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The [[Eleventh Doctor]] once said to a group of [[human]]s, "We were all jelly once. Little jelly eggs, sitting in goop", indicating that Gallifreyans began as ova similar to [[Earth]] mammals. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rebel Flesh (TV story)|The Rebel Flesh]]'') Time Lords could also be born from individual Family [[Loom]]s, machines that operated on genetic banks that would weave random patterns until forming a new person. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'', ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'', ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') According to some accounts, the commonness of Looms rendered traditional family units redundant for Time Lords; by the time the Doctor and Susan left Gallifrey, [[Quadrigger]] [[Stoyn]] claimed that "no one [had] grandfathers". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'') | The [[Eleventh Doctor]] once said to a group of [[human]]s, "We were all jelly once. Little jelly eggs, sitting in goop", indicating that Gallifreyans began as ova similar to [[Earth]] mammals. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rebel Flesh (TV story)|The Rebel Flesh]]'') Time Lords could also be born from individual Family [[Loom]]s, machines that operated on genetic banks that would weave random patterns until forming a new person. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'', ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'', ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') According to some accounts, the commonness of Looms rendered traditional family units redundant for Time Lords; by the time the Doctor and Susan left Gallifrey, [[Quadrigger]] [[Stoyn]] claimed that "no one [had] grandfathers". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'') | ||
Provost-Major [[Beltempest]] listed Time Lords separately when he said: "My Time Lords, ladies, gentlemen, and those of indeterminate gender". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'') Female Time Lords were also referred to as Time Ladies, although [[the Master]]'s first female incarnation | Provost-Major [[Beltempest]] listed Time Lords separately when he said: "My Time Lords, ladies, gentlemen, and those of indeterminate gender". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'') Female Time Lords were also referred to as Time Ladies, although [[the Master]]'s first female incarnation {{Gomez}} referred to the term as "old-fashioned". ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') [[Sex (trait)|Biological sex]] and [[gender]] could change from one [[regeneration]] to another. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'', et al.) | ||
{{Quote|[[Sex (trait)|Biological sex]] is flexible among my people, and [[gender]] is merely a social construct.|[[Thirteenth Doctor]]|A Little Help from My Friends (comic story)}} | {{Quote|[[Sex (trait)|Biological sex]] is flexible among my people, and [[gender]] is merely a social construct.|[[Thirteenth Doctor]]|A Little Help from My Friends (comic story)}} | ||
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Time Lords, once they had reached old age, were allowed to leave [[Gallifrey]] and [[retire]] on another planet. This was very rarely done; [[Salyavin|Chronotis]] was the only person known to take up the offer. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shada (novelisation)|Shada]]'') | Time Lords, once they had reached old age, were allowed to leave [[Gallifrey]] and [[retire]] on another planet. This was very rarely done; [[Salyavin|Chronotis]] was the only person known to take up the offer. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shada (novelisation)|Shada]]'') | ||
According to | According to {{Gomez}}, a Time Lord was supposed to face death by meditation: repentance, acceptance and contemplation of the absolute ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') while in an earlier incarnation, {{Delgado}} commented that Time Lords should face death with dignity. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'') | ||
Time Lords had some control over their own deaths, some would elect a specific "Death-Day," which would allow them time to read their will to their family in their ancestral home, to die after a time of contemplation and acceptance, and then to have their mind transferred to the Matrix. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') | Time Lords had some control over their own deaths, some would elect a specific "Death-Day," which would allow them time to read their will to their family in their ancestral home, to die after a time of contemplation and acceptance, and then to have their mind transferred to the Matrix. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') |