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Given a new regeneration cycle by the Tzun to overcome the Cheetah virus, the Master was able to regenerate after being shot by Ace. Then, after being sentenced to death on Skaro, he was able to survive his execution using a Deathworm Morphant, and would continue to survive by possessing various bodies, until he was finally killed by the Ravenous.
Biography
Post-regeneration
Free? No fur...
Escaping the destruction of Cheetah World using a kitling named Shadow to transmigrate to 1957 Earth, the Master made contact with the Tzun Canton, and volunteered to help assimilate Earth into the Tzun Confederacy in return for use of the Tzun's genetic engineering to give him a new regenerative cycle and cure the Cheetah virus. Shortly afterwards, he was shot in the back by Ace, causing him to regenerate.
Following the regeneration, he was able to make his escape, summoning his TARDIS using a Stattenheim remote control built from Tzun technology. After leaving a booby-trap for the Doctor in a nuclear warhead, the Master fled (PROSE: First Frontier) to the Scoundrels Club to recover from his regeneration. (PROSE: Dismemberment)
A trap for the Doctor
The Master laid a trap for the Doctor at one of his homes using a device which would release the energy from a time fissure once the Doctor's TARDIS materialised, destroying it. The plan failed when Sarah Jane Smith, Mike Yates and K9 Mark III destroyed the device, causing the Master to flee. (PROSE: Housewarming)
The Loom of Rassilon's Mouse
The Master obtained the Loom of Rassilon's Mouse in order to make himself a sturdier and indestructible body. However, his plan failed when a Fortean Flicker caused Bernice Summerfield's wedding to occur in the same place, exposing his scheme to her guests, with the Doctor being amongst them. However, the Master managed to escape by hypnotising Kitai into posing as a decoy. (PROSE: Happy Endings)
A new body
Like all of his other attempts at extending his life, the Master's Tzun-made body eventually reverted back to a decayed husk, (AUDIO: Planet of Dust) and he once more "extended his life" by adding alien genes to his biomass, becoming a man with "saturnine features". (PROSE: The Novel of the Film)
Wanting to find a way to survive beyond his final regeneration, the Master tried to steal the body of a mouse-turned-boy named Callum, but his plan was foiled by the Doctor. (PROSE: Omegamorphosis)
Trial
The Master arrived in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, (AUDIO: Mastermind) where he was captured by a Dalek scouting party (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe) to be placed on trial (TV: Doctor Who) by the Dalek Prelature (AUDIO: Mastermind) for his attempts to destroy them and usurp their place as "the supreme creatures of the universe", (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) as well as for his failure in the plot behind the Human-Draconian War, (PROSE: The Runes of Fenric) as part of a Time Lord-Dalek treaty (PROSE: Lungbarrow) called the "Act of Master Restitution". (PROSE: A Brief History of Time Lords) The Master was tried in the presence of the Dalek Emperor while encased in a painful column of light which prevented him from moving. (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) It was "said" that he stayed impassive as his long list of crimes were read out to him. (TV: Doctor Who)
Before he was executed by the Daleks, the Master made a final request: for the Doctor to transport his remains back to Gallifrey. (TV: Doctor Who) According to one account, he made this request via telepathic contact with the Seventh Doctor, even as he was about to be discorporated, and the Daleks never knew of his demands, which the Doctor fulfilled covertly by sneaking into the Dalek bastion. (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) According to other accounts, it was as part of a Time Lord-Dalek treaty that the Doctor was able to safely journey to and from Skaro to retrieve the Master's remains. (PROSE: Lungbarrow)
Survival
