Time Lord Seal (The Sound of Drums)
A Time Lord Seal was sometimes worn on the collars of Time Lords (TV: The Sound of Drums [+]Loading...["The Sound of Drums (TV story)"], Hell Bent [+]Loading...["Hell Bent (TV story)"], et al.) in place of the more common Seal of Rassilon. (TV: The Deadly Assassin [+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)"], Hell Bent [+]Loading...["Hell Bent (TV story)"], et al.) Rassilon sometimes wore a large medallion bearing the symbol. (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"]) A version of the symbol appeared on the chairs of the High Council. (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"], Hell Bent [+]Loading...["Hell Bent (TV story)"])
History
When Alice Obiefune was trapped on early Gallifrey, Rassilon once wore a large medallion bearing this symbol. (COMIC: The Lost Dimension [+]Loading...["The Lost Dimension (comic story)"])
When the Master was initiated as a Time Lord, he was brought to the Untempered Schism by three Time Lords wearing this symbol on their collars. (TV: The Sound of Drums [+]Loading...["The Sound of Drums (TV story)"])
In the final days of the Time War, the High Council wore this symbol on their collars and Rassilon wore his medallion with it on. The backs of their chairs had oval-shaped versions of the seal. (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])
By the Coming of the Hybrid, this seal was less present on Gallifrey, with Rassilon wearing a collar with the Seal of Rassilon. However, this seal was worn on the collars of the six Time Lords who were sent by Rassilon to the Doctor's barn to bring him to the Capitol. The High Council still used chairs with this symbol. It also appeared on the old collars of the Cloister Wraiths. (TV: Hell Bent [+]Loading...["Hell Bent (TV story)"])
Behind the scenes
- This seal was designed to create a Time Lord symbol more visually in-line with the modern series' Gallifreyan than the Seal of Rassilon was. The shape of its inner circles replicates the general shape of a Time Lord collar.[1]
