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{{stub}}{{you may|Deep Time (novel)|n1=the novel}}Even before [[anchoring of the thread|taking control]] of [[history]], the [[Great House]]s of [[Gallifreyan | {{stub}}{{you may|Deep Time (novel)|n1=the novel}}Even before [[anchoring of the thread|taking control]] of [[history]] and becoming [[Time Lord]]s, the [[Great House]]s of the [[Gallifreyan]]s sent [[pioneer]]s to explore "'''deep time'''", or "'''deep-time'''". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'', ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') | ||
[[Patience]]'s husband, seemingly [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|a version of the Doctor before the "First"]], was "a pioneer and leader among [the Doctor's] people, one of the first Gallifreyans to enter the [[Time Vortex]] after it was discovered". He notably "led an expedition into deep time", returning with "travellers' tales of monsters and lost civilisations". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') As recounted in ''[[The Book of the War]]'', prior to the [[anchoring of the thread]], "early deep-time explorations performed by the [[Great House]]s' pioneers" showed that there were "''things'' at work in the formative future, things which simply couldn't be classified or even monitored by the Houses' own technology". This contributed to the Great Houses' decision to become [[Time Lord|lords of history]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') | |||
The [[Rassilon Imprimatur]] was responsible for mapping Time Lords' [[biodata]] onto the vortex as pure [[mathematics]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference (novel)|Interference]]'') | The [[Rassilon Imprimatur]] was responsible for mapping Time Lords' [[biodata]] onto the vortex as pure [[mathematics]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference (novel)|Interference]]'') protecting them from deeptime phenomena. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') [[Sabbath]] wrote that it tethered a person like the Doctor to "his own realm", and he called it "[[Eye of Harmony|the Great Eye]]". Without this tether, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') [[human]]s like [[Sabbath]] had difficulty traveling in Deep Time, although the Doctor's human [[companion]]s were protected by [[the TARDIS]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Obscura (novel)|Camera Obscura]]'') | ||
Sabbath described the experience of traveling into the deeper realms of time unprotected as "a lack of cohesion, a certain lack of integrity… My sense was that my own world no longer acknowledged me and as a consequence I was ceasing to be." Similarly, [[Juliette Vierge]] worried regarding her travels with Sabbath that "one could barely see such things and still consider oneself to be a ''person'', as such." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') When [[Umbaste]] dropped his bio-imprimaturs and exposed himself to the [[caldera]], he spent a year in a [[fugue state]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') | |||
Having "deep-time memory" meant a person could remember events from past iterations for history, even if they had been [[Palimpsest|overwritten]]. This was the only way that some agents of the Great Houses could remember the academy on [[the Homeworld]] which the [[Celestis]] later transformed into [[Mictlan]]. | Having "deep-time memory" meant a person could remember events from past iterations for history, even if they had been [[Palimpsest|overwritten]]. This was the only way that some agents of the Great Houses could remember the academy on [[the Homeworld]] which the [[Celestis]] later transformed into [[Mictlan]]. | ||
