Irving Braxiatel Irving Braxiatel , or sometimes simply Braxiatel , was a Time Lord and the older brother of the Doctor . He maintained the Braxiatel Collection . At one time he held the office of Lord Cardinal in the High Council on Gallifrey . He also briefly served as Lord Chancellor and Lord President of Gallifrey . He was an associate of Bernice Summerfield . Braxiatel ' s life was one of many paradox es and anomalies , including separate lives on Dellah , Legion , and the Braxiatel Collection . ( AUDIO : " Enemy Lines " ) Biography . Early life on Gallifrey . When he was a youngster on Gallifrey , Braxiatel lived with his brother , the Doctor , and possibly a sister , in the House of Lungbarrow . ( PROSE : " The Empire of Glass " ) At school , Braxiatel was taught that " time plays silly buggers with us all " . ( PROSE : " Winging It " ) At the Academy , Braxiatel ' s mentor was Darna Dementara . She taught him how to be a diplomat and a soldier . She taught him how to shoot down a whole flock of Baziti bat s with one shot . ( AUDIO : " Soldier Obscura " ) Braxiatel never wanted to conform . He was attracted by the wealth of knowledge in the outer universe . Keen to leave Gallifrey , he excelled at the Academy and passed with a handful of firsts . In time , Braxiatel became an unofficial ambassador for the Time Lord s . This allowed him to be a permanent presence out in the universe . ( PROSE : " Tears of the Oracle " ) At one point , Braxiatel held the position of Lord Burner , the personal assassin of President Pandad VII , who " burned " people from history . During this time , he allowed " an old man " and " his granddaughter " to flee Gallifrey , even though Braxiatel had been given the order to erase them from history . The very same day , President Pandad died when a power relay in his office overloaded ; an inquiry headed by Braxiatel found that this was an accident . ( AUDIO : " Disassembled " ) In his position as the Time Lords ' unofficial ambassador , Braxiatel organised the Armageddon Convention , which he tried to get the Third Doctor to chair , but after the Omega crisis , his agents accidentally brought the wrong incarnation . The Convention was not particularly successful , although it did outlaw the use of Cyberbomb s . Due to the relative failure of the Convention , Braxiatel decided to begin focusing on building up his Collection rather than involving himself in galactic politics . ( PROSE : " The Empire of Glass " ) Gallifreyan politics . Braxiatel became involved in political affairs on Gallifrey . He tried to halt the disaster he anticipated from the Timonic Fusion Device , known as Project Alpha , being built by Glower and his technician , Narvin . ( AUDIO : " The Inquiry " ) Braxiatel was a tutor in the Time Lord Academy when Romana I attended . When she was contacted by Pandora , she told him . He hypnotised her to forget not only Pandora , but also him . As a result , she recalled only having heard of him through his art collection before her eventual return to Gallifrey from E - Space . He guided her subsequent rise to the Presidency in order to watch her closely for any evidence of Pandora ' s influence . ( AUDIO : " Lies " ) Braxiatel later became a Cardinal , a member of the High Council of Time Lords , and a confidante of President Romana . ( AUDIO : " Zagreus " ) Secretly , throughout his rise to power , he was in communication with his past and future selves , sending items to his collection . ( AUDIO : " Lies " ) President Romana knew this and held the information over him ; he would be disgraced if it were known that he had broken the laws of time . Eventually Braxiatel became High Chancellor , a post empty for many years , since Romana ' s predecessor had overthrown " his " predecessor . Mere hours later Braxiatel had to use his mind to contain the past and present forms of Pandora . Pandora would be able to escape if he ever connected to the Matrix or telepathically communicated with another Time Lord mind , so Braxiatel exiled himself from Gallifrey . ( AUDIO : " Pandora " ) When Romana destroyed the future form of Pandora ( as well as its intelligence ) , it also destroyed the Matrix . ( AUDIO : " Warfare " ) After Romana was removed from