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|name = Romana
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|alias = War Queen, Mistress of the Nine Gallifreys, Trey
By all accounts, '''[[Romanadvoratrelundar]]’s third incarnation''' was the one who followed [[Romana II]]’s [[regeneration]].
|species = Time Lord
|origin = [[Gallifrey]]
|first = The Shadows of Avalon (novel)
|appearances = [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'', ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]''<br>
{{il|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Renaissance (audio story)|Renaissance]]''|''[[Ascension (audio story)|Ascension]]''|''[[Luna Romana (audio story)|Luna Romana]]''|''[[Intervention Earth (audio story)|Intervention Earth]]''}}
|voice actor= Juliet Landau
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The third incarnation of '''[[Romanadvoratrelundar]]''' was, like [[Romana II|her predecessor]], also [[Lord President|President of Gallifrey]]. However, the potential for at least two distinct versions of her existed due to the alteration of Gallifrey's history. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines]]'')


While Romana II was meant to regenerate into one of these versions of Romana III, [[Braxiatel]] changed her past and undid her regeneration. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines]]'')
Where accounts differ, however, are the particulars surrounding this regeneration. By most accounts, the third Romana served as [[President of the High Council]] during an all-encompassing [[time war]] between [[Gallifrey]] and another major temporal power. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Shadows of Avalon (novel)}}; [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Luna Romana (audio story)}}) Other accounts, however, suggest that Romana had eschewed the Presidency during this incarnation and served the [[universe]] in other ways. ([[STAGE]]: {{cs|Time Fracture (stage play)}}; [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Little Book of Fate (short story)}})  


== Biography ==
== War Queen of the Nine Gallifreys ==
=== Gallifrey's darkest hour ===
{{main|Romana III (The Shadows of Avalon)}}
During her tenure as President Gallifrey faced its "darkest hour", and she began to clear sections of Gallifrey in order to make room to build [[Battle TARDIS]]es. She personally attended the decommissioning of Quadrigger [[Stoyn]]'s workstation. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Luna Romana (audio story)|Luna Romana]]'')
According to one account, during the first decades of her [[Lord President|Presidency]], Romana II regenerated into a snub-nosed woman with green eyes and dark hair, styled into a fringe, who apparently resembled [[the Doctor's mother]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Shadows of Avalon (novel)}})


A [[Matrix]] projection of Romana III, which called herself "[[Trey]]" aided her second self after she had returned from the [[Axis]]. She offered her Capitol to her previous self, saving her thousands of years in rebuilding the planet. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Renaissance (audio story)|Renaissance]]'')
By this account, Romana would lead [[Gallifrey]] as it approached an all-encompassing [[time war|temporal conflict]] with [[the Enemy]] known as [[War in Heaven|the War in Heaven]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Ancestor Cell (novel)}}, et al.) However, after [[Faction Paradox]] invaded Gallifrey, the War was averted and Gallifrey was destroyed. This resulted in [[Post-War universe|a new form of reality]] where history was “fundamentally altered” and both Gallifrey and the [[Time Lords]] were wiped from the timeline. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Ancestor Cell (novel)}}, {{cs|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)}})


During the final term of office, she had to deal with an anomaly in near [[Earth]], created using the [[Hand of Omega]].  A secret society, known as the [[Adherents of Ohm]], were trying to gain power on Gallifrey, and she suspected that [[Narvin]] might be part of it. There was an attempt to assassinate her though [[Tauras]] managed to save her.  She travelled through a black hole after Narvin tracked [[Ace]] there and found out that Tauras had set [[Omega]] free from the anti-matter universe. She tried to travel back into her own universe again but was stuck in the black hole as the [[type 160]] TARDIS she was using ran out of power. She accepted that she along with Narvin and Ace wouldn't see Gallifrey again, until [[Irving Braxiatel]] saved her and went after Omega. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Intervention Earth (audio story)|Intervention Earth]]'')
In her official capacity as Lady President of the High Council of Gallifrey, she would go by titles such as '''the War Queen''' and '''Mistress of the Nine Gallifreys'''. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Shadows of Avalon (novel)}}, {{cs|The Ancestor Cell (novel)}})


