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In a [[universe]] other than that which [[the Doctor]] called home, a particularly incompetent version of '''[[the Master]]''' attempted to destroy the [[Ninth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|Ninth Doctor]] on the [[planet]] [[Tersurus]].
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'''The Master''' — originally called '''Koschei''' and known by [[Aliases of the Master|many other temporary aliases]] — was a [[renegade Time Lord]] and [[the Doctor]]'s arch-nemesis.
 
Although they were originally boyhood friends, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'', ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'') one of the Master's primary goals was to destroy the Doctor and [[Earth]] while acting on a number of schemes, both petty and gross. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'', ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
 
The Master was referred to as a "jackanapes" and an "unimaginative plodder" by the [[Third Doctor]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]''), the "quintessence of evil" by the [[Fourth Doctor]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]''), "one of the most evil and corrupt beings [the] [[Time Lord]] race [had] ever produced" and that his "crimes [were] without number and [his] villainy without end" by High Council President [[Borusa]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]''), "pure evil" by the [[Eighth Doctor]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]''), "stone-cold brilliant" by the [[Tenth Doctor]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'' / ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''), and "the Time Lords' most infamous child" by Time Lord founder [[Rassilon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
 
It was eventually discovered that the Master's diabolical madness was partially the result of a genuine malady in the form of [[The Drumming|a never-ending drumming sound]] that had been retroactively implanted inside his head by the Time Lords on the last day of the [[Last Great Time War]] to further their own goals. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
While spying on the Doctor, the Master inadvertently enabled two way communication and unwittingly revealed his plans to eliminate the Doctor. After the two had arranged to meet on Tersurus, it became apparent the Master had travelled back in time to bribe a [[Tersuron]] architect to install traps in the castle they were now in. Unbeknownst to him, the Doctor had also done the same, bribing the architect with food to change the traps' details. This led to the Master floundering around the sewers of Tersurus for centuries, after which he was forced to ally himself with the [[Dalek]]s and then used his very own [[TARDIS]] to travel back to the point just after he fell. Then he threatened the doctor once again with the daleks, as the Daleks were the only life-forms without noses and hence the only creatures willing to work with him.
The Master was originally known as Koschei when he grew up on [[Gallifrey]] in the [[House of Oakdown]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') The Master and the Doctor shared the same heritage and upbringing. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[UNIT: Dominion (audio story)|UNIT: Dominion]]'')
 
Despite his childhood being more a life of duty, ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') he had a friendship with the [[First Doctor]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'') The two youths would play in the fields near Koschei's home which was his father's estates, with pastures of red grass near [[Mount Perdition]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') They used to sneak out of the [[Capitol]] and drink with the [[Shobogan]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') On one of these outings, Koschei picked a fight with six drunken Shobogans. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce]]'')
 
[[File:YoungMasterTSOD.jpg|thumb|left|Koschei looks into the [[Untempered Schism]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')]]
Like all Time Lords, Koschei was taken for his initiation at the age of eight. During the ceremony in which he gazed into the [[Time Vortex]] through the [[Untempered Schism]], Koschei went mad. This 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]]'') Unknown to Koschei, the drumming had been implanted retroactively into his mind by [[Rassilon]] as a link to later free the Time Lords from the [[time-lock]] imposed upon them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
 
During their childhood, Koschei and the Doctor had been mercilessly and viciously bullied by a boy called [[Torvic]]; the young Doctor was eventually forced to kill the bully to save his friend's life. He was later confronted by the personification of [[Death]], who insisted he become her disciple. The Doctor refused and suggested Death make Koschei her champion, to which she agreed. The Doctor had ever since felt partly responsible for Koschei. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'')
 
At the [[Time Lord Academy|Academy]], Koschei joined a clique of young [[Time Lord]]s called [[the Deca]]. The Doctor and other future rivals [[The Rani|Ushas]] and [[The War Chief|Magnus]] also belonged to the Deca. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') The Doctor and Koschei were also part of the Gallifrey Academy Hot Five, in which Koschei played the drums. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deadly Reunion (novel)|Deadly Reunion]]'') Koschei would also hypnotise people, likely as a joke, but anyone he did hypnotise the Doctor could un-hypnotise. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'')
 
Whilst at the Academy, the Doctor and Koschei travelled into Gallifrey's past in search of [[Valdemar]]. They found nothing of the Old Ones except for warnings. Koschei was fascinated by the power that Valdemar represented while the Doctor was horrified. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tomb of Valdemar (novel)|Tomb of Valdemar]]'')
 
During a period of civil unrest on Gallifrey, Koschei 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. Yet in trying to convert the Doctor, the students were overheard. Bloody reprisals against the students followed. The Doctor and Larn escaped from Gallifrey after this. Believing the students ready for the second coup, Koschei 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]]'')
 
=== Dealings with the Second Doctor ===
 
After the First Doctor fled Gallifrey in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his stolen TARDIS]], Koschei left Gallifrey as well, surprised to find no one chasing him. However, his unstable obsession with order prompted the Time Lords to plant the Time Lady [[Ailla]] as a spy to monitor his actions. She posed as a [[human]] so Koschei would take her on as his companion during a stopover in the [[28th century]].
 
Koschei caught up with the [[Second Doctor]] at the [[Darkheart]] colony in the early years of the [[Galactic Federation]]. The temptation posed by the Darkheart device proved too much for Koschei, and the revelation that Ailla was a spy killed the last traces of good in him, and he became the Master. After the Doctor trapped him in a [[black hole]], the Master swore that he would take revenge. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'') The Doctor would later say that he and the Master had everything in common, but the Master enjoyed being scared of the dark a little too much, and it swallowed him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Menagerie]]'')
 
The Master put his TARDIS in orbit of the homeworld of the [[Archon]]s and made a deal with them that would result in the Archons acquiring a TARDIS of their own, namely [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the Doctor's]]. Posing as a Professor Thascalos, the Master gave the [[Necronomicon]] to the Doctor's [[companion]] [[Jamie McCrimmon]], so that Jamie he would give the book to the Doctor and lure the TARDIS to the Archon homeworld. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nameless City (short story)|The Nameless City]]'')
 
The Master penetrated Gallifrey, and gained access to [[the Matrix]] via a console in the old [[Capitol]]. This gave him a back door into the Matrix, which he used to collect classified information for his many devious schemes. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
 
=== Nemesis of the Third Doctor ===
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{{sidebar|title=It's all about Delgado|[[File:DelgadoLooksLeftCOA.jpg|thumb|Turns out, the Master is ''mostly'' this guy — at least according to ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]''.|250px|center]]
If you concentrate only on televised ''Doctor Who'', you'll probably be confused by the history of the Master presented here.  A key concept of the character comes from the novel, ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'', which explains that [[the Doctor]]'s granddaughter [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] turned the [[TCE]] on the Delgado Master in [[the Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] — and it fried him. Extra crispy.  All ready for his adventure in ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]''. So [[Peter Pratt]] is actually playing the ravaged form of Delgado.  And really [[Anthony Ainley]] is playing the combination of Delgado with [[Tremas]]. But then in most [[Big Finish]] audios comes a Master who's had the Tremas side of him removed in ''[[Dust Breeding (audio story)|Dust Breeding]]''. That means that the Delgado Master is back on Big Finish — but played by [[Geoffrey Beevers|Geoffrey Beevers, who played him in ''The Keeper of Traken'']].}}
Before the [[Third Doctor]] was made aware by the Time Lords of his presence, the Master had in fact been on [[Earth]] for some time.
 
When the Doctor was exiled to Earth, the Master was imprisoned on [[Shada (prison)|Shada]] by the Time Lords. However, the Time Lords decided to keep the Doctor busy whilst he was trapped on Earth by releasing the Master. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prisoners of the Sun]]'')
 
The Master was present at the first [[Auton]] [[Black Thursday|invasion of Earth]]. He had apparently seen or heard about [[Channing]]'s attempt to capture the Third Doctor. He contacted journalist [[James Stevens]] by phone, whose article he had read in the ''[[Daily Chronicle]]'', and told him about the near-kidnapping.
 
He later called Stevens again, during the [[Silurian]] attacks on [[Wenley Moor]]. He informed Stevens that [[Edward Masters|Frederick Masters]] had been the first to die from the plague sweeping London.
[[File:Reconnaissance.jpg|thumb|left|The Master interrogates [[Liz Shaw]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Reconnaissance (short story)|Reconnaissance]]'')]]
Shortly after the [[Inferno Project]] incident, the Master once more contacted James Stevens, this time to check up on his work on his [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] article. He promptly hung up when Stevens mentioned [[C19]] and [[Glasshouse]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy]]'')
 
He first infiltrated [[UNIT HQ|the headquarters]] of UNIT while [[the Brigadier]] and the Doctor had gone to meet with government officials. He [[hypnotised]] the Doctor's assistant [[Liz Shaw]] and, through her, learned of recent events, including the recent failed [[Nestene]] invasion and the awakening of the [[Silurian]]s. This inspired him to ally himself with them and to locate any more Silurian colonies. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Reconnaissance (short story)|Reconnaissance]]'')
[[File:DelgadoSuaveTOTA.jpg|thumb|left|The Master brings his suave villany to [[Earth]]. (''[[TV]]'': ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'')]]
The Master invented the [[Keller Machine]], and spent many months establishing his and its credentials. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil]]'')
 
The Master appeared at a circus, [[the Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] in the form of a circus trailer or horse box. He [[hypnosis|hypnotised]] the circus troupe to obey his orders as part of his plan to assist the [[Nestene]]s in their latest bid to conquer Earth. A [[Time Lord Messenger (Terror of the Autons)|Time Lord emissary]] alerted the Doctor to his rival's presence on the planet. After the failure of his plan, the Master fled. The Doctor had already taken his [[dematerialisation circuit]], however, preventing the Master from leaving Earth in his TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'')
 
