Postar the Perfidious

Postar the Perfidious was the author of the Scrolls of Gallifrey, a history of the planet Gallifrey and the life of Rassilon up to the events of Flavia's ascension to the Presidency of the Time Lords.

The Scrolls were written a language which, after much efforts, a team of human translators were able to decode after fragments of the documents ended on Earth by means unknown. (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey ^[+]Loading...["The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)"])

Behind the scenes

• Postar's species remains ambiguous; the amount of his knowledge on Gallifreyan history might suggest a Time Lord, though his writing speaks of "the Time Lords" and "the Gallifreyans" in the third person plural, without ever identifying himself with them.
• The epithet of "the Perfidious" may be intended to suggest to the reader that Postar is an unreliable narrator and that the history of Gallifrey presented through the Scrolls in The Legacy of Gallifrey is somewhat suspect.
• The short story Love & War ^[+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"], whose format involved in-universe citations to real world Doctor Who books, clearly references Postar the Perfidious when it has a temporal historian state of Gary Russell that "many of Mr Russell’s works were based on the uncritical reading of an Elemental Historian whom his own people had dubbed "perfidious"." The story The Two Auteurs ^[+]Loading...["The Two Auteurs (short story)"] by the same author has several lines indicating that Auteur was known by the nickname "The Perfidious One" during their time on their homeplanet, suggesting that Postar the Perfidious could have been one of Auteur's past selves.