Theory:Timeline - Auteur

This page lists appearances of Auteur in the order in which they experienced them. It should absolutely not be seen as representative of this wiki's general policy, as it involves some sources which are not deemed valid in the main namespace, and also follows the authorial intent that Astrolabus is a potential past version of Auteur, which is not accepted in the main namespace due to no source licensed to use both characters having explicitly drawn the link. It also, for the purposes of this timeline, accepts Robin Hood, Santa Claus and Zorro as past incarnations of Astrolabus, although some accounts disagree with that identification.

First incarnation

 * As related by Auteur himself in PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice, the boy who will one day become Auteur is one of the first Homeworlders to be loomed successfully, one of the Mappers. "Before even growing a a second heart", he figures out how to abuse the Observer Effect. He "maps out the meridians of Time" then goes mad, takes on a new name based on the word Astrolabe, and is banished from Gallifrey after stealing The Book of the Old Time.


 * According to another potential origin told by Astrolabus to the Sixth Doctor in COMIC: Voyager, he was originally the human Royal Astrologer of Alexandria. However, the Sixth Doctor believes his garbled story of Alexandria to be part-lie and part-delirium.

Miscellaneous exploits

 * According to one account, El Diablo, Zorro, Robin Hood and Santa Claus were all identities held by Auteur at some point. He also amasses a number of other names, and his original chosen of alias of "Astrolabus" becomes "legend on a dozen world".

William Russell incarnation

 * At some point, Astrolabus regenerated into a form identical to Ian Chesterton's.


 * At some point, as per PROSE: The Quantum Archangel, Astrolabus pens a "reviled" text known as the Insidium of Astrolabus. has a copy of the Insidium in his TARDIS Library.

Twelfth incarnation

 * NOTVALID: The Gendar Conspiracy
 * In a female second-to-last incarnation, the Renegade creates the planet Gendar and its people (who worship her as "the Goddess") as part of "a millennia-long con job", with the help of her cousin Gideon, who acts as "the God".


 * NOTVALID: White Canvas
 * In this same incarnation, having adopted the title of "Auteur," she attempts to turn her universe into fiction to bring an end to the War in Heaven, which is now well underway. She knows she is destined to join Faction Paradox, although she hasn't yet. Auteur is eventually herself turned into fiction.

Astrolabus's final exploits

 * At some point, Auteur escaped being fiction, and returned to N-Space, regenerating into a male incarnation with whispy white hair and a matted beard. This new incarnation returned to calling himself Astrolabus.


 * COMIC: Voyager
 * Astrolabus is on the run from Voyager due to having stolen sacred star-charts from him. He meets the Sixth Doctor and narrowly escapes Voyager in his TARDIS.


 * COMIC: Polly the Glot
 * The Sixth Doctor faces "Professor Astro Labus", who evades him by stepping into his cabinet.


 * COMIC: Once Upon a Time-Lord
 * After tattooing the stolen charts on his body in an effort to make it impossible for them to be taken away from him, Astrolabus is caught up to by Voyager, who rips his skin away from him. Voyager and the Doctor leave him to die.

Godfather of Faction Paradox

 * Final scene of NOTVALID: White Canvas
 * Graelyn Scythes helps a group of powerful, rogue time-travellers whom Gideon has now joined find the dying skinless Auteur. They let him join the Faction, allowing him to manipulate his shadow to serve as a replacement skin.


 * PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine
 * The skeletal Auteur, although now a Godfather of Faction Paradox, has been imprisoned in the Shadow Spire.


 * NOTVALID: Birthdays are Made for Memories
 * At a point when he is familiar with Dracula (placing this after A Bloody (And Public) Domaine, the imprisoned Auteur contacts Graelyn Scythes for her birthday, acknowledging her as his daughter.


 * PROSE: Auteur's Abecedarium
 * Due to a fragment of his future consciousness having been thrown backwards in Time as part of a deal with the Retconning Crocodiles, Auteur, while in the Spire, authors a cursed Abecedarium and sends it to the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids. He then writes the story of their receiving it.


 * PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice
 * Auteur attempts to use Apep to gain greater power than ever before and escape the Spire. However, Apep double-crosses him, ripping his shadow-skin from him and then consuming his dying body. Thanks to time-distortions, Auteur's mind is able to watch over and communicate with Kifah for a few moments more, seemingly aware that his story has ended and he has ceased to be real.

After the War(s)

 * NOTVALID: A Better World
 * Auteur is alive again, having somehow survived the War, albeit in a very reduced state; he is now nothing more than an animated skeleton, stripped of flesh as well as skin. He manipulates a Noble-woman called Donna to change history to a version without the single surviving Lord Temporal in it, but she rebels against his plan and he is helpless to stop her restoring history to its proper course.


 * PROSE: Resurrection of the Author
 * Remaining trapped for centuries in the decaying oxbow reality left behind after History is restored, Auteur makes a deal with the Retconning Crocodiles, who restore his body and his life-force. However, he remains trapped in the oxbow timeline.

Currently unplaced

 * These entries are placed here due to being part of ongoing storylines that have yet to offer sufficient enough evidence to be placed in a specific part of this Doctor's timeline, unless further evidence arises in the stories to come.

Awaiting placement

 * These entries are placed here until a suitable position in the timeline can be determined based on the available evidence.