[[File:DelgadoSmokesMOE.jpg|thumb|The Master schemes up some [[Cold War]] mayhem. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil]]'')]]
The Master returned again, posing as the scientist who had "developed" the Keller Machine (in reality a living alien entity). He used prisoners as a plan to hijack a missile containing [[nerve gas]] and use it to cause a conflict that would trigger a [[nuclear war]]. The Doctor stopped him and destroyed the missile, but later discovered he had lost the Master's dematerialisation circuit back. Shortly after, the Master telephoned to let it be known that he had found the circuit and was free now to come and go as he pleased, while the Doctor had to remain in exile. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil]]'')
 
Shortly after the Master regained control over his TARDIS, he tried to gain control of a cult so he could harness the power of the [[Immortal]]s. He convinced the real cult leader, [[Hadley]], that he could serve the cult loyally, by supplying them with [[Sarg (drug)|sarg]]. Unfortunately for the Master, Hadley only intended to keep the Master alive while he was still useful. With no other options, the Master formed a temporary truce with the Doctor to stop [[Hades]]' plan. After the crisis was resolved, the Doctor allowed the Master to depart unmolested in the name of their temporary truce. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deadly Reunion (novel)|Deadly Reunion]]'')
 
The Master eventually recovered full functionality of his TARDIS and brought [[Axos]] to Earth, hoping to ally himself with them. Instead, he became the prisoner of Axos, and only escaped by saying that he would help it. The Doctor tricked the Master into thinking he was going to betray Earth. Instead, he trapped the Master with Axos in a [[time loop]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'')
 
Utilising records stolen from the Time Lords, the Master, posing as an [[Adjudicator]], travelled to a [[human]] colony on the [[planet]] [[Uxarieus]] in the year [[2472]]. There the records indicated he would find the [[Doomsday Weapon]] created by [[Uxariean|a near-extinct]] native species. Once again the Doctor defeated his plans. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space]]'')
 
[[File:Daemons title.jpg|thumb|left|The Master during the [[Devil's End]] incident. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]'')]]
In the [[Wiltshire]] village of [[Devil's End]], the Master summoned the ancient [[Dæmon]] [[Azal]], but he failed to understand the power and control that was necessary following summoning him. Following Azal's confrontation with Jo Grant's selflessness, he was captured by UNIT following a failed attempt to escape in the Doctor's car, [[Bessie]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]'') After a trial by human authorities, the Master was sentenced to life-long imprisonment on [[Fortress Island|an island]] off of the coast of [[England]], one designed especially to hold him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'') The government used him as a scapegoat for all the alien attacks which had recently occurred. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy]]'')
 
[[File:DelgadoMasks.jpg|thumb|right|The Master reveals his considerable talent for disguise. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Man in the Ion Mask]]'')]]Prior to his trial, the Master was sent to [[Stangmoor Prison]], but during his captivity, an army of hypnotised salespeople stormed the prison. This was an attempt to rescue him, but the attempt failed and the Master was sent to another secure holding facility. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Jo were trapped in an extra-universal prison by the [[Freedom Corporation]], so the Brigadier was forced to strike a deal with the Master to save them. But the Master double-crossed him and used [[time travel]] technology to regress the Earth backwards in time. However, with help from the Time Lords, the Doctor was freed and was able to stop the Master's plan and restore everything to normal. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Freedom (short story)|Freedom]]'')
 
Before he was sent to the island, the Master was sent to [[Aylesbury Grange Detention Centre]]. The Doctor visited the Master, who insisted he had changed, only to reveal he had escaped. The Doctor was speaking to a hologram. The Master nearly escaped, but was stopped by soldiers. The Doctor revealed he had been a hologram as well. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Man in the Ion Mask (comic story)|The Man in the Ion Mask]]'')
 
While in custody, with the Doctor gone to [[Peladon]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon]]'') the Master collaborated with UNIT to prevent an invasion by [[Parallel universe (Inferno)|a fascist version of Earth]], travelling with the Brigadier and [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]] and [[Barbara Wright|Barbara Chesterton]] to that alternate universe and encountering an [[Koschei (The Face of the Enemy)|alternate version of himself]]. This alternate Master was imprisoned and tortured by order of the Leader of the [[Republic of Great Britain]], that reality's version of the Doctor. The Master killed his other self, claiming it was an act of mercy. Before he was imprisoned by UNIT again, the Master hid his TARDIS back in the church crypt in Devil's End. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'')
 
Some time during his obvious actions against the Doctor and UNIT, the Master infiltrated the government's Department [[C19]] to a shocking degree. He took control of the [[Glasshouse]], a facility for traumatised UNIT soldiers, and in particular Private [[Francis Cleary]]. He also tried to undermine UNIT in the short term. In the long term, he planned to use a [[time ring]] to have Cleary go to [[1963]] to prevent the [[Kennedy assassination]], thereby altering Earth's history to make it more vulnerable to invasion. The plan failed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy]]'')
 
In a later encounter, the Master created a device that switched his mind with the Doctor's. He went to [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], where he learned that the [[Time Lord]]s had made the TARDIS unpilotable by the Doctor. Before returning to the TARDIS, the Master asked the Brigadier to move him to a new holding facility with a good view and told [[Mike Yates]] to ask [[Jo Grant]] out on a date. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Switching]]'')
 
When he was finally sent to Fortress Island, the Master quickly gained control over his jailer, [[George Trenchard]], and nearly caused a war between [[human]]s and [[Sea Devil]]s, a species related to the Silurians. He later escaped in the confusion, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'') and returned to the church crypt in Devil's End to retrieve his TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'', ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'')
 
The Master travelled to ancient [[Atlantis]] and, confronting the Doctor there, brought forth [[Kronos]], king of the [[Chronovore]]s. Kronos captured him but allowed him to go free. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'')
[[File:DelgadoDreamFIS.jpg|thumb|The Master as seen by [[Jo Grant]] under the hypnosound's effects. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')]]
The Master employed the assistance of a being called [[Verdigris (Verdigris)|Verdigris]], who impersonated the Master, and was tasked with interfering in the Doctor's life. After Verdigris contacted him again, the Master told him that he had enough of Earth and had other plans to set in motion on Skaro. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Verdigris (novel)|Verdigris]]'')
He forged a short-lived alliance with the [[Dalek]]s, acting as their agent to provoke warfare between the [[Earth Empire]] and the [[Draconian Empire]] in the [[26th century]]. To achieve this, he employed a force of [[Ogron]]s who, through the use of [[hypnosound]], made themselves appear human or Draconian, thus provoking the other side. When the Doctor revealed the true perpetrators, the plot was abandoned. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'')
 
The Master set up a talent show called ''Make a Star'', which he used to disrupt the timeline by making the contestants cover songs that weren't yet written. He intended to use the relatively minor disruption caused to allow him to take control of Earth, but this plan was foiled by the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Hidden Talent (short story)|Hidden Talent]]'') On another occasion, the Master made a deal with the [[Odobenidan]]s to help them invade Earth, but accidentally trapped both them and himself in a time loop whilst undertaking some temporal mechanics on their behalf. He was trapped in the time loop beneath [[Greece]] for months. The Time Lords sent the Doctor to Greece so that the Doctor would deal with the time loop, where he released the Master and foiled his plan again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Seismologist's Story (short story)|The Seismologist's Story]]'')
 
Returning to [[1970s]] Earth, the Doctor uncovered another plot by the Master to release a fog in [[Tadcaster]] by using [[Sarkan]] [[mist-flower]]s to generate the fog. If they bloomed, their seeds would spread and the Earth would be covered in the dense fog. Attempting to catch up with the Master, the Doctor commandeered the pier train. They jumped off the train as it reached the end of the tracks and crashed into the Master and the mist-flowers, sending all of them into the ocean, where the flowers were destroyed and the Master disappeared. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fogbound (comic story)|Fogbound]]'') Reappearing again, the Master took control of the Brigadier's mind, and instructed him to kill the Doctor. However, this plan failed and the Brigadier attacks the Master. He escaped, restoring the Brigadier to his senses. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Smash Hit (short story)|Smash Hit]]'')
 
The Master once travelled to the [[Land of Fiction]], where he intended to steal an advanced piece of technology from the Land, and met characters like [[James Moriarty|Professor James Moriarty]] and [[Count Dracula]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Character Assassin (comic story)|Character Assassin]]'')
 
The Master used [[time travel|time-displaced]] [[Scotland|Scottish]] warriors to seize a [[nuclear submarine]] and threaten Britain with obliteration if he wasn't given the Doctor's TARDIS; he ended up temporarily trapped in the [[18th century]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glen of Sleeping]]'') He also worked with the [[Gaderene]] race to conquer Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Last of the Gaderene]]'')
 
For a short while the Master adopted the identity of Duke Dominus, a gangster on early [[20th century]] Earth, but his plan on this occasion was halted by the [[Fourth Doctor]] without the Master even knowing it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Duke of Dominoes]]'')
 
==== A body in decay ====
The Master finally went under cover on [[Earth]] following the [[22nd century Dalek invasion]] and killed [[David Campbell]], the husband of the Doctor's granddaughter [[Susan Foreman|Susan]]. After being defeated by the [[Eighth Doctor]], he fled in his TARDIS, taking Susan with him as a hostage, unaware of her Gallifreyan heritage. As his TARDIS materialised on Terserus she used his TARDIS' telepathic circuits to attack him, forcing him out onto the surface of Terserus. She used his own Tissue Compression Eliminator against him while he was holding the Dalek's transmuter. The blast severly deformed and nearly killed him. Susan departed in his TARDIS; this brief materialisation, however, alerted the Time Lords to the Master's presence on Terserus. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks]]'')
 
Investigating the materialisation of an unauthorised TARDIS, the [[Time Lord]] [[Chancellor]] [[Goth]] arrived on Tersurus, where he found the Master in a wasted condition - that of a decaying animated corpse. The Master sensed that Goth wished for power and offered it to him, whilst Goth, thinking that the Master was a dying "creature," thought he could control the Master for his own means. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'')
 
[[File:DA_Master_close_up.jpg|thumb|left|The Master whilst on [[Gallifrey]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'')]]
The Master made Goth, in line for the position of [[Lord President]] of the [[High Council]] of Time Lords, into his slave, continuing to promise him power. Whilst on Gallifrey, he also took over the mind of [[Solis]], one of the [[Chancellory Guard]]. With a [[telepathic]] summons and a vision of the future created by [[the Matrix]], the Master lured the Fourth Doctor to [[Gallifrey]], seemingly to prevent the murder of the then-serving Lord President. The Doctor failed and ended up on trial for the President's murder. Whilst the Doctor was on trial the Master killed others on Gallifrey through the use of his [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]], leaving them to be found like a grisly calling card for the Doctor.
 
