The First General
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Lord President Rassilon
Sixth Rassilon [First Cycle]
Over 450 Years Old
Seeker of Order, Manipulator of Time, Philosopher of Control
Methodical, Calculating, Reflective, Cynical, Obsessive, Strategic, Detached, Charismatic, Intelligent, Broken, Self-Aware, Ruthless, Persuasive, Morally Detached
Edward Rhys-Harry
Mastermind: "Breaking the Bond"
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Overview
​The First General, portrayed by Edward Rhys-Harry, is a high-ranking Gallifreyan military leader and Rassilon’s right hand. Known for his tactical brilliance, quiet integrity, and stoic pragmatism, he walks a careful line between loyalty and conscience in a system he increasingly questions.
Though he enforces High Council orders—hunting the Master under the Sixth Rassilon’s command—he often takes quiet, calculated risks to protect innocent lives. He values his soldiers in a culture that rarely does.
Haunted by war but not ruled by it, and silently respectful of the Doctor’s ideals, he remains one of Gallifrey’s last moral anchors.
Personality
​The First General embodies order under pressure. A master strategist, he is deeply loyal to Gallifrey but not blindly so, often questioning its leadership. He follows Rassilon’s commands with calculation rather than conviction, balancing duty with a strong personal conscience. Haunted by war’s toll, he values the lives of those he leads and quietly respects the Doctor’s ideals, though he cannot openly show it.
Appearance
The First General is a fair-skinned man with short, light brown hair neatly combed back from his forehead, showing a slight recession at the temples. He wears dark-framed glasses that frame his calm, direct light gray eyes. His face is slightly round with a medium-sized nose and a neutral, serious expression—neither smiling nor frowning, often appearing contemplative. He has a slightly heavier build and maintains a relaxed yet upright posture.
He wears his traditional Gallifreyan military robes—bronze and crimson with a black mantle fastened by the High Council seal. His ceremonial armor, subtly marked by battle scars, complements his role as a seasoned military leader. A plasma gun hangs at his side, drawn only when absolutely necessary.
Approach to Problems
​He approaches challenges with logic and control, balancing tactical precision with moral complexity. While he hunted the Master under the Sixth Rassilon’s command, doubt always shadowed his obedience. His resistance is subtle—small acts of mercy or delay that preserve his integrity without inviting reprisal.
Strengths
Strategic Mind: Strategic genius with political nuance
Command Presence: Disciplined, respected leadership
Moral Resilience: Moral fortitude in a corrupt system
Measured Loyalty: Loyal yet questioning of authority
Quiet Resistance: Subtle, measured resistance
Weaknesses
Emotional Reserve: Emotionally guarded and isolated
System Bound: Bound by system limits
Haunted Past: Haunted by wartime decisions
Silent Admiration: Unspoken respect for the Doctor stifles change
Isolating Stoicism: Stoicism alienates potential allies
Notable Achievments
Master Pursuit: Led the pursuit of the Master with precision. He tried to get Rassilon’s approval to stop the destruction beforehand, but when denied, he had to witness the downfall of many planets—feeling nothing but heartbreak for each. This mission marked the beginning of his quiet disillusionment with Rassilon and the slow burn of rebellion.
Civilian Safeguard: Key strategist minimizing civilian casualties on a daily basis. Despite Rassilon’s disapproval, he often intervened in minor crises to help civilians, taking subtle actions that prioritized compassion over command.
Covert Mercy: Secretly protected non-combatants during forbidden operations, shielding the innocent when possible. He also prioritized the survival of his soldiers, even when Rassilon saw them as expendable assets.
Council Influence: Influential High Council strategist and a respected voice among Gallifrey’s leadership. He defended the Doctor—sometimes subtly, sometimes openly—and even advocated for the safety of the Doctor’s companions, much to the Council’s discomfort.
Crisis Control: Maintained order amid political unrest during Gallifrey’s most turbulent periods. His leadership calmed factional divides, prevented uprisings, and preserved fragile alliances. Though rarely acknowledged, his influence often held the Capitol together during moments when it could have fractured entirely.
