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Again, you're confusing the issue of "did Hulke and Dicks actually intend for the Doctor and the Master to be the only two renegades from Gallifrey" for "did Hulke and Dicks actually intend for the Master to be the War Chief".

But I think the far more interesting question is what Holmes thinks about the Master and the War Chief. Obviously at the time The War Games (TV story) was written Hulke and Dicks did not think that the War Chief was the Master. If only because the character did not yet exist. But Holmes is credited with the creation of the Master, not Dicks, even if Dicks is the one who decided to bring him back as a recurring villain. So it seems to me to be the far more pertinent question is "did Holmes intend to create a second incarnation of the War Chief with a new name", as opposed to "given that Holmes created the Master, did Dicks and Hulke decide to retcon their story to include the Master when it didn't originally?"

This isn't to say the Hulke And Dicks comments aren't relevant. Surely they are. But without considering Holmes's authorial intent it seems to me we're approaching this entire discussion backwards.