Secretly, the Master had access to [[the Matrix]]. He also had guessed the secret of the [[Eye of Harmony]] and various artefacts left behind by [[Rassilon]]. He realised that the Eye of Harmony, a [[black hole]], resided beneath the [[Panopticon]] and, realising that it had immense power, believed he could use the [[Sash of Rassilon]] to protect himself from the raw power of the Eye and the destruction that unleashing it would cause. He thought that he could channel that energy to renew himself.
 
The Doctor defeated the Master in physical combat, and as a result, the Master appeared to have fallen into a crevice created by a localised earthquake. In fact, he had gained access to his TARDIS, disguised as a [[grandfather clock]], and escaped. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'')
 
Immediately after leaving Gallifrey, the Master attempted to rend asunder the constellation of [[Mandus]] using a segment of the [[Key to Time]]. The Master also entered a pact with the [[Embodiment of Gris]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'')
 
The Master had entered into an alliance with the [[Kraal]]s, and claimed to help them invade the Earth in [[1979]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Oseidon Adventure (audio story)|The Oseidon Adventure]]'') He tried to achieve this by looking for a genetically engineered alien worm, whose purpose was to generate [[Wormhole|wormholes]] in space. The worm had been living in [[Derbyshire]] for centuries and had passed into folklore, however; it had taken the form of a woman called [[Demesne Furze]]. While he was looking for the worm, he allied himself with [[Spindleton|Colonel Spindleton]], where they both met the Fourth Doctor and [[Leela]]. However, the Master generated a storm, using a lightning bolt from it to activate the worm's ability to create wormholes, in turn, generating a wormhole to [[Oseidon]], but also killing the worm. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Trail of the White Worm (audio story)|Trail of the White Worm]]'')
 
Upon arrival on Earth, the Kraals, led by Marshal [[Grinmal]], double-crossed the Master and imprisoned him with Leela, while they sent the Doctor to Oseidon to be interrogated by Chief Scientist [[Tyngworg]]. However, the Master and Leela escaped through the wormhole and infiltrated the Kraal bunker. While he was in the bunker, the Master discovered he was an android duplicate, ever since he arrived in Derbyshire, and the Master had been on Oseidon all along, impersonating Tyngworg. During this, the Doctor escaped and reprogrammed the androids to destroy the invasion force. But as the Master tried to deactivate all the androids, he discovered he was susceptible to the signal, and therefore, he had also been an android all along as well. The Doctor and Leela constructed another duplicate of the Master in order to help them discover the real Master's plan. The Master plotted to capture the [[Z-battery]] that the Doctor left on Earth to repair his TARDIS during his exile. The Master's plan was to use the [[Z-radiation]] within the battery, combined with the [[O-radiation]] which permeated Oseidon, to create powerful [[ZO-radiation]] which the Master could use to renew himself. The Doctor defeated the Master by using the Master's android duplicate he had constructed to kidnap the Master, and take him away in his own TARDIS, before his plan could be fulfilled. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Oseidon Adventure (audio story)|The Oseidon Adventure]]'')
 
With his TARDIS still in the form of a clock, the Master tried to steal [[Iris Wildthyme]]'s body. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Shadow]]'')
 
[[File:MasterTrakenAgony.jpg|thumb|left|The Master in his TARDIS on [[Traken]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'')]]
The Master was drawn to and became stranded on the [[planet]] [[Traken]], the centre of the [[Traken Union]], in a [[TARDIS]] configured into the sculpture-shaped [[Melkur]]. The Master plotted to take over [[the Source]] also located on the planet Traken, the power behind the [[Traken Union]], and use it to restore himself. To this end, over a period of years, he won over [[Kassia]], who later married [[Tremas]] and became a stepmother to [[Nyssa]]. His plans were thwarted when [[the Keeper]] summoned the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Adric]], who had sensed something of his machinations. With the help of [[Tremas]] and [[Nyssa]], the Doctor removed the Master from the Source.
[[File:BirthOfAinleyMaster.jpg|thumb|The Master steals [[Tremas]]' body. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'')]]
However, with some of the Keeper's powers lingering, the Master merged with Tremas, stealing his body. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]],'' ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')
 
However, because Tremas's body was not that of a Time Lord, it could not regenerate but would age instead. If he wanted to survive, the Master would have to steal another body.
 
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The Master, in his new [[Trakenite]] body, went to [[Earth]], where he trapped [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] in a [[gravity bubble]]. He killed [[Tegan Jovanka]]'s aunt [[Vanessa (Logopolis)|Vanessa]] and a [[police|police constable]] with his [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]]. He went to [[Logopolis]], where he pretended to be Tremas to get Nyssa's cooperation, giving her a bracelet that allowed him to control her arm. Using her as a hostage, he perverted the [[Block Transfer Computation]]s and held the planet for ransom until its secret was revealed. This made the [[causal nexus]] unravel and release an unstoppable wave of [[entropy]] to destroy the [[universe]]. He also broke the [[Logopolitan]]s' blockade of entropy, allowing it to swallow several galaxies, including the entire Traken Union.
 
The entropy wave was so threatening that the Master agreed to work with the Fourth Doctor to stop it. They travelled to the [[Pharos Project]] on [[Earth]] to do so, using the last theorem of Logopolis to reopen [[Charged Vacuum Emboitment]]s, or CVEs. His true plan was revealed however, when he sent a message to the peoples of the universe that he would stop the entropy only if they submitted to his rule. While stopping the Master's signal to shut down the CVE that would halt the entropy wave, the Doctor fell off the Pharos Project's [[radio telescope]] and regenerated, allowing the Master to escape. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')
 
The Master kidnapped [[Adric]] and held him in a [[hadron web]] to make him a part of his TARDIS. Using a projection of Adric on board the TARDIS, the Master sent the newly-regenerated [[Fifth Doctor]] hurtling to destruction at [[Event One]], but the Doctor saved his TARDIS through the [[Architectural Configuration]]. The Master used Adric's block transfer computations to create [[Castrovalva]] in the [[Andromeda (galaxy)|Andromeda Galaxy]], where the Doctor would recover from his regeneration. He escaped from the [[recursion]] trap and tried to kill the Doctor, but was attacked by the enraged citizens with the city itself due to collapse. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')
 
The Master escaped from Castrovalva, but in the attempt, it caused damage to the [[dynamorphic generators]], making it difficult to continue piloting his TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
 
In an attempt to capture and kill the Doctor and his companions, the Master arrived in [[England]] in the [[1920s]], and manipulated [[Harry Houdini]] to send a psionic distress call to his old friend. When the Doctor answered the call, Houdini claimed that he needed help to stop a fortune teller. However, when the Master's plan was uncovered, the Doctor managed to stop his arch-enemy's revenge plan. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Smoke and Mirrors (audio story)|Smoke and Mirrors]]'')
[[File:KaleedSmiles.jpg|thumb|The Master as Kalid — one of the most elaborate of his disguises. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'')]]
 
He travelled to Earth in [[Distant past|140,000,000 BC]], where he disguised himself as the [[magic]]ian [[Kalid]], hoping to use the [[Xeraphin]] [[gestalt]] to replace his dynamorphic generators. He brought two [[Concorde]]s to his Citadel via a [[time contour]]. The second held the Doctor, his TARDIS and companions. He originally planned to use the captured passengers to break into the Sanctum and take control of the Xeraphin and add him to his TARDIS, but then he acquired the Doctor's TARDIS in a trade with him for a part the Doctor needed for his own TARDIS.
 
