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On Gallifrey, the Doctor is known as a graduate of the Prydon College of the Academy, and is entitled to wear its scarlet and orange ceremonial robes. Prydonians are considered to be the best students out of the Arcalians, who wear green, and the heliotrope-clad Patrexes.
Even as a crusader of time and space, the Doctor is seldom methodical. His TARDIS is as temperamental as he is, to the extent that in his first and second incarnations he has no real control over its destination. There is seldom any consistent plan to deal with enemies, either, and the Doctor is as likely to get caught up in events over which he has no control as he is to stumble across Daleks or Cybermen. The Doctor is commonly mistaken for ambassadors or badly needed experts; his skills are likely to be put to use before he has a chance to explain -- by which time it is too late to protest. If he interferes willingly, he always acts for the best of intentions.
Time Lords have two hearts, a phenomenal constitution that enables them to withstand environments that would kill a human, and an ability to fall into a self-induced trance (in effect, self-hypnotism) to save them from truly harmful conditions. Most remarkable of all their abilities, however, is that of regeneration. Like a snake shedding an old skin, all Time Lords can regenerate their physical form to compensate for massive tissue damage and to avoid impending death. Such regenerations, however, are not always easy on the Doctor or his companions because his new personality takes time to stabilize. A Time Lord, however, can regenerate only twelve times, limiting his form to thirteen incarnations and ultimately restricting his apparent immortality. The Doctor is currently in his seventh incarnation.
Each incarnation of the Doctor has unique traits and abilities; what the Doctor knows in one incarnation does not necessarily transfer to the next one. Parts of his memory open and close, revealing new talents and obscuring old ones. His physical size and appearance change as well, although a new incarnation is likely to be unhappy about the changes to his physiognomy. The trouble with regeneration, as the Doctor says, is that you never know what you are going to get.
Anyone who is given the role of the Doctor to play should carefully study the abilities and traits of the appropriate incarnation. Each of the seven Doctors is detailed on the following pages, along with the names of the companions he has regularly travelled. These names are provided to tell the players and the referee alike which companions travelled in the TARDIS at the same time so that only suitable ones adventure together.
The Doctor's weapons are truth and bluff: use them well!
* REAL NAME: Unknown (Refers to self only as Doctor or The Doctor)
* OCCUPATION: Adventurer, do-gooder, and champion of the embodyment of Time.
* LEGAL STATUS: Gallifreyan citizen with a criminal record (He is a renegade Time Lord. However, from time to time, circumstances will erase or return his criminal status on Gallifrey (from stealing a TARDIS
to becoming Lord High President of Gallifrey).
* IDENTITY: He is unknown to the majority of the universe throughout time (they may have hard of "The Doctor", but it's a big universe and he has not met everyone... yet.), but this does not usually last long once a race meets him. His identity then becomes public (usually in a hurry).
* PLACE OF BIRTH: He was born from the family Loom in the House of Lungbarrow on Gallifrey.
* MARITAL STATUS: Single (It is believed that he was married at one time since he has a grand-daughter, Susan).
* KNOWN RELATIVES: Susan (grand-daughter) /// He has fourty-four cousins (the maximum number of cousins allowed at a time in the House of Lungbarrorw is foury-five, which he is. Repacements can be born from the Loom to replace any who perish or die after their thirteenth incarnation. This was used as a means of population control after Gallifreyans became barren).
* BASE OF OPERATIONS: His TARDIS.
* PAST GROUP AFFILIATIONS: Member of the Prydonian order of Time Lords.
All stats by WLB unless otherwise noted.
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