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{{first pic|Excalibur.jpg|Excalibur in Arthur's ship. ([[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield (TV story)|Battlefield]]'')}} | |||
'''Excalibur''' was a [[sword]] | '''Excalibur''' was a legendary [[sword]] associated with [[King Arthur]]. | ||
Much as accounts differed on whether King Arthur and [[Camelot]] only existed in [[Arthur's World|a parallel world]], whose history leaked out into [[N-Space|the Doctor's universe]] through a [[space-time rift|dimensional rift]] in the form of legends, ([[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield (TV story)|Battlefield]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Legends of Camelot (novel)|Legends of Camelot]]'') or were real parts of the history of the England of the Doctor's own universe, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[One Fateful Knight (short story)|One Fateful Knight]]'', ''[[The Creation of Camelot (short story)|The Creation of Camelot]]'') there were many contradictory accounts of Excalibur's existence. | |||
[[ | == History == | ||
The [[Second Doctor]] believed that Excalibur was not a magical weapon as later legends suggested, but was merely considered a powerful artefact when [[King Arthur]] wielded it because it was made of [[steel]] in an age where most of his enemies used [[bronze]] weapons. It was suggested that Arthur obtained the sword when "a samite-wearing woman in a pond threw it at him", an event romanticised by the later tales. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Heart of TARDIS (novel)|Heart of TARDIS]]'') | |||
Excalibur was | At one point, [[the Doctor (Battlefield)|Merlin]], King Arthur's advisor, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Excalibur of Mars (short story)|Excalibur of Mars]]'') who was actually an incarnation of [[the Doctor]] lying somewhere in the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s future, ([[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield (TV story)|Battlefield]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Battlefield (novelisation)|Battlefield]]'', etc.) sent Excalibur to [[Winifred Bambera]] and [[Ancelyn]]. Bambera then travelled to [[Mars]] in order to use the sword to prevent [[Deimos]] and [[Phobos]] from leaving Mars' orbit. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Excalibur of Mars (short story)|Excalibur of Mars]]'') | ||
[[ | Arthur wielded the sword at the [[Battle of Camlann]] until his death. Merlin placed it with his body in a dimension-crossing spaceship and hid it at the bottom of [[Lake Vortigern]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[One Fateful Knight (short story)|One Fateful Knight]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield (TV story)|Battlefield]]'') In the late [[20th century]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] discovered Arthur's spaceship and retrieved Excalibur. ([[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield (TV story)|Battlefield]]'') | ||
{{Ainley|c}} once tried to steal it from the Doctor. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors (video game)|Destiny of the Doctors]]'') | |||
Despite | Despite its lack of actual magical properties, at one point, [[the Golgotha Project]] collected the sword as part of an assortment of other "magical" objects. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Heart of TARDIS (novel)|Heart of TARDIS]]'') Excalibur was also once held in [[The Vault (The Scales of Injustice)|the Vault]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'') | ||
== Other references == | |||
[[Ian Chesterton]] facetiously shouted Excalibur after he pulled a ring like object out of the ground on [[Aridius]]. ([[TV]]: "[[The Executioners]]") | [[Ian Chesterton]] facetiously shouted Excalibur after he pulled a ring like object out of the ground on [[Aridius]]. ([[TV]]: "[[The Executioners]]") | ||
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* Excalibur was the original name for the science-fiction/crime drama which would become ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' until [[Russell T Davies]] decided to make a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Doctor Who spin-offs|spin-off]]. John Hart's suggestion of Excalibur as a name for [[Torchwood Three]] in ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]'' is a reference to this. | * Excalibur was the original name for the science-fiction/crime drama which would become ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' until [[Russell T Davies]] decided to make a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Doctor Who spin-offs|spin-off]]. John Hart's suggestion of Excalibur as a name for [[Torchwood Three]] in ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]'' is a reference to this. | ||
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[[Category:The Doctor's possessions]] | [[Category:The Doctor's possessions]] | ||
[[Category:The Master's possessions]] | [[Category:The Master's possessions]] | ||
[[Category:Human artefacts]] | [[Category:Human artefacts]] | ||
[[Category:Myths and legends from the real world]] | [[Category:Myths and legends from the real world]] | ||
