may have inspired his Confirmation Name, by the Jewish cabbalistic trend in the Service) by being bound with thirteen chains, thirteen locks, and thirteen garters; covered with a hood of black sackcloth; hung with three hundred pounds of lead; and dropped into the Thames. He was certain of his death, and he believed he saw a vast Leviathan passing over him as a shadow while he lay on the bottom of the river, though that may have been the darkness of unconsciousness. He never emerged from the river, and he was presumed dead. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') However, he was saved from this certain death to be used as a tool for off-planet powers | Sabbath was indoctrinated into the Service in [[1762]] at the age of 21. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sabbath Dei (audio story)|Sabbath Dei]]'') He specialised in engineering of the occult geometry of the Masonic movements. He was inducted on a Saturday (which may have inspired his Confirmation Name, by the Jewish cabbalistic trend in the Service) by being bound with thirteen chains, thirteen locks, and thirteen garters; covered with a hood of black sackcloth; hung with three hundred pounds of lead; and dropped into the Thames. He was certain of his death, and he believed he saw a vast Leviathan passing over him as a shadow while he lay on the bottom of the river, though that may have been the darkness of unconsciousness. He never emerged from the river, and he was presumed dead. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') However, he was saved from this certain death to be used as a tool for off-planet powers and appeared dry and unharmed at Cambridge the following morning. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never]]'', ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') | ||
Later that year, Sabbath attended the [[Hellfire Club]]'s ball at [[Medenham Abbey]], where he challenged Cousin [[Christine Summerfield|Eliza]] to a game of pontoon where the loser of each hand would have to give a truthful answer to the winner's question. He forfeited the match when asked who his employer was, and he advised Eliza to look into the death of [[Mary Culver]]. He then followed the [[Sieur d'Eon]] into the cavern beneath the Abbey, where he met Cousin [[Justine McManus|Justine]] and warned her the Service wouldn't let the [[Order of Saint Francis]] form an alliance with the [[Eleven-Day Empire]]. | Later that year, Sabbath attended the [[Hellfire Club]]'s ball at [[Medenham Abbey]], where he challenged Cousin [[Christine Summerfield|Eliza]] to a game of pontoon where the loser of each hand would have to give a truthful answer to the winner's question. He forfeited the match when asked who his employer was, and he advised Eliza to look into the death of [[Mary Culver]]. He then followed the [[Sieur d'Eon]] into the cavern beneath the Abbey, where he met Cousin [[Justine McManus|Justine]] and warned her the Service wouldn't let the [[Order of Saint Francis]] form an alliance with the [[Eleven-Day Empire]]. | ||
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During this, he became an uneasy ally of [[Compassion]]-as-Culver in her plot against Lolita. Shortly after his ritual, he told Compassion (through Lord [[Sandwich]]) that he would keep out of her way if she kept out of his, and while taking Justine to trial he told Eliza and d'Eon where to find the [[Peking Homunculus|automata]]. By summoning Lolita to the courtroom, he also gave them an invaluable chance to attack the automata. After the trial, his commitment to the Great Houses fulfilled, he visited Compassion to congratulate her on her victory over Lolita, telling her and her allies where to find Justine. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[In the Year of the Cat (audio story)|In the Year of the Cat]]'') | During this, he became an uneasy ally of [[Compassion]]-as-Culver in her plot against Lolita. Shortly after his ritual, he told Compassion (through Lord [[Sandwich]]) that he would keep out of her way if she kept out of his, and while taking Justine to trial he told Eliza and d'Eon where to find the [[Peking Homunculus|automata]]. By summoning Lolita to the courtroom, he also gave them an invaluable chance to attack the automata. After the trial, his commitment to the Great Houses fulfilled, he visited Compassion to congratulate her on her victory over Lolita, telling her and her allies where to find Justine. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[In the Year of the Cat (audio story)|In the Year of the Cat]]'') | ||
{{section stub|Missing info from ''[[Sabbath and the King (audio story)|Sabbath and the King]]''.}} | |||
After the [[War in Heaven]] came to an end, Sabbath continued to work for the Service, eventually becoming its commander by [[1774]]. He caught [[Cleeve]] and the [[America]]n ambassadors to King [[George III]] performing an [[Anasazi]] ritual to the god [[Teskatsipotcha]], and he sent the Service's [[Ratcatchers]] to catch [[Mayakatula]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses (comic story)|Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses]]'') According to the post-War edition of the ''[[Primer for the Spiral Politic]]'', he was one of the few individuals to bring his own agenda to the War. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sabbath Dei (audio story)|Sabbath Dei]]'') | After the [[War in Heaven]] came to an end, Sabbath continued to work for the Service, eventually becoming its commander by [[1774]]. He caught [[Cleeve]] and the [[America]]n ambassadors to King [[George III]] performing an [[Anasazi]] ritual to the god [[Teskatsipotcha]], and he sent the Service's [[Ratcatchers]] to catch [[Mayakatula]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses (comic story)|Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses]]'') According to the post-War edition of the ''[[Primer for the Spiral Politic]]'', he was one of the few individuals to bring his own agenda to the War. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sabbath Dei (audio story)|Sabbath Dei]]'') | ||
