Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20151008023030/@comment-6032121-20191105203854

The thing about the War Chief is that there is currently a very very plentiful BTS section on The War Chief about how a bunch of sources in and out-of-universe agree he's an earlier incarnation of the Master, but none of it comes through in the in-universe sections of either page.

This is, as best I can tell, because Divided Loyalties, an original novel, has the Doctor have a partially-unreliable dream about his Academy days in which the young Master and the young War Chief are separate characters. Whereas the only narrative works which make the War Chief/Master connection explicit are Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon and Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons, which are both novelisations. And until a few years ago, information from novelisations that contradicted fully original works was invalid.

But that is no longer the case, so it's about time we revised our habit of so neatly separating the two.

Besides the fact that this would put him in the Master stories template, the reason he's mildly relevant to this "which incarnation is Delgado?" discussion is that Timewyrm: Exodus all but states that after another regeneration post-War Games, the War Chief regenerates into a young Delgado. So even assuming that Dreyfus is an older Hughes, that would make Delgado the fourth incarnation at the very, ludicrously earliest.