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The '''anchoring of the thread''' was the event in which the [[Great Houses]] created [[history]] with themselves at the centre and accidentally unleashed the [[Yssgaroth]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') The [[Seventh Doctor]] described this as [[Rassilon]]'s decision to make the universe rational. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'')
{{first pic|Mouri restored.jpg|The final restoration of the [[Mouri]] at the [[Siege of Atropos]], ending the [[Founding Conflict]], was a major element in the Time Lords' binding of the forces of [[Time]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Once, Upon Time (TV story)|Once, Upon Time]]''}}The '''anchoring of the thread''' was the name given by ''[[The Book of the War]]'' to the process the [[Great Houses]]' crating [[history]] — with themselves at the centre —, during which they accidentally unleashed the [[Yssgaroth]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') The [[Seventh Doctor]] described this as [[Rassilon]]'s decision to make the universe rational; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'') with [[the Other]]'s help, he thus "shut the door" on the [[Time of Chaos]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') or "[[Dark Times]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Infinite Quest (TV story)|The Infinite Quest]]'', ''[[Once, Upon Time (TV story)|Once, Upon Time]]'')


By one account, the [[Time Wars]] were part of the anchoring. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'')
By one account, the [[Time Wars]] were part of the anchoring. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'')


== Motivation ==
== History ==
Before the anchoring of the thread, [[pre-universe|the universe]] was unstructured and chaotic. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') There were no laws of [[physics]], only infinite possibility. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') However, the [[Great Houses]] predicted that, as new cultures emerged and began to impose their own understandings and versions of meaning onto the continuum, a definite framework would emerge. Since [[ancestor cell|these other species]] could be completely different to the Houses, their assembled history might be inhospitable to the Houses' civilisation; indeed, some members of the Houses had already glimpsed unclassifiable events in the formative future. The earliest [[time travel|time technologies]] were developed and used to avert such events. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')
=== Background ===
Before the anchoring of the thread, the universe was unstructured and chaotic. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') There were no laws of [[physics]], only infinite possibility, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') and "time ran wild". ([[TV]]: ''[[War of the Sontarans (TV story)|War of the Sontarans]]'') The time before the laying of the thread was variously called the [[Dvapara Yuga]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dharmayuddha (short story)|Dharmayuddha]]'') [[Dark Times]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Once, Upon Time (TV story)|Once, Upon Time]]'') or [[Time of Chaos]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Infinite Quest (TV story)|The Infinite Quest]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') although the latter term was sometimes applied to a narrower period within [[Gallifreyan history]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'') [[Magic]]k and [[science]] coexisted in the universe, although magick predominated. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'') [[Human]]ity had [[god|divine]] powers: for instance, [[Arjuna]] had one thousand arms and was ardently skilled at compressing time, while [[Nakula and Sahadeva]] led armies of imaginary [[hybrid]] animals made of broken time. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dharmayuddha (short story)|Dharmayuddha]]'')


The time before the laying of the thread was the [[Dvapara Yuga]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dharmayuddha (short story)|Dharmayuddha]]'') [[Magic]]k and [[science]] coexisted in the universe, although magick predominated. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'') [[Human]]ity had [[god|divine]] powers: for instance, [[Arjuna]] had one thousand arms and was ardently skilled at compressing time, while [[Nakula and Sahadeva]] led armies of imaginary [[hybrid]] animals made of broken time. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dharmayuddha (short story)|Dharmayuddha]]'')
However, the [[Great Houses]] predicted that, as new cultures emerged and began to impose their own understandings and versions of meaning onto the continuum, a definite framework would emerge. Since [[ancestor cell|these other species]] could be completely different to the Houses, their assembled history might be inhospitable to the Houses' civilisation; indeed, some members of the Houses had already glimpsed unclassifiable events in the formative future. The earliest [[time travel|time technologies]] were developed and used to avert such events. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')


