Names for the Time Lords

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Early in Gallifreyan history, Lord Griffen addresses his newly-minted fellow Time Lords as "fellow Chronarchs". (COMIC: 4-D War [+]Loading...["4-D War (comic story)"])

Although primarily known as the Time Lords, (TV: The War Games [+]Loading...["[[The War Games (TV story)]]"]) the civilisation which held dominion over time and resided on Gallifrey were also known by various alternative titles. (TV: State of Decay [+]Loading...["State of Decay (TV story)"], PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"], etc.)

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

According to the Spy Master, the ancient Gallifreyans called themselves the Shobogans, (TV: The Timeless Children [+]Loading...["The Timeless Children (TV story)"]) the name later embraced by "new-age Academy dropouts" who protested against the Time Lords' way of life and rejected their heritage as Time Lords. (TV: The Deadly Assassin [+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)"], PROSE: The Eight Doctors [+]Loading...["The Eight Doctors (novel)"]) Still according to the Master, they adopted the names of Time Lords after mastering time travel, "renam[ing] themselves with characteristic pomposity". (TV: The Timeless Children [+]Loading...["The Timeless Children (TV story)"]) One account dealing with the Kotturuh crisis suggested an intermediate stage where the Gallifreyans called themselves the "Space Lords of Gallifrey" during the Eternal War; (COMIC: Monstrous Beauty [+]Loading...["Monstrous Beauty (comic story)"]) the name of Space Lords would be more lastingly adopted by a different species, slightly younger than their time-based counterparts and based on the planet Fractallax. (PROSE: Out of the Box [+]Loading...["Out of the Box (short story)"], COMIC: Monstrous Beauty [+]Loading...["Monstrous Beauty (comic story)"]) Very early in Time Lord history, shortly after they became such, Lord Griffen addressed an assembly of the Prydonian Chapter as "fellow Chronarchs". (COMIC: 4-D War [+]Loading...["4-D War (comic story)"])

Until the War in Heaven, it was traditional for a new Head of the Presidency to cite a few titles to the council of the Ruling Houses as part of their inaugurational speech, "reminding [their] audience that [they] are Engineers of History, Lords of the Continua, Overseers to Causality itself, ad nauseam". The War King broke with this tradition in his speech, which aimed to snap the Great Houses out of their complacency. (PROSE: "The War King" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Loading...{"namedep":"The War King","1":"The Book of the War (novel)"})

The Monochrome Auteur was familiar with many names, and was unsure what name the Plume Coteries would be familiar with, citing a number to Maritsa. He claimed to have "heard them all" and actually "coined a few" himself. (PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Loading...["The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)"])

Abraytha Janus Colefia was familiar with "Lightbringer" but not "Archons" and "Celestials", and thus did not initially recognise the Zadellin crew as such when they introduced themselves with the latter aliases. Once the misunderstanding was cleared up, Abraytha complained: "You things have entirely too many names". (PROSE: A Collision of Ships [+]Loading...["A Collision of Ships (short story)"])

Known aliases[[edit] | [edit source]]

Alias Sources Context Date Notes
"Angels" COMIC: Return of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Return of the Daleks (comic story)"] Used in dialogue by the Fourth Doctor 11 October - 1 November 1979 Angels are immortal celestial beings in Abrahamic religious and mythological traditions, with the name originating from the Ancient Greek "angelos", meaning "messenger". Used in the four cited sources as part of a willful effort on the part of speakers to equate the Houses' members with the religious figures, with Urizen being referenced as "God" or "Allah".
PROSE: Head of State [+]Loading...["Head of State (novel)"] Used in narration within "The Thousand And Second Night as translated by Sir Richard Burton". 29 June 2015
PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Loading...["The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)"] Used by the Bookwyrm in narration. 29 October 2023
PROSE: The Claus-Rosen Bridge [+]Loading...["The Claus-Rosen Bridge (short story)"] Used by Lotto VI in dialogue. 26 December 2023
"Architectes" PROSE: Auteur and the Homeworld [+]Loading...["Auteur and the Homeworld (poem)"] Used by Auteur in dialogue. 17 December 2022 French for "Architects".
"Architects" PROSE: Golden Age [+]Loading...["Golden Age (novel)"] Used in dialogue by misc. characters. 29 November 2020 From the Greek arkhitektōn, "lead craftsman", etymologically related to "archon". Refers within PROSE: Golden Age [+]Loading...["Golden Age (novel)"] to their roles as builders of many structures and artefacts recovered in the post-War universe by the lesser species. Within other sources such as Faction Paradox, implicitly references their role as creators and designers of the Linear Universe; evokes Urizen's epithet as "Urizen the Architect" and Rassilon's stated origins as being "regarded [in his own time] mainly as an engineer and an architect" within TV: The Deadly Assassin [+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)"].
PROSE: Cousin Eliza [+]Loading...["Cousin Eliza (feature)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 31 October 2023
PROSE: Godfather Morlock [+]Loading...["Godfather Morlock (feature)"]
PROSE: Lilith [+]Loading...["Lilith (feature)"]
PROSE: The War King [+]Loading...["The War King (feature)"]
PROSE: The Great Houses [+]Loading...["The Great Houses (feature)"]
PROSE: Faction Paradox [+]Loading...["Faction Paradox (feature)"]
PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"] Used by Olivia Kagg Waldermein in narration within a footnote. 26 December 2023
"architects of Reason" PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet [+]Loading...["Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 18 July 1996
"Archons" PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Loading...["The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)"] Used by the Bookwyrm in narration and by Auteur in dialogue. 29 October 2023 The Greek title of archon referred to a leader, being variously used for anything from a team chief to a "Lord". Additionally, in Gnosticism, the Archons are the antagonistic builders and rulers of the physical universe, keeping souls trapped and unable to ascend to higher forms of reality — similar to the position of the Time Lords within the War in Heaven's cosmology.
Before the capitalised form became widespread in other non-BBC-licensed fiction, an uncapitalised "archons" was used in PROSE: Crimes Against History [+]Loading...["Crimes Against History (short story)"] to refer to members of the Great Houses. However, this usage was ambiguous as it could, there, have been interpreted as simply an instance of the term in its conventional sense to refer to "rulers" of the Great Houses, as opposed to a de facto species name for all members thereof.
PROSE: Previously On... The Multiverse [+]Loading...["Previously On... The Multiverse (short story)"] Used by the Bookwyrm in narration. 26 December 2023
PROSE: The Book of the Snowstorm [+]Loading...["The Book of the Snowstorm (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: The Dinosaur in the Snow [+]Loading...["The Dinosaur in the Snow (short story)"] Used by Tirion in dialogue.
PROSE: The Claus-Rosen Bridge [+]Loading...["The Claus-Rosen Bridge (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: The Two Auteurs [+]Loading...["The Two Auteurs (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"] Used by Olivia Kagg Waldermein in narration, by the Sixth Dionus in his diary, and by the Dark Lord in dialogue.
PROSE: The God Who Came For Christmas [+]Loading...["The God Who Came For Christmas (short story)"] Used in dialogue by the God of the Sacred Wood.
PROSE: Our Finest Gifts We Bring [+]Loading...["Our Finest Gifts We Bring (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: I'm Dreaming of a Cheshire Easter [+]Loading...["I'm Dreaming of a Cheshire Easter (short story)"] Used in dialogue by the Cheshire Cat. 31 March 2024
PROSE: A Collision of Ships [+]Loading...["A Collision of Ships (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, by Abraytha Janus Colefia and Mrellin in dialogue, and by Zerlan in internal monologue and dialogue.
PROSE: A Visit from Everywhere [+]Loading...["A Visit from Everywhere (short story)"] Used in dialogue by Abraytha Janus Colefia.
