The Relic's timeline

In one timeline of the Eighth Doctor's future, the Event outlined in The Other Scrolls (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell) was averted due to foreknowledge, only for the War in Heaven to begin instead in the Cataclysm on Dronid. (PROSE: The Book of the War) The Doctor, (PROSE: Alien Bodies) still a "rather optimistic House diplomat" living on the original Homeworld, (PROSE: The Book of the War) tried to negotiate with the Celestis on the Time Lords' behalf just before the Cataclysm. He was thought to die here, with his corpse becoming the Relic. (PROSE: Alien Bodies) His contemporary the War King later fondly remembered the Doctor’s negotiations between the Sontarans and the Rutans as an event from a more innocent time shortly before the War. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5) This timeline was averted after this Doctor's corpse was encountered by the Eighth Doctor during his early travels with Sam Jones, creating a new history where the Eighth Doctor would not go on the path towards dying on Dronid. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)