Irving Braxiatel saved Romana II from what would have caused her regeneration, and claimed several things about his reasons. He claimed that the return of Omega caused a war that devastated Gallifrey, and that Romana herself had sanctioned his trying to change the past and avert the crisis. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines]]'')
== Leading Gallifrey though its "darkest hour" ==
{{main|Trey}}
[[File:Trey_and_II.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Matrix]] projection of [[Romana II]]'s potential successor, dubbed "[[Trey]]", alongside Romana II herself. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Luna Romana (audio story)|Luna Romana]]'')]]
In an [[aborted timeline]], however, Romana II regenerated into a young woman with blue eyes and long dark hair styled into a fringe. This regeneration came about as a means of preventing the host ship [[Moros]] from becoming a [[black hole]] and destroying [[Gallifrey]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Enemy Lines (audio story)}})


After the timeline was changed, Romana II was not certain whether she would eventually regenerate into the same third incarnation or not. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines]]'')
By this account, Romana would lead [[Gallifrey]] through its “darkest hour” ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Luna Romana (audio story)}} as it engaged in a large-scale [[time war|temporal conflict]] with [[Omega]] and [[Adherents of Ohm|his adherents]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Enemy Lines (audio story)}}) This [[Time War (Enemy Lines)|Time War]] would escalate to the point wherein Romana, [[Narvin]], and [[Ace]] were found guilty of high treason. However, after Romana sent her friend [[Irving Braxiatel]] back in time to avert her regeneration, the War was [[aborted timeline|averted]]. This resulted in a new timeline wherein she resigns from the Presidency and is succeeded by [[Livia]] and is unsure if she would eventually regenerate into the same third incarnation or not. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Enemy Lines (audio story)}})


===War Queen of the Nine Gallifreys===
This resulted in [[Post-War universe|a new form of reality]] where history was “fundamentally altered” and both Gallifrey and the [[Time Lords]] were wiped from the timeline. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Ancestor Cell (novel)}}, {{cs|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)}})
A potentially separate third incarnation of Romana became War Queen and [[Lady President|President]] of the [[Nine Gallifreys]]. She [[Regeneration|regenerated]] knowing she would need a harder personality for the upcoming [[Second War in Heaven|War]] with [[the Enemy]]. As a result, she became less friendly towards the [[Eighth Doctor]].


She dispatched [[Cavisadoratrelundar|Cavis]] and [[Gandarotethetledrax|Gandar]] to Avalon, and eventually turned up herself to take possession of [[Compassion]] after Compassion transformed into a [[TARDIS]], believing she could give them a tactical advantage in the war. Instead, the Eighth Doctor and [[Fitz Kreiner|Fitz]] fled inside Compassion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'')
When a projection of this incarnation appeared through [[the Matrix]] to aid her predecessor, she went by the title of '''Trey'''. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Renaissance (audio story)}}, {{cs|Ascension (Gallifrey audio story)}})


After a hundred and fifty years in power, she was approaching her first reaffirmation ceremony when she was challenged by former President [[Greyjan the Sane|Greyjan]], an event which turned out to be part of a scheme by [[Faction Paradox]] to take over [[Gallifrey]] and re-write its history. The Eighth Doctor destroyed the planet to prevent this. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') [[Marnal]] later showed the amnesiac Eighth Doctor these events, where Romana and one of her soldiers, [[Mali]] tried to restore Gallifrey from one of the Nine Gallifreys. They discovered that Faction Paradox had wiped the Nine Gallifreys from history. Romana wept, knowing that her planet was doomed. Soon after, Faction Paradox skulltroopers closed in on Romana and Mali, and fired two shots. Before she died, however, Romana sent [[K-9 Mark II|K-9]] into [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] to prevent him from destroying Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')
== The Fortune Teller ==
{{main|Romana (The Little Book of Fate)}}
By one account, at some point during a “forever war spreading through all of time and space”, [[Romana II]] regenerated into a woman with a young face but “the quiet self-possession of one much older”, who styled herself wearing a black [[beret]] and a waistcoat, with a scarf knotted at her throat.  


== Appearance ==
This incarnation worked with [[Laszlo]] and other [[Tharil|Tharils]] to rescue [[refugee|refugees]] from the all-encompassing temporal conflict. This temporal refugee camp was disguised as a traveling [[carnival]], in which she posed as a '''fortune teller'''. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Little Book of Fate (short story)}})
As War Queen, Romana was petite, with black hair and a snub nose. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') She had a fringe, green eyes, and a tattoo of the [[Prydonian]] Seal on her left ankle. She wore pearls. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'') [[Cuthbert Simpson]] regarded Romana as "beautiful". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Banquo Legacy (novel)|The Banquo Legacy]]'') The Doctor noted that this incarnation of Romana looked like [[the Doctor's mother|his mother]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'')
 
== The Lord Cardinal ==
{{main|Romana (Time Fracture)}}
[[File:Liv Spencer Romana.jpg|thumb|right|[[Lord Cardinal]] Romana during the events of [[Operation Time Fracture]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lord Romanadvoratrelundar (feature)|Lord Romanadvoratrelundar]]'')]]
Within the confines of a [[temporal anomaly]] known as the [[Time Fracture]], time began to repeat itself. At some point during this [[time loop]], Romana, who was now a [[Lord Cardinal]], regenerated into an incarnation with blue eyes and short, blonde hair.
 
