My first regeneration, and my first real long-term location assignment, was in Arthurian times, where I was placed as a small child, growing up as Lady Gwenhwyfar's nursery companion, baby-sitter, chaperon, confidant, and life-long best friend. I was known in this timestream as "Derryth," which translates from Welsh into "oak tree." I was expected to be steadfast and strong. I have continued to use this name as my "last name," when circumstances call for me to have one.
I was introduced into the timestream as a toddler with a physical appearance of about three years of age, presented as the daughter of a couple named Duru -- also Timelords -- who served under Uther Pendragon, in the court of King Leodegrance, the man who would go on to eventually keep the Round Table. Queen Duru and her husband had pledged their allegiance to Leodegrance early and lived at court with him. I was introduced as the child of the Durus in order to be placed in the timeline to anticipate the Lady Gwenhwyfar's birth by exactly five years. When the time came, then, it was the most natural thing to hand over her care and companionship to the daughter of a man who had been one of the king's first loyal subjects.
There are many things that the Timelords do not talk about, when it comes to the "Avalon Mist" or the "Niwl Ynys Afallon." Many have only heard stories of this; it is not a time that Timelords are encouraged to visit, as the lines of fantasy and reality and multiple time streams often converge in the oddest locations of this historical nexus.
I am often asked if my friend Merlin was the famous Timelord known also as "The Doctor," but I can neither affirm nor deny this. I have not, to my knowledge, ever met The Doctor, but Merlin, as a Timelord, was one of my best friends and my sometimes salvation in my second timestream.
I hope to tell many more stories about those times here.
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