Relationships
Rassilon: Loyal but increasingly doubtful subordinate. Once a good friend and trusted executor of Rassilon’s will, their relationship began to decline at the end of Rassilon the Fourth's Reign. As Rassilon grew more authoritarian and ruthless in his Fifth and Sixth Incarnations, the General’s trust slowly eroded—though loyalty lingered longer than belief.
The Doctor: Quiet, unspoken respect and ideological contrast. Though he cannot openly side with the Doctor, the First General is influenced by their ideals—often guiding his more humane decisions, even in silence.
The Master: Tragic figure and target, but not hated personally. The General pursued the Master with duty-bound precision but viewed him as a fallen peer, not a monster—regretfully caught in a war of loyalty.
The Architect: Mutual respect despite ideological differences. Though the General once dismissed the Architect’s philosophies, he now sees wisdom in his restraint and mourns what Gallifrey lost by ignoring him.
Timeline
Date: 2020
(24 Hours after they initially left)
NA/09/2020
Date: 2020
(24 Hours after they initially left)
NA/09/2020
Date: 6057
(Full Date Unknown)
Date: 2021
NA/05/2021
Date: Unknown
(Full Date Unknown)
Date: 2025
21/04/2025
The Eternal Doctor brings Oliver home to 2020 for a brief respite, but their peace is shattered when a Dimensional Tear rips open the sky, unleashing a Dalek invasion. At last, The Dread Master emerges from the shadows, revealing their plan to rewrite reality itself. The Doctor is shaken—their last encounter ended with the Master saving them from Rassilon, but now, they stand as an architect of chaos. With The Daleks enforcing their will, the Doctor fights to contain the disaster, knowing they are already steps behind.
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Amid the battle, the Doctor discovers Oliver’s secret writings, sparking a heated confrontation. Feeling betrayed, the Doctor lashes out, while Oliver defends his actions, revealing his deep admiration and desire to share the Doctor’s story. Their bond fractures, but there’s no time to mend it. As the war rages on, The Dishonoured Doctor appears with a dire warning—the Eternal Doctor must make a choice, or the consequences will be catastrophic. Now, the Doctor is left questioning whether they have the strength to do what must be done.
The Multiverse is collapsing as timelines fracture and merge, the aftermath of the Master’s grand design spiraling into chaos. The Dimensional Tears have destabilized reality itself, threatening to unravel time and space. As the Eternal Doctor fights to restore order, the Daleks remain an ever-present danger, forcing both them and Oliver to battle for survival at every turn. With each passing moment, the stakes grow higher, and the Doctor knows that hesitation could mean the end of everything.
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Amid the turmoil, the Dishonoured Doctor returns one final time, offering their aid and critical insight into the nature of the Dimensional Tears. Though wary, the Eternal Doctor joins forces with their fallen counterpart, and together, they devise a way to seal the tears once and for all. But the solution comes at a cost—one the Doctor struggles to accept. The Master, reveling in the chaos, taunts them, insisting that their compassion will be their undoing. As the battle rages, Oliver proves his courage by outmaneuvering the Daleks and saving countless lives, rekindling the Doctor’s faith in him.
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In a climactic confrontation, the Doctor and Oliver face the Master, sealing the Dimensional Tears and forcing the Daleks into retreat. Though the Master is ultimately defeated, they escape, leaving the Doctor with lingering doubts about whether they can ever truly stop them. As the dust settles, the Doctor reflects on the sacrifices made and the unexpected strength they have drawn from Oliver’s unwavering resolve. The multiverse is saved, but the Doctor is left with a haunting question: when the time for true sacrifice comes, will they be ready to face it?
Before returning to Earth, the Eternal Doctor and Oliver take a much-needed break on Elysia Prime, a paradise world of serene beaches, bioluminescent forests, and gravity-defying waterfalls. While Oliver relaxes, the Doctor gets into a heated argument with a futuristic vending machine over whether a banana smoothie qualifies as a "complex order." The machine, obsessed with efficiency, refuses to comply without exact calorie specifications, leading to a forty-minute standoff. Frustrated, the Doctor eventually reprograms the machine, while Oliver, unfazed, simply orders tea.
