Rasmus (Dreadshade)

During the Last Great Time War, Rasmus was a Lord Cardinal member of the War Council.

Biography
Rasmus regenerated on the battlefield, (AUDIO: Light The Flame) moments before the Daleks were erased from existence by the Valeyard. Rasmus helped the decommissioning of the war effort as the Time Lords struggled to understand their former enemy they could not remember. When the amnesiac Eighth Doctor and Bliss arrived on Gallifrey, Rasmus took them to the War Council to help their investigation. The Doctor sent him and Bliss to interview prisoners of war, who had been conscripted alien soldiers until the disappearance of their masters. Rasmus and Bliss returned to Gallifrey when she regained her memories, arriving in time for her to calm the Dreadshade that the Twelve had let loose in the Panopticon. (AUDIO: Dreadshade)

When the Daleks began to return to the universe, Rasmus commanded the Time Lords' defence. He gave Bliss a device to contact him after she persuaded the Doctor to help nearby planet Cosca rather than abandon the warzone entirely. Finding the Daleks had infinite reinforcements which were blunting the Time Lords' assault, Rasmus was contacted by Bliss about Davros being on Cosca and the Dalek Time Strategist draining dimensional energy from him, before leaving with the Doctor in a wormhole. After some delays due to the Dalek advance, Rasmus travelled to Cosca to take Davros into custody and Davros presented him with an offer by demonstrating the new form of cybernetic gestalt he had created from the natives of Cosca and offering to give this power to Time Lord military for use against the Daleks. Rasmus considered the offer, to Bliss' horror, however they were contacted by the Doctor who instructed them to abandon Davros to the advancing Daleks. Rasmus and Bliss complied, also using Davros' equipment to turn the people of Cosca back to normal. Afterwards, Rasmus and Bliss reunited with the Doctor, who had escaped and deprived the Strategist of the power of the Multiverse though it had succeeded in restoring the Dalek Empire. Rasmus promised to contact Ollistra about using the Ravolox Protocols to move Cosca to safety away from the Time War. (AUDIO: Restoration of the Daleks)

After the Doctor regenerated on Karn, Rasmus travelled from the front to meet him accompanied by Commander Sanmar, taking pains to respect the Sisterhood of Karn’s traditions. He advised Sanmar on dealing with the Doctor’s TARDIS as they tried to repair it, but found the ship non-cooperative. The Doctor eventually came to meet him in his TARDIS and they learnt from Ohila that Sanmar had gone to Karn’s heart with Lithea, to Rasmus’ confusion as he was unaware of her orders. They discovered Sanmar had killed Lithea and wa planning to use dimensional extractors to take Karn’s heart to the Capitol for which Rasmus threatened to arrest her. After Sanmar was killed by Karn’s forces, Rasmus was shocked when the Doctor threanted to use her equipment to destroy Karn to take out an enemy-controlled war front that was approaching the planet and was relied when Sanmar’s superior, Commodore Tamasan, agreed to protect the planet in a time lock. Rasmus departed in his TARDIS, witnessing Karn disappearing before the time lock was in place due to the Sisterhood’s powers. With nothing to defend, he ordered Time Lord forces to disengage from the war front. (AUDIO: Light the Flame)

Rasmus sent Tamasan to give instructions to a contact on Atherea as part of a plan to deal with the Daleks’ time eradicator which was changing the outcome of recent battles by assassinating Time Lords crucial to victories before the battles. After the War Doctor altered the timeline by erasing the time eradicator from history, undoing the assassinations, Rasmus was aware of this and sent Tamasan to Atherea to congratulate him. (AUDIO: The Shadow Squad)