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== Known Guardians ==

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, and the [[Gold Guardian]] of Life and Death. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') The [[Azure Guardian]] was the Rainbow Guardian of the Quantum Realm, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Home Fires Burn (novel)|Home Fires Burn]]'') representing Equilibrium and Balance. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[An Ordinary Man (novel)|An Ordinary Man]]'', ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')

The [[White Guardian]] sent the [[Fourth Doctor]] and his companions on two quests for the [[Key to Time]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]'') while the [[Black Guardian]] assigned [[the Shadow]] to stop him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'') He later employed another agent, [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead (TV story)|Mawdryn Undead]]'') to kill the [[Fifth Doctor]]. Later, with the White Guardian, he sponsored a contest for a group of [[Eternal]]s to win [[Enlightenment]], transferring his power into [[Wrack]] to help her win. ([[TV]]: ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'') The [[Celestial Toymaker|Crystal Guardian]], however, simply pursued private games. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'')

[[Zellin]], self-identified [[immortal]] [[god]] and partner of [[Rakaya]], was aware of the Guardians and their "[[power struggle]]s". While trapping the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] aboard a [[Zellin's space platform|space platform]], Zellin told the Doctor that [[N-Space|her dimension]] was like a [[board game]] for him of which "the Toymaker would approve". ([[TV]]: ''[[Can You Hear Me? (TV story)|Can You Hear Me?]]'')

* The existence of the [[Celestial Toymaker]] as a character on ''[[Doctor Who]]'' pre-dates the introduction of the Guardian mythos. Later continuity retroactively made him a Guardian, despite the original intent being that he was an especially powerful member of [[Time Lord|the Doctor's own species]], and still later continuity making him an [[Elder God]] — though the latter idea was reconciled with the earlier lore by the positing of the Guardians as being a subgroup among the Elder Gods. [[Hecuba]] (called the Queen of Time) was introduced as his sister, so whether she was a Guardian or how she was connected to them or their role was not specified.

* Until ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'' and ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'', reference to the Guardians only consisted of Black and White, and to date, they are the only Guardians to be seen, depending on what the Celestial Toymaker really is.

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