Mal ' akh The Mal ' akh were a race of cannibalistic predators descended from the Yssgaroth . They were connected to human ity ' s collective unconscious and capable of redefining themselves to suit their circumstances . They were often described as grotesques ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) or Babewyn . ( PROSE : " The Adventuress of Henrietta Street " ) The Mal ' akh were a significant force during the War . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Some groups of Mal ' akh worshipped Sutekh and fought for him . ( AUDIO : " Words from Nine Divinities " ) Biology . The Mal ’ akh were almost impossible to kill due to their extreme regenerative healing abilities . ( AUDIO : " Coming to Dust " ) Any organic object could be simply assimilated into the Mal ' akh body and rendered harmless ; upon contact with a Mal ’ akh , many non - organic objects would start to rust or fall apart after a few minutes . It was also very difficult to tell when they had actually died , so it was standard practice to bury them alive , leaving to mummify in the Earth . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) They were , however , susceptible to shadow - weapon s ( AUDIO : " Coming to Dust " ) and the " " screwdriver sonique " " . ( PROSE : " The Adventuress of Henrietta Street " ) The Mal ’ akh were masters of illusion , inhabiting folkloric otherworlds where time ran differently to time in the known world . Those who encountered them and survived consistently told of losing years of their lives . Their alter - time realm was encountered in the Maltese incident ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) and briefly intersected London in 1782 - 83 , when it was named the Kingdom of Beasts . ( PROSE : " The Adventuress of Henrietta Street " ) Rather than food or water , the Mal ’ akh needed to eat the blood and flesh of the living in order to survive . Their own blood appeared like black bile . Furthermore , the Mal ’ akh were capable of changing their shape at will . According to the Liber Sanguisugarum , there were two types of Mal ' akh , categorized by diet . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Djinn . If a Mal ' akh wanted to appear beautiful to human eyes , it needed to consume untainted and stable biomass : that is to say , human blood and flesh . The resultant " Rephaim " were unnaturally beautiful , angel ic creatures that could pass as exceptionally charismatic humans . In the 18th century , they used this power to infiltrate the courts of the Turkish empire and Ali Pascha ; the Ottoman army of Nicolopolis was known to be filled with Mal ’ akh in the 15th century . In legends of the Arabia n and Middle East ern peoples , they appeared as the " djinn " and " peri " , the spirit s of the air and masters of desert storms . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Grotesques . The " Nephilim " ( metaphorical “ giant s of the Earth ” mentioned in the Book of Genesis ) were Mal ' akh who fed upon themselves rather than humans . Without the ingestion of a suitable , untainted biomass , the meme tic field of the Mal ' akh was stretched too far , distorting their body and mind in unpredictable , animal istic ways . The resultant ape - like creatures inspired many of the demon ic images of Middle Eastern legend . Richard Francis Burton encountered these Mal ' akh during his journey to the Mountains of the Moon , where he said that the more civilised Mal ' akh would keep them as pet s or force the change upon an enemy . His private accounts reference his companion ' s ravings about " crowds of devils , giants , lion - headed demons who avert wrenching with superhuman force . . . " The encounters inspired Burton to describe these Mal ' akh as " grotesques " , after the gargoyle - like states ; ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) in her diaries , Lisa - Beth Lachlan similarly called them " babewyn " after the French word for the same statues . ( PROSE : " The Adventuress of Henrietta Street " ) Lord Byron described the grotesques he saw during the Maltese incident as human oid giants with wings and animal faces . However , since the bat - like Mal ' akh hybrid s supposedly used by Faction Paradox for their armour were unknown to the Star Chamber and Earth mythology alike , this description was considered by scholars to be a later addition . