The Soothsayer (short story)

was the first short story in the Lethbridge-Stewart series anthology Lineage. It served as both the prologue and epilogue to the anthology.
== Plot ==
to be added
== Characters ==
* Mary Lethbridge
* William Stewart
* Antony Gale
* William Shakespeare
=== Visions ===
* Henry John Lethbridge-Stewart
* Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart
* Kate Lethbridge-Stewart
* Lucy Wilson
* Sir John Lethbridge
* Mary Lethbridge's mother
* Benjamin
* Lady Elizabeth Howlett
== Worldbuilding ==
* Sir John Lethbridge, Mary's father, attended James I's coronation.
* The poets Benjamin Johnson and Thomas Dekker are mentioned.
== Notes ==
* While he is Captain William Stewart here, in the Eighth Doctor's telling of his story in The Dying Days, he referred to him as General William Lethbridge-Stewart.
== Continuity ==
* Mary sees a cocoa-skinned girl and a tall blonde woman with a soldier's bearing saving the world after Alistair dies. (PROSE: Avatars of the Intelligence, TV: The Power of Three)
* William Stewart was first mentioned in PROSE: The Dying Days. A footnote at the end of the story acknowledges this.
* Mary gets a vision of her future son, Henry John Lethbridge-Stewart, and learns she will die in childbirth. Henry John Lethbridge-Stewart appears in AUDIO: The Revisionists.
Category:Lineage short stories
Category:Stories set in 1603
Category:Stories set in England