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The Professor is a Time Lord. One of the last of the old, glorious race from Gallifrey. His father is the Doctor and means everything to him. When in the Automated Hotel-Prison Spaceship, and the Doctor knew his death was imminent, he took his son to the Enchanted Forest, where Rumplestiltskin, an old friend of his, had just become the Dark One. Rumplestiltskin promised the Doctor to protect him, mainly from the Silence and Madame Kovarian.
Over the next 150 years, the Professor lived with Rumplestiltskin, accompanying most of his adventures. He even helped create the Dark Curse (he had the idea to put in a perception filter to mask out Storybrooke from the rest of the world). When the Evil Queen cast the Dark Curse, the Professor, being a Time Lord and impervious to magic, used it as a means of transport to get to Storybrooke. He never had a Storybrooke name; he just used his pseudonym. For the twenty-eight years of the Dark Curse, the Professor lived in Storybrooke, Maine - a peaceful town. There were no "ghosts"; no effects of the Master when he was in his guise of Harold Saxon; no poisonous gas from any cars; Storybrooke was moved with the rest of Earth, but the Daleks never arrived in Storybrooke, but the Storybrooke inhabitants did see Gallifrey appear in the sky.