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By one account, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'') {{Tipple|n=the version of the Master}} who fought the [[Eighth Doctor]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') was an "'''ersatz'''". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'')
By one account, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'') {{Tipple|n=the version of the Master}} who fought the [[Eighth Doctor]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') was an "'''ersatz'''". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'')
== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
Though barely-explained in ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'', the intention of depicting [[Gordon Tipple]] and [[Eric Roberts]]' incarnations of [[the Master]] as "ersatzes" was to tie in with ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'': the intended reveal was that the [[Tzun]] had not so much converted {{Ainley|n=Anthony Ainley's Master}} into a [[Time Lord]], as they had created a Time Lord clone of him with all his memories. The Master who went on to be executed by the Daleks while thus a duplicate while the original Ainley Master, still in [[Tremas]]'s [[Trakenite]] body, survived elsewhere in the universe.  
Though barely-explained in ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'', the intention of depicting [[Gordon Tipple]] and [[Eric Roberts]]' incarnations of [[the Master]] as "ersatzes" was to tie in with ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'': the intended reveal was that the [[Tzun]] had not converted {{Ainley|n=Anthony Ainley's Master}} into a [[Time Lord]] but merely created a Time Lord clone of him with all his memories, this being the Master who went on to be executed by the Daleks while the original Ainley Master, still in [[Tremas]]'s [[Trakenite]] body, survived elsewhere in the universe.  
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