Theory:Timeline - The Master

This page lists **appearances of The Master in the order in which he experienced them**. It relies on much speculation to fit semi-contradictory sources together, and should *absolutely not* be seen as representative of this wiki's general policy.

## Limiting factors

Events after *Doctor Who* are difficult to reconcile with each other as they offer contradictory accounts to what happened when the Master escaped the Eye of Harmony.

## Timeline

It was intended that Magnus be the Master and the War Chief, who were intended to be the same character. *Divided Loyalties* identified the two as separate, but the dream flashbacks are stated by the Doctor to have been nightmares, and are therefore unreliable.

### First incarnation

* PROSE: *Lucifer Rising* (flashback)

The Doctor and the Master meet for the first time.
* AUDIO: *Master* (flashback)

At the age of eight, the Doctor kills their mutual childhood bully Torvic, but makes a deal with Death to transfer the memory of killing him to the Master instead.
* TV: *The Sound of Drums* (flashback)
	+ TV: *The End of Time*

The child who would become the Master is presumably in his first incarnation.
* PROSE: *Lucifer Rising* (flashback)
* PROSE: *Tomb of Valdemar* (flashback)
* PROSE: *Harvest of Time* (flashback)

### Magnus

* COMIC: *Flashback*

"Magnus" lives on Gallifrey. He's said to carelessly waste regenerations.
### Leaving Gallifrey and the Dark Heart

* AUDIO: *The Toy* (flashback)

The Master is living on Gallifrey, in the incarnation first seen in *Terror of the Autons*. He attends a ceremony for Susan.
* PROSE: *Birth of a Renegade* (flashback)

The Master leads several student revolts.
* AUDIO: *The Toy* (flashback)

The Master leaves Gallifrey.
* PROSE: *The Dark Path*

The Master is already in his incarnation first seen in *Terror of the Autons*. Authorial intent was that after *The Dark Path*, the Master regenerates into the War Chief, and later revisits the face used in *The Dark Path*.
* PROSE: *The Nameless City*

The Master is wearing the clothes of the incarnation seen in *Terror of the Autons*, but targets the Second Doctor, rather than the Third. He is malevolent and the Doctor is travelling with Jamie and not Victoria, so after *The Dark Path*.
### War Chief

* TV: *The War Games* / PROSE: *Doctor Who and the War Games*

Magnus is a renegade and lives off-Gallifrey. The Time Lords try to execute him, but he just regenerates.
### Felix Kriegslieter

* PROSE: *Timewyrm: Exodus*

The War Chief regenerates into Felix Kriegslieter, who, after being burned, regenerates into an incarnation identical to the one from *The Dark Path*. Ace describes the new incarnation as "a young man, tall, dark and satanically handsome".
### Victor Magister

* PROSE: *Timewyrm: Exodus*

The Master regenerates from the "Felix Kriegslieter" incarnation into an incarnation identical to the incarnation from *The Dark Path*.
* PROSE: *Prisoners of the Sun*

The Master doesn't appear, but a Time Lord mentions that he has escaped Shada.
* PROSE: *Third Eye View*
* PROSE: *Masters of Terror*
* PROSE: *Reconnaissance*

Leads into *Terror of the Autons*.
* TV: *Terror of the Autons* / PROSE: *Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons*
* PROSE: *Doorway into Nowhere*

The Master is stuck on Earth.
* TV: *The Mind of Evil* / PROSE: *The Mind of Evil*
* PROSE: *Deadly Reunion*

The Master's TARDIS is operational.
* PROSE: *UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce*
* GAME: *Time Streams*
* TV: *The Claws of Axos* / PROSE: *Doctor Who and the Claws of Axos*
* TV: *Colony in Space* / PROSE: *Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon*
* TV: *The Dæmons* / PROSE: *Doctor Who and the Dæmons*
* PROSE: *Freedom*
* PROSE: *Harvest of Time*

The Master is imprisoned.
* COMIC: *The Man in the Ion Mask*
* PROSE: *The Face of the Enemy*

