The Soothsayer was the first short story in the Lethbridge-Stewart series anthology Lineage. It served as both the prologue and epilogue to the anthology.
Plot[]
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Characters[]
- Mary Lethbridge
- William Stewart
- Antony Gale
- William Shakespeare
Visions[]
- Henry John Lethbridge-Stewart
- Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart
- Kate Lethbridge-Stewart
- Lucy Wilson
- Sir John Lethbridge
- Mary Lethbridge's mother
- Benjamin
- Lady Elizabeth Howlett
Worldbuilding[]
- Sir John Lethbridge, Mary's father, attended James I's coronation.
- The poets Benjamin Johnson and Thomas Dekker are mentioned.
Notes[]
- While he is Captain William Stewart here, in the Eighth Doctor's telling of his story in The Dying Days, he referred to him as General William Lethbridge-Stewart.
Continuity[]
- Mary sees a cocoa-skinned girl and a tall blonde woman with a soldier's bearing saving the world after Alistair dies. (PROSE: Avatars of the Intelligence, TV: The Power of Three)
- William Stewart was first mentioned in PROSE: The Dying Days. A footnote at the end of the story acknowledges this.
- Mary gets a vision of her future son, Henry John Lethbridge-Stewart, and learns she will die in childbirth. Henry John Lethbridge-Stewart appears in AUDIO: The Revisionists.
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