War in Heaven (Academic Notes)

You may wish to consult War in Heaven (disambiguation) for other, similarly-named pages.

The War in Heaven was, according to the narrative alluded to in the Sixth Doctor's annotations to some writing by William Shakespeare, the ancient civil war among the Angels of Heaven that ended with the fall of Lucifer into Hell. (PROSE: Academic Notes) Lucifer fell alongside his nemesis Gabriel, with the two remaining locked in battle ever after; in a fictionalised account of events involving the Tremas Master and Daleks that was written by Shakespeare under the title of Master Faustus, "Magister" compared his and the Doctor's shared situations as rival Renegade Lords Temporal to the fall of Lucifer and Gabriel. (PROSE: Master Faustus)