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| {{Cleanup|While both Romanas from [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'' and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Renaissance (audio story)|Renaissance]]'' are the third incarnations, they are no more the ''same'' third incarnation as the [[Ninth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|Ninth Doctor]] from [[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|The Curse of Fatal Death]]'' and the [[Ninth Doctor]] from [[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'' are the same ninth incarnations. Furthermore, there is authorial intent that they are not the same incarnation.<br>Therefore, they ought to be split.}}
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| {{Infobox Individual
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| |image = Trey Intervention.jpg
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| |alias = Trey
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| |species = Time Lord
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| |job = Lord President
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| |affiliation = High Council
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| |origin = [[Gallifrey]]
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| |first = The Shadows of Avalon (novel)
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| |appearances = [[Romana III - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']]
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| |voice actor = Juliet Landau
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| }}
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| {{romanas}} | | {{romanas}} |
| [[Romanadvoratrelundar]]'s '''third incarnation''' was, like [[Romana II|her predecessor]], also [[Lord President|President]] of [[Romana III's Gallifrey|Gallifrey]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines]]'') She led Gallifrey through its darkest hour. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Luna Romana (audio story)|Luna Romana]]'') | | [[Romanadvoratrelundar]]'s '''third incarnation''' was a matter of contention. However, both of the purported successors to [[Romana II]] continued to serve as [[President of the High Council]] and ended up going to lengths that some deemed immoral as they led Gallifrey through devastating wars. |
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| == Biography ==
| | As she returned to her native [[Gallifrey]] after her adventures in [[the Axis]], [[Romana II]] met a [[Matrix projection]] of her next incarnation, a black-haired woman with prominent cheekbones, who adopted the nickname of "[[Trey]]" to avoid confusion. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Renaissance (audio story)|Renaissance]]'') In her own era, she led Gallifrey through a series of cataclysmic events that started with the return of [[Omega]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Intervention Earth (audio story)|Intervention Earth]]'') and continued with a devastating war ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Luna Romana (audio story)|Luna Romana]]'', ''[[Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines]]'') that eventually left Romana III as the [[Last of the Time Lords|last of her kind]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Renaissance (audio story)|Renaissance]]'') However, [[Irving Braxiatel]] eventually altered the timelines, averting Romana II's regeneration into this incarnation so as to also avoid the war. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines]]'') |
| === A day to come ===
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| After [[Romana II]] returned from the [[Axis]], she was aided by a [[the Matrix|Matrix]] projection of Romana III. This projection called herself "Trey" to distinguish herself from her predecessor.
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| Trey stopped [[Leela]] and [[Narvin]] from returning properly by trapping them in a [[Time loop|Chronic Hysteresis]]. She then showed her younger self the results of the [[Pandora]] devastation. By offering her [[Capitol]] to her previous incarnation, Trey saved her thousands of years in rebuilding the planet. She had Romana exiled for the death of [[Kolspen]] of [[Unvoss]]. This occurred in the Matrix. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Renaissance (audio story)|Renaissance]]'')
| | As shown in another set of accounts, with the [[War in Heaven]] looming on the horizon, Romana voluntarily regenerated into an incarnation more suited to war, who adopted the title of "[[War Queen]] of the [[Nine Gallifreys]]", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'') copying the appearance of [[Miranda Pelham]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tomb of Valdemar (novel)|Tomb of Valdemar]]'') As the War Queen, Romana thus appeared as a slim, but imposing woman 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 [[pearl]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'') This incarnation lived into old age, dying her hair a chestnut colour and becoming riddled with arthritis. Surviving in the [[post-War universe]], she eventually regenerated into a [[Romana IV|fourth incarnation]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tomb of Valdemar (novel)|Tomb of Valdemar]]'') |
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| When Romana disappeared, she went with Narvin and Leela to the Archives, where they met [[Tallan]]. She helped Narvin and Leela escape the Matrix before it collapsed. Trey later aided her second incarnation, after she left the Matrix, to defeat the [[Dalek]]s, who were invading [[Gallifrey]] from the Matrix. She created a plan to have the Daleks return to the Matrix and trap them there, thus stopping them from invading Gallifrey itself. After their return, she stopped the invasion force from leaving the Matrix by closing its doors from the inside. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ascension (audio story)|Ascension]]'')
| | == Behind the scenes == |
| | | Writers involved in the [[War in Heaven|future War]] arc 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 [[the Doctor's mother|his mother]]". |
| This Matrix projection of Romana III claimed to be the last of [[Time Lord|her people]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Renaissance (audio story)|Renaissance]]'')
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| === Gallifrey's darkest hour ===
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| During her final term in office, Romana III had to deal with an anomaly 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]]'')
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| After Omega returned, a war devastated Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines]]'') As Gallifrey faced its "darkest hour", Romana began to clear sections of the planet 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]]'')
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| === War Queen of the Nine Gallifreys ===
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| A potentially separate third incarnation of Romana became [[War Queen]] and [[Lady President|President]] of the [[Nine Gallifreys]] in preparation for [[War in Heaven|the upcoming war]]. She had a harder personality than [[Romana II]] and was less friendly towards the [[Eighth Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'') [[Mother (The Story So Far...)|Mother]] and [[Father (The Story So Far...)|Father]] saw that the [[Romana III's Gallifrey|War Queen's Homeworld]] was only a sheath echo believing itself to be the original. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Story So Far... (short story)|The Story So Far...]]'')
