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| | '''The Stranger''' was a [[Time Lord]] who sat by [[Mount Perdition]], outside the [[Capitol]], trying to turn [[Time]]'s [[tributary]] into a [[stream]]. He knew of Lady [[Patience (The Tides of Time)|Patience]] and her wish to bear a child, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Patience (audio story)|Patience]]'') in spite of [[Pythia's Curse]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'') which enforced [[sterility]]. |
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| |alias = The Stranger, [[the Doctor]]
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| |species = Time Lord
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| |origin = [[Gallifrey]]
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| |affiliation = Founders of Gallifrey
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| |first = Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)
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| |appearances = [[The Other - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']] | |
| |voice actor = Sylvester McCoy
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| '''The Other''' was one of [[Founders of Gallifrey|the original founders of Time Lord society]], along with [[Rassilon]] and [[Omega]]. The origin of the Other remained a mystery for later [[Time Lord]]s. | |
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| The Other had a mysterious connection to the Time Lord known as [[the Doctor]]. According to some accounts, the Other was [[Reincarnation|reincarnated]] via the [[Loom|Loom]] of the [[House of Lungbarrow]] to become the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') The [[Eleventh Doctor]] briefly used "the Other" as an alias when confronting a younger Rassilon on ancient Gallifrey, having travelled back in time to aid in the start of Time Lord civilisation. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'') There were even accounts suggesting that the [[First Doctor]] was simply an aged version of the Other, and left [[Gallifrey]] fully cognizant of his enormous age and part in the founding of Time Lord society, though Gallifreyan society had forgotten him over the centuries as he faded into obscurity. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'')
| | Lady Patience sought the help of many experts across the [[Capitol]], but none were able to help her. Only the Stranger had the answer. When she visited, he offered her an empty sack, instructing her to fill it with [[water]] from the [[Sea of Life]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Patience (audio story)|Patience]]'') |
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| == Biography ==
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| === Origins ===
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| ==== Ancient being ====
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| While inside the Doctor's mind, [[Emily Hutchings]] experienced a flash of memories from something ancient and powerful which had died during a war in the [[Dark Times]]. While being "too much to die fully", it was also "too much to remember", with the only clear memory being its cry of defiance as red blood burst from it as it was destroyed. The Other lived on in an unknown state for a very long time afterwards, witnessing the rise and fall of many planetary civilizations, until it lost its memories the moment it was born from the [[womb]] of [[the Doctor's mother]] and became the [[First Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)| Revelation]]'')
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| The [[Vampire Wars]] were a notable Dark Times conflict, during which powerful beings such as the [[Great Vampire]] were killed. Riddles and marginalia in the [[ROO text]]s, which contained information on the Other, indicated that during Rassilon's recorded meeting with the Great Vampire something was secretly stolen from the Great Vampire. [[Ruath]] believed that Rassilon stole genetic material which was used to give the [[Gallifreyan]]s [[regeneration]], explaining why Time Lords shared 98% of the same genes as Vampires, but the Doctor believed that this was a half-truth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Goth Opera (novel)|Goth Opera]]'')
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| The Other once mentioned to Rassilon that their relationship, through which the Other gave Rassilon the power to create Time Lord civilization, was not a strict blood-bargain or pact but instead something on the approval of the being which had sent the Other to Rassilon.
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| Civilizations other than the Time Lords had origin myths with figures recognizable as forms of the Other, as seen with the [[Tharil]]s. Furthermore, the Tharil account of the [[Black Guardian|Black]] and [[White Guardian]]s forming the universe portrayed the [[Red Guardian]] as Otherly, raising the possibility that the Time Lord Other was a manifestation of that same cosmic being. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'')
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| ==== The son of Leela and Andred ====
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| When the [[Seventh Doctor]], nearing the end of his life, learned that [[Leela]] was pregnant with [[Andred (The Invasion of Time)|Andred]]'s [[Leela and Andred's first child|child]], he looked into her eyes for a long moment, "as if recognising something there". He remarked, "A father from Gallifrey and a mother of Earth stock. That's an unusual pedigree." When Leela apologised for not bringing a parting gift, the Doctor said, "Just call him after me." Leela looked startled, then nodded. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') Soon after his regeneration, the [[Eighth Doctor]] told [[Grace Holloway]], "I'm half human, on my mother's side." ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
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| ==== "The Old Man and the Police Box" ====
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| After the Doctor turned himself into a human, [[John Smith (Seventh Doctor)|John Smith]], strange repressed memories surfaced, inspiring him to write a children's story, ''[[The Old Man and the Police Box]]''. It followed the adventure of a silver-haired inventor from England during the reign of Queen [[Victoria]]. The Old Man invented the first [[police box]], initially to help police, but then upgraded it to become dimensionally transcendental and able to travel through time and space.
