Merla

Merla was the Great Mother of the Dawn Bride in the Third Age of Morning. She looked after the Eighth Doctor after his injuries caused by the Hooklight. She met with Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka when they came to Divination. She sent them to Hence with Sabine and Galieth to find the map to the Dark Forge to destroy the light. When she lost contact with the Dawn Bride, she came to Hence and saw their deaths, and regretted Sabine's due to her close connection with her mother. She arrested Nyssa, Adric and Davlin Crux afterwards. She had to release Crux as she needed his piloting skills to get them through the Icesteroid belt and the spiders that lived there. She sacrificed herself to allow her crew and prisoners to escape when the Queen Spider came to take the ship. She died in the Hooklight explosion Nura let loose. (AUDIO: Hooklight ^[+]Loading...["Hooklight (audio story)"])