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| She dispatched [[Cavis]] and [[Gandar]] to [[Avalon]] and eventually turned up herself to take possession of [[Compassion]] after Compassion transformed into a [[TARDIS]]. Romana believed Compassion could give the Time Lords 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]]'')
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| As [[War in Heaven|the War]] approached, the Edifice appeared in the skies of [[Romana III's Gallifrey]]. The structure created temporal pulses that began washing over the planet, causing civil disorder and mass superstition. In her 150th year as President, she was challenged by former President [[Greyjan the Sane|Greyjan]] in a [[Faction Paradox]] scheme 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 their Nine Gallifreys from history. Romana wept, knowing that her planet was doomed, and she sent [[K-9 Mark II|K-9]] into [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] to kill the Doctor and prevent his future self from destroying Gallifrey.
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| Soon after, Faction Paradox [[skulltrooper]]s closed in on Romana and Mali and fired two shots. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')
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| === Death and regeneration ===
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| Romana III survived and lived to be an old woman. She visited [[Ponch]] on a [[planet]] orbiting the last [[sun]] before the universe's [[heat death]], where he lived among the last [[human]]s. She described it as a [[post-War universe|"godless age"]]. She hadn't seen the Doctor in centuries, and she didn't know where he was. | |
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| Romana disguised her [[TARDIS]] as the inn [[Janua Foris]] so she could tell Ponch about his past life as [[Huvan]] during her earlier incarnation's encounter with [[Valdemar]]. She used a [[psychic]] attack to convince [[Ofrin]] to let her keep telling the story, though she died in the snow before she could finish. Later, Ponch found her in her TARDIS in a [[Romana IV|younger body]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tomb of Valdemar (novel)|Tomb of Valdemar]]'')
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| === Rewriting of the timeline ===
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| [[Irving Braxiatel]] went back in time and stopped Romana II from [[regeneration|regenerating]], saying that Romana III had sent him to change her past to avert the conflict that devastated Gallifrey. Romana II then stepped down from the Presidency to ensure that that future would not take hold. In the wake of Braxiatel's intervention, Romana II was uncertain whether she would eventually regenerate into the same third incarnation or not. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines]]'') | |
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| When Romana decided to run again for the Presidency during the first months of the [[Last Great Time War]], she promised to promptly regenerate if she received the public vote, as she was barred by law from serving another term in that incarnation. However, she was instead defeated by [[Valerian (Celestial Intervention)|Valerian]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Desperate Measures (audio story)|Desperate Measures]]'')
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| == Personality ==
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| As a projection, she appeared to have a sunny and perky disposition, and was prone to wanting to give people hugs. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Renaissance (audio story)|Renaissance]]'') Despite this, she could be manipulative and ruthless, justifying her actions as doing the best for her people, and acting as a servant of history. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Renaissance (audio story)|Renaissance]]'', ''[[Intervention Earth (audio story)|Intervention Earth]]'') She was wistful about [[Romana I|her first incarnation]]'s naivety, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Luna Romana (audio story)|Luna Romana]]'') and a part of her was guilt about her actions, musing whether corruption was the curse of the Presidency. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'')
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| == Appearance ==
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| 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 [[pearl]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'')
