Theory:Timeline - War Doctor

This page lists appearances of the War Doctor in the order in which he experienced them. This timeline is based on observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events in each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. There are also many gaps between stories.

The layout of this timeline is in part based on the observations on Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures, as well as Lance Parkin's AHistory and other sources that allow us to make observations, such as Doctor Who Reviews, Clive Banks databanks, Whopix, and the Big Finish forums. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Early battles

 * TV: The Night of the Doctor
 * The Doctor regenerates from his previous incarnation, and immediately disowns his name to fight in the Last Great Time War.


 * COMIC: The Clockwise War
 * The Doctor fights a battle against the Morlontoa with Fey Truscott-Sade and the Sisterhood of Karn, with Fey appearing to be killed while trying to save a child, traumatising the Doctor. He is using his own sonic screwdriver by this point.

Fighting on the front line

 * COMIC: Ambush
 * The Doctor has stubble on his face, and has a soldier named Petrella with him in the TARDIS. Rassilon is leading the Time Lords in the Time War by this point, but the Doctor implies he has not spoken to him yet.


 * COMIC: The Lost Dimension
 * The Doctor has wrinkles, and a beard, but his hair is still brown.


 * PROSE: A Prologue
 * Having aged into an elderly body with grey hair, the Doctor continues to fight various battles in the Time War.

Dealing with the Volatix Cabal

 * At some point in the war, the Doctor took on the Squire as a companion, and made an alliance with the Master.


 * COMIC: Pull to Open
 * The Doctor fights various battles with the Squire.


 * COMIC: Outrun
 * The Doctor isn't aware of who coined the term "Exterminhate", setting this before he meets the Volatix Cabal.


 * COMIC: The Then and the Now
 * The Doctor and the Master land on Golgauth, the Overcast homeworld.


 * COMIC: First Rule
 * Set during the beginning of The Organ Grinder.


 * COMIC: The Organ Grinder
 * After killing one of the Volatix Cabal, the Master's TARDIS crashes next the Doctor and its pilot, Alice Obiefune, claims to have travelled from after the War had ended before being captured by the Volatix Cabal. The Doctor, the Master and the Squire rescue her and bring her to the Psilent songbox before the Cyclors attack, leading directly into Kill God.


 * COMIC: Kill God
 * Escaping the Cyclors, the Doctor realises Alice has fled with the Psilent songbox. After being deserted by the Master, the Doctor and the Squire find Alice using the Songbox to banish the Cyclors to a higher dimension. However, the Master's use of his future TARDIS causes a chronal meltdown with the Songbox reacting to the paradox, leading directly into Fast Asleep.


 * COMIC: Fast Asleep
 * The Doctor creates the Then and the Now from a temporal dart that was inside Alice, and uses the entity to send Alice back to her own time. He then smashes the Songbox to end the paradox, but loses all memory of his time with the Squire, who falls into the post-Time War universe in the confusion.


 * COMIC: Physician, Heal Thyself
 * The Doctor is still fighting the Volatix Cabal when Abslom Daak enters the Time War through the Then and the Now.

Missions of war

 * AUDIO: The Innocent
 * The Doctor has a 100 day coma. Spends another 134 days on Keska. Meets Veklin.


 * AUDIO: The Thousand Worlds
 * Follows on from The Innocent. Ending leads into The Heart of the Battle.


 * AUDIO: The Heart of the Battle


 * AUDIO: Legion of the Lost
 * Ending leads into A Thing of Guile.


 * AUDIO: A Thing of Guile
 * Ending leads into The Neverwhen.


 * AUDIO: The Neverwhen


 * COMIC: Four Doctors
 * The Doctor notes that the Time War makes him unable to keep his promises, setting this after The Neverwhen, where he failed to live up to a promise he made.

Opposing the Dalek Time Strategist

 * AUDIO: The Shadow Vortex
 * Ending leads into The Eternity Cage.


 * AUDIO: The Eternity Cage
 * Ending leads into Eye of Harmony.


 * AUDIO: Eye of Harmony


 * AUDIO: Pretty Lies
 * Follows on from Eye of Harmony. Ending leads into The Lady of Obsidian.


 * AUDIO: The Lady of Obsidian
 * Ending leads into The Enigma Dimension.


 * AUDIO: The Enigma Dimension
 * The Doctor decides that the Daleks and Time Lords must both be destroyed to truly end the Time War. His decision puts a strain on his relationship with Ollistra.

Final fights

 * PROSE: The Stranger
 * The Doctor is unsure about whether he is even a warrior anymore, setting this after any story where he is actively attacking his enemies.


 * COMIC: The Bidding War
 * The Doctor is not on good terms with Ollistra, setting this after The Enigma Dimension.

Rogue soldier

 * PROSE: Engines of War
 * Landing on Moldox after a Dalek ambush, the Doctor is aided by a young woman named Cinder in infiltrating a Dalek base, and discovers the Eternity Circle planning to erase Gallifrey from history with Temporal Weapon Daleks. When they alert Rassilon, the Doctor and Cinder fight against the High Council's decision to destroy the Tantalus Eye and free Borusa, who has been converted into a possibility engine, from the Tomb of Rassilon. Cinder is killed by an enemy Time Lord, and Borusa dies while removing the Daleks from the Tantalus Eye. Tired of all the death that surrounds him, the Doctor vows to end the Time War in memory of Cinder.


 * PROSE: The Day of the Doctor
 * The Doctor destroys the Dalek Emperor's fleet and destroys most of the Dalek City when inscribing "NO MORE" on Skaro's surface.


 * TV: The Day of the Doctor
 * Deciding that the only way to finally end the Time War is to destroy the Time Lords and the Daleks during the Fall of Arcadia, the Doctor steals the Moment from the Omega Arsenal and retreats into the Drylands to detonate the weapon. However, the sentient device choses to bring the Doctor to his tenth and eleventh incarnations to help him finalise his decision. The War Doctor claims to be "400 years younger" than the "twelve hundred or something" year old Eleventh Doctor, making him roughly 800-years-old. After being convinced to save Gallifrey by Clara Oswald, the Doctors seal Gallifrey in a pocket dimension, destroying the Dalek fleet ion the process, and the War Doctor regenerates into his next incarnation.


 * COMIC: Prologue: The War Doctor
 * In an alternate timeline created by Rassilon and the Cybermen, the Doctor uses the Moment in the Time War against the Cybermen.

Awaiting placement

 * These entries are placed here until evidence presents itself that provides a clue as to where they happen in relation to other entries. Some of these are part of ongoing storylines that could present evidence towards the end of the plot.