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}}'''Trenzalore''' ''(a.k.a. '''Christmas''')'' was a [[Level 2 planet|Level 2]] [[human]] colony [[planet]], from which the [[Time Lord]]s broadcast a message through the last of the [[Cracks in Time]]. It was home to many human villages, among them the snow-farming village of [[Christmas (town)|Christmas]] that became the site of the [[Siege of Trenzalore]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') and in an alternate timeline, a battlefield graveyard which included [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the Doctor's tomb]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')
'''Trenzalore''' was a [[Level 2 planet|Level 2]] [[human]] [[colony]] [[planet]], where the [[village]] of [[Christmas (town)|Christmas]] was located. Christmas contained the last remaining [[Cracks in Time|crack in space-time]], through which the [[Time Lord]]s broadcast [[the Question]] and triggered the [[Siege of Trenzalore]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') In [[Alternate timeline (The Name of the Doctor)|the original timeline]], the Siege ended with the death of the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and the transformation of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] into his tomb. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')


For 900 years, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tales of Trenzalore]]'') it was the epicenter of a longstanding [[Siege of Trenzalore|siege]]. Trenzalore was attacked relentlessly by many alien races who opposed the return of the Time Lords, while the [[Eleventh Doctor]] made his last stand against them all. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')
== Astronomical data ==
Trenzalore was a blue [[planet]] with a [[human]]-breathable [[atmosphere]], rings, and two [[moon]]s, [[Soror]] and [[Frater]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Strangers in the Outland (short story)|Strangers in the Outland]]'') [[Daylight]] in the [[village]] of [[Christmas (town)|Christmas]] only lasted a few [[minute]]s, and it was frequently [[snow]]ing. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')
 
In [[Alternate timeline (The Name of the Doctor)|the original timeline]], after the [[Siege of Trenzalore]] resulted in [[the Doctor]]'s death, Trenzalore became a barren wasteland covered with molten cracks, and had lost its rings and moons. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')
 
Trenzalore was of no strategic value to the [[Nestene Consciousness]] as it was almost entirely unpolluted, with no [[toxin]]s, [[chemical]]s, [[acid]]s, [[metal]]s or [[smoke]] in the [[air]]. The Doctor was the only reason it had to breach the planet's technology barrier. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Strangers in the Outland (short story)|Strangers in the Outland]]'')
 
== Geography ==
[[Christmas (town)|Christmas]] was a [[human]] [[town]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') where [[snow]] was [[farm]]ed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Let it Snow (short story)|Let it Snow]]'') Beyond Christmas, other sites included the Doctor's tomb, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'') [[Outland]], [[Devil's Elbows Canyon]], the [[Goat Path]], [[Lake Lagda]], [[Fafnir's Crest]], the [[Choke]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Strangers in the Outland (short story)|Strangers in the Outland]]'') the [[Glade of Everdell]], and [[Preacher's Clump]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Let it Snow (short story)|Let it Snow]]'')


== History ==
== History ==
Approximately 150 years before the [[Eleventh Doctor]] began his residency on Trenzalore, humans colonists settled on the planet. Some of the first colonists were [[Jalen Fellwood]] and [[Roland Treece]], both of whom became headsmen at a time when the [[Truth Field]] did not yet exist. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dreaming (short story)|The Dreaming]]'') The early settlements stockpiled [[boronite]], which they used to reach underground hot springs by exploding the bedrock that covered them. The leftover boronite was eventually shelved. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Strangers in the Outland (short story)|Strangers in the Outland]]'')
=== Before the Doctor ===
Trenzalore was settled by [[human]]s approximately 150 [[year]]s before the Siege of Trenzalore, at which time the [[truth field]] did not exist. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dreaming (short story)|The Dreaming]]'') The early settlements stockpiled [[boronite]], which they used to reach underground hot springs by exploding the bedrock that covered them. The leftover boronite was eventually shelved. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Strangers in the Outland (short story)|Strangers in the Outland]]'')
 
The early colonists modelled Trenzalore on an agrarian society, seeking to recreate the ambience and atmosphere of an earlier time period. Compromises had to be made and not everything could be brought in line with historical reality. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'')
 
