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Out of [[boredom]], ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Greatest Gamble (comic story)|page=41}}) the Toymaker began spending centuries of his time wandering the Earth and sampling its various games, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nightmare Fair (novelisation)|The Nightmare Fair]]'') frequently challenging [[human]]s from across history. He lured people from a variety of cultures to the Toyroom, turning them into toys when they lost his games. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Greatest Gamble (comic story)|page=39-42}}) In the [[18th century]], [[Hsen Ling]] told stories of his own abduction by the trickster-god [[No Cha]], who he beat in an unearthly game of [[cards]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)}}) | Out of [[boredom]], ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Greatest Gamble (comic story)|page=41}}) the Toymaker began spending centuries of his time wandering the Earth and sampling its various games, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nightmare Fair (novelisation)|The Nightmare Fair]]'') frequently challenging [[human]]s from across history. He lured people from a variety of cultures to the Toyroom, turning them into toys when they lost his games. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Greatest Gamble (comic story)|page=39-42}}) In the [[18th century]], [[Hsen Ling]] told stories of his own abduction by the trickster-god [[No Cha]], who he beat in an unearthly game of [[cards]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)}}) | ||
=== First encounter with the Doctor | === Meeting the Doctor === | ||
The [[First Doctor]]'s encounter with the Toymaker alongside [[Steven Taylor]] and [[Dodo Chaplet]] was not his first, with the two's interactions implying at least two — and potentially more — prior encounters, although one of them was very brief. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)}}) One account purported to depict the Doctor and the Toymaker's first-ever encounter, at a time when the Doctor was still a student at [[Prydon Academy]], having only recently begun to go by [[the Doctor (title)|"the Doctor"]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Divided Loyalties (novel)}}) This encounter neither involved the Doctor turning around at once, nor playing the "chairs" game, marking it out as distinct form, and even earlier than, the encounters discussed in the prior account. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Divided Loyalties (novel)}}) | |||
The [[Time Lord]]s' data banks on the Toymaker on [[Gallifrey]] during [[the Doctor's early life]] described him only as a vague legend, with some reports implying that there existed several Toymakers rather than just one. When the [[First Doctor]] investigated the legend with his friends [[Rallon]] and [[Millennia]] in a stolen [[TARDIS]], they arrived in the Toyroom and found the Toymaker in a dormant, disembodied state. However, he managed to possess Rallon and make Millennia one of his living toys, with the Doctor able to best him with the help of the [[Dymova]]. Knowing that he would become an even more worthy opponent given time to mature, the Toymaker allowed the Doctor to leave the Toyroom. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Divided Loyalties (novel)}}) | The [[Time Lord]]s' data banks on the Toymaker on [[Gallifrey]] during [[the Doctor's early life]] described him only as a vague legend, with some reports implying that there existed several Toymakers rather than just one. When the [[First Doctor]] investigated the legend with his friends [[Rallon]] and [[Millennia]] in a stolen [[TARDIS]], they arrived in the Toyroom and found the Toymaker in a dormant, disembodied state. However, he managed to possess Rallon and make Millennia one of his living toys, with the Doctor able to best him with the help of the [[Dymova]]. Knowing that he would become an even more worthy opponent given time to mature, the Toymaker allowed the Doctor to leave the Toyroom. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Divided Loyalties (novel)}}) | ||
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{{quote|This body is being sustained by him. Me. Whatever. Here, let me explain. I needed a body — sadly my original one did not… suit this Universe. Your friend's is the first I have come across that isn't enfeebled and prone to wearing out every seventy years. Mortality is such a burden, I find. This one could last a good thousand years I should imagine. (…) I think there is a tiny spark of him somewhere inside me, acting as a cohesion to keep this frame together.|[[The Toymaker]] ([[PROSE]]: [[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]])}} | {{quote|This body is being sustained by him. Me. Whatever. Here, let me explain. I needed a body — sadly my original one did not… suit this Universe. Your friend's is the first I have come across that isn't enfeebled and prone to wearing out every seventy years. Mortality is such a burden, I find. This one could last a good thousand years I should imagine. (…) I think there is a tiny spark of him somewhere inside me, acting as a cohesion to keep this frame together.|[[The Toymaker]] ([[PROSE]]: [[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]])}} | ||
His servant [[Stefan (The Nightmare Fair)|Stefan]] would go on to observe broad aspects of the Toymaker's personality which were actually part of Rallon's, including "a sense of [[morality]], of good and evil"; without him the Toymaker was "cold and harsh". ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|Divided Loyalties (novel)}}) | His servant [[Stefan (The Nightmare Fair)|Stefan]] would go on to observe broad aspects of the Toymaker's personality which were actually part of Rallon's, including "a sense of [[morality]], of good and evil"; without him the Toymaker was "cold and harsh". ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|Divided Loyalties (novel)}}) | ||
=== Early encounters with the Doctor === | |||
Shortly after the [[First Doctor]], [[Steven Taylor]] and [[Dodo Chaplet]]'s arrival in the [[Celestial Toyroom]], the Toymaker recalled that in his and the Doctor's immediately prior encounter, after landing in the Toyrom, the Doctor had "hardly had time to turn around", instead of staying and playing the Toymaker's games, much to the Toymaker's disappointment. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|namedep=The Celestial Toyroom}}) | |||
{{quote|You're so innocent, Doctor. The last time you were here, I hoped you'd stay long enough for a game, but you had hardly time to turn around.|The Toymaker ([[TV]]: "[[The Celestial Toymaker#The Celestial Toyroom|The Celestial Toyroom]]")}} | |||
Some of the Doctor's remarks in the subsequent games suggested at least one additional prior encounter in which the Doctor had interacted with the Toymaker at greater length and engaged in his games, with the Doctor expressing familiarity with the "chairs" game on sight. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|namedep=The Hall of Dolls}}) In turn, by that point, the Toymaker was quite familiar with the quirks of the Doctor's personality, remarking and playing upon the fact that the Doctor was "so insatiably curious" that the Toymaker "knew" making the [[TARDIS scanner]] screen blank would "bring [him] out". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)}}) | |||
=== Continued activities === | === Continued activities === | ||
