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The ''' Red Guardian''' was the [[Guardians of Time|Guardian]] of [[Justice]]. Along with the other five, he was part of the [[Six-Fold-God|Six-Fold Gods]] of the [[Six-Fold-Realm]]. In the creation myth of the [[Tharil]]s, he was known as the '''Blood Thief'''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') | The '''Red Guardian''' was the [[Guardians of Time|Guardian]] of [[Justice]]. Along with the other five, he was part of the [[Six-Fold-God|Six-Fold Gods]] of the [[Six-Fold-Realm]]. In the creation myth of the [[Tharil]]s, he was known as the '''Blood Thief'''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') | ||
Along with his fellows, the Red Guardian was in attendance for the [[Event One|creation of the universe]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse]]'') The Tharils, who lived in the connected universe of [[E-Space]], had a cosmogony in which [[Vlasolf]] the [[Timewalker]] "walked the wind back to the very dawn of all hunting", where he saw the leonine [[Black Guardian|Night Hunter]] and [[White Guardian|Light Hunter]] divided, with their respective black and white prides preparing for eternal battle, only for their roaring challenges to be interrupted by the Blood Thief, the "red-handed Jackal whose cunning balances the scales of war". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') | Along with his fellows, the Red Guardian was in attendance for the [[Event One|creation of the universe]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse]]'') The Tharils, who lived in the connected universe of [[E-Space]], had a cosmogony in which [[Vlasolf]] the [[Timewalker]] "walked the wind back to the very dawn of all hunting", where he saw the leonine [[Black Guardian|Night Hunter]] and [[White Guardian|Light Hunter]] divided, with their respective black and white prides preparing for eternal battle, only for their roaring challenges to be interrupted by the Blood Thief, the "red-handed Jackal whose cunning balances the scales of war". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') | ||
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== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
In the notes of ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'', [[Marc Platt]] commented that the Black and White Guardians were balanced by the Red Guardian in the same way that Rassilon and Omega were balanced by [[the Other]]. | |||
The idea, echoed in ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'', that the Guardians of Time should be counted among the [[Great Old One]]s and originated as the "upper echelons" of the [[earlier race of Time Lords]] who ruled the [[Great Old Ones' universe|previous universe]], was based on a cosmology outlined by [[Craig Hinton]]. Notes explaining his view of the matter were written as part of the preparatory work for ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'', and later printed in the [[charity anthology]] ''[[Shelf Life]]''. Therein, Hinton explained that in his theory: | |||
{{quote|The [[High Council]] of the [[Old Time Lord]]s were all linked to [[the Matrix]] when the universe ended. They became the Guardians – sentient life forms that acted as the vessels or conduits through which the fundamental essence of the Universe could act.|[[Craig Hinton]]}} | |||
In particular, the [[President of the High Council]] became the Black Guardian, "the Guardian of Dark in Time, the Guardian of Chaos, the Guardian of Entropy, He Who Walks in Darkness" while his [[Chancellor]] became the [[White Guardian]], "the Guardian of Light in Time, the Guardian of Structure, He Who Walks In Light". The War which destroyed the old universe is described as roughly equivalent to the [[War in Heaven]], suggesting the Black Guardian was originally his universe's equivalent of [[the War King]], alias [[the Master]]. Also on the High Council on that fateful day was "the Renegade", this universe's equivalent of [[the Doctor]]; becoming the Red Guardian, this entity, "the Guardian of Justice and Morality in Time, the Guardian of Right, He Who Walks in Judgement", is incarnate in the present-day Doctor, who is fated to become the Red Guardian again upon reaching his final [[regeneration]] (a scenario Hinton wrote in his charity short story ''Aspects of Evil'', name-dropped in the ''Quantum Archangel'' notes). This implicitly identifies the Red Guardian as [[the Other]] outright, who is referenced elsewhere in the ''Archangel'' notes. | |||
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