https://www.curufea.com/ 2026-05-25T08:48:31+00:00 https://www.curufea.com/ https://www.curufea.com/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.png text/html 2013-03-13T07:58:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:dwplanets&rev=1363161487&do=diff Planetary Objects for DW:AITAS Credits Textures are from <http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/3d_resources/images.html NASA> Modified with Photoshop “ ---------- CategoryDoctorWho ; text/html 2013-07-23T00:12:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:dwsheets&rev=1374538335&do=diff Characters for DW:AITAS Original Series Companions * Adric view -- [Download] * Nyssa view -- [Download] * Tegan view -- [Download] * Leela view -- [Download] * Jamie McCrimmon view -- [Download] * Zoe Heriot view -- [Download] Races * Draconian * Noble view -- [Download] * Warrior view -- [Download] * Ice Warrior * Lord view -- Angus McGyver text/html 2013-03-13T07:58:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionancestor&rev=1363161489&do=diff My Review of THE ANCESTOR CELL, by Lawrence Miles. " "From: <http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.drwho/msg/cc1d0ce634b489ed?dmode=source Google Groups archive of rec.arts.drwho><<" " Dear God, where do I start? With a disclaimer, possibly. The trouble is, I've got an obvious vested interest here. THE ANCESTOR CELL's on my patch. It is, on the whole, a book designed to remove from the continuity everything I've ever invented. I mean, I'd hate anyone to think I'm *prejudiced*. So maybe I… text/html 2013-03-14T00:38:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionancient&rev=1363221521&do=diff Crimes Against History Ancient History The Universe, Etcetera c. 10,000,000 years ago The first conscious life in the universe develops. The culture in question can reasonably be described as humanoid, and immediately begins to imprint its own principles on the universe around it, if not actually causing the proliferation of hominid forms throughout the rest of history then certainly making it easier for hominid species to survive. As the first self-aware tenants of the continuum, this prima… text/html 2020-05-11T05:32:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionarmour&rev=1589175132&do=diff Faction Armour Some Design Notes Though the armour of Faction Paradox is variable in form - inevitable, given that it can't exactly be mass-produced - all the suits have key features in common, with significant variations being found between cliques (or cabals) rather than between individuals: most personal customisations of the armour are purely aesthetic. The suit seen here may not exactly be average, but it contains most of the usual fixtures. Note also that different models of armour are w… text/html 2013-03-14T01:31:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionarmoury&rev=1363224708&do=diff The Armoury " "'We do not intend to spend this campaign fighting ghosts.'" " - From a report on Faction Paradox, filed by the 79th Sontaran Assault Corps. Despite its talent for irritating and/ or appalling the other Great Houses, at heart Faction Paradox is a bloodline in itself, and like all bloodlines tends to think of its own House as being a single entity: a thousand-year-old process, in which each individual is merely a servant of the family line. As a result, when new members are rec… text/html 2014-04-03T00:41:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionaudio1&rev=1396485707&do=diff The Eleven-Day Empire Go Back to start [The Eleven-Day Empire] 'The doomed end up dancing on the walls while the Faction prepares for war...' The Unkindnesses discuss the future over dinner; the Sontarans decide to give extinction a push in the right direction; Justine gains an opportunity by losing her 'closest friend'; Godfather Morlock makes his last appearance in Parliament, and spots a trap just in time to walk into it; the founder of the House leaves a legacy; and the doomed end up da… text/html 2014-04-03T00:42:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionaudio2&rev=1396485746&do=diff The Shadow Play Go Back to start [The Shadow Play] 'One Great House falls while another one rises...' Justine finds out how well she fits the glass slipper; a baptism of fire turns into the agony of diplomacy; Miss Lolita gives a lesson in the correct use of weaponry; General Kine discovers that it's easier to disarm a Sontaran than a Cousin; Eliza becomes an accomplice to vehicle theft (on a grand scale); and one Great House falls while another one rises. text/html 2014-04-03T00:43:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionaudio3&rev=1396485786&do=diff Sabbath Dei Go Back to start [Sabbath Dei] 'An arrangement's made in blood while Justine flirts with treason...' Faction Paradox re-introduces itself at Buckingham Palace; Mr. Sabbath of London plays cards with a lady of questionable birth; a society party is interrupted by a quite fashionable subterranean horror; the King of England demonstrates a remarkable new war machine; justice finds itself a