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) History . Origin . The legendary origins of the Mal ' akh were recorded in the Biblical apocrypha , namely the Book of Noah and Book of Enoch , where the " Anakim " ( " watchers " ) were a highly advanced and civilised race . As their name would suggest , they simply watched worldly affairs , but many of their members preferred to be involved ; led by Azazel ( or Shemjaza in some versions ) , two hundred rebels descended from " the high place " to live among the people , spreading their knowledge and taking wives . However , their offspring , created by the intermarriage of humans and the spirit world , were unstoppable monsters with a terrible hunger for flesh and blood . The watchers fought and captured the rebels , then bound their leader headfirst over the abyss for all eternity , hanging by one leg . As the Mal ' akh ’ s alter - time structures suggested a connection to the Great Houses , many commentators speculated that the Book of Enoch gave a corrupted account of the war against the Yssgaroth and the flight from the Homeworld of those tainted by Yssgaroth biomass . Faction Paradox always claimed that their armour was created from the bones of such agents from an alternate timeline where the Houses lost their war ; consistent with this idea , the Houses and the Faction alike regarded the Mal ' akh as a small - scale " oxbow lake " in the river of time . However , Faction Paradox ' s leading scholar on the Mal ' akh , Father Abdullah , disputed this claim . Noting the similarities between the Great Houses ' regeneration abilities and those of the Mal ' akh , he instead concluded that the Houses attempted to infect themselves with the Yssgaroth taint during their war to give themselves a biological advantage . He suggested that the Mal ' akh were failed experiments during these attempts or , worse , future versions of the Houses ' agents , finally overcome by the Yssgaroth taint . However , this interpretation proved universally unpopular and was suppressed by Abdullah ' s superiors in the Faction . In 1857 , Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke visited the heartland of the Mal ’ akh race in the Mountains of the Moon . There , they discovered the first Mal ' akh settlement on Earth at the High Place . The settlement ' s proximity to the birthplace of human kind led scholars within Faction Paradox and the Star Chamber alike to speculate that the Mal ' akh influenced the development of humanity . The Mal ' akh and their fabled leaders , the Edimmu , were deeply embedded in human mythology and legend . Burton found tales of the Mal ' akh in the " Arabian Nights " fables as well as the India n cycle " Vikram and the Vampire " ; the Shelley Cabal ' s stories of the Mal ' akh inspired the first vampire novels , and Burton ' s knowledge of vampire legends likely contributed to Bram Stoker ' s novel " Dracula " . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) After awakening the Mal ' akh in the 15th century , Sutekh claimed he had brought them to Earth . ( AUDIO : " Coming to Dust " ) Before the War . In the medieval period , multiple secret societies were founded to combat the Westward spread of the Mal ' akh . These included the Society of St . George , the Star Chamber , the Order of the Dragon , the Order of the Golden Fleece , the Thule Society , ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) and the Society of Sigismondo di Rimini . ( AUDIO : " Coming to Dust " ) The organisations were led by the Grand Families and likely influenced by the pre - War Great Houses . The societies ' collective knowledge was stored in the Liber Sanguisugarum . In the 15th century , the Mal ' akh infiltrated the Turkish Ottoman Empire . Vlad III led the Ottoman Purges against the Turks from 1431 to 1447 on behalf of the Order of the Dragon . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) During the War . When House Paradox made the Gregorian Compact in 1752 , the Protocols of Linearity bound the next seventy years of their history to that of Earth . During this time , the enemy began their war against the Great Houses , and this was reflected in Earth ' s history as a return and rise in the power of the Mal ' akh . As a result , by the 19th century , the Mal ' akh were again a major force in the East , with more and more grotesque sightings in Africa and Britain ' s Indian territories , and Mal ' akh influence spreading to the courts of the Turkish empire and Ali Pascha . In response to this resurgence , the Star Chamber became the directors of the Service . However , after the Gregorian Compact , they incorrectly identified Faction Paradox as the leaders of the Mal ' akh . As a result , they wasted many of their resources on attacking the Eleven - Day Empire ; in this process , they only notably interfered with the Mal ' akh in the 1809 Maltese incident . In 1822 , the Mal ' akh attacked and killed most of the Shelley Cabal near Massa . In 1845 or 1846 , a small group of young British army officers stationed in Karachi performed a tantric ritual that spiralled out of control , unleashing at least one full - blood Mal ' akh . Richard Francis Burton , by then a member of Faction Paradox , helped the Faction Paradox capture the Mal ' akh for study , and it was transported to the Stacks of the Eleven - Day Empire ; it was kept there in the closed off 1995 platform of Mornington Crescent . In 1857 , the Star Chamber sent Burton to the Mountains of the Moon for his last mission . In Michael Brookhaven ' s 1999 film " " , the ainu aboriginals of Japan appeared with bleached skin and black eyes in a pincer - like formation around the slope of Mount Usu right before the Voice emerged from the mountain . