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"The War Chief" was the title used by the renegade Time Lord known as the Master, who assisted a warlike race of Aliens in an ambitious plot to take over the Galaxy using deadly War Games.
After this plot was foiled by the Second Doctor, the War Chief was fatally shot, (TV: The War Games [+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"]) but regenerated but went on to menace the Doctor again in a new body, escaping Time Lord authorities and adopting the name of "the Master". (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon (novelisation)"], AUDIO: The Home Guard [+]Loading...["The Home Guard (audio story)"], TV: The War Games in Colour [+]Loading...["The War Games in Colour (TV story)"], etc.)
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
Origins[[edit] | [edit source]]
One of the Second Doctor’s encounters with an earlier incarnation depicted him experimenting with hypnotising human soldiers, as a prelude to some grander scheme about which he did not elaborate. (AUDIO: The Home Guard [+]Loading...["The Home Guard (audio story)"]) The future “War Chief” would first encounter the War Lord in a Trastevarian jail near the end of his life. On the brink of certain death, he told the War Lord that the Sisterhood of Karn’s Elixir of Life was vital to his people’s regeneration process. With the Elixir, Magnus regenerated. (PROSE: Save Yourself [+]Loading...["Save Yourself (short story)"])
Master of the War World[[edit] | [edit source]]
Now calling himself "the War Chief", he worked with the War Lords. They abducted soldiers from wars spread across Earth's history, though they didn't go too far because of the risk of humans' technological knowledge, for simulated versions of the wars from which they came. Thinking humans the most vicious species in the galaxy, the aliens hoped to pit the survivors against each other and use them to conquer Mutter's Spiral once they had eliminated the weak and the cowards and were left with the hardier warriors.
The War Chief aided the War Lords by helping them build SIDRATs, TARDIS-like space-time machines. They used them to kidnap the human soldiers and travel between era-specific zones which they had created. The War Chief and the Second Doctor met and recognised each other, with the War Chief acknowledging the Doctor's change in appearance. The War Chief solicited the Doctor's help to double-cross the War Lords and seize power for themselves. The Doctor pretended to accept the War Chief's offer.
The Security Chief of the operation distrusted the War Chief, believing he meant to call in the Time Lords. While the Security Chief was willing to accept the War Chief had upheld his part of the bargain and had been afforded every need, he had still refused to tell them how to construct the SIDRATS.
The two engaged in a series of machinations against each other which ended with the War Chief disgraced when the Security Chief recorded a condemning conversation between the War Chief and the Doctor, and he took it to his leader. The War Chief got his revenge when he shot his rival dead. Unable to resolve matters, nor return the soldiers to their own times, the Doctor summoned the Time Lords for aid, while the War Lords uncovered the War Chief's plans and executed him, though he tried to talk his way around it, claiming those plans had been faked, but he wasn't believed. (TV: The War Games [+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)","The War Games"]) Fatally wounded, the War Chief was removed from the landing bay. Out of sight, he regenerated into a new incarnation. (TV: The War Games in Colour [+]Loading...["The War Games in Colour (TV story)"])
Death[[edit] | [edit source]]
Some accounts depicted the Time Lord who had posed as the War Chief as having later become the Master. (TV: The War Games in Colour [+]Loading...["The War Games in Colour (TV story)"]) The Doctor and the Master were stated by the Keeper — who had been one of the Time Lords sent to the War Lords' colony-planet to put an end to the War Chief's schemes after the Doctor called in the Time — to have been the only two renegades ever to escape Gallifrey in stolen TARDISes, and fondly remembered the mess that these two TARDISes being stolen had caused back in the day. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon (novelisation)"]) A short time after the Second Doctor's sentence and forced regeneration, a Time Lord messenger was sent (TV: Terror of the Autons [+]Loading...["Terror of the Autons (TV story)","Terror of the Autons"]) by the High Council (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey [+]Loading...["The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)"]) to warn the Third Doctor about the Master, (TV: Terror of the Autons [+]Loading...["Terror of the Autons (TV story)","Terror of the Autons"]) who was out for revenge for "past deeds". (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey [+]Loading...["The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)"])
Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]
The War Chief was an ambitious and arrogant individual, cunning, and with great tactical abilities. He pretended to serve the War Lords loyally, while plotting to take control of them after they succeeded in their plans. He also made feuds easily which made it easy for his allies to turn against him. (TV: The War Games [+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)","The War Games"])
Magnus was unconcerned about using up regenerations and never listened to the Doctor, who advised him not to waste them. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People [+]Loading...["Invasion of the Cat-People (novel)","Invasion of the Cat-People"]) Behind the War Chief's actions lay real idealism, tainted with power lust.
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The necklace prop the War Chief wears in The War Games [+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)","The War Games"] is the same prop previously worn by Zephon in The Daleks' Master Plan [+]Loading...["The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)","The Daleks' Master Plan"].
