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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Background=== | ===Background=== | ||
Due to | It was originally believed by the Doctor that [[Gallifrey]] and the [[Time Lord]]s were destroyed by the [[War Doctor]] and [[the Moment]] at the end of the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'', ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'', ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'') However, during a crisis with the [[Zygon]]s, the Moment brought the War Doctor, the [[Tenth Doctor]] and the [[Eleventh Doctor]] together to show the War Doctor what would happen if he went through with his plan. With the encouragement of [[Clara Oswald]], all [[incarnation]]s of [[the Doctor]] teamed up together to save Gallifrey by placing it into a [[pocket universe]]. Due to their timelines being out of synch, only the Eleventh Doctor would remember this. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') | ||
Due to fears that the Doctor would speak his true name and release the Time Lords from their pocket universe at [[Trenzalore]], the [[Kovarian Chapter]] of the [[The Church]] went rogue in an attempt to prevent the Doctor from ever reaching Trenzalore. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') The Chapter, or [[the Silence]] as it generally became known, attempted to blow up [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] to kill him ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'', ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') and to "engineer the perfect psychopath" in [[River Song]] to assassinate the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'', ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'', ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') However, these efforts all failed and [[paradox|played a role in the Doctor reaching Trenzalore]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') | |||
Having become aware of the Silence's plan to kill him and that it was a [[fixed point in time]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Almost People (TV story)|The Almost People]]'', ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') the Doctor sought answers for why he had to die before going to [[Lake Silencio]] where history stated that River would kill him. The Doctor learned from [[Dorium Maldovar]] of the Silence's [[prophecy]] of [[The Question]]: "on the fields of Trenzalore at the Fall of the Eleventh when no creature can [[Truth Field|speak falsely]] or fail to answer a question will be asked, a question that must never, ever be answered." This question, which Dorium called "the oldest question in the universe, hidden in plain sight" was "Doctor Who?" or a request for [[Aliases of the Doctor|the Doctor's real name]]. Eventually, with the help of River and the ''[[Teselecta]]'', the Doctor faked his death so that all but a few believed him to be gone. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'') | Having become aware of the Silence's plan to kill him and that it was a [[fixed point in time]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Almost People (TV story)|The Almost People]]'', ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') the Doctor sought answers for why he had to die before going to [[Lake Silencio]] where history stated that River would kill him. The Doctor learned from [[Dorium Maldovar]] of the Silence's [[prophecy]] of [[The Question]]: "on the fields of Trenzalore at the Fall of the Eleventh when no creature can [[Truth Field|speak falsely]] or fail to answer a question will be asked, a question that must never, ever be answered." This question, which Dorium called "the oldest question in the universe, hidden in plain sight" was "Doctor Who?" or a request for [[Aliases of the Doctor|the Doctor's real name]]. Eventually, with the help of River and the ''[[Teselecta]]'', the Doctor faked his death so that all but a few believed him to be gone. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'') | ||
