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In one version of reality, the Dalek War Machines were invented by Yarvelling, a scientist from a species of blue-skinned humanoids known as Daleks, who lived on Skaro. (COMIC: Genesis of Evil) According to another account of the creation of the Daleks, the Dalek machines were invented by Davros, a scientist of the Kaleds, a humanoid species who were externally identical to humans and Gallifreyans. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks)
Something akin to the story of Yarvelling was one of the creation myths formulated by species conquered by the Daleks about their oppressors. The myth, however, altered certain details, speaking of the "Sea of Ooze" and suggesting the Dalek War Machines were originally intended to be autonomous robots. Human historians who recorded the myth at length in their history of the Daleks did not give it much credence, though they granted that, for one moment at least, the Yarvelling story may have briefly "become" the true origin of the Daleks at one point during the Last Great Time War. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)
In any case, the Time Lords, in their scrutiny of Dalek history during the Time War, acknowledged that "some of the earliest work" on their history presented a very different origin story for the Daleks to the generally accepted record of Davros. This narrative contained a "possible explanation" for the origin of the Dalek Emperor. Opinions varied as to whether these accounts were apocryphal or evidence of Dalek activity in parallel dimensions. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual) According to one account of the war's end, the black, friable spires of Yarvelling's Church from Skaro were a fragment of the Last Great Time War. The Eighth Doctor saw the Cathedral fused with fragments of Morbius' Red Capitol in the backwater where he triggered the Moment. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Time War)
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- The Daleks, the television serial which introduced the Daleks, established that they were once known as Dals. This reference was not retained in the theatrical adaptation, Dr. Who and the Daleks, and so no indication was given that the Daleks were known by any other name. Introducing the humanoid Daleks in an account of the origin of the Dalek machines, Genesis of Evil was the first installment of The Daleks, a comic series which was intended to eventually lead into the sequel to Dr. Who and the Daleks, Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., linking it to the reality of Dr. Who.[1]