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Kenossium, commonly referred to as simply the General, was a General in the Time Lord military.

Biography[]

Early days[]

The General was, for their first ten incarnations, a woman. (TV: Hell Bent [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 9 (BBC One, 2015).) Like all Time Lords, she was taken from her family at the age of eight for the selection process in the Drylands. Staring into the Untempered Schism as part of a Time Lord initiation rite, she was inspired by what she saw in the Schism. (PROSE: A Brief History of Time Lords)

At the Time Lord Academy, Kenossium was mentored by Bellator, whose lessons taught her how to survive "sixteen transwarp campaigns and a Time War." (COMIC: The Clockwise War) She was a Prydonian and was top of her class for temporal stratagem despite being "an unruly young woman" at the time. (AUDIO: Remnants)

They became the Time Lords' military commander, (TV: Hell Bent [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 9 (BBC One, 2015).) adopting "the General" not only as their rank, but as their primary name. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Steven Moffat, 50th Anniversary Specials (BBC One, 2013).) The General was present on Gallifrey when the First Doctor stole a TARDIS and witnessed the commotion caused by the event. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor [+]Steven Moffat, adapted from The Day of the Doctor (Steven Moffat), Target novelisations (Target Books, 2018).)

The General's incarnations[]

The General's tenth regeneration resulted in a male eleventh incarnation. He appeared as a grey-eyed middle-aged light-skinned bald man. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Steven Moffat, 50th Anniversary Specials (BBC One, 2013)., PROSE: Lords and Masters)

After the Twelfth Doctor shot him, the General regenerated into their twelfth body, this time having the form of a dark-skinned woman with a shaven head. (TV: Hell Bent [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 9 (BBC One, 2015).)

Later life[]

Many years after the conclusion of the Time War, the General would deny that additional Doctors other than the war, tenth and eleventh incarnations were present in the saving of Gallifrey. (PROSE: A Brief History of Time Lords)

Behind the scenes[]

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