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| Being lonely, the Old Man set off in [[TARDIS|his police box]] to explore the universe. He discovered a [[jungle planet]] called [[Gallifrey]], and taught the [[Gallifreyan|natives]] science and technology, elevating them to a mighty civilisation rooted in British ideals of law and peace. When the Gallifreyans became boring, the Old Man invented [[regeneration|a way for them to begin life anew]], and implanted them with [[binary vascular system|a second heart]] in the hope that it "would make them happier"; however, these measures only served to make them live longer, not more interestingly.
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| Eventually, the Old Man grew so bored that he [[First Doctor#Leaving Gallifrey|stole a time machine and returned to Earth]], breaking one of the very laws he had created. He knew the Gallifreyans would pursue him, but he had decided that "being free was better than being in charge." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'')
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| ==== A stranger from the future ====
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| One account stated that a Time Lord calling himself the Stranger originated from a time long after [[Rassilon]]'s life. Though Rassilon feared that the Stranger was planning to erase his people from history in revenge for being shunned, the Stranger was intent on guiding Time Lord civilisation away from tyranny. He travelled back in time to seven days after Rassilon had returned from the [[Eternal War]] and took power. With a pass signed by Rassilon himself, the Stranger gained access to the restricted areas of the [[Citadel]] and for the next few months offered advice to Rassilon without providing any detailed information. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scrolls of Rassilon (short story)|The Scrolls of Rassilon]]'')
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| The [[Eleventh Doctor]] briefly referred to himself as "the Other" during his intervention into the creation of the [[Type 1]] [[TARDIS]]. Rassilon noted that he was acting just like the "chrono-scrollwriters of old" by refusing to give his real name. During his prolonged, [[time lock]]-defying stay on Ancient Gallifrey, the Eleventh Doctor also advised Rassilon in technological matters, with Rassilon admiring the man's unorthodox genius but remaining wary of him, noticing a familiarity within the Doctor. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'')
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| ==== Gallifreyan ====
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| According to some accounts, all three members of the [[Triumvirate]] were [[Gallifreyan]]s, and in life they were of equal standing; it was an accident of history that [[Rassilon]] and [[Omega]] became legends and household names while the role played by "the other" was forgotten over the millennia, his very name becoming obscure. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') In some of the instances in which he hinted as to his past as a contemporary of Rassilon and Omega, [[the Doctor]] seemed to be fully aware of his past reaching back before the [[First Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') with the [[Second Doctor]] being aware of having [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|regenerated in the past]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Power of the Daleks (novelisation)|The Power of the Daleks]]'')
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| Indeed, having defeated the [[Dalek]]s on [[Skaro]] shortly after meeting [[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]], the First Doctor himself remarked that he had once been "a pioneer" amongst his own people, though he was now too old for such things. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'')
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| [[File:Morbius Doctors.JPG|thumb|right|According to some accounts, the faces which appeared in the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s [[mindbending]] duel with [[Morbius]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'') merely represented previous regenerations of the Doctor, who had been pioneers among their people. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'')]]
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| [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|The Doctor]] who married [[Patience (The Tides of Time)|Patience]] was a pioneer and leader of his time, even being one of the first Gallifreyans to enter the [[Time Vortex]] after it was discovered. He was very involved in shaping the future of Gallifrey in this early era and was hailed as a hero. Thousands of years later, the Time Lords still honoured this man but no longer knew his real name. When the [[Fifth Doctor]] accessed his memories from this period, he had a brief encounter with the Other, who hinted that the Doctor's life was an [[Eternal return|eternal recurrence]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (audio story)|Cold Fusion]]'')
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| === Shaping the history of Gallifrey ===
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| At some point, the Other encountered Rassilon, whom he offered various powers. The Other would later deny that their collaboration had been "a blood-bargain or a pact", as "I was merely sent on approval"; Rassilon replied, "On my approval, or yours?" ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'')
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| [[Time travel]], the living [[Chapterhouse]]s, the Looms, and peace on Gallifrey were all made possible by the Other. Millennia later, the [[House of Lungbarrow]] still remembered him from the time before it was a seedling, when it was "just an insubstantial idea" in the Other's mind. While Loom-born Time Lords had thirteen lives each, the Other at one point seemed incapable of regeneration, and told Rassilon that they were both "doomed relics of another age", with "one brief life apiece." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'')
