Rassilon the Sixth
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Lord President Rassilon
Sixth Rassilon [First Cycle]
Many Centuries 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
​Jeff Tullin
Mastermind: "Breaking the Bond"
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The Tyrant
"No quotes made." - The Sixth Rassilon
Overview
This incarnation is the sixth incarnation of Lord President Rassilon, portrayed by Jeff Tullin. Continuing the tyrannical path of his predecessor, the Sixth Rassilon consolidated power and crafted myths of immortality to elevate himself to near-divine status. Authoritarian and prideful, he ruled with absolute control, often working alongside the First, Second, and Third Generals to enforce his rigid vision of Gallifreyan order.
A staunch enforcer of the Non-Interference Act, he upheld it throughout his life—intensifying its enforcement after the escapes of the Doctor and the Master, which he viewed as personal betrayals and existential threats to his authority. He forced the First Architect to become a pawn of his will, until the Architect escaped Gallifrey and could no longer be found. He came to despise the Doctor, whose defiance undermined everything he had built, and loathed the Master—particularly the Scholar and Revenant incarnations—whose descent into chaos embodied the dangers of unchecked independence.
Feared and revered, the Sixth Rassilon’s reign was defined by suppression, dominance, and an enduring legacy carved into the foundations of Timelord society.
Personality
The Sixth Rassilon embodies authoritarian pride and ruthless control. He governs with an iron will, demanding absolute loyalty and enforcing strict order across Gallifrey. Deeply convinced of his own superiority, he elevates himself through myths of immortality and near-divine status, carefully manipulating perception to strengthen his rule.
He is cold and calculating, suppressing dissent swiftly and without mercy. His hatred for the Doctor and the Master runs deep—viewing the Doctor’s rebellious defiance and the Master’s chaotic legacy as direct threats to the order he has built. Yet, his tyrannical nature is not without complexity: he exhibits very brief moments of kindness, but only when it serves as a tool to manipulate others and maintain control.
He is inflexible, intolerant of rebellion or chaos, and fiercely enforces the Non-Interference Act throughout his life—especially after the escapes of the Doctor and the Master. The Sixth Rassilon also forced the First Architect to become his pawn, until the Architect escaped Gallifrey and vanished.
Appearance
The Sixth incarnation of Lord President Rassilon appears as a stern, regal figure in his later years. He has a light to medium complexion with visible age lines, particularly around the eyes and forehead. His short, light gray hair is neatly combed, with a slight recession, and he wears a well-trimmed grayish-white beard and mustache. His light blue eyes are intense, suggesting both wisdom and a hidden trace of kindness.
Rassilon has an average build and carries himself with upright, commanding posture. He wears a long, dark red velvet robe adorned with intricate gold floral embroidery, paired with metallic pauldrons featuring circular golden accents. A large, ornate golden brooch—his Testimony, the physical embodiment of his will—sits at the center of his chest.
His golden crown is elaborate, with upward flame- or horn-like protrusions, completing an appearance designed to inspire reverence, fear, and absolute authority.
Approach to Problems
The Sixth Rassilon approaches problems with ruthless pragmatism and strategic precision. He favors control, order, and manipulation over open conflict, using bureaucracy, surveillance, and intimidation to maintain dominance. His solutions often leave little room for flexibility or empathy, and he views any challenge to his authority as a threat to Gallifrey’s stability.
He enforces strict non-interference in the wider universe, believing Gallifrey’s survival depends on isolation and control. When kindness is employed, it is always a calculated tactic designed to manipulate or coerce.
Strengths
Iron Will: Unwavering determination and absolute command over Gallifreyan society.
Master Manipulator: Skilled at using subtlety and control to achieve his aims.
Strategic Visionary: Plans long-term and anticipates opposition with cold logic.
Authoritative Presence: Commands respect and fear through sheer force of personality.
Enforcer of Law: Unrelenting guardian of Gallifrey’s codes and traditions.
Weaknesses
Inflexibility: Resistant to change or new ideas, which can blind him to evolving threats.
Ruthless Suppression: His harsh methods breed hidden resentment and covert rebellion.
Deep Hatreds: Obsession with the Doctor and the Master clouds judgment.
Manipulative Kindness: Rare kindness serves self-interest, preventing genuine trust or loyalty.
Obsession with Control: Drives extreme actions that risk destabilizing his own rule.
Notable Achievments
The Hunt for the Master: Pursued the First Master across time and space, attempting to recall him to Gallifrey and mold him into a loyal instrument of the regime. Though he acted with a fatherly demeanor, the Scholar Master—disillusioned and hardened—rejected the manipulation.
The General’s Watch: Closely scrutinized the First General’s actions, not out of mistrust, but to reinforce the absolute supremacy of law and ensure no deviation from Gallifreyan order.
The God Myth: Consolidated power by crafting legends of immortality, elevating himself to near-divine status in the eyes of the Time Lords. These myths became a cornerstone of his authority.
The Law Eternal: Rigorously enforced the Non-Interference Act, especially after the Doctor and the Master fled Gallifrey, seeing their defiance as a direct assault on the sanctity of Gallifreyan isolation.
The Architect's Chains: Manipulated the First Architect into servitude, exploiting their brilliance to further his regime—until the Architect escaped Gallifrey, eluding him and becoming a lingering threat to his control.
The Triumvirate of Order: Worked in close alliance with the First, Second, and Third Generals to maintain a rigid military-political hierarchy, cementing his vision of Gallifreyan dominance and stability.
Relationships
The Doctor: Once viewed the First Doctor as a son—curious, bold, full of promise. But as the Doctor's defiance grew, so did Rassilon’s resentment. Now, he sees him as the ultimate rebel and threat to Gallifreyan order, a symbol of everything that defies the foundation Rassilon built.
The Master: Particularly loathes the First and Second Masters, especially the Scholar incarnation. He considers their descent into chaos and villainy a direct result of unchecked freedom—a flaw he believes Gallifreyan law must crush at all costs.
The First Architect: Once a close friend, later a controlled pawn. Rassilon saw the Architect’s brilliance clearly and, though he repressed it publicly, held a deep, unwavering respect for it. His escape remains one of Rassilon’s few acknowledged failures and a lasting source of concern.
The First–Third Generals: His most trusted allies in maintaining Gallifreyan order. Of all, he considered the First General his closest friend—one of the few he confided in, sharing secrets and truths rarely voiced. Their partnership was one of quiet loyalty and shared belief in order above all.
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
(No Specific Date)
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 Sixth Rassilon is a ruler defined by iron-fisted control, pride, and an unyielding vision of Gallifreyan order. His reign is marked by suppression, manipulation, and a deep intolerance for rebellion. While capable of fleeting kindness, it is wielded as a weapon rather than an expression of compassion. His legacy is one of fear and dominance—an empire shaped and held together by his relentless will.