Auteur

Godfather Auteur was a skinless Homeworlder member of Faction Paradox who declared himself the Homeworld's "Observer Effect" wrought flesh. He took the title "Author of the Spiral Politic", believing that everything he wrote really happened and that anything he hadn't written about which did happen was "not valid". (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine, Going Once, Going Twice)

Early exploits
According to rumours, Auteur was a Mapper of early Great Houses history who was driven insane following being forced to watch the outside Spiral Politic from an office on the Homeworld and map it via the observer effect. Before even sprouting a second heart, he realised that he could abuse the Observer Effect to make anything real if he looked in the right place. Similar to other renegade Mappers, he took a name which was a variation on the word "astrolabe". (PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice)

Notably, the Sixth Doctor repeatedly faced a Renegade Time Lord known as Astrolabus, who resided in a tall tower-like TARDIS, (COMIC: Voyager) and had his skin ripped from him during his last face-off with the Doctor. (COMIC: Once Upon a Time-Lord)

When Auteur was banished from the Homeworld for his beliefs, he left with his House cousin Gideon. (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine) Gideon eventually left Auteur to join Faction Paradox. (PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice)

Auteur's next incarnation was a wizened old man with a greasy beard and two clumps of white hair on either side of his bald head. He had a propensity for saying phrases in French. (PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice)

Joining Faction Paradox & Imprisonment
In his final incarnation, Auteur attempted to cheat death by stealing star charts from an agent of Life. (PROSE: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing) With the charts tattooed to his skin, Auteur tried to hide in a small slice of reality but was found. He would later say that "Life itself had stolen his skin". (PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice) Gideon recognised Auteur and pleaded on his behalf to let him join the Faction. (PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice)

Taking the name "Auteur", he replaced his missing skin with shadow-skin. Instead of having a conventional ceremonial mask, Auteur allowed the shadow-skin to peel off at his head and reveal his own skull. (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine)

Imprisonment
The Faction eventually got annoyed with Auteur and his beliefs and imprisoned him at the top of the Shadow Spire, (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine) During his imprisonment, Auteur wrote an Abecedarium. It was later was found on the Cupid Homeworld during Christmas, 2020. The inhabitants, the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, regarded it as a Christmas miracle, despite Lord Thymon suspecting that there was something wrong. Celebration-665 gave a reading of the abecedarium to the other Cherubs, but partway through, he read a warning message broadcast over a metamedial network, which warned not to let Auteur to have access to their reality's story. Celebration-665 dismissed it as part of the story. Celebration was left baffled, and the other Cherubs without words. Bibliophile-962 confiscated the book, storing it away in the restricted section of the Cupid Archives. Celebration then won back the Clockwork Cherubs with offers of cake. (PROSE: Auteur's Abecedarium) Auteur was kept from leaving by Mother and Father. (PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice, The Story So Far...) Auteur listened to the whispers of the loa that teemed around the tower and used them in his writings and home videos of history and alternative histories. Gideon sometimes visited Auteur, but as time passed their relationship grew more distant and the visits became less frequent.

On the day of Gideon's final visit, Auteur was inspired by a recording of Morlock (and the usual loa whispers) to write a story about Lolita manipulating Count Dracula into becoming the Enemy. Auteur took delight in the premise, angering Gideon. After Auteur finished the story, Gideon left the Spire and was consumed by Auteur's loa. (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine)

After the destruction of the Eleven-Day Empire, Auteur's prison became a haven for surviving members of Faction Paradox. (PROSE: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing) At the time of the Armistice, Auteur attempted to free himself from the Spire and ascend beyond time to become the indisputable author of history. Having already written the narrative of things to come in an ancient circular language that programmed history, Auteur waited in the Spire with Mother and Father as Kifah and Gustav obtained Apep in the First Auction in Heaven. Once Apep was in his grasp, Auteur ordered his loa to kill Mother and Father and prepared to bond his biodata with Apep's. But Apep had already been snaking through Auteur's narrative and altering its outcome; instead of becoming god, Auteur had his shadow-skin eaten by Apep. After he began painfully falling apart, Apep ate him too. (PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice)

Behind the scenes

 * Auteur is as heavily implied to have once been Astrolabus, a recurring antagonist of Doctor Who Magazine's Sixth Doctor comics, as can be achieved without impeaching on the character's copyright. However, this was never explicit due to Observe Books not having the license for the character of Astrolabus, which lies with Steve Parkhouse, writer of COMIC: Voyager.
 * The character of Auteur, licensed from his creator Jacob Black, made some crossover appearances in the 10,000 Dawns series, not held at present to be valid on this Wiki. PROSE: White Canvas featured a new female incarnation of Auteur as its main antagonist and also went back to Auteur's origins, depicting Auteur's original escape from death and transformation into the iconic skeletal Auteur, while PROSE: The Gendar Conspiracy put him at the centre of the titular conspiracy, helping create an impossible civilisation on the planet Gendar.

A Better World
Auteur once was in a crowded street in Shan Shen when he noticed a woman, Donna, who seemed to have time itself converge around her. Sensing an opportunity to create a world without the Renegade, he told a fortune teller (who was a puppet of a Beetle) to feed Donna to the Beetle. His plan was successful, and a new timeline was created, and Auteur followed Donna into it. In this world, the Renegade quickly died, and Auteur wanted to tell Donna what he did, but a "Wolf-girl" stopped him. The only thing Auteur was able to do was sabotage a Timeship. (NOTVALID: A Better World)