office , Braxiatel returned briefly and unexpectedly to Gallifrey and assumed the post of Lord President , since there was now nowhere for the Pandora entity to escape to . Having conspired with Matthias , he claimed that as Inquisitor Darkel had cancelled much of Romana ' s presidential edicts , he was restored to the position of Chancellor and Vice - President . His first act was to free Romana . The ambitious Darkel goaded Braxiatel into losing control of Pandora , believing that it would destroy Braxiatel ' s mind . Braxiatel revealed that only a remnant of the entity had ever been in his mind ; the bulk of it had sought refuge in Darkel ' s mind and Braxiatel had merely been the key that kept it restrained . Freed , Pandora consumed both Darkel and itself . Immediately resigning , Braxiatel named Matthias his successor , much to Romana ' s surprise , and returned to his exile , retaining the last fragments of Pandora within him . ( AUDIO : " Mindbomb " ) Braxiatel was not done : hearing rumours of a threat against Gallifrey and deciding that in its weakened state the world was doomed , he hatched a scheme to preserve the Time Lord biodata archive , holding the genetic patterns of all Time Lords , past and present , hoping to reconstruct Gallifrey after its inevitable fall . As the Free Time Dogma Virus ravaged Gallifrey , Matthias ordered Romana to find the cure , then go into exile . Romana followed the trail , only to find Braxiatel . He had nominated Matthias knowing that whoever was President was doomed to fall to the Dogma virus . The only cure was to end the Time Lords ' regeneration capabilities . With K9 ' s help , Braxiatel used a Time Scoop to collect the biodata archive . He asked Romana to decide whether to administer the cure , or to let Gallifrey die and rebuild it using the biodata . ( AUDIO : " Panacea " ) Braxiatel took Romana , Leela , K9 and Narvin to the Axis . They explored numerous alternate Gallifreys to find one on which they could live . ( AUDIO : " Reborn " ) On one of these Gallifreys , they encountered an alternate version of the Doctor , who returned to the Axis . It turned out the Doctor meant to assassinate Braxiatel , and during a fight they fell into one of the Axis ' s portals . Romana said it likely that they would be falling through time for eternity , but it was possible that one or both of them would end up in one of the timelines . ( AUDIO : " Disassembled " ) Legion . As it turned out , he arrived in what appeared to be his original universe , despite the presence of " another " Braxiatel . There , he met Bernice Summerfield for the first time from his perspective , though she already knew his future self . ( AUDIO : " Disassembled " ) Braxiatel travelled to Dexter Prime , where he encountered Avril Fenman , who removed the Pandora fragments within his head and sent them back into the head of the other Braxiatel . ( AUDIO : " The Curse of Fenman " ) He quickly learnt that the other Braxiatel had become an infamous figure , with many enemies . As a result , he set about protecting himself by hiding in the most distant and remote part of the universe , Legion . ( AUDIO : " Paradise Frost " ) At some point , Braxiatel rescued Peter Summerfield from the planet Bastion , where he had been stranded as a slave after he was separated from his mother , and brought him to Legion . ( AUDIO : " The Curse of Fenman " , " Paradise Frost " ) He located Bernice in a stasis capsule on a planet called Atlantis , where he left her a message , claiming he was not the same man who she once knew and that he was on Legion with Peter . ( AUDIO : " Brand Management " ) Bernice travelled to Legion , and though she tried to attack him , Braxiatel claimed he had never met Benny before . By this point , Braxiatel owned a club in Legion city called the White Rabbit . ( AUDIO : " Paradise Frost " , PROSE : " The Slender - Fingered Cats of Bubastis " ) He tried his best to make Benny comfortable . ( AUDIO : " Vesuvius Falling " ) He decided to buy a house for Benny outside Legion City for her to store her archaeological finds . He bought it from Galot , one of his other self ' s acquaintances . Benny then inquired into how he wasn ' t the Braxiatel she knew . He explained