The Xeraphin contacted Nyssa and let Tegan and her enter the Citadel, where he revealed his true form. The Master held the passengers hostage for parts from the Doctor's TARDIS. The second Concorde was returned to its own time and the Master ended up on [[Xeriphas]] with the freed and angry Xeraphin. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight]]'')
[[File:SirGilles.jpg|thumb|The Master disguised as Sir Gilles. ([[TV]]: ''[[The King's Demons (TV story)|The King's Demons]]'')]]
On Xeriphas, he found and acquired [[Kamelion]], a shape-changing [[android]] that could be easily controlled by a stong mind. Managing to elude Xeraphin, the Master escaped to [[England]] in [[1215]]. He disguised himself as the [[French]] knight Sir Giles and made Kamelion impersonate [[John of England]] to prevent the signing of ''[[Magna Carta]]''. However, the arrival of the Doctor caused interference with his plans. After the Doctor defeated him in a joust, the Master fled in his TARDIS after the still-disguised Kamelion offered the Doctor the choice of saving him or another captive. ([[TV]]: ''[[The King's Demons]]'')
 
Directly following these events, the [[High Council]] of the [[Time Lord]]s discovered that earlier incarnations of the Doctor had been taken into the [[Death Zone]] on [[Gallifrey]]. They asked the Master for help and offered him a new cycle of regenerations. He agreed and was given a copy of the [[Seal of the High Council]] by [[Castellan (Arc of Infinity)|the Castellan]]. The Doctor's [[Third Doctor|third incarnation]] did not believe him and took the seal from him.
[[File:AinleyIncredulousTFD.jpg|thumb|left|The Master can't quite believe the [[High Council]] want him to save [[the Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')]]
He made a temporary alliance with the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] to guide them to the [[Dark Tower]]. He informed the [[First Doctor]] how to get past security, but then grew power-hungry at the mention of immortality. [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] knocked him unconscious and [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and [[Tegan Jovanka]] bound him. After Borusa was encased in [[Rassilon]]'s tomb, Rassilon sent the Master back to his own time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')
 
The Master arrived in [[Camelot]] just after the coronation of [[King Arthur]]. He became the Merlin after the old one had died. He planned to make Arthur believe [[Mordred]] was dead so Mordred would grow up to kill Arthur at the battle of Camlan.
 
The Doctor and Tegan arrived, met Arthur and told him about the Master. Arthur summoned the Merlin to test their truthfulness. When the Master saw the Doctor and Tegan, he told Arthur he had no intention of harming him. He left the court and hurried to his TARDIS, which was disguised as the turret room of Arthur's castle. The Doctor suggested Arthur create the Knights of the Round Table so when Mordred came they would be ready. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Creation of Camelot]]'')
 
The Master developed a more powerful version of the Tissue Compression Eliminator and accidentally shrank himself and his lab, without the ill effect of death. Using a device to boast his telepathy, the Master made contact with Kamelion once more, directing him to use the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS to land on planet [[Sarn (planet)|Sarn]]. With Kamelion acting as his physical proxy, the Master had him pretend to be the locals' god and order the Doctor's death. When this failed, he had Kamelion take the small box his lab had become and take it to the lab on Sarn that used [[Numismaton Gas]], hoping it could restore him. As the Master stood in a gas vent and returned to normal size, the Doctor used the gas to burn him (apparently) to death. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Fire]]'') However, the Numismaton Gas increased the power of the Source of Traken still remaining in the Master body. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') He went in search the Fountain of Youth to restore himself, which he managed to exploit. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Town Called Eternity]]'')
 
A hallucination of this incarnation of the Master appeared to the Fifth Doctor as he lay dying of [[spectrox toxaemia]] in the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]'') This was due to the Master's attempts to psychically interfere with the Doctor's fourth [[regeneration]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Winter (audio story)|Winter]]'')
 
[[File:Markoftherani title.jpg|thumb|left|The Master works with [[the Rani]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'')]]
The Master allied with [[the Rani]] (whom he knew as a member of [[the Deca]] on Gallifrey) in [[Killingworth]], an early [[19th century]] English mining village, against the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]]; he hoped to hasten the advancement of Earth's technology for his own nefarious reasons while the Rani wanted the brain chemical that induced sleep. The Doctor trapped the Master and the Rani in [[the Rani's TARDIS|her TARDIS]], which the Doctor had sabotaged; [[time spillage]] put them in danger of being eaten by a [[tyrannosaurus rex]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'') The Master separated the Rani's console room from the rest of her TARDIS, leaving her to drift aimlessly through the vortex. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[State of Change (novel)|State of Change]]'')
 
Working with [[Adam Mitchell]], the Master set up a asylum in [[7214]] with [[Auton]]s as staff as a trap for the Doctor, Peri and [[Frobisher]].  The Doctor broke out of his cell thanks to Peri and Frobisher and melted the Autons. The Master escaped by tripping up the Doctor, leaving Adam to capture Peri. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prisoners of Time (comic story)|Prisoners of Time]]'')
 
[[File:AinleyMaster.jpg|thumb|The Master in his TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'')]]
Recovering his own TARDIS and learning of the Valeyard, the Master materialised in [[the Matrix]] and observed the Sixth Doctor's trial on [[Space Station Zenobia]] while examining the Matrix footage himself to see what was tampered with. He considered [[the Valeyard]] a rival and rescued the Doctor rather than have the Valeyard win as the darker version of his foe was someone he believed unbeatable. He used [[Sabalom Glitz]], always ready to work with anyone for a quick [[grotzit]], as a tool. He tried to steal secrets from the Matrix, but he was double-crossed by the Valeyard, and imprisoned in the Matrix with a limbo atrophier. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'') The Time Lords released the Master from the Matrix, whereupon the Master killed the technicians and fled in his TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mission: Impractical (novel)|Mission: Impractical]]'') After escaping, the Master could regenerate his body because [[the Source]] of [[Traken]] still existed within him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
 
After escaping from an unsuccessful alliance with the [[Kroton]]s, the Master discovered that the last remnants of the Source of Traken were fading, so his previous cadaverous form would return and he would die. Meanwhile, he was attacked by the [[Chronovore]]s looking for revenge after he tortured [[Kronos]]. The Master devised a plan to destroy the Chronovores and achieve omnipotence by trying to access the [[Lux Aeterna]] using the son of [[TOMTIT]], the [[TITAN Array]]. He stole the equipment and used it upon a woman he hypnotised, [[Anjeliqua Whitefriar]], expecting it to destroy her before he used it. However, she absorbed the Lux Aeterna, achieved omnipotence and became the [[Quantum Archangel]]. Using her power, she filled the universe with too many alternate timelines, leading the Chronovores to feast upon them, eventually leading to the end of the universe. The Master (fully returned to his cadaverous form again) and the Doctor teamed up to rectify the Master's mistake by defeating the Quantum Archangel. They discovered that the Quantum Archangel had allied itself with the [[Mad Mind of Bophemeral]] so it could have infinite knowledge of the Universe. The Doctor and the Master encountered Kronos, who claimed to have been the one who attacked the Master's TARDIS, so he would come up with his plan, and would eventually lead to the Master's destruction as well as allowing Anjeliqua to survive, causing Kronos' plan for revenge to go wrong. They succeeded by draining the Lux Aeterna out of her, although not before the Master escaped using the TITAN equipment to harness the Lux Aeterna to restore his Tremas body. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
{{After Cheetahs}}
After trying to start a war between [[Antari Two]] and [[Antari Three]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') the Master went to the [[Cheetah World]], where he took [[mind control|control]] of the [[Cheetah People]] and the [[kitling]]s. He sent them to [[Ace]]'s home in the [[London]] suburb of [[Perivale]] and hunted for [[human]] recruits. At the same time, exposure to the planet had [[Cheetah Virus|changed him into a Cheetah Person]]. He found a pliable young man called [[Midge]] and used him to escape.
 
The [[Seventh Doctor]] and Ace found him. The Master killed Midge and [[teleport]]ed the Doctor to the Cheetah World, which had begun to break up. The Doctor escaped but the Master was trapped on the dying world. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival]]'')
 
=== After Cheetah World ===
How exactly the Master escaped the [[Cheetah World]] was a matter of debate. Several competing theories existed.
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One idea about the Master's escape from Cheetah World had it that he escaped  with the aid of a Kitling just as the planet exploded. The explosion of the planet sent him back in time to [[Earth]] in [[1957]].
 
Trapped on Earth at the dawn of the Space Age, the Master interrupted the real first [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] satellite launch and sent a distress signal to the [[Tzun]] Canton on [[Zeta Reticuli Four]]. He offered to help assimilate Earth into the [[Tzun Confederacy]]. In return the Master asked for passage off Earth and the use of the Tzun's genetic engineering to cure his [[Cheetah Virus]] infection. The Tzun accepted and prepared [[nanite]]s for him that broke down the corrupted [[Trakenite]] DNA in his cells and restructured it. This restored the Master to being a "full" [[Time Lord]], which gave him a new [[regeneration|regenerative]] cycle. While assisting the Tzun, the Master used the alias Major Kreer. Shortly after being restored to his full Time Lord heritage he was shot in the back by [[Ace]], causing him to [[regenerate]]. Following the regeneration he was able to make his escape, summoning [[The Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] using a [[Stattenheim remote control]] built from Tzun technology. After leaving a booby-trap for the [[Seventh Doctor]] in a [[Nuclear missile|nuclear warhead]], the Master fled. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier]]'')
 
Later, the Master laid a trap for the Doctor in one of the Doctor's homes using a device which would release the energy from a [[time fissure]] once [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] [[materialise]]d. This would destroy it. The plan failed when [[Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Mike Yates]] and [[K9 Mark III|K9]] destroyed the device, causing the Master to flee. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Housewarming]]'')
 
The nanites the Tzun gave the Master eventually began to fail, causing him to seek the [[Loom of Rassilon's Mouse]] in order to make himself a new body. The plan failed and the Master managed to escape by hypnotising [[Kitai]] into posing as a decoy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings]]'')
 
==== Tremas persists ====
[[File:The Master In Destiny of the Doctors.jpg|thumb|left|The Master temporarily victorious in capturing the first seven incarnations of [[the Doctor]].  ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'')]]Another theory held that the Tremas Master simply continued to exist after his time on [[Cheetah World]], and that he remained infected by the [[Cheetah Virus]] for quite some time. On [[Earth]], he tried to cure the virus by extracting nutrients from dying humans. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Stop the Pigeon]]'') The Master next tried to gain a new body from legendary aliens, the [[Fleshsmith]]s. The Master's plan was stopped by the Doctor, who ejected the new body from the Fleshsmith vessel into space. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prime Time]]'') 
 