The Doctor stored the Master's ashes in a casket and set his TARDIS on course for Gallifrey. However, en route, the Master's consciousness escaped from the casket and interfered with the TARDIS, causing a timing malfunction that resulted in an emergency landing in San Francisco during the final days of 1999. While the Doctor lay wounded after being caught in the crossfire of a gang war and was picked up by an ambulance, the Master exited the TARDIS via its keyhole, and, (TV: Doctor Who) deciding that the Doctor was too injured, and the nearby boy, Chang Lee, too young, (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) he hid inside a bag belonging to the ambulance driver, Bruce Gerhardt. After Bruce had gone home and to bed, the Master forced his way into Bruce's body through his mouth, killing him and taking over his body. (TV: Doctor Who) The Master's survival broke the peace treaty President Romana started, and was one of the causes for the Last Great Time War. (PROSE; A Brief History of Time Lords)
In Bruce's body
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Now in Bruce's body, the Master tried to steal the body of the Eighth Doctor, only to fall into the Eye of Harmony, (TV: Doctor Who) where he would remain trapped for a long time, (AUDIO: The Lifeboat and the Deathboat) until Bruce's body was unable to survive in the Eye and slowly came apart. (COMIC: The Glorious Dead)
Fight for the Glory
Nearing his ultimate destruction, the Master was rescued from the Vortex by a being named Esterath, the controller of the Glory, the focal point of the Omniverse. The Master was told that it was time for the Glory to gain another controller, but the power had to be fought for. The Master assumed that the battle would be between himself and the Doctor. After gliding over the many realities throughout the Omniversal Spectrum for what he described as seeming like "centuries", the Master was resurrected into the body of a recently deceased vagrant on the streets of 2001 Brixton. Some weeks afterwards, due to a symbiotic link he had formed with the Doctor's TARDIS when it consumed part of his essence after he passed through the Eye of Harmony, the Master was transported onto the Moon during one of the Doctor's adventures. The symbiotic link between the Doctor's TARDIS and the Master had also given the latter the ability to influence the flight of the TARDIS, which he used to send the craft to times and places which would weaken the Doctor's self-belief and confidence. The Master subsequently used this link to trail the Doctor for some time without his enemy suspecting. (COMIC: The Glorious Dead)
He was present in London during the crisis resulting from Grace Holloway's attempt to merge human and Time Lord DNA but was using the alien DNA of a Morphant by mistake. He killed Duncan, an MI6 agent, with his TCE. (COMIC: The Fallen)
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The Master later made contact with Sato Katsura, a Japanese samurai unwillingly rendered immortal as a result of his involvement in the Doctor's adventures, and recruited him to become his follower. At his behest, Sato adopted the identity of "Cardinal Morningstar" and became the leader of the Church of the Glorious Dead, instigator of a holy war that altered the history of Earth, a planet now renamed "Dhakan". After revealing his plot to him, the Master won a sword fight with the Doctor by stabbing him, but then learned that the true battle for the Glory was between Sato and the Doctor's companion, the Cyberman Kroton, of which Kroton was the victor. Amongst his first acts as the controller of the Glory were to cleanse the TARDIS of the Master's influence and to place the Master somewhere that he could not escape. The Master declared he would survive and return. (COMIC: The Glorious Dead)
Trapped in the Eye of Harmony
The Master was left imprisoned in the singularity of the Eye of Harmony, where he commanded infinite power, but could only wield it from within the confines of the Eye. The Master became externally perceived as a Great Black Eye beyond time, which frightened the Time Lords of Ulysses' era, was worshiped as a god in the post-War Kingdom of Beasts, (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles) and poisoned the Eighth Doctor's second heart. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)
During his imprisonment, the Doctor came to speak to the Master where he dwelled in a room with his face on a screen. The Master spoke to the Doctor in the room on several occasions, telling him that he was an "old friend". After the defeat of the Council of Eight, the Doctor spoke to him about the death of Miranda Dawkins and if it was worth the cost of him saving the universe. (PROSE: Sometime Never...)