=== The Siege of Trenzalore ===
The last remaining [[crack]] in the [[universe]] was located in Christmas. After they were transported to a [[pocket universe]] by the Doctor, the [[Time Lord]]s transmitted [[the Question]] "Doctor who?", and a truth field through the crack. If the Doctor answered with his name, they would know that it was safe to return to the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')


Jalen Fellwood eventually took [[Summerly Treece]] as his wife and sacrificed her to evil beings that he worshiped, hoping to get untold powers in return. Roland enlisted a gang of "righteous men" to hunt down Jalen, kill him, and bury his remains in an unmarked grave on salted ground. The truth about Jalen's skeleton was kept a guarded secret throughout the generations and known only to three people. The third was [[Vida Clatterly]], the oldest person on Trenzalore besides the Doctor, and the keeper of Trenzalore's oral history. Nine hundred years after Jalen's death, when it became clear that something was using his bones to harm residents of Trenzalore, Vida finally revealed the story to the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dreaming (short story)|The Dreaming]]'')
The transmission set off the Siege of Trenzalore, in which the [[Eleventh Doctor]] made his last stand against hordes of alien races who sought to prevent the return of the Time Lords. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') The planet became a desolate graveyard and the Doctor died, having exhausted his [[regeneration]]s. His "body" was laid to rest within his tomb: his dying [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] that had become gigantic due to the deterioration of its dimension dampeners. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')


According to [[Dorium Maldovar]], [[the Doctor]] would visit Trenzalore at some point in his travels, which would coincide with "the Fall of the Eleventh". Maldovar also said to him that at this time and place "[[Truth Field|no living creature can speak falsely or fail to answer]]." Here, the [[The Question|First Question]] in the universe would be asked.
The "fall of the Eleventh" upon the fields of Trenzalore became the subject of a prophecy, related to the Eleventh Doctor by [[Dorium Maldovar]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'')


[[The Silence]] were determined that the Doctor never reach Trenzalore, so that the question would never be answered. It was a creed of the Silence that "Silence will fall when the Question is asked", or as Maldovar translated it, "Silence ''must'' fall". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'')
[[File:Trenzalore Alternate Timeline.jpg|thumb|left|The TARDIS arrives at a ruined and desolate Trenzalore. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')]]


Trapped in a [[pocket universe]], the [[Time Lord]]s used a residual [[Time Field|crack in time]] located on Trenzalore to send a message through time and space: "[[The Question|Doctor Who?]]" which drew "half the universe" to the planet including the [[Dalek]]s, [[Cybermen]], [[Judoon]], [[Silurian]]s, [[Weeping Angel]]s, the [[Sontaran]]s, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and the [[Papal Mainframe]]. The Mainframe arrived first and established a force field around the planet, preventing anyone from approaching and creating a stalemate which everyone was afraid to break due to the fear established by the message.
=== Original timeline ===
After the Siege, but earlier in the Eleventh Doctor's personal timeline, the [[Great Intelligence]] forced him to go to Trenzalore by kidnapping his friends. Due to the possibility of a catastrophic [[paradox]], the TARDIS landed on a [[Alternate timeline (The Name of the Doctor)|future Trenzalore]] with great reluctance. The Doctor and [[Clara Oswald]] confronted the Great Intelligence within the Doctor's tomb, his [[size leak]]ing TARDIS, where instead of a body they found a complex "scar" in space-time that allowed entry into the Doctor's [[time stream]].


Teleporting to Trenzalore from the [[Papal Mainframe]], the Doctor found the crack and realised what was going on. After learning what planet it was, the Doctor tricked [[Clara Oswald|Clara]] home and remained to protect Trenzalore so that it wouldn't be destroyed, not willing to restore the Time Lords because a new time war would start due to the presence of so many enemies. For three hundred years the Doctor protected the planet from small incursions by various enemies with the help of the now-renamed Church of the Silence who dedicated themselves to stopping chaos from happening. A faction led by [[Madam Kovarian]] broke off from the Church to try to stop these events but only ended up causing them by creating the cracks in the first place when they blew up the TARDIS.
[[File:GiganTARDIS.jpg|thumb|right|The Doctor's tomb. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')]]
The Great Intelligence entered the scar, sacrificing its life to turn all the Doctor's victories into defeats. Clara too entered the scar, splintering herself into many "echoes" to save the Doctor across multiple lifetimes. After his timeline was restored, the Doctor pulled Clara out of the scar, risking the collapse of his entire time stream to do so. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')


