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===Harold Saxon===
===Harold Saxon===
*[[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''
*[[PROSE]]: ''[[Speech Day (short story)|Speech Day]]''
*[[PROSE]]: ''[[Speech Day (short story)|Speech Day]]''
*[[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]''
*[[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]''
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: The Master is sent to the last day of the Time War.
: The Master is sent to the last day of the Time War.
:*[[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]'' (flashback)
:*[[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]'' (flashback)
:*[[COMIC]]: ''[[The Abominable Showmen (comic story)|The Abominable Showmen]]''
:*[[COMIC]]: ''[[The Abominable Showmen (comic story)|The Abominable Showmen]]'' / ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]''
:*[[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters (comic story)|The Five Masters]]''
:: Set during ''The End of Time'', while the Master is free-roaming.
:: Set during ''The End of Time'', while the Master is free-roaming.
*[[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]''/''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]''
*[[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'' / ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]''
: The Master references his brief return to Gallifrey.
: The Master references his brief return to Gallifrey. The Master is later stabbed by his future self, commencing his regeneration into Missy.
: The Master is stabbed by Missy, commencing his regeneration into her.


===Missy===
===Missy===

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This page lists appearances of The Master in the order in which he experienced them. It relies on much speculation to fit semi-contradictory sources together, and should absolutely not be seen as representative of this wiki's general policy.

Limiting factors

Events after Doctor Who are difficult to reconcile with each other as they offer contradictory accounts to what happened when the Master escaped the Eye of Harmony.

Series basics

to be added

Timeline

The child who would become the Master is presumably in his first incarnation.
"Magnus" lives on Gallifrey. He's said to carelessly waste regenerations.
Magnus is a renegade and lives off-Gallifrey. The Time Lords try to execute him, but he just regenerates.

It was intended that Magnus be the Master and the War Chief, who were intended to be the same character. Divided Loyalties identified the two as separate, but the dream flashbacks are stated by the Doctor to have been nightmares, and are therefore unreliable.

Here, the Master's timeline splits in two.

1.

Ke Le

The regenerated War Chief is stranded on Earth and regenerates again into Ke Le.

2.

Koschei

The War Chief regenerates into Felix Kriegslieter, who, after being burned, regenerates into the "Koschei" incarnation. Ace describes the new incarnation as "a young man, tall, dark and satanically handsome".
The Master is living on Gallifrey, but is the incarnation first seen in Terror of the Autons.
The Master is already in his incarnation first seen in Terror of the Autons.
The Master is wearing the clothes of the incarnation seen in Terror of the Autons, but targets the Second Doctor, rather than the Third. He is malevolent and the Doctor is travelling with Jamie and not Victoria, so after The Dark Path.
The Master doesn't appear, but a Time Lord mentions that he has escaped Shada.
Leads into Terror of the Autons.
The Master is stuck on Earth.
The Master's TARDIS is operational.
The Master meets his future incarnation's wife in prison.
The Master is imprisoned.
The Master is imprisoned.
The Master is imprisoned.
The Master moves to Fortress island, leading into The Sea Devils
The Master retrieves his TARDIS from where he hid it in The Face of the Enemy.
The Doctor has regenerated.
The Doctor has regenerated again.
The Master is badly injured, leading into The Deadly Assassin. According to this, the Master is already in his thirteenth incarnation. Note that this contradicts Sympathy for the Devil, where he is able to regenerate after the Doctor's exile, The Two Masters, where the version of him burnt is probably a different one and Doorway to Hell where he regenerates.
The Master intends to go to Skaro and ally with the Daleks, leading into Frontier in Space.
The Master has returned from his affair with the Daleks and the Draconians.

Damien Scott

The Master has avoided being burnt, but encounters his future incarnation, who scars him. The Old Master steals the New Master's body.

