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The '''Guardians of Time''', usually simply referred to as '''Guardians''' and also known as the '''Council of Guardians''' | The '''Guardians of Time''', usually simply referred to as '''Guardians''' ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'') and also known as the '''Council of Guardians''' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]''), were masters of [[reality]], elemental forces embodying several aspects of the [[universe]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'') They were the upper echelons of the [[Great Old One]]s, a pantheon within a pantheon. Despite being at the pinnacle of reality, they would defer to "[[Grace|Greater Old Ones]]" in some matters. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'', ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') | ||
According to some accounts, they numbered six in total, and together were known as the '''Six-Fold God''' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') although the [[Black Guardian|Black]] and [[White Guardian]]s alone claimed to each be responsible for 50% of the universe ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destroyer of Delights (audio story)|The Destroyer of Delights]]'') and to be the two individuals responsible for the balance of the cosmos. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'') [[Celestial Toymaker|The Celestial Toymaker]], a powerful being encountered by [[the Doctor]] on many occasions ([[TV]]: ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Endgame (DWM comic story)|Endgame]]'', etc.) once claimed to be a third active Guardian out of the six, the Crystal Guardian of Dream and Fantasy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') | |||
Yet another account saw [[the Accord]] identifying himself as the Rainbow Guardian of the Quantum Realm, adding a seventh Guardian ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Home Fires Burn (novel)|Home Fires Burn]]'') to the roster of six comprising the White and Black Guardians, the Celestial Toymaker, and the unseen Red, Azure and Gold Guardians. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') | |||
== Known Guardians == | |||
[[White Guardian|The Black Guardian]] of Light and Order/Structure was known to and met by [[the Doctor]], alongside his nefarious counterpart [[Black Guardian|the Black Guardian]] of Darkness and Chaos/Entropy. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'') | |||
The [[Celestial Toymaker]] once claimed to be "the Crystal Guardian of Dream and Fantasy", in an account also mentioning [[Red Guardian|the Red Guardian]] of Justice and Truth, [[Azure Guardian|the Azure Guardian]] of Equilibrium and Balance and the [[Gold Guardian]] of Life and Death. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') [[The Accord]] likewise identified itself as the Rainbow Guardian of the Quantum Realm ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Home Fires Burn (novel)|Home Fires Burn]]'') | |||
Finally, within the bounds of a [[video game]] played by [[Izzy Sinclair]] on the [[Time-Space Visualiser]] in [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], a [[Beige Guardian]] was seen forcing the first eight incarnations of [[the Doctor]] to defeat all their past enemies at once, though there exists no independent existence of this Guardian's existence outside the game. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Happy Deathday (comic story)|Happy Deathday]]'') | |||
== Nature == | == Nature == | ||
