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+{{DISPLAYTITLE:"Early" Master}}
 {{Infobox Individual
-|name              = The Master
+|name              = Seventh Master
 |image             = Master Home Guard.jpg
-|alias             = [[Aliases of the Master#First incarnation|'''''see list''''']]
+|alias             = [[Aliases of the Master#"Inventor" incarnation|'''''see list''''']]
-|affiliation       = The Deca
+|affiliation       = Serf Systems
-|affiliation2      = Gallifrey Academy Hot Five
 |species           = Time Lord
 |origin            = [[Gallifrey]]
-|job               = Truant officer
+|job               = Personal assistant
-|father            = The Master's father
+|first mention     = CIA File Extracts (novel)
-|mother            = The Master's mother
+|first             = The Man Who Never Was (TV story)
-|child             = The Master's daughter
-|actor             = William Hughes
-|first mention     = The Sea Devils (TV story)
-|first             = The Sound of Drums (TV story)
 |appearances       = [[The Master - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']]
-|voice actor       = James Dreyfus
+|actor             = James Dreyfus
 |other voice actor = [[David Bradley]]
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+}}{{ImageLink|Dreyfus Master}}
-{{Masters}}
+{{you may|Master (disambiguation)|Tardis:The Master|n1=other, similarly-named pages|n2=this wiki's guidelines on how to best link to this article}}
-The first incarnation of '''the Master''' was [[the Doctor]]'s friend and schoolmate at the [[Time Lord Academy|Academy]] on [[Gallifrey]], until a falling out occurred between them.
+{{User:BananaClownMan/Mastertemplate}}
+Sometime after leaving Gallifrey, '''the Master''' found himself being confronted by various incarnations of the Doctor on [[Destination]], [[the Repository]], [[Segonax]] and a human colony planet, and also faced [[Sarah Jane Smith]] while controlling [[Serf Systems]] as "John Harrison".
-Like the Doctor, the Master would also flee from Gallifrey in [[The Master's TARDIS|a TARDIS of his own]], but the poor condition of his craft resulted in his first trip being a crash-landing on [[Destination]].
 == Biography ==
-=== Early life ===
+=== Post-regeneration ===
-The Master grew up on [[Gallifrey]] in the [[House of Oakdown]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'') though he would later comment to [[Wilfred Mott]] that growing up on Gallifrey was not something one could call childhood, but "more a life of duty". ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') The name he was born with was unknown and apparently consisted of thirty-two letters. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lords and Masters (short story)|Lords and Masters]]'')
+After regenerating into his seventh incarnation, the Time Lord became more ruthless and began to use the name of "the Master" ([[PROSE]]: ''[[CIA File Extracts (novel)|CIA File Extracts]]'') for the first time since leaving the Academy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'') He visited the [[Scoundrels Club]] to recover from the regeneration in comfort. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dismemberment (short story)|Dismemberment]]'')
-[[File:YoungMasterTSOD.jpg|thumb|left|The young Master looks into the [[Untempered Schism]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')]]
+=== Early exploits ===
-Like all [[Time Lord]]s, the Master was taken from his family at the age of eight for the selection process. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') During the ceremony in which he gazed into the [[Time Vortex]] through the [[Untempered Schism]], he went mad, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') due to [[The Drumming|a rhythm of four beats]] being implanted into his head. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') This malady manifested itself as the constant drumming he heard ever after, worsening with time. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')
+[[File:DreyfusMaster.jpg|thumb|left|The Master poses as "the Inventor". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')]]
+Under unknown circumstances, the Master stole [[The Master's TARDIS|a Type-45 TARDIS]] from [[Gallifrey]] before the [[Quadrigger]]s had the chance to "overhaul" it, which resulted in his TARDIS falling apart around him almost instantly. In "an experiment gone wrong", the Master crash-landed his ship on [[Destination (planet)|Destination]], a planet in "the farthest arm of the galaxy, in the earliest [[Segment of Time|Segments of Time]]", and was left with "the bare minimum of components."
