The Master

### Other Aliases

Magister, Thascalos, Emil Keller, Tremas, Kalid, Giles Estram, Branko Gospodar, Ank, Kreer

## Production stats

### Appearances

DW: Angels of DeathDW: Return to Argolis

CW: The Sea of Ghosts

CW: The Eight Soldiers

CW: The Orb of Cestala

CW: The Last Day at Eridan

DW: The Masterful Grave

### Main actor

Anthony Ainley

The Master was a Time Lord renegade and criminal known to fellow renegade Ankarstian

## Appearance

The incarnation of the Master encountered by the Resistance during the Siege of RCARS (CW)/The In-Between battles (JC) had an aquiline face, a black beard and mustache, and short black hair.

The "ghostly Master" resembled a being made of light blue gas with strands of blue energy flicking through it.

## History

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When the Time Lords created the *Consolidator* to conceal various dangerous historical secrets from the rest of the universe, unwilling to destroy the items or races in the ship in case they proved useful later, the Doctor and the Master were assigned to come up with a solution where their peers had failed. The Master had the idea of using a black hole to tear a rift in time and send the *Consolidator* into the distant future, where the future Time Lords could deal with it, but the Doctor declined to have his name put down on the calculations as he questioned the ethics of the assignment. However, when the experiment was actually attempted, the *Consolidator* was apparently destroyed by a mistake in the calculations when it struck the edge of the black hole, leaving the Time Lords to hush the matter up. (DW: *Harvest of Time*)

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The Master went to Earth, where he trapped the Doctor's TARDIS in a gravity bubble. He killed Tegan Jovanka's aunt Vanessa and a police constable with his Tissue Compression Eliminator. He then went to Logopolis, where he pretended to be Tremas to gain Nyssa's cooperation, giving her a bracelet that allowed him to control her arm. Using her as a hostage, he perverted the Block Transfer Computations and held the planet for ransom until its secret was revealed. This made the causal nexus unravel and also broke the Logopolitans' blockade of entropy, allowing it to swallow several galaxies, including the entire Traken Union.

The entropy wave was so threatening that the Master agreed to work with the Fourth Doctor to stop it. They travelled to the Pharos Project on Earth to do so, using the last theorem of Logopolis to reopen Charged Vacuum Emboitments. His true plan was revealed however when he sent a message to the peoples of the universe that he would stop the entropy only if they submitted to his rule. While the Doctor stopped the Master's signal to shut down the CVE that would halt the entropy wave, the Master caused him to fall off the Pharos Project's radio telescope and regenerate, allowing the Master to escape. (DW: *Logopolis*)

On Xeriphas, the Master found and acquired Kamelion, a shape-changing android that could be easily controlled by a strong mind. Managing to elude Xeraphin, the Master escaped to England in 1215. (DW: *The King's Demons*) Killing the French knight "Sir Gilles Estram" to assume his identity, (DW: *Sanctuary*) the Master made Kamelion impersonate John of England to prevent the signing of *Magna Carta*. However, the arrival of the Doctor, Tegan and Vislor Turlough caused interference with his plans. After the Doctor defeated him in, first, a sword-fight and then a mental battle of wits over the command of Kamelion, the Master fled in his TARDIS. (DW: *The King's Demons*)

### Jonathan Crisis

The Master discovered the AUTREC computer while in the Blanchamage IV Matrix port. Some time after finding out he knocked out Ank while in the "escape pod" of the Odessa and impersonated him. (TAL: The Gateway, You Will Obey Me)

### Retconned events

The Master discovered the AUTREC computer while in the Blanchamage IV Matrix port. Some time after finding out he knocked out Ank while in the "escape pod" of the Odessa and impersonated him. He later made an android duplicate of Thorn, although this version of Thorn was drastically different in appearance to the regular Thorn. This was explained as a form of "drastic healing"

While under his disguise, the Master joined the leadership of the Resistance and infiltrated them during the Jonathan Crisis, though he never ended up revealing any of their secrets to the Alliance. He remained in disguise until the raid on the Eversiscendant headquarters in the In-Between

While the Resistance was raiding the headquarters, the Master removed his disguise and then deactivated the android Thorn, the Master kidnapped PoseidonHeir in the middle of the raid and tried to access the coordinates of the AUTREC computer from PoseidonHeir's head.

However, by then, the real Ank had managed to get to his TARDIS.  While the Master was able to gain partial information about AUTREC, PoseidonHeir managed to escape after the Master's TARDIS was attacked by the Eversiscendant's Mega Lobster Cannon ®, and Ank managed to time-ram the Master's TARDIS, which sent the Master to the planet Cestala.