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|affiliation = {{il|[[God (mythology)|God]]|[[Rassilon]]|[[Eternal]]s|[[Grace]]}} | |affiliation = {{il|[[God (mythology)|God]]|[[Rassilon]]|[[Eternal]]s|[[Grace]]}} | ||
|origin = [[Pre-universe]] | |origin = [[Pre-universe]] | ||
|first cs = The Ribos Operation (TV story) | |||
|first cs note = {{note|The suggestion in various sources of [[the Toymaker]] as an additional Guardian beyond the Black and White would make [[TV]]: {{cs|The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)}} their DWU debut, and add [[the Toymaker/Appearances|the Toymaker's appearances]] to theirs.}} | |||
|appearances = [[Guardian of Time/Appearances|'''''see list''''']] | |appearances = [[Guardian of Time/Appearances|'''''see list''''']] | ||
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According to some accounts, the Black and White Guardians were created from the psychic powers of the [[Matrix Lord]]s by [[Matrix Rassilon|Rassilon]], who entrusted them with some of his power. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') Indeed, when asked by [[Donna Noble]] if there had ever been such a thing as a singular "Guardian of Time", the [[Tenth Doctor]] brought up [[Rassilon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legends of Camelot (novel)|Legends of Camelot]]'') However, other accounts suggested that the Guardians of Time were [[Transcendental being|transcendental beings]] who predated the [[Time Lord]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') Rassilon was uncertain as to the Guardians' true nature, and used "the [[Great Old One]]s" as a term for creatures lesser than the Guardians, but according to the same account which made this claim, the [[Sixth Doctor]] held the Guardians to be "the upper echelons of the [[Great Old One]]s, a pantheon within a pantheon", so that the Guardians were indeed Great Old Ones of a sort. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'', ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') | According to some accounts, the Black and White Guardians were created from the psychic powers of the [[Matrix Lord]]s by [[Matrix Rassilon|Rassilon]], who entrusted them with some of his power. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') Indeed, when asked by [[Donna Noble]] if there had ever been such a thing as a singular "Guardian of Time", the [[Tenth Doctor]] brought up [[Rassilon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legends of Camelot (novel)|Legends of Camelot]]'') However, other accounts suggested that the Guardians of Time were [[Transcendental being|transcendental beings]] who predated the [[Time Lord]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') Rassilon was uncertain as to the Guardians' true nature, and used "the [[Great Old One]]s" as a term for creatures lesser than the Guardians, but according to the same account which made this claim, the [[Sixth Doctor]] held the Guardians to be "the upper echelons of the [[Great Old One]]s, a pantheon within a pantheon", so that the Guardians were indeed Great Old Ones of a sort. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'', ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') | ||
According to some accounts, they numbered six in total, and together were known as the '''Six-Fold God'''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') In other accounts, there were only two, the [[Black Guardian|Black]] and [[White Guardian]]s, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'', ''[[Power to the People (short story)|Power to the People]]'') who alone claimed to each be responsible for 50% of the universe ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destroyer of Delights (audio story)|The Destroyer of Delights]]'') and to be the two individuals responsible for the balance of the cosmos. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'') The [[Celestial Toymaker]], a powerful being encountered by [[the Doctor]] on many occasions ([[TV]]: ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Endgame (DWM comic story)|Endgame]]'', et al.) once claimed to be a third active Guardian out of the six, | According to some accounts, they numbered six in total, and together were known as the '''Six-Fold God'''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') In other accounts, there were only two, the [[Black Guardian|Black]] and [[White Guardian]]s, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'', ''[[Power to the People (short story)|Power to the People]]'') who alone claimed to each be responsible for 50% of the universe ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destroyer of Delights (audio story)|The Destroyer of Delights]]'') and to be the two individuals responsible for the balance of the cosmos. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'') The [[Celestial Toymaker]], a powerful being encountered by [[the Doctor]] on many occasions ([[TV]]: ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Endgame (DWM comic story)|Endgame]]'', et al.) once claimed to be a third active Guardian out of the six, a Guardian of dreams and fantasy, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') associated with Crystal. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Quantum Archangel (novel)}}) | ||
After breaking into [[the Doctor's universe]], [[the Toymaker]] defeated the Guardians in a game and turned them into [[voodoo doll]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Giggle (TV story)|The Giggle]]) | After breaking into [[the Doctor's universe]], [[the Toymaker]] defeated the Guardians in a [[Game between the Toymaker and the Guardians of Time and Space|game]] and turned them into [[voodoo doll]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Giggle (TV story)|The Giggle]]) | ||
== | == Nature == | ||
The Guardians were considered to be immortal, but were capable of being destroyed. When [[Turlough]] believed the Black Guardian destroyed, the White Guardian explained that they would always exist "until the universe no longer needed them". ([[TV]]: ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'') Although they could assume a form for a brief period as an "interface" with the universe, they found it "cramped" existing in five dimensions. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destroyer of Delights (audio story)|The Destroyer of Delights]]'') | |||