new body to wear; and an arrangement's made in blood while Justine flirts with treason. text/html 2014-04-03T00:43:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionaudio4&rev=1396485838&do=diff In the Year of the Cat Go Back to start [In the Year of the Cat] 'New alliances are made while the Faction suffers one more casualty of War...' An automaton provides a lesson in astrology; a monster is revealed to be sleeping in the royal bedchambers; the city's prostitutes prove that they know a thing or two about the Higher Powers; the trial of Grandfather Paradox is reconvened; Eliza fights the country in order to save the world; and new alliances are made while the Faction suffers one mo… text/html 2014-04-03T00:44:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionaudio5&rev=1396485886&do=diff Movers Go Back to start [Movers] 'Two Messiahs collide while the Spiral Politic sees its greatest ever prison-break...' Two schoolgirls find themselves bothered by pagan monsters; the assorted cut-throats, marauders and war criminals of history come under new management; the (self-proclaimed) most dangerous member of Faction Paradox is let loose on the universe; young Justine witnesses a puzzling vision of beauty; Godfather Sabbath gives a new meaning to the term 'witch-hunt'; and two Messi… text/html 2014-04-03T00:45:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionaudio6&rev=1396485925&do=diff A Labyrinth of Histories Go Back to start [A Labyrinth of Histories] 'The Great Houses send in the troops while the bearer of the Grandfather's shadow takes on the world...' An arms race in under three minutes, courtesy of Cousin Shuncucker; the Godfathers make an unlikely wager; a criminal mastermind explains her grudge against the Faction, or at least one particular member; Justine gets blooded and learns the rules of the hunt; the minotaur in the library introduces himself; and the Great… text/html 2013-03-14T01:32:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionblood&rev=1363224764&do=diff Blood Ties Inside the Grandfather's House Although it's well-known that Faction Paradox is organised as a family, there's some debate about why this might be the case. All the Great Houses are to some degree over-extended families (even if they don't generally reproduce through natural childbirth), but the Faction attaches far more importance to family titles than any of the other bloodlines. It's been noted that in this respect it's got something else in common with the voodoo-cults of the Ca… text/html 2014-04-22T03:11:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionbook1&rev=1398136285&do=diff The Book of the War [The Book of the War] An All-Purpose Guide to the Modern Spiral Politic 'The War (and at this stage it remains the War, not yet having enough of its mass in a single region or era to be given a more specific title) has now been in progress for fifty years. The dead are already numbered in their billions; the retro-dead will never be counted; the surviving participants are best described not as wounded text/html 2014-04-22T03:10:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionbook1reading&rev=1398136205&do=diff Design Specs for Advanced Users [The Book of the War] Obviously The Book of the War isn't meant to be read in a linear order: it's part of the book's design that no two people are likely to start in exactly the same place, and that every reader is therefore going to have his or her own ideas about which bits are the important bits. But - As anyone who's seen the Book will know, entries are linked by titles in bold face, so that it's possible to navigate text/html 2013-05-31T05:22:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionbook2&rev=1369977770&do=diff This Town Will Never Let Us Go [This Town Will Never Let Us Go] 11:32 p.m. Six minutes before the first of the rockets hits the square, so right now nothing's burning except for grill-fat. This is Inangela, and we don't know her yet but we'll take the straightforward, statistical things for granted. She weighs 174 pounds; she's slightly shorter than she needs to be, although obviously high-heeled boots are de rigueur for someone in her position; and despite having the kind of cola-black hair t… text/html 2013-05-31T05:25:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionbook3&rev=1369977923&do=diff Of the City of the Saved... [Of the City of the Saved...] The young madwoman in the Tube carriage is recounting, in painstaking detail, the imminent future history of the City. Her cracked voice rises then descends to murmurs, as she delineates diverse catastrophes due in the coming weeks. text/html 2013-05-31T05:19:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionbook4&rev=1369977551&do=diff Warlords of Utopia [Warlords of Utopia] Rome never fell. Hitler won. Now they are at war. Marcus Americanius Scriptor's memoirs of the war between every parallel universe where Rome never fell, and every parallel universe where Hitler won the Second World War, have long been regarded as the definitive account of that turbulent