User:NoNotTheMemes/Romana's third incarnation

By most accounts, Romanadvoratrelundar's third incarnation continued to serve as President of the High Council as a devastating temporal conflict ravaged Gallifrey. However, the nature of these conflicts resulted in a series of contradictory accounts and averted timelines.

War Queen of the Nine Gallifreys
Leading Gallifrey through the War in Heaven, [...]. Her Gallifrey, which may or may not have been the original, (PROSE: Crimes Against History, The Ancestor Cell) was destroyed by the Eighth Doctor in an effort to avert the War in Heaven. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell) Despite her seeming demise, she managed to grow old and survived into the Post-War Universe. (PROSE: Tomb of Valdemar)

"Trey"
In an aborted timeline, Romana II regenerated in order to prevent the Moros from becoming a black hole and destroying Gallifrey. (AUDIO: Enemy Lines) This third incarnation of Romana led Gallifrey through its darkest hour. (AUDIO: Luna Romana, Enemy Lines)

While she ultimately orchestrated her own timeline's undoing, a Matrix projection aided her previous self in numerous encounters leading up to the Last Great Time War. (AUDIO: Enemy Lines)

The Fortune Teller
This incarnation worked with Laszlo and other Tharils to rescue refugees from a "forever war spreading through all of time and space." This temporal refugee camp was disguised as a traveling carnival, in which she posed as a fortune teller. (PROSE: The Little Book of Fate)

The Lord Cardinal
Within a temporal anomaly known as the Time Fracture, time began to repeat over itself. At some point during this time loop, Romana II regenerated into a non-binary incarnation with short, blonde hair and blue eyes. No longer holding the Presidency, they instead held the title of Lord Cardinal. While UNIT had speculated that they would make for a powerful ally should they survive Gallifrey's destruction, a flood of artron energy closed the Time Fracture and prevented it from ever having opened.

Behind the scenes

 * Writers involved in the War in Heaven arc of Eighth Doctor Adventures novels based Romana III's described appearance on that of the American silent film actress Louise Brooks.


 * James Goss contrasted Juliet Landau's version of the third incarnation from "other future Romanadvoratrelundars" like the "brilliantly glacial flapper" who had appeared in the Eighth Doctor Adventures. (VOR 56) Despite this, Landau bares a striking resemblance to her prose counterpart.