that there were other versions of him and they knew the bigger picture , and the more he knew about the other Braxiatel he didn ' t like him . He got Benny to check over the base . It was also at this point he bought the Irverfield to use on missions to other planets . ( AUDIO : " Everybody Loves Irving " ) He celebrated Advent with Benny . On his way to Benny ' s place , he became very agitated when he saw Antonio Tulloch whom he knew was dead . He wanted to know what Avril Fenman ' s plan was . He told Benny that the only reason he employed Jack was that he had one of Fenman ' s crystals in him . He tricked Fenman when she manifested and blew up Hera , as he knew he had to protect Peter and Benny . ( AUDIO : " The Curse of Fenman " ) Braxiatel was tending to the bar at the White Rabbit when Miss Hannigan appeared . He was surprised to have a customer so late in the night . Shortly afterwards , the Brimstone Kid arrived telling him , Benny and Toothless Bob that Cazador was after him . He went with the Kid to find the money in a diamond mine with Benny . In the mine , the Kid revealed that he was a bounty hunter who was sent to capture Braxiatel for the other Braxiatel ' s crimes . He escaped with the real Brimstone Kid and Benny in an escape pod . Benny then lost contact with him . She thought he had crashed into an asteroid . ( AUDIO : " The Brimstone Kid " ) He was actually kidnapped by the Epoch . The Epoch took Braxiatel to a point beyond time , where his memory was altered to make him think that he was an actor , called Miles Richardson , portraying Braxiatel . Bernice awoke the dormant personalities in her companions and defeated the Epoch by burying it under paradoxes of its own creation . Using the Epoch ' s technology , Braxiatel then sought out a way to find Gallifrey . ( AUDIO : " In Living Memory " ) Dellah and the Braxiatel Collection . Another version of Braxiatel became the head of the Department of Theatrology at St . Oscar ' s University on the planet Dellah , where he met Bernice Summerfield after her meeting with his other self . ( PROSE : " Dragons ' Wrath " , AUDIO : " Disassembled " ) They became friends , and he supported her in several adventures . ( PROSE : " Happy Endings " , " The Medusa Effect " , " Deadfall " ) After Bernice obtained a post at the archaeology department in 2593 , the pair of them became entangled in many adventures . Braxiatel was on Dellah during the rise of the All - High God s and helped to evacuate a group of survivors . ( PROSE : " Where Angels Fear " ) During this time , he won KS - 159 , the future home of his Collection . Braxiatel supported Benny when she was dying and through her memory - loss that came with the recovery , conspiring with Jason , Chris , and Clarence to stop Benny from abandoning them all for the dangerous Eastern Rim . Braxiatel supported the Time Lords when their problems with the People had to be resolved . He supported the team in sending Dellah back to the Gods ' universe , destroying that threat and ending the prospect of a war between the People and the Time Lords . In the aftermath , after leaving Vremnya , Braxiatel invited Benny to join him on the newly established Collection . ( PROSE : " Tears of the Oracle " , " Return to the Fractured Planet " , " The Joy Device " , " Twilight of the Gods " , " The Doomsday Manuscript " ) The Braxiatel Collection ( one of the greatest art galleries in the galaxy ) was founded by Braxiatel on KS - 159 . It had extensive archaeological libraries which could be used with Braxiatel ' s permission . Braxiatel ' s collection of books contained every book banned by the Catholic Church . ( PROSE : " Tears of the Oracle " , PROSE : " Theatre of War " ) The reason for the creation of the Braxiatel Collection was the disastrous test of the Timonic Fusion Device , which destroyed the planet Minyos , prompting Braxiatel to begin collecting and preserving historical artefacts in case such widespread destruction ever happened again . He also admitted that he had transgressed the Laws of Time by being in contact with his future regeneration s . ( AUDIO : " The Inquiry " ) He often used Benny as an expert as part of his art dealings . Wishing to obtain a Halstad Harp he took her