time. text/html 2013-05-31T05:26:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionbook5&rev=1369977985&do=diff Warring States [Warring States] Takes place in China, 1900, and concerns Cousin Octavia (the Faction Paradox member responsible for the fall of the Thirteen-Day Republic, as told in The Book of the War). text/html 2013-05-31T05:28:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionbook6&rev=1369978084&do=diff Dead Romance [Dead Romance] Widely acclaimed as a sci-fi epic, Dead Romance by Lawrence Miles has been out of print for a few years but finds a new home in the Mad Norwegian stable. Initially released by Virgin Publishing, the book features Christine Summerfield, a young Londoner/drug-user who happens upon Christopher Cwej, an agent for some higher powers. Together with Cwej, Christine finds herself stalked by Sphinxes, confonts the true nature of Cwej's employers and much, much more. text/html 2013-05-31T05:29:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionbook7&rev=1369978192&do=diff Erasing Sherlock [Erasing Sherlock] On a fine October afternoon in 1882, Rose Donnelly, maid-of-all-work, disguises herself as a boy in order to follow the callow, yet brilliantly determined Sherlock Holmes in his pursuit of a thief. Through narrow alleyways and cobbled lanes wedged between Whitechapel, Bethnal Green and the broad back of the City, she's led into deeper territory - worlds he knows well. So well, in fact, that he nearly has her collared on her first time out. text/html 2013-05-31T05:31:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionbook8&rev=1369978317&do=diff Newton's Sleep [Newton's Sleep] Don't tell her what it was like. Don't tell her how you had to dig your way out through heavy layers of clay to reach the fresh air, because that would distress her. Don't tell her about the box, because that would confuse her. And don't tell her about the light, because that was sacred. text/html 2013-03-13T07:58:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionbow&rev=1363161503&do=diff The Book Of The War [unused material] From - <http://simonbjones.blogspot.com/2006/12/book-of-war-unused-material.html> Protective Neotony The inhabitants of the lesser worlds that form the backdrop of the war, resemble +»-+-+ at least on the surface +»-+-+ the scions of the Great Houses. There are a number of theories about this. One is that like species contend for like habitats, and thus contention over like habitats involves like species. This is true but unhelpful, and depends on limite… text/html 2020-04-28T21:23:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factioncharacter&rev=1588109032&do=diff Joining the Faction Possible methods * Inducted by a member * Lesser Species only * Has a life before the Faction * Least beginning Faction rites and powers. * Grown in a Biobank * No background other than what the Faction gives you text/html 2020-04-28T21:24:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factioncharacterstats&rev=1588109088&do=diff Character Statistic Attributes Attributes in Amber Characters in Amber DRPG are represented by four attributes: Psyche, Strength, Endurance and Warfare. * Psyche is used for feats of willpower or magic. * Strength is used for feats of strength or unarmed combat. text/html 2014-06-02T01:19:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factioncoda&rev=1401671967&do=diff Coda Off-Cuts and Afterthoughts As they were originally written, the first two volumes of The Faction Paradox Protocols took a slightly different form to the finished versions: the story was intercut with reconstructions“, short monolgues explaining the background of the Spiral Politic (much like some of the material on this website). A lot of this scene-setting was eventually turned into dialogue, but some of it was lost altogether. text/html 2014-04-07T03:13:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factioncoda1&rev=1396840390&do=diff Reconstruction 4 Go back to start On Armour (Second day Faction Paradox briefing, as given by Godfather Morlock.) 'Now, observe this armour. As new members of our family, this is the uniform you'll be expected to wear on ceremonial occasions, or, heaven forbid, if you ever have to go into real-life combat. It's the best protection you're ever likely to possess, and I should know, because I designed most of it. text/html 2013-03-13T07:58:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factioncoda2&rev=1363161506&do=diff Reconstruction 2 On Failure (From the private confessional of Cousin Justine.) 'I don't intend to argue. It's not in my nature to be disobediant, certainly not to Godfather Morlock. But I don't understand. I don't understand why I haven't already been punished. 'I was sent on a mission once before. Shortly after I became a Cousin. The nature of the mission isn't something I wish to dwell on, but text/html 2013-03-13T07:58:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factioncoda5&rev=1363161506&do=diff Reconstruction 5 On the Grandfather (From a report to General Kine of the Seventy-Ninth Sontaran Assault Corps, from the representative of House Lolita.) 