Editing Land of Fiction

'''The Land of Fiction''' was a [[pocket universe]] inhabited by characters from works of fiction, mythology and folklore. The [[Gods of Ragnarok]] created the Land for their own entertainment, but grew tired of its amusements and abandoned it for other things. ([[NA]]: ''[[Conundrum (novel)|Conundrum]]'')
== History ==
=== The Second Doctor's adventures in the Land ===
[[The Doctor]] first visited the Land of Fiction in his [[Second Doctor|second incarnation]] shortly after defeating the [[Dominator]]s on the [[planet]] [[Dulkis]]. To escape a [[volcano|volcanic eruption]] there ([[DW]]: ''[[The Dominators]]''), he flipped an emergency switch in the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]. The ship materialised in a [[White Void]] inhabited only by [[White Robot]]s and a disembodied force that invaded the minds of the travellers. The crew returned to the safety of the TARDIS, which appeared in a [[Black Void]]. The TARDIS appeared to explode, leaving Zoe and Jamie clinging to the [[TARDIS console]], spinning in space and the Doctor floating nearby, seemingly dead.

After a dream-like interval, the travellers found themselves in a world called the Land of Fiction, without the TARDIS. The White Robots re-appeared, this time as [[Clockwork Soldier]]s. In the Land, mythical and fictional characters such as [[Lemuel Gulliver]] and [[unicorn]]s had a physical existence, as did puzzles, riddles and puns. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mind Robber]]'')

[[Bernice Summerfield]], on a mission at the behest of the [[White Guardian]] encountered the travellers as they wandered a maze. ([[DWM]]: ''[[Time & Time Again]]'')

They found this realm under the control of an unseen presence known as the [[Master of the Land]]. He attempted to turn Jamie and Zoe into fictional characters and to trick the Doctor into assuming his place and rule the Land. A futuristic [[computer]], the [[Master Brain]], had forced the Master of the Land to be its slave.

The Master of the Land was, in fact, a benign old man, a writer of boys' fiction from [[Earth]] in the year [[1926]] who had also been trapped in this universe and taken over by the Master Brain. Zoe and Jamie overloaded the Master Brain's systems, destroying it and freeing the old man from its control. Once the Master Brain was destroyed, everything vanished, the TARDIS re-assembled around them ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mind Robber]]'') and they found themselves returned to the normal universe. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')

:''For some time there was ambiguity as to whether the travellers had simply imagined the Land of Fiction. However, later accounts more or less confirmed the Land of Fiction as "real".''

The [[Second Doctor]] later sent himself back to the Land of Fiction to retrieve [[the Doctor's recorder|his recorder]], but instead encountered [[Goth]], who sent him to meet his [[Third Doctor|future self]] to help deal with [[Omega]]. ([[BE]]: ''[[Future Imperfect]]'')

===The adventures of the Sixth Doctor in the Land of Fiction=== 
The [[Sixth Doctor]] arrived in what appeared to be the highlands of [[Scotland]] in [[1780]] to find an older [[Jamie McCrimmon]], who, under the alias of the ruthless Black Donald, led a group of rebels in fighting the Redcoats. Jamie, despite having no memories of [[the Doctor]] due to the [[Time Lord]]s' mindwipe, agreed to journey with him through events involving what seemed to be advanced, oil-pumping technology from [[1884]] on the moors, the mysterious [[Overlord]], who was after "black water", and the creation of the [[Red Caps]]. ([[BFA]]: ''[[City of Spires]]'')

Jamie accompanied the Doctor into what they realised was the Land of Fiction, where they seemed to have become involved with the [[RMS Titanic]] on [[14 April]] [[1912]], which abruptly became the similarly ill-fated, but literary ''[[Titan (ship)|Titan]]'' from [[1898]]. The adventure continued in [[Captain Nemo]]'s famed submarine, the ''[[Nautilus]]'', which faced an attack from a [[giant squid]]. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Wreck of the Titan]]'')

While facing clockwork soldiers, Jamie found an unaged [[Zoe Heriot]], whom he didn't remember. Zoe helped return a flood of Jamie's memories with the [[data cluster]]s. Jamie and Zoe met up with the Doctor and an interdimensional secret agent version of the [[Artful Dodger]]. After [[Oliver Twist]] was found to have become a partly-converted [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cyberman]], the group travelled to the fairy-filled [[Magic Forest]] where they met an armoured Lt [[Alice Liddell]] in the company of [[Dracula (fictional character)|Dracula]]. The group was attacked by [[cyber-conversion|cyber-converted]] [[wikipedia:Der Ring des Nibelungen|Wagnerian]] [[Valkyrie]]s. Coming across [[Sleeping Beauty]] and her spindle, like Alice, Jamie was found to be fictional, with blood of black ink, even though he had believed himself to have been a real person with a full life. The Doctor told the fictional characters to exercise their free will regardless. Jamie was rescued by the Doctor from metafictioning himself out of existence by the Cybermen in a glass cupboard.