to an auction on Palastrid . Discovering the truth behind the death of the planet Halstad he wanted to employ Hulver to his collection . ( AUDIO : " The Extinction Event " ) While Benny was working at the Braxiatel Collection , a conspiracy started to form around Braxiatel . While all the characters were shown dark , twisted mirror images of themselves , Braxiatel was unaffected , and when Jason Kane wondered if the real Braxiatel was the mirror version , he was brainwashed into inability to be suspicious of Braxiatel . ( AUDIO : " The Mirror Effect " ) Further incidents showed the Time Lord to be far more dangerous and manipulative than he let on — he used a brainwashed Jason for his own ends , had murder done in his name , and caused a civil war in the Domus system . ( PROSE : " A Life in Pieces " ) The Eighth Doctor once visited the Braxiatel Collection at Christmas and dropped off a pair of socks for Braxiatel , signed " Thete " . ( PROSE : " . . . Be Forgot ) " Patrick Quilby was an old friend of his and asked Braxiatel for the services of an archaeologist in his protection of Bellotron . ( AUDIO : " The Bellotron Incident " ) He then asked her to go to Draconia . ( AUDIO : " The Draconian Rage " ) The Earth Reptile Council asked Brax to look after a counter terrorism mission and sent Benny to Chosan to help find the culprit among the Sea Devil s . ( AUDIO : " The Poison Seas " ) Braxiatel was finally caught when the Collection was occupied by the Fifth Axis . ( PROSE : " Life During Wartime " ) He was kept under house arrest and often tortured until he would tell Mushtaq Anson where his TARDIS was . After Bev Tarrant was rescued he authorised her to start the liberation of the Collection . After Joseph told him that the Daleks were behind the Fifth Axis , he decided to act . He escaped his prison and then assumed control of the liberation army . He used the Dalek time machine that was left on the Collection to destroy Fifth Axis fleets using Isaac Summerfield ' s connection as the Dalek Battle Computer . ( AUDIO : " Death and the Daleks " ) To ensure the Collection would survive , he recruited an army . He turned to the colony of Cantus , which had been taken over long ago by the Cybermen , and had a member of the Collection , Ronan McGinley , turned into a Cyber - Controller subject to Braxiatel ' s will . Using a mysterious Gallifreyan crystal , Ronan made all the Cybermen follow Braxiatel ' s orders . It was later revealed that the crystal was slowly killing Ronan , so Braxiatel arranged for Jason to arrive on Cantus to become the new Controller . Thanks to Benny , this plan backfired and Jason remembered everything that Braxiatel had done to him . Braxiatel was forced to leave the Collection . ( AUDIO : " The Crystal of Cantus " ) Braxiatel ' s absence ( and activities after leaving ) led to the Draconian Empire claiming a territorial right to the Collection , as well as getting into a war with the Mim . Bernice Summerfield eventually tracked down Braxiatel to return him to the Collection to handle the situation . He had travelled back in time and found an ascetic to transform him into an amber - coloured crystal , known as the Stone of Barter , in which form he remained for around 3000 years . ( AUDIO : " The Empire State " ) Taking the Gravity Rainbow back to the Collection as part of the cargo . He did this in order to avoid Benny , as he didn ' t want to live up to the stuff he had done to her and Jason . He also hid in the box in order to avoid the monsters in the light . ( AUDIO : " The Tub Full of Cats " ) When he arrived he was determined to fix his TARDIS then leave , but he was roped into finding some way to remove the gauntlet that Bev had on her hand . This meant he had no time to sort out the defences to the Collection allowing the Draconians to invade . ( AUDIO : " The Judas Gift " ) He proved successful in stopping the war , though he stopped the war in secret by convincing Collection gardener Hass to kill the entire Mimsphere , framing the Draconians for it . ( AUDIO : " Freedom of Information " ) Jason Kane grew suspicious that Bernice and he were meant to still be married and have children , but that Braxiatel had altered the timeline for his own purposes . He also began to believe Irving had altered the lives and timelines of everyone at the Collection for his own ends and only Jason could notice . He eventually found proof . Braxiatel had deliberately orchestrated the breakdown and death of Clarissa Jones ( after she had noticed his manipulations ) , had manipulated time to " create " a Draconian / Mim war , and was " grooming " Bernice as part of his agenda to preserve the past via his Collection . The Collection was his TARDIS , making his temporal manipulations easier . To prevent Jason revealing any of this , Braxiatel manipulated Peter Summerfield into killing him . ( AUDIO : " The End of the World " ) While pretending to be just a resident , Braxiatel regained dominance of the Collection via a puppet provisional government and , using his ally Doggles , manipulating a mourning Bernice to bring her closer to him . This failed and Bernice escaped with her son . Braxiatel sent agents to track her down . ( AUDIO : " The Wake " ) He once asked Benny to paint him which he used to keep as part of his vault in the Vingus Bank . The bank staff were clones of him for security reasons . ( AUDIO : " Glory Days " ) Braxiatel ' s reasons for setting up the Collection where he did were later revealed to be due to the location of a great temporal leak depositing enough power to fuel a hundred colonies , or perhaps even bring back his own people . He began to siphon the leak , moving it to the planet Maximediras which he had just purchased following the failure of its economy , thinking it could potentially become a new homeworld for his people . ( AUDIO : " Resurrecting the Past " ) Whilst plotting to restore his people he became aware of the Deindum , a species in the future who would learn the secret of time travel and could rival his own people . He attempted to prevent their creation using Frost but was ironically stopped by the involvement of Bernice Summerfield and Robyn , an android created by this race and sent back in time to ensure their creation . ( AUDIO : " Secret Origins " ) His reasons for keeping such a close eye on Bernice Summerfield , and tampering with her personal history , were revealed when it appeared she was destined to fall through a portal in time and become instrumental in the creation of the Deindum . Unable to prevent their creation Braxiatel , with the help of Doggles , planned to turn them into less aggressive creatures by altering the genetic material they would be based on . However , due to the actions of Robyn and Hass , Bernice was prevented from falling through the portal at all , leaving the Deindum a far more aggressive and paranoid species than before . ( AUDIO : " Resurrecting the Past " ) The Deindum travelled back and began a full scale invasion of the galaxy in order to protect their own history and ensure their creation . Keen at first to fight off these enemies of his own people , Braxiatel led a galaxy wide resistance against the Deindum , although he eventually lost faith in his abilities and surrendered to his defeat . ( PROSE : " Present Danger " ) Braxiatel was captured and tortured by the Deindum , before being rescued from the Deindum mothership by Bernice Summerfield . She finally confronted him with the death of Jason , and he explained that Jason was about to be used against him by the Deindum . He expressed no guilt for his actions , except that he had failed in his mission and brought about the Deindum ' s creation . When Bernice offered him an alternative solution he expressed interest , and finally ( begrudgingly ) apologised for Jason ' s death . He and Bernice began to engage in a personal time war against the Deindum , engineering a plan to prevent them from ever having existed . The plan worked , although just before its conclusion Braxiatel was shot by a Deindum soldier . ( AUDIO : " Escaping the Future " ) The Collection . Another incarnation of Braxiatel attended Bernice Summerfield ' s wedding to Jason Kane in Cheldon Bonniface on 24 April 2010 ( AUDIO : " Many Happy Returns " , PROSE : " Happy Endings " ) and was still running his Collection thousands of years in the future , where Bernice Summerfield met him for the first time . The Doctor had sent her to find out more