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The death of the Master's sixth incarnation was acknowledged by Missy, herself a product of the Master's eighteenth death, on her Spacebook profile. (PROSE: Girl Power!)

Nature

By their nature as a Time Lord, the Master was born with an initial life cycle of 13 lives, which the Eighth Doctor knew had all been used by the time of the Old Master's trial on Skaro. (TV: Doctor Who) Missy acknowledged that she had first died thirteen times before before taking over "some bloke's body". (PROSE: Girl Power!) In fact, the Decayed Master, who claimed to be nearing the end of his "twelfth regeneration", had acquired "a new body" in the Trakenite Tremas. (TV: The Keeper of Traken) Surviving his execution on Skaro as a Deathworm Morphant, the Old Master took the body of Bruce, a human. (TV: Doctor Who)

The Bruce Master claimed to Chang Lee that the Doctor had taken most of his regenerations whilst the Doctor told Grace Holloway that the Master was both "on his last life" and had "[ran] out of all his lives". In their ensuing confrontation, the Master claimed that it was because of the Doctor that he had "wasted all [his] lives". The Doctor challenged this, reminding Lee that the Master claimed that he had stolen those lives when the reality was that the Master sought the Doctor's remaining lives after having "used all his lives", noting that the Master himself had just admitted to wasting "all of them". (TV: Doctor Who) In any case, the bodily theft was followed by the Master's fourteenth death. (PROSE: Girl Power!)

The Monk

The Master as "the Monk". (PROSE: CIA File Extracts)

Main article: First Monk

According to the Celestial Intervention Agency's research, the Master's sixth incarnation had yet to take on the name of "the Master". He was a short, clean-shaven man, quite different from how the Master had looked on Gallifrey. He decided to begin experimenting with temporal nexuses in the hope of manipulating them to take control of all History, altering it for the better so as to favour civilisation. Calling himself a "Monk", the Master's first experiment had him aiming atomic bazookas at the Viking ships of Harald Hardrada to see if he could alter the history of England. However, the Doctor intervened and damaged the Master's TARDIS. The two again crossed paths after the Master had made his way to the planet Tigus, where he forged an uneasy alliance with the Daleks. Though the Master fulfilled his part of the bargain by leading the Doctor to the Daleks, the Daleks, having no further use for him, turned on him. The Master regenerated into a new incarnation with different features, who was more ruthless and began to use the name of "the Master". (PROSE: CIA File Extracts)

The Seventh Doctor once made a statement which may have placed the Monk as an earlier incarnation of the Master:

"I can’t rewrite the script... Do you think I would have let the Master grow into the twisted megalomaniac he is if I could have prevented it? It’s not as simple as that. [I can't unmake a real piece of space-time]. I wish I'd understood that when I had to deal with that meddling Monk."Seventh Doctor

Similarly, the Eighth Doctor once reflected that if he crossed his personal "line in the sand" of not upending Earth's history, even though he sometimes interfered in other planets', he would "end up just like the Master. Meddling for [his] own purposes". (PROSE: Interference - Book One)

However, other accounts of the Doctor's early life treated "the Monk" as a different childhood associate of the Doctor's, previously known as Mortimus. According to these accounts, no known connection existed between the Monk's and the Master's respective incarnations. (PROSE: A Brief History of Time Lords, Divided Loyalties, No Future)

Biography

Fate

Ultimately, the Master's sixth incarnation died and naturally regenerated into his seventh incarnation. (PROSE: Girl Power!)

Post-mortem

When the "Tremas" Master was stripped of his Trakenite body by the Time Lords, and after his plot to steal the Fifth Doctor's regenerations failed, he found himself confronting mental projections of all his past incarnations, and was able to steal a bit of life energy from each of them, allowing him to regenerate back into his Trakenite body. (PROSE: The Velvet Dark)

Behind the scenes

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The sixth and seventh incarnations of the Master were known as "the Monk". (NOTVALID: The Doctor Who Role Playing Game)

The Doctor Who Role Playing Game by FASA, which admits to taking liberties with the source material in its opening pages, gives a rundown of the Master's first thirteen incarnations in "The Master" supplement book, which was similar to (but not entirely consistent with) the in-universe biography given for the Master in FASA's own CIA File Extracts.

According to the book, the Master could control the form of his incarnations, and frequently used the same face. In a constant, bearded aristocrat form, the Master worked as a researcher on Gallifrey until his fifth incarnation, aged over 700-years-old, attempted to lead a rebellion on Gallifrey, with the War Chief among his followers, which ended in failure with the Master himself being gravely wounded, forcing him to flee and regenerate. The now renegade Time Lord decided to completely abandon his familiar form with his sixth incarnation assuming a shorter, heavier and younger but still apparently middle-aged "average" appearance, wearing his brown hair short with bangs hanging straight across a high forehead above a broad face, with only his piercing eyes remaining much as before. Adopting the hooded robes worn by religious orders during Earth's 11th century, this incarnation became known as the Monk. He regenerated after an accident with the Monk's TARDIS freed him from Earth, his new incarnation being identical to the last. When the Master's activities as the Monk became known, he chose a new disguise when a crisis triggered his next regeneration, assuming a more familiar bearded appearance in his next five incarnations.