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=== Life on Atlantis ===
=== Life on Atlantis ===
On Atlantis, she became Ruth, a [[priest]]ess of [[Great Leader|Poseidon]] who remembered living there all her life. She had little [[memory]] of her parents, but remembered having a close relationship with [[Leonidas]] and [[Charis]]. She became a [[Historian]] after finding that Leonidas did not know who she was.
On Atlantis, she became Ruth, a [[priest]]ess of [[Great Leader|Poseidon]] who remembered living there all her life. She had little [[memory]] of her parents, but remembered having a close relationship with [[Leonidas]] and [[Charis]]. She became a [[Historian]] after finding that Leonidas did not know who she was and heard [[Pallis]]'s broadcast.


Despite her calling, Ruth was secretly a "historian", someone who wanted to uncover the truth beyond the rule of the Great Leader, the entity that seemingly ruled Atlantis, who had outlawed any kind of history before Year Zero. Alongside [[Leonidas]], Ruth helped Bernice begin to understand just what was going on around her, and the two became close friends after they defeated and destroyed the computer that Poseidon, aka the Great Leader, actually was. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Temple of Questions (audio story)|The Temple of Questions]]'')
After Ruth and Leo met [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] and they decided to go to the [[Great Leader]]'s underwater base, Ruth was remapped to become the sole priestess of Poseidon so that she would be able to summon the [[Chariot of Poseidon]] to get there. The Great Leader forced them to take part in a game during which she worried that she might have unknowingly been a [[traitor]] to Benny, but, following the Great Leader's destruction, Benny assured her that that was not the case. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Temple of Questions (audio story)|The Temple of Questions]]'')


They tried to protect Benny from retribution against their act against "the gods", only to be captured by the minions of [[the Epoch]], the powerful entities behind what was really going on. Due to her spending time with Benny, and their questioning of the status quo, Ruth became immune to the memory reprogramming that was commonly performed by the Epoch amongst the populace. This helped her see the changes to reality that were going on around Atlantis, before she and Benny were captured by the Epoch. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Private Enemy No. 1 (audio story)|Private Enemy No. 1]]'')
Ruth kept Benny at a [[safe house]] on Leo's orders to keep her safe and helped her in a failed attempt to escape when the [[Hierophant]]s came for her. They examined the changes to Atlantis and joined the Historians at [[the Senate]], finding that Leo had been remapped to become a Hierophant called Traulus. Ruth and Benny then went to reboot the Great Leader due to the stability that he provided, but the [[Transuniversal Export]] building had transformed into a spire and they waited at the top of it as [[nothing (substance)|nothing]] destroyed the city. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Private Enemy No. 1 (audio story)|Private Enemy No. 1]]'')


When confronted by the Epoch, she and Benny were forced to decide who among three versions of themselves were actually real, and witnessed the death of one Benny and the almost demise of herself, until Benny switched that reality "off". Before they could decide any further, Ruth began to remember moments from her "real" life, and grew very confused at the new memories and her existing ones. She then met another version of herself who had been stuck in Victorian England at the mercy of an alien who had taken the identity of Spring-Heeled Jack and was scaring the locals (with whom this Ruth had become quite taken). Although they sent her back to that reality, they were unsure if she survived the journey due to the gateway closing prematurely.
[[The Epoch]] took Ruth and Benny and made them watch two other versions of themselves in different [[reality|realities]] to work out which version of them was the real one. She began to remember moments from her life before Atlantis and was joined by the version of her from the [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[London]] reality, who shut down the field around the [[solar system]] so that she, [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]] and her version of Benny could escape. One Ruth was teleported to the London reality, but the other remained behind due to the device running out of [[battery]] and trapped Benny in a [[stasis chamber]] to survive the destruction of the reality they were in. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Judgement Day (BFBS audio story)|Judgement Day]]'')
 
When Benny made the decision to erase their "reality", in order to stop the Epoch from interfering anymore, Ruth seemingly sacrificed herself to secure Benny in an emergency hibernation unit, arguing that Benny had more to live for, with a son waiting for her somewhere in space and time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Judgement Day (BFBS audio story)|Judgement Day]]'')


=== Finding Legion ===
=== Finding Legion ===
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