-==== Academic career ====
-The Master and the [[First Doctor]] became friends on their first day at the [[Time Lord Academy|Academy]], ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') with both being tutored by [[Borusa]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'') and the Doctor quickly developing a [[crush]] on his new friend, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') which the Master was partially aware of. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Bekdel Test (audio story)|The Bekdel Test]]'') The duo also made a friend in [[the War Chief]] on their first day at the Academy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'')
-Sharing the same heritage and upbringing, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dominion (audio story)|Dominion]]'') the Master developed a strong bond with the Doctor, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') with [[UNIT]] scientist [[Petronella Osgood|Osgood]] even describing the Master as the Doctor's "childhood friend". ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') The [[Second Doctor]] recalled that he and the Master had everything in common, except that the Master enjoyed being [[fear|scared]] of the [[darkness|dark]] "a little too much", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Menagerie]]'') while the [[Third Doctor]] told [[Jo Grant]] that the two were "inseparable" due to their shared interests, such as a desire to break the [[non-interference policy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Sea Devils]]'') The [[Twelfth Doctor]] recalled how he and the Master had a pact to explore every [[star]] in the [[universe]] together. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')  The Master and the Doctor enjoyed building "time flow analogues" to disrupt each other's experiments. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'')
-The two youths would play in the fields near the Master's father's estates, with pastures of red grass near [[Mount Perdition]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') They would also sneak out of the [[Capitol]] and drink with the [[Shobogan]]s, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') with the Master picking a fight with six drunken Shobogans during one of these outings. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce]]'') The Master also taught his friend [[hypnotism]], and would often [[hypnotise]] people as a joke, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path]]'') but would go unpunished for it, as well as other misdemeanours, always finding a way to avoid his comeuppance. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'')
-During their childhood, the Master and the Doctor were mercilessly and viciously [[bully|bullied]] by a boy called [[Torvic]]; the Doctor was eventually forced to kill the bully to save his friend's life. The Doctor was later confronted by the personification of [[Death (Timewyrm: Revelation)|Death]], who insisted he become her disciple, but the Doctor refused and suggested Death make the Master her champion instead. Death agreed, and the Doctor subsequently forgot about their deal. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'')
-According to a dream the [[Fifth Doctor]] had under the control of the [[Celestial Toymaker]], the Master went by the name "Koschei" at the Academy and belonged to a clique of ten young Time Lords with the collective name of [[the Deca]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') He was also part of the "[[Gallifrey Academy Hot Five]]" band, in which he played the [[drums]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deadly Reunion (novel)|Deadly Reunion]]'') The Master was in charge of organising end of term parties, although the [[Eighth Doctor]] later noted that they weren't very good. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'')
-The Master chose his title while he was beginning to "hone his talents" at the Academy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'') The Doctor chose his around the same time. The Master felt that the name the Doctor chose was "sanctimonious", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') while the Doctor thought the Master's new name was a sign of his ambition and arrogance. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'') The [[Tenth Doctor]] once stated that it would be a "psychologist's field day" understanding why he chose to call himself "the Master", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') with one account claiming he gained the nickname of "the Master" in his Academy days because he was a bully to less domineering students than himself. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') However, according to other accounts, the Master's early travels as a [[Renegade Time Lord]] were under the name of "Koschei"; it was only after swearing vengeance on the [[Second Doctor]] that he rejected that name and became "the Master". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'', ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'')
-Whilst at the Academy, the Doctor and the Master travelled into Gallifrey's past in search of [[Valdemar]]. They found nothing of the [[Old One (Valdemar)|Old One]]s except for warnings. The Master was fascinated by the power that Valdemar represented, while the Doctor was horrified. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tomb of Valdemar (novel)|Tomb of Valdemar]]'') The Master also showed a fascination with the ''[[Necronomicon]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nameless City (short story)|The Nameless City]]'')
-At the Academy, the Master was a "teacher's pet" and won gold stars, while the Doctor was the class dunce, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'') though the Doctor was Borusa's favourite. Ultimately, the Master did not perform well at the Academy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'') Although he did earn a higher degree in [[cosmic science]] than the Doctor, ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'') the Doctor's grades were overall better. Because of this, the Doctor received the prizes and praise that the Master so desperately wanted. The [[Seventh Doctor]] theorised that this may have been the cause of the Master's hatred towards him, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Survival (novelisation)|Survival]]'') with [[Eighth Doctor]] believing that his [[jealousy]] over Borusa was the cause of the Master's [[hatred]] towards him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]'')