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| A "stranger in the shadows" chastised Rassilon when he taunted the [[Pythia]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'')
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| The Other was the founder of the [[Intervention|Interventionists]]. Millennia later, [[Cavis]] mused that travel, extreme violence, and "Murder, sex and adventure in exotic frocks" were the zenith of what the Other had envisioned. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'')
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| Soon after the Pythia's curse and death of Rassilon's unborn child, the Other presented Rassilon with a gift, an onion, upon peeling away the layers of the onion Rassilon witnessed how the onion continued to get larger, the more layers were peeled away; thus the Other introduced Rassilon to the concept of Dimensional Transcendentalism. ([[PROSE]]: [[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]])
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| According to ''[[The Thousand and Second Night]]'', someone who was neither an "[[Time Lord|angel]]" nor a "[[Yssgaroth|djinn]]" advised "[[Rassilon|Allah]]" to hide the [[caldera]] inside [[Earth]]. [[Shift (Head of State)|The Shift]] later claimed to have been this person. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head of State (novel)|Head of State]]'', ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference]]'')
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| The Other was influential during the [[Dark Times]] on Gallifrey after the [[cult]] of Pythia had ended. He enjoyed spending time in a garden of pearl-grey roses atop the Omega Memorial, the tallest tower in the Citadel, and sometimes played chess with Rassilon there. The Other shared some sort of bond with the [[Hand of Omega]], which began to follow him after the death of its creator. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'')
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| When [[Omega]]'s plans to detonate the [[Q star]] were close to fruition, the Stranger explained his origins to Rassilon. The Stranger pleaded with Rassilon to make the Time Lords less powerful and less stuck in their ways, believing that in doing so the Time Lords of the future he came from would be open to new ideas. Rassilon refused to abandon his philosophies, intending for Gallifrey to become the powerful society that he had always planned.
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| The Stranger visited Rassilon's quarters angry about the release of the virus that gave the Gallifreyans the ability to [[regenerate]], as it wiped out a large proportion of the population upon its release.
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| Shortly before the detonation of the Q star, the Stranger materialised his TT capsule on Rassilon's ship, and once again pleaded with him to alter the course of established history. Finally understanding that Rassilon would not change his mind, the Stranger left in his ship. However, respecting the Stranger's audacity, Rassilon decided to ensure Gallifreyan society would never tolerate tyranny. It also led him to write the first [[Law of Time]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scrolls of Rassilon (short story)|The Scrolls of Rassilon]]'')
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| According to an account, years after Omega's death, the Other watched from the Omega Memorial as Rassilon's rule moved closer to despotism and Gallifrey's borders were sealed. Sickened and weary of the violence, and blaming himself for what was happening to Gallifrey, he intended to put an end to these games and fling himself back into the Universe, as a piece on the board rather than as a player. Knowing that Rassilon would try to use his family as a hostage to force him to remain, he bid goodbye to his granddaughter Susan, telling her to go to safety on the planet [[Tersurus]]. He then hurled himself into the [[Prime Distributor]] of the [[Loom]]s, his entire DNA and Genetic Code being torn apart and unravelled to await his eventual reconstitution millions of years later. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'')
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| === Re-Loomed ===
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| After the Other threw himself into the Prime Distributor, he was re-Loomed some ten million years later to the [[House of Lungbarrow]] as the Time Lord who became known as the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') That entire generation was affected by anomalies in the Looms, resulting in several other [[renegade Time Lord|renegades]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')
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| While at the [[Time Lord Academy]], the First Doctor had certain "other studies" which involved him being an acolyte to [[K'anpo Rimpoche|the hermit]]. In one ritual which he would not grasp or understand until centuries later, the Doctor made supplication to taboo powers and spoke a rhyme learned from the heart of his own being to a [[sarlain]]. This ritual was of immense significance, to the point of it seemingly forcing [[The Doctor and Susan's escape from Gallifrey|the Doctor and Susan to flee Gallifrey]], and the hermit later referred to the Doctor as "my child, my elder, and my contemporary", indicating that it may have somehow retroactively bound the Doctor with the Other. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)| Revelation]]'')
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| Before initially fleeing Gallifrey for the first time, the [[First Doctor]] was rescued by the [[Hand of Omega]], which had sensed him as the reincarnated Other. The Doctor, along with the Hand of Omega, boarded a stolen [[Type 40]] [[TARDIS]], which the Hand of Omega hacked, allowing for the Doctor to be transported millions of years into Gallifrey's past, something that Time Lord law forbade. While on Ancient Gallifrey the First Doctor encountered Susan, who recognised him as her Grandfather. While initially hesitant, the Doctor came to accept that he ''was'' Susan's grandfather. The Doctor rescued Susan from away from ancient Gallifrey, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') possibly briefly settling on modern Gallifrey before being apprehended by the President's Guards. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Longest Story in the World (short story)|The Longest Story in the World]]'')