The fictional Jamie was upset about the Doctor never coming back to his companions and worried the Doctor had never checked on the real Jamie, who might have been hanged by the Redcoats after the [[Battle of Culloden]]. [[wikipedia:Moby-Dick|Moby-Dick]] was discovered to be cyber-converted and Cpt [[Long John Silver]]'s ''Hispaniola ''faced sinking from its torpedoes, but they were saved by Cpt Nemo and [[Rob Roy MacGregor]], who returned the barnacle-covered [[the TARDIS|TARDIS]] to the Doctor.

The Mistress of the Land of Fiction was the real-life, older Zoe, who had found out she had mysteriously aged two years and captured in a Cyberman attack on the Wheel. When Zoe's memories were triggered, she sent the Cybermen into the Land of Fiction and brought the Doctor there to defeat them, creating Jamie as a friend and as a mystery to solve. After a [[Datamat]], which looked similar to a [[Cybermat (Mondas)|Cybermat]], started climbing up Jamie's kilt, the Zoes were told to work on writing the fictional Cybermen, who had been converted from fantasy creatures, out of existence. Cpt Nemo, finding himself with a cyber-converted Dracula, was rescued by the soon-to-be-killed [[Karkus]], sent by Zoe. The Doctor used the Datamat to erase the fictional Cybermen from existence. The fictional Zoe was killed. Alice was elected to be in charge of the Land of Fiction, as Jamie was more of a fighter. Jamie told the Doctor to find the real Jamie if he ever found himself in the Scottish highlands again. Zoe was rescued by the Doctor, but in doing so, her memories were lost to her again. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Legend of the Cybermen]]'')

===The Seventh Doctor in the Land===
Years later, as part of his elaborate scheme to gain revenge on the Doctor, [[the Monk]] reactivated the Land and installed [[Jason (Master of the Land of Fiction)|Jason]], a mentally unstable boy from [[1993]] Earth, as its new Master. Jason constructed a town called [[Arandale]], inhabited by various fictional characters such as the [[White Knight]] and [[Dr. Nemesis]]. He trapped the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]], and [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] in this scenario. By tricking Jason into introducing highly disruptive [[McAllerson's Radiation]] into the Land, the Doctor escaped. At his request the [[Time Lord]]s placed beacons around the Land to warn away other travellers in [[space]] and [[time]] who might become trapped there. ([[NA]]: ''[[Conundrum (novel)|Conundrum]]'')

The actions of [[Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart]] to [[time travel]] ([[NA]]: ''[[Set Piece]]'') created a [[space-time anomaly]] which allowed energy from the Land of Fiction to bleed into the real [[universe]]. This created [[the Miracle]], an energy source which for a time sustained the dying planet [[Detrios]]. It also re-activated Jason, who sought to gain revenge on the Doctor, by creating a fictional version of him, [[Dr. Who (Land of Fiction)|Dr. Who]]. Jason employed Dr. Who in a plot to assassinate [[Queen]] [[Elizabeth II]]. Although the Queen was killed by Dr. Who, Jason's distaste for bloodshed made him use his powers to restore her to life. Jason helped the real Doctor seal off the anomaly, after which the Doctor wiped Jason's memory and returned him to Earth. ([[NA]]: ''[[Head Games]]'')

Shortly after [[Romana II|Romana]] became President of [[Gallifrey]], one of the items on her agenda was to annex the Land to [[the Matrix]]. ([[NA]]: ''[[Happy Endings]]'')

=== Other adventures ===
[[The Master]] visited the Land of Fiction and destroyed a council of [[19th century]] literary villains who resided there. ([[DWM]]: ''[[Character Assassin]]'')

After her companion [[Panda]] was lost in the [[Time Vortex]] ([[BFIW]]: ''[[The Panda Invasion]]''), the [[Renegade Time Lord|renegade]] [[Time Lord|Time Lady]] [[Iris Wildthyme]] searched for him in the Land of Fiction. ([[BFIW]]: ''[[The Claws of Santa]]'')

==Behind the Scenes== 
In a possibly apocrycyphal promotion for the [[Script to Screen]] competition, the [[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] became trapped inside the Land of Fiction (although it physically resembled the [[White Void]]) and asked for English schoolchildren to help develop an adventure for him so he could escape.
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