Anubis Anubis was an Osiran worshipped in Egypt as the god who presided over rituals of the dead . Egyptian art depicted him with the black head of a jackal . Son of Sutekh the Destroyer , Anubis tried desperately to avoid the path of death and misery that had fallen under his father . However , he would eventually begin to feel his father ' s presence in his mind , and he eventually lost the battle for control of his body . After Sutekh was once again destroyed , Anubis was resurrected and showed interest in becoming a companion of the Tenth Doctor . Biography . In the Osirian Court . Anubis ' laboratory and research facility was on top of a mountain in the Delta . It was occupied by reanimated corpses that he had modified for utility ; for instance , one had a receiver in its ribcage . After Faction Paradox began negotiations with the Osirian Court , Anubis obtained one of their remembrance tank s and began experimenting with it . When Cousin Justine wanted to prevent Sutekh from taking the throne , Anubis agreed to help her resurrect Osiris out of technical curiosity and a desire to stave off boredom . With Osiris ' complete biodata , collected by Cousin Eliza , Anubis led the two to his laboratory and began the process . However , he lost Justine in the Delta , and , after arriving at the facility , he learned that the biodata samples were incomplete : they were missing 12 % of Osiris ' psychic mass and 7 % of his timeline . To fill these gaps and allow the resurrection to continue , Anubis persuaded Eliza to volunteer as donor . Sutekh , who had been informed of the plot by Lolita , declared that the House of Anubis was harbouring blasphemers and sent the Ship of a Billion Years to destroy it . However , the arrival of Justine in Mortega ' s timeship stalled the Ship ' s attack , and the War King arrived with the 59th Time Fleet to turn away the Ship from attacking the House . ( AUDIO : " Body Politic " ) Anubis became an ally of the Faction , planning with Justine while helping Eliza through the process of incorporating Osiris ' biodata and becoming Horus . ( AUDIO : " Words from Nine Divinities " ) He created a bio - screen to protect Justine from her memories and hide the Grandfather ' s shadow so she would appear as a simulacrum . ( AUDIO : " The Judgment of Sutekh " ) Anubis and Horus led the procession that sealed away Nephthys on Earth ca . 5000 BC , with Anubis directing his priests and receiving the soul of Nephthys in the canopic jar with the image associated with him . ( PROSE : " The Sands of Time " ) Peri Brown opened a canopic jar with his head and discovered a human organ inside much to her disgust . His name was listed in an Osiran grimoire associated with the forbidden cult of Kephri from ca . 2000 BC . ( COMIC : " The Curse of the Scarab " ) A rare depiction of Scaroth depicted him being faced by Anubis and Khnum . ( TV : " City of Death " ) Anubis ' name was also used for a planet of jackal - headed humanoids . What connection they might have had to the Osiran was unknown . ( TV : " Curse of Anubis " ) In the 21st century . In the 21st century , Anubis came to Earth searching for a quantum harvester . He wanted to use it to build a gateway to follow his fellow Osirans to another universe . The Tenth Doctor convinced him to delay his plans for five thousand life cycles , since the gateway could have caused a ripple effect that would have destroyed the universe . Anubis left with Dorothy Bell , who had merged with the harvester . ( COMIC : " Spiral Staircase " , " Sins of the Father " ) However , he continued to make sure the Doctor was finding a way for him to reunite with the Osirans , by checking up on him in the TARDIS . ( COMIC : " The Singer Not the Song " ) Anubis was mentioned in Gabby ' s sketchbook with a warning of the return of Sutekh . ( COMIC : " Cindy , Cleo and the Magic Sketchbook " ) Anubis called the Tenth Doctor to the " Shining Horizon " . He asked the Doctor to go to Amenthes in the distant past to retrieve a sceptre for him . However , while the Doctor and Cindy were gone , Anubis was possessed by Sutekh . He went to the central core of the " Horizon " , moving it in alignment with the Circle of Transcendence . He attempted to take back control , protecting Gabby and letting her escape . Sutekh overpowered him and continued to possess him , using the Circle to free many other allies that Sutekh had encountered in the void he had been trapped in . Anubis , still under Sutekh ' s control , sent Osiran service robot s after the Doctor . He left for the Garden of Osiris , where he prevented Cindy from paralysing Sutekh . He was almost killed , but barely survived . Gabby carried him with her block transfer powers , but he was teleported back to Sutekh when a dragon found Gabby and Cindy . ( COMIC : " Old Girl " ) Rejuvenated . Dorothy Bell , before sacrificing herself to defeat Sutekh , managed to rejuvenate Anubis , making him younger but also erasing his memory . He greeted the Doctor and offered him some booji juice . ( COMIC : " Old Girl " ) Spending many days together in the Garden of Osiris , Noobis refused to allow the Doctor and his companions to leave without him . Noobis believed that he could set up a Organic Power Interpolator to keep the Circle of Transcendence stable for a thousand cycles . While in the Garden , the team were attacked and absorbed by a consciousness from an alternate universe which placed each of them into fictionalised virtual environments . Noobis was the first to discover how to break into the realities of his allies , and he possessed the form of a dog in Cindy ' s world and helped her unlock her real memories . Cindy used their connected to escape to the real world , where she discovered herself connected to a device while surrounded by dead copies of herself . As Cindy broke free of her constraints , the reality that her friends were trapped in broke down slightly , causing them all to remember her . ( COMIC : " Breakfast at Tyranny ' s " ) Personality . Anubis was cynical about power , saying that it was merely the ability to not feel bored . He had difficulty comprehending the possibility of his own death , but he was ambivalent toward the prospect . ( AUDIO : " Body Politic " ) Anubis claimed that unlike his father he was not vengeful , and not interested in dust and darkness but valued life . Unlike Sutekh and Horus , he never claimed to be a god . ( COMIC : " Spiral Staircase " , " Sins of the Father " ) After being rejuvenated by Dorothy , Anubis became much happier and more positive . ( COMIC : " Old Girl " )