The Shadows of Avalon (novel)

Publisher’s Summary
The Brigadier’s wife is dead. A terrible accident. Grieving, he searches for death, and finds his way to Avalon, the other-dimensional kingdom of the Catuvelauni.

The Doctor is also in Avalon, marooned. He’s lost his companions, his TARDIS... and his hope for the future.

Now it seems they’ll have to make a new life for themselves with the Celts who live in the Dreamlands. Perhaps even help in the Celts’ negotiations with the Unseelie, the sinister original inhabitants of Avalon, who live far to the North.

But then a gateway opens between Earth and Avalon. The British Army arrives in force. And the Brigadier negotiates a treaty that will lead to war in the Land of Dreams.

With fearsome dragons duelling jet fighters, vicious Gallifreyan agents causing havoc, and Compassion fighting against her ultimate fate, can the Doctor save the world, his best friend, and himself?

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Fitz Kreiner
 * Compassion
 * Spends time on Earth.
 * Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Doris Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Queen Regent Ma bab Mab Pendragon
 * Queen Mab is also known as: Queen Regent of the Catuvelauni, Protector of Avalon.
 * King Constantine
 * Sleeps to maintain the dream that is Avalon.
 * Fair Folk (aka Faerie Folk)
 * Ruled by Brona and Arwen.
 * Romana III
 * Romana’s other names mentioned are: Lady President, War Queen, Mistress of the Nine Gallifreys.
 * Cavis (Cavisadoratrelundar)
 * Cavis has one heart (and therefore has not regenerated.) She has messy blonde hair.
 * Gandar (Gandarotethetledrax)

Continuity

 * In Happy Endings the Brigadier gained a younger body.


 * The Doctor states he hasn’t been Merlin yet as was hinted at in Battlefield which also featured an alternate dimension (though not this Avalon) where the Doctor had been Merlin.


 * Here Compassion evolves into a fully fledged sentient TARDIS (first seen in Alien Bodies, a process which began in The Blue Angel, and for which they (The Doctor, Fitz and Compassion) are pursued by the Time Lords through; The Fall of Yquatine, Coldheart, The Space Age and The Banquo Legacy.


 * The Ancestor Cell reveals just what happened to the TARDIS after its collision between the dimensional barriers.


 * The Doctor contemplates growing a TARDIS with magic. In the televised episode DW: The Impossible Planet, he affirms that TARDISes are grown.