According to this version of history, it wasn't at all clear how the Master rid himself of the virus that had so plagued him, but he got rid of it by the time  of his second alliance with [[Adam Mitchell]]. At this point he used a group of [[Aerolith]]s to further his own goals. However, when they were freed by the Seventh Doctor, they chased the Master. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prisoners of Time]]'')
 
Eventually, the Master captured the first seven of the Doctor's incarnations and put them into a void called [[the Determinant]]. The [[Graak]] freed the Doctors and the Master was put on trial. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'')
 
==== Tremas lost ====
A third account failed to touch on any ill-effects of the Master's interaction with the [[Cheetah People]].  Focused instead on the latter part of the Tremas Master's life, it suggested that at some point, the Master learned of a device known as the [[Warp Core]], a sentient powerhouse of mental energy designed as a weapon to safeguard the [[planet]] [[Duchamp 331]]. He tracked the Warp Core to Earth, intending to use it to power his TARDIS. Unprepared for its power and underestimating its outside awareness, he was attacked by the Warp Core, having the body he stole from Tremas stripped from him, reducing him to his previous, decaying form. The Master then used a mask to disguise his deformity and followed the Warp Core as it arrived on Duchamp 331. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Breeding]]'')
[[File:Master Master.jpg|thumb|left|The Master after his degeneration. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'')]]
The Seventh Doctor made a deal with [[Death]] whereby the Master would have ten years of peace and sanity, at the end of which the Doctor had to kill him. The still-scarred Master had become a physician on the colony world of [[Perfugium]] with [[amnesia|no memory of his past]], and took the name John Smith. He was taken in by [[Wolstonecroft]], and inherited his house when Wolstonecroft died. During his ten years as John Smith, the Master had become emotionally involved with [[Jacqueline Schaeffer]].
 
At the end of the allotted time, the Doctor duly arrived but strove to avoid fulfilling his side of the bargain. The Master became aware of the Doctor's role in pledging him to Death as her servant but forgave him for it. Death herself was present, disguised as the Master's maid, and manipulated events so that the John Smith persona would crumble and the true Master become dominant once more. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'')
 
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{{sidebar|title=''Dominion'' doubt|In 2012, [[Big Finish]] launched a new series called ''[[UNIT Dominion]]''.  It featured a new version of the Master played by [[Alex Macqueen]], but gave no details about how this Master fit in with the other version of the Master they'd been using in ''[[Dust Breeding (audio story)|Dust Breeding]]'' and ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]''. <br /><br />[[File:Unit_Dominion_Master.jpg|250px]]<br /><br />It's absolutely unclear which incarnation of the Master this is supposed to be, aside from it clearly being after ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'' as he possesses [[Goth]]'s TARDIS. Aside from that, it could very well be before or after the ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'' TV movie in his personal timeline.
<br /><br />{{As of|2013|2}}, we at Tardis are applying {{w|Occam's Razor}}, and simply going with release date.  Since it was released ''long'' after ''Dust Breeding'' and ''Master'', we're ''assuming'' that it takes place afterwards.<br /><br />But '''we don't know''' for sure how this Master fits into the puzzle.  '''No one''' does. <br /><br />Except maybe the hard working employees of Big Finish, of course.}}
At an unknown time between his [[Cheetah Virus]] infection and the [[Last Great Time War]] — there was another incarnation of the Master that did not appear to have [[Tremas]]' body. 
 
This version infiltrated a Time Lord base which contained the [[Node Stone]], which was a product of dimension technology, developed by the [[Dimensioneer]]s, and stole them. The Master attempted to control the dimensional energies using the Node Stone, by planting one of the Node Stones on the planet of the [[Tolian]]s, to drain all the energy that was available. This was a way of drawing the Doctor to the Tolians' planet, so he could gain possession of the only other Node, which the Doctor had in his TARDIS. By manipulating the Tolians, he tricked the Doctor into re-supplying dimensional energy to the Tolians using his Node, which caused a catastrophic imbalance in dimensional energy, threatening the structure of reality itself.
 
The Master attempted to infiltrate [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] by pretending to be a future incarnation of the Doctor, modelling his TARDIS on the police box exterior. He had to work alongside the UNIT scientific advisor, [[Elizabeth Klein]] and work under the command of [[Lafayette|Colonel Lafayette]]. He assisted UNIT in defeating a number of interdimensional alien incursions, including the [[Mind Leeches]], [[Lava Spiders]], the [[Nexus]] and [[Skyheads]].
 
When the Doctor and his companion, [[Raine Creevy]], fell through a dimensional doorway caused by the dimensional instability, the Master stole the Doctor's Node Stone, and sent all the alien invaders back to their own dimensions, but not before he left with the Doctor in his TARDIS. It was at this point that the Master revealed his true identity, and his plan, which was to use the two Node Stones to add even more dimensional energy to the Tolians, so he could use them to conquer the Earth and other planets beyond. However, the Doctor managed to convinced the leader of the Tolians, [[Arunzell]], that the Master would betray his species. This gave the Doctor the opportunity to capture the Master, use the two Nodes to send the Tolians back to their own dimension, and then destroy both Node Stones, but not before the Master escaped during the ensuing chaos. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[UNIT: Dominion (audio story)|UNIT: Dominion]]'')
 
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When the Master arrived in the [[Valley of the Kings]] in [[Egypt]], he was captured by the Daleks to be placed on trial, but his TARDIS was left behind in the tomb. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'')
After he was tried and executed by the [[Dalek]]s on [[Skaro]] as part of a Time Lord-Dalek treaty, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') the Master's "last wish" was for his remains to be transported to Gallifrey but his essence survived in a fluid-like form that was known as a [[Deathworm Morphant]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fallen (comic story)|The Fallen]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'')
 
The Seventh Doctor stored the ashes in a casket and set his TARDIS on course for [[Gallifrey]]. En route, the Master, whose consciousness had survived the death of his physical body, escaped from the casket and interfered with the TARDIS, causing a timing malfunction. The ship [[materialise]]d in [[San Francisco]] during the final days of [[1999]].
 
On exiting the TARDIS, the Doctor was caught in a crossfire of a gang war and was picked up by an [[ambulance]]. As he lay wounded, he saw the Master's form exiting the TARDIS via its keyhole, but he was unable to communicate this information to the humans nearby. While [[Bruce (Doctor Who)|Bruce]] tended to the Doctor and loaded him into the ambulance, the Master hid inside a bag. After Bruce had gone to home and bed, the Master forced his way into Bruce's body through his mouth, killing him and taking over his body.
 
[[File:RobertsNoShades.jpg|thumb|The Master in [[Bruce (Doctor Who)|Bruce]]'s body. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')]]
The next morning, the Master awoke, now inhabiting Bruce's body. He realised the decaying form would not last long and launched his scheme to steal the Doctor's remaining regenerations. His first act was to kill Bruce's [[Miranda (Doctor Who)|wife]].
 
The transformation into Bruce involved some complications. His eyes retained the "cat's eye" appearance, forcing him to wear sunglasses to remain inconspicuous. Also, Bruce's body began to decay rapidly.
 
The Master befriended [[Chang Lee]], a young gang member who had been present when the Doctor was shot, and who had stolen the [[TARDIS key]]. With Chang Lee's help, he entered the Doctor's TARDIS and regaled Chang Lee with stories of the Doctor's supposed villainy (claiming, among other things, the Doctor had stolen the Master's regenerations). As part of his plan to take the Doctor's lives, he intended to open the [[Eye of Harmony]], destroying the Earth in the process. With Chang Lee's further help, he was able to open the Eye. He discovered that the Doctor had [[regenerate]]d into a [[Eighth Doctor|new form]], and that the Doctor was half-[[human]]. This answered a few of the Master's longstanding questions about his foe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') The Doctor revealed to Chantir in prison that he tricked the Master into thinking this, with a "wide eyed expression, a couple of words, and a half-broken chameleon arch." ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'')
 
[[File:RobertsFGLeeBG.jpg|thumb|left|The Master enters the final phase of his plan to switch bodies with the [[Eighth Doctor]] — [[Chang Lee]] in tow. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')]]After fully regaining his memory, the [[Eighth Doctor]] and his companion, Dr. [[Grace Holloway]], made their way back to the TARDIS where the Master, now dressed in Gallifreyan robes, greeted his enemy. In the ensuing battle, the Master used [[mind control]] on Grace. He also killed Lee by snapping his neck when Lee realised the truth about the Master after the Master accidentally revealed that he had wasted ''all'' of his lives in fighting the Doctor, rather than the Doctor having stolen them.
 
Although the Master was able to initiate the transfer process that would give him access to the Doctor's remaining lives, Grace was able to prevent this by rerouting the TARDIS' power and sending the ship into a [[temporal orbit]]. With the Master's body dying as the Doctor's regenerations were returned to him, the two Time Lords fought near the [[Eye of Harmony]], culminating in the Master falling into it when he leapt at the Doctor and misjudged the angle. The Doctor said the Master had been "eaten" by the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
 
Shortly after his defeat, the Master laid a final trap for the Doctor, leaving a crystalline structure on the Eye that would give the Doctor [[amnesia]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors]]'')
 
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An "echo" of the Master imprisoned inside the Doctor's TARDIS offered the Eighth Doctor advice through a portrait, a mirror and later the Eye of Harmony. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never...]]'', ''[[The Deadstone Memorial]]'', ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') Whilst exploring the Eighth Doctor's TARDIS, [[River Song]] thought she heard an American screaming from within the walls. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock]]'')
 
After the Master passed through the [[Eye of Harmony]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') his essence was left wandering the [[Time Vortex]] and close to extinguishing. Eventually he was rescued from the Vortex by a being named [[Esterath]], the then-controller of [[the Glory]], the focal point of the [[Omniverse]]. The Master was told that it was time for the Glory to gain another controller, but the power had to be fought for. The Master assumed that the battle would be between himself and his greatest foe, the Doctor.
 