The Master later appeared to the Doctor within a mirror in the TARDIS, where he asked the Doctor what was going on inside his head. The Doctor was unable to answer the question before the image in the mirror returned to that of the Doctor's reflection. (PROSE: The Deadstone Memorial)
The Master had a longer conversation with the Doctor from within the Eye of Harmony. The Master showed the Doctor a vision of Marnal's investigation of the Shoal. When the Doctor pressed him about what happened to Gallifrey, the Master teased him with offers to bring it back and to return his memories. The Master then became angry over the circumstances of his imprisonment, and threatened to use all of his power to detonate a fusion device and have his revenge, but the Doctor sealed up the Eye of Harmony before he had the chance to carry out his plan. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles)
Escaping the Eye of Harmony
The Master eventually escaped the Eye of Harmony by influencing the dreams of Edward Grainger to unravel the Doctor's timeline, by killing Edward Grainger whilst he was an infant in 1906. (PROSE: Forgotten) Though his Morphant form had sublimated to a gaseous state, the Master was still capable of using its powers to possess new bodies. (AUDIO: Mastermind) However, while in the body of Sir George Steer, he was stopped by an older Edward Grainger from 2006 and Violet after being hit with a rolling pin and being removed from George. (PROSE: Prologue) The Master then managed to evade the Doctor's detection, and possessed the body of a human named Richard. (PROSE: Forgotten)
Surviving on Earth
After possessing Richard, the Master killed Violet out of revenge. However, he discovered his possession had caused the host body to decay at an accelerated rate, so he was forced to steal more bodies to prolong his survival. Realising that the First World War was rapidly approaching, the Master decided to migrate to America to avoid the conflict and boarded a ship to go there in 1912. Ironically, he had boarded the RMS Titanic, unaware of its eventual fate, and escaped in a lifeboat when it sank.
Arriving in New York City, the Master took possession of a member of the Hudson Dusters, quickly becoming the leader of the gang and calling himself "Don Maestro". After twenty years of living in his current body, he occupied the body of his host's son, Michael, and moved to Las Vegas where he owned a casino. He accumulated money to fund experiments towards the elongation of the lifespan of his host body. Fearing the eventual decay of his body, the Master used his money to buy a penthouse to isolate himself from infection. After years living in isolation, his host's son confronted him with the knowledge that he had possessed both his father and his grandfather in some way. He then trapped the Master in the penthouse.
After UNIT were alerted to the presence of penthouse, they discovered the Master in a comatose state. He was imprisoned in the UNIT Vault, awakening every five years for one hour, before returning to a coma. After fifteen years living in the Vault, the Master awoke for a third time and was interrogated by UNIT officers Ruth Matheson and Charlie Sato. However, he managed to hypnotise both of them and escape his imprisonment. Discovering that UNIT had recovered his TARDIS from a sealed tomb in the Valley of the Kings, he used it to escape from the Vault. (AUDIO: Mastermind)
Reaching the end
The Master contacted Earth from the planet Glox from his TARDIS, disguised as a sound studio. As he told humans about how he brought Glox's civilisation to its ruin, he implanted into the listener a telepathic order. When the Fourth Doctor discovered his hideout, the Master ordered one of the listeners to connect telepathically to his TARDIS and become a replica of him; he then sent him out to face the security of the place and be killed in his place, while he escaped. (AUDIO: I Am The Master)
Death
I shouldn't be here! I died! I'm... the end of... the line...
After arriving on the planet Parrak in search of the tomb of one of Rassilon's leading engineers named Artron, the Master used his TARDIS to extract all water on the planet's surface throughout its history to use as an incentive for his workforce to keep obeying his rule. His overall plan was to use the Tomb of Artron to revive himself, using the unlimited regenerative energy Artron had discovered on Kolstan.
