Theory:Timeline - The Relic

This page lists appearances of the "Relic" Doctor 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.

Settling down as a diplomat

 * Although the Doctor of The Infinity Doctors can also be interpreted as being a young Doctor who has not yet left Gallifrey (with his dead wife being Patience instead of Bernice), this timeline will focus on the novel's plot as being later in the Doctor's life, leading to his involvement in the War. As a version of the Eighth Doctor, the Infinity Doctor is indicated to have travelled with Sam Jones and Izzy Sinclair; The Book of the War also features the Eighth Doctor's companion Carmen Yeh from the charity story Schrodinger's Botanist in Perfect Timing.


 * As the Relic, this Doctor later intersects with the early life of the Eighth Doctor (while he's in his early travels with Sam Jones), possibly changing its own past and pushing its earlier self onto a different path which was followed by the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures. Another potential explanation put forth by PROSE: The Book of the War for how the lives of these two Eighth Doctors run parallel is that they are from different Gallifreys of the Nine Gallifreys. Fishy Business vaguely points to another explanation.


 * NOTVALID: Fishy Business (in the charity publication Perfecting Timing II)
 * Bernice Summerfield has been in a relationship with the Eighth Doctor for ten years since he made the first move on her on Apollox 4. They do not have children. This alarms Danny the Fish, as this Bernice has not experienced any of the established events of her life which should have happened after PROSE: The Dying Days, leading Danny to contact the rest of the Advanced Research Department to inform them that the Doctor has been "compromised" by Last Contact.


 * PROSE: The Infinity Doctors (flashback on the final page)
 * The Doctor paints a portrait of Bernice in the atrium of his family home on Gallifrey, and she tells him she's pregnant. This changes his outlook on life, convincing him to put his past behind him. The Doctor sees a vision of Bernice as a past companion in The Infinity Doctors, and by the events of that novel the portrait has the inscription "Death is but a door".


 * PROSE: Paydirt
 * A legend exists that Bernice Summerfield had "thirteen half-immortal children by the last survivor of a race of time travellers".


 * The Doctor is put on trial by the Time Lords and sentenced to teach law in the Time Lord Academy. He defeats Varnax. (TV: The Return of Varnax)


 * PROSE: The Infinity Doctors
 * The Doctor is a teacher who works with his friend the Magistrate to resolve the Rutan-Sontaran War. He later visits the Needle and encounters Patience and Omega. He defends Gallifrey from Varnax.
 * PROSE: The Infinity Doctors / Father Time (shared dream)
 * In Chapter 1 of The Infinity Doctors and Chapter 27 of Father Time, the Doctors of both books meet in a shared dream, a bridge between parallels. Both Doctors are the same age and have the same physical form, but the Doctor of Father Time has long hair and the Doctor of The Infinity Doctors has short hair. The Father Time Eighth Doctor has been stranded on Earth for almost exactly a century, meaning that his counterpart is also at least a century old. The Father Time Eighth Doctor also knows that his counterpart's lover is dead.


 * PROSE: The Book of the War
 * An interventionist diplomat visits an old contact on Dronid to try to prevent the Cataclysm.

War in Heaven

 * PROSE: Alien Bodies
 * The Doctor visits Mictlan and promises to give the Celestis his corpse if they stay out of affairs on Dronid. He later visits a dying soldier on Simia KK98.


 * PROSE: The Book of the War
 * A mysterious assassin kills three lobotomized renegades, ending the Lethean Campaign.

The Relic

 * At some point, the Doctor dies. (PROSE: Alien Bodies, et al.)


 * PROSE: Alien Bodies
 * The Relic is found in Smithmanstown, sent back in time by Faction Paradox, put in the Toy Store, and obtained by Qixotl from the Black Man's shop in 2169 London. Qixotl puts it up for auction in the Unthinkable City. The Doctor appears to Kortez on the astral plane. The Eighth Doctor wins the Relic and destroys on Quiescia.


 * PROSE: The Shape of the Hole
 * Bernice Summerfield searches for the Doctor's body on Quiescia.

The City of the Saved

 * PROSE: The Book of the War
 * Grandfather Halfling founds House Halfling in the City of the Saved and is a close affiliate of Amanda Legend Lefcourt.


 * PROSE: Of the City of the Saved...
 * Melicia Clutterbuck furthers Grandfather Halfling's agenda.


 * PROSE: Postscript
 * V. M. McCrimmon receives a letter from a blonde woman addressed to herself and Grandfather Halfling.


 * PROSE: God Encompasses
 * Grandfather Halfling is resurrected in the second City of the Saved.

Currently unplaced

 * These entries are placed here due to being part of ongoing storylines that have yet to offer sufficient enough evidence to be placed in a specific part of this Master's timeline, unless further evidence arises in the stories to come.

Awaiting placement

 * These entries are placed here until a suitable position in the timeline can be determined based on the available evidence.