PROSE: The Carnage of Urmafrae [+]Loading...["The Carnage of Urmafrae (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: I'm So Normal I'm So Normal I'm So [+]Loading...["I'm So Normal I'm So Normal I'm So (short story)"] 3 April 2024
PROSE: Infernal Escape [+]Loading...["Infernal Escape (short story)"]
"Archons of the Morning Star" PROSE: Previously On... The Multiverse [+]Loading...["Previously On... The Multiverse (short story)"] Used by the Bookwyrm in narration. 26 December 2023 As per "Archons" above, the name is equivalent to "Lords of the Morning Star", while adding the further spiritual connotations of the term "Archons". "The Morning Star" as a term for the Archons' homeworld evokes its status as the home of the earliest sapient species in the Dark Times and as a source of rationalist "enlightenment". The term is used in the real world for the planet Venus; Venus was sometimes suggested as the Doctor's home planet in the 39th century early 1960s accounts which implied him to be human-descended. This is metafictionally alluded to in PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Loading...["The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)"] and AUDIO: Deadline [+]Loading...["Deadline (audio story)"].
PROSE: The Book of the Snowstorm [+]Loading...["The Book of the Snowstorm (short story)"] Used by Professor Vomm She'hayle in dialogue.
PROSE: Presents [+]Loading...["Presents (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
"Archons of Time" PROSE: The Bloodletters [+]Loading...["The Bloodletters (novel)"] 1 May 2020 As per "Archons" above, the name is equivalent to "Lords of Time", while adding the further spiritual connotations of the term "Archons".
PROSE: The Dinosaur in the Snow [+]Loading...["The Dinosaur in the Snow (short story)"] Used by Tirion in dialogue. 26 December 2023
PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"] Used by the Dark Lord in dialogue.
PROSE: The Cathedral of Winter [+]Loading...["The Cathedral of Winter (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: A Visit from Everywhere [+]Loading...["A Visit from Everywhere (short story)"] Used in dialogue by Abraytha Janus Colefia. 31 March 2024
PROSE: The Carnage of Urmafrae [+]Loading...["The Carnage of Urmafrae (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
"arch’ur-lucifers" PROSE: The Claus-Rosen Bridge [+]Loading...["The Claus-Rosen Bridge (short story)"] 26 December 2024 As per "Lightbringers", lucifer, though associated with the planet Venus, with a Latin deity personifying the morning star as distinct from Venus, and with the Devil, literally means "light-bearer" or "light-bringer". The prefix "ur-" means "primitive, original, earliest, archetypal" in the real world; the syllable is notably used within Urizen's name. "Arch’" may be read as doubling this sense via evoking "archaic", or as being in line with the Archon/Chronarch terminology and bringing in the "lordship" element.
"Authors of History" PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Loading...["The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)"] Used by Auteur in dialogue. 29 October 2023 Refers to their roles as creators of history via the Anchoring of the Thread. Auteur implies in PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Loading...["The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)"] that he coined the term.
"Bijoutiers mystérieux" PROSE: Auteur and the Homeworld [+]Loading...["Auteur and the Homeworld (poem)"] Used by Auteur in dialogue. 17 December 2022 French for "mysterious jewelers", referencing both the idea of them as craftsmen and clockmakers as seen with "Architects" and "Watchmakers", and the alternative name of their planet as Jewel, as introduced in PROSE: Return of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Return of the Daleks (comic story)"] and also referenced by the "Lords of Jewel" designation in PROSE: A Bright White Crack [+]Loading...["A Bright White Crack (short story)"].
"Boogeymen of Creation" PROSE: A Bright White Crack [+]Loading...["A Bright White Crack (short story)"] Used by Larles in dialogue. 24 June 2020 The Bogeyman is a folkloric figure, the archetype of a hazily-defined "scary" entity used to scare children. The appellation suggests that the Superiors function as this on a universal, and even interuniversal level.
"Causal Initiators" PROSE: The Dinosaur in the Snow [+]Loading...["The Dinosaur in the Snow (short story)"] Used by Tirion in dialogue. 26 December 2023 Evokes the metaphysical concept of the "prime mover" or "first uncaused cause", theorised as a necessary origin point of history to avoid an infinite causal regress, and thus considered a theoretical basis for the existence of God. As such, references the beings' role as originators of the causal universe via the anchoring of the thread.
"Celestials" PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Loading...["The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)"] Used by Auteur in dialogue. 29 October 2023 The adjective "Celestial", derived from the Mediaeval Latin "caelestialis", refers to something originating from "the sky", "the heavens" or "the sky". As such, "the Celestials" or "the Celestial Ones" may be read both with a mythological or spiritual association, or simply as referencing the beings' extraterrestrial origins.
TV: The Deadly Assassin [+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)"] introduced a secret Time Lord security service calling itself "the Celestial Intervention Agency", playing on both these meanings but not, at that time, necessarily intended as referring to the species of the Agency's membership outright.
The Toymaker, a being sometimes intended or depicted as a Time Lord, was repeatedly described as "celestial" within TV: The Celestial Toymaker [+]Loading...["The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)"], with "the Celestial Toymaker" later being misconstrued by various sources as a name for the entity himself. In TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"], the Fourteenth Doctor offers the Toymaker the chance for the two of them to become "celestial" together if they went "back to the stars".
In AUDIO: Faustian [+]Loading...["Faustian (audio story)"], Eric Roberts's Master describes the Time Lords as "a celestial race".
PROSE: The Two Auteurs [+]Loading...["The Two Auteurs (short story)"] 26 December 2023
PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"] Used by Olivia Kagg Waldermein in narration within a footnote.
PROSE: Presents [+]Loading...["Presents (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: A Collision of Ships [+]Loading...["A Collision of Ships (short story)"] Used by Zerlan in dialogue. 31 March 2024
"Celestial Ones" PROSE: Head of State [+]Loading...["Head of State (novel)"] Used in narration within "The Thousand And Second Night as translated by Sir Richard Burton". 29 June 2015
"Celestial ticket-inspectors" PROSE: The Book of the Snowstorm [+]Loading...["The Book of the Snowstorm (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 26 December 2023 See "Celestials" above. The Time Lords are described by the Third Doctor as "galactic ticket-inspectors, if you like" in TV: The Time Warrior [+]Loading...["The Time Warrior (TV story)"]. The term is used as a chapter title in PROSE: A Brief History of Time Lords [+]Loading...["A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)"], and also referenced in COMIC: Blood Invocation [+]Loading...["Blood Invocation (comic story)"] where it is said some of the monkish covens viewed Rassilon as a "kind of cosmic traffic warden".
"Chronarchs" COMIC: 4-D War [+]Loading...["4-D War (comic story)"] Used by Lord Griffen in dialogue. 12 March 1981 As per the "archon" terminology above and the Ancient Greek "chronos" for "Time", refers to being who are Rulers (or Lords) of Time — making this equivalent to "Archons of Time" — or beings whose mode of governance employs time. The term of "Chronarch" was first used in Michael Moorcock's The Time Dweller in 1964, used interchangeably with "the Lord of Time" as the title for the leader of a society called "the Chronarchy", existing in Earth's far future. Alan Moore, who ported the term into the Doctor Who universe in plural form in 4-D War [+]Loading...["4-D War (comic story)"], also used the term "the Chronarchy" with Steve Moore in PROSE: A Chronology of Everything (Almost) [+]Loading...["A Chronology of Everything (Almost) (short story)","A Chronology of Everything (Almost)"] as a collective name for the Quality Universe's counterparts of the Time Lords. The term was used in dialogue by PROSE: Eyes [+]Loading...["Eyes (short story)"], in a manner suggesting it referred to the Great Houses' polity rather than the species as such, with the Queen of the Tyleth threatening war "against your universe, and your feeble chronarchy" while addressing a Homeworlder.
PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice [+]Loading...["Going Once, Going Twice (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 23 December 2018
"Chronarchy" PROSE: Eyes [+]Loading...["Eyes (short story)"] Used by the Queen of the Tyleth in dialogue. 25 January 2018
"Continuity announcers" PROSE: Ghost Devices [+]Loading...["Ghost Devices (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 3 November 1997 Introduced by the narration as a deliberate euphemism because it is apparently hazardous to speak the beings' real names, or even a more popular synonym such as "Watchmakers". A continuity announcer is a broadcaster whose voice appears between radio or television programmes to give programme information; the two Watchmakers/continuity announcers seen in PROSE: Ghost Devices [+]Loading...["Ghost Devices (novel)"], acting as remote observers of the story's events, are physically described as dressed in jarringly mundane formal wear reminiscent of such broadcasters. The term is, however, also a play on other, temporal or metafictional meanings of the word "continuity". As discussed above, "announcer" is, perhaps notably, etymologically synonymous with "angel".
"Darkness-Banishers" PROSE: The Claus-Rosen Bridge [+]Loading...["The Claus-Rosen Bridge (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, said to have been coined by Viv-Gabriel Arch'ikarios. 26 December 2023 A less positive inversion of "Lightbringers", focusing on their role in ending the Dark Times and banishing or hunting down many beings native to that version of reality.
"Denizens of the Fortress of History" PROSE: A Collision of Ships [+]Loading...["A Collision of Ships (short story)"] Used by Zerlan in dialogue. 31 March 2024 In allusion to "the Fortress of History" as a name for their home planet.
"the divine Houses" PROSE: Warlords of Utopia [+]Loading...["Warlords of Utopia (novel)"] Used by Marcus Americanius Scriptor in narraiton. 13 December 2004 A variant on "the Houses", melding it with "gods" terminology; see those entries.
"dwellers in the Great Houses" PROSE: Of the City of the Saved... [+]Loading...["Of the City of the Saved... (novel)"] Used by Melicia Clutterbuck in The Human Species: A Spotter’s Guide 11 May 2004 Seems to be based on the assumption that "Great House" refers to the physical Chapterhouses in which the Time Lords reside, as opposed to the bloodlines attached to specific Chapterhouses, as more commonly shown. Echoed by "the House-Dwellers" in PROSE: A Bright White Crack [+]Loading...["A Bright White Crack (short story)"].
"elementals" PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street [+]Loading...["The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)"] Used by the intra-diegetic narrator, adopting the perspective of 18th century occultists in the post-War universe. 5 November 2001 The idea of "Elementals", supernatural beings associated with a particular element, was popularised in the 16th century by Paracelsus. Originally referring to the four classical elements, it is used in post-War-universe-related material under the assumption that the Time Lords were elementals of time, with Sabbath Dei stating in PROSE: Camera Obscura [+]Loading...["Camera Obscura (novel)"] that it is a fitting name for "an ultimate constituent of reality".
In PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"], a cladistic terminology of "Time Elementals", with "Lesser Time Elementals" being the humanoid Archons and "Greater Time Elementals" being the timeships, is said to have been elaborated in the post-War universe by Meta-Historian Leiter Formosis. The terminology was shown to have been used by members of the race in later stories, such as PROSE: The God Who Came For Christmas [+]Loading...["The God Who Came For Christmas (short story)"] where the God of the Inner Mysteries, in addition to being described in narration as "an elemental", refers to his ship as "one of the great elementals" in dialogue.
"Elemental forces" is used in PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street [+]Loading...["The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)"] as a collective to refer to the Babewyn, a different class of elementals altogether from the Time Lords, but in narration within PROSE: Sometime Never... [+]Loading...["Sometime Never... (novel)"], the Doctor is referred to as the "one elemental force" which the Council of Eight was unable to control. "An elemental force" was used repeatedly in TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"] to describe the Toymaker. "Elemental forces" was used in PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"] as explicitly an alternative term for the Archons or Lesser Time Elementals.
PROSE: The God Who Came For Christmas [+]Loading...["The God Who Came For Christmas (short story)"] Used by the extra-diegetic narrator. 26 December 2023
"Elementals" PROSE: Camera Obscura [+]Loading...["Camera Obscura (novel)"] Used by Sabbath Dei and the Eighth Doctor in dialogue, with the latter disputing the name. 5 August 2002
PROSE: The Two Auteurs [+]Loading...["The Two Auteurs (short story)"] Used by the extra-diegetic narrator. 26 December 2023
PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"] Used by Olivia Kagg Waldermein in narration.
"Elemental god" PROSE: The Book of the Snowstorm [+]Loading...["The Book of the Snowstorm (short story)"] Used by the extra-diegetic narrator. 26 December 2023
"Elemental force" PROSE: Sometime Never... [+]Loading...["Sometime Never... (novel)"] 5 January 2004
PROSE: The Two Auteurs [+]Loading...["The Two Auteurs (short story)"] 26 December 2023
PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"] Used by Olivia Kagg Waldermein in narration and by the Third Felixian III in dialogue.
PROSE: A Collision of Ships [+]Loading...["A Collision of Ships (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, 31 March 2024
"Engineers of History" PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"] Used by the War King in dialogue. 17 September 2002 Highlights the Houses' role as creators and maintainers of a rationalised, "mechanical" history.
PROSE: Opioid Painkiller of the People [+]Loading...["Opioid Painkiller of the People (short story)"] Used in dialogue. 17 January 2024
"Gallifrey" PROSE: The Pit [+]Loading...["The Pit (novel)"] Stated by the Seventh Doctor in dialogue to have originally been a name for the people of the planet in Ancient Gallifreyan. 18 March 1993 Originally introduced in TV: The Time Warrior [+]Loading...["The Time Warrior (TV story)"] as a name for the Time Lords' home planet. Stated by the Doctor in PROSE: The Pit [+]Loading...["The Pit (novel)"] to translate to "they that walk in the shadows".
"gods" TV: Underworld [+]Loading...["Underworld (TV story)"] Used by Minyans such as Orfe, Herrick, and Idas, and by the Fourth Doctor, in dialogue. 7 January - 28 January 1978 "Gods", sometimes uncapitalised, is a general real-world term for deities. Instances vary, and sometimes flip-flop, between "gods" being a descriptor for the kind of beings the Time Lords are, but not exclusive to them, and cases where "the gods" (or "the Gods") is used to mean "the Time Lords" exclusively; the question is typically contextual, depending upon the culture of the speaker.
PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"] Mentioned in entry "Zo La Domini" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Loading...{"namedep":"Zo La Domini","1":"The Book of the War (novel)"} as a "constant description": that they are "considered the 'gods' of the time-aware universe". 17 September 2002
PROSE: Warlords of Utopia [+]Loading...["Warlords of Utopia (novel)"] Used by Marcus Americanius Scriptor in narration and dialogue. 13 December 2004
TV: Boom Town [+]Loading...["Boom Town (TV story)"] Used by Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen in dialogue. 4 June 2005
PROSE: The Book of the Enemy [+]Loading...["The Book of the Enemy (short story)"] Used by Sherlock Holmes in dialogue. 25 January 2018
PROSE: A Bright White Crack [+]Loading...["A Bright White Crack (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 28 October 2020
PROSE: The Trauma Deception [+]Loading...["The Trauma Deception (short story)"] Used by Suala in dialogue.
COMIC: Omega [+]Loading...["Omega (comic story)"] Used by various Minyans in dialogue. 26 January 2021
COMIC: The Heretic [+]Loading...["The Heretic (comic story)"] Used by Azag in dialogue. 14 February 2023
PROSE: Previously On... The Multiverse [+]Loading...["Previously On... The Multiverse (short story)"] Used by the Bookwyrm in narration. 26 December 2023
PROSE: The Two Auteurs [+]Loading...["The Two Auteurs (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Auteur in dialogue.
PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"] Used by the Sixth Dionus in his diary.