-When the Time Lords created the ''[[Consolidator]]'' to conceal various dangerous historical secrets from the rest of the universe, unwilling to destroy the items or races in the ship in case they proved useful later, the Doctor and the Master were assigned to come up with a solution where their peers had failed. The Master had the idea of using a [[black hole]] to tear a [[space-time rift|rift in time]] and send the ''Consolidator'' into the distant future, where the future Time Lords could deal with it, but the Doctor declined to have his name put down on the calculations as he questioned the ethics of the assignment. However, when the experiment was actually attempted, the ''Consolidator'' was apparently destroyed by a mistake in the calculations when it struck the edge of the black hole, leaving the Time Lords to hush the matter up. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'')
+The Master took charge of Destination, assuming the title of "the Inventor", and developed the planet's technology for his own ends. He pitted the human colonists against the [[Dalmari]], so that the colonists would develop the nuclear technology he planned to use to refuel his TARDIS's engines. When the [[First Doctor]] arrived, he changed his plans and tried to steal [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] to escape. He was able to trick [[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]] into leading him to the ship, but they were able to overpower him and use the [[fast return switch]] to take the TARDIS back to Destination. The Master ultimately became trapped in his own laboratory after the Doctor had rerouted its power to help Destination to rebuild. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')
-As the Doctor grew up, he came to understand that he and the Master were not the same. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') Following an incident at the Academy in which the Master did not keep his word, he and the Doctor had a falling out, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Last of the Gaderene (novel)|Last of the Gaderene]]'') eventually leading the Doctor to realise that the Master stood against everything he believed in. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')
+=== Facing a future Doctor ===
+Deciding to revisit the construction of a [[Parenthesis Clock]] that would allow him to indiscriminately alter timelines without suffering the consequences, the Master infiltrated [[the Repository]], and convinced his former teacher, Eminent [[Sedanya]], as well as other residents, to help him, and they built the Clock near the library of the Repository in order to better gain access to [[the Matrix]] and use its power to fuel the Clock, with Master using the power of the Matrix to summon the fabled [[Mandlebrot]] to keep intruders away. When the Clock was completed, the Master began using a temporal extractor to rewind the timelines of some of the residents so that the Clock could be fuelled with their experiences in stellar engineering, only for the the [[Fourth Doctor]] to arrive at the Repository to bring back the ''[[Grimoire|Discord Grimoire]]''.
-The Master was on an Academy research project when the Doctor was expelled from the Academy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'')
+The Master tried to frame the Doctor for the murders by extracting from him a false confession under the [[Time Winds]], but when this failed, he instead tricked the Doctor and assistant librarian [[Elanora]] into becoming victims of the Mandelbroth, and then manipulated the following trial in order to have the blame for the murders placed on [[Ansillon (Blood of the Time Lords)|Ansillon]]. When the Doctor survived the Mandelbroth and discovered his identity, the Master was convinced by Sedanya not to kill him on the spot and to instead have the Doctor and Elanora dying in the explosion of his TARDIS, as the Master didn't think he needed it anymore. The Master finally managed to activate the Clock, but his miscalculations only resulted in the device malfunctioning, and, in desperation, the Master encouraged the Doctor to use the ''Discord Grimoire'' to deactivate the Clock, and disappeared before the Doctor used the Clock to undo his actions. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blood of the Time Lords (audio story)|Blood of the Time Lords]]'')
-In one of his earliest schemes at the Academy, the Master befriended one of his professors, [[Salyavin]], to gain access to Gallifrey's most restricted libraries and find ''[[The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey]]''. The Master himself failed to find the book, and ended up letting the innocent Salyavin bear the consequences of his breach of Gallifrey's laws; Salyavin ended up stealing the book anyway, reasoning he might as well if he was to be blamed for it, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') and was imprisoned on [[Shada]], from which he later escaped, renaming himself "Professor Chronotis". ([[TV]]: ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'')
+=== Controlling Serf Systems ===
+[[File:John Harrison.jpg|thumb|The Master poses as "John Harrison". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Man Who Never Was (TV story)|The Man Who Never Was]]'')]]
+Under the alias "John Harrison", the Master began using a hologram of [[Joseph Serf]] to run [[Serf Systems]], while he posed as the [[PR]] of the company, after the real Serf died in a [[skiing]] accident in [[Val d'Isère]] during [[2007]]. "Harrison" accessed the [[black market]] of [[alien]] species, paying millions to gain a group of [[Skullion]]s, who crash-landed in [[central Asia]], as [[slave]]s. "Harrison" controlled them using neck collars which would [[Electricity|electrify]] when he activated his [[pen]], which would kill them at "level 10", and forced them to maintain the [[hologram]] of Serf.
