By all accounts, Romanadvoratrelundar’s third incarnation was the one who followed Romana II’s regeneration.
Where accounts differ, however, are the particulars surrounding this regeneration. By most accounts, the third Romana served as President of the High Council during an all-encompassing time war between Gallifrey and another major temporal power. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)"]; AUDIO: Luna Romana [+]Loading...["Luna Romana (audio story)"]) Other accounts, however, suggest that Romana had eschewed the Presidency during this incarnation and served the universe in other ways. (STAGE: Time Fracture [+]Loading...["Time Fracture (stage play)"]; PROSE: The Little Book of Fate [+]Loading...["The Little Book of Fate (short story)"])
War Queen of the Nine Gallifreys
- Main article: Romana III (The Shadows of Avalon)
According to one account, Romana II regenerated into a snub-nosed woman with dark hair styled into a fringe and green eyes who apparently resembled the Doctor's mother at some point during the first decades of her Presidency. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)"])
By this account, Romana would lead Gallifrey as it approached an all-encompassing temporal conflict with the Enemy known as the War in Heaven. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"], et al.) However, after Faction Paradox invaded Gallifrey, the War was averted and Gallifrey was destroyed. This resulted in a new form of reality where history was “fundamentally altered” and both Gallifrey and the Time Lords were wiped from the timeline. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"], The Adventuress of Henrietta Street [+]Loading...["The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)"])
She would go by title such as the War Queen and Mistress of the Nine Gallifreys. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)"], The Ancestor Cell [+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"])
Leading Gallifrey though its "darkest hour"
- Main article: Trey
According to another account, however, Romana II regenerated into a young woman with blue eyes and long dark hair styled into a fringe. This regeneration came about as a means of preventing the host ship Moros from becoming a black hole and destroying Gallifrey. (AUDIO: Enemy Lines [+]Loading...["Enemy Lines (audio story)"])
By this account, Romana would lead Gallifrey through its “darkest hour” (AUDIO: Luna Romana [+]Loading...["Luna Romana (audio story)"] as it engaged in a large-scale temporal conflict with Omega and his adherents. (PROSE: Enemy Lines [+]Loading...["Enemy Lines (audio story)"]) This Time War would escalate to the point wherein Romana, Narvin, and Ace were found guilty of high treason. However, after Romana sent her friend Irving Braxiatel back in time to avert her regeneration, the War was averted. (AUDIO: Enemy Lines [+]Loading...["Enemy Lines (audio story)"])
When a projection of this incarnation appeared through the Matrix to aid her predecessor, she went by the title of Trey. (AUDIO: Renaissance [+]Loading...["Renaissance (audio story)"], Ascension [+]Loading...["Ascension (audio story)"])
The Fortune Teller
- Main article: Romana (The Little Book of Fate)
By one account, at some point during a “Forever war spreading through all of time and space”, Romana II regenerated into an incarnation with a young face but “the quiet self-possession of one much older”, who styled herself wearing a black beret and a waistcoat, with a scarf knotted at her throat.
This incarnation worked with Laszlo and other Tharils to rescue refugees from the all-encompassing temporal conflict. This temporal refugee camp was disguised as a traveling carnival, in which she posed as a fortune teller. (PROSE: The Little Book of Fate [+]Loading...["The Little Book of Fate (short story)"])
The Lord Cardinal
- Main article: Romana (Time Fracture)
Within the confines of a temporal anomaly known as the Time Fracture, time began to repeat itself. At some point during this time loop, Romana II, who was now a Lord Cardinal, regenerated into an incarnation with short, blonde hair, and blue eyes.
While UNIT had speculated that this incarnation of Romana would make for a powerful ally should she survive Gallifrey’s destruction, a flood of artron energy closed the Time Fracture and prevented it from ever having been opened. (PROSE: Lord Romanadvoratrelundar [+]Loading...["Lord Romanadvoratrelundar (feature)"]; STAGE: Time Fracture [+]Loading...["Time Fracture (stage play)"])
Behind the scenes
- Writers involved in the War in Heaven arc of Eighth Doctor Adventures novels based Romana III's described appearance on that of the American silent film actress Louise Brooks.
- James Goss contrasted Juliet Landau's version of the third incarnation from "other future Romanadvoratrelundars" like the "brilliantly glacial flapper" who had appeared in the Eighth Doctor Adventures. (VOR 56) Despite this, Landau bares a striking resemblance to her prose counterpart.