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| |alias = Marnal Gate
| | |species = Time Lord |
| |species = Time Lord | | |origin = [[Gallifrey]] |
| |job = Castellan | | |partner = The Master's mother |
| |affiliation = Chancellery Guard | | |child = The Master |
| |origin = [[Gallifrey]] | | |grandchild = The Master's daughter |
| |only = The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel) | | |first mention = The End of Time (TV story) |
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| '''Marnal''' was a [[Time Lord]]. He was the previous owner of [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. In his childhood, [[the Doctor]] considered Marnal his hero. | | {{you may|n1=his fake counterpart|Harold Saxon's father}} |
| | [[The Master]] had a '''[[father]]'''. |
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| Marnal was the [[Castellan]] on [[Gallifrey]] before the Doctor left the planet. Marnal was sent by the Time Lords to [[the Shoal]] to investigate the threat of the [[Vore]] to Gallifrey. He destroyed the Shoal after a meeting with [[Larna]], a Time Lady from Gallifrey's future.
| | As children, the [[First Doctor]] and Master would play in the fields near the Master's father's estates, with pastures of red grass near [[Mount Perdition]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') |
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| Marnal threatened to expose fellow Time Lord [[Ulysses]]' secret of having a hybrid son. Ulysses wiped Marnal's memory with his [[TARDIS]]' telepathic circuits and dumped him on [[Earth]] in [[England]], [[1883]]. He was placed in the care of a Mrs Gate. Under the name Marnal Gate, Marnal became a science fiction author, and met Mervyn Peake, who illustrated one of his novels, and [[H.G. Wells]]. Marnal had amnesia about Gallifrey and the Time Lords, but he remembered enough to write novels containing the entire history of Gallifrey; he did not know Gallifrey was a real place.
| | The Master was often discontented and [[Anger|angry]]. He used to blame his [[the Master's mother|mother]] and father for it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[I Am The Master (audio story)|I Am The Master]]'') |
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| Marnal had a son on Gallifrey, who visited him during the [[1970s]] and told him that the Doctor was the renegade Time Lord who stole his TARDIS. He also had four adopted daughters on Earth from his wives' previous marriages, whom he described as parasites. | | ==Behind the scenes== |
| | *In ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'', the Time Lord [[Marnal]] mentions he was briefly visited by his son while on Earth in the [[1970s]], heavily implying that his son is the Master. Indeed, in author [[Lance Parkin]]'s ''[[AHistory]]'', he says the visit of Marnal's son is set during UNIT's hunt for the Master in the television story ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]''. |
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| In [[2005]], he regenerated from his twelfth to his thirteenth and final incarnation. The surge of [[artron energy]] restoring his synapses in the regeneration returned his memory. He recruited his hospice nurse, [[Rachel Rowley]], and used a [[bottle universe]] to learn about the destruction of Gallifrey and the history of the [[Eighth Doctor]].
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| Enraged at the Doctor's actions, as well as the "theft" of his old TARDIS, he intended to make the Doctor pay for his crimes. However, the pair created an uneasy alliance when the Vore began to invade Earth. Marnal became convinced that he and the Doctor should restore Gallifrey, but he was killed by the Vore before any plan could be finalized. Before he died, the Doctor told him that he was his childhood hero, which seemed to surprise Marnal before passing. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')
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| In an [[Alternate timeline (The Infinity Doctors)|alternate timeline]], Marnal was remembered as the man who went on impossible crusades and who fought battles without knowing his enemy. The latter was to become known as "Marnal's error". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'')
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| == Works ==
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| Marnal's novels included:
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| * ''[[The Kraglon Inheritance]]''
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| * ''[[The Witch Lords]]''
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| * ''[[The Emergents]]''
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| * ''[[The Giants]]''
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| * ''[[The Hand of Time]]'' (published in [[1976]])
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| * ''[[The Time of Neman]]''
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| * ''[[The Beautiful People]]''
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| * ''[[Marnal's Journeys or the Modern Crusoe]]''
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| * ''[[Day of Wrath]]''
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| * ''[[The Monkey to Time Saga]]'' (published in [[November]] [[2001]])
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| * ''[[Valley of the Lost]]''
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| He once wrote an episode of ''[[Star Trek]]'', but it was subsequently altered so much that he removed his name from it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')
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| == Appearance ==
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| In his twelfth incarnation, Marnal was an old man; after he regenerated, he was a young man with [[brown]] [[eye]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| * Many of Marnal's works are references to the [[List of working titles|working titles]] of previous televised ''Doctor Who'' stories. They include ''The Witch Lords'' ([[TV]]: ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]''), ''The Giants'' ([[TV]]: ''[[The Giants (TV story)|The Giants]]''), ''The Hand of Time'' ([[TV]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear]]''), ''The Kraglon Inheritance'' ([[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]''), ''Day of Wrath'' ([[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]''), ''The Time of Neman'' ([[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'') and ''The Monkey to Time Saga'' (possibly [[Season 16|The Key to Time season]] ).
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| * Marnal's son is heavily implied to be [[the Master]]. In author [[Lance Parkin]]'s ''[[AHistory]]'', he says the visit of Marnal's son in the [[1970s]] (during which the unnamed son was "on the run") is set during [[UNIT]]'s hunt for the Master in the television story ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]''.
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