[[File:Master(GloriousDead).png|thumb|The Master begins to disappear after being banished by [[Kroton (Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman)|Kroton]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'')]]
 
After gliding over the many realities throughout the Omniversal Spectrum for what he described as seeming like centuries, the Master was resurrected into the body of a recently-deceased vagrant on the streets of [[2001]] [[Brixton]]. Some weeks afterwards, the Master was transported onto [[the Moon]] during one of the Doctor's adventures (due to a symbiotic link he had formed with the Doctor's TARDIS, when it consumed part of his essence after he passed through the Eye of Harmony). The Master subsequently used this link to trail the Eighth Doctor for some time without his enemy suspecting - even after they had met face to face. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'')
 
He was present in London during the crisis resulting from Grace Holloway's attempt to merge human and Time Lord [[DNA]] (the alien DNA was in fact that of a [[Morphant]]). He killed an [[MI6]] [[M16 agent|agent]] with the [[TCE]] at this time, but fortunately for the Master the Doctor departed before his trademark was discovered. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fallen (comic story)|The Fallen]]'')
 
The Master later made contact with [[Sato Katsura]], a [[Japanese]] [[samurai]] unwillingly rendered [[Immortality|immortal]] as a result of his involvement in the Doctor's adventures. The embittered warrior became the Master's follower. At his behest, Sato adopted the identity of Cardinal Morningstar and became leader of the [[Church of the Glorious Dead]], instigator of a holy war that altered the history of Earth, a planet now renamed "Dhakan".
 
The symbiotic link between the Doctor's TARDIS and the Master had also given the latter the ability to influence the flight of the TARDIS, which he used to send the craft to times and places which would weaken the Doctor's self-belief and confidence. This done, the two fought for the Glory, with the Master apparently triumphant.
 
It would soon be time for the Glory to gain another controller, but the power had to be fought for. The Master assumed the fight would be between himself and his greatest foe. He was mistaken. The true battle was between his [[companion]], Sato, and the Doctor's, the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cyberman]] [[Kroton (Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman)|Kroton]]. Kroton was the victor. Amongst his first acts as controller of the Glory were to cleanse the TARDIS of the Master's influence and to place the Master somewhere that he could not escape. The Master declared he would survive and return. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'')
 
Presumably, the Master was returned to the Doctor's TARDIS, albeit without his controlling influence, as he later escaped again through the [[Eye of Harmony]] by influencing the dreams of [[Edward Grainger]] to unravel the Doctor's timeline, by killing Edward Grainger whilst he was an infant in [[1906]]. However, the Master was stopped by the First Doctor and [[Violet (Prologue)|Violet]] after being hit with a rolling pin and being removed from the body he possessed.
 
The Master then managed to evade the Eighth Doctor's detection, and possessed the body of a human native named [[Richard (Prologue)|Richard]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prologue]]'', ''[[Forgotten]]'')
 
After possessing Richard, the Master killed Violet out of revenge. However, the Master discovered his possession had caused the host body to decay at an accelerated rate, so he was forced to steal more bodies to prolong his survival. Realising that the [[First World War]] was rapidly approaching, the Master decided to migrate to [[America]] to avoid the conflict, and boarded a ship to go there in [[1912]]. However, the Master boarded the [[RMS Titanic]], unaware of its eventual fate, and escaped in a lifeboat when it sank.
 
Arriving in [[New York City]], the Master took possession of a member of the Hudson Dusters, quickly becoming the leader of the gang and calling himself Don Maestro. After twenty years of living in his current body, he occupied the body of his host's son, and moved to [[Las Vegas]] where he owned a casino. He accumulated the money to fund his experiments, in an attempt to elongate the lifespan of his host body by forty years. Fearing the eventual decay of his body, the Master used his money to buy a penthouse to isolate himself from infection, so he had longer to live. After years living in isolation, in [[1973]], his host's son confronted him, realizing that the Master had possessed his father and his grandfather for decades. He then trapped the Master in the penthouse.
 
After [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] infiltrated the sealed penthouse in [[1998]], they discovered the Master in a self-preserving comatose state. He was imprisoned in the [[The Vault (Tales from the Vault)|UNIT Vault]], awakening every five years for one hour, before going into a coma again. After fifteen years living in the Vault, the Master awoke again, and was interrogated by UNIT officers [[Ruth Matheson]] and [[Charlie Sato]]. However, the Master had managed to hypnotize both of them, and escape his imprisonment. He also discovered that UNIT had recovered his TARDIS from the Valley of the Kings, which had been there for three thousand years, and used it to escape from the Vault. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mastermind (audio story)|Mastermind]]'')
 
=== Under the chameleon arch ===
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-->The Master was resurrected by the [[Time Lord]]s during the [[Last Great Time War]]. They believed that he would be a perfect warrior for the Time War, due to his savagery. He was present when the [[Dalek Emperor]] took control of the [[Cruciform]]. Frightened by the horror of the Time War, he ran away to the end of the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') There, he used a [[chameleon arch]] to hide himself as a [[human]], Professor Yana.
[[File:YanaAndFobWatch.jpg|thumb|left|Professor Yana opens the [[fob watch]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')]]
Physically human, Yana believed that he was found on the coast of the [[Silver Devastation]] with only an "heirloom" [[Chameleon Arch|fob watch]]. His memory of his past was that the watch could never keep time and was always late for things. He believed that he spent his life moving from one refugee ship to another and all his life he heard the sound of drums every waking hour as if they were getting closer. However, it was likely that none of what Yana believed about himself was any more true than that which, for example, [[John Smith (Tenth Doctor)|John Smith]] gave to [[Joan Redfern (TV character)|Joan Redfern]].
 
Yana retained the Master's brilliant intellect and ultimately became involved in the attempt to send the remnants of humanity to [[Utopia (Utopia)|Utopia]]. He eventually became friends with another scientist, [[Chantho]], who was thought to be the last of the [[Malmooth]] race. Together, they worked on the [[Utopia Project]] to convey the surviving humans from the [[planet]] [[Malcassairo]] to [[Utopia (Utopia)|Utopia]].
[[File:YanaEyesGoBlack.jpg|thumb|right|The Master's personality returns.  ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')]]
Yana met the [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Jack Harkness]] and [[Martha Jones]], who spoke phrases curiously familiar to him, phrases such as [[Time Vortex]], "extermination", [[Last Great Time War|Time War]], [[Dalek]]s and [[regeneration]]. Martha made the Professor aware of a watch in his possession. Hearing voices in his mind that commanded and entreated him, he opened it and returned to his true identity.
 
He then attacked his assistant, angered that Chantho was too inept to return his memories after decades. He had also grown sick of her presence as he waited to be restored. Vengeful, he electrocuted her with a loose set of power cables, leaving Chantho for dead. However, Chantho used the last of her strength to pull a laser gun on the Master while his back was turned, and shot him in the chest before she succumbed to death. Fatally wounded, the Master regenerated into a younger incarnation and escaped to [[Earth]] in [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
 
=== As Harold Saxon ===
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-->[[File:SaxonSmile.jpg|thumb|left|"Harold Saxon" smiles to the camera after giving a post-electoral speech. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')]]
With his new body, the Master left the Doctor on the [[planet]] [[Malcassairo]] with [[Futurekind]] about to burst in the laboratory door. The Master now had the TARDIS and [[the Doctor's hand]] (which [[Jack Harkness]] had taken with him to Malcassairo) that contained the Doctor's DNA. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') Because of the Doctor's last-minute intervention, the TARDIS would only take the Master to [[Earth]] in the [[2000s]].  There, he began fabricating Harold Saxon's past to gain political support. He made his first public appearance about eighteen months before the Doctor reunited with his [[companion]] [[Jack Harkness]], shortly after the downfall of [[Harriet Jones]]. The Master unveiled the [[Archangel Network]], which was hailed as a telecommunications breakthrough. By this point he had taken the identity of Harold Saxon, complete with a fabricated past. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
 
By December [[2007]], he had become [[Minister of Defence]] of Great Britain. On Christmas Eve, he came to real prominence for the first time, ordering [[British Army]] [[tank]]s to destroy the [[Empress of the Racnoss]]' [[webstar]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
 
In 2007, he campaigned for the general election as [[Prime Minister]] of [[Great Britain]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Love & Monsters]]'') with the slogan "Vote Saxon". ([[TV]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'') He visited his old high school during the campaign, and as Harold Saxon did not exist, he used the [[Archangel Network]] to brainwash staff to gain political support. One teacher, [[James Curtis]], was resistant to the Network, so the Master used his [[laser screwdriver]] to implant the appropriate memories into his mind. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Speech Day]]'')
 
Around the same time, Captain Jack Harkness discovered that [[Torchwood]] files were being "given" to the Opposition leader, by the Prime Minister. This was presumably "Saxon," attempting to learn more about Captain Jack and other confidential information. ([[TV]]: ''[[Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)|Greeks Bearing Gifts]]'')
 
"Saxon" asserted that [[alien|extraterrestrial life]] did exist and Britain must do something about it. With his election a sure thing, politicians from other parties flocked to his side.
 