Van Houten

The Master is badly injured, leading into The Deadly Assassin.
The Master left Gallifrey straight for Earth looking for the Doctor.
The Master, wearing a cloak, attempts to steal Iris Wildthyme's body.
The Master is captured by the Sild.
The Master meets his future selves.
The Master hasn't met Nyssa yet, placing it before The Keeper of Traken. Release order position for original Four/Leela Big Finish audios.
The Master gains the body of Tremas

Tremas

The Master is trying to reconstitute his body after it was broken down when Castrovalva was destroyed.
The Master is scarred because of Planet of Fire.
The Master attempts to steal the Fifth Doctor's remaining regenerations.
The Master meets his past and future selves.
The Master is still infected with the Cheetah virus from Survival.
The Master is wearing the same costume as in Destiny of the Doctors. He is not affected by the Cheetah virus.

Major Kreer

The Master is affected by the Cheetah virus. It recurred after seemingly being cured in Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark as well, in Ace. The Tzun attempt to give the Master a new regeneration cycle, and his first regeneration cures the cheetah virus.
The Master's supposed new regeneration cycle has not worked, and his body is breaking down.

Mr Seta

The Master's old body has broken down by the Warp Core, turning him into the same form seen in The Keeper of Traken.
The Master is in his Trakenite form, which continues to be infected with the Cheetah virus until TV: Doctor Who. He gains a Deathworm Morphant and steals another body.
The Master is executed by the Daleks because... reasons.
The Doctor has already travelled with Chris and Roz, so this is after Lungbarrow - when he was sent to retrieve the Master's remains. He also has enough power over the Master to (with Death's help) create his life as "John Smith." So Master has been placed here on the assumption that, rather than even trying to return the Master's remains to Gallifrey, he takes advantage of his possession of said remains to give the Master his "John Smith" life. Then, while the Master spends ten years as John Smith, the Doctor has other adventures - which nicely explains why there can be stories set between Lungbarrow and Doctor Who.
This is a body stolen by the Master as a way to survive.

Bruce

Set while the Master is wearing Bruce's outfit.
The Master is saved by Esterath and given the body of a recently-deceased vagrant.

A Street Preacher

The Master is banished to parts unknown by Kroton - most likely the Eye of Harmony, although not stated.

Don Maestro

The Master escapes the Eye of Harmony again.
Set during the events of Forgotten.
Set directly after Forgotten. At the end, the Master is free and has his grandfather clock TARDIS.

War King

The Time Lords have cloned the Master during the War.
The Doctor's oldest friend has survived the War and is determined to save Gallifrey.
A renegade returns to Gallifrey with warnings of the War and becomes a politician. He has scarring deliberately retained from his previous incarnation.
The Doctor's oldest friend is Magistrate of the Citadel on Gallifrey.
The renegade becomes the War King. He keeps a hypercube as a momento.
The Magistrate is War King.
The War King is consumed by what was originally his grandfather clock TARDIS, Lolita.

Harcourt De'ath

The Master was rescued by the Time Lords from "a predicament," which the Doctor is aware of.
The Master is working in direct opposition to the Time Lords.

The Time War

The Master is in the body of a small child, having been resurrected to fight in the Time War. He regenerates into the "Yana" incarnation of the Master due to a paradox.

Professor Yana

The Master has just left the Time War. He doesn't have a TARDIS. He regenerates into his "Harold Saxon" incarnation.

Harold Saxon

Lucy is given the gun that she will use to kill the Master.
The Master is captured during the Year That Never Was by the Sild. He is freed and returned to his time.
Set during the final scene of Last of the Time Lords.
The Master is sent to the last day of the Time War.
Set during The End of Time, while the Master is free-roaming.
The Master references his brief return to Gallifrey. The Master is later stabbed by his future self, commencing his regeneration into Missy.

Missy

Missy claims the Doctor "left [her] for dead." Missy is aware of the Doctor saving Gallifrey at the end of the Last Great Time War. The Twelfth Doctor speculates that she has a TARDIS, though it does not appear.
Missy is imprisoned and sentenced to execution. The Doctor spares her life, but traps her within a vault.
The Doctor is forced to visit Missy within the vault to consult her for help against the Monks.
Missy is freed from the vault by Nardole to rescue the Doctor and Bill Potts.
Missy meets her previous incarnation, who mortally wounds her.
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