Time Lord



Time Lords are powerful magic-users, once sentinels of timespace, now corrupted into the service of Nemesis.

They appear as carvings of Nemesis' head equipped with a pharonic headdress. They appear only in Catacomb Apocalypse.

In Catacomb Apocalypse
One of the most dangerous early enemies the player will encounter, Time Lords infest The Axis of the Time Lords, and aggressively attack anything that enters the realm. While large, Time Lords move quickly and unleash Zappers on the player with impunity, resulting in barrages far faster than anything the Evil Eye could muster, and which do considerable damage per second. They also tend to appear in very large groups, and easily surround the player, while hammering the player with their volleys. The only good news here is that they fire so fast that it actually goes beyond the ability of the engine to properly compensate for, so being surrounded by 10 of the things won't do that much more damage than facing two of them, and the player should be able to weather the storm with judicious use of Cure Potions. Unfortunately, they also appear very early on and at a time when the player's resources won't be especially robust, and encountering big groups of them are inevitable in the first area they appear. While they can be fled from, they will be there when the player returns to the Axis to make a pest of themselves later if the player leaves.

Fortunately, the Time Lords have a weakness: Xterminators. Their large size, preferred attack strategy, and general threat level means that the player can have zero compunctions about firing off their entire supply at a crowd of them at point-blank range, quickly routing the lot of them. Their large size also makes them very vulnerable to Zappers as well. Even shooting a Time Lord with Magick Missiles will prevent it from attacking, but not moving, so keeping the pressure on can do a lot to reduce the damage they do. It's imperative that the player only aggro one group at a time, lest they quickly be overwhelmed at this early juncture.

One particularly good strategy for the ones in the Axis is to lure them to the Access to the Transcendant Time Gate after aggravating a single group of them. This narrow hallway will prevent them from surrounding the player, allowing the player to wear down their numbers, hopefully without taking too much damage or wasting too many resources. Note that they will respawn when you returned to the Axis, so be sure to get to your next destination quickly once you get back!

Time Lords require the Red Jewel to see on the Crystal Sphere. When destroyed, they explode.

Trivia

 * Motifs resembling the Time Lord appear throughout Catacomb Apocalypse, implying that Nemesis has managed to become akin to a god by this point in the series.