== The anchoring ==
=== Process ===
To permanently fix this issue, [[Rassilon]] decided to make the universe rational. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'') To achieve this, the Houses created a causal structure for the [[future]], called the [[Spiral Politic]]. The machinery needed to build it was bigger than anything else ever built on [[the Homeworld]]. Exploratory proto-[[TARDIS|timeships]] attached themselves to strategic points in the future to anchor in place the structure of history being imposed from the Homeworld. At the ceremonial locking-in of the mechanisms, elite representatives of the six [[ruling Houses]] bonded their Houses at the centre of the machine, stitching the Houses' biologies into the universe at a fundamental level. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') The [[Eye of Harmony]] played an important role as the "hitching post of chronology". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]'')
To end the chaos, [[Rassilon]] decided to make the universe rational. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'') To achieve this, the Houses created a causal structure for the [[future]], called the [[Spiral Politic]].  
 
The machinery needed to build it was bigger than anything else ever built on [[the Homeworld]]: ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') the planetary mass of an engineered planet, dubbed [[Time (planet)|Time]], was employed to bind Time, converging in the [[Temple of Atropos]] where "all of time" would pass through the six [[Mouri]], whose wills would keep it controlled. ([[TV]]: ''[[War of the Sontarans (TV story)|War of the Sontarans]]'', ''[[Once, Upon Time (TV story)|Once, Upon Time]]'')
 
Exploratory proto-[[TARDIS|timeships]] attached themselves to strategic points in the future to anchor in place the structure of history being imposed from the Homeworld. At the ceremonial locking-in of the mechanisms, elite representatives of the six [[ruling Houses]] bonded their Houses at the centre of the machine, stitching the Houses' biologies into the universe at a fundamental level. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') The [[Eye of Harmony]] played an important role as the "hitching post of chronology". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]'')


According to some obscure legends, the Great Houses preserved a small sliver of irrational reality, the [[2nd Second]], so that they could reverse the anchoring if it did not go as planned. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)|Weapons Grade Snake Oil]]'') A fragment of a pre-anchoring [[Earth]] city survived in an [[alter-time realm (Cobweb and Ivory)|alter-time realm]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cobweb and Ivory (short story)|Cobweb and Ivory]]'')
According to some obscure legends, the Great Houses preserved a small sliver of irrational reality, the [[2nd Second]], so that they could reverse the anchoring if it did not go as planned. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)|Weapons Grade Snake Oil]]'') A fragment of a pre-anchoring [[Earth]] city survived in an [[alter-time realm (Cobweb and Ivory)|alter-time realm]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cobweb and Ivory (short story)|Cobweb and Ivory]]'')


The [[Great Houses|gods]]' plan for ending the Dvapara Yuga and beginning the [[Kaliyuga]] involved a [[Kurukshetra war|war]] between the [[Pandava]]s and the [[Kaurava]]s; specifically, it required [[Krishna]] to be killed by an [[archery|archer]]. King [[Jarasandha]] foresaw this and tried to ensure Krishna would die of old age, but the gods intervened and history was successfully rewritten. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dharmayuddha (short story)|Dharmayuddha]]'')
The [[Great Houses|gods]]' plan for ending the Dvapara Yuga and beginning the [[Kaliyuga]] involved a [[Kurukshetra war|war]] between the [[Pandava]]s and the [[Kaurava]]s; specifically, it required [[Krishna]] to be killed by an [[archery|archer]]. King [[Jarasandha]] foresaw this and tried to ensure Krishna would die of old age, but the gods intervened and history was successfully rewritten. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dharmayuddha (short story)|Dharmayuddha]]'')
=== Opposition ===
{{main|Founding Conflict}}
Some within the reordered universe opposed the [[Time Lord]]s' decision to bind [[Time]] in the service of [[Space]]. The [[Ravager (The Halloween Apocalypse)|Ravager]]s, two powerful beings, were at the forefront of [[Founding Conflict|a war]] to unmake what the Gallifreyans had wrought and prevent the [[Dark Time]]s from ending. During the final battle of the Conflict, they took control of the [[Temple of Atropos]] and banished its six Mouri. However, an elite team of [[the Division]], led by the [[Fugitive Doctor]], was able to capture the two Ravagers and smuggle six Mouri back into the Temple where they once again took their places and controlled Time. ([[TV]]: ''[[Once, Upon Time (TV story)|Once, Upon Time]]'')
The [[Mammoth]]s, who possessed powerful magic and ruled [[human]]s on [[Earth]] in their [[Original Mammoths|original, sentient forms]], also opposed the Great Houses' actions. However, the mammoths on Earth lost most of their powers in the anchoring, preventing them from immediately fighting back. However, their leader [[Cernunnos]] survived and would later set about unraveling the Spiral Politic, becoming [[the Enemy]] and sparking the [[War in Heaven]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cobweb and Ivory (short story)|Cobweb and Ivory]]'')
=== Consequences for the Great Houses ===


