It may also surprise you to know that some aspects of their childhoods are quite similar to our own. For example, they are also entertained with the likes of nursery rhymes and children's stories. Although we're guessing by the title Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday that their stories were ever so slightly different to ours-- it doesn't sound very Disney, does it? Their childhood certainly does have some differences from ours, the most significant being that theirs seems to last a lot longer than ours does.
This is hinted at when it was said that a Time Lord or Time Tot that is ninety years old is still considered a kid. Why don't we get a childhood that long? It certainly seems that the Doctor made the most of his, as he managed to be the Time Tot hide-and-seek champion for forty two years in a row!
With all these stories, we are absolutely dying to see a children's TV spin-off about the Time Tots. Another part of the Time Lords society that seems oddly dystopian is their legal system. It comes with some pretty extreme punishments. Although given how powerful Time Lords can be, it makes sense to deter them from overstepping. One of their harshest known punishments is the reversal of the time stream, which basically means erasing their entire existence completely.
This punishment would have been the one the Master would have faced if he was tried and sentenced for all his various crimes. Other punishments that they have are quite bizarre too. This punishment came after he broke the non-interference policy. Other potential punishments a Time Lord could face for breaking the rules include having any further regenerations removed from them, and even just being vaporized on the spot. It seems being a Time Lord does come with a catch after all!
The Time Lords do seem to have a habit of taking a god-like role in the universe. They travel in time and change the history and events of the entire universe. They also take the laws of the universe into their own hands when it comes to death too. When Time Lords die, they have all of their memories uploaded into the matrix to allow their memories survive long past their deaths. This is the same matrix used by their Lord President to access information about all time and space.
This act of passing their memories into the matrix is known as "soul catching. This is known as their Death Day and allows them a time to read their will, contemplate and accept their death, and then finally have their minds beamed into the matrix.
It's a pretty cool way to go, if you ask us. The Doctor is a name that is seemingly known throughout most of the universe thanks to his notoriety. But did you know that the Doctor isn't even his real name? Other than the Time Lords, few have ever known the Doctor's name to the point where the question " Doctor Who? Knowing his name is also seen as a pretty big deal; a privilege that River Song was permitted, but many of his companions never get to find out this mysterious name of his.
It is thought that part of the reason Time Lords don't use their birth names is that they are very long and complicated. Therefore, most Time Lords will give themselves a title to be known by instead. Some of the more well known ones are the Doctor, the Master, and the Corsair. They're not all as commanding and important sounding as those, though, with some opting for names like Susan.
Don't be too worried, we aren't about to give you a talk about the time birds and the time bees with this one. Interestingly though, Time Lords and Time Ladies do have some options when it comes to reproducing.
Other than the old fashioned way of reproducing, which we'll leave to your own imagination, they also have the option of using technology to do all the work for them.
Who knows, perhaps they have low libidos, or perhaps they want to avoid the pains of labor, but it seems they were rather keen of resorting to these high-tech methods to produce their offspring. This technology is known as Looms, and some think it may be responsible for the lack of traditional family units in the Time Lords culture. It's hardly romantic, but at least it gets the job done. One interesting point we will raise about their "traditional" reproduction is that they can allegedly reproduce with a variety of humanoid species, not just other Time Lords and Ladies.
So if you fancy the Doctor, you might be in with a chance. One of the few weaknesses that Time Lords do have is a simple allergy to aspirin-- though it doesn't seem that it can do them much harm, since it's simple enough to treat.
Apparently, the correct way to cure a Time Lord of their symptoms from an aspirin allergy attack is by giving them chocolate. Although, who knows, perhaps they're just faking it as an excuse to treat themselves. Another one of their differences is that alcohol doesn't have the same effect on them as it does on us.
By the Doctor's time, this method had been phased out and replaced with disintegration. TV : The Brain of Morbius. There were two forms of illegal intervention, both punishable by vaporisation. A Class One was affecting the material properties of a planet, such as axial rotation. A Class Two was when a Time Lord claimed themselves to be a god on a planet. Young Time Tots were known to keep rovies as pets. TV : The Sound of Drums. Academy students sometimes played a dangerous game called " Eighth Man Bound ".
The multidimensional game of Perigosto , played with a ball and a specialised Perigosto stick , was also a favourite, as was a complicated board game called Sepulchasm. During a darker, more barbarous time in the planet's past, Time Lords enjoyed watching time-displaced individuals fight to the death in a dedicated area called the Death Zone , but that practice had been entirely abandoned by the Doctor 's day.
TV : The Five Doctors. Even the Daleks , the rival race of the Time Lords, respected their foes' scientific genius, eager to exploit the genius of a Time Lord, TV : Evolution of the Daleks and acknowledging that Time Lord technology could perform feats beyond Dalek science. A Class 7C station was used during the investigation of anti-time. The Celestial Intervention Agency operated a space station, Zenobia. One of the newer technology developed within the Doctor 's lifetime was the Time Rings.
PROSE : Legacy These Time Rings were small devices attached around the wrist, allowing a person to travel through time without being in a time machine. TV : Genesis of the Daleks They could also be made as small as finger rings that could be touched together to enable time travel. The Time Lords also possessed a form of portal technology that could be used for rapid troop deployment.
The Hand of Omega , a stellar manipulator. TV : Remembrance of the Daleks. The Time Lords had the capability to control and use the power of stars. The Tenth Doctor went so far as to claim that the Time Lords "invented" black holes.
Using the Hand of Omega , the Time Lords could speed up the development of stars. TV : Remembrance of the Daleks One such star had been exploded but its development into a black hole had been frozen, trapped in a permanent state of decay and was kept either under the Panopticon as the Eye of Harmony to power the civilisation of the Time Lords, or in TARDISes to use as their power source.