PROSE: The God Who Came For Christmas [+]Loading...["The God Who Came For Christmas (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: Our Finest Gifts We Bring [+]Loading...["Our Finest Gifts We Bring (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: Requiem [+]Loading...["Requiem (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Tyron in dialogue. 23 April 2024
"Gods" WC: Death Comes to Time [+]Loading...["Death Comes to Time (webcast)"] Used by Golcrum and Tannis in dialogue. 13 July 2001 - 3 May 2002
PROSE: The Book of the Enemy [+]Loading...["The Book of the Enemy (short story)"] Used by Sherlock Holmes in dialogue. 25 January 2018
PROSE: The Book of the Snowstorm [+]Loading...["The Book of the Snowstorm (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Professor Vomm She'hayle in dialogue. 26 December 2023
PROSE: The Two Auteurs [+]Loading...["The Two Auteurs (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by the head of the Historic Preservation Society in dialogue.
PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"] Used by Olivia Kagg Waldermein in narration, and by the Sixth Dionus in dialogue.
PROSE: Requiem [+]Loading...["Requiem (novel)"] Used by Juanille Lofeg Dew in writing as part of a translation of an anonymous "ancient hymn". 23 April 2024
"Gods of the Fourth" WC: Death Comes to Time [+]Loading...["Death Comes to Time (webcast)"] Used by Casmus and the Seventh Doctor in dialogue. 13 July 2001 - 3 May 2002 Evokes the characters' status as elemental deities associated with time ("the fourth dimension", hence "the Fourth"); the surviving Time Lords within WC: Death Comes to Time [+]Loading...["Death Comes to Time (webcast)"] meet at the Temple of the Fourth in the first installment of the story. The Doctor on one occasion declares "I am the course of time — I am a God of the Fourth".
"Gods of the Fourth Dimension" PROSE: Our Finest Gifts We Bring [+]Loading...["Our Finest Gifts We Bring (short story)"] Used by Vicky in dialogue. 26 December 2023
"Great Architects" PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet [+]Loading...["Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)"] Used by Matheson Catcher, the Seventh Doctor, and the supposed Watchmaker voices heard by Catcher, in dialogue. 18 July 1996 Used in one instance within the phrase "the Great Architects of the universe"; see "Architects".
"The Great Houses" AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire [+]Loading...["The Eleven Day Empire (audio story)"] Used by Lord Ruthven in dialogue. In deleted scenes, also used in dialogue by Cousin Eliza. October 2001 A real-world term used for an aristocratic bloodline. Originally introduced in PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible [+]Loading...["Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)"] to simply refer to Gallifrey's noble houses, "the Great Houses" was used in Faction Paradox material as the default way to refer to the overall group, where Doctor Who material would typically use "the Time Lords".
PROSE: Faction Paradox, as Much as It's Known [+]Loading...["Faction Paradox, as Much as It's Known (feature)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 11 November 2001
PROSE: Blood Ties: Inside the Grandfather's House [+]Loading...["Blood Ties: Inside the Grandfather's House (short story)"]
PROSE: The Eleven-Day Empire: A Tour of the Capital [+]Loading...["The Eleven-Day Empire: A Tour of the Capital (short story)"]
PROSE: Crimes Against History [+]Loading...["Crimes Against History (short story)"]
PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"] Used by the intra-diegetic third-person narrator. 17 September 2002
AUDIO: Sabbath Dei [+]Loading...["Sabbath Dei (audio story)"] Used by "Mistress Culver" and Sabbath Dei in dialogue. February 2003
AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat [+]Loading...["In the Year of the Cat (audio story)"] Used by Sabbath Dei, Cousin Eliza, "Mistress Culver", Cousin Justine, Lolia, and D'Eon in dialogue. April 2003
AUDIO: Movers [+]Loading...["Movers (audio story)"] Used by Demetra Kine, Selvynkesh, and Veeble in dialogue. December 2003
AUDIO: A Labyrinth of Histories [+]Loading...["A Labyrinth of Histories (audio story)"] Used by Demetra Kine in dialogue. February 2004
PROSE: Of the City of the Saved... [+]Loading...["Of the City of the Saved... (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, by Walmric in Faction Paradox: a Negotiable History, by Vril in Omphalos!, by the anonymous author of Legendary Participants, and by Laura Tobin, Mesh Cos, Civitata and Lucius Cassius Ignotus, in dialogue. 11 May 2004
PROSE: Dead Romance [+]Loading...["Dead Romance (novel)"] Used in the text which appears on the Ouija board.[1] 7 November 2004
PROSE: Toy Story [+]Loading...["Toy Story (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: The Cosmology of the Spiral Politic [+]Loading...["The Cosmology of the Spiral Politic (feature)"] Used by the intra-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: Warlords of Utopia [+]Loading...["Warlords of Utopia (novel)"] Used by Marcus Americanius Scriptor in narration. 13 December 2004
PROSE: Warring States [+]Loading...["Warring States (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 19 June 2005
PROSE: The Return of the King [+]Loading...["The Return of the King (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 7 January 2008
PROSE: Newtons Sleep [+]Loading...["Newtons Sleep (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Cousin Hateman, Mother Sphinx, Erasmus, and Aphra Behn in dialogue. 12 January 2008
PROSE: Holding Pattern [+]Loading...["Holding Pattern (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 31 May 2011
PROSE: A Hundred Words from a Civil War [+]Loading...["A Hundred Words from a Civil War (short story)"] Used by Cousin Pinocchio in dialogue.
PROSE: Wing Fingers [+]Loading...["Wing Fingers (short story)"] Used by "Mr Stound" in dialogue. 31 January 2013
PROSE: De Umbris Idearum [+]Loading...["De Umbris Idearum (short story)"] Used by Father Self in dialogue.
PROSE: Against Nature [+]Loading...["Against Nature (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 22 March 2013
PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Loading...["The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)"] Used by Robert Scarratt, Philetes, and others in narration, and by Plautus St. Germain, Robert Scarratt, and Captain No-one in dialogue. 26 October 2013
PROSE: Head of State [+]Loading...["Head of State (novel)"] Used by the Shift and Rachel Edwards in narration. 29 June 2015
PROSE: Spinning Jenny [+]Loading...["Spinning Jenny (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Cousin Isabella, Sergeant Brierly, and Elizabeth Howkins in dialogue. 25 November 2017
PROSE: Pre-narrative Briefings [+]Loading...["Pre-narrative Briefings (short story)"] Used by Irma Ebbinghaus, the Oracle of Shakespeare, Michael Simpson, Robert Scarratt, the narrator of the Infancy Gospel of Grandfather Paradox, in writing or dialogue. 25 January 2018
PROSE: Subjective Interlock [+]Loading...["Subjective Interlock (short story)"] Used in dialogue by the narrator of Interlock Beta.
PROSE: Cobweb and Ivory [+]Loading...["Cobweb and Ivory (short story)"] Used by the narrator of the Infancy Gospel of Grandfather Paradox.
PROSE: T. memeticus: A Morphology [+]Loading...["T. memeticus: A Morphology (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and in dialogue by Byzo, Zaleena, Braquemard, and Maddox.
PROSE: The Short Briefing Sergeant's Tale [+]Loading...["The Short Briefing Sergeant's Tale (short story)"] Used by Sergeant-Instructor Littlejohn in dialogue.
PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine [+]Loading...["A Bloody (And Public) Domaine (short story)","A Bloody (And Public) Domaine"] Used by Godfather Morlock in dialogue.
PROSE: Eyes [+]Loading...["Eyes (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Zauro in dialogue.
PROSE: We Are the Enemy [+]Loading...["We Are the Enemy (short story)"] Used by Lawrence Burton in narration,
PROSE: Timeshare [+]Loading...["Timeshare (FP short story)"] Used by the narrator in narraiton, and by the sales rep and the representative of the Great Houses in dialogue.
PROSE: Houses of Cards [+]Loading...["Houses of Cards (short story)"] Used by the first-person narrator, and by Cousin Trna in dialogue.
PROSE: No Enemy But Despair [+]Loading...["No Enemy But Despair (short story)"] Used by Professor Gen Volst in dialogue.
