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He fled "[their] home" and created [[Cathedral (engine)|Cathedral]] in an effort to inject ambiguity and [[free will]] into the universe. He hid it in a pocket reality, making sure his people would not discover it. He himself, however, "long[ed] to see it again" and returned to this "home" where he was "immediately placed on trial by [his] colleagues" for his so-called [[blasphemy]]. He was "cast out", "fell", and "burned", essentially dying; his mind only survived as part of Cathedral, though he could project himself from it into the universe, the form in which the Doctor and [[Bernice Summerfield]] would eventually meet him when [[human]]s studying [[interstitial time]] stumbled on the secrets of Cathedral. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Falls the Shadow (novel)}}) | He fled "[their] home" and created [[Cathedral (engine)|Cathedral]] in an effort to inject ambiguity and [[free will]] into the universe. He hid it in a pocket reality, making sure his people would not discover it. He himself, however, "long[ed] to see it again" and returned to this "home" where he was "immediately placed on trial by [his] colleagues" for his so-called [[blasphemy]]. He was "cast out", "fell", and "burned", essentially dying; his mind only survived as part of Cathedral, though he could project himself from it into the universe, the form in which the Doctor and [[Bernice Summerfield]] would eventually meet him when [[human]]s studying [[interstitial time]] stumbled on the secrets of Cathedral. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Falls the Shadow (novel)}}) | ||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
The Grey Man's race is never given a name, with him referring only to "[his] colleagues" and other such periphrases. One obvious interpretation is that they are the [[Guardian of Time|Guardians of Time]], as they are stated to be responsible for introducing manichaean duality to the universe; the ''Grey'' Man would thus be positioned as a midway point between the [[Black Guardian]] and [[White Guardian]], filling a part similar to the balance-bringing [[Red Guardian]] in [[Craig Hinton]]'s unrelated effort to expand the Guardians' ranks. Although the "grey man's race" and Guardians are discussed separately in {{cs|A History of the Universe (short story)}}, the latter are not brought up in {{cs|Falls the Shadow (novel)}}. | The Grey Man's race is never given a name, with him referring only to "[his] colleagues" and other such periphrases. One obvious interpretation is that they are the [[Guardian of Time|Guardians of Time]], as they are stated to be responsible for introducing manichaean duality to the universe; the ''Grey'' Man would thus be positioned as a midway point between the [[Black Guardian]] and [[White Guardian]], filling a part similar to the balance-bringing [[Red Guardian]] in [[Craig Hinton]]'s unrelated effort to expand the Guardians' ranks. Although the "grey man's race" and Guardians are discussed separately in {{cs|A History of the Universe (short story)}}, the latter are not brought up in {{cs|Falls the Shadow (novel)}}. HoFurthermorewever, the Grey Man is shown to have the same abilities of control over [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] that the White Guardian does in [[TV]]: {{cs|Enlightenment (TV story)}}. | ||
As the first sapient race, who used their position to impose a metaphysical "structure" on reality in the [[early universe]], they also strongly recall the [[Time Lord]]s as they would go on to be reimagined in ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' (for which [[Daniel O'Mahony]] would go on to write), as the [[archon]]s of the [[Great House]]s. {{cs|Crimes Against History (short story)}}, for example, opens on an explanation of the archons' origins which strongly recalls ''Falls the Shadow''{{'}}s account of the grey man's race, and brings caveats to their description as humanoid or a species at all, thus explaining their distinction from the [[first humanoid]]s in ''Falls the Shadow''. | As the first sapient race, who used their position to impose a metaphysical "structure" on reality in the [[early universe]], they also strongly recall the [[Time Lord]]s as they would go on to be reimagined in ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' (for which [[Daniel O'Mahony]] would go on to write), as the [[archon]]s of the [[Great House]]s. {{cs|Crimes Against History (short story)}}, for example, opens on an explanation of the archons' origins which strongly recalls ''Falls the Shadow''{{'}}s account of the grey man's race, and brings caveats to their description as humanoid or a species at all, thus explaining their distinction from the [[first humanoid]]s in ''Falls the Shadow''. | ||