Eventually the TARDIS returned with Clara, three hundred years later, but the Church had been turned into [[Dalek puppet]]s. Though the Doctor and Clara escaped with [[Tasha Lem]]'s help, the force field protecting the planet fell and the Doctor's enemies attacked in force. The Doctor sent Clara home once again and spent a further six hundred years protecting the planet with the help of his former enemies, the Silence.
After saving [[Gallifrey]] from the [[Last Great Time War]], the Eleventh Doctor revealed to the [[Tenth Doctor]] that he had visited his tomb on Trenzalore. His younger self commented he didn't want to go there. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')


In time, all but the Daleks burned or retreated and the Doctor grew old, frail and forgetful. Tasha brought Clara back so that he wouldn't die alone as he was out of [[regeneration]]s and was near death of old age. During a final attack by the Daleks on [[Christmas (town)|Christmas]], the Doctor decided to surrender himself as demanded, but as the Daleks prepared to kill him, the Time Lords, at Clara's request, granted him a new cycle of regeneration. Defying the long-established Rule of Twelve (the restriction of a Time Lord to a maximum of twelve regenerations) [[the Doctor]] began a thirteenth regeneration, using the energy from it to destroy the Dalek forces assailing Trenzalore. As the Time Lords closed the crack after saving the Doctor, the Doctor and Clara left Trenzalore, and the Doctor, who had been restored to his current incarnation's youthful beginnings by the regenerative "reset" he underwent on the clock tower, finally succumbed to his advanced age and regenerated into the [[Twelfth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')
=== New timeline ===
[[File:11 regen 2.jpg|thumb|The Eleventh Doctor gains a new regeneration cycle, changing history. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')]]
The Eleventh Doctor ended up unknowingly returning to Trenzalore, where he discovered about the Time Lords' transmission. When he realised what planet he was on and afraid of putting Clara in danger in the inevitable war, he tricked her and returned her to Earth. Unable to reason with the [[Papal Mainframe]] Mother Superious [[Tasha Lem]] -, who asked him not to call back the Time Lords from the pocket universe and restart the Time War  - he summoned the whole populace of Christmas and declared that he was the new sheriff in town who would defend them. At this point, the Doctor began fighting the siege. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')  


=== Alternate timeline ===
The Doctor eventually grew old and frail after 900 years of fighting. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tales of Trenzalore (short story)|Tales of Trenzalore]]'') Clara returned but was fooled again by the Doctor, once again returning to Earth. With no more plans or lives, the Doctor decided to surrender himself to the [[Daleks]], the last enemy remaining at Trenzalore. Clara, however, returned once more and appealed to the Time Lords for help, stating that "The Doctor" was the only name that mattered. The Time Lords opened the crack and granted the Doctor a new set of regenerations, sealing themselves off from the universe in the process. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') The Doctor used his [[regeneration energy]] to destroy the Dalek fleet ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (novelisation)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') and army, saving Christmas. Departing Trenzalore in his TARDIS, he regenerated into the [[Twelfth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')
[[File:Trenzalore Alternate Timeline.jpg|thumb|left|A ruined and desolate Trenzalore. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')]]  
In an alternate timeline, the Time Lords never gave the Doctor another regeneration cycle. In this timeline, the Doctor died on Trenzalore and was buried in a giant tomb made out of his own dying TARDIS. The tomb was surrounded by a battlefield graveyard containing the fallen from the [[Siege of Trenzalore]], with the size of each gravestone proportionate to the rank of the buried soldier. The planet itself became a desolate wasteland covered with molten cracks, and without its original rings or moons, all of them destroyed. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')


