History Recap / NewSeriesAdventuresEnginesOfWar

%% * BeleagueredBureaucrat: The Castellan.

* BoundAndGagged: What happens to Cinder when she is being interrogated using a MindProbe. ([[Recap/DoctorWho0thASTheFiveDoctors No, not the mind probe!]])

* BoundAndGagged: What happens to Cinder when she is being interrogated using a MindProbe.

%% * BoundAndGagged: What happens to Cinder when she is being interrogated using a MindProbe.

* Cinder is interrogated with a [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors mind probe]].

** Rassilon inquires if "the Doctor" has managed to track down TheMaster. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia Which he won't, until due time]], assuming he's even bothering to track him down of course. Rassilon even points out he "Saw into [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums the eye of the war]]."

%% * EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Or whatever alien equivalent roams the Death Zone on Gallifrey.

* IndyPloy: The Doctor says to Cinder he's not good with long term plans and prefers "Winging it".

%% * NotSoDifferent: The Daleks and the Time Lords. ''Especially'' Rassilon.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: A major theme in the story. The Time Lords are shown becoming no different than their enemies the Daleks during the Time-War, as they decide to wipe all the Daleks in the Moldox system, and arrogantly place themselves above billions of people, who also will die from the drop of the bomb.

** Rassilon inquires if "the Doctor" has managed to track down TheMaster. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia Which he won't, until due time]]. Rassilon even points out he "Saw into [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums the eye of the war]]."

* BadassGay: Cinder is mentioned to have had a female lover.

%% * FieryRedhead: Cinder.

%% * MindProbe: The TropeNamer is used, and the results are shown to be quite unpleasant.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. That's how the Time Lords try to justify closing the Eye of Tantalus, even though it will destroy 12 worlds and kill billions. The Doctor decides it would be better to destroy the Daleks than saving Cinder, though the latter was due to her wanting him to do so.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Time-Lords tried altering the course of Dalek history. Giving the Daleks the idea to try and alter the course of Dalek history, creating the various Skaro Degradations.

* TheNthDoctor: The Doctor, of course, gets a reference here and there about past lives, but Karlax regenerates from a somewhat wiry white man into a more tall, dark and muscular incarnation. Borusa is also shown in various regenerations, including a middle-aged woman -- possibly a sneaky reference to an AlternateUniverse Borusa seen in the ''AudioPlay/{{Gallifrey}}'' series (on an alternate version of the planet), in which she was played by Creator/KatyManning.

%% ** Partheus is implied to be this as well. He even lets the Doctor go after they stop him using the Tear on the Spiral.
%% * TheQuisling: Jocelyn Harris, who used to be the elected leader of Moldox. She is RewardedAsATraitorDeserves when [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer needed]].

* RetGone: The Daleks have devised dematerialisation weapons that erase whoever they shoot from history. They event plan to do it to the whole planet of Gallifrey!

%% * SpannerInTheWorks: The Doctor, as per usual.

* XanatosGambit: A large part of the mining of the Tantulus eye, the provoking the Time Lords into action, was all to provoke the Doctor, hoping that the resulting path would lead him (with or without the Tear of Ishtar) into Dalek, erm, plungers? So that instead of employing their Gallifrey destroying weapon, (which would still net them their victory) they would have the Doctor in the Eternity Circle, where they could remove his emotions and encase him into their newly built [[MeaningfulName Predator Dalek]].

%% * RetGone: The Daleks have devised dematerialisation weapons which do this. They are planning to do this to Gallifrey.

%% * TestedOnHumans: What the Daleks have done with their new weapons to people on Moldox and the other worlds of the Tantalus Spiral.

%% * BadassGay: Cinder.

%% * TheDreaded: ''Nobody'' wants to approach the Time-Lord president, Rassilon. For ''good'' reason if we take [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho064TheNextLife a good look]] [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors at his past]]. Even more meaningful seeing as we knew that in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime in his future he was planning the end of the universe]].

** Partheus dislikes the Doctor putting his (the Doctor's) TARDIS inside ''his'' TARDIS, saying it could have caused a [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsTheLightAtTheEnd Time Ram]].

* BonusMaterial: Creator/GeorgeMann wrote a StoryArc for VideoGame/DoctorWhoLegacy, in which the War Doctor goes back in time after the events of the novel and rescues Cinder, knowing that the general TimeCrash happening in Legacy would keep the Web of Time from shredding as a result. (Note that this doesn't affect the events of the novel -- the events of Legacy will "snap back" to the regular timeline after the TimeCrash plot is solved, and no one will remember a thing. Which doesn't stop the War Doctor from trying to save Cinder regardless.)

%% * WellIntentionedExtremist: The Time Lords High Council and Partheus.

[[caption-width-right:349:The Time War epic you've all been waiting for.]]

* BonusMaterial: George Mann wrote a StoryArc for VideoGame/DoctorWhoLegacy, in which the War Doctor goes back in time after the events of the novel and rescues Cinder, knowing that the general TimeCrash happening in Legacy would keep the Web of Time from shredding as a result. (Note that this doesn't affect the events of the novel -- the events of Legacy will "snap back" to the regular timeline after the TimeCrash plot is solved, and no one will remember a thing. Which doesn't stop the War Doctor from trying to save Cinder regardless.)

* BittersweetEnding: The Doctor and Cynder save people from destruction by Time Lords, Borusa makes a HeroicSacrifice and destroys all the Daleks in the system... but Cynder is killed, Time Lords have become villains, and the Doctor decides to finish the war by destruction of both sides.

* NotSoDifferent: The Daleks and the Time Lords. ''Especially'' Rassilon.

* GenreSavvy: A TrackingDevice is placed on the TARDIS, the demat gun and Cinder as everyone's well aware of the Doctor's reputation for escapes.

* KingInTheMountain: Subverted; it's mentioned Rassilon has outdated views and is basically a bigot.

* KingUnderTheMountain: Subverted; it's mentioned Rassilon has outdated views and is basically a bigot.

%% * DeliberateValuesDissonance: It's mentioned Rassilon has outdated views and is basically a bigot.

%% * HairpinLockpick: The Time Lords created an intricate, sonic proof lock that someone might unlock via a different, cruder method.

* TakingTheBullet: Cinder jumps in between a shot fired by Karlax and the Doctor.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Doctor and Cynder save people from destruction by Time Lords, Borusa makes a HeroicSacrifice and destroys all the Daleks in the system... but Cynder is killed, Time Lords have become villains, and Doctor decides to finish the war by destruction of both sides]].

* EldritchAbomination: Borusa and the other Time Lords Rassilon experimented on. Their timelines have been retro-engineered meaning they are in a constant state of flux between the past and possible future regenerations. They can see all possible timelines and when Borusa is in the Eye of Tantalus he is able to pull on threads of possibility to bring new timelines into being; [[spoiler:similar to Bad Wolf he is able to wipe all traces of the Daleks from the Tantalus Eye.]]

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: A major theme in the story. The Time Lords are shown becoming no different than their enemies the Daleks during the Time-War, as they [[spoiler:decide to wipe all the Daleks in the Moldox system, and arrogantly place themselves above billions of people, who also will die from the drop of the bomb]].