information about Manaxus . Braxiatel helped her in her work . He later provided a ship for her to get to Heletia and get the information to the Doctor . He had a hand written version of " The Good Soldiers " written by the Doctor . ( PROSE : " Theatre of War " ) Long after Braxiatel employed anyone at the Collection , Bernice found him in the wine cellars of a monastery on Old Earth . Braxiatel told her that he never had a brother , so that everyone would believe that the Doctor was dead . ( PROSE : " The Shape of the Hole " ) Saving Gallifrey . In the aftermath of Omega ' s escape back into the prime universe , Braxiatel rescued Romana from her dead Type 160 . ( AUDIO : " Intervention Earth " ) Braxiatel saved the earlier Romana from regenerating on the " Moros " , claiming that a war had broken out after Omega ' s return and her future self sent him back to change Gallifrey ' s future . Braxiatel took her and Leela back to Gallifrey , shut down the Adherents of Ohm , helped investigate the death of Narvin , and stopped the Warpsmith plot to start a war . After Romana succeeded in changing Gallifrey ' s destiny , Braxiatel was confronted by the Watchmaker , who told him that his life could no longer continue as the paradox that it was . Braxiatel submitted to his fate and gave himself to the Watchmaker , who intended to find him his " true path " . ( AUDIO : " Enemy Lines " ) Alternative timelines . In an alternative timeline , Braxiatel was killed by his brother , the Doctor , when he was supposed to erase him from history as the Lord Burner . After he was killed , the Doctor received the title of " Lord Burner . " ( AUDIO : " Disassembled " ) In another alternative timeline , Gallifrey ' s war with the Great Vampire s never ended . In order to combat the vampires , the True Lord s genetically engineered savage warriors called " hounds " to kill the vampires . Braxiatel became a victim of the process . ( AUDIO : " Annihilation " ) In another alternative timeline , Braxiatel was a minor councillor of the Inner Council , living under a tyrannical President Romana II . Braxiatel was present at her assassination , after which he was interviewed by Commentator Theta Sigma . ( AUDIO : " Forever " ) After taking her place , the Romana of the proper timeline considered him " oily " compared to their Braxiatel . However , Narvin wondered how she could tell the difference between them . Lord Zakar referred to him as a " worm . " ( AUDIO : " Arbitration " ) He tried to ally himself with the Dalek s who invaded Gallifrey . They exterminated him after finding records that the Braxiatel from their universe had betrayed them . ( AUDIO : " Extermination " ) Appearance . Shortly after leaving Gallifrey , Braxiatel had long brown hair which flopped over his forehead , and half - moon spectacles . ( PROSE : " The Empire of Glass " ) Bev Tarrant described him as dark - haired , slim , and with immaculate dress sense . ( AUDIO : " Glory Days " ) On a trip to Ganesh he wore a big black coat . ( PROSE : " Kill the Mouse ! " ) Whilst the Fifth Axis occupied the Collection , Braxiatel wore a grey suit . ( PROSE : " Fear of Corners " ) At Benny ' s wedding , Braxiatel wore a summer suit , with leather boots , and his spectales balanced on the end of his nose . ( PROSE : " Happy Endings " ) He wore an open white shirt on occasions . ( AUDIO : " Big Dig " ) Personality . In his youth , Braxiatel was overconfident and more sensible than his younger brother . ( PROSE : " The Empire of Glass " , AUDIO : " The 100 Days of the Doctor " ) He had a great interest in the universe and strove to gather as much knowledge as he could from it . ( PROSE : " Tears of the Oracle " ) The Doctor referred to Braxiatel as " an occasional collaborator in adventures of the mind , the soul and the body " . ( PROSE : " The Banquo Legacy " ) The presence of Pandora in his mind caused Braxiatel to manipulate and kill others to serve his own ends . ( AUDIO : " The Curse of Fenman " , " Escaping the Future " ) Braxiatel found it difficult to convey sympathy , so he didn ' t try . ( PROSE : " The Doomsday Manuscript " ) Braxiatel had no problems with swearing , referring to Cybermen as " metal bastards " . ( AUDIO : " The Crystal of Cantus " )