[[File:GiganTARDIS.jpg|thumb|right|The Doctor's [[The Doctor's TARDIS|tomb]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')]]
=== Other realities ===
The Doctor was eventually forced to go to this timeline's version of post-siege Trenzalore when the [[Great Intelligence]] kidnapped a number of his friends. The TARDIS resisted landing on the planet as the Doctor visiting his own tomb was likely to create a paradox and stopped in Trenzalore's orbit. The Doctor then turned off the TARDIS anti-gravity systems to force a crash landing on the planet's surface, leaving one of its windows cracked from the impact. There he saw his tomb, which was the TARDIS itself. However, this version of his TARDIS was in the process of "dying". It had become quite dilapidated and inflated to giant proportions due to the breaking of its dimension dampeners, resulting in a "size leak" phenomenon. It was here that the Doctor came across the [[Whisper Men]] and the Great Intelligence taking the form of [[Walter Simeon]]. The Great Intelligence attempted to force the Doctor to open his tomb, his real name being the key. [[River Song]], having manifested outside of [[the Library]], spoke his name without being heard and allowed the Great Intelligence entrance.
Trenzalore also existed, and had a similar history, in [[the Daft Dimension]], where the [[Twelfth Doctor (The Daft Dimension)|Twelfth Doctor]] reflected that by his subjective timeline, it had been around a [[1000 (number)|1000]] [[year]]s since the end of the [[Time War (The Daft Dimension)|Time War]] for him. ([[COMIC]]: [[The Daft Dimension (DWM 485 comic story)|''The Daft Dimension'' 485]])


Inside the tomb was not a body, but a complex tear in the fabric of space-time that enabled entry into the Doctor's time stream. The Doctor described it as "the scar tissue of my journey through the universe; my path through time and space, from [[Gallifrey]] to Trenzalore." The Great Intelligence entered the scar at the cost of its own life to interfere with the Doctor's victories, unravelling everything he had done to protect the Universe, killing all thirteen of his incarnations simultaneously in the process. [[Clara Oswald]] jumped inside the scar as well in order to reverse the damage, though doing so splintered her into thousands of "echoes" of herself. Paradoxically, it was meeting those splinters that first led the Doctor to meet and travel with Clara in the first place. After she fixed his timeline, the Doctor leapt into the scar himself to rescue the original Clara, risking the collapse of his entire time stream to do so. However, they encountered an [[War Doctor|incarnation of the Doctor]] that the Doctor claimed had dishonoured his chosen name in his actions. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')
== References ==
After they had saved Gallifrey at the end of the [[Last Great Time War]], the Eleventh Doctor informed [[Tenth Doctor|his predecessor]] that they were fated to die on Trenzalore. Expressing familiarity with the planet, the Tenth Doctor was optimistic that they might yet change their fate, as he “didn’t want to go”. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')


== Astronomical data ==
Because of his actions on the planet, the [[Testimony Foundation|Testimony]] gave the Doctor the [[Aliases of the Doctor|name]] of the "Beast of Trenzalore", and listed the name as one of his many titles to the [[First Doctor]] after he expressed doubt towards the Twelfth Doctor‘s identity.([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')
From space Trenzalore looked blue with little visible atmosphere. It resembled a [[gas giant]] despite being a terrestrial planet.  ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') During the time the Doctor visited his tomb there, in an alternative timeline, Trenzalore looked like a "burning planet" with a highly visible atmosphere with rivers and oceans of lava. These changes were presumably a result of the planet being ravaged by the Daleks during that timeline's version of the Siege of Trenzalore, in which the Doctor was never given more regenerations and instead died on the planet, leaving it to ravaged by the victorious Daleks. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')


Trenzalore seemed to have a similar atmospheric composition to that of the [[Earth]], as [[human]]s lived there with no apparent technology. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')  Trenzalore originally had rings and two moons, [[Soror]] and [[Frater]], which were later lost in the alternative timeline. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Strangers in the Outland (short story)|Strangers in the Outland]]'') Daylight in the village of Christmas only lasted a few minutes, and snow there was common. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')
== Behind the scenes ==
When asked whether the Doctor's averting of his death erased the events of the preceding season, [[Steven Moffat]] wrote a monologue in which the Doctor himself answers: "I can change the future so long as the future hasn't been already established as part of my own past. I can't rescue Amy and Rory because I already know I didn't. But what do I know about Trenzalore? There's a big monument that looks very like my TARDIS. There's a temporal fissure leading to my timeline. Maybe it's my grave. Maybe, one day, that's still where I get buried. Maybe it's something else entirely, and we all got it wrong. Don't know. Don't plan to find out for as long as possible. The main thing is, Clara still jumped into my time stream, and still ended up helping me all through my life. All that is established, unchanged – but there's wiggle room!"<ref>Ask Moffat, Doctor Who Magazine #472</ref>