The Eternal Doctor and Oliver return to Earth in 2021 after what was supposed to be a peaceful retreat on Elysia Prime—a paradise world of floating waterfalls and endless tranquillity. However, upon returning to Earth, their plans for actual rest are cut short when Sophie Evans, Oliver’s journalist girlfriend, pulls them into a growing mystery.
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The Threxil, an alien race that arrived just days earlier, have been welcomed as peaceful refugees, offering miraculous technology and medical breakthroughs. While the public and global governments have embraced them, Sophie remains skeptical, noticing troubling patterns of disappearances near Threxil settlements. Determined to uncover the truth, she enlists the Doctor’s help—despite Oliver’s reluctance to assume the worst.
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Attending a public address by Zerax, the Threxil’s charismatic ambassador, the Doctor is met with charm and deflection. Though Zerax effortlessly evades their pointed questions, the Doctor picks up on subtle inconsistencies in his carefully crafted narrative. Meanwhile, Sophie uncovers encrypted files hidden within the Threxil’s database, revealing a sinister truth: the Threxil are abducting humans as test subjects for a secret terraforming project. The Doctor’s investigation confirms their worst fears—the Threxil’s refugee story is a lie. Earth is not their sanctuary; it is their next conquest.
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With the truth in hand, the group rushes to expose the Threxil before their plans come to fruition. But the Threxil move swiftly, using mind-control technology to silence dissent and turn public opinion against the Doctor and Sophie. As the aliens tighten their grip, the Doctor formulates a daring plan to disrupt their terraforming devices, buying time to rally humanity against the invasion. In a desperate showdown, the Doctor, Oliver, and Sophie sabotage the Threxil’s technology, forcing them to retreat—though not without a warning that they will return.
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With the immediate threat averted, Sophie faces the consequences of her investigation. The government scrambles to cover up the truth, leaving her career in jeopardy. Yet, her resolve remains unshaken. Recognizing her courage and keen instincts, the Doctor offers her a place aboard the TARDIS. After a moment of hesitation, Sophie steps inside, wonder in her eyes as the ship dematerializes—taking the trio toward their next adventure.
The TARDIS landed on a barren, ash-gray world under a dim twilight sky—no sun, no stars, just a smothering half-light that felt wrong in every direction. The surface was cracked and dry, like a planet long abandoned by time itself. I hadn’t even finished scanning the atmosphere before the ground collapsed beneath us, dropping Sophie, Oliver, and me into a vast underground cave system. We were shaken but intact. The silence down there wasn’t natural—it pressed in from all sides, interrupted only by faint whispers with no clear source. When Sophie’s torch caught claw marks gouged deep into the walls, I knew exactly what we were dealing with. I didn’t explain. Not fully. Some things are worse when you understand them.
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The Quiet Ones. I’d encountered them before, or something close. Creatures born of silence, twisted by some calamity into things that should not be. Pale, hollow-eyed figures, their faces stretched into permanent screams, soundless but screaming all the same. When one of them emerged from the dark, we ran. There was no reasoning, no fighting—not in any way that would last. They hunted with a kind of intelligence I’ve only seen in the most dangerous predators: coordinated, methodical, always just behind us. The deeper we went, the worse it got. I recognized the architecture of their madness—the signs of a civilization that once lived here, buried now under layers of fear, rage, and ruin. They weren’t ghosts. They weren’t mindless. They remembered.
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We found the TARDIS buried in rubble, half-submerged in stone, surrounded by whispers and shadows that crawled just beyond the torchlight. I cobbled together a crude light-burst emitter to keep the Quiet Ones at bay while Oliver and Sophie cleared the doors. Every second was too long. Just before the creatures could reach us, we made it inside, their claws raking against the blue doors as I threw the lever. The TARDIS took us away, but the silence they brought lingered long after we’d left. I didn’t say much after that. There are places the TARDIS should never land. That world—whatever year, whatever name it once had—was one of them.​
After narrowly escaping the horrors of the Quiet Ones on a desolate world of dead skies and labyrinthine caves, where the Doctor, Oliver, and Sophie were hunted by the mutated remnants of a lost civilization, the Doctor took them to 2025 for respite—a familiar time for Oliver and Sophie, meant to offer peace after trauma—but soon detected a small Dimensional Tear forming in the side of a nearby building.