PROSE: Entaradora [+]Loading...["Entaradora (short story)"] Used by the ambiguously-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: The Ugly Spirit [+]Loading...["The Ugly Spirit (short story)"] Used within the in-universe Book of the Peace. 23 December 2018
PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice [+]Loading...["Going Once, Going Twice (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: War During Peacetime [+]Loading...["War During Peacetime (short story)"] Used by Hedeth in narration, and by Maddox in dialogue.
PROSE: The End of the Beginning [+]Loading...["The End of the Beginning (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Hangaku in dialogue.
AUDIO: Eternal Escape [+]Loading...["Eternal Escape (audio story)"] Used by the Eighth Dionus in narration. 6 June 2021
AUDIO: Call Me Ishmael [+]Loading...["Call Me Ishmael (audio story)"] 24 June 2021
AUDIO: The Healer's Sin [+]Loading...["The Healer's Sin (audio story)"] 24 July 2021
AUDIO: Sabbath and the King [+]Loading...["Sabbath and the King (audio story)"] Used by the War King in dialogue. 12 August 2021
AUDIO: Me & My Ghost [+]Loading...["Me & My Ghost (audio story)"] Used by the Eighth Dionus in narration. 1 October 2021
PROSE: A Reasonable Man [+]Loading...["A Reasonable Man (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 1 June 2022
PROSE: The Sisters of the Little Moments [+]Loading...["The Sisters of the Little Moments (short story)"]
PROSE: This Is What They Took From You [+]Loading...["This Is What They Took From You (short story)"] Used by the intra-diegetic third-person narrator who introduces an in-universe record of Horun and Dwysan's dialogue.
PROSE: Inward Collapse [+]Loading...["Inward Collapse (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by "Mr. Folgers" and one of the New People in dialogue. April 2023
PROSE: Cousin Eliza [+]Loading...["Cousin Eliza (feature)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 31 October 2023
PROSE: Sabbath Dei [+]Loading...["Sabbath Dei (feature)"]
PROSE: Lilith [+]Loading...["Lilith (feature)"]
PROSE: The War King [+]Loading...["The War King (feature)"]
PROSE: The Great Houses [+]Loading...["The Great Houses (feature)"]
PROSE: The Enemy [+]Loading...["The Enemy (feature)"]
PROSE: The Peace: A Lost Primer [+]Loading...["The Peace: A Lost Primer (feature)"] Used by the intra-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: Opioid Painkiller of the People [+]Loading...["Opioid Painkiller of the People (short story)"] Used by various characters in dialogue. 17 January 2024
PROSE: A Consignment [+]Loading...["A Consignment (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Cousin Alphonse in dialogue.
PROSE: Literary Figure [+]Loading...["Literary Figure (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: Love Is an Accuracy Algorithm [+]Loading...["Love Is an Accuracy Algorithm (short story)"] Used by Delilah and DROOD in dialogue.
PROSE: Blood Feud [+]Loading...["Blood Feud (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: The Complete History of Faction Paradox, Vol 1 [+]Loading...["The Complete History of Faction Paradox, Vol 1 (short story)"] Used by Father Greenwald in dialogue.
"The Great Race" PROSE: The V Cwejes [+]Loading...["The V Cwejes (short story)"] Used by Chris Cwej in dialogue. 28 October 2020 Paralleled with the term of "the Great Eye" for the singularity at the source of their power. Similar to "Race Of Temporal Supremacy". The "Great" adjective may also evoke "the Great Houses". Most prominently, however, the Great Race of Yith are the body-switching people of the planet Yith in H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time; Yith is stated elsewhere in PROSE: The V Cwejes [+]Loading...["The V Cwejes (short story)"] to have been colonised by the Superiors as part of the Nine Homeworlds project. Thus, the implication is that before being forced to abandon Yith and their bodies to transplant themselves into the familiar prehistoric Earth creatures seen in The Shadow Out of Time, the Great Race were a population of Superiors. The "eternal race" of Yith was also discussed at length in the DWU in the P.R.O.B.E. audiobook AUDIO: Guardian At The Gate [+]Loading...["Guardian At The Gate (audio story)"], but the Gallifreyan connection was not explicitly refeferenced, and the "Great Race" moniker was not actually used.
"Grigori" PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Loading...["The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)"] Used by Auteur in dialogue. 29 October 2023 The Watchers (Greek: Grigori) were a group of angels who rebelled against God in the apocryphal Book of Enoch.
"The Homeworld" PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"] Used by the intra-diegetic third-person narrator 17 September 2002 A term for their home planet, sometimes used as a metonym for its inhabitants as a polity (e.g. the Faction Paradox armour being an "insult to the Homeworld", or references to "Homeworld ships" and Homeworld culture", in PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"], and "the Homeworld" being described as a "monstrous power" in PROSE: Newtons Sleep [+]Loading...["Newtons Sleep (novel)"]).
AUDIO: Sabbath Dei [+]Loading...["Sabbath Dei (audio story)"] Used by "Mistress Culver" in dialogue. February 2003
AUDIO: A Labyrinth of Histories [+]Loading...["A Labyrinth of Histories (audio story)"] Used by Shuncucker in dialogue. February 2004
AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat [+]Loading...["In the Year of the Cat (audio story)"] Used by Sabbath Dei, Cousin Justine and Cousin Eliza in dialogue. April 2003
PROSE: Newtons Sleep [+]Loading...["Newtons Sleep (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 12 January 2008
PROSE: Against Nature [+]Loading...["Against Nature (novel)"] 22 March 2013
PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Loading...["The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)"] Used by Robert Scarratt and others in narration. 26 October 2013
PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice [+]Loading...["Going Once, Going Twice (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 23 December 2018
PROSE: You are the Absurd Hero [+]Loading...["You are the Absurd Hero (short story)"] Used by Mother Camus in dialogue. 1 June 2022
PROSE: The Fixer [+]Loading...["The Fixer (short story)"] Used by A-C Kincaid in dialogue.
"Homeworlders" PROSE: Of the City of the Saved... [+]Loading...["Of the City of the Saved... (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 11 May 2004 In reference to the Homeworld as a name for the planet.
PROSE: Warring States [+]Loading...["Warring States (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Cousin Octavia in dialogue. 19 June 2005
PROSE: Newtons Sleep [+]Loading...["Newtons Sleep (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Cousin Amphigorey and Aphra Behn in dialogue. 12 January 2008
PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine [+]Loading...["A Bloody (And Public) Domaine (short story)","A Bloody (And Public) Domaine"] Used by Godfather Auteur in dialogue. 25 January 2018
PROSE: What Keeps Their Lines Alive [+]Loading...["What Keeps Their Lines Alive (short story)"] Used by Cá Bảy Màu in dialogue. 23 December 2018
PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice [+]Loading...["Going Once, Going Twice (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Cousin Gustav, Godfather Auteur, Cousin Intrepid in dialogue.
PROSE: A Farewell to Arms [+]Loading...["A Farewell to Arms (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Cousin Wade, Nezf and T in dialogue.
PROSE: Wringing Off [+]Loading...["Wringing Off (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Pyke-Xi Raul in dialogue. 29 November 2020
AUDIO: Eternal Escape [+]Loading...["Eternal Escape (audio story)"] Used by the Eighth Dionus in narration. 6 June 2021
AUDIO: Call Me Ishmael [+]Loading...["Call Me Ishmael (audio story)"] 24 June 2021
AUDIO: The Healer's Sin [+]Loading...["The Healer's Sin (audio story)"] 24 July 2021
AUDIO: Me & My Ghost [+]Loading...["Me & My Ghost (audio story)"] 1 October 2021
PROSE: Inward Collapse [+]Loading...["Inward Collapse (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. April 2023
PROSE: Blood Feud [+]Loading...["Blood Feud (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Rhino Sasaki in dialogue. 17 January 2024
"Horlogers" PROSE: Auteur and the Homeworld [+]Loading...["Auteur and the Homeworld (poem)"] Used by Auteur in dialogue. 17 December 2022 French for "clockmakers", "clocksmiths" or "watchmakers", referencing the "Watchmakers" terminology.