=== | === Interim years === | ||
[[File:Sabbathheart.JPG|thumb|right|Sabbath Dei holds the Doctor's heart. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')]] | [[File:Sabbathheart.JPG|thumb|right|Sabbath Dei holds the Doctor's heart. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')]] | ||
In [[1780]], Sabbath defected from the Service and set up his own independent power base. He sent a message via a number of corpses of the Service's [[Ratcatcher]]s saying, "leave me alone, and I'll leave you alone". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') Shortly after this, at [[St. Cedd's College]], Sabbath was approached by the [[Council of Eight]], who warned him of the impending arrival of [[the Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]'') | In [[1780]], Sabbath defected from the Service and set up his own independent power base. He sent a message via a number of corpses of the Service's [[Ratcatcher]]s saying, "leave me alone, and I'll leave you alone". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') Shortly after this, at [[St. Cedd's College]], Sabbath was approached by the [[Council of Eight]], who warned him of the impending arrival of [[the Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]'') | ||
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The Doctor chose Sabbath for his best man at his wedding to [[Scarlette]]. Sabbath later removed the Doctor's second heart, allegedly to cure the Doctor of an illness caused by the heart's attempt to connect the Doctor to a non-existent [[Gallifrey]], but also allowing Sabbath to travel through time in ''[[the Jonah]]'', endowing him with the Doctor's ability to penetrate "deep time" — exploring the universe beyond his home era and planet — that would have been impossible in his more primitive ship otherwise. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') | The Doctor chose Sabbath for his best man at his wedding to [[Scarlette]]. Sabbath later removed the Doctor's second heart, allegedly to cure the Doctor of an illness caused by the heart's attempt to connect the Doctor to a non-existent [[Gallifrey]], but also allowing Sabbath to travel through time in ''[[the Jonah]]'', endowing him with the Doctor's ability to penetrate "deep time" — exploring the universe beyond his home era and planet — that would have been impossible in his more primitive ship otherwise. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') | ||
=== | === Two-hearted time traveler === | ||
Sabbath | Now with the ability to penetrate “deep time”, Sabbath took on [[Juliette Vierge]] as his travelling companion, visiting [[Hispaniola]] for some time, before eventually returning her to Earth. ([[PROSE]]:''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') Never being meant to leave London with Sabbath, Juliette was removed from space and time and placed in a [[Schrodinger Cell]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]'') | ||
Sometime after leaving Juliette, Sabbath arranged for the Doctor and the [[Clock People]] to meet on a [[Plutocratic Empire]] colony planet, manipulating the Doctor's perception of the situation so that he would see the creatures as a threat rather than evacuees, driving the Doctor to force the Clock People back into the Time Vortex by sealing the rift they were using to access our reality. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Anachrophobia (novel)|Anachrophobia]]'') | |||
Now donning a business suit and carrying a silver cane, Sabbath appeared within the virtual reality [[Anji Kapoor]] experienced within the [[Cyberdyne]] of [[Goronos]]. He woke her from the fugue state by unleashing [[Babewyn|a grotesque monster]] onto the serial killer terrorizing her in the dream. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Slow Empire (novel)|The Slow Empire]]'') | |||
=== A mysterious cause === | |||
Later on, Sabbath began recruiting a variety of agents for purposes unknown; these agents served to mirror the various [[companions]] of the Doctor. | |||
Sabbath rescued [[Roja]], a young homeless boy from the [[18th century]], to serve as one of his agents; he taught him to read and write before eventually training him in more advanced science. Sabbath charged Roja with monitoring the timeline to ensure that it remained on his schedule. Sabbath would also rescue [[Jaxa (Trading Futures)|Jaxa]], a former [[Time Agent]], from the [[Moon]] after she materialised three decades before the colony she had attempted to reach would be founded. Sabbath would make both Roja and Jaxa his crew’s mercenaries. At some point, Sabbath brought Roja and Jaxa to the [[2030s]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Trading Futures (novel)|Trading Futures]]'') | |||
He later tricked the Doctor into destroying the System, a mysterious information-gathering program that allegedly contained information about his initiation that should not be made public, by provoking the System into a nervous breakdown as it tried to process multiple perspectives trying to understand [[Jueves|one of Sabbath's agents]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[History 101 (novel)|History 101]]'') | |||
Sabbath | Sabbath rescued a [[time sensitive]] named [[Elizabeth Kelly]] from an [[asylum]] in [[Ireland]], and brought her along in his travels. | ||
While near death, Sabbath met [[Death (Timewyrm: Revelation)|Death]], learning that the Doctor's second heart created a link between the Doctor and Sabbath that prevented the Doctor from dying; even if his chest was virtually crushed, one of his hearts was still beating in Sabbath. After this link resulted in | While near death, Sabbath met [[Death (Timewyrm: Revelation)|Death]], learning that the Doctor's second heart created a link between the Doctor and Sabbath that prevented the Doctor from dying; even if his chest was virtually crushed, one of his hearts was still beating in Sabbath. After this link resulted in Kelly sacrificing herself to save the Doctor in the belief that she would also save Sabbath, Sabbath tore out the heart, allowing the Doctor to grow a new one. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Obscura (novel)|Camera Obscura]]'') | ||