The Master started the [[Archangel Network]]. This telecommunications network, tied to mobile phones, carried a [[mind control]] signal which made [[human]]s trust him. The network affected the Doctor so he had no suspicions as to the Master's presence as "Saxon", though he would have normally noticed the presence of another Time Lord. To those few humans conscious of it, the signal was a persistent drumbeat, the constant drumbeat the Master always heard, that only they could hear.
[[File:SimmAndToclafane.jpg|thumb|right|The Master with the [[Toclafane]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')]]
 
He also designed the ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]'', [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]]'s air carrier, and a [[laser screwdriver]] which he reserved for his own use. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') "Saxon" funded the rejuvenation experiments of [[Richard Lazarus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lazarus Experiment]]'')
 
The Master contacted the [[Toclafane]], the child-like, vicious [[cyborg]] remnants of the future [[human]]s who had never found [[Utopia (Utopia)|Utopia]]. To allow the Toclafane to escape extinction and live anew in the past, he cannibalised and converted the Doctor's TARDIS into a [[paradox machine]] to change history. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'' / ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'') After Martha had left with the Doctor, he had [[Dexter|an agent]] meet with Martha's mother, [[Francine Jones|Francine]], who tapped into a conversation between Francine and Martha via the [[superphone]], which could contact Martha through space and time. ([[TV]]: ''[[42 (TV story)|42]]'')
Before the Doctor, Martha and Captain Jack arrived back from the end of the universe, ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') the Master had sent Jack's Torchwood team on a wild-goose chase to the [[Himalayas]].
 
In 2008, he was elected Prime Minister. He announced [[first contact]] with the "friendly" Toclafane who could protect Earth against alien threats. Though he kept up appearances with the public, the Master began to deal with private matters severely. He gathered his Cabinet for a meeting and accused them of being traitors who abandoned their political parties to jump on his political ticket. He rigged the deskphone speakers on the Cabinet room table to release a lethal gas that killed the Cabinet ministers, while using a gas mask to protect himself and mock his victims. He later unleashed the Toclafane on Sunday Mirror reporter [[Vivien Rook]], who threatened to expose his fabricated past to the public.
 
The Master moved to the ''Valiant'', which the governments of Earth considered neutral territory and therefore fitting for formal first contact with alien life. The Master had the Toclafane murder the [[President of the United States]], [[Arthur Coleman Winters]]. He captured the Doctor, Jack, and Martha's family, who had come to the ''Valiant'' earlier that day. Using the results from Professor Lazarus's experiment along with the DNA in the Doctor's hand, he used his laser screwdriver to age the Doctor one hundred years.
 
The Master ordered the Toclafane to kill one tenth of humanity and commence [[Toclafane invasion|their invasion]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')
 
Martha escaped capture on the ''Valiant'' and travelled the world. One year later, in [[2009]], the Master had converted Earth into a slave camp which he ruled from the ''Valiant''. The Master aged the Doctor even further and planned to expand his [[New Time Lord Empire]] into space. He built an army of warships to take his war across the universe.
 
Martha used the legend of the Doctor, which she had spread, and the thoughts of Earth thinking "Doctor" at the same time. Their [[psychic energy]] was channelled through the Archangel Network, which the Doctor had spent a year infiltrating [[telepathy|telepathically]]. The psychic energy restored the Doctor and gave him [[telekinetic]] powers.


Jack destroyed the Paradox Machine and reversed time one year, although this did not affect anyone aboard the ''Valiant''. Lucy shot the Master. Defeated, he refused to [[regenerate]] rather than receive the Doctor's mercy. He died in the Doctor's arms. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')
As part of this alliance, the Master had himself "augmented" with Dalek technology, resulting in a more youthful appearance and "Dalek bumps" on his chest. Although he remained adamant they were [[etheric beam locator]]s, the Doctor continually teased the Master because they resembled breasts.


As far as the general public knew, Harold Saxon "went crazy" and disappeared, along with President Winters. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
When he believed the [[Twelfth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|Twelfth Doctor]] to have been killed by the [[zectronic beam]], the Master renounced his evil ways before the Doctor [[regenerated]] into [[Thirteenth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|a female form]]. Attracted to each other, the Time Lords walked off, arm in arm. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death]]'')
 
=== Raised from the Dead ===
[[File:24.jpg|thumb|left|The Master during his resurrection. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]
The Master was resurrected when his wife Lucy Saxon was imprisoned at [[Broadfell Prison]], London. One of the warders, [[Trefusis|Miss Trefusis]], retrieved [[the Master's ring]] from his funeral pyre. On Christmas Eve [[2009]], the [[Governor (The End of Time)|prison governor]] brought Lucy to a chamber where most of the staff were members of the [[Disciples of Saxon]], who had been working ever since his apparent death to bring about his resurrection.
 
With the help of the ring and a biometric imprint taken from Lucy, the Master reappeared in a swirl of energy, but Lucy and one other warder had prepared for this. To stop his resurrection, Lucy hurled a Potion of Death at the Master. His followers and Lucy were all killed in the resulting explosion.
 
[[File:The Master Unstable Body.jpg|right|thumb|The Master's damaged body flickers between flesh and raw bones. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]
The Master survived the blast, but his physical form was flawed: his once brown hair was now bleached blond, and he was unshaven and unkempt. Also, his life force was left in a state of constant depletion. He consumed huge quantities of food and drained the vitality of humans to stay alive. As a side effect of the failed resurrection, he could expend his life force for enhanced agility and send bolts of energy from his hands. The Master's body would even fluctuate between a fleshy form and a half-skeletal state. At times when his life force dipped to near depletion or he expressed strong emotion, his outer skin would fade away and reveal the translucent blue life energy encasing his body. This exposed his skeleton and internal organs, and each fluctuation made an unsettling noise likened to an abominable, primal roar. He led the Doctor on a wild goose chase after banging the beat of the drums in his mind to lure the Doctor to him and escaped when Wilf interrupted the chase. Encountering the Master soon after, the Tenth Doctor discovered the drumming in his head was not a symptom of insanity, but real.
[[File:MasterRace3Shot.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Master Race]]. ([[TV]]:
''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]) ]]
 
Billionaire [[Joshua Naismith]] kidnapped the Master and enlisted his assistance to mend the malfunctioning [[Vinvocci]] medical machine, the [[Immortality Gate]]. The Master cooperated for his own purposes. He broke out of a straitjacket and flew into the gateway, which he had working a billion fold on the human template. The gateway sent out an energy pulse that transformed every human on Earth, except [[Wilfred Mott]] and his granddaughter [[Donna Noble|Donna]], into [[the Master Race]] - identical copies of the Master subservient to him.
 
The High Council of Time Lords made contact with the Master using the rhythm of the drumbeats in his head - the same rhythm as the Time Lord's heartbeat - and sent him a [[White-Point Star]], found only on Gallifrey, to boost the signal. Fitting the diamond to a nuclear bolt to boost the signal, the Master tore open the [[time lock]] on the war, bringing back the Time Lords.
 
As the Lord President [[Rassilon]] and his council arrived through the Immortality Gate, the Master announced he intended to transplant himself into the entire Time Lord race, just as he had done to the human race. Rassilon, using his gauntlet, reversed the effects of the Master's transplantation, and watched as Gallifrey returned to the universe on a collision course with Earth.
[[File:Masterarc.jpg|thumb|right|The Master getting revenge on [[Rassilon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]
The President revealed his plans from the [[Ultimate Sanction|final days of the Time War]], but the Doctor stepped in with Wilfred's pistol. After some hesitation, he shot the nuclear bolt holding the White-Point Star, destroying the link.
 
Rassilon prepared to kill the Doctor, but the Master told the Doctor to step out of the way. He unleashed his bio-electric blasts at the President, roaring that the Time Lords had manipulated him and made him the monster he had become, counting the beat of the rhythm that had resounded in his head and tormenting him all his life. The Time Lords, Gallifrey, and the Master then vanished in a burst of white light, and according to the Tenth Doctor, Gallifrey and the Time Lords were sent "back into [the] hell" of the final day of the Time War. It is uncertain what happened to the Master himself, but it was believed that either he was sent with Gallifrey and the Time Lords into the last day of the Time War, or that he used up the last of his life energy in his attack on Rassilon and perished. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') Although the Master previously assumed he would meet his fate when Gallifrey was destroyed, it was in fact transferred to a pocket universe, leaving the Master's status unknown. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of The Doctor]]'')
 
== Companions ==
[[File:JacobiAndChantho.jpg|thumb|right|[[Chantho]] was Professor Yana's assistant for almost two decades. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')]]
Unlike the Doctor, the Master usually worked and travelled alone. On rare occasion, he was seen with companions. Examples included [[Ailla]] the [[Time Lord]] spy ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path]]''); [[Chang Lee]], a young [[human]] whom the Master met in [[San Francisco]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]''); [[Katsura Sato]], an immortal [[Japanese]] [[Samurai]] who helped the Master in his quest for Glory ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]''); [[Chantho]], a female assistant and companion to the Master in his Professor Yana identity ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''); and [[Lucy Saxon]], his wife, who was described as having travelled with the Master in the TARDIS in the same fashion as the Doctor and his companions. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
 
