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On one occasion, the Doctor and the Master travelled into [[Gallifreyan history|Gallifrey's history]] in search of [[Valdemar]], a dark mass of life created by the Old Ones in the [[higher dimensions]], which swept across creation and wiped out the Old Ones. They met a surviving Old One, who warned them of Valdermar's powers. The Doctor was shaken and also horrified that the Master seemed fascinated by its power. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tomb of Valdemar (novel)|Tomb of Valdemar]]'') | On one occasion, the Doctor and the Master travelled into [[Gallifreyan history|Gallifrey's history]] in search of [[Valdemar]], a dark mass of life created by the Old Ones in the [[higher dimensions]], which swept across creation and wiped out the Old Ones. They met a surviving Old One, who warned them of Valdermar's powers. The Doctor was shaken and also horrified that the Master seemed fascinated by its power. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tomb of Valdemar (novel)|Tomb of Valdemar]]'') | ||
The Doctor wanted to be an explorer when he was young. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Frozen Wastes (short story)|The Frozen Wastes]]'') By some accounts, the Doctor remembered being a pioneer amongst his people. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rescue (episode)|The Rescue]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') By another account, because the Time Lords had already explored every time and place, he didn't believe there was any point to him fulfilling this dream, and he sought another reason to have hope. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Frozen Wastes (short story)|The Frozen Wastes]]'') | The Doctor wanted to be an explorer when he was young. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Frozen Wastes (short story)|The Frozen Wastes]]'') By some accounts, the Doctor remembered being a pioneer amongst his people. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rescue (episode)|The Rescue]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') By another account, because the Time Lords had already explored every time and place, he didn't believe there was any point to him fulfilling this dream, and he sought another reason to have hope. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Frozen Wastes (short story)|The Frozen Wastes]]'') The Doctor did once visit the world of [[Machasma]] with the Master at one point. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Darkness and Light (audio story)|Darkness and Light]]'') | ||
When the Time Lords created the ''[[Consolidator]]'' to conceal various dangerous historical secrets from the rest of the universe, unwilling to destroy the items or races in the ship in case they proved useful later, the Doctor and the Master were assigned to come up with a solution where their peers failed. The Master had the idea of using a black hole to tear a rift in time and send the ''Consolidator'' into the distant future, where the future Time Lords could deal with it, but the Doctor declined to have his name put down on the calculations as he questioned the ethics of the assignment. However, when the experiment was actually attempted, the ''Consolidator'' was apparently destroyed by a mistake in the calculations when it struck the edge of the black hole, leaving the Time Lords to hush the matter up. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'') | When the Time Lords created the ''[[Consolidator]]'' to conceal various dangerous historical secrets from the rest of the universe, unwilling to destroy the items or races in the ship in case they proved useful later, the Doctor and the Master were assigned to come up with a solution where their peers failed. The Master had the idea of using a black hole to tear a rift in time and send the ''Consolidator'' into the distant future, where the future Time Lords could deal with it, but the Doctor declined to have his name put down on the calculations as he questioned the ethics of the assignment. However, when the experiment was actually attempted, the ''Consolidator'' was apparently destroyed by a mistake in the calculations when it struck the edge of the black hole, leaving the Time Lords to hush the matter up. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'') | ||
As the Doctor grew up, he came to understand that he and the Master were not the same. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') Following an incident at the Academy in which the Master did not keep his word, he and the Doctor had a falling out, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Last of the Gaderene (novel)|Last of the Gaderene]]'') eventually leading the Doctor to realise that the Master stood against everything he believed in. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'') | The Doctor was also known to have attended the [[Prydonian Academy]] with [[the Master]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') and [[the Rani]]. [[Thermodynamics]] was his special subject. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'') As the Doctor grew up, he came to understand that he and the Master were not the same. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') Following an incident at the Academy in which the Master did not keep his word, he and the Doctor had a falling out, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Last of the Gaderene (novel)|Last of the Gaderene]]'') eventually leading the Doctor to realise that the Master stood against everything he believed in. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'') | ||
According to a nightmare the [[Fifth Doctor]] had under the [[Celestial Toymaker]]'s influence, the First Doctor learned of the Toymaker when he was a youth at the Prydonian Academy. The Time Lords' data banks described him only as a vague legend. The Doctor and his friends [[Rallon]] and [[Millennia]] investigated the legend, travelling to the Toyroom in [[TARDIS (Divided Loyalties)|a stolen TARDIS]]. The Toymaker was in a dormant, disembodied state, but on their arrival, he possessed Rallon and made Millennia one of his living toys. The Doctor defeated him, and the Toymaker allowed him to leave, knowing that he would become an even more worthy opponent given time to mature. As punishment for his part in the apparent deaths of Rallon and Millennia, the Doctor was expelled from the Academy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') | |||
According to a nightmare the [[Fifth Doctor]] had under the [[Celestial Toymaker]]'s influence, the First Doctor learned of the Toymaker when he was a youth at the | |||
The Doctor earned a [[Higher-Dimensional Physics]] degree at [[Time Lord Academy|"Time Lord University"]]. He was required to learn how to envision a superimposed array of 208 different 43-dimensional supersolids, taking eight years to master the skill. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Friendly Place (comic story)|The Friendly Place]]'') He passed his qualifying exams to become a Time Lord with only 51% — the lowest possible pass mark — on his second attempt. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'') By one account, this was a deliberate ploy to not to draw undue attention to himself, so he could eventually leave Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tears of the Oracle (novel)|Tears of the Oracle]]'') He graduated with "only" a double gamma. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rani Elite (audio story)|The Rani Elite]]'') The Doctor graduated with the Master in the [[Panopticon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'') | The Doctor earned a [[Higher-Dimensional Physics]] degree at [[Time Lord Academy|"Time Lord University"]]. He was required to learn how to envision a superimposed array of 208 different 43-dimensional supersolids, taking eight years to master the skill. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Friendly Place (comic story)|The Friendly Place]]'') He passed his qualifying exams to become a Time Lord with only 51% — the lowest possible pass mark — on his second attempt. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'') By one account, this was a deliberate ploy to not to draw undue attention to himself, so he could eventually leave Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tears of the Oracle (novel)|Tears of the Oracle]]'') He graduated with "only" a double gamma. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rani Elite (audio story)|The Rani Elite]]'') The Doctor graduated with the Master in the [[Panopticon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'') | ||