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* [[Christmas (town)|Christmas]]
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* [[Outland]]
* [[Devil's Elbows Canyon]]
* [[Goat Path]]
* [[Lake Lagda]]
* [[Fafnir's Crest]]
* [[Tundra-Vald]]
* [[Choke]]
* [[Glade of Everdell]]
* [[Preacher's Clump]]


== Other references ==
After having saved [[Gallifrey]] from the [[Last Great Time War]], at the insistence of the [[Tenth Doctor]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]] revealed he had visited his tomb on Trenzalore. His predecessor commented he didn't want to go there. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
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Trenzalore
Appearances

Trenzalore was a Level 2 human colony planet, where the village of Christmas was located. Christmas contained the last remaining crack in space-time, through which the Time Lords broadcast the Question and triggered the Siege of Trenzalore. (TV: The Time of the Doctor) In the original timeline, the Siege ended with the death of the Eleventh Doctor and the transformation of his TARDIS into his tomb. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)

Astronomical data[[edit] | [edit source]]

Trenzalore was a blue planet with a human-breathable atmosphere, rings, and two moons, Soror and Frater. (PROSE: Strangers in the Outland) Daylight in the village of Christmas only lasted a few minutes, and it was frequently snowing. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)

In the original timeline, after the Siege of Trenzalore resulted in the Doctor's death, Trenzalore became a barren wasteland covered with molten cracks, and had lost its rings and moons. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)

Trenzalore was of no strategic value to the Nestene Consciousness as it was almost entirely unpolluted, with no toxins, chemicals, acids, metals or smoke in the air. The Doctor was the only reason it had to breach the planet's technology barrier. (PROSE: Strangers in the Outland)

Geography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Christmas was a human town (TV: The Time of the Doctor) where snow was farmed. (PROSE: Let it Snow) Beyond Christmas, other sites included the Doctor's tomb, (TV: The Name of the Doctor) Outland, Devil's Elbows Canyon, the Goat Path, Lake Lagda, Fafnir's Crest, the Choke, (PROSE: Strangers in the Outland) the Glade of Everdell, and Preacher's Clump. (PROSE: Let it Snow)

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

Before the Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Trenzalore was settled by humans approximately 150 years before the Siege of Trenzalore, at which time the truth field did not exist. (PROSE: The Dreaming) The early settlements stockpiled boronite, which they used to reach underground hot springs by exploding the bedrock that covered them. The leftover boronite was eventually shelved. (PROSE: Strangers in the Outland)

The early colonists modelled Trenzalore on an agrarian society, seeking to recreate the ambience and atmosphere of an earlier time period. Compromises had to be made and not everything could be brought in line with historical reality. (PROSE: The Whoniverse)

The Siege of Trenzalore[[edit] | [edit source]]

The last remaining crack in the universe was located in Christmas. After they were transported to a pocket universe by the Doctor, the Time Lords transmitted the Question "Doctor who?", and a truth field through the crack. If the Doctor answered with his name, they would know that it was safe to return to the universe. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)

The transmission set off the Siege of Trenzalore, in which the Eleventh Doctor made his last stand against hordes of alien races who sought to prevent the return of the Time Lords. (TV: The Time of the Doctor) The planet became a desolate graveyard and the Doctor died, having exhausted his regenerations. His "body" was laid to rest within his tomb: his dying TARDIS that had become gigantic due to the deterioration of its dimension dampeners. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)

The "fall of the Eleventh" upon the fields of Trenzalore became the subject of a prophecy, related to the Eleventh Doctor by Dorium Maldovar. (TV: The Wedding of River Song)