Nearing the end of his life and getting increasingly more desperate, the Master allied himself with the Eleven, with the intention of betraying him once the tomb was opened. However, the Eleven had used the Master to gain access to Artron's matrix brain, which he used to lead the Ravenous to the Doctor. Upon the Ravenous' arrival, they took greater interest in the Master, believing that the flavour of all of his lives was superior to that of the Doctor's. The Ravenous feasted on him and the Master died, his body being left on Parrak. (AUDIO: Planet of Dust)
However, when the Celestial Intervention Agency sent the "Bruce" Master, the "War" Master and Missy to return Artron's brain print to Parrak to help fuel the technology to grant new regenerative cycles to Time Lords, the Masters used the technology for themselves as part of the deal, and resurrected the corpse of the dead Master, giving him a new body and regeneration cycle in the process. (AUDIO: Day of the Master)
Undated events
- While in the form of a "snake", the Master visited the Scoundrels Club, as he always did when having gained a new physical form, and he sat in his favourite chair, taking notice how his snake form went unnoticed. (PROSE: Dismemberment)
Alternate timelines
In one version of the Last Great Time War, the Master's resurrection by the Time Lords damaged the Doctor's TARDIS's control console, with the lingering trauma of the Master's extraction from the TARDIS causing it to adopt a new appearance shortly after the Doctor regenerated at the conclusion of the Time War. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Time War)
In an aborted timeline, the "Deathworm" Master was brought to the ruins of Kiameth with four of his other incarnations, as well as Kamelion and Jo Grant by accident, by the "Saxon" Master, who intended to use the Attornium to take their lives in a desperate bid for his own survival after he had unleashed a sentient entropy wave. When the Masters decided to sacrifice Jo for fun, they were interrupted by Missy, who used the time scoop to scatter the Masters along the timeline of Kiameth, to see if any of them would find a chance of redemption by either stopping the wave or salvaging something from its aftermath. The "Deathworm" Master found himself at a beach house on an isolate planet, where, with his decaying appearance hidden by a perception filter put on his wrist by Missy, he formed an attachment with a woman named Kitty. After he spent weeks living with her under the name of "Jeremy", the "Bruce" Master arrived at the beach house, and eventually convinced his "Deathworm" incarnation to show Kitty his true appearance, reasoning that she had grown to love him enough to look past it. However, Kitty was horrified by his decaying body. Returning to the "Saxon" Master's castle, the "Deathworm" Master was convinced by Missy to use the Attornium to stop the entropy wave by feeding on it, but the "War" Master, having realised that the wave was their own future incarnation, discreetly poisoned himself and his other incarnations and turned off the Attornium. The resulting paradox erased the "Saxon" Master's arrival on Kiameth, bringing the universe back to normal. (AUDIO: Masterful)
Psychological profile
Personality
In contrast to his previous incarnation, the "Tzun" Master was calmer, less emotional and flustered, with a proud bearing and an inscrutable demeanour, (PROSE: First Frontier) though he would resort to a panicked state upon confronting the unexpected. (PROSE: Happy Endings) Highly manipulative, the Master would maintain control of a situation, while making others around him think he was not, (PROSE: First Frontier) though would lose this advantage when he knew he was overpowered, such as when at Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane's wedding. (PROSE: Happy Endings) He though of himself as being "elegant and charming", and hated being called insane. (AUDIO: I Am The Master)
He thought very highly of his hypnotic skills, finding it amusing when he made two guards believe he was Major Kreer. He looked down at humanity, treating them like children, believed the concept of regeneration to be beyond them, (PROSE: First Frontier) and deemed humans not to be "worthy" of hosting his mind. (AUDIO: I Am The Master) However, he showed some respect towards Ace, who had killed his previous incarnation, believing she would make a good enforcer and admiring her willpower. (PROSE: First Frontier) He also enjoyed fencing with Mike Yates and Sarah Jane Smith. (PROSE: Housewarming)
While he opted to perform with "a considerable degree of leniency" when sabotaging Bernice and Jason's wedding, and only resorted to harming others when he found an advantage in the act, (PROSE: Happy Endings) the "Tzun" Master was very open with his satisfaction in killing innocents, even claiming that mere petty vengeance was enough motivation to do so, (AUDIO: Mastermind) as well as his own amusement. (AUDIO: I Am The Master) He was also petty, turning Earth into a religious dictatorship to spite the Doctor, (COMIC: The Glorious Dead) and killing Violet solely because she foiled his attempt to kill Edward Grainger. (AUDIO: Mastermind)
Unlike his immediate predecessor, the "Tzun" Master was aware that his theatrical plotting could be his undoing, but found amusement in the irony rather than bitterness, (PROSE: Happy Endings) preferring to "pick [him]self up and move on" when he failed. (AUDIO: Masterful)
