( PROSE: The Cosmology of the Spiral Politic)īecause the story of the Yssgaroth was never recorded in the Matrix, there were varying accounts of their origin however, whether in one of Rassilon's early experiments creating black holes ( PROSE: The Pit, Interference) or during the anchoring of the thread, ( PROSE: The Book of the War) most accounts agreed that they were accidentally released from their dimension by the Time Lords, ( AUDIO: Project: Twilight) although some accounts held the war began before the Gallifreyans achieved power over time. This property was called the Yssgaroth "taint" ( PROSE: The Book of the War) and was caused by the application of the Yssgaroth observer effect on the Spiral Politic. ( PROSE: The Monster Vault) Indeed, Yssgaroth biomass was able to hybridise and corrupt ordinary biomass by contact. ![]() ( PROSE: Interference, The Book of the War)īeyond the legend of the Great Vampires surviving in race memory and mythology long after their defeat, what one text called "a kind of primeval genetic template" and "the vampire mutation" persisted to create later vampiric creatures, including the Haemovores and the creature Richard Lazarus was transformed into. Stahlman's ooze, ( TV: Inferno) a sample of Yssgaroth taint capable of turning human into Mal'akh Primords. More powerful Vampires needed to have their heart fully destroyed in order to kill them. ( AUDIO: Annihilation) Because they could absorb energy weapons and heal most wounds, the only way to kill one was to stab them physically through the heart, usually with a steel bolt. ( PROSE: The Book of the War) Leela's vision was restored after she drank Great Vampire blood. They also had extreme regenerative abilities, and they could survive numerous wounds. ( PROSE: Predating the Predators) However, a "half-true" account claimed the Vampires had, originally, been happy to feed off mindless animals they bred and were only brought into conflict with the Time Lords when Rassilon suddenly decided to destroy them. ( TV: State of Decay) With their incredible hypnotic powers, the Vampires could enslave entire planetary populations. Just one was extremely powerful and could drain a whole planet of energy. The Vampires needed to steal energy from other sources to survive. ( PROSE: The Cosmology of the Spiral Politic) The Seventh Doctor went so far as to hypothesise that they and their universe might have been the N-Space Time Lords' own nightmares, rooted in the fear of their own blood, made real by the Time Lords' dwelling on the possibility of their existence. ( PROSE: The Last Few Pages)Īnother view was that the monstrosities were actually members of counterpart Great Houses from that other universe. ( PROSE: The Book of the War) Erasmus Greatorex interpreted, and communicated with, "the Yssgaroth" as a singular entity, which he described as an Ancient and a demon. Some believed that, rather than being alive, the Yssgaroth were areas of hostile anti-structure produced by the collision of the Spiral Politic with another universe, turned into monsters by the Great Houses' and lesser species' projections of their fears. It was often speculated that there was only one Yssgaroth, capable of splitting itself into smaller forms. ![]() ( TV: State of Decay, PROSE: The Book of the War, Predating the Predators)Įyes of the Yssgaroth. ![]() These included stems of bloody thorns, tearing flesh from whole worlds bleeding, eyeless lambs on divine thrones ( PROSE: The Book of the War) huge winged snakes with horns, many eyes, and wet, dripping skin ( PROSE: The Pit) clouds of smoke that would fill a planet's atmosphere and induce nuclear winter ( PROSE: Predating the Predators) and the Great Vampires themselves, "blind, screaming abominations made of leather wings and shredded muscle". The Yssgaroth could manifest in multiple forms, varying based on what species or individual was perceiving them. 2.5 Lingering influence on the universe.
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