The Doctor's early life: Difference between revisions

On "the blackest day of his life," the Doctor went to visit [[K'anpo Rimpoche]] on the side of the mountain his family's house rested on in [[South Gallifrey]]. While climbing the mountain, the young Doctor saw only dull coloured rocks and weeds. However, Rimpoche gave no words of advice when he heard the Doctor tell him all his troubles, but instead pointed at a flower, which the Doctor had dismissed as a weed. As he descended the mountain, the world no longer seemed so grim to him and the Doctor noticed the colours of the rocks and the vibrancy of life in the flowers. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'') The Doctor spent what he felt were some of the finest hours of his life with Rimpoche, being taught how to look into his own mind and being told ghost stories about the [[King Vampire]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'', ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]'')

At the age of thirty, the Doctor asked K'anpo Rimpoche the name of the mountain on which he dwelled. He had been told by Old Lady [[Nine Teeth]] that it was called [[Plutarch]], while his cousins called it [[Lung]], and his friends at the Academy called it [[Mount Cadon]]. His mentor told him that the mountain had all three names, and told him that whatever he called it would determine the way in which it was climbed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Three Paths (short story)|The Three Paths]]'') The Doctor left the Gallifreyan equivalent of primary school at the age of forty-five. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'')