'I'll tell you why you don't understand them, General. You don't understand them because you don't know what living dangerously text/html 2013-03-13T07:58:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factioncoda8&rev=1363161508&do=diff Reconstruction 8 On Truth (From the lecture notes of Godfather Morlock.) 'Truth. My students often ask me, can I discern truth from a body? It seems, they say, like a very simple task. I can cut apart the fibres of the brain, one neuron at a time. I can disassemble the human memory, piece by piece. So surely I should be able to perform a minor miracle like discerning the truth of someone's life? To cut away the candy-floss and find out what really happened? 'But this rather misses the point.… text/html 2013-07-02T23:45:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factioncold&rev=1372808756&do=diff The Cold The Cold is not a spirit, but a validium-based weapon which exists on the border between the Universes; the screaming faces on its skin are images from the other side of the rifts. The Cold is not Highest Entropy Matter, matter that requires vast amounts of energy input just for basic particle interaction to begin. HEM is harvested from the end of the Universe by text/html 2013-03-14T01:26:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factioncurrent&rev=1363224381&do=diff Crimes Against History Current Affairs The War Fifty-one years ago The cross-breeding programme results in the creation of the first organic/ timeship hybrid, which the ruling Houses designate a 102-Form. The ship, on the other hand, likes to call herself Compassion. text/html 2013-03-14T01:28:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factiondoctor&rev=1363224491&do=diff The Faction and the Doctor faction paradox: a primer by chad knueppe Originally printed in the Intergalactic Enquirer, the newsletter of the Time Meddlers of Los Angeles. The following is a primer for Faction Paradox and the War, storylines begun in the BBC Books' Doctor Who novels by Lawrence Miles in the novel Alien Bodies text/html 2013-03-14T01:29:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionempire&rev=1363224595&do=diff The Eleven-Day Empire " "'Oh, they cast long shadows, the Parliament buildings. They reach all the way from here to the nineteenth century.'" " - Godfather Morlock, Acting Speaker of the House. It's already been established that the seat of power for Faction Paradox is the mini-continuum known (with some irony) as the Eleven-Day Empire. As with everything connected to the Faction, explanations aren't exactly forthcoming. text/html 2013-03-13T07:58:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionfinal&rev=1363161518&do=diff The Potential Last Ever Doctor Who Interview with Lawrence Miles " "From: <http://web.archive.org/web/20030204002644/www.menace.ndo.co.uk/loz/inter/INTER00.TXT Web Archive capture of menace.ndo.co.uk><<" " ~(This interview was originally conducted for a fanzine/website called THE ROOM WITH NO DOORS, which fell through. However, as the interview covers all the major points - and as Lawrence is planning on ending his Doctor Who career any second now - it seemed a shame to waste it. Note that… text/html 2013-06-04T04:43:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factiongadgets&rev=1370321015&do=diff Gadgets of the Faction Weapons * Sombras Que Corta [Major]--- Available to Cousins and above that have undergone the bonding ritual. A shadow weapon may be hidden in the owner's shadow or may be held separate, it can never be dropped by the shadow. Shadow weapons are always melee weapons held in one hand. A cultist is bonded to the weapon of their choice for life (or at least for the lifetime of their shadow) text/html 2013-07-02T23:48:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionhouses&rev=1372808907&do=diff The Great Houses Homeworlders List of Homeworlders THE HOUSES Each Chapter is organized into several Houses. Each House uses a different genetic core to loom its cousins. This means that members of each house have minor variations in abilities. Gallifreyans who become Investigators for the CIA loose all rank and connection to their colleges. Under the Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey, a member of any House can give up the protection of their House and become the Kithriarch of a new… text/html 2013-03-13T07:58:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factioninterview&rev=1363161520&do=diff The Interview Lawrence Miles on Language, Literature and Lying to the Audience This Town Will Never Let Us Go is the first time Faction Paradox has come into its own in a full-length novel. How does that change things? How does it change the way you write for the series? text/html 2013-03-14T01:28:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionknown&rev=1363224538&do=diff Faction Paradox, as Much as It's Known " "The Eleven-Day Empire, the 'shadow capital' of Faction Paradox. The Parliament buildings are just visible here. 