Doctor Who: 5 Questions Raised By The Series 12 Finale

2. Is Tecteun Rassilon?

Doctor Who The Time Of The Doctor regeneration
BBC Studios

Tecteun was the Shobogan explorer who adopted the Timeless Child and brought her back to Gallifrey, andbecame the first Shobogan to regenerate after extracting the secret from the Timeless Child and testing it on herself. It isn't hard to believe she became an important person in early Time Lord society because of her scientific contributions, but did she become Rassilon?

Rassilon was credited with creating the majority of Time Lord society, but he was also obsessed with immortality. His search for ways of cheating death could easily be seen as an extension of Tecteun's drive to unlocking the secret of regeneration. Also, tampering with the Matrix's records of the Timeless Child by turning it into a story about an orphan boy in Ireland could have been Rassilon's attempt at hiding the truth from future generations of Time Lords.

In this post: 
Doctor Who
 
Posted On: 
Contributor

Paula Luther hails from Pennsylvania and has been an avid Whovian since 2008. She enjoys writing (obviously), reading, dancing, video editing, and building websites. She has also self-published two books on Amazon, "Bart the Bard" and "Android Mae and Other Stories".