== Alternative timelines ==
* In [[the Infinity Doctors universe|one universe]], the Master was a [[The Magistrate|Magistrate]] for the [[High Council]] upon graduating the [[Time Lord Academy]], and he was still close friends with [[The Doctor (The Infinity Doctors)|the Doctor]]. Over time, his devotion to justice and discipline devolved into an obsession with order which marked the beginning of his descent into darkness. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors]]'')
* In a [[Parallel universe (Inferno)|parallel universe]], the Master was less destructive, and went under the name [[Koschei (The Face of the Enemy)|Koschei]], he was working for the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] and travelled with a human companion called [[Ailla]]. They became stranded on Earth after defeating the [[Great Intelligence]], and the [[Republic of Great Britain]] captured him for information. Ailla was killed and Koschei was tortured until all his regenerations were used up. Koschei died when he was confronted by the Master from [[N-Space]], who turned off his life-support machine at his request. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'')
* In an alternative universe, the Master aided a powerful enemy (possibly the [[Dalek]]s) in a war against the Time Lords. The war was being led by the [[Sixth Doctor]], who was President of the Time Lords. Due to the aid of the Master, the enemy began winning the war, and rather than let them win, the Doctor activated the [[Armageddon Sapphire]], which destroyed this universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
* In a different alternative universe, the Master cooperated alongside [[the Rani]], [[the Monk]] and [[Drax]] to try to destroy the world using a DNA recombinator, turning the human race into a gestalt consciousness which could be used as a weapon to conquer the universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
* In one possible future, the Master had a female incarnation. This incarnation, along with all other incarnations of the Master, was kidnapped by the [[Sild]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
* The Master is one of the only two villains, along with the [[Nestene Consciousness]], that appeared in two post-[[regeneration]] stories.
* He has been called '''"The 17th Master"''' by some fans, based upon a behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of the spoof. In the special itself he is not referred to as anything but the Master.
=== Character conception and development ===
When conceiving the character, the production team had originally considered the idea of the Doctor having a female arch-nemesis rather than male one (this idea was later revived with the creation of [[the Rani]]). Later, they thought of the Master as the evil half of a single personality. The Master's name was dreamed up as another counterpart to the Doctor's — like that of his enemy, "Master" is an academic title. But this does not mean that the Master has a lesser academic degree than the Doctor, as in a Masters Degree. Both being Time Lords, they have the same level of education and are graduates of the Time Lord Academy.
 
In the [[Third Doctor]]'s [[The Final Game|original final episode concept]], [[Roger Delgado]]'s incarnation of the Master would have redeemed himself and given his life to save the Doctor, after which the Doctor would have [[Regeneration|regenerated]]; however, this story was never developed due to Delgado's accidental death. Over thirty years later, this idea would be reused in ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' with [[John Simm]]'s incarnation of the Master sacrificing himself to save the [[Tenth Doctor]] from [[Rassilon]].
 
In ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'', writer [[Robert Holmes]] deliberately chose to show the Master in a "transitional" form in case future production teams wanted to bring back the character. This transitional form was used in ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]''.


=== Is "Koschei" his true name? ===
* This Master is a parody of the Delgado Master from the [[Third Doctor]]'s era.  
The name "Koschei" has been developed in various novels. However, like the Doctor's name, the Master's actual moniker has never been revealed in performed ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
 
Still, the name has a befitting Russian heritage.  Koschei (rus.{{w|Koschei|Коще́й}} or Коще́й Бессме́ртный, "Koschei The Deathless") is an antagonist in Russian folklore. He is an immortal who hides his soul inside a needle, which is inside an egg, in a duck, inside a hare, in an iron chest which is buried under a tree on the island of Buyan. As long as his soul is safe, he cannot die.
 
=== How many Masters? ===
It has never been firmly established on screen how many incarnations of the Master have existed. The only number explicitly given by any narrative is that found in [[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'', where the Master is said to be near the end of his thirteenth and final life. In [[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'', it's unambiguously established that [[Susan Foreman]] uses a combination of the Master's [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]] and her knowledge of [[the TARDIS]] to wreak devastating physical damage on the Roger Delgado Master, and the form protrayed by [[Geoffrey Beevers]] and [[Peter Pratt]] is merely the degenerated form of Delgado and not a wholly different incarnation. 
 
Afterwards, [[Anthony Ainley]]'s version of the Master takes over Tremas' body goes on to plague the Doctor until the original series' end. Despite no actual [[regeneration]], it's technically a different form. 
 
There are no narratives whatsoever which unambiguously define the relationship between the Ainley Master and those that follow him, meaning that it's impossible to assign numbers to the Master's forms, in the same way that we would with incarnations of [[the Doctor]].
 
That hasn't stopped at least one non-narrative source from trying, though.  The 2010 edition of [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary]]'' indicates that the Master played by [[John Simm]] is the seventeenth form. According to this theory, [[Derek Jacobi]] would be the sixteenth, [[Eric Roberts]] the fifteenth, and Anthony Ainley/[[Gordon Tipple]] the fourteenth. However, there's no narrative evidence to support ''any'' of the ''Visual Dictionary'' claims.
 
=== Offscreen relationships ===
Although they played antagonists onscreen, in real life [[Roger Delgado]] and [[Jon Pertwee]] were actually close friends. In interviews and convention Q&A sessions, Pertwee often cited the death of Delgado as one of the factors which led him to give up the role. ([[DOC]]: ''[[PanoptiCon 93]]'', [[MM VHS 15]])
 
=== Casting ===
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|[[Roger Delgado]]||[[1971]]-[[1973]]||''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]''||''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]''||Roger Delgado would have also appeared in the final story of [[Jon Pertwee]]'s tenure, had not his death intervened
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||[[Peter Pratt]]||[[1976]]||''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]||same||Peter Pratt was the first actor to play the Master after Roger Delgado. He was also the first actor to portray the Master's cadaverous body.
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|[[Geoffrey Beevers]]||[[1981]]||''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]||same||Geoffrey Beevers became the primary vocal performer of the Master for [[Big Finish]]
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|[[Anthony Ainley]]||[[1981]]-[[1989]]||''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]''||''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]||Anthony Ainley also appeared in the specially shot full motion video that accompanied [[1997]]'s ''[[Destiny of the Doctors (video game)|Destiny of the Doctors]]''
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|[[Eric Roberts]]||[[1996]]||''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]''||same||[[Gordon Tipple]] played the Master who the [[Dalek]]s exterminate at the start of the 1996 telemovie. Virtually all of his footage was cut from the finished film. Roberts is the the first and so far the only American actor to play the role.
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|[[Derek Jacobi]]||[[2007]]||''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''||same||[[Derek Jacobi]] had earlier played [[The Master (Scream of the Shalka)|another version]] of the Master in the ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'' webcast.
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|[[William Hughes]]||[[2007]]||''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]''||''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''||[[William Hughes]] the Master as a child in a dialogue-free flashback which was repeated in ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''
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|[[John Simm]]||[[2007]]-present||''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''||''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''||[[John Simm]]' version of the character was the first incarnation of Master to ever be shown as the product of a proper [[regeneration]] shown onscreen. Although he hasn't appeared since [[2010]]'s ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', he remains the incumbent {{as of|2013|07|lc=y}}
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==== Audio ====
[[Geoffrey Beevers]] is the main portrayer of the character in [[Big Finish]] audios.  Sometimes, as in the [[The Fourth Doctor Adventures]], he's merely reprising the pre-[[Tremas]] Master seen in ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]''.  On other occasions, he has portrayed a post-''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'' Master that has had the [[Tremas]] layer peeled away.  Thus, in ''[[Dust Breeding]]'' and ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'', he is ''once again'' the decayed version of the Delgado Master.
 
Additionally, [[Alex Macqueen]] portrayed the Master in the audio drama ''[[UNIT Dominion]]'', although it is uncertain where in the Master's timeline this is set.
 
=== Anagrams ===
During [[Anthony Ainley]]'s tenure as the Master, [[pseudonym]]s made from anagrams of the actor's name were often used in the credits for the Master's disguises, such as Neil Toynay for [[the Portreeve]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]''. [[Tremas]] is itself an anagram of Master.
 
The tradition has continued in the [[BBC Wales]] version of the show.  During [[series 3 (Doctor Who)|series 3]], the Master takes on two new identities, Professor Yana in [[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', and Mr. Harold Saxon in [[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]''.  Yana is an intentional acronym of ''''Y'''ou '''A'''re '''N'''ot '''A'''lone, the final words of the [[Face of Boe]], which led the Doctor to discover that Yana was a Time Lord. "Mister Saxon", meanwhile, is an anagram of "Master No. Six" — though there's no clear evidence that this was intentional. 
 
As a matter of coincidence, "Sam Tyler" — John Simm's ''[[Wikipedia:Life on Mars (TV series)|Life on Mars]]'' character — is an anagram of "masterly".
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In a universe other than that which the Doctor called home, a particularly incompetent version of the Master attempted to destroy the Ninth Doctor on the planet Tersurus.

Biography

While spying on the Doctor, the Master inadvertently enabled two way communication and unwittingly revealed his plans to eliminate the Doctor. After the two had arranged to meet on Tersurus, it became apparent the Master had travelled back in time to bribe a Tersuron architect to install traps in the castle they were now in. Unbeknownst to him, the Doctor had also done the same, bribing the architect with food to change the traps' details. This led to the Master floundering around the sewers of Tersurus for centuries, after which he was forced to ally himself with the Daleks and then used his very own TARDIS to travel back to the point just after he fell. Then he threatened the doctor once again with the daleks, as the Daleks were the only life-forms without noses and hence the only creatures willing to work with him.

As part of this alliance, the Master had himself "augmented" with Dalek technology, resulting in a more youthful appearance and "Dalek bumps" on his chest. Although he remained adamant they were etheric beam locators, the Doctor continually teased the Master because they resembled breasts.

When he believed the Twelfth Doctor to have been killed by the zectronic beam, the Master renounced his evil ways before the Doctor regenerated into a female form. Attracted to each other, the Time Lords walked off, arm in arm. (TV: The Curse of Fatal Death)

Behind the scenes

  • He has been called "The 17th Master" by some fans, based upon a behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of the spoof. In the special itself he is not referred to as anything but the Master.
  • This Master is a parody of the Delgado Master from the Third Doctor's era.
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