In ancient times, the Time Lords created powerful weapons and defences such as the De-mat Gun , which could erase its target from history, TV : The Invasion of Time and validium , a living metal considered the ultimate defence.
TV : Silver Nemesis The disciples of Omega spent four generations installing the transduction barriers around Gallifrey, which kept the planet slightly out of phase with the rest of the universe AUDIO : Renaissance and contained four barriers designed to stop outsiders. By the Doctor's era, despite being one of the most powerful species in the universe the Time Lords had little in the way of defences and their conventional warfare technology was lagging behind many other civilisations.
AUDIO : The Apocalypse Element This may be due in part to the transduction barrier, which was almost completely impenetrable by outside forces, or their general policy of non-interference.
TV : The Invasion of Time. AUDIO : The Conscript , Day of the Vashta Nerada Stasers fired a type of directed energy, which was relatively harmless to inorganic matter but caused massive tissue disruption to living creatures. This gun had no stun setting and a single shot from it would immediately force a regeneration in any Time Lord shot with it.
However, as war approached , the shortcomings were remedied. During the War in Heaven , the weapons of the Time Lords were considered "legendary"; they had built defensive arrays the size of star systems and created armaments that took apart entire galaxies.
When activated it would suck its target and everything in its vicinity into another universe where it would be destroyed. They were used to destroy attacking ships. Arcadia was believed to be the "safest place on Gallifrey" due to its four hundred sky trenches, however on the last day of the War the Daleks managed to breach them. During and after the Last Great Time War, Lord President Rassilon wielded a Gauntlet which was capable of destroying a person by shooting out electricity and also reverted the Master Race to its human form.
TV : Human Nature. The Time Lords developed a chemical that could turn vertebrate blood into acid , but the Doctor successfully campaigned it to be banned. Rassilon also invented Gallifrey's genetic looms , the devices used to birth new Gallifreyans after the Pythia 's curse.
Looms were no longer used after the Curse was lifted following President Romana's negotiations with the Sisterhood of Karn. More info from Interference and Gallifrey should be added. Several accounts described the Time Lords as the name of the species, seemingly synonymous with " Gallifreyan ", TV : Smith and Jones , Utopia , Knock Knock , Pyramids of Mars or, in a slightly differing version, as a distinct race of Gallifreyans.
The Book of the War synthesised these two perspectives by positing that the Great Houses were a meta- culture , having become something more than a biological species at the anchoring of the thread.
The Time Lords were referred to by rank, as "Lords," by their sentient technology such as validium. Other sources suggested that the ability for a Time Lord to regenerate came from evolution caused by exposure to the Vortex through the Untempered Schism.
Many Gallifreyans were not Time Lords. The Fourth Doctor once claimed "not everyone on Gallifrey [was] a Time Lord — some [didn't] want to be — and those who [did had to] go through the Academy ". TV : Listen. There are many records of Time Lords who were either completely or partially not Gallifreyan.
According to one account, the Doctor belonged to an unknown species, residing in another dimension. They were found as a child by the First Tecteun , an early Shobogan explorer, and subsequently brought back to Gallifrey.
When it was discovered the child possessed the ability to regenerate , this was studied extensively, and the ability was eventually given to select native Gallifreyans. Over time this led to the creation of the Time Lords, of which the Doctor was one.
The renegade Great House of Paradox often inducted members of the lesser species into their ranks, going so far as to actually incorporate them into the House's bloodline. During the War in Heaven , military Houses like House Xianthellipse experimented with hybridisation to create Newblood Houses better adapted for war. The Osirian Court was so powerful that it was almost a Great House. On Gallifrey, the prophecy of the Hybrid spoke of a being who was created from "two warrior races".
Many, including the General and Davros, speculated that the Hybrid was supposed to have been crossed between the Daleks and the Time Lords, TV : Hell Bent , The Witch's Familiar and Davros briefly believed he had in fact fulfilled the prophecy in the form of Daleks invigorated by regeneration energy stolen from the Twelfth Doctor , though the regenerated Daleks never got the chance to fulfill the end of the prediction by standing in the ruins of Gallifrey, and they never displayed other Time Lord characteristics than their regeneration.
TV : The Witch's Familiar. AUDIO : I Went to a Marvellous Party In her River Song incarnation, she possessed an augmented lifespan that left her as over two hundred years old not long before her death without much aging from the time she had regenerated into this incarnation.
However, it was unclear if this augmented lifespan was a result of her Time Lord DNA or if it was something that River had acquired over her lifetime by other means. A "generated anomaly", Jenny , the artificially created daughter of the Tenth Doctor , had two hearts , but was not considered a true Time Lord by the Tenth Doctor , who claimed that Jenny was merely an echo of himself and that being a Time Lord was "so much more" than that, though as he later admitted to Donna Noble , "when I look at [Jenny] now, I can see them.
The hole they left, all the pain that filled it. TV : The Doctor's Daughter. TV : Evolution of the Daleks. Sadly, over a period of centuries, this closed-off existence bred paranoia in the oligarchy controlling Time Lord society. That encroaching distrust led to the Time War, and a battle that completely destroyed every Time Lord and Dalek , except one.
For a while, at least. They come back. At the age of eight, every Gallifreyan child is brought before the Untempered Schism , a tear in the fabric of time and space. To look upon it is to see eternity. Time Lords are also built for the long haul, with biology that can hold up for hundreds of years before it kicks out. They only get 12 regenerations and then their time is up. Several hundred years, times 12? As the progenitor of the Doctor, the Time Lords hold an honored position in science fiction history.
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