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Remembered by the [[Tenth Doctor]] as "the millennia that came creeping out of the endless night as the first stars switched on in the universe", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Knight, The Fool and The Dead (novel)|The Knight, The Fool and The Dead]]'') they were a time of chaos which not only predated [[Time Lord]] [[history]], but was also "before there was any such thing as history", and where the laws of time and reality of the later universe did not apply. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Enemy of My Enemy (audio story)|The Enemy of My Enemy]]'') The terminology was fluid across accounts, however, and some equated the "[[Time before this]]" with the "[[Old Time]]" but not the "Dark Times". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'', ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'', ''[[Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)|Weapons Grade Snake Oil]]'') Some accounts defined "the Dark Time" as being an era localized to Gallifrey in which darkness grew in Gallifreyan society, but as having occurred ''within'' "the [[Old Time]]", specifically towards its tail end. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'') Other sources still indicated the Dark and Old Times were distinct eras of Gallifreyan history. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') | Remembered by the [[Tenth Doctor]] as "the millennia that came creeping out of the endless night as the first stars switched on in the universe", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Knight, The Fool and The Dead (novel)|The Knight, The Fool and The Dead]]'') they were a time of chaos which not only predated [[Time Lord]] [[history]], but was also "before there was any such thing as history", and where the laws of time and reality of the later universe did not apply. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Enemy of My Enemy (audio story)|The Enemy of My Enemy]]'') The terminology was fluid across accounts, however, and some equated the "[[Time before this]]" with the "[[Old Time]]" but not the "Dark Times". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'', ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'', ''[[Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)|Weapons Grade Snake Oil]]'') Some accounts defined "the Dark Time" as being an era localized to Gallifrey in which darkness grew in Gallifreyan society, but as having occurred ''within'' "the [[Old Time]]", specifically towards its tail end. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'') Other sources still indicated the Dark and Old Times were distinct eras of Gallifreyan history. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') | ||
In terms of universal history, the Dark Times were billions of years before the [[21st century]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'') and in part aeons before the rise of [[Gallifreyan]] civilisation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Knight, The Fool and The Dead (novel)|The Knight, The Fool and The Dead]]'') | In terms of universal history, the Dark Times were billions of years before the [[21st century]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'') and in part aeons before the rise of [[Gallifreyan]] civilisation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Knight, The Fool and The Dead (novel)|The Knight, The Fool and The Dead]]'') The Dark Times were a prehistoric period in [[Gallifreyan history]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Introduction (short story)|Introduction]]'') [[Rassilon]] created the [[Time scoop]] in the Dark Times, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (novelisation)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') and his rise to power and foundation of Time Lord civilisation ended the Dark Times. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'', ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') | ||
The | The [[anchoring of the thread]] and [[Time Wars]] eradicated the monstrous creatures of the era and created the [[Web of Time]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'', ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'', et al, [[TV]]: ''[[Once, Upon Time (TV story)|Once, Upon Time]]'') with the Dark Times being locked off from [[time travel]] through its [[temporal exclusion zone]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') After this, it was believed Time Lords were unable to time travel to the Dark Times, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'', ''[[Goth Opera (novel)|Goth Opera]]'') but multiple incarnations of [[the Doctor]] would do just that. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Old Girl (comic story)|Old Girl]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Guide to the Dark Times (short story)|The Guide to the Dark Times]]'') | ||
== Nature == | == Nature == | ||
Before the Time Lords created the Web of Time, the universe obeyed no laws of physics, and [[magic]] was a powerful force. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') | Before the Time Lords created the Web of Time, the universe obeyed no laws of physics, and [[magic]] was a powerful force. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') The [[temporal exclusion zone]] blocked off the Dark Times and the post-Dark Times universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') | ||
According to the [[Eighth Doctor]], "[[time]] was but a tributary" by [[Mount Perdition]] during the time of [[Pythia's Curse]]. [[The Other|The Stranger]] worked to turn it into a [[stream]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Patience (audio story)|Patience]]'') Before the creation of the planet [[Time (planet)|Time]], the force of time still ran wild. ([[TV]]: ''[[Once, Upon Time (TV story)|Once, Upon Time]]'') | According to the [[Eighth Doctor]], "[[time]] was but a tributary" by [[Mount Perdition]] during the time of [[Pythia's Curse]]. [[The Other|The Stranger]] worked to turn it into a [[stream]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Patience (audio story)|Patience]]'') Before the creation of the planet [[Time (planet)|Time]], the force of time still ran wild. ([[TV]]: ''[[Once, Upon Time (TV story)|Once, Upon Time]]'') | ||
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Because the universe during the Dark Times was radically different in a fundamental sense from what it later became, it was sometimes confused for [[Pre-universe|a totally separate universe]] which had preceded the [[Big Bang]]. The [[Sixth Doctor]] learned about "the universe before [his own] was created" from [[the Matrix]] during his time as [[Lord President]], and he described it to [[Anne Travers]] as "a totally different universe, with alien physical laws. The heavens were green, and the stars looked like... giant doughnuts, to be brutally frank. Very, very different. And, as in this universe, there were people who discovered the deeper mysteries of time and space". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'') Likewise, noticing that the [[Ancient Lights]] seemed to conform to the rules of [[astrology]] despite them contradicting conventional physics, [[Luke Smith]] guessed that they originated in "the universe before this one" where astrology and magic were real. ([[TV]]: ''[[Secrets of the Stars (TV story)|Secrets of the Stars]]'') | Because the universe during the Dark Times was radically different in a fundamental sense from what it later became, it was sometimes confused for [[Pre-universe|a totally separate universe]] which had preceded the [[Big Bang]]. The [[Sixth Doctor]] learned about "the universe before [his own] was created" from [[the Matrix]] during his time as [[Lord President]], and he described it to [[Anne Travers]] as "a totally different universe, with alien physical laws. The heavens were green, and the stars looked like... giant doughnuts, to be brutally frank. Very, very different. And, as in this universe, there were people who discovered the deeper mysteries of time and space". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'') Likewise, noticing that the [[Ancient Lights]] seemed to conform to the rules of [[astrology]] despite them contradicting conventional physics, [[Luke Smith]] guessed that they originated in "the universe before this one" where astrology and magic were real. ([[TV]]: ''[[Secrets of the Stars (TV story)|Secrets of the Stars]]'') | ||
Alternatively, the [[Seventh Doctor]] heard from the [[Carnival Queen]] that the [[Time Lord]]s misinterpreted their knowledge of what had come before, and that the universe of irrationality was simply the state of reality before the Time Lords created the [[Web of Time]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') during the [[anchoring of the thread]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') The [[Kaliyuga]] did not merely follow the Dvapara Yuga; it replaced it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dharmayuddha (short story)|Dharmayuddha]]'') | |||
== History == | == History == | ||
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==== Rise of the Time Lords ==== | ==== Rise of the Time Lords ==== | ||
{{main|Anchoring of the thread}} | {{main|Anchoring of the thread}} | ||
The Dark Times were followed by the [[Old Time]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') All of the monstrous species of the Dark Times eventually died out. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen]]'') | The Dark Times were followed by the [[Old Time]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') All of the monstrous species of the Dark Times eventually died out. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen]]'') The [[temporal exclusion zone]] cut post-Dark Times individuals from [[time travel]]ing back into the Dark Times. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') | ||
[[File:The Three (The Timeless Children).jpg|thumb|right|The [[Founders of Gallifrey|founders]] of the [[Time Lord]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'')]] | [[File:The Three (The Timeless Children).jpg|thumb|right|The [[Founders of Gallifrey|founders]] of the [[Time Lord]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'')]] | ||
