The Four Faces of Immortality was the fourth story in The Adventures Before. It notably expanded on the Immortals seen in The Five Doctors [+]Loading...["The Five Doctors (TV story)"].
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Characters[[edit]]
Worldbuilding[[edit]]
- The Other was also known as "the Nameless" and "the Timeless".
- Pandora was known as "Pandora the Flexiform".
- One of the Time Lord secrets of the Dark Times involves the Chronomite Knights and their Eternal Steeds.
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Continuity[[edit]]
- Gallifrey is located in the system of Kasterbous, as established in PROSE: Prisoners of the Sun [+]Loading...["Prisoners of the Sun (short story)"].
- Other planets in the Kasterberous system once knew Gallifrey by the name “Jewel”, a reference to COMIC: Return of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Return of the Daleks (TVC comic story)"].
- In a lecture, Borusa explains that Rassilon fought the Great Vampires by inventing Raston Warrior Robots, established in PROSE: The Monster Vault [+]Loading...["The Monster Vault (novel)"]; defeated the "Great Shame" of Zagreus, a legend in AUDIO: Neverland [+]Loading...["Neverland (audio story)"]; and entombed the Divergents in the Beyond-Times, as seen in AUDIO: Zagreus [+]Loading...["Zagreus (audio story)"].
- The Cloister Wraiths hide information on many off-limit areas of Gallifreyan history, including of Pandora from AUDIO: Lies, the Oubliette of Eternity from AUDIO: Neverland [+]Loading...["Neverland (audio story)"], the Division from TV: Fugitive of the Judoon [+]Loading...["Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)"], the Chasm of Schisms (which may refer to the Sepulchasm formed in the Great Schism from PROSE: Lungbarrow [+]Loading...["Lungbarrow (novel)"]), and the Timewyrm from PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)"].
- The Other, core to the so-called "Cartmel Masterplan" and most prominently discussed in such sources as PROSE: Gallifrey - Notes on the Planet's Background [+]Loading...["Gallifrey - Notes on the Planet's Background (short story)"] and PROSE: Lungbarrow [+]Loading...["Lungbarrow (novel)"], is mentioned. One of the figure's alternative monikers is given as "the Timeless"; this seemingly connects the Other to the Timeless Child, an entity first mentioned in TV: The Ghost Monument [+]Loading...["The Ghost Monument (TV story)"] and elaborated upon in TV: The Timeless Children [+]Loading...["The Timeless Children (TV story)"]. Although there are considerable differences between their portrayals, the Timeless Child and the Other are both depicted as mysterious entities from early Gallifreyan history whose essence would in some way be reborn as the Doctor, justifying the notion that they may be different accounts of the same being or that Gallifreyan folklore might accidentally conflate them.