Celestis

Celestis
Enemies	The Time Lords The House Military
Capital	Mictlan
Debut	Alien Bodies
Appearances	The Taking of Planet 5 The Book of the War Erasing Sherlock Print the Legend Against Nature

The Celestis are recurring antagonists within the Eighth Doctor Adventures and Faction Paradox series.

Specifics

Lord Smoking Mirror (illustration from The Book of the War)

The former Celestial Intervention Agency, the Celestis unmoored themselves from reality and placed themselves into the hellscape of Mictlan. They are conceptual entities whose existence is fostered by the minds of "lesser" beings. They are able to manifest in physical bodies, but rarely do this - instead using various lackeys to do their bidding.

The Celestis consider themselves to be Gods, though most of the higher powers consider them to be spineless monsters completely without a moral compass.

The Celestis are able to pass a "Mark of Indenture" onto their servants. This process makes the being in question completely immortal but also make a servant of the Celestis forever (even after their death, as after their death they would be brought to Mictlan). The Celestis also grow their own slaves - including Investigators.

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Notable members

• The hermit
• Most Admirable Under-Sacristan Foaming Sky
• Lord Dervishage
• Greatness-In-His-Hand
• Lord of the Smoked Mirror/Lord Smoking Mirror
• Lord Vettlespine

History

Origins of the Celestis

Originally, the Celestis were the powerful pro-intervenionary group knwon as the Celestial Intervention Agency. In the era immediately preceeding the War, the CIA gained a large amount of influence in Gallifreyan society using various sneaky methods (including, possibly, assassinations). This let them eradicate really anyone they saw fit to eradicate. Once the War broke out, the CIA realized that they could be completely erased from existence and, driven to the depths of existential dread due to this, cut themselves off from reality in its entirety.

In a process described as "put[ting] reality behind them like a bad dream and turn[ing] themselves into creatures built out of mythemes and the working of nanoscoping machine-demons" and "poisoning the walls of reality itself, until Mictlan had bubbled up into existence on its far side", the Celestial Intervention Agency cut ties with reality entirely to avoid destruction in the War in Heaven - forming the domain known as Mictlan.

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Endtimes of the Celestis

One day, one of the Celestis' houses completely vanished from existence. Alarmed by this, the Celestis sent out Investigators One and Two to investigate the disappearance. Unbeknownst to the Celestis, Investigator One had gone rogue and created a situation in which a platoon of Time Lords opened up the time loop to Planet 5 as he believed that Mictlan would lure the "Swimmers" to the universe and destroy it. Even with the Doctor trying to stop the loop from being broken, it was split open and the Memeovore - a predator which had evolved to consume the Fendahl completely - emerged from Planet 5. After causing mass chaos on several planets, the Memeovore consumed Mictlan and destroyed most - if not all - of the Celestis.