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|name         = The "War Chief"

|image       = War Chief looks left.jpg

|alias       = [[Aliases of the Master#War Chief|'''''see list''''']]

|species     = Time Lord

|origin       = [[Gallifrey]]

|affiliation = War Lord{{!}}War Lords

|first       = The War Games (TV story)

|appearances = [[The Master - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']]

|actor       = Edward Brayshaw

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Forging an alliance with [[the War Lord]] and [[War Lord|his people]], '''the Master''' acted as the '''[[War Chief]]''' for the [[War Game]]. After the failure of the War Lords due to the actions of the [[Second Doctor]], the War Chief suffered a failed [[regeneration]] and travelled back in time to use the [[Nazi]]s as his agents, until he was stopped by the [[Seventh Doctor]].  

Now calling himself "the War Chief", he worked with the [[War Lord]]s to 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 [[War Game|simulated versions of the wars]] from which they came. Thinking [[human]]s 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 [[Security Chief (The War Games)|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 (TV story)|The War Games]]'') Unknown at the time, while the War Chief remained on the War Lords' ship, the War Chief did not die, but actually underwent a faulty [[regeneration]]. His new form looked like two bodies fused together. He took to wearing cloaks, hoods and cane sticks to disguise the fact, with white hair and a bushy white beard, eventually convincing the War Lords that his "betrayal" of them was just a misunderstanding. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'')

The [[Seventh Doctor]] later confronted the War Chief, prompting him to try to take the Doctor's healthy body and his six remaining regenerations. However, his efforts to replace Hitler with [[Heinrich Himmler]] were thwarted by Himmler's devotion to his [[Führer]]. This allowed the Doctor to alert [[Hermann Goering]] to "Kriegslieter's" betrayal and destroy the War Chief's base by overloading its [[nuclear reactor]]s, the [[brainwashing|brainwashed]] Nazis falling to the superior initiative of their mentally free opponents. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'')

In the final moments before his base at [[Drachensberg]] [[castle]] collapsed, Ace looked down and saw the War Chief engulfed in flames, no longer malformed but appearing as his "young, tall, dark and satanically handsome" self, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'') because he had managed to regenerate into his twelfth incarnation, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[CIA File Extracts (novel)|CIA File Extracts]]'') who tried to start afresh by calling himself "Koschei" again, only to succumb to his darker nature and become "the Master" once more. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'', ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'')

When the {{Ainley|n="Tremas" Master}} was stripped of his [[Trakenite]] body by the Time Lords, and after his plot to steal the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s regenerations failed, he found himself confronting mental projections of all his past incarnations, and was able to steal a bit of life energy from each of them, allowing him to [[regeneration|regenerate]] back into his Trakenite body. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Velvet Dark (short story)|The Velvet Dark]]'')

Behind the War Chief's actions lay a degree of idealism, albeit tainted with power-lust. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'') He was an ambitious and arrogant individual, cunning, and with great tactical abilities. He also made feuds easily, which made it easy for his allies to turn against him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'')

He wished to take over the universe so he could bring order to it, although he was willing to lie and manipulate his way to that power without scruples. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'') He pretended to serve the War Lords loyally, while plotting to take control of them after they succeeded in their plans. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') While allied with the Nazis, the War Chief considered much of their racial beliefs, scientific works and belief in the occult to be nonsense. However, he was perfectly willing to play along with all of this to win favour with the Nazi leaders, especially Heinrich Himmler. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'')

The War Chief admired the Doctor and his scientific prowess, and once jeopardised his own plan in a fruitless effort to convince the Doctor to join him. He also felt that the Doctor ought to side with him against the [[Time Lord]]s, believing that, if they caught up with both of them, the High Council would be as merciless to the Doctor as they would to himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'')

Ever since ''[[Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon]]'' called back to the events of ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'' while also stating that [[the Doctor]] and [[the Master]] were the only two renegades ever to have run away from Gallifrey, the notion emerged of the War Chief having been an early [[incarnation]] of the Master from before he adopted the title, since, although the character was never called anything but "War Chief" in his only televised story, there was no evidence that this was a regular moniker or modus operandi; during the story, the term "War Chief" was treated more as a title (akin to "[[The War Lord|War Lord]]" and [[Security Chief (The War Games)|Security Chief]]) instead of a name.

Though Malcolm Hulke's [[1979 (releases)|1979]] novelisation ''[[Doctor Who and the War Games (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the War Games]]'' stated that the War Chief was declared dead by the Time Lords, [[1985 (releases)|1985]]'s ''[[CIA File Extracts (novel)|CIA File Extracts]]'' highlighted that the Time Lords had never found a body. A post-''War Games'' War Chief later featured in Dicks' original novel ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]''. That story specified that the War Chief was forced to leave Gallifrey due to his political career; similar explanations were given for the Master's running away in ''[[Birth of a Renegade (short story)|Birth of a Renegade]]'' and ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]''.  

The novelisation ''[[Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon]]'', written by [[Malcolm Hulke]] and edited by [[Terrance Dicks]], shows that, when enquired about the Doctor and the Master, [[Keeper (Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon)|an elderly Time Lord]] recounts the events of ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', for which he was present. The book also established that the Doctor and the Master were the only two [[renegade Time Lord]]s who had ever left Gallifrey, implying by process of elimination that the Master was both the War Chief and [[the Monk]].

''[[Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons]]'', written by [[Terrance Dicks]], stated that "Master" was a new title and that the Doctor had interfered with the Master's schemes in the past, but that the Master had escaped the Time Lords before his TARDIS could be deactivated. Finally, Dicks' later novelisation of ''[[The Three Doctors (novelisation)|The Three Doctors]]'' stated that the Master and [[Omega]] were the only two Time Lords that the Doctor had ever fought.

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