Talk:Magnus

Magnus is supposed to be The Master!
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Gary Russell

> >Jefferson Eng wrote: > >> > >> Great, now my enjoyment of the book has been ruined thanks to even yet > >> another AOL user...... > >> > >> You know who you are. > >> > > > >I agree with you in principal, but this spoiler was pretty > >insignificant, > >particularly since you pick up on that particular piece of information > >the instant that the character in question appears in the book. > > > >Everything else in the book relating to that character comes from an > >already-televised story. It isn't quite like the _Autumn Mist_ spoiler, > >which ruins one of the most effectinve scenes in the book and tips > >you off to the true nature of the antagonists far too early. > > > >deX! > > > >  Very true. I was going to make a post (still will eventunately) about some of > the names in the Deca. The thought of spoiler space came to mind but then I > thought - what is it spoiling? - nothing really. > >  I've seen the name Magnus used before (other than Magnus Greel from "Talons > of Weing Chang") He was a timelord in another story. Perhaps a novel. Anyone > remember which one?

He was in a strip I commissioned from Warwick Gray for the Time Lord special I did at Marvel. In Wick's original, he was called Magus and meant to be the Master but I cocked it up and called him Magnus. When Dave McIntee created Koschei, it struck me on re-reading Wick's strip that the character could just as easily, if not better, be the War Chief. Which he is in DL.

gee

So Mag(n)us is The Master. Russell retconned him to be The War Chief. However, that sequence in Divided Loyalties is unquestionably a dream. One could also argue(as many have), that Divided Loyalties is set in a non-existent gap between The Visitation and Black Orchid, that it contradicts both The Celestial Toymaker and The Nightmare Fair. that The Doctor had never heard the name Koschei before The Dark Path, or that Divided Loyalties claims that The Monk left Gallifrey BEFORE The Doctor. Clearly the Magnus here needs to be a redirect to The Master, as well as the Flashback article corrected. 41.133.0.18talk to me 16:31, November 1, 2012 (UTC)


 * Ah... I think I understand... Somewhat... But this will need discussion before change is done. The comic definitely seems like it was written for the Master, but the character looks like the War Chief. Greatly. And sense he retconned the character later into the War Chief, we can't change him to the Master now... Was he suggesting that the Master and the War Chief were the same person? At most, I think this needs a behind the scenes notice, nothing more. OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 19:03, November 1, 2012 (UTC)