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| It was a chance encounter with the [[Book of the Old Time]] that first pushed [[the Doctor's mind]] back to his role in his people's ancient past, leading him to think that before Regeneration there had been [[Reincarnation]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'') While in the [[Tomb of Rassilon]] with three of his future selves, the First Doctor instantly recognised "the voice of [[Rassilon]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')
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| During [[regeneration]]s, the Doctor was able to gain skills from the Other. The [[Third Doctor]] once theorised that his incarnation's newfound skill in [[martial arts]] was his body remembering abilities from a previous life. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Country of the Blind (short story)|Country of the Blind]]'') The Other had regularly communicated with a [[Tersuron]] servant, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') and [[Ninth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|an alternate Ninth Doctor]] was later able to speak perfect [[Tersuran]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|The Curse of Fatal Death]]'')
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| By the Doctor's [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnation]], he had apparently realised his earlier identity. Lady [[Peinforte]] threatened to reveal it, ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]'') and [[Cavis]] and [[Gandar]] hinted at it in their conversations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'')
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| When the [[Seventh Doctor]] [[Chameleon Arch|transformed himself]] into a [[human]] named [[John Smith (Seventh Doctor)|John Smith]], he removed almost all of his memories, but he was unable to remove the ones from before he was born. [[Verity (Human Nature)|"Verity"]] kept these memories out of John Smith's head. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'')
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| == Legacy ==
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| The First Doctor was taught in history lessons that Rassilon had banished the Other from Gallifrey, and that the Other had stolen the Hand of Omega when he left, never to return. A conflicting legend held that the Hand had pursued the Other across the stars of its own volition. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'')
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| Scholars later called documents concerning Rassilon, Omega and the Other the [[ROO text]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Goth Opera (novel)|Goth Opera]]'')
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| A minor Gallifreyan festival known as [[Otherstide]] was celebrated yearly in his honour. It coincided with the Doctor's ''naming day/Birthday''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (audio story)|Cold Fusion]]'')
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| Gallifreyans in the Doctor's time performed puppet shows commemorating the lives of the founders. The puppet version of the Other was faceless and wore a black cowl. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'')
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| Secret societies on Gallifrey were dedicated to the worship of [[Rassilon]], [[Omega]], and the Other. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Intervention Earth (audio story)|Intervention Earth]]'')
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| In a [[parallel universe]] where the [[Sixth Doctor]] led Gallifrey in [[War in Heaven|the War]], [[the Master]] commanded a [[time dreadnought]] named the ''[[Arcane Mystery of the Other]]''. When he defected to [[the enemy]], the ship was thought lost; in reality, it was being dissected in an enemy shipyard. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
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| Glospin believed that the Other's coming to House Lungbarrow was the reason the family were "all mad". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'')
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| {{Roberts|c}}, while posing as [[the Doctor]], claimed that Rassilon, as well as the "forefather of all Time Lords", had been his [[mentor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'')
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| The Time Lords had several curse words derived from the Other's name. These included the expletives "Othering" and "Otherlingly", which were used to add emphasis (e.g. "Othering nuisance", "Don't be so Otheringly flippant!"). ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') The [[Celestial Intervention Agency|Celestial Intervention]] agent [[Gandar]], referring to the [[Eighth Doctor]], said "Let's just kill the [[Otherf–]]" before being cut off. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| * The Other's first direct appearance was in [[Ben Aaronovitch]]'s [[Target Books]] ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', in a brief flashback to the time of Rassilon.
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| * [[Daryl Joyce]]'s half-hidden illustration of the Other's face on the cover of the ebook reissue of ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'' appears modeled on British actor {{w|Ken Campbell}}. Campbell was the mentor of [[Sylvester McCoy]], and actually auditioned for the part of the [[Seventh Doctor]] himself before McCoy was chosen over him, as Campbell's performance in his audition was deemed too eerie.
