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== Lifespan == | == Lifespan == | ||
Even without regeneration, Gallifreyans had considerable lifespans. Within one regeneration, Gallifreyans could live for hundreds of years, yet look much younger than a human of equivalent age. When artificially aged 500 years, the [[Fourth Doctor]] looked like an elderly human, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Leisure Hive]]'') whereas [[Eleventh Doctor|his eleventh incarnation]] looked the same for two centuries, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]'') though at least three more centuries caused him to age somewhat and six more centuries of further time caused him to age into a very old man. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor]]'') | Even without regeneration, Gallifreyans had considerable lifespans. Within one regeneration, Gallifreyans could live for hundreds of years, yet look much younger than a human of equivalent age. When artificially aged 500 years, the [[Fourth Doctor]] looked like an elderly human, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Leisure Hive]]'') whereas [[Eleventh Doctor|his eleventh incarnation]] looked the same for two centuries, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]'') though at least three more centuries caused him to age somewhat and six more centuries of further time caused him to age into a very old man, near death from old age. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor]]'') | ||
However, Gallifreyan children grew at about the same rate as humans of the same age. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') After this point, ageing would slow, with the Gallifreyan looking like a teenager for decades. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks]]'') Ninety years could still be considered childhood. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'') | However, Gallifreyan children grew at about the same rate as humans of the same age. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') After this point, ageing would slow, with the Gallifreyan looking like a teenager for decades. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks]]'') Ninety years could still be considered childhood. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'') | ||
The [[Second Doctor]] once stated that, barring accidents, Gallifreyans could live forever. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games]]'') They considered 750 middle-age for a regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'') One Time Lord, [[Quences]], was killed when he was over 7,000 years old. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]'') [[Salyavin|Professor Chronotis]] suffered from senility when over 12,000 years old ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shada (novelisation)|Shada]]''), as did the Eleventh Doctor on the brink of his thirteenth death at "over 2000" years old. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor]]'', ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') | The [[Second Doctor]] once stated that, barring accidents, Gallifreyans could live forever (Though the credibility of this statement is thrown into doubt by the fact that the Second Doctor was born from a regeneration triggered by old age.). ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games]]'') They considered 750 middle-age for a regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'') One Time Lord, [[Quences]], was killed when he was over 7,000 years old. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]'') [[Salyavin|Professor Chronotis]] suffered from senility when over 12,000 years old ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shada (novelisation)|Shada]]''), as did the Eleventh Doctor on the brink of his thirteenth and supposedly final death at "over 2000" years old. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor]]'', ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') | ||
== Senses == | == Senses == | ||
