Order
Order was a state in which things existed in an organised, predictable manner, known in a larger structural sense as cosmic order (GAME: A Brief History of Space and Time [+]Loading...["A Brief History of Space and Time (game)"]) and referred to as Law in relation to the Million Spheres. (PROSE: The Coming of the Terraphiles [+]Loading...["The Coming of the Terraphiles (novel)"]) The opposite of order was chaos, with the balance between order and chaos being a central structure of reality. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"], PROSE: The Coming of the Terraphiles [+]Loading...["The Coming of the Terraphiles (novel)"])
The White Guardian represented law. (AUDIO: The Destroyer of Delights [+]Loading...["The Destroyer of Delights (audio story)"]) The Actuary described the White Guardian as a god of order. (AUDIO: The Institute of Forgotten Souls [+]Loading...["The Institute of Forgotten Souls (audio story)"])
The Archangels of Law were related to the Realm of Law. (PROSE: The Coming of the Terraphiles [+]Loading...["The Coming of the Terraphiles (novel)"])
The Guardian of Might was a champion of Order. (PROSE: Legends of Camelot [+]Loading...["Legends of Camelot (novel)"])
Norman of the Latter-Day Pantheon was the God of Order. (PROSE: Salvation [+]Loading...["Salvation (novel)"])
When the Time Lords instated their non-interference policy, it was with the goal of guarding space and time and only interfering to maintain the cosmic order. (GAME: A Brief History of Space and Time [+]Loading...["A Brief History of Space and Time (game)"])
By one account, the Sasquatch were an advanced multiversal race who were "masters and servants of a grand cosmic order" which permeated the multiverse. (AUDIO: Sting of the Sasquatch [+]Loading...["Sting of the Sasquatch (audio story)"])
Iris Wildthyme once claimed that synchronicity was the secret order within the disorder of the multiverse, being the structure on which the Totality and other universes were built. (PROSE: Flickering Flame [+]Loading...["Flickering Flame (short story)"])
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- Law was a central part of the cosmology of the Michael Moorcock Multiverse, having been introduced in the 1961 Elric of Melniboné story While the Gods Laugh. This version of Law was officially integrated into the Doctor Who universe with The Coming of the Terraphiles [+]Loading...["The Coming of the Terraphiles (novel)"], but Doctor Who essayists such as Elizabeth Sandifer in TARDIS Eruditorum have argued for Moorcockian Law being a key inspiration for the duality of the White and Black Guardians in Season 16.