After the anchoring, [[the Homeworld]] was set apart from the rest of the universe as an observer and definer of the [[Spiral Politic]]. The Houses' protocols, such as [[Protocols of Linearity|linearity]], became laws of physics itself. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') The universe's infinite possibility was limited, the [[Time Lord|Watchmakers]] instead defining what was rational. This caused whole civilisations to disappear, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') as Rassilon now had the power to choose what species developed; he exercised this in his imprisonment of the [[Divergence]], who he saw as a possible rival to the Time Lords. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'') The imposition of the Web of Time also drove the [[Sisterhood of Karn|children]] of [[Pythia]] to powerlessness. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'', ''[[The Pit (novel)|The Pit]]'', ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'')
After the anchoring, [[the Homeworld]] was set apart from the rest of the universe as an observer and definer of the [[Spiral Politic]]. The Houses' protocols, such as [[Protocols of Linearity|linearity]], became laws of physics itself. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') The universe's infinite possibility was limited, the [[Time Lord|Watchmakers]] instead defining what was rational. This caused whole civilisations to disappear, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') as Rassilon now had the power to choose what species developed; he exercised this in his imprisonment of the [[Divergence]], who he saw as a possible rival to the Time Lords. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'') The imposition of the Web of Time also drove the [[Sisterhood of Karn|children]] of [[Pythia]] to powerlessness. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'', ''[[The Pit (novel)|The Pit]]'', ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'')
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At the same time, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') the Time Lords lost their fertility, prompting the creation of the [[Loom]]s and the [[Great House]]s of Gallifrey to stabilise the population. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'') As a result, the Homeworld began ten million years of total cultural stasis. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'', ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') In exchange, they were indestructible, with their meta-structure of history preventing the creation of rival biological forms. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')
At the same time, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') the Time Lords lost their fertility, prompting the creation of the [[Loom]]s and the [[Great House]]s of Gallifrey to stabilise the population. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'') As a result, the Homeworld began ten million years of total cultural stasis. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'', ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') In exchange, they were indestructible, with their meta-structure of history preventing the creation of rival biological forms. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')


== Effects ==
=== After-effects ===
In the wake of the anchoring, multiple parties fled the Homeworld in the [[First Diaspora]]. These included the [[Eremite]]s ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') and the [[Sisterhood of Karn|children of Pythia]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') Many notable [[Great House]]s from before the anchoring, like [[House Catherion|Catherion]] and [[House Ixion|Ixion]], went into a slow decay that would last millions of years.
In the wake of the anchoring, multiple parties fled the Homeworld in the [[First Diaspora]]. These included the [[Eremite]]s ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') and the [[Sisterhood of Karn|children of Pythia]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') Many notable [[Great House]]s from before the anchoring, like [[House Catherion|Catherion]] and [[House Ixion|Ixion]], went into a slow decay that would last millions of years.


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