| rdfs:comment | - In the early stages of his life, Grayvorn was a warlord in the city of Excelis on the distant plant of Artaris, either a human colony that had lost all knowledge of its origins and had to begin from scratch or an entirely new species that simply bore a physical resemblance to humans. As a child, he was lured away from his native village by a charismatic stranger who promised him adventure, then sold him into slavery. Grayvorn grew to see life as a great cycle of enslavement and retribution, but he sometime dreamed of more than that; when first meeting them, he allowed the Fifth Doctor and Iris Wildthyme to live because he sensed that they would play important roles in the destiny of Artaris.
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| abstract | - In the early stages of his life, Grayvorn was a warlord in the city of Excelis on the distant plant of Artaris, either a human colony that had lost all knowledge of its origins and had to begin from scratch or an entirely new species that simply bore a physical resemblance to humans. As a child, he was lured away from his native village by a charismatic stranger who promised him adventure, then sold him into slavery. Grayvorn grew to see life as a great cycle of enslavement and retribution, but he sometime dreamed of more than that; when first meeting them, he allowed the Fifth Doctor and Iris Wildthyme to live because he sensed that they would play important roles in the destiny of Artaris. Everything in Grayvorn's life changed when he took on a quest to find the Relic, a mysterious artefact that was said to be the key to bringing Artaris to a bright, prosperous future if one who was found it. Believing himself worthy, he set out on the quest, but found himself saddled with three curious companions: Sister Jolene of the convent of Excelis, Sister Iris Wildthyme, a renegade Time Lady with a drinking problem who had the map to the Relic, and the Fifth Doctor, who had stopped on Excelis to give his TARDIS a rest. (TV: Frontios) Having Iris along on the trip meant the quest would be undertaken in her TARDIS, a Type 39 that was smaller inside that outside, currently had a broken dematerialisation circuit and was stuck looking like the number 22 double-decker bus to Putney Common. During the quest, Jolene revealed to the Doctor that, although Grayvorn was the only person who could find the Relic, he mustn't be allowed to tap its powers for himself. The Doctor also learned from Iris that the Relic permitted the flesh-eating zombies that guarded it to live beyond death, but what none of them knew was that the mysterious Zombie King, who owned the Relic, knew that they were on their way and feared them taking the Relic. When they reached the edges of the Zombie King's home, Sister Jolene ran away from the others while the Doctor was occupied with repairing Iris' dematerialisation circuit to try to gain the secrets of the Relic. To make things even more complicated, a mistake in the coordinates in Iris's TARDIS resulted in Grayvorn learning that, two thousand years in the future, Artaris would be a barren, radioactive wasteland — a future that Grayvorn vowed to prevent. Returning to the present, they were captured by the Zombie King's followers. Iris revealed that the Relic apparently controlled the gates to Heaven and Hell and looked like a gold lame handbag Iris had once owned. Grayvorn grabbed the Relic and fled with Iris and the Doctor, intending to use it to force them to operate their TARDISes on his behalf, but upon their return to the convent, Grayvorn and the Mother Superior fought over the Relic and fell off the convent bell tower to their apparent deaths. The Relic was lost again. The Doctor and Iris departed, unaware that Grayvorn had not died. The Relic merged Grayvorn and the Mother Superior's minds into one, making Grayvorn immortal at the cost of being unable to sleep, as the Mother Superior drove him on to shape Excelis' destiny. (AUDIO: Excelis Dawns)
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