When angered, the Master would use "real power" to "smash everything up" for "fun", as he deemed scarring people for amusement as being "for children". However, her found it a comforting thought how "evil always originates in the attempt to eliminate evil in others", and found the concept of morality to be pure hypocrisy due to how people always viewed themselves as the "goodies". (AUDIO: I Am The Master)
He was more respectful to the Web of Time than his other incarnations, being particularly careful to avoid paradoxes. (AUDIO: Masterful) He would live for the moment, as found that time travel removed the interest from the present. (AUDIO: I Am The Master)
He showed a disdain for explaining things he did not have interest in, (PROSE: Happy Endings) and also disliked David Attenborough. (AUDIO: I Am The Master)
The "Tzun" Master was just as adept at winding the Doctor up as his predecessor was, claiming that the Seventh Doctor's pacifism was pure hypocrisy, (PROSE: First Frontier) and taking delight in his apparent inability to protect his friends from Bloom. (PROSE: Happy Endings) However, he did hold the Doctor in some regard, believing the Tzun incapable of overpowering him on their own, and insisting he was a threat to be eliminated, though he felt bittersweet about it, admitting to himself that the Doctor was an inspiring adversary, (PROSE: First Frontier) though reacted with horror when four variants of the Seventh Doctor confronted him at once. (PROSE: Happy Endings) Nonetheless, the Master pointed out that the Doctor preferred to kill and destroy from a distance, such as with the Sea Devils. To prove this point, the Master handed the Doctor a blaster and baited him to shoot him at close range, which the Doctor refused to do. (PROSE: First Frontier)
During the period of his life when he was forced to possess various human bodies to survive, the Master would take on minor personality traits and quirks from the bodies he possessed, and, as a result, he started to fear that his "essence" would eventually become too diluted if he were to jump to another body too frequently, and began to go to great pains to make sure his bodies lasted as long as possible by only possessing members of the same bloodline. However, as he would later admit to Charlie Sato, the Master began to somewhat enjoy the experience of being human as the years went by, and even toyed with the idea of dropping his plans of restoring his Time Lord body and just remain in a human body. (AUDIO: Mastermind) Whilst a perception filter disguised his decayed appearance, the Master became genuinely happy in the company of Kitty, and was distressed when she rejected him upon seeing his true form, acting solemn afterwards. (AUDIO: Masterful)
As his body began to shut down, the Master gained a sense of calm, due to the constant pain he felt in his decaying body being reduced by his body parts shutting down as he died. (AUDIO: Planet of Dust)
As he was being consumed by the Ravenous, the Master commanded the Eighth Doctor to save himself and ensure his death was avenged as he threw the Doctor his TARDIS key. (AUDIO: Planet of Dust)
Skills
The "Tzun" Master was effectively cunning, using his link to the TARDIS to send the Doctor to specific locations to later show him the folly of his worth, (COMIC: The Glorious Dead) and acquiring a casino in Las Vegas to accumulate the money needed to fund the experiments to elongate the lifespan of his host bodies, while also becoming head of the Hudson Dusters, and controlling part of the mafia. (AUDIO: Mastermind)
A patient incarnation, the "Tzun" Master simultaneously juggled a grand plan to achieve divine power with a pettier plan to morally humiliate the Doctor during the fight for the Glory, (COMIC: The Glorious Dead) and also, while trying to remain undetected in the history books, possessed a line of men from the Maestro family to ensure he had a succession of bodies that he could adjust well to, passing from father to son once there was a grandson alive to inhabit later on. (AUDIO: Mastermind)
Appearance and clothing
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The "Tzun" Master had a high forehead, glossy moustache, neat beard, aristocratic nose and a lean face, and spoke in a rich cultured voice. (PROSE: First Frontier) He wore a Vandyke beard, a dark Italian-designed suit, a silk shirt, and a cravat with a silver bird-of-prey tiepin. (PROSE: Housewarming)
As a Deathworm Morphant, the Master resembled a snake. (TV: Doctor Who) Indeed, Missy recalled him as being "the Snaky One". (PROSE: Meet Missy!)
After gaining a new body, the Master resembled a black street preacher with a balding head. (COMIC: The Fallen) After revealing himself, he replaced his clothes with a more regal outfit. (COMIC: The Glorious Dead)
When trapped on Earth in the 20th century, the Master wore whatever his hosts wore normally, to avoid detection. He discovered each body he possessed would inevitably revert to a decayed appearance, despite his best efforts to prolong them. (AUDIO: Mastermind) By the time of his death by the Ravenous, the Master had continued to rot away, wearing a hooded cloak to conceal himself, and was covered in bandages, with the Eleven comparing him to a mummy. (AUDIO: Planet of Dust)
Footnotes
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