"The Houses" AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire [+]Loading...["The Eleven Day Empire (audio story)"] Used by Cousin Eliza, Godfather Morlock, and Lolita in dialogue. October 2001 Used interchangeably with "the Great Houses" as a metonym for the overall culture.
AUDIO: The Shadow Play [+]Loading...["The Shadow Play (audio story)"] Used by Godfather Morlock and Cousin Eliza in dialogue. In deleted scenes, also used in dialogue by General Kine.
PROSE: Faction Paradox, as Much as It's Known [+]Loading...["Faction Paradox, as Much as It's Known (feature)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 11 November 2001
PROSE: Crimes Against History [+]Loading...["Crimes Against History (short story)"]
PROSE: Blood Ties: Inside the Grandfather's House [+]Loading...["Blood Ties: Inside the Grandfather's House (short story)"]
PROSE: Faction Armour: Some Design Notes [+]Loading...["Faction Armour: Some Design Notes (short story)"]
PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"] Used by the intra-diegetic third person narrator 17 September 2002
AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat [+]Loading...["In the Year of the Cat (audio story)"] Used by Sabbath Dei, "Mistress Culver" and Lolita in dialogue. April 2003
AUDIO: Movers [+]Loading...["Movers (audio story)"] Used by Demetra Kine and Veeble in dialogue. December 2003
AUDIO: A Labyrinth of Histories [+]Loading...["A Labyrinth of Histories (audio story)"] Used by Veeble, Demetra Kine, Shuncucker, Cousin Justine, and "Mistress Culver" in dialogue. February 2004
PROSE: Of the City of the Saved... [+]Loading...["Of the City of the Saved... (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, by the anonymous author of Legendary Participants, by Vril in Omphalos!, by Walmric in Faction Paradox: a Negotiable History, and by Godfather Avatar, Mesh Cos, Laura Tobin, Civitata, and Lucius Cassius Ignotus in dialogue. 11 May 2004
PROSE: The Cosmology of the Spiral Politic [+]Loading...["The Cosmology of the Spiral Politic (feature)"] Used by the intra-diegetic third-person narrator. 7 November 2004
PROSE: Warring States [+]Loading...["Warring States (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Cousin Octavia in dialogue. 19 June 2005
PROSE: Newtons Sleep [+]Loading...["Newtons Sleep (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Cousin Hateman in dialogue. 12 January 2008
PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Loading...["The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)"] Used by Robert Scarratt, Jendrickenses, Philetes, and others in narration, and by Dervishage in dialogue. 26 October 2013
PROSE: Head of State [+]Loading...["Head of State (novel)"] Used by the Shift in narration and by Sir Richard Burton in An Account Of Some Travels In The Arabian Desert. 29 June 2015
PROSE: Cobweb and Ivory [+]Loading...["Cobweb and Ivory (short story)"] Used by the narrator of the Infancy Gospel of Grandfather Paradox. 25 January 2018
PROSE: Eyes [+]Loading...["Eyes (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice [+]Loading...["Going Once, Going Twice (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Little Brother Kifah, Father, Godfather Auteur, Cousin Intrepid, in dialogue 23 December 2018
PROSE: A Farewell to Arms [+]Loading...["A Farewell to Arms (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Huxley, T, Ka(h) Loqou, the Shift, Cousin Wade, in dialogue.
PROSE: And To Dust We Shall Return [+]Loading...["And To Dust We Shall Return (short story)"] Used by the nechronomancer, Cousin Persephone in dialogue.
PROSE: War During Peacetime [+]Loading...["War During Peacetime (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
AUDIO: Eternal Escape [+]Loading...["Eternal Escape (audio story)"] Used by the Eighth Dionus in narration. 6 June 2021
AUDIO: Call Me Ishmael [+]Loading...["Call Me Ishmael (audio story)"] 24 June 2021
AUDIO: The Healer's Sin [+]Loading...["The Healer's Sin (audio story)"] 24 July 2021
PROSE: This Is What They Took From You [+]Loading...["This Is What They Took From You (short story)"] Used by Mother Horun and Mother Dwysan in dialogue. 1 June 2022
PROSE: The War King [+]Loading...["The War King (feature)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 31 October 2023
PROSE: The Enemy [+]Loading...["The Enemy (feature)"]
PROSE: The Peace: A Lost Primer [+]Loading...["The Peace: A Lost Primer (feature)"] Used by the intra-diegetic third-person narrator.
"House-Dwellers" PROSE: A Bright White Crack [+]Loading...["A Bright White Crack (short story)"] Used by Chris Cwej in dialogue. 24 June 2020 Reminiscent of "dwellers in the Great Houses" from PROSE: Of the City of the Saved... [+]Loading...["Of the City of the Saved... (novel)"], and, like it, presumably references the living Chapterhouses within which bloodlines reside.
"Houseworlders" PROSE: Of the City of the Saved... [+]Loading...["Of the City of the Saved... (novel)"] Used by the extra-diegetic third-person narrator, by Laura Tobin in dialogue, and by Anthony Fisher in internal monologue. 11 May 2004 References the term of "the Houseworld" for the Homeworld, used repeatedly in PROSE: Of the City of the Saved... [+]Loading...["Of the City of the Saved... (novel)"]. Similar to "Homeworlders".
PROSE: Weapons Grade Snake Oil [+]Loading...["Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)"] Used by the extra-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Professor H. Lennstein in the text of The Great Houses And Us. 17 January 2017
PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine [+]Loading...["A Bloody (And Public) Domaine (short story)","A Bloody (And Public) Domaine"] Used by the extra-diegetic third-person narrator. 25 January 2018
"Jeunes-Vieillards" PROSE: Kingdom Cryptiqqa [+]Loading...["Kingdom Cryptiqqa (novel)"] N/A 5 February 2024 French for "young old men", an oxymoron highlighting their immortality.
"Lesser Elementals" PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"] Used by Olivia Kagg Waldermein in narration. 26 December 2023 Abbreviation for "Lesser Time Elementals".
"Lesser Time Elementals" See "Elementals". Abridged as "Lesser Elementals" or "L.T.E.s".
"Lightbringers" PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Loading...["The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)"] Used by the Bookwyrm in narration and by Auteur in dialogue. 29 October 2023 A commonly-accepted translation of the Latin Lucifer, used to refer to "the Morning Star", Venus (a term lifted elsewhere as a name for the beings' home planet, as per "Archons of the Morning Star"). Also evokes their status as bringers of figurative, rationalistic "enlightenment" in the Dark Times via the anchoring of the thread and Intuitive Revelation. More recently, "Lucifer" has come to be a name for the Devil.
PROSE: The Book of the Snowstorm [+]Loading...["The Book of the Snowstorm (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Maritsa in dialogue. 26 December 2023
PROSE: The Claus-Rosen Bridge [+]Loading...["The Claus-Rosen Bridge (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: The Two Auteurs [+]Loading...["The Two Auteurs (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator and by Jecriss in dialogue.
PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"] Used by Olivia Kagg Waldermein in narration, by Alice Timony in the title of Lightbringers, Fire-Breathers, and by the Fractallaxian leader in dialogue.
PROSE: Our Bleak Midwinter [+]Loading...["Our Bleak Midwinter (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, by Abigail Stein in narration, and by Nardeth in dialogue.
PROSE: A Collision of Ships [+]Loading...["A Collision of Ships (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Zerlan and Abraytha Janus Colefia in dialogue. 31 March 2024
PROSE: A Visit from Everywhere [+]Loading...["A Visit from Everywhere (short story)"] Used by Abraytha Janus Colefia in dialogue.
"Lords of Creation" PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Loading...["The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)"] Used in dialogue by Jendrickenses. 26 October 2013 "Creation" is a term for the Universe, highlighting its nature as a thing created — classically in relationship to God, but in this case relative to the Lords' own part in shaping it.