The Master is imprisoned.
* PROSE: *The Switching*

The Master moves to Fortress island, leading into *The Sea Devils*
* TV: *The Sea Devils* / PROSE: *Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils*
* PROSE: *The Eight Doctors*

The Master retrieves his TARDIS from where he hid it in *The Face of the Enemy*.
* PROSE: *Who Killed Kennedy*
* PROSE: *The Seismologist's Story*
* PROSE: *Doctor Who Fights Masterplan "Q"*
* PROSE: *The Touch of the Nurazh*
* TV: *The Time Monster* / PROSE: *The Time Monster*
* COMIC: *Prologue: The Third Doctor* / *Supremacy of the Cybermen*
* COMIC: *The Heralds of Destruction*
* PROSE: *The Spear of Destiny*
* PROSE: *Listen - the Stars*
* PROSE: *Out of the Green Mist*
* COMIC: *The Time Thief*
* PROSE: *Hidden Talent*
* AUDIO: *The Transcendence of Ephros*
* PROSE: *The Christmas Inversion*
* GAME: *Legacy*
* SP: *Recall UNIT: The Great Tea-Bag Mystery*
* PROSE: *Last of the Gaderene*
* COMIC: *The Glen of Sleeping*
* COMIC: *Fogbound*
* PROSE: *Smash Hit*
* PROSE: *The One Second Hour*
* COMIC: *Character Assassin*
* PROSE: *The Duke of Dominoes*

The Doctor has regenerated, and the Master doesn't recognize him as being the Doctor.
* PROSE: *Unlimited*
* COMIC: *Party Animals*
* AUDIO: *The Killing Stone*

During the course of this story, the Doctor regenerates.
* PROSE: *Verdigris*

The Master intends to go to Skaro and ally with the Daleks, leading into *Frontier in Space*.
* TV: *Frontier in Space* / PROSE: *Doctor Who and the Space War*
* COMIC: *Doorway to Hell*

The Master has returned from his affair with the Daleks and the Draconians. At the conclusion, the Master is burned and regenerates.
* PROSE: *Legacy of the Daleks*

The Master is badly injured, leading into *The Deadly Assassin*. According to this, the Master is already in his thirteenth incarnation. Note that this contradicts *Sympathy for the Devil*, where he is able to regenerate after the Doctor's exile, *Doorway to Hell*, which presents a different account of his regeneration, and *The Two Masters*, where the version of him burnt is probably a different one.
### Damien Scott

* AUDIO: *The Two Masters* (Old Master flashbacks)

The Master has regenerated. He encounters his future self, who burns him. The Old Master steals the New Master's body.
* AUDIO: *Vampire of the Mind*

### Van Houten

* AUDIO: *The Two Masters* (Old Master)

The Master is badly injured.
* PROSE: *Legacy of the Daleks* (final scenes)

The Master, scarred and disfigured, is found by Goth, leading into *The Deadly Assassin*.
* TV: *The Deadly Assassin* / PROSE: *Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin*
* AUDIO: *The Museum of Curiosities*
* AUDIO: *Jago & Son* (cameo)
* AUDIO: *Maurice* (cameo)
* AUDIO: *The Woman in White* (cameo)
* AUDIO: *Masterpiece*

The Master left Gallifrey straight for Earth looking for the Doctor.
* COMIC: *The Abominable Showmen*
* COMIC: *The Five Masters*
* PROSE: *Harvest of Time*

The Master is captured by the Sild.
* GAME: *Legacy*
* PROSE: *The Scarlet Shadow*

The Master attempted to steal Iris Wildthyme's body.
* AUDIO: *Trail of the White Worm*
* AUDIO: *The Oseidon Adventure*
* AUDIO: *The Light at the End*

The Master hasn't met Nyssa yet, placing it before *The Keeper of Traken*. Release order position for original Four/Leela Big Finish audios.
* AUDIO: *The Evil One*
* AUDIO: *Requiem for the Rocket Men*
* AUDIO: *Death Match*
* PROSE: *Special Occasions: 1. The Not-So-Sinister Sponge*
* TV: *The Keeper of Traken* / PROSE: *Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken*