While [[UNIT]] had speculated that this incarnation of Romana would make for a powerful ally should she survive Gallifrey’s destruction, a flood of [[artron energy]] closed the Time Fracture and prevented it from ever having been opened. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lord Romanadvoratrelundar (feature)}}; [[STAGE]]: {{cs|Time Fracture (stage play)}})


== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
* Writers involved in [[the War]] arc book of [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novels based Romana III's described appearance on that of the [[American]] silent film actress {{w|Louise Brooks}}, although upon meeting this incarnation for the first time the Eighth Doctor noted that she now looked worryingly like his mother.
[[File:Juliet-landau-waistcoat-3.jpg|thumb|left|A promotional photograph of [[Juliet Landau]] taken for the use on cover artwork for [[Big Finish Productions]]]][[File:Louise-Brooks-Canary-Murder.jpeg|thumb|right|A publicity still of Gustav von Seyffertitz and Louise Brooks in The Canary Murder Case]]
* [[James Goss]], creator of the "[[Trey]]" incarnation of Romana played by [[Juliet Landau]] in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]] audio stories, has asserted that the Romana III of the novels is not the same as Trey.  Goss refers to Romana III as one among "other future Romanadvoratrelundars". ([[VOR 56]]) His incarnation has been shown to definitively be the third, but it has been left unclear whether she will exist anymore. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines]]'')
* As is apparent from the above, various writers from across different mediums have attempted to introduce the third incarnation of Romana. While some writers have attempted to distinguish these often contradictory depictions, others have further conflated them.
** The first depiction of Romana III, as seen in [[Paul Cornell]]’s {{cs|The Shadows of Avalon (novel)}}  was based on that of [[American]] silent film actress [[Louise Brooks]].  
** [[James Goss]], who penned [[Juliet Landau]]’s first story portraying “Trey” for [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]] initially contrasted her with “other future Romanadvoratrelundars” such as the “brilliantly glacial flapper”, Romana III, despite the physical resemblance Landau had to the original depiction of the character. ([[VOR 56]])  
** Later on, however, [[Steve Gallagher]] would introduce his own depiction of Romana III, who serves on the outskirts of some sort of [[Time War]] in {{cs|The Little Book of Fate (short story)}}. While a short story with no illustrations, the description of this incarnation specifically portrays her as wearing a combination of two outfits worn by Landau during the photoshoot for her portrayal of the character: a scarf knotted at her throat, a waistcoat, and a black beret. When asked about the similarity on Twitter, Gallagher responded that it “[w]ould work rather well, wouldn’t it?”"<ref>[https://twitter.com/brooligan/status/1687940932094603265?s=20 Steve Gallagher on Twitter]</ref>


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By all accounts, Romanadvoratrelundar’s third incarnation was the one who followed Romana II’s regeneration.

Where accounts differ, however, are the particulars surrounding this regeneration. By most accounts, the third Romana served as President of the High Council during an all-encompassing time war between Gallifrey and another major temporal power. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)"]; AUDIO: Luna Romana [+]Loading...["Luna Romana (audio story)"]) Other accounts, however, suggest that Romana had eschewed the Presidency during this incarnation and served the universe in other ways. (STAGE: Time Fracture [+]Loading...["Time Fracture (stage play)"]; PROSE: The Little Book of Fate [+]Loading...["The Little Book of Fate (short story)"])

War Queen of the Nine Gallifreys[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Romana III (The Shadows of Avalon)

According to one account, during the first decades of her Presidency, Romana II regenerated into a snub-nosed woman with green eyes and dark hair, styled into a fringe, who apparently resembled the Doctor's mother. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)"])

By this account, Romana would lead Gallifrey as it approached an all-encompassing temporal conflict with the Enemy known as the War in Heaven. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"], et al.) However, after Faction Paradox invaded Gallifrey, the War was averted and Gallifrey was destroyed. This resulted in a new form of reality where history was “fundamentally altered” and both Gallifrey and the Time Lords were wiped from the timeline. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"], The Adventuress of Henrietta Street [+]Loading...["The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)"])