"Lords of Jewel" PROSE: A Bright White Crack [+]Loading...["A Bright White Crack (short story)"] Used by Chris Cwej in dialogue. 24 June 2020 An allusion to Jewel, an alternative name for the Time Lords' home planet, infamously given instead of Gallifrey in COMIC: Return of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Return of the Daleks (comic story)"]. In PROSE: Rebel Rebel [+]Loading...["Rebel Rebel (short story)"], landmarks of "the Houseworld" are listed as including the Citadel and the "dome of Jewel" alongside the "Towers of Canonicity".
The name is also echoed by "Bijoutiers mystérieux" in PROSE: Auteur and the Homeworld [+]Loading...["Auteur and the Homeworld (poem)"], translating, as it does, to "mysterious jewellers".
"Lords of the Continua" PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"] Used by the War King in dialogue. 17 September 2002 Highlights the Archons' lordship over "the continua", presumably synonymous with "the timelines". Elsewhere in PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"], specifically the "Zo La Domini" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Loading...{"namedep":"Zo La Domini","1":"The Book of the War (novel)"} entry, Chatelaine Thessalia states: "In theory, there is no limit to our influence. We believe ourselves to be masters of causality and overseers of the continuual strata", evoking both this term and "Overseers to Causality".
"Lords of the Morning Star" PROSE: Our Finest Gifts We Bring [+]Loading...["Our Finest Gifts We Bring (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 26 December 2023 See "Archons of the Morning Star".
"Lords of the Universe" PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Loading...["The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)"] Used by the Bookwyrm in narration. 29 October 2023 Highlights the Archons' status as aristocracy of the universe itself, to emphasise the paradox posed within the plot of PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Loading...["The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)"] by one arriving at the Plume Coteries' Library through the Void Gate rather than the Cosmic Gate.
PROSE: The Claus-Rosen Bridge [+]Loading...["The Claus-Rosen Bridge (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 26 December 2023
"Lords of Time" TV: State of Decay [+]Loading...["State of Decay (TV story)"] Used within the Record of Rassilon as read aloud by the Fourth Doctor. 22 November - 13 December 1980 A synonymous inversion of "Time Lords".
TV: Enlightenment [+]Loading...["Enlightenment (TV story)"] Used by the Fifth Doctor in dialogue. 1 March - 9 March 1983
COMIC: Voyager [+]Loading...["Voyager (comic story)"] Used by the Sixth Doctor in dialogue. 14 June - 11 October 1984
TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)"] Used by Davros in dialogue. 5 October - 26 October 1988
TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"] Used by the Tenth Doctor in dialogue. 6 May 2006
AUDIO: Homecoming [+]Loading...["Homecoming (audio story)"] Used by Rassilon in dialogue. 4 February 2021
TV: Rogue [+]Loading...["Rogue (TV story)"] Used by the Fifteenth Doctor in dialogue. 8 June 2024
TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"] Used by Harriet Arbinger in dialogue. 15 June 2023
"Lords Temporal" PROSE: First Meetings [+]Loading...["First Meetings (short story)"] Used in dialogue by El Jefe. 5 November 2010 In the real world, "Lords Temporal" refers to secular British aristocracy within the House of Lords, as distinct from the "Lords Spiritual" (bishops). It is used in the DWU as a bit of wordplay, using the more common sense of "Temporal" to make it come across as simply a reversed synonym of "Time Lords". Notably, with its first usage being in the Iris Wildthyme short story PROSE: First Meetings [+]Loading...["First Meetings (short story)"], its usage by Maestro in TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"] marked the first time a Time Lord alias coined in an independent spin-off was used in the Doctor Who TV series itself.
PROSE: Master Faustus [+]Loading...["Master Faustus (short story)"] Used by the Tremas Master in dialogue, as reported in writing by William Shakespeare. 12 June 2014
TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"] Used by Maestro in dialogue. 11 May 2024
"L.T.E.s" PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"] Used by Olivia Kagg Waldermein in narration. 26 December 2023 Abbreviation for "Lesser Time Elementals".
"oppressors" PROSE: By the Time I Get to Venus [+]Loading...["By the Time I Get to Venus (novel)"] Used by Theo Possible. 4 November 2012 See "trans-temporal oppressors".
PROSE: The Rise & Fall of Señor 105 [+]Loading...["The Rise & Fall of Señor 105 (novel)"] 17 November 2019
"Overseers to Causality" PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"] Used by the War King in dialogue. 17 September 2002 Highlights the Houses' role as maintainers of logic and linear time; the specific use of the term oversee evokes their use of the Observer Effect and the Eye for that purpose. Elsewhere in PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"], specifically the "Zo La Domini" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Loading...{"namedep":"Zo La Domini","1":"The Book of the War (novel)"} entry, Chatelaine Thessalia states: "In theory, there is no limit to our influence. We believe ourselves to be masters of causality and overseers of the continuual strata", evoking both this term and "Lords of the Continua".
"Perpetua" PROSE: Rebel Rebel [+]Loading...["Rebel Rebel (short story)"] Used in dialogue by Frey. 28 October 2020 Reminiscent of "perpetual", meaning "everlasting". Stated to be a name specifically used by the Ephems, an artificially-created servant-class of the Superiors, whose engineered genetic inferiority mainly manifests through inferior regenerative powers.
"The pilots" PROSE: Toy Story [+]Loading...["Toy Story (short story)"] Used by Lolita and the Ship in dialogue. 7 November 2004 Used collectively by the sapient timeships to refer to the humanoids with whom they share their home planet, as distinct from references to individual pilots of specific ships. For example, Lolita refers to the idea of a War "between the enemy and the pilots".
"The Race Of Temporal Supremacy" PROSE: Ring Theory [+]Loading...["Ring Theory (short story)"] Used by the Gestalt in dialogue. 24 June 2020 Straightforwardly evokes their supremacy over time. The capitalied "Race" may tie in with the "Great Race" appellation.
"Shadow People" PROSE: A Bright White Crack [+]Loading...["A Bright White Crack (short story)"] Used by Chris Cwej in dialogue. 24 June 2020 Reminiscent of "they that walk in the shadow" from PROSE: The Pit [+]Loading...["The Pit (novel)"]; as was the case there, may be taken as referring to their generally secretive ways, or to their status as advocates of light within the Dark Times.
"Sun Builders" PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice [+]Loading...["Going Once, Going Twice (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator when delving within the point of view of Apep. 23 December 2018 References the Great Houses' talent with engineering suns, most famously demonstrated by the Eye of Harmony. PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"] references the art of Sun Building, asserting that individual Archons did indeed possess the ability to create suns at will; PROSE: The Claus-Rosen Bridge [+]Loading...["The Claus-Rosen Bridge (short story)"] suggested the Sun Builders were indeed responsible for creating a majority of stars in the universe, and the idea was also referenced in PROSE: Trauma and Tinsel [+]Loading...["Trauma and Tinsel (short story)"], where it is implied Dionus used a real miniature star to top his Christmas tree, rather than painted cardboard, with him apologising that he is "a bit out of practice at making them".
AUDIO: Sabbath and the King [+]Loading...["Sabbath and the King (audio story)"] Used by the War King in dialogue. 12 August 2021
PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Loading...["The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)"] Used by Auteur in dialogue. 29 October 2023
PROSE: The Great Houses [+]Loading...["The Great Houses (feature)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 31 October 2023
PROSE: The Book of the Snowstorm [+]Loading...["The Book of the Snowstorm (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 26 December 2023
PROSE: The Claus-Rosen Bridge [+]Loading...["The Claus-Rosen Bridge (short story)"]
PROSE: Trauma and Tinsel [+]Loading...["Trauma and Tinsel (short story)"]
PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"] Used by Olivia Kagg Waldermein in narration.
