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[[Image:Pyrovile.jpg|250px|thumb|left|The [[High Priestess]] halfway through transformation into a Pyrovile. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]'')]] | [[Image:Pyrovile.jpg|250px|thumb|left|The [[High Priestess]] halfway through transformation into a Pyrovile. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]'')]] | ||
By [[Early human history#1st century A.D.|79 AD.]], full-grown Pyrovilles had created a base beneath Vesuvius and planned to convert the power of the [[volcanic]] eruption to change all Humans into Pyroviles and create a new [[Pyrovillia]]. [[Tenth Doctor| | By [[Early human history#1st century A.D.|79 AD.]], full-grown Pyrovilles had created a base beneath Vesuvius and planned to convert the power of the [[volcanic]] eruption to change all Humans into Pyroviles and create a new [[Pyrovillia]]. The [[Tenth Doctor|Tenth Doctor]] stopped this and knowingly caused Mount Vesuvius to erupt and destroy the Pyroviles and the nearby town of Pompeii. When asked by Donna Noble about the possiblity of them surviving the eruption, he revealed that the blast was going to be too powerful for even them to withstand. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]'') | ||
The [[Torchwood Institute]] learned about the Pyroviles through the monitoring of a [[1923]] British archaeological survey of [[Rome]] by Professor [[Livesy-Smythe]], which turned up a scroll detailing the events, as chronicled by [[Lucius Caecilius Iucundus|Caecilius]]. This unlikely tale was later corroborated by the discovery of huge Pyrovile footprints and marble circuits in the Pompeii ruins. ([[WEB]]: ''[[Captain Jack's Monster Files]]'') | The [[Torchwood Institute]] learned about the Pyroviles through the monitoring of a [[1923]] British archaeological survey of [[Rome]] by Professor [[Livesy-Smythe]], which turned up a scroll detailing the events, as chronicled by [[Lucius Caecilius Iucundus|Caecilius]]. This unlikely tale was later corroborated by the discovery of huge Pyrovile footprints and marble circuits in the Pompeii ruins. ([[WEB]]: ''[[Captain Jack's Monster Files]]'') |