In her official capacity as Lady President of the High Council of Gallifrey, she would go by titles such as the War Queen and Mistress of the Nine Gallifreys. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)"], The Ancestor Cell [+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"])

Leading Gallifrey though its "darkest hour"[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Trey
The Matrix projection of Romana II's potential successor, dubbed "Trey", alongside Romana II herself. (AUDIO: Luna Romana)

In an aborted timeline, however, Romana II regenerated into a young woman with blue eyes and long dark hair styled into a fringe. This regeneration came about as a means of preventing the host ship Moros from becoming a black hole and destroying Gallifrey. (AUDIO: Enemy Lines [+]Loading...["Enemy Lines (audio story)"])

By this account, Romana would lead Gallifrey through its “darkest hour” (AUDIO: Luna Romana [+]Loading...["Luna Romana (audio story)"] as it engaged in a large-scale temporal conflict with Omega and his adherents. (PROSE: Enemy Lines [+]Loading...["Enemy Lines (audio story)"]) This Time War would escalate to the point wherein Romana, Narvin, and Ace were found guilty of high treason. However, after Romana sent her friend Irving Braxiatel back in time to avert her regeneration, the War was averted. This resulted in a new timeline wherein she resigns from the Presidency and is succeeded by Livia and is unsure if she would eventually regenerate into the same third incarnation or not. (AUDIO: Enemy Lines [+]Loading...["Enemy Lines (audio story)"])

This resulted in a new form of reality where history was “fundamentally altered” and both Gallifrey and the Time Lords were wiped from the timeline. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"], The Adventuress of Henrietta Street [+]Loading...["The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)"])

When a projection of this incarnation appeared through the Matrix to aid her predecessor, she went by the title of Trey. (AUDIO: Renaissance [+]Loading...["Renaissance (audio story)"], Ascension [+]Loading...["Ascension (Gallifrey audio story)"])

The Fortune Teller[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Romana (The Little Book of Fate)

By one account, at some point during a “forever war spreading through all of time and space”, Romana II regenerated into a woman with a young face but “the quiet self-possession of one much older”, who styled herself wearing a black beret and a waistcoat, with a scarf knotted at her throat.

This incarnation worked with Laszlo and other Tharils to rescue refugees from the all-encompassing temporal conflict. This temporal refugee camp was disguised as a traveling carnival, in which she posed as a fortune teller. (PROSE: The Little Book of Fate [+]Loading...["The Little Book of Fate (short story)"])

The Lord Cardinal[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Romana (Time Fracture)
Lord Cardinal Romana during the events of Operation Time Fracture (PROSE: Lord Romanadvoratrelundar)

Within the confines of a temporal anomaly known as the Time Fracture, time began to repeat itself. At some point during this time loop, Romana, who was now a Lord Cardinal, regenerated into an incarnation with blue eyes and short, blonde hair.

While UNIT had speculated that this incarnation of Romana would make for a powerful ally should she survive Gallifrey’s destruction, a flood of artron energy closed the Time Fracture and prevented it from ever having been opened. (PROSE: Lord Romanadvoratrelundar [+]Loading...["Lord Romanadvoratrelundar (feature)"]; STAGE: Time Fracture [+]Loading...["Time Fracture (stage play)"])

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

A promotional photograph of Juliet Landau taken for the use on cover artwork for Big Finish Productions
A publicity still of Gustav von Seyffertitz and Louise Brooks in The Canary Murder Case
  • As is apparent from the above, various writers from across different mediums have attempted to introduce the third incarnation of Romana. While some writers have attempted to distinguish these often contradictory depictions, others have further conflated them.
    • The first depiction of Romana III, as seen in Paul Cornell’s The Shadows of Avalon [+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)"] was based on that of American silent film actress Louise Brooks.
    • James Goss, who penned Juliet Landau’s first story portraying “Trey” for Big Finish initially contrasted her with “other future Romanadvoratrelundars” such as the “brilliantly glacial flapper”, Romana III, despite the physical resemblance Landau had to the original depiction of the character. (VOR 56)
    • Later on, however, Steve Gallagher would introduce his own depiction of Romana III, who serves on the outskirts of some sort of Time War in The Little Book of Fate [+]Loading...["The Little Book of Fate (short story)"]. While a short story with no illustrations, the description of this incarnation specifically portrays her as wearing a combination of two outfits worn by Landau during the photoshoot for her portrayal of the character: a scarf knotted at her throat, a waistcoat, and a black beret. When asked about the similarity on Twitter, Gallagher responded that it “[w]ould work rather well, wouldn’t it?”"[1]
  1. ↑ Steve Gallagher on Twitter
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