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) In 2609 , Bernice Summerfield was attacked by a Mal ' akh while excavating the Blood Citadel of Alukah and hypnotised into being subservient . The Mal ' akh used Summerfield to get into the First Colonial University of Murigen and convert some of its scholars . A plot to use the university ' s experimental quantum gateways to send Mal ' akh to countless planet s across the galaxy was stopped by Bernice Summerfield , Imogen Tantry , and Lloyd Doihara . ( PROSE : " De Umbris Idearum " , " Predating the Predators " ) In the 2640s , the Catholic Church led the Beatrician Crusade against a resurgence of Mal ' akh . The Church kept information on the Mal ' akh in their Collection of Necessary Secrets . ( PROSE : " De Umbris Idearum " ) The Osirians . After destroying the Eleven - Day Empire shortly after the War ' s fiftieth year , ( AUDIO : " The Shadow Play " ) the Great Houses began to threaten the Osirian s . To force the Houses into a truce , Sutekh threatened to destroy the Earth by awakening the Canaan Mal ' akh in the 15th century and leading their infiltration of the Ottoman Empire . During this conquest , Sutekh enslaved Merytra Ellainya , an agent of the Great Houses who commanded the Christian forces . ( AUDIO : " Coming to Dust " ) Merytra and these Mal ' akh were freed by Upuat , who set them on a crusade to erase Sutekh ' s name from the Earth . ( AUDIO : " The Ship of a Billion Years " ) In 1763 , a grotesque Mal ' akh named Jala surfaced in Posto di Ferragio and was kept by the town ' s mayor , Don Escuro , as a tourist attraction . John Pennerton and Abelard Finton believed it had been summoned by the Society of Sigismondo di Rimini ' s experiments in science and occult ism . Merytra Ellainya freed Jala and formed an army of Mal ' akh to bring Upuat back to Earth and reclaim their promised destiny . However , Upuat didn ' t emerge from the time corridor , having forgotten about the Mal ' akh long ago . ( AUDIO : " Coming to Dust " ) Cousin Eliza tortured Jala for days before realising he didn ' t work for Sutekh . ( AUDIO : " The Ship of a Billion Years " ) Cousin Justine fought Sutekh ' s vicious crocodilian Mal ' akh in the delta . When they began attacking the Osirians , the light of Osiris shone through Horus to destroy them all . Crippled by Horus , Sutekh agreed to share with Justine his technology for breeding and controlling grotesques ; with it , Justine attacked Lolita ' s Council on the Homeworld with Mal ' akh . ( AUDIO : " Words from Nine Divinities " ) After the War . After the end of the War , in 1774 , the America n ambassadors to King George III , led by Mr . Cleeve , brought several Mal ' akh grotesques to his zoo for use in the hunt for George III ' s mammoth . They claimed they were " hunting dogs " , but Isobel knew they were something else . ( COMIC : " Political Animals " ) In 1782 - 83 , " babewyns " began an invasion of London . They were interpreted by contemporary analysts as representations of ignorance being pushed aside in favour of enlightenment and reason . The Eighth Doctor ended the invasion by decapitating the babewyn ' s leader , the King of Beasts , with his " " screwdriver sonique " " , the device representing a new power that the creatures couldn ' t understand . After the War was erased from history , these babewyn kept the last fragment of Gallifrey within their realm . ( PROSE : " The Adventuress of Henrietta Street " ) City of the Saved . In the City of the Saved , the vampiric human - Mal ' akh hybrids were organized as the Sons of Tepes . They revered Vlad III for his reputation as Dracula despite his real - life animosity toward the Mal ' akh . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Most of the humans infected by the Mal ' akh Olena on Murigen reverted to their pre - Mal ' akh selves when they were resurrected in the City , but Krisztina - Judit Németh remained in a vampiric state . Németh joined the Sons of Tepes ( PROSE : " Unification Theory " ) and became their Grand Dragon . ( PROSE : " A Hundred Words from a Civil War " )