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| * The [[Cartmel Masterplan]] allegedly included a revelation that the Other was an incarnation of [[the Doctor]]. Following the show's cancellation in [[1989 (production)|1989]], these plans were continued in the [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] novel line. ([[DWM 341]]) However, the guidelines given to the Virgin writers stated that the Other was not the Doctor. ([[REF]]: ''[[A History of the Universe]]'') According to [[Ben Aaronovitch]] in [[DWM 147]], Platt, Cartmel and himself "all [had] similar, but slightly different, views of who [the Doctor] really is".
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| * In the afterword to the digital edition of ''Lungbarrow'', [[Marc Platt]] identified Guiseppi Verdi's opera ''Rigoletto'' as an influence on his portrayal of the Other's relationship with Susan: "This other grandfather keeps Susan hidden away, just as the Duke of Mantua's hunch-backed jester, who was party to all sorts of his master's debaucheries, hid his own innocent daughter from reality – with particularly blood-curdling results."
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| * Platt cast doubt on the Other's planet of origin, saying: "This shady figure, whoever he is, has obviously been on Gallifrey long enough to become a grandparent, although we don't know to which of Susan's parents he is the father. He may not even be Gallifreyan himself. Who knows?"
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| * Platt described the Other and his final confrontation with Rassilon in terms of British politics: "He is an ''eminence grise''; the power lurking behind the throne, like a skulking, limelight-shunning version of Alastair Campbell or Peter Mandelson, who manipulates the emergence of Gallifrey as one of the supreme seats of power in the Universe. But [[Tony Blair|Blair]] and Campbell/Mandelson are puny substitutes for Rassilon and the Other. Only [[Margaret Thatcher|Thatcher]] (all squawks and eyepatch), from whose evil Pythian empire a new world is being built, is worthy of comparison."
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| * Platt intended the Other's rose garden to recall the one in which the [[First Doctor]] is seen in both ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'' and ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', and said that it reappeared as [[The Doctor (Auld Mortality)|the Doctor]]'s imaginary rose garden in his ''[[Doctor Who Unbound|Unbound]]'' audio ''[[Auld Mortality]]''.
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| * According to [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scrolls of Rassilon (short story)|The Scrolls of Rassilon]]'', the Stranger had a detailed knowledge of [[Gallifreyan history]] and imparted some of that knowledge to [[Rassilon]]. The Stranger first became known to Rassilon in the weeks before [[Omega]] destroyed the [[star]] [[Qqaba]] to bring Gallifrey its power over time. The clear implication was that the Stranger was [[the Doctor]], gone back in time in an attempt to make Gallifrey more open-minded.
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| * In ''Lungbarrow'', the Other states that he came to Rassilon "on approval". Platt has elaborated that this meant Rassilon had "acquired" the Other "in some sort of pact with God knows what". ([[DWM 305]])
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| * Platt confirmed that he intended to imply that Leela and Andred's child would go on to become the Other, explaining the Doctor's half-human heritage in [[Doctor Who (TV story)|the 1996 TV film]]. ([[DWM 305]])
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| * In 2013, when asked how he would respond if presented with a theory that the Other was [[Nyarlathotep]], Andrew Cartmel said, "I would respond, "Who is Nyarlathotep?" while scratching my head."<ref>[https://twitter.com/andrewcartmel/status/402000070859440129 Cartmel answers about a possible link with the Other]</ref>
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| * When asked if [[Kopyion Liall a Mahajetsu]] from ''[[The Pit (novel)|The Pit]]'' was intended to be the Other, author [[Neil Penswick]] stated that he was not.<ref>[http://sorddin.com/broadsword-old/issue11/interview11i.html Broasword issue 11 interview] with [[Neil Penswick]]</ref>
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| * [[John Smith (Seventh Doctor)|John Smith]]'s account of the "Old Man" somewhat resembles the story of [[Dr. Who (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|Dr. Who]] from the [[Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)|Dalek movies]], the most significant difference being that Dr. Who, despite dressing in approximately Victorian garb, came from the 1960s. In the acknowledgements, [[Paul Cornell]] states that this section of ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'' was plotted by [[Steven Moffat]].
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| * In the scene corresponding to the point in ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'' where [[Second Tecteun|Tecteun's male incarnation]] stands alongside two other Time Lords in full high-collared regalia, the ''Timeless Children'' script release mentions that "we can assume [the other two] are [[Rassilon]] and [[Omega]]".<ref>[http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/doctor-who-s12-ep10-the-timeless-children.pdf ''The Timeless Children'' script]</ref> This would cast Tecteun as the "mysterious third founder", although according to ''The Timeless Children'' it is not Tecteun themself who has a mysterious connection with the Doctor but Tecteun's ward and experimental subject, the [[Timeless Child]].
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| == Footnotes ==
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