The Knight, The Fool and The Dead (novel)

The Knight, The Fool and The Dead was the first of two novels released as part of the Time Lord Victorious series. It was written by Steve Cole and featured the Tenth Doctor and Brian the Ood.

Publisher's summary
We live forever, barring accidents. Just like everyone else in the universe.

The Doctor travels back to the Ancient Days, an era where life flourishes and death is barely known…

Then come the Kotturuh – creatures who spread through the cosmos dispensing mortality. They judge each and every species and decree its allotted time to live. For the first time, living things know the fear of ending. And they will go to any lengths to escape this grim new spectre, death.

The Doctor is an old hand at cheating death. Now, at last, he can stop it at source. He is coming for the Kotturuh, ready to change everything so that Life wins from the start.

Not just the last of the Time Lords. The Time Lord Victorious.

Plot
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Characters

 * Tenth Doctor
 * Brian the Ood
 * Estinee
 * High Ambassador Verv-Hoondai Chalskal
 * Professor Hana Fallomax
 * Eighth Doctor
 * Ninth Doctor
 * Rose Tyler
 * First Doctor
 * Barbara Wright
 * Ian Chesterton
 * Susan Foreman
 * Estinee's Mother
 * Estinee's Father
 * Male Andalian
 * Female Andalian

Continuity

 * The Doctor recalls visiting Mars, Adelaide Brooke's death, seeing Ood Sigma on Davies Street and the ringing of the Cloister Bell afterwards. (TV: The Waters of Mars)
 * The Dark Times followed on from the sudden appearance of innumerable forms of life. (PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times)
 * The Doctor remembers meeting "remnants" of a "fair few" of the Old Ones. (TV: Death to the Daleks, City of Death, Enlightenment, The Runaway Bride)
 * The Tenth Doctor refers to himself as "a bloke who walks in eternity". He had described himself in similar terms during his fourth incarnation. (TV: Pyramids of Mars)
 * When he meets Brian, The Tenth Doctor recalls the Ood Brain, and that Ood were being born into slavery. (TV: Planet of the Ood)
 * One of the interludes features a flashback to Barbara Wright discussing an old fairytale with the First Doctor whilst they are planning their escape from the Cave of Skulls. (TV: An Unearthly Child)
 * Another interlude shows the Eighth Doctor travelling with Brian to Moslin Town. (AUDIO: He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not)
 * The Doctor mentions Ascinta and Perganon as fallen civilisations he could save. (TV: School Reunion)
 * The Doctor wonders if by stopping the Kotturuh he may prevent Gallifrey’s fall, (TV: The End of the World et al) the evolution of the Daleks (TV: Genesis of the Daleks) and the people of Mondas becoming the Cybermen. (TV: The Tenth Planet, AUDIO: Spare Parts)
 * Before the attack on Mordeela, the Doctor wonders “Do I have the right?”, as he previously pondered whilst on Skaro to prevent the creation of the Daleks. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks)
 * The Doctor remembers Mr Copper's remarks to him about how having the choice of who lives and who dies would make you a monster. (TV: Voyage of the Damned)