The TARDIS arrives at a ruined and desolate Trenzalore. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)

Original timeline[[edit] | [edit source]]

After the Siege, but earlier in the Eleventh Doctor's personal timeline, the Great Intelligence forced him to go to Trenzalore by kidnapping his friends. Due to the possibility of a catastrophic paradox, the TARDIS landed on a future Trenzalore with great reluctance. The Doctor and Clara Oswald confronted the Great Intelligence within the Doctor's tomb, his size leaking TARDIS, where instead of a body they found a complex "scar" in space-time that allowed entry into the Doctor's time stream.

The Doctor's tomb. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)

The Great Intelligence entered the scar, sacrificing its life to turn all the Doctor's victories into defeats. Clara too entered the scar, splintering herself into many "echoes" to save the Doctor across multiple lifetimes. After his timeline was restored, the Doctor pulled Clara out of the scar, risking the collapse of his entire time stream to do so. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)

After saving Gallifrey from the Last Great Time War, the Eleventh Doctor revealed to the Tenth Doctor that he had visited his tomb on Trenzalore. His younger self commented he didn't want to go there. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)

New timeline[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Eleventh Doctor gains a new regeneration cycle, changing history. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)

The Eleventh Doctor ended up unknowingly returning to Trenzalore, where he discovered about the Time Lords' transmission. When he realised what planet he was on and afraid of putting Clara in danger in the inevitable war, he tricked her and returned her to Earth. Unable to reason with the Papal Mainframe Mother Superious Tasha Lem -, who asked him not to call back the Time Lords from the pocket universe and restart the Time War - he summoned the whole populace of Christmas and declared that he was the new sheriff in town who would defend them. At this point, the Doctor began fighting the siege. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)

The Doctor eventually grew old and frail after 900 years of fighting. (PROSE: Tales of Trenzalore) Clara returned but was fooled again by the Doctor, once again returning to Earth. With no more plans or lives, the Doctor decided to surrender himself to the Daleks, the last enemy remaining at Trenzalore. Clara, however, returned once more and appealed to the Time Lords for help, stating that "The Doctor" was the only name that mattered. The Time Lords opened the crack and granted the Doctor a new set of regenerations, sealing themselves off from the universe in the process. (TV: The Time of the Doctor) The Doctor used his regeneration energy to destroy the Dalek fleet (PROSE: Twice Upon a Time) and army, saving Christmas. Departing Trenzalore in his TARDIS, he regenerated into the Twelfth Doctor. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)

Other realities[[edit] | [edit source]]

Trenzalore also existed, and had a similar history, in the Daft Dimension, where the Twelfth Doctor reflected that by his subjective timeline, it had been around a 1000 years since the end of the Time War for him. (COMIC: The Daft Dimension 485)

References[[edit] | [edit source]]

After they had saved Gallifrey at the end of the Last Great Time War, the Eleventh Doctor informed his predecessor that they were fated to die on Trenzalore. Expressing familiarity with the planet, the Tenth Doctor was optimistic that they might yet change their fate, as he “didn’t want to go”. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)

Because of his actions on the planet, the Testimony gave the Doctor the name of the "Beast of Trenzalore", and listed the name as one of his many titles to the First Doctor after he expressed doubt towards the Twelfth Doctor‘s identity.(TV: Twice Upon a Time)

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

When asked whether the Doctor's averting of his death erased the events of the preceding season, Steven Moffat wrote a monologue in which the Doctor himself answers: "I can change the future so long as the future hasn't been already established as part of my own past. I can't rescue Amy and Rory because I already know I didn't. But what do I know about Trenzalore? There's a big monument that looks very like my TARDIS. There's a temporal fissure leading to my timeline. Maybe it's my grave. Maybe, one day, that's still where I get buried. Maybe it's something else entirely, and we all got it wrong. Don't know. Don't plan to find out for as long as possible. The main thing is, Clara still jumped into my time stream, and still ended up helping me all through my life. All that is established, unchanged – but there's wiggle room!"[1]

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  1. ↑ Ask Moffat, Doctor Who Magazine #472
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