The [[ | The [[Sixth Doctor]] believed that the Guardians were of "the same species" as [[God (mythology)|God]]. During an encounter with God which was later erased from his and [[Peri Brown|Peri]]'s minds, God claimed that he had originally created a single Guardian, a being of the same nature as Himself whom he sealed inside the universe when He created it, entrusting him with the [[Key to Time]] so that he could replace the universe's "[[heart]]", the central power-source keeping it running, when the time was right. However, God had not anticipated that upon entering the universe, the Guardian would splinter into two halves, one good White Guardian and one bad Black Guardian, who would waste their energies fighting one another. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Power to the People (short story)|Power to the People]]'') | ||
According to a subtly different account, the Guardians of Good and Evil were twin projections of the forces of the universes whom [[Matrix Rassilon|Rassilon]] created from within [[the Matrix]], using the [[Amplified Panatropic Computation]] network to boost his mental powers and those of [[Matrix Lord|the other dead Time Lords]]. He gave them the [[Key to Time]] to allow them to stop the universe if it fell out of balance. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') | |||
''[[The Book of the War]]''{{'}}s entry on the class of beings which [[Faction Paradox]] termed ''[[loa]]'' in a reference to [[Earth]] [[voodoo]] outlined that in the Faction's understanding, "the processes of time [were] ''entities''" such that time was "occupied, even guarded" by beings possessing "no tangible presence in the universe" but retaining the ability to "protect, beguile, curse and possess anybody who tries to cross their boundaries". In contrast to the Faction's view, the [[Great House]]s generally preferred to insist that the complex emergent systems within the [[Web of Time|structure of time]] were simply non-sentient [[equation]]s, although the events of [[the War]] seemed to prove them wrong. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)|namedep=Loa}}) | |||
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Other accounts suggested the Guardians were "[[Great Old One]]s", survivors of an [[earlier race of Time Lords]] from [[Great Old Ones' universe|another universe]]. These accounts suggested that the Guardians' natural form, like the other Old Ones, was a collective [[consciousness]] possessing neither form nor substance and existing between [[dimension]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') Physically, the Council of Guardians existed in [[Calabi-Yau Space]]. When together, they were the Six-Fold-God of the [[Six-Fold-Realm]] and were able to fashion space and time anyway they wanted. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') | |||
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[[File:White Guardian and black guardian.jpg|left|thumb|The [[Black Guardian]] and [[White Guardian]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Enlightenment (TV story)}})]]The [[White Guardian]] of Light and Order was known to and met by [[the Doctor]], alongside his nefarious counterpart the [[Black Guardian]] of Darkness and Chaos. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Ribos Operation (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Armageddon Factor (TV story)}},{{cs|Enlightenment (TV story)}}) | |||
While many accounts treated these two as the sole, dual Guardians, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Power to the People (short story)}}, etc.) other accounts suggested there were more. [[The Toymaker]], for example, once referred to having played against the Guardians as an example of why "a grand total of two" opponents were not enough to cow him in comparison. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}) In fact, in a different account, the Toymaker was himself depicted as a Guardian, embodying [[dream]]s, in an account also mentioning [[Red Guardian|the Red Guardian]] of Justice and Truth, and the [[Gold Guardian]] of Life and Death; ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Divided Loyalties (novel)}}) "a corrupt Guardian" was cited in yet another source was a possible origin of the Toymaker, though there were many others. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|The Celestial Toymaker (game)}}) The [[Azure Guardian]] was the Rainbow Guardian of the [[Quantum Realm]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Home Fires Burn (novel)}}) representing Equilibrium and Balance. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|An Ordinary Man (novel)}}, {{cs|The Quantum Archangel (novel)}}) Yet another source mentioned a [[Silver Guardian]] of [[space]] and [[matter]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The George Kostinen Mystery (novel)}} | |||
Finally, within the bounds of a [[video game]] played by [[Izzy Sinclair]] on the [[Time-Space Visualiser]] in [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], a [[Beige Guardian]] was seen forcing the first eight incarnations of [[the Doctor]] to defeat all their past enemies at once, though there exists no independent existence of this Guardian's existence outside the game. In addition, the Beige Guardian mentioned a [[Green Guardian]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Happy Deathday (comic story)}}) | |||
== Powers == | === Powers === | ||
The [[Seventh Doctor]] said they were one of the powers of the [[Omniverse]] that could do anything, hinting they could pull the arms off spiral galaxies, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'') and stating that they were capable of altering time on a grand scale; the power they represented could not exist on something as small as a planet. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat (novel)|Blood Heat]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]'') | The [[Seventh Doctor]] said they were one of the powers of the [[Omniverse]] that could do anything, hinting they could pull the arms off spiral galaxies, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'') and stating that they were capable of altering time on a grand scale; the power they represented could not exist on something as small as a planet. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat (novel)|Blood Heat]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]'') | ||
