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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
When the Grandfather was in his youth, he travelled back in time into his own past and used an ordinary knife to murder his own grandfather. The paradox of this caused the Grandfather to be simultaneously alive and dead - murderer and victim. A concequence of the paradox was that the Grandfatheronly had one arm. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') | |||
Called the "voodoo priest of the [[House of Lungbarrow]]", Grandfather Paradox was imprisoned in [[Shada (prison)|Shada]]. Popular fable maintained that he was imprisoned rather than executed because "everyone was more afraid of him dead than alive". | Called the "voodoo priest of the [[House of Lungbarrow]]", Grandfather Paradox was imprisoned in [[Shada (prison)|Shada]]. Popular fable maintained that he was imprisoned rather than executed because "everyone was more afraid of him dead than alive". | ||
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The speaker's chair in the [[Eleven-Day Empire]] was left vacant to be taken by the Grandfather upon his appearance to the [[Faction Paradox]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One]]'') The [[Faction Paradox]] held the Grandfather Paradox up as one of the ultimate forms of [[temporal paradox]]. | The speaker's chair in the [[Eleven-Day Empire]] was left vacant to be taken by the Grandfather upon his appearance to the [[Faction Paradox]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One]]'') The [[Faction Paradox]] held the Grandfather Paradox up as one of the ultimate forms of [[temporal paradox]]. | ||
Resulting from a corrupted timeline, from [[Faction Paradox]] corrupted [[biodata]], a future version of the [[Eighth Doctor]] modelled himself as the Grandfather Paradox. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell]]''). Other accounts suggest that Grandfather Paradox appears as a twisted, morally bankrupt and broken version of whoever is looking at him or "the ghost of Christmas cancelled" as the Doctor snidely put it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]] | Resulting from a corrupted timeline, from [[Faction Paradox]] corrupted [[biodata]], a future version of the [[Eighth Doctor]] modelled himself as the Grandfather Paradox. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell]]''). Other accounts suggest that Grandfather Paradox appears as a twisted, morally bankrupt and broken version of whoever is looking at him or "the ghost of Christmas cancelled" as the Doctor snidely put it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') However, if the Doctor was indeed the true Grandfather Paradox, then this version had indeed committed the ultimate paradox; he cut off his arm not to remove the Time Lord branding/tattoo, but because he knew it was the arm which the Doctor would use to destroy Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell]]'') | ||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
Revision as of 15:56, 8 February 2013
Grandfather Paradox was the nominal leader of Faction Paradox.
Biography
When the Grandfather was in his youth, he travelled back in time into his own past and used an ordinary knife to murder his own grandfather. The paradox of this caused the Grandfather to be simultaneously alive and dead - murderer and victim. A concequence of the paradox was that the Grandfatheronly had one arm. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles)
Called the "voodoo priest of the House of Lungbarrow", Grandfather Paradox was imprisoned in Shada. Popular fable maintained that he was imprisoned rather than executed because "everyone was more afraid of him dead than alive".
When the Carnival Queen threatened rationality throughout the universe, Lady President Romana had an epileptic fit during which she signed a release order for three hundred prisoners, including the Grandfather. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet)
According to Faction Paradox legend, the Grandfather Paradox had one arm. He had removed this arm to remove the Time Lord branding/tattoo of a prisoner, and he would have committed the ultimate paradox.
The speaker's chair in the Eleven-Day Empire was left vacant to be taken by the Grandfather upon his appearance to the Faction Paradox. (PROSE: Interference - Book One) The Faction Paradox held the Grandfather Paradox up as one of the ultimate forms of temporal paradox.
Resulting from a corrupted timeline, from Faction Paradox corrupted biodata, a future version of the Eighth Doctor modelled himself as the Grandfather Paradox. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell). Other accounts suggest that Grandfather Paradox appears as a twisted, morally bankrupt and broken version of whoever is looking at him or "the ghost of Christmas cancelled" as the Doctor snidely put it. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles) However, if the Doctor was indeed the true Grandfather Paradox, then this version had indeed committed the ultimate paradox; he cut off his arm not to remove the Time Lord branding/tattoo, but because he knew it was the arm which the Doctor would use to destroy Gallifrey. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell)
Behind the scenes
- The name Grandfather Paradox punningly refers to the familiar time travel concept from theoretical science and science fiction.
- This character's history was substantially revised for use in the Faction Paradox universe. Despite the common names, readers of FPU material will notice differences between the two versions. Markedly, there is no suggestion that the FPU version of the Grandfather is the Doctor.
