Monster Files: Carrionites

The Carrionites, as seen in "The Shakespeare Code" (2007), are a race of witch-like beings. The species originates from the Fourteen Stars of the Rexel Planetary Configuration. They use advanced science which appears much like magic and voodoo. Unlike humans, who use numbers, maths and science to advance and split the atom, the Carrionites use words to manipulate the universe and defy physics.

The Carrionites appear to be possess some unknown ability to discover a person's true name; although Lilith was in the room when the Doctor and Martha Jones introduce themselves to Shakespeare she later remarks "there is no name" when trying to name the Doctor but being there when the doctor introduces himself does not explain that Lilith named rose. In the "old" times of the universe, they were banished through powerful words by the Eternals.