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'''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]]'')
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}}'''Trenzalore''' 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]]'') at somepoint either in the planet's past or future relative to the human sittlements, the planet hosted 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 during the Doctor's 1st Visit ==
== Astronomical data ==
[[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]]'')]]  
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]]'')
 
At somepoint in the Doctor's future he will die on Trenzalore and will be buried in a giant tomb made out of his dying TARDIS. The tomb will be surrounded by a battlefield graveyard containing other fallen soldiers from the Doctor's last battle, with the size of each gravestone proportionate to the rank of the buried soldier. At this point, the planet itself will be 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]]'')]]
The Doctor during his 12th life was eventually forced to go to 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.
 
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 his encounters with those splinters that 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|the Doctor during his 9th lifetime]] that the Doctor claimed had dishonoured his chosen name in his actions, because of his active participation in the Time War and the perceived destruction of Gallifrey ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')
 
The Doctor believed that The Siege of Trenzalore, where he defended Christmas for 900 years was the battle he would die in. But he was mistaken. He in fact survived the battle. Furthermore, there were no other soldiers fighting alongside the Doctor in that particular battle that would of died and been buried in the tombs surrounding his.


== Trenzalore during the Doctor's 2nd Visit ==
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]]'')


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]]'')
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]]'')


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]]'')
== 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]]'')


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]]'')
== History ==
=== 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]]'')


[[Dorium Maldovar]] alerted [[the Doctor]] to the fact that he would visit Trenzalore at some point in his travels, at "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. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'')
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 circumstances behind the Fall of the Eleventh were revealed when the Doctor was drawn to Trenzalore by an endlessly repeating message emanating through all of time and space. Trapped in a [[pocket universe]], the [[Time Lord]]s were using a residual [[Time Field|crack in time]] located on Trenzalore to send the message, which translated as "[[The Question|Doctor Who?]]" through all of time and space. Along with the Doctor, their transmission drew "half the universe" to the planet including the [[Dalek]]s, [[Cybermen]], [[Judoon]], [[Silurian]]s, [[Weeping Angel]]s, the [[Sontaran]]s, 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.
=== 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]]'')


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 stayed on 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.
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]]'')


Three hundred years later, the force field protecting the planet fell and the Doctor's enemies attacked in force. The Doctor spent centuries protecting the planet with the help of his former enemies, the Silence. Six hundred more years passed before the fighting finally came to a close.
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]]'')


In time, all but the Daleks burned or retreated and the Doctor grew old, frail and forgetful. Tasha brought the Doctor's [[companion]] [[Clara Oswald]] to Trenzalore so that he wouldn't die alone as he was out of [[regeneration]]s and was near death from old age. During a final attack by the Daleks on [[Christmas (town)|Christmas]], the Doctor decided to surrender himself as demanded. But as he stood atop the Clock Tower, ready to accept his final death, the Time Lords, at Clara's request, granted him a new cycle of regenerations. Using the energy from his regeneration, the Doctor destroyed the Dalek forces assailing Trenzalore. Having done their part in ensuring the Doctor's survival, the Time Lords finally sealed the crack linking Gallifrey and Trenzalore, cutting themselves off from the universe to await another chance at returning. Meanwhile, with the siege over and the planet no longer in danger from his enemies, the Doctor, finally free of his obligations to both the Time Lords and the people of Christmas, departed from Trenzalore on a permanent basis and regenerated into his [[Twelfth Doctor|twelfth incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')
[[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]]'')]]


=== 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]].


== Astronomical data ==
[[File:GiganTARDIS.jpg|thumb|right|The Doctor's tomb. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')]]
During the Doctor's first visit to Trenzalore to visit his tomb, Trenzalore looked like a "burning planet" with a highly visible atmosphere with rivers and oceans of lava.  
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]]'')


During the Doctor's second visit to Trenzalore the planet looked blue with little visible atmosphere. It resembled a [[gas giant]] despite being a terrestrial planet. 
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]]'')


It is not known if the Doctor visited the planet in chronological order and if the different looks of the planet were part of its past or future.
=== 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]]'')


These changes may have been part of a natural change to the planet or may have been caused my sentient beings through warfare or other action, e.g. Terra-forming.([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')
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]]'')


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]]'')
=== Other realities ===
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]])


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 (short story)|Strangers in the Outland]]'')  
== 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]]'')


== Known geographic features ==
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]]'')
[[Christmas (town)|Christmas]] was a town inhabited by humans, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') where snow was farmed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Let it Snow (short story)|Let it Snow]]'') Beyond Christmas, other sites included the [[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]]'')


== Other references ==
== Behind the scenes ==
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 younger self commented he didn't want to go there. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
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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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)

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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)

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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)

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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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