Volusagashanisam, most commonly called Volusa, was a part-time Renegade Time Lord. The son of disgraced Castellan Kelner, he became a junior member of the Celestial Intervention Agency and, eventually, a companion to Rollo.
Biography
Early life
Volusa was the only son of Castellan Kelner of the High Council of Gallifrey. By the time of the Vardan-Sontaran invasion of Gallifrey, he was a "low-ranking officer" in the Citadel Guard; after the invasion, when Kelner's "betrayal of trust" became known, he resigned from the Guard in secondhand shame and joined the Celestial Intervention Agency, where he was assigned as a partner to the experienced, but more whimsical-minded, Lord Rollo. (GAME: "Player Characters" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, J. Andrew Keith, The Doctor Who Role Playing Game (FASA, 1985).)
Meeting David Smythe
On one of their shared adventures, Rollo and Volusa intervened in a Sontaran incursion in the 1800s. Though the Sontarans had killed almost the entire crew of a Royal Navy sloop, there was one survivor, Lieutenant David Smythe, whom they rescued; with his help, they were able to defeat the aliens. Smythe and Volusa developed a mutual infatuation, and Smythe stowed away on Rollo's TARDIS after the adventure was done, subsequently becoming a companion to Rollo in earnest and increasingly proving to be "the perfect match" for Volusa despite — or rather thanks to — both young men's abrasive personalities. (GAME: "Player Characters" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, J. Andrew Keith, The Doctor Who Role Playing Game (FASA, 1985).)
The Iytean investigation
On one occasion, with Volusa now over 170 years old and into his third incarnation, Rollo and his companions were summoned to Gallifrey to be briefed by Lady Rowella about a new assignment. The discovery of an energy weapon on 1980s Earth as an heirloom from its human owner's Victorian ancestor Colonel Malcolm Fraser had the Invasion worried about alien, and potentially time-active, activity in 1885 London. (GAME: "The Summons" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, J. Andrew Keith, The Doctor Who Role Playing Game (FASA, 1985).)
There, they discovered that Colonel Fraser had been buying a steady supply of alien artefacts from a pair of crooks called Jack Bannister and Bert Jenkins, who had secretly discovered a buried Iytean starship while trying to dig a tunnel into a bank two years prior. Unbeknownst to them, the ship had been a police vessel transporting an Iytean criminal. With the Iyteans being symbionts, the criminal had hitched a ride in Jenkins's body then transferred itself to Fraser's acquaintance Doctor Henry Jellicoe, causing him to periodically lose control of his body and adopt the malevolent persona of "Ned Hines". With the help of the Colonel's granddaughter Julia Fraser, and that of Thomas Carruthers, the son of his old friend Sir Reginald Carruthers (who had been murdered by Hines), the time-travellers were able to unravel the mystery and eventually neutralise the Iytean as well as ensure the starship would not be rediscovered and thereby derail Earth history any further. (GAME: The Iytean Menace [+]J. Andrew Keith, The Doctor Who Role Playing Game (FASA, 1985).)
Before leaving 1885, Rollo went on one last outing in the city, and had lunch with a writer called Robert Louis Stevenson, telling him about the adventure. It was only when he returned to the TARDIS and told Verika, another one of his companions, about the encounter that he learned he had just inspired Stevenson to write The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. (GAME: "The Hunters Home From the Hill" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, J. Andrew Keith, The Doctor Who Role Playing Game (FASA, 1985).)
Psychological profile
Personality
Volusa was an impetuous hot-head, who rushed blindly into danger and quickly grew frustrated when told to wait or to carry out more complex plans. His commitment to doing good in the Celestial Intervention Agency's employ was more grounded in his ultimately-selfish obsession with regaining his personal honour than any genuine moral fiber or altruism, for which reason he sometimes tried to go for the "heroic" option whether or not it was actually warranted by the situation. (GAME: "Player Characters" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, J. Andrew Keith, The Doctor Who Role Playing Game (FASA, 1985).)
Physical appearance
In his third incarnation, Volusa was "rather undistinguished in overall appearance", though he possessed "the sort of square jaw and level gaze many women find attractive". He had blond hair, "odd" blue-green eyes, and an aggressive, yet rigid bearing. He always sought to dress "correctly" for the time and place he found himself in, but was often ignorant as to what actually was correct, which "often [led] him to make bizarre costume mistakes when visiting new times and place". (GAME: "Player Characters" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, J. Andrew Keith, The Doctor Who Role Playing Game (FASA, 1985).)