"Superiors" PROSE: A Bright White Crack [+]Loading...["A Bright White Crack (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, by Chris Cwej in writing, by the speaker in the Superior-made instruction video Cwej watches before attempting the Takeover of Dawn 1,027, and by Chris Cwej, Larles, Kwol, and Lady Aesculapius in dialogue. 24 June 2020 Used as an extention of "Chris Cwej's Superiors", a phrase sometimes used for a more specific subgroup whose identity is unclear. However, also claimed in dialogue by members of the species, highlighting not just hierarchical superiority to Cwej, but the supremacy they claim over all the lesser species; They sometimes mention their "Superiority" with a capital S, as in PROSE: Requiem [+]Loading...["Requiem (novel)"]. In discussion of the Superiors, the pronoun "They" is capitalised, like pronouns for God in Abrahamic religions. In PROSE: Flickering Flame [+]Loading...["Flickering Flame (short story)"], Iris Wildthyme also uses this terminology, equatng "the Superiors" with the preexisting matter of Iris's "mysterious superiors", a term previously used in various works by Paul Magrs to refer to the Time Lords.
PROSE: Fountain of Youth [+]Loading...["Fountain of Youth (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 28 October 2020
PROSE: Flickering Flame [+]Loading...["Flickering Flame (short story)"] Used by Chris Cwej in narration, and by Iris Wildthyme and Chris Cwej in dialogue.
PROSE: Infinity [+]Loading...["Infinity (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Chris Cwej and Kwol in dialogue.
PROSE: Judy Collins vs Christopher Cwej [+]Loading...["Judy Collins vs Christopher Cwej (short story)"] Used by Chris Cwej in writing.
PROSE: In the Loop [+]Loading...["In the Loop (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Giashnel, Kwol, Chris Cwej, George Cwej, Yanna, and Kirstine in dialogue.
PROSE: Ring Theory [+]Loading...["Ring Theory (short story)"] Used by Kady Williams in narration, and by the Gestalt, Chris Cwej, the Gentleman, Larles, and Kady Williams in dialogue.
PROSE: Crushing Reality [+]Loading...["Crushing Reality (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator and by Chris Cwej, Kwol, and Larles in dialogue.
PROSE: When I Remember __________ [+]Loading...["When I Remember (short story)","When I Remember __________"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: The Mushroom at the End of the Universe [+]Loading...["The Mushroom at the End of the Universe (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator and by Kwol in dialogue.
PROSE: Soft Target [+]Loading...["Soft Target (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: The Ursine Brood [+]Loading...["The Ursine Brood (short story)"]
PROSE: The Trauma Deception [+]Loading...["The Trauma Deception (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Suala, Giashnel, and Chris Cwej in dialogue.
PROSE: The PsyCon Prediction [+]Loading...["The PsyCon Prediction (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Chris Cwej and Dylaxu in dialogue.
PROSE: The Aftermath [+]Loading...["The Aftermath (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by the High President, and Larles, in dialogue.
PROSE: The V Cwejes [+]Loading...["The V Cwejes (short story)"] Used by Chris Cwej in narration, and by the Surgeon and Chris Cwej in dialogue.
PROSE: Rebel Rebel [+]Loading...["Rebel Rebel (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Chris Cwej, Christina Cwej, Frey, Friend #567, the Healer, Kwol, Koschei, Larles, and "Prefrey", in dialogue.
PROSE: A Friendly Vignette [+]Loading...["A Friendly Vignette (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by John Deuteragonist and Bernard Cwej Sr in dialogue.
PROSE: The Armored Creature of 004X [+]Loading...["The Armored Creature of 004X (short story)"] Used by the Healer and Helena in dialogue.
PROSE: Before Chris Cwej's Trial [+]Loading...["Before Chris Cwej's Trial (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Larles in dialogue.
PROSE: P.R.O.B.E. Data Log #55: Mr. X [+]Loading...["P.R.O.B.E. Data Log #55: Mr. X (short story)"] Used by the intra-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: Epilogue to Down the Middle [+]Loading...["Epilogue to Down the Middle (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator.
PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"] Used by Olivia Kagg Waldermein in narration. 26 December 2023
PROSE: Our Finest Gifts We Bring [+]Loading...["Our Finest Gifts We Bring (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and in dialogue by Dionus and Vicky.
PROSE: Requiem [+]Loading...["Requiem (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Chris Cwej, Tyron, in dialogue. 23 April 2024
"Temporal Emperors" PROSE: A Big Hand for the Doctor [+]Loading...["A Big Hand for the Doctor (short story)"] Stated to have been suggested by the Interior Designer in-universe, and rejected. 23 January 2013 A more pompous form of the meaning of "Time Lord"; an Emperor is etymologically a wielder of power, but carries a more militaristic implication than Lord.
"Temporal Superiors" PROSE: Flickering Flame [+]Loading...["Flickering Flame (short story)"] Used by Chris Cwej in narration and by Iris Wildthyme in dialogue. 28 October 28 October A variant on "Superiors", highlighting their association with time.
PROSE: Rebel Rebel [+]Loading...["Rebel Rebel (short story)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and by Larles in dialogue.
PROSE: Requiem [+]Loading...["Requiem (novel)"] Used by Tyron in dialogue. 23 April 2024
"they that walk in the shadow" PROSE: The Pit [+]Loading...["The Pit (novel)"] Stated by the Seventh Doctor in dialogue to be the translation of "Gallifrey", originally a name for the Time Lords before it came to be a name for their planet. 18 March 1993 May be taken as referring to their generally secretive ways, or to their status as advocates of light within the Dark Times. Said to be the original translation of Gallifrey. Echoed by "the Shadow People" in PROSE: A Bright White Crack [+]Loading...["A Bright White Crack (short story)"].
"Those Lot Up There" PROSE: A Bright White Crack [+]Loading...["A Bright White Crack (short story)"] Used by Chris Cwej in dialogue. 24 June 2020 "Up There" is a euphemism for "Heaven", alluding informally to the spiritual dimension of the beings' "celestial" nature. Abraytha Janus Colefia similarly asks "Blimey, what do they teach you up there?" of the Zadellin crew in PROSE: A Collision of Ships [+]Loading...["A Collision of Ships (short story)"], with "up there" meaning their home planet.
"The time travellers" PROSE: Dead Romance [+]Loading...["Dead Romance (novel)"] Used by Christine Summerfield in narration. 1 March 1999 Used by Christine Summerfield for lack of a better term as a specific name for "Chris Cwej's employers" at several points, e.g. referring to Chris as "an official agent of the time travellers". In the second edition of Dead Romance, some of these instances were replaced with mentions of "the Houses".
"trans-temporal oppressors" PROSE: By the Time I Get to Venus [+]Loading...["By the Time I Get to Venus (novel)"] Used by Theo Possible. 4 November 2012 Juxtaposed with Possible's own class, "the causal chronoletariat", in reference to Marxian class theory.
PROSE: The Rise & Fall of Señor 105 [+]Loading...["The Rise & Fall of Señor 105 (novel)"] 17 November 2019
"Watchmakers" PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet [+]Loading...["Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator, and in dialogue by Matheson Catcher, the Seventh Doctor, Roz Forrester, the Carnival Queen, Chris Cwej, 18 July 1996 Refers to the Time Lords' work as creators of a mechanical, "clockwork" universe (see also "Engineers of History"), but also an allusion to the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of God — or some other intelligent designer of the universe.
PROSE: Ghost Devices [+]Loading...["Ghost Devices (novel)"] Used by the non-diegetic third-person narrator. 3 November 1997
PROSE: Dead Romance [+]Loading...["Dead Romance (novel)"] Used in the text which appears on the Ouija board.[2] 1 March 1999
PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice [+]Loading...["Going Once, Going Twice (short story)"] Used by Godfather Auteur in dialogue. 23 December 2018
PROSE: The Great Houses [+]Loading...["The Great Houses (feature)"] Used by Compassion in dialogue. 31 October 2023

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  1. ↑ Only in the second edition; in the first edition, this was instead an instance of "the Watchmakers".
  2. ↑ Only in the first edition; in the second edition, this is replaced with an instance of "the Great Houses".
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