-==== Life on Gallifrey ====
+"Harrison" wanted to make profit by selling the [[SerfBoard]] to everyone using Serf's [[hypnosis|hypnotic]] ability. The fake Serf said that the SerfBoard was revolutionary, while in reality it was "rubbish". His plot was foiled by [[Sarah Jane Smith]] after [[Lionel Carson]] was hypnotised by Serf into destroying "Harrison's" pen, and [[Luke Smith]] made the hologram convince people to not care about the SerfBoard. Sarah Jane had a ship sent from [[Skultos]] to rescue the Skullions. However, "Harrison" advanced on the Skullions as they were transported to the ship, resulting in him being transported as well. The ship then left [[Earth]], and Luke hoped that the Skullions would make "Harrison" work for them as retaliation for their enslavement. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Man Who Never Was (TV story)|The Man Who Never Was]]'')
-Still maintaining a "friend[ship] of sorts", the Master and the Doctor were pioneers and inventors among their people. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')
-Missy claimed she had [[The Master's daughter|a daughter]] and that, while still on Gallifrey, the Doctor gifted the Master a [[dark star alloy brooch]], after an event which involved his daughter occurred. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'')
-On Gallifrey, the Master had the job of [[truant officer]], and he performed his job with punctuality, self-discipline, and meritorious conduct. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'') He once attended a ritual in [[Arcadia (city)|Arcadia]] where he gave [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] a toy that was actually a disguised communication node that would locate the Doctor if he ever left Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]'')
-==== Fleeing Gallifrey ====
-[[File:The_Legend_of..._the_Master?_(webcast).jpg|thumb|A depiction of the Master fleeing Gallifrey. ([[WC]]: ''[[The Legend of... the Master? (webcast)|The Legend of... the Master?]]'')]]
-On the day that the Doctor left Gallifrey, the Master was desperate to know where he went. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention — A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention — A Gallifreyan Noir]]'') He used the node he gave Susan to locate the Doctor, but found that the node had established a connection with [[Nyssa]], a companion of the [[Fifth Doctor]]. The Master tried to take control of Nyssa but was stopped by the intervention of the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]'') When retired CIA agent [[Maris]] was hired to find the Doctor, the Master, helped by {{O'Mara}}, used a [[chronal mine]] to kidnap her. They interrogated Maris on the whereabouts of the Doctor, and were displeased when she told them she didn't know. They were about to kill her when [[TARDIS (Prisoners of Fate)|her employer]] extracted her from the area. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention — A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention — A Gallifreyan Noir]]'')
-The Master ultimately left Gallifrey on the same day the Doctor did, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead]]'') in [[The Master's TARDIS|a Type-45 TARDIS]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'') that he had also stolen ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead]]'') when the [[Quadrigger]]s were still working on it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'') [[Time Lord 1 (Colony in Space)|One Time Lord]] stated that the Master left Gallifrey because, like the Doctor, it was "too peaceful for [him], [with] not enough happening". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon]]'') The [[Fifth Doctor]] believed that the Master left Gallifrey because he was also leaving. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]'')
-According to one account, when the Doctor escaped Gallifrey, the Master was in line for a promotion to Head Truant Officer, but his career depended on catching the Doctor and Susan and preventing any violations of the [[non-interference policy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'')
-[[File:Birth of a Renegade illustration 3.jpg|thumb|left|The Master shooting [[Slann]], as told by his "Tremas" incarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birth of a Renegade (short story)|Birth of a Renegade]]'')]]