As the tear grew, the Doctor discovered it was being manipulated by the Kaldar, interdimensional beings capable of phasing between realities and subtly warping the behavior of nearby humans to destabilize the timeline. As the rift expanded and the Kaldar’s presence deepened, a second tear opened, through which the Tenth Doctor arrived, drawn by the same temporal instability, and the two Doctors worked together to identify the Kaldar’s plan to collapse the 2025 timeline and use Earth as a staging ground for multiversal invasion.
With time bleeding and more Kaldar emerging, the Doctors triggered a collapse of the rift's energy structure, forcing the invaders back into their own dimension, though one warned this was only the beginning. After the Tenth Doctor departed, the Doctor returned to the TARDIS with Oliver and Sophie, deeply unsettled by the scale of what had just been prevented.
Date: Circa 1700s
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Date: Unknown
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In the early days of the Scholar Master, aka the First Master's journey, he devised a bold plan to escape the rigid confines of Gallifreyan society. At the time, Rassilon was tightening his grip over the Timelords, seeking to transform them into obedient bureaucratic pawns—stripping them of individuality, curiosity, and freedom. The Master, ever the visionary, saw what was coming and refused to be chained to such a fate. He discovered a rare window of opportunity—a narrow gap in Gallifrey’s defences—and shared his plan with the First Doctor and Susan. Together, they agreed to flee the planet and escape Rassilon's looming authoritarian order.
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But when the moment came, the Doctor faltered. He saw the Master as too cynical, too morally detached—already corrupted in ways he couldn’t accept. Acting on that judgment, the Doctor took Susan and fled without him. The Master was devastated. He rushed to make his own escape, but the window had nearly closed. Gallifreyan soldiers, acting under Rassilon’s expanding control, spotted him. Forced into a desperate flight, he narrowly avoided capture.
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That moment marked a turning point. The betrayal carved deep into the Master's soul. His resentment of the Doctor began then—not just for leaving him behind, but for choosing judgment over loyalty. It was the first crack in a relationship that would spiral into one of the most infamous rivalries in all of time and space.
The Scholar Master, desperate and betrayed, acted swiftly. With the original escape plan shattered by the Doctor’s abandonment, the Master turned to his contingency: a stolen Type 75 TARDIS, a prototype model brimming with potential but still unstable in many of its systems. As Rassilon’s grip on Gallifrey tightened, the Master launched into flight, triggering immediate alarm. High above the Capitol, Recall Drones streaked through the Time Vortex—sleek, silver constructs guided remotely by the General, operating under direct orders from Rassilon himself to bring the fugitive back, dead or alive.
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Inside the TARDIS, the Master attempted what few dared—an emergency psychic bond with the time capsule, forcing a premature connection to its sentient core. The bond was only partially successful. The ship responded, flickering erratically as it adjusted to the Master's volatile mind. Panels pulsed with unstable energy, and the cloister bell echoed faintly in the background. The Master poured his will into the machine, urging it to obey him, to trust him. And for a moment, it did—until the Drones broke through the TARDIS’s defences.
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The ship rocked violently as the Recall Drones pierced its shields and flooded its interior with energy disrupters. Alarms blared. Systems began to fail. With no time to think, the Master seized the controls and initiated a randomised emergency jump—no coordinates, no destination, just raw, unfiltered escape. The TARDIS screamed through time and space, vanishing from Gallifreyan sensors in an instant. When it finally landed, the Master stepped out alone, somewhere—somewhen—unknown, pursued no longer, but forever changed.
Conclusion
​The First General is Gallifrey’s silent conscience—a disciplined warrior struggling to maintain his humanity amid war and decay. He serves with loyalty but questions deeply, standing as a moral anchor in a fading empire. His legacy is quiet but vital: the balance between tyranny and mercy.