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[[Greyjan the Sane]] was the shortest-reigning [[Lord President]] of [[Gallifrey]]. Before becoming President, he researched the patterns of [[time]]. He believed that a law like [[chaos theory]] governed [[paradox]]. This research led him to foresee the [[War in Heaven]], and he invented a plan for creating [[Nine Gallifreys|backup Gallifreys]]. He was publicly perceived as a prophet of doom.

81 years before the outbreak of the [[War in Heaven]] [[the Homeworld]]'s most infamous criminal and [[renegade Time Lord|renegade]] surrendered himself to tell the [[Head of the Presidency|then-President]] his knowledge about the Houses' future enemy. The President didn't believe him, so five years later, the renegade returned and addressed a [[Closed Session]] of the [[ruling Houses]]. They pardoned him of his crimes, but the President was still in denial, so the renegade left the Homeworld for forty years to prepare defences. Upon his return, the ensuing drama with the [[Faraway Declaration]] culminated in his promotion to the [[High Council]] under [[Lord President]] [[Umbaste]]. He immediately took action, appointing the first [[Academician for Game Logic]] and commissioning the [[90-form]] [[TARDIS|timeship]]s.

[[Entarodora]] expected the [[War in Heaven]] to end either in the War being retroactively annulled or in one side's inexorable victory, upon which a new kind of history would be founded. Despite this, there were some brief attempts at peace, like the [[Venue Accords]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') Frightened at the prospect of erasure during war, the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] preemptively removed themselves from time, becoming [[the Celestis]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'')

Some time after the [[Carnival Queen]] caused [[Lord President|President]] [[Romana II|Romana]] to accidentally release [[Grandfather Paradox]] from the [[Shada (prison)|prison planet]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') Romana made amends with the [[Sisterhood of Karn]], and [[Pythia]]'s Curse was lifted, returning the possibility of childbirth to Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') Disgusted and frightened by the implications of these changes, the [[Rassilon|"Great Grey Eminence"]] attempted to fix the [[timeline]] by making a deal with [[Faction Paradox]] to fold the Doctor's timeline back upon itself and rewrite [[Gallifreyan history]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') In the process, Rassilon guided the amnesiac [[Eighth Doctor]] to interfere with his own past and make some "improvements to the [[Web of Time|pattern of history]]". After these changes, [[Flavia]] was President, and the Eighth Doctor went to travel with [[Sam Jones]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') rather than [[Grace Holloway|someone]] who would try to [[sex|"screw"]] him. However, the Doctor was able to remember both Flavia and Romana being the current President, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') and he had memories of both having parents and being [[Loom]]ed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'') However, [[Faction Paradox]] in fact performed these changes to introduce Rassilon and Gallifreyan history as a whole to the idea of [[Paradox]]; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') indeed, approximately fifty years into the [[War in Heaven]], the [[House Military]] had endorsed paradox as a strategy to the point that [[the War King]] reintroduced Faction Paradox to the [[War Council]] as "House Paradox". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Body Politic (audio story)|Body Politic]]'')