-According to another source, during a period of civil unrest on Gallifrey, the Master led many students of the Time Lord Academy in a revolt against the corrupt [[Lord President]], [[Pundat the Third]], and attempted to recruit the Doctor and convince him to take the position as President, but he decided not to interfere with the current constitution. When Pundat died of stress soon after the revolt, his chosen successor was the evil [[Chancellor]] [[Slann]]. The students had found the last of Lord Rassilon's descendants, [[Susan Foreman|Lady Larn]], a seven-year old child adopted by [[Councillor]] [[Brolin]], who was being groomed as a future president. They decided on a second coup, but were overheard by the authorities when trying to convert the Doctor again, and bloody reprisals against the students followed. The Doctor and Larn escaped from Gallifrey after this. Believing the students ready for another coup, the Master assassinated Lord President Slann. However, the students weren't ready and he took this opportunity to steal a TARDIS and flee Gallifrey as a renegade. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birth of a Renegade (short story)|Birth of a Renegade]]'')
-=== Early exploits ===
-[[File:DreyfusMaster.jpg|thumb|The Master poses as "the Inventor". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')]]
-Because his TARDIS was broken when he stole it, it fell apart around him almost instantly, stranding the Master on the furthest arm of a galaxy in the "earliest [[Segment of Time|Segments of Time]]". He took charge of the planet [[Destination]], assuming the title of "the Inventor", and developed the planet's technology for his own ends. He pitted the human colonists against the [[Dalmari]], so that the colonists would develop the nuclear technology he planned to use to refuel his TARDIS's engines. When the [[First Doctor]] arrived, he changed his plans and tried to steal [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] to escape. He was able to trick [[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]] into leading him to the ship, but they were able to overpower him and use the [[fast return switch]] to take the TARDIS back to Destination. The Master ultimately became trapped in his own laboratory after the Doctor had rerouted its power to help Destination to rebuild. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')
-On [[Segonax]], the Master allied himself with the [[Gods of Ragnarok]], and used a [[pendant]] they gave him to contact a street artist on [[Zamyatin]] named [[Kingpin]] and use Kingpin's free spirited energy to cause a [[psychic storm]], which caused a revolution on Zamyatin. The Master then persuaded Kingpin to organise a collective of various artists and bring them to Segonax to become the [[Psychic Circus]]. The Master then persuaded the [[Chief clown]] to organise a talent contest so that new energy could be acquired. When Kingpin managed to contact the [[Seventh Doctor]], the Master used his abilities to stop him from reaching the Circus, first creating an illusion of him landing on Zamyatin, and then one of him returning to [[Paradise Towers]]. When the Doctor eventually came to the Circus, he and the Master confronted each other on a [[psychic plane]], where the Doctor exploited the Gods' curiosity to buy time to steal the pendant from the Master and pass it to Kingpin. Kingpin then used the pendant to free the Circus from the Master and the Gods' influence, and the Master was left at the mercy of the Gods of Ragnarok. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Psychic Circus (audio story)|The Psychic Circus]]'')
 === Later deeds ===
 After arriving on a planet where human colonists had settled in a fictional recreation of an [[English]] [[village]] during the [[Second World War]] to live in peace away from Earth, the Master took control of the environment, organised a [[home guard]] and armed the original population of the planet to entice a conflict and demonstrate that an outgunned and outnumbered group of people could resist against a much greater enemy when properly motivated. When the [[Second Doctor]] arrived with [[Ben Jackson]], [[Polly Wright]] and [[Jamie McCrimmon]], the Master hypnotised them into joining his experiment. The Doctor, however, immersed himself too deep in his role of commander of the home guard and made contact with the aliens to reach a peaceful solution, resulting in the aliens attacking earlier than the Master had anticipated. In the ensuing battle, the Master escaped in his TARDIS, with the intent of returning to look on the results of the conflict. However, when he returned, the Doctor had already set a trap for him after persuading the fighters into a peace. The Master was captured and put on trial for illegal use of [[mind control]], while his TARDIS was confiscated. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Home Guard (audio story)|The Home Guard]]'')
-=== Death ===