The Master gains the body of Tremas.
### Tremas

* TV: *Logopolis* / PROSE: *Logopolis*
* TV: *Castrovalva* / PROSE: *Castrovalva*
* AUDIO: *Smoke and Mirrors*

The Master is trying to reconstitute his body after it was broken down when Castrovalva was destroyed.
* TV: *Time-Flight* / PROSE: *Time-Flight*
* PROSE: *Night Flight to Nowhere*
* TV: *The King's Demons* / PROSE: *The King's Demons*
* TV: *The Five Doctors* / PROSE: *The Five Doctors*
* PROSE: *The Velvet Dark*
* PROSE: *Birth of a Renegade*
* PROSE: *Master Faustus*
* PROSE: *The Creation of Camelot*
* TV: *Planet of Fire* / PROSE: *Planet of Fire*
* PROSE: *A Town Called Eternity*

The Master is scarred because of *Planet of Fire*.
* TV: *The Caves of Androzani* / PROSE: *The Caves of Androzani*
	+ AUDIO: *Winter*

The Master attempts to steal the Fifth Doctor's remaining regenerations.
* TV: *The Mark of the Rani* / PROSE: *The Mark of the Rani*
* PROSE: *The Time Savers*
* PROSE: *A Handful of Stardust*
* AUDIO: *The Hollows of Time*
* PROSE: *The Fellowship of Quan*
* PROSE: *The Radio Waves*
* GAME: *Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror*
* COMIC: *Facades*
* GAME: *Legacy*
* PROSE: *Time's Champion*

The Master discovers the Valeyard, leading into *The Ultimate Foe*.
* TV: *The Ultimate Foe* / PROSE: *The Ultimate Foe*
* PROSE: *The Quantum Archangel*
* AUDIO: *The End of the Line*
* COMIC: *The Abominable Showmen* / *The Five Masters*
* TV: *Survival* / PROSE: *Survival*
* PROSE: *Stop the Pigeon*

The Master is still infected with the Cheetah virus from *Survival*.
* PROSE: *Prime Time*
* PROSE: *Omegamorphosis*

The Master, in his Trakenite body, attempts to create an indestructible new one for himself, but is thwarted by the Doctor.
* AUDIO: *Dust Breeding*

The Master's Trakenite body has broken down by the Warp Core, turning him into the same form seen in *The Keeper of Traken*.
* AUDIO: *Master*

Afterwards, presumably Death restores the Master's Trakenite body as a reward.
### Major Kreer

* PROSE: *First Frontier*

The Master is affected by the Cheetah virus. It recurred after seemingly being cured in *Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark* as well, in Ace. The Tzun attempt to give the Master a new regeneration cycle, and his first regeneration cures the cheetah virus.
* PROSE: *Housewarming*
* PROSE: *Happy Endings*

The Master's supposed new regeneration cycle has not worked, and his body is breaking down.
### Tremas once more

*The Master's body regresses back to the Trakenite form.*
* COMIC: *Facades*
* COMIC: *The Choice*
* COMIC: *Endgame*

The Master is wearing the same costume as in *Destiny of the Doctors*. He is not affected by the Cheetah virus.
* PROSE: *The Eight Doctors*

The Master recalls *Survival*, but no further clues are given as to which body he's in. He gains a Deathworm Morphant.
* GAME: *Destiny of the Doctors* / HOMEVID: *Destiny of the Doctors*
* TV: *Doctor Who* (execution scene)

The Master is executed by the Daleks because... reasons.
### Bruce

* TV: *Doctor Who* / PROSE: *The Novel of the Film*

* COMIC: *The Abominable Showmen*
* COMIC: *The Five Masters*

Set while the Master is wearing Bruce's outfit.
* COMIC: *The Glorious Dead* (flashback)

The Master falls into the Eye of Harmony during the climax of *Doctor Who*.
* PROSE: *The Eight Doctors* (cameo)

