The Master merged with the body of Tremas of the Traken Union, making him look like a younger Tremas, but the Time Lord's merger was not without any draw-backs; because his Time Lord DNA was diluted while merged with the Trakenite and he no longer had the ability to regenerate. In this fourteenth incarnation, he continued his crusade to conquer the universe and destroy the Doctor.
As did his former incarnation, he used fairly good disguises in acts of subterfuge. This incarnation of the Master faced the Doctor's fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh incarnations but was always bested. This did not stop him from constantly trying to kill the Doctor with overplanned schemes.
He temporarily teamed up with a fellow evil Time Lord, the Rani, as part of his own schemes to get rid of the Doctor and to conquer the universe; it backfired, leaving them in one of the Doctor's own traps. During the Sixth Doctor's trial, he assisted him by sending witnesses to prove the Valeyard's evidence had been tampered with; the Valeyard was a version of the Doctor he saw could not be beat, meaning he was better off with the original.
How this incarnation came to an end is often met with confusion due to conflicting sources, but it can be presumed this version of the Master was executed on Skaro by the Daleks during the Doctor Who movie.
Biography
Origins
About 1981, the Master plotted to take over the Source on the Planet Traken, the power behind the Traken Union. He wished to be the new Keeper of Traken, but ended up trapped in his TARDIS upon arrival on the planet; his evil permeated the Melkur statue whose form his TARDIS took. Once the current Keeper's power waned, the Master managed to take the Keeper's power for himself. As an unexpected bonus to his plans, the Master found the Doctor was summoned by the Keeper; with the power of the Source, the Master would be able to merge with the Doctor to get a new body. With the help of Tremas and his daughter Nyssa, the Doctor removed the Master from the Source. With some of the Keeper's powers lingering, the Master merged with Tremas. In his new form, he looked like a younger Tremas. (TV: The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis)
However, because Tremas' body was not that of a Time Lord, it could not regenerate but would age instead. The Master would have to steal another body to survive eventually.
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Exploits
The Master went to Earth, where he trapped the Doctor's TARDIS in a gravity bubble. He killed Tegan's aunt Vanessa and a police constable with his Tissue Compression Eliminator. He went to Logopolis, where he pretended to be Tremas to get Nyssa cooperation, giving her a bracelet that allowed him to control her arm. Using her as a hostage, he perverted the Block Transfer Computations 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 the Logopolitans' 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 Doctor to stop it. They travelled to the Pharos Project on Earth to do so, using the last theorem of Logopolis to reopen the 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, something that would put himself in danger as well; if he couldn't rule the universe, he'd destroy it. 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)
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 the TARDIS through the Architectural Configuration. The Master used Adric's block transfer computations to create Castrovalva in the 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: Castrovalava)
The Master escaped from Castrovalva, however, in the attempt, it caused damage to the dynamorphic generators, making it difficult to continue piloting the TARDIS. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel) So he travelled to Earth in 140,000,000 BC, where he disguised himself as the magician Kalid, hoping to use the Xeraphin gestalt to replace his dynamorphic generators. Therefore, he brought two Concordes 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)
On Xeriphas, he found and acquired Kamelion, a shape-changing android that could be easily controlled by a stong mind. Somehow managing to elude Xeraphin, the Master escaped to 1215, England. 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 Lords 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 as a reward for his services. He agreed and was given a copy of the Seal of the High Council by the Castellan to prove that he was on a mission for the Time Lords. The Doctor's third incarnation did not believe him and toke the seal from him.
He made a temporary alliance with the 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. 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)
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)
While creating a more powerful version of the Tissue Compression Eliminator, the Master accidently 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. With Kamelion acting as his physical proxy, the Master had him pretend to be the local's 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) The Master did not die on Sarn. He went in search the Fountain of Youth to restore himself, which he managed to exploit. (PROSE: A Town Called Eternity)
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 Earth's technology for his own nefarious reasons while the Rani wanted the brain chemical that induces sleep. The Doctor trapped the Master and the Rani in her TARDIS, which the Doctor had sabotaged; time spillage put them in danger of being eaten by a Tyranosaurous 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)
Recovering his own TARDIS and learning of the Valeyard, the Master materialized 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 beleived 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)
- After escaping from the Matrix, the Master could regenerate his body because The Source of Traken still existed within him. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel)
After escaping from an unsuccessful alliance with the Krotons, the Master discovers 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 Chronovores, 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 has 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 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)
After trying to start a war between Antari Two and Antari Three, (PROSE: First Frontier) the Master went to the Cheetah World, where he took control of the Cheetah People and the kitlings. 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 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 teleported 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)
Fate
One account told of the Master escaping the Cheetah planet with the aid of a Kitling just as the planet exploded. The explosion of the planet sent the Master back in time to Earth in 1957.
On Earth, the Master interrupted the real first 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 agreed and gave the Master a new body. (PROSE: First Frontier)
However, other accounts told of the Master escaping the Cheetah World still infected by the Cheetah Virus. 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 Fleshsmiths. The Master's plan was stopped by the Doctor, who ejected the new body from the Fleshsmith vessel into space. (PROSE: Prime Time)
A third account suggests that later in his life, the Master captured seven of the Doctor's incarnations and put them into a void called the Determinant. The Graak freed the Doctor and the Master was put on trial. (GAME: Destiny of the Doctors) It was suggested that those who put him on trial were the Daleks. This account would lead directly into the Master's trial on Skaro. (TV: Doctor Who, PROSE: The Eight Doctors)
Personality
This incarnation of the Master was charismatic, deadly and sophisticated but decidedly more flamboyantly evil, bombastic and futile than his predecessors. He was prone to laughing maniacally and reciting verbose speeches accompanied by melodramatic gestures and poses. Even so, this incarnation was dangerous. He was also fanatically and uselessly devoted to killing the Doctor, setting overly elaborate traps for him and his TARDIS. The Rani said he would get dizzy if he walked in a straight line. His over-planning was his undoing.
He was tall and thin with black hair and a goatee beard. This incarnation of the Master had a particular fondness for the Tissue Compression Eliminator. [source needed]
Aliases
He also liked to adopt disguises and aliases:
- The Portreeve (TV: Castrovalva)
- Kalid (TV: Time-Flight)
- Sir Gilles Estram (TV: The King's Demons)
- The Merlin (PROSE: The Creation of Camelot)
- A scarecrow (TV: The Mark of the Rani)
- The Sheriff (PROSE: A Town Called Eternity)
- For more details, see Aliases of the Master.
Other information
- A hallucination of this incarnation of the Master appeared to the 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)