+Still trapped, the Master managed to ally himself with the [[Gods of Ragnarok]] on [[Segonax]], and used a [[pendant]] they gave him to contact a street artist on [[Zamyatin]] named [[Kingpin]] and use Kingpin's free spirited energy to cause a [[psychic storm]], which caused a revolution on Zamyatin. The Master then persuaded Kingpin to organise a collective of various artists and bring them to Segonax to become the [[Psychic Circus]]. The Master then persuaded the [[Chief clown]] to organise a talent contest so that new energy could be acquired. When Kingpin managed to contact the [[Seventh Doctor]], the Master used his abilities to stop him from reaching the Circus, first creating an illusion of him landing on Zamyatin, and then one of him returning to [[Paradise Towers]]. When the Doctor eventually came to the Circus, he and the Master confronted each other on a [[psychic plane]], where the Doctor exploited the Gods' curiosity to buy time to steal the pendant from the Master and pass it to Kingpin. Kingpin then used the pendant to free the Circus from the Master and the Gods' influence, and the Master was left at the mercy of the Gods of Ragnarok. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Psychic Circus (audio story)|The Psychic Circus]]'')
-At some point, the Master [[regenerate]]d for the first time and his new incarnation found himself at the [[Scoundrels Club]] during the [[Great Fire of London]]. Becoming a member of the club so that he could recover from the regeneration in comfort, the Master organised [[fireworks]] on the roof to celebrate the occasion. He visited the Scoundrels Club after each regeneration to recover as a tradition. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dismemberment (short story)|Dismemberment]]'')
 === Post-mortem ===
-When the {{Ainley|n="Tremas" Master}} was stripped of his [[Trakenite]] body by the the Time Lords, and after his plot to steal the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s regenerations failed, he found himself confronting mental projections of all his past incarnations, and was able to steal a bit of life energy from each of them, allowing him to [[regeneration|regenerate]] back into his Trakenite body. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Velvet Dark (short story)|The Velvet Dark]]'')
+When the [[Tremas Master]] was stripped of his [[Trakenite]] body by the Time Lords, and after his plot to steal the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s regenerations failed, he found himself confronting mental projections of all his past incarnations, and was able to steal a bit of life energy from each of them, allowing him to [[regeneration|regenerate]] back into his Trakenite body. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Velvet Dark (short story)|The Velvet Dark]]'')
-=== Undated events ===
-* The Master claimed to have met [[Harry Houdini]] at some point before his exploits on [[Destination]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')
-== Alternate timelines ==
-As punishment for "a silly prank gone wrong", the [[Superior]]s locked "Koschei" and the Doctor in the bathroom of a bar on an underlevel of [[the Tower]]. After an argument, the Doctor escaped, leaving "Koschei" behind. The Tower eventually came under the control of [[the Healer]], leader of the [[Cwejen]] [[Uprising]], though he never discovered "Koschei". When [[Chris Cwej]] and [[Frey (Rebel Rebel)|Frey]] became lost in the underlevels, they encountered "Koschei". Frey was dying because, as an [[Ephem]], she needed regular infusions of Superior [[biodata]] to survive. "Koschei" offered to give her his own biodata and lead them out of the dungeon, on the condition that Cwej promise to listen to "Koschei's" words on a future date. Sensing that Cwej was "a friend of [his] friend", "Koschei" hypnotised him. Later, when Cwej was using the [[Tree of Life (Rebel Rebel)|Tree of Life]] to undo the Uprising, "Koschei" spoke through Frey telepathically, distracting Cwej; as a result, only half the events of the Uprising were undone, resulting in an unstable new status quo. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rebel Rebel (short story)|Rebel Rebel]]'')
 == Psychological profile ==
 === Personality ===
-According to a dream the [[Fifth Doctor]] had under the control of the [[Celestial Toymaker]], Koschei admired [[War Chief|Magnus]]' ability to command people, and wished that he could one day learn to do the same. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'')
+The "Early" Master was a cold-hearted and self-centred individual, willing to influence a whole planet's development to refuel his craft, and equally willing to abandon his plans just to steal the Doctor's TARDIS. He found amusement in shaping a culture to his benefit and looked down on others as his inferiors, claiming to have "longed for a mind equal to [his] own" when confronting the Doctor on [[Destination (planet)|Destination]]. He particularly disregarded humans as "ape-descended primitives". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')
-The Master was good friends with the [[First Doctor]] at the [[Time Lord Academy]], and the two bonded over a mutual promise to someday explore the [[universe]] together. The [[Twelfth Doctor]] later recalled that he was "always so brilliant" from the first day at the Academy. The Doctor developed a "man-crush" on him during this time. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')