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The Black and White Guardians drew strength from their respective elements, becoming stronger or weaker depending on the state of their elements in the universe. The Black Guardian was most powerful in the [[far future]], at the end of the universe where his counterpart could not interfere. ([[TV]]: ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destroyer of Delights (audio story)|The Destroyer of Delights]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Well-Mannered War (novel)|The Well-Mannered War]]'') He created wars to justify his existence, while the Guardian of Justice created conflict. The Toymaker explained that he was in this universe because everyone in the [[multiverse]] had dreams and that he shaped them lest they become stale. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') | The Black and White Guardians drew strength from their respective elements, becoming stronger or weaker depending on the state of their elements in the universe. The Black Guardian was most powerful in the [[far future]], at the end of the universe where his counterpart could not interfere. ([[TV]]: ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destroyer of Delights (audio story)|The Destroyer of Delights]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Well-Mannered War (novel)|The Well-Mannered War]]'') He created wars to justify his existence, while the Guardian of Justice created conflict. The Toymaker explained that he was in this universe because everyone in the [[multiverse]] had dreams and that he shaped them lest they become stale. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') | ||
By one account, like the other Old Ones, the Guardians originated in another universe, and Rassilon himself considered the Old Ones "sub-Guardians". He asked questions of the "Guardians of the Universe," but they refused to answer him, saying the [[Time Lord]]s were superior to the rest of the universe, but there were creatures far superior to them. This taught him humility and made him respect all life. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') The Seventh Doctor implied that the Time Lords might have made a deal with them because of this power. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'') The [[Eternal]]s knew of the Guardians and respected them greatly, calling them "Enlighteners" as they set up the games that kept the Eternals amused. ([[TV]]: ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'') | |||
The Guardians could act together to directly bend reality and alter space and time, as when they retroactively un-did the very existence of [[Prometheus (The Quantum Archangel)|Prometheus]] for violating the [[Ancient Covenant]]s. They essentially were the universe, and so they would not dare interfere; they could never be seen to act in things or be involved so as to preserve the structure of reality, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead (TV story)|Mawdryn Undead]]'') bound not by physical laws but rather codes of conduct as were the [[Chronovore]]s and possibly other transcendental beings. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'') They considered the Eternals and Chronovores to be their "own children." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') | The Guardians could act together to directly bend reality and alter space and time, as when they retroactively un-did the very existence of [[Prometheus (The Quantum Archangel)|Prometheus]] for violating the [[Ancient Covenant]]s. They essentially were the universe, and so they would not dare interfere; they could never be seen to act in things or be involved so as to preserve the structure of reality, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead (TV story)|Mawdryn Undead]]'') bound not by physical laws but rather codes of conduct as were the [[Chronovore]]s and possibly other transcendental beings. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'') They considered the Eternals and Chronovores to be their "own children." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') | ||
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* The existence of the [[Celestial Toymaker]] as a character on ''[[Doctor Who]]'' pre-dates the introduction of the Guardian mythos. Later continuity retroactively made him a Guardian, despite the original intent being that he was an especially powerful member of [[Time Lord|the Doctor's own species]], and still later continuity making him an [[Elder God]] — though the latter idea was reconciled with the earlier lore by the positing of the Guardians as being a subgroup among the Elder Gods. [[Hecuba]] (called the Queen of Time) was introduced as his sister, so whether she was a Guardian or how she was connected to them or their role was not specified. | * The existence of the [[Celestial Toymaker]] as a character on ''[[Doctor Who]]'' pre-dates the introduction of the Guardian mythos. Later continuity retroactively made him a Guardian, despite the original intent being that he was an especially powerful member of [[Time Lord|the Doctor's own species]], and still later continuity making him an [[Elder God]] — though the latter idea was reconciled with the earlier lore by the positing of the Guardians as being a subgroup among the Elder Gods. [[Hecuba]] (called the Queen of Time) was introduced as his sister, so whether she was a Guardian or how she was connected to them or their role was not specified. | ||
* Until ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'' and ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'', reference to the Guardians only consisted of Black and White, and to date, they are the only Guardians to be seen, depending on what the Celestial Toymaker really is. | * Until ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'' and ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'', reference to the Guardians only consisted of Black and White, and to date, they are the only Guardians to be seen, depending on what the Celestial Toymaker really is. | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
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{{Guardians of Time}} | {{Guardians of Time}} | ||
{{Dark Times species}} | {{Dark Times species}} | ||
[[Category:Guardians of Time| ]] | [[Category:Guardians of Time| *]] | ||
[[Category:Great Old Ones]] | [[Category:Great Old Ones]] | ||
[[Category:Black and white]] | [[Category:Black and white]] | ||
[[Category:Omniverse]] | [[Category:Omniverse]] | ||