=== Orders from the Council of Eight === | |||
Sabbath was sent by his masters to take actions that would allegedly "collapse" reality into a single manageable timeline, convinced that time-travellers weakened reality by creating new universes every time they went back in time. This plan failed, and instead Sabbath's actions caused every parallel universe to overlap and fight for dominance. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time Zero (novel)|Time Zero]]'') Realising that his plans had not worked, Sabbath kidnapped two of the [[Warlocks of Demigest]] and planned to use their powers to his advantage. He took the Warlocks in the ''Jonah'' to [[Selonart]], where he attempted to become one with the universe due to the unique conditions on the planet. He planned to use the Warlocks to then help him control the universe. Sabbath's plan backfired due to the intervention of the Doctor and [[Bloom (The Infinity Race)|Bloom]]. Sabbath was then taken by the Warlocks back to [[Demigest]] where he was kept as their prisoner. The Doctor arrived later and killed the Warlocks, allowing Sabbath to escape. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Race (novel)|The Infinity Race]]'') Sabbath later assisted [[Fitz Kreiner]], [[Anji Kapoor]] and the Doctor when the multiple realities began to converge and mix. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Last Resort (novel)|The Last Resort]]'') | Sabbath was sent by his masters to take actions that would allegedly "collapse" reality into a single manageable timeline, convinced that time-travellers weakened reality by creating new universes every time they went back in time. This plan failed, and instead Sabbath's actions caused every parallel universe to overlap and fight for dominance. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time Zero (novel)|Time Zero]]'') Realising that his plans had not worked, Sabbath kidnapped two of the [[Warlocks of Demigest]] and planned to use their powers to his advantage. He took the Warlocks in the ''Jonah'' to [[Selonart]], where he attempted to become one with the universe due to the unique conditions on the planet. He planned to use the Warlocks to then help him control the universe. Sabbath's plan backfired due to the intervention of the Doctor and [[Bloom (The Infinity Race)|Bloom]]. Sabbath was then taken by the Warlocks back to [[Demigest]] where he was kept as their prisoner. The Doctor arrived later and killed the Warlocks, allowing Sabbath to escape. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Race (novel)|The Infinity Race]]'') Sabbath later assisted [[Fitz Kreiner]], [[Anji Kapoor]] and the Doctor when the multiple realities began to converge and mix. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Last Resort (novel)|The Last Resort]]'') | ||
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=== Alternate timeline === | === Alternate timeline === | ||
In an alternate timeline, a version of Sabbath was rescued by [[The Oracle]], which presented itself as a higher being seeking to protect reality. Under the Oracle's instructions, Sabbath | In an alternate timeline, a version of Sabbath was rescued by [[The Oracle]], which presented itself as a higher being seeking to protect reality. Under the Oracle's instructions, Sabbath traveled forward in time to hinder the development of the computer and other related technologies, reasoning that his actions prevented the deaths that would result from the existence of such technology. The Doctor observed that this Sabbath was essentially more of a lackey than the one he knew, as 'his' Sabbath had clear plans and followed specific instructions where this Sabbath just blindly followed orders towards a specific goal without any sign that he had considered making more long-term plans for after that goal had been achieved. | ||
This plan reached its peak when the Oracle instructed Sabbath to imprison [[Alan Turing]] in 1936, making his biggest blow against the creation of the computer. Sabbath believed that his actions were to turn Turing into a temporal nexus whose death would cut Sabbath's world off from the rest of the multiverse and protect it from the catastrophe that had been unintentionally set off by the "prime" Sabbath. The Doctor attempted to convince Sabbath that he was being manipulated, observing that he hadn't even thought about what would happen after his world was 'saved', but Sabbath killed Turing regardless, only to learn after Turing's death that he had just accelerated the multiversal damage. Fortunately, Sabbath's horror at witnessing the Oracle's true form distracted it long enough for the Doctor to retreat to the TARDIS before the Oracle could consume the Doctor, although Sabbath was torn apart as he begged it to help him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Domino Effect (novel)|The Domino Effect]]'') | This plan reached its peak when the Oracle instructed Sabbath to imprison [[Alan Turing]] in 1936, making his biggest blow against the creation of the computer. Sabbath believed that his actions were to turn Turing into a temporal nexus whose death would cut Sabbath's world off from the rest of the multiverse and protect it from the catastrophe that had been unintentionally set off by the "prime" Sabbath. The Doctor attempted to convince Sabbath that he was being manipulated, observing that he hadn't even thought about what would happen after his world was 'saved', but Sabbath killed Turing regardless, only to learn after Turing's death that he had just accelerated the multiversal damage. Fortunately, Sabbath's horror at witnessing the Oracle's true form distracted it long enough for the Doctor to retreat to the TARDIS before the Oracle could consume the Doctor, although Sabbath was torn apart as he begged it to help him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Domino Effect (novel)|The Domino Effect]]'') | ||