+He believed that the exchange of money for services and goods, even goods such as slaves, were the way of the world. He was only interested in making profit from the SerfBoards. He didn't care about the Skullions' pain and, when [[Plark]] told him that they were thirsty, sadistically sprayed [[water]], which burned Skullions, on them, indicating that they were not to stop working. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Man Who Never Was (TV story)|The Man Who Never Was]]'')
-The Master was very self-centred, willing to influence a whole planet's development to refuel his craft, and equally willing to abandon his plans just to steal the Doctor's ship. He found amusement in shaping a culture to his benefit. He looked down on others as his inferiors, claiming to have "longed for a mind equal to [his] own" when confronting the Doctor on [[Destination]]. He particular disregard humans as "ape descended primitives". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')
+The [[Fourth Doctor]] once observed that the Master was "unscrupulous", and a pragmatist who destroy anything in his way, but was also quick to make extreme reactions to offense. He would often kill his allies the the moment he no longer had any use for them just for the sake of doing it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blood of the Time Lords (audio story)|Blood of the Time Lords]]'')
-[[Susan Foreman]] remembered the Master as a highly regarded man, as a "stickler for the rules" with "meritorious conduct". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'') The [[Fifth Doctor]] believed that his obsession with him was the driving force for him leaving Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]'')
-<!--Examples following this point focus on this particular incarnation of the Master's attitude towards regeneration-->
 === Skills ===
-He used his hypnotic abilities regularly, subjugating even adepts such as Susan Foreman with ease. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')
+He used his hypnotic abilities regularly, subjugating even adept minds such as Susan Foreman with ease. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')
 == Appearance and clothing ==
-[[File:Master 8 years old.jpg|thumb|The young Master. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')]]
+[[File:DreyfusMasterPsychicCircus.png|thumb|left|The Master on [[Segonax]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Psychic Circus (audio story)|The Psychic Circus]]'')]]
-As an eight-year-old boy, the Master had dark hair and bright blue eyes. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') While imprisoned beneath [[the Tower]], "Koschei" had a long dark beard and "piercing" green eyes. He gave off an aura of menace to all who came near him, and, in his emaciated state, came across as a "creature" more than a man. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rebel Rebel (short story)|Rebel Rebel]]'')
+When he met the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara on Destination, the Master had short hair and a beard, both of which were almost completely grey, save for some dark patches. His eyes were brown in colour. He wore an asymmetrical black coat with a large white lined collar on the left-hand side. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')
-[[File:MasterOnDestination.jpg|thumb|thumb|100px|left|The Master on [[Destination]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')]]
-As he matured, the Master swept his black hair back, and also grew a greying beard. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]'') When he met the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara on Destination, the Master had short hair and a beard, both of which were almost completely grey, save for some dark patches. His eyes were brown in colour. He wore an asymetrical black coat with a large white lined collar on the left-hand side. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')
 He later adopted a black Nehru jacket. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Home Guard (audio story)|The Home Guard]]'')
-The Master was described by [[Maris]] as "pewter, [having] washed-out skin, and the beginnings of a goatee". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention — A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention — A Gallifreyan Noir]]'')
 == Behind the scenes ==
-=== ''The Doctor Who Fun Book'' ===
+[[File:Spandrell Master.jpg|thumb|The Master as seen on the cover of ''Solo''.]]
-A glimpse into the Master's life on [[Gallifrey]] is provided by the short story [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[TARDIS Stolen! (short story)|TARDIS Stolen!]]'' from [[1987]]'s ''[[The Doctor Who Fun Book]]'', which is not considered a [[Tardis:Valid source|valid source]] by this Wiki due to its parodical nature, such as revealing that the Master's true name is "Cuthbert Windbottom", though he is already going by "the Master", a choice of identity the author of the ''Gallifreyan Gazette'' article finds unsurprising.
