Erimem

Erimemushinteperem, or Erimem for short, was an uncrowned Pharaoh from ancient Egypt who, after travelling in the TARDIS with the Fifth Doctor and Peri, stayed behind to rule the planet Peladon by becoming engaged to King Pelleas.

Biography
Erimem was born in 1419 BC to Pharaoh Amenhotep II of Egypt. Her mother was Rubak, one of his sixty concubines. (AUDIO: The Eye of the Scorpion) Her father, who was predeceased by her three elder brothers, died when she was seventeen. She was groomed as the next Pharaoh. She was raised in near isolation, treated more like a god than a person. (AUDIO: No Place Like Home)

There was controversy about the throne passing to a woman. It was in the midst of this intrigue that the Fifth Doctor and Peri Brown arrived in Thebes in circa 1400 BC. The Doctor knew that historical records showed Amenhotep was succeeded by Thutmose IV. He feared Erimem would die in a revolution to prevent her becoming Pharaoh. However, Erimem survived. Realising she was not destined to rule Egypt, she decided to leave for Greece to study. The Doctor offered her a chance to learn far further afield. (AUDIO: The Eye of the Scorpion) She later regretted not having said goodbye to her mother before leaving. (AUDIO: No Place Like Home)

At some point in her travels, she and Peri visited Prelax, where they went to a costume party against the Doctor's wishes.

The Doctor decided to give Erimem a tour of his TARDIS. At this time, a mutated rovie decided to take control of the TARDIS and tried to get them lost or killed. When the Doctor and Erimem finally found the Rovie, they did not take him seriously because he was a rodent. They provoked him with mouse-based insults, which caused him to leave his protective force field. Erimem smashed Rovie's machine and set Antranak on him. (AUDIO: No Place Like Home)

Throughout her travels with the Doctor and Peri, Erimen sought out causes and crusades to throw herself into. For instance, she applied herself with Arius at the Council of Nicaea in 325. (AUDIO: The Council of Nicaea)

She tried to help rule with Prince Vlad III (also known as Vlad Tepes and Vlad the Impaler) in Upper-Wallachia in 1462, staying with him throughout much of his later campaign and being engaged to him. (AUDIO: Son of the Dragon)

It was the Doctor who got to see many of her desires first hand in an induced fantasy world created by the plants of YT45. In this fantasy, she was the ruler of 'New Cairo', an amalgam of many of the worlds she had visited with the Doctor and her original home in Egypt. (AUDIO: The Mind's Eye)

The Doctor, Peri and Erimem answered a distress call from the Ice Warrior prince and ambassador, Zixlyr in the 41st century. Zixlyr had blown up an explosive within his ship to smuggle a Xanthoid volataliser onto Peladon after his sister, the previous ambassador to Peladon, Alixlyr, had disappeared; he claimed he had been attacked by Arcturans and knew that if he entered Peladon through more conventional means, the volataliser would have been detected. As the ship began to fall towards Peladon, part of the ship's hull broke off, leaving the TARDIS around Peladon's orbit and making escape impossible. The Doctor, Peri and Erimem helped Zixlyr safely crashland the ship as it entered Peladon's atmosphere, crashing it into a forest. Zixlyr and Peri went to the citadel of Peladon, while Erimem took care of the Doctor as he recovered.

An Aggedor, the daughter of the late Aggedor the Doctor had encountered in his third incarnation, began approaching the Doctor and Erimem. The Doctor used Erimem's signet ring to hypnotise and tame her. Queen Belldonia of the royal house of Peladon discovered them while on a hunt and escorted the Doctor and Erimem back to the citadel.

An explosion set off by the criminal Arktos and his accomplice, Elkin, had ripped apart the floor of the nearby mines, killing the miners inside. Within the wreckage, Erimem discovered a message in Egyptian hieroglyphs warning of the Osirian, Sekhmet, whom the Egyptians worshipped as a god. The Doctor found a secret passageway leading to Sekhmet's trisilicate tomb, where three of her four blood locks had been broken after she fed on the blood of three royal women, including Alixlyr and the newly-crowned King Pelleas' predecessor, Queen Elspera, and used the Aggedor to break down the door. Erimem offered her blood to Sekhmet, but had poisoned it with mandrake root that was inside her ring. Zixlyr grabbed onto Sekhmet and set the countdown on his volataliser. Zixlyr sealed the chamber, blowing himself up along with Sekhmet. The Doctor and Erimem escaped, but Erimem was still dying from her poison. Peri used the Time Lord biochemistry in the Doctor's blood to revive Erimem by performing a "very crude" blood transfusion on her.

King Pelleas proposed to Erimem, and she accepted so that she could run Peladon and show Pelleas how to be a good ruler. According to Erimem, "We're genuinely fond of each other and who knows? That may blossom into love." She parted company from Peri and the Doctor, staying behind to rule Peladon. (AUDIO: The Bride of Peladon)

Personality
Erimem was very much the leader, leading Crown and Church forces against the English in France in 1626. (AUDIO: The Church and the Crown) She seemed to truly desire to rule or be close to a ruler over a group of people. (AUDIO: Son of the Dragon)