'I didn't join this family because of the dress code.'" " - Cousin Eliza. It's never easy, explaining Faction Paradox in a single line. It's been described as a criminal syndicate, with agents operating in every civilisation from the first to the last; as an all-purpose guerrilla organisation, intent on overthrowing the order of history-in… text/html 2020-04-28T21:46:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionlaws&rev=1588110361&do=diff The Laws of Time And the Rules Governing the Great Houses from the Worshipful and Ancient Law of the Homeworld. Note: Faction Paradox treats these laws as curious guidelines. The Laws of Time give the Time Lords the divine purpose of serving Time itself by maintaining the continuity/history of the fabric of the space-time continuum and the causality of the Universe. They claim that this service is their right because they were first humanoid culture to naturally evolve. text/html 2013-03-14T00:40:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionliving&rev=1363221653&do=diff Crimes Against History Living Memory Births, Deaths and Revolutions 1,202 years ago One of the more notable (if unpolitical) Houses produces a new clutch of offspring, as per schedule. But for reasons which remain vague, probably involving impurities in the birthing system, the newborns are less than perfect. At least one of them bears the first sign of the insanity which will plague the House in years to come, while another is destined to become the greatest dissident the House, and possibl… text/html 2020-04-28T21:26:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionmaps&rev=1588109166&do=diff Maps of the Eleven Day Empire The Empire * <http://www.motco.com/map/81002/imageone-a.asp?Picno=81002000 JOHN ROCQUE LONDON, WESTMINSTER AND SOUTHWARK (First edition) 1746> * <http://web.ukonline.co.uk/badeslade/great_roads_maxi.html The Great Roads of London in 1741> * A tour of the Empire Westminster * <http://curufea.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2wo09h Westminster Palace> Outside the Empire * <http://web.ukonline.co.uk/badeslade/gen_counties_maxi.html ENGLAND & WALES, divided in… text/html 2013-03-14T01:19:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionmodern&rev=1363223964&do=diff Crimes Against History Modern Time The Paradox Era 203 years ago Over the previous century or so the influx of new ideas on the Homeworld has led to the creation of a variety of new technologies, many of them cross-breedings of House technology and (most startling, for the old guard) alien notions as to how technology should work. Several of the Houses experiment with machine intelligences, essentially text/html 2020-04-28T22:00:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionmultivers&rev=1588111228&do=diff The Multiverse Our Universe Normal Space Hyper Space The Vortex Conceptual Space * The Matrix * The great computer matrix housed on the Homeworld. It can be used to predict the future by simulating the universe. Biodata must be modified by the Sash of Rassilon in order for the President to be able to interface correctly.⁽¹⁾⁽¹⁾ text/html 2020-04-28T22:57:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionnpcs&rev=1588114653&do=diff NPCs Faction Paradox Grandfather/Spirits * The Spirits. --- The Spirits protect the Eleven Day Empire. Most members of the Faction are unable to communicate with them. However they can be invoked, but will also act independantly on occasion to protect the Empire. The Spirits require blood sacrifices. The Spirits tend to enforce Faction Protocols. text/html 2013-03-13T07:58:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionordifica&rev=1363161529&do=diff Ordifica A human colony world on the outer fringes of the galaxy. Interested in media and entertainment above all else they cut themselves off from the rest of the human empire. Faction Paradox infiltrated the society through their media, eventually creating text/html 2013-03-13T07:58:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionparadoxaudios&rev=1363161529&do=diff Faction Paradox Audios Tracks released when they no longer contain spoilers :) ; text/html 2013-06-04T05:01:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionpowers&rev=1370322089&do=diff Powers Bloodline Cousin 25pts You have undergone the ritual of bonding and have a shadow weapon. Shadow weaponry only exists in the gap between the universal time-frame, and the perceptive time-frame of the individual. Father/Mother 50pts Includes the power of text/html 2020-04-28T21:48:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionpunishment&rev=1588110491&do=diff Punishments Punishments authorized by the Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey * Biodata * Tag (received by all convicted criminal Time Lords) * A biodata tattoo in the form of a serpent dragon on their right arm --- This tattoo links the Time Lord to the courts though his own biodata strands. text/html 2013-06-04T04:59:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionraces&rev=1370321998&do=diff Races Humanoid Cyberman * Stats: Psyche: (H) Strength: (A) Endurance: (A) Warfare: (A) * Powers: Armour * Flaws: Arrogant, Sterile, Slow * Note: The new Cybermen have reduced armour and a Death Touch Gallifreyan * Stats: Psyche: (G) Strength text/html 2013-06-04T04:42:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionrelics&rev=1370320929&do=diff Relics of the Faction Some weapons and items have more power than normal. Very much “magic items” and require particularly strong individuals to bond with them. Also, see The Armoury Weapons * The Grandfather's Knife --- The strongest relic. An ordinary knife that was used by the Grandfather to cut off his own arm, removing the prisoner tattoo given him by the Great Houses. The knife includes The Grandfather's shadow. It can only be bonded to a witch who has no shadow. text/html 2020-04-28T21:24:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionremote&rev=1588109078&do=diff Joining the Remote Introduction to the Remote The planet Ordifica was an outer human colony long out of touch with human civilisation. They specialised in media and entertainment. The Faction infiltrated this society for their own ends and managed to evacuate enough of the population from the planet when the Time Lords discovered what they were up to and destroyed the planet. The remaining humans were given implants to link them directly to the media which has the side effect of sterilising… text/html 2013-06-04T04:45:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionrituals&rev=1370321151&do=diff Rituals of the Faction Shadow Rituals * Initiation / bonding * Sombras que Corta --- (The shadows that cut) ---This ceremony is where the Godmother bonds a Cousin to a weapon. --- More precisely - to the Cousin's Shadow. --- The Cousin reaches out with their shadow and grasps a physical weapon (usually a hand to hand weapon) and takes it into shadow. From that point on, their shadow can use it. Shadow weapons are versions of real weapons that are IIF, desolid, affects the real world. Poss… text/html 2020-05-10T22:46:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factiontimeline&rev=1589150798&do=diff Crimes Against History The "Definitive" Faction Timeline What follows is a chronology of Faction Paradox, at least as far as chronology can be applied. Further details (on most of the subjects covered here) can be found in The Book of the War, while the events of The Faction Paradox Protocols - text/html 2013-03-14T01:33:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factiontomorrow&rev=1363224795&do=diff Crimes Against History Tomorrow's News The Future Agents of the Faction, like the agents of the Great Houses, have occasionally crossed paths with elements from the future of the Homeworld and the Eleven-Day Empire. As it's theoretically impossible for the timeships of the Houses to take their pilots into their own futures - although Faction Paradox has no objection to trying - such encounters are considered to be important, possibly even providential, events. Certain things about the future … text/html 2013-03-14T02:43:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factiontour&rev=1363229006&do=diff The Eleven-Day Empire A Tour of the Capital The shadow London of the Eleven-Day Empire is a mishmash of time-zones, with streets, buildings and landmarks taken from periods earlier or later than its eighteenth century foundations, and shouldn't be mistaken for the real London of 1752. The authenticity of the Empire's version is irrelevant: what matters is its symbolic weight. text/html 2013-03-14T00:24:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionwebsite&rev=1363220678&do=diff The Faction Paradox Website The Story so Far * Faction Paradox and the Doctor * Faction Paradox, as Much as It's Known * What is the Eleven-Day Empire? * The Armoury * Blood Ties: Inside the Grandfather's House * Crimes Against History: The Definitive“ Faction Timeline” * Faction Armour: Some Design Notes * The Eleven-Day Empire:A Tour of the Capital * The Interview: Lawrence Miles on Language, Literature and Lying to the Audience<!-- Begin Faction Paradox: Coming to… text/html 2023-11-20T21:11:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:start&rev=1700514707&do=diff The Faction Paradox Website The Story so Far * Faction Paradox and the Doctor * Faction Paradox, as Much as It's Known * What is the Eleven-Day Empire? * The Armoury * Blood Ties: Inside the Grandfather's House * Crimes Against History: The Definitive“ Faction Timeline” * Faction Armour: Some Design Notes * The Eleven-Day Empire:A Tour of the Capital * The Interview: Lawrence Miles on Language, Literature and Lying to the Audience text/html 2013-07-03T00:09:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:wholist&rev=1372810154&do=diff List of Homeworlders With thanks to Jess and William B. Swift, TARDIS index file, Doctor Who Reference Guide Legend Legend of the styles used and the authority priorities (ie if someone appears in an audio and a book, only the book reference will be listed) * Bold text (OTV) - Original Television Series * DeRoosifa