+* The "Early" Master was first created for ''[[Blood of the Time Lords (audio story)|Blood of the Time Lords]]'', where an uncertain [[Fourth Doctor]] asked him whether he was in his second or third "regeneration", but the Master, angered by the Doctor's forgetfulness, refused to confirm or deny his guesses. It was [[David Richardson]] who proposed they "introduce the First Master" during the production of ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'',<ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/vortex/v/106</ref> and, while Dreyfus was initially promoted by [[Big Finish Productions]] as portraying the "first [[incarnation]]" of the Master, or "the first Master", <ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/david-bradley-returns-to-the-tardis-in-doctor-who-the-first-doctor-adventures</ref><ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/the-big-finish-roundup1</ref> writer [[John Dorney]] has stated that none of that made it in any of the scripts, and that, if anything, it was contradicted.<ref>https://notthebigfinishforum.freeforums.net/thread/5101/names-masters-incarnations?page=2</ref> Dorney also noted that the name "First Master" could be interpreted multiple ways, as meaning either "first incarnation, first to call himself Master or first the Doctor meets in continuity."<ref>https://notthebigfinishforum.freeforums.net/post/226435</ref> When asked whether Dreyfus portrayed the Master as he originally was before he ever regenerated, [[Nicholas Briggs]] replied that that's intentionally left unanswered and open for interpretation.<ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/vortex/v/112</ref>
+* According to James Dreyfus, the "Early" Master was intended to appear in the anniversary audio story ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]'',<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210316130936/https://twitter.com/dreyfusjames/status/1371810604189679618 For context. I played the Master too. Erased, & never rehired. No explanation.]</ref> but was removed due to a series of transphobic remarks he made being posted on [[Twitter]]. Dreyfus would later claim that he had "no idea" why Big Finish cut ties with him.<ref>[https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/equality-and-diversity-at-big-finish Equality and diversity at Big Finish]</ref>
-Following the [[First Doctor]]'s theft of [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] and flight from Gallifrey, the Master is interviewed by the ''[[Gallifrey Gazette]]'' to give his opinion on the probable motives of his old classmate's crimes; the Master claims that the Doctor had been very excited in the last month over a phone call from "[[BBC|the BB Corporation]]" and attempts to convince the interviewer that these were surely [[Bed and Breakfast Corps|some of Gallifrey's oldest enemies]] in whose league the Doctor had entered.
+* James Dreyfus's credit was removed from the cover of ''[[The Psychic Circus (audio story)|The Psychic Circus]]'' following controversy over transphobic remarks he had posted on Twitter.
+* As a result of the aforementioned controversy, a composite of [[George Pravda]] as [[Spandrell]] and [[Anthony Ainley]] as the [[Tremas Master]] was used to provide the likeness of the "Early" Master on the cover artwork of ''[[Solo (audio anthology)|Solo]]'', the anthology which ''[[Blood of the Time Lords (audio story)|Blood of the Time Lords]]'' was part of.<ref>[https://twitter.com/iamryanaplin/status/1617664307382321153 It was a comp between these two!! Just Spandrell with Ainley’s goatee! Wasn’t intentional to make him ACTUALLY look like you-know-who… just wound up that way!]</ref>
-=== Is "Koschei" his true name? ===
-The [[1997 (releases)|1997]] novel ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'' shows the [[Second Doctor]] in one of his first encounters with the Master since leaving [[Gallifrey]]. Throughout the story, the Master is only called by the pseudonym "Koschei". In Russian folklore, Koschei (rus.{{w|Koschei|Коще́й}} or Коще́й Бессме́ртный, "Koschei The Deathless") is a villain who hides his soul in an obscure location under many layers of protection so that he can never die.
-Though the Second Doctor does not recognise Koschei by that name in ''The Dark Path'', and the novel even goes so far as to state that the Master has only just begun calling himself Koschei, later stories like ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'' and ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'' reuse the name in ways that suggest it is the true name of the Master. The [[2018 (releases)|2018]] short story ''[[Lords and Masters (short story)|Lords and Masters]]'' casts this theory into doubt, however, as Missy states that her real name contains thirty-two letters.
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