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| Romana told [[Ponch]] that she had copied her appearance from [[Miranda Pelham]], noting that she'd done it before and would probably do it again and that Miranda was "such a lovely-looking woman". Ponch ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tomb of Valdemar (novel)|Tomb of Valdemar]]'') and [[Cuthbert Simpson]] both regarded Romana as "beautiful"; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Banquo Legacy (novel)|The Banquo Legacy]]'') the [[Eighth Doctor]] noted that she looked like [[the Doctor's mother|his mother]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'')
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| In the last days before her death, this incarnation still had fierce eyes and thick chestnut hair, but her skin was pale white and covered with dark creases, and her movements were hindered by [[arthritis|arthritic pain]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tomb of Valdemar (novel)|Tomb of Valdemar]]'')
| | [[James Goss]] created [[Juliet Landau]]'s "Trey" incarnation of Romana for the [[Big Finish]] audio stories. It was unclear which incarnation of Romana she was, and Goss initially contrasted her with "other future Romanadvoratrelundars" such as the "brilliantly glacial flapper", Romana III, who first appeared in [[Paul Cornell]]'s ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]''. ([[VOR 56]]) However, Lady Trey was later definitively shown to be the third Romana in ''[[Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines]]''. |
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| * Writers involved in the [[War in Heaven|future War]] arc 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 [[the Doctor's mother|his mother]].
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| * [[James Goss]] created [[Juliet Landau]]'s "Trey" incarnation of Romana for the [[Big Finish]] audio stories. It was unclear which incarnation of Romana she was, and Goss initially contrasted her with "other future Romanadvoratrelundars" such as the "brilliantly glacial flapper", Romana III, who first appeared in [[Paul Cornell]]'s ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]''. ([[VOR 56]]) However, Lady Trey was later definitively shown to be the third Romana in ''[[Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines]]''.
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| * Romana is the second Time Lord, after {{Roberts}} as played by [[Eric Roberts]], to be portrayed by an American actor. Unlike Roberts, Juliet Landau plays her role with an English accent.
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Romanadvoratrelundar's third incarnation was a matter of contention. However, both of the purported successors to Romana II continued to serve as President of the High Council and ended up going to lengths that some deemed immoral as they led Gallifrey through devastating wars.
As she returned to her native Gallifrey after her adventures in the Axis, Romana II met a Matrix projection of her next incarnation, a black-haired woman with prominent cheekbones, who adopted the nickname of "Trey" to avoid confusion. (AUDIO: Renaissance) In her own era, she led Gallifrey through a series of cataclysmic events that started with the return of Omega (AUDIO: Intervention Earth) and continued with a devastating war (AUDIO: Luna Romana, Enemy Lines) that eventually left Romana III as the last of her kind. (AUDIO: Renaissance) However, Irving Braxiatel eventually altered the timelines, averting Romana II's regeneration into this incarnation so as to also avoid the war. (AUDIO: Enemy Lines)
As shown in another set of accounts, with the War in Heaven looming on the horizon, Romana voluntarily regenerated into an incarnation more suited to war, who adopted the title of "War Queen of the Nine Gallifreys", (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon) copying the appearance of Miranda Pelham. (PROSE: Tomb of Valdemar) As the War Queen, Romana thus appeared as a slim, but imposing woman with black hair and a snub nose. (PROSE: 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) This incarnation lived into old age, dying her hair a chestnut colour and becoming riddled with arthritis. Surviving in the post-War universe, she eventually regenerated into a fourth incarnation. (PROSE: Tomb of Valdemar)
Behind the scenes
Writers involved in the future War arc of Eighth Doctor Adventures novels based Romana III's described appearance on that of the American silent film actress Louise Brooks, although upon meeting this incarnation for the first time the Eighth Doctor noted that she now looked "worryingly like his mother".
James Goss created Juliet Landau's "Trey" incarnation of Romana for the Big Finish audio stories. It was unclear which incarnation of Romana she was, and Goss initially contrasted her with "other future Romanadvoratrelundars" such as the "brilliantly glacial flapper", Romana III, who first appeared in Paul Cornell's The Shadows of Avalon. (VOR 56) However, Lady Trey was later definitively shown to be the third Romana in Enemy Lines.