### A Street Preacher

* COMIC: *The Fallen*

The Master escapes the Eye of Harmony.
* COMIC: *The Glorious Dead*

The Master is banished to parts unknown by Kroton - most likely the Eye of Harmony, although not stated.
* AUDIO: *Nevermore*

The Master doesn't appear, but his "current" state is referred to: he is not in a position to interfere with time.
* PROSE: *Sometime Never...* (cameo)
* PROSE: *The Deadstone Memorial* (cameo)
* PROSE: *The Gallifrey Chronicles* (cameo)

### Don Maestro

* PROSE: *Forgotten*

The Master escapes the Eye of Harmony again.
* PROSE: *Prologue*

Set during the events of *Forgotten*.
* AUDIO: *Mastermind*

Set directly after *Forgotten*. At the end, the Master is free and has his grandfather clock TARDIS, contradicting *Nevermore* and *Eyes of the Master*.
### War King

* PROSE: *The Adventuress of Henrietta Street*
* PROSE: *The Infinity Doctors*

The Magistrate lives on Gallifrey again.
* PROSE: *The Book of the War*

The War King has scarring deliberately retained from his previous incarnation, and he keeps a hypercube as a momento.
* PROSE: *Judy's War*
* PROSE: *The Taking of Planet 5*

The Master is War King.
* AUDIO: *Body Politic*
* AUDIO: *Words from Nine Divinities*

The War King is consumed by what was originally his grandfather clock TARDIS, Lolita.
### Harcourt De'ath

* AUDIO: *Time's Horizon* (cameo)
* AUDIO: *Eyes of the Master*

The Master was rescued by the Time Lords from "a predicament," which the Doctor is aware of.
* AUDIO: *The Death of Hope*
* AUDIO: *The Reviled*
* AUDIO: *Masterplan*
* AUDIO: *Rule of the Eminence*
* AUDIO: *The Monster of Montmartre*
* AUDIO: *Master of the Daleks*
* AUDIO: *UNIT: Dominion*

The Master is working in direct opposition to the Time Lords.
* AUDIO: *The Two Masters* (New Master flashbacks)
* AUDIO: *And You Will Obey Me*
* AUDIO: *The Two Masters* (New Master)

### The Time War

* COMIC: *Outrun*
* COMIC: *The Organ Grinder*

* COMIC: *The Then and the Now*

* COMIC: *Kill God*
* COMIC: *Fast Asleep*

The Master is in the body of a small child, having been resurrected to fight in the Time War. He regenerates into the "Yana" incarnation of the Master due to a paradox.
### Professor Yana

* TV: *Utopia*

The Master has just left the Time War. He doesn't have a TARDIS. He regenerates into his "Harold Saxon" incarnation.
### Harold Saxon

* PROSE: *Speech Day*
* TV: *The Sound of Drums*
* TV: *Last of the Time Lords*

* PROSE: *Harvest of Time* (captive)

The Master is captured during the Year That Never Was by the Sild. He is freed and returned to his time.
* PROSE: *The Story of Martha*

Set during the final scene of *Last of the Time Lords*.
* TV: *The End of Time*

The Master is sent to the last day of the Time War.
* COMIC: *The Abominable Showmen*
* COMIC: *The Five Masters*

Set during *The End of Time*, while the Master is free-roaming.
### Missy

* TV: *Deep Breath* (cameo)
* TV: *Into the Dalek* (cameo)
* TV: *The Caretaker* (cameo)
* TV: *Flatline* (cameo)
* TV: *In the Forest of the Night* (cameo)
* TV: *Dark Water*

Missy claims the Doctor "left [her] for dead."
* TV: *Death in Heaven*

Missy is aware of the Doctor saving Gallifrey at the end of the Time War. The Doctor speculates that she has a TARDIS, though it does not appear.
* TV: *The Magician's Apprentice*
* TV: *The Witch's Familiar*
* COMIC: *The Abominable Showmen*
* COMIC: *The Five Masters*
* GAME: *Legacy*
* PROSE: *Yes, Missy*