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After breaking into [[the Doctor's universe]], [[the Toymaker]] defeated the Guardians in a [[Game between the Toymaker and the Guardians of Time and Space|game]] and turned them into [[voodoo doll]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Giggle (TV story)|The Giggle]]) | After breaking into [[the Doctor's universe]], [[the Toymaker]] defeated the Guardians in a [[Game between the Toymaker and the Guardians of Time and Space|game]] and turned them into [[voodoo doll]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Giggle (TV story)|The Giggle]]) | ||
== | == Nature == | ||
The Guardians were considered to be immortal, but were capable of being destroyed. When [[Turlough]] believed the Black Guardian destroyed, the White Guardian explained that they would always exist "until the universe no longer needed them". ([[TV]]: ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'') Although they could assume a form for a brief period as an "interface" with the universe, they found it "cramped" existing in five dimensions. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destroyer of Delights (audio story)|The Destroyer of Delights]]'') | |||
The [[Sixth Doctor]] believed that the Guardians were of "the same species" as [[God (mythology)|God]]. During an encounter with God which was later erased from his and [[Peri Brown|Peri]]'s minds, God claimed that he had originally created a single Guardian, a being of the same nature as Himself whom he sealed inside the universe when He created it, entrusting him with the [[Key to Time]] so that he could replace the universe's "[[heart]]", the central power-source keeping it running, when the time was right. However, God had not anticipated that upon entering the universe, the Guardian would splinter into two halves, one good White Guardian and one bad Black Guardian, who would waste their energies fighting one another. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Power to the People (short story)|Power to the People]]'') | |||
According to a subtly different account, the Guardians of Good and Evil were twin projections of the forces of the universes whom [[Matrix Rassilon|Rassilon]] created from within [[the Matrix]], using the [[Amplified Panatropic Computation]] network to boost his mental powers and those of [[Matrix Lord|the other dead Time Lords]]. He gave them the [[Key to Time]] to allow them to stop the universe if it fell out of balance. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') | |||
''[[The Book of the War]]''{{'}}s entry on the class of beings which [[Faction Paradox]] termed ''[[loa]]'' in a reference to [[Earth]] [[voodoo]] outlined that in the Faction's understanding, "the processes of time [were] ''entities''" such that time was "occupied, even guarded" by beings possessing "no tangible presence in the universe" but retaining the ability to "protect, beguile, curse and possess anybody who tries to cross their boundaries". In contrast to the Faction's view, the [[Great House]]s generally preferred to insist that the complex emergent systems within the [[Web of Time|structure of time]] were simply non-sentient [[equation]]s, although the events of [[the War]] seemed to prove them wrong. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)|namedep=Loa}}) | |||
Other accounts suggested the Guardians were "[[Great Old One]]s", survivors of an [[earlier race of Time Lords]] from [[Great Old Ones' universe|another universe]]. These accounts suggested that the Guardians' natural form, like the other Old Ones, was a collective [[consciousness]] possessing neither form nor substance and existing between [[dimension]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') Physically, the Council of Guardians existed in [[Calabi-Yau Space]]. When together, they were the Six-Fold-God of the [[Six-Fold-Realm]] and were able to fashion space and time anyway they wanted. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') | |||
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[[File:White Guardian and black guardian.jpg|left|thumb|The [[Black Guardian]] and [[White Guardian]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'')]] | [[File:White Guardian and black guardian.jpg|left|thumb|The [[Black Guardian]] and [[White Guardian]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'')]] | ||
The [[White Guardian]] of Light and Order/Structure was known to and met by [[the Doctor]], alongside his nefarious counterpart the [[Black Guardian]] of Darkness and Chaos/Entropy. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'', ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'','' [[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'') | The [[White Guardian]] of Light and Order/Structure was known to and met by [[the Doctor]], alongside his nefarious counterpart the [[Black Guardian]] of Darkness and Chaos/Entropy. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'', ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'','' [[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'') | ||
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Finally, within the bounds of a [[video game]] played by [[Izzy Sinclair]] on the [[Time-Space Visualiser]] in [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], a [[Beige Guardian]] was seen forcing the first eight incarnations of [[the Doctor]] to defeat all their past enemies at once, though there exists no independent existence of this Guardian's existence outside the game. In addition, the Beige Guardian mentioned a [[Green Guardian]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Happy Deathday (comic story)|Happy Deathday]]'') | Finally, within the bounds of a [[video game]] played by [[Izzy Sinclair]] on the [[Time-Space Visualiser]] in [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], a [[Beige Guardian]] was seen forcing the first eight incarnations of [[the Doctor]] to defeat all their past enemies at once, though there exists no independent existence of this Guardian's existence outside the game. In addition, the Beige Guardian mentioned a [[Green Guardian]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Happy Deathday (comic story)|Happy Deathday]]'') | ||
== | === Powers === | ||
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The [[Seventh Doctor]] said they were one of the powers of the [[Omniverse]] that could do anything, hinting they could pull the arms off spiral galaxies, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'') and stating that they were capable of altering time on a grand scale; the power they represented could not exist on something as small as a planet. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat (novel)|Blood Heat]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]'') | The [[Seventh Doctor]] said they were one of the powers of the [[Omniverse]] that could do anything, hinting they could pull the arms off spiral galaxies, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'') and stating that they were capable of altering time on a grand scale; the power they represented could not exist on something as small as a planet. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat (novel)|Blood Heat]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]'') | ||
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The Black and White Guardians drew strength from their respective elements, becoming stronger or weaker depending on the state of their elements in the universe. The Black Guardian was most powerful in the [[far future]], at the end of the universe where his counterpart could not interfere. ([[TV]]: ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destroyer of Delights (audio story)|The Destroyer of Delights]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Well-Mannered War (novel)|The Well-Mannered War]]'') He created wars to justify his existence, while the Guardian of Justice created conflict. The Toymaker explained that he was in this universe because everyone in the [[multiverse]] had dreams and that he shaped them lest they become stale. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') | The Black and White Guardians drew strength from their respective elements, becoming stronger or weaker depending on the state of their elements in the universe. The Black Guardian was most powerful in the [[far future]], at the end of the universe where his counterpart could not interfere. ([[TV]]: ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destroyer of Delights (audio story)|The Destroyer of Delights]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Well-Mannered War (novel)|The Well-Mannered War]]'') He created wars to justify his existence, while the Guardian of Justice created conflict. The Toymaker explained that he was in this universe because everyone in the [[multiverse]] had dreams and that he shaped them lest they become stale. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') | ||
By aone account, like the other Old Ones, the Guardians originated in another universe, and Rassilon himself considered the Old Ones "sub-Guardians". He asked questions of the "Guardians of the Universe," but they refused to answer him, saying the [[Time Lord]]s were superior to the rest of the universe, but there were creatures far superior to them. This taught him humility and made him respect all life. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') The Seventh Doctor implied that the Time Lords might have made a deal with them because of this power. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'') The [[Eternal]]s knew of the Guardians and respected them greatly, calling them "Enlighteners" as they set up the games that kept the Eternals amused. ([[TV]]: ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'') | |||
The Guardians could act together to directly bend reality and alter space and time, as when they retroactively un-did the very existence of [[Prometheus (The Quantum Archangel)|Prometheus]] for violating the [[Ancient Covenant]]s. They essentially were the universe, and so they would not dare interfere; they could never be seen to act in things or be involved so as to preserve the structure of reality, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead (TV story)|Mawdryn Undead]]'') bound not by physical laws but rather codes of conduct as were the [[Chronovore]]s and possibly other transcendental beings. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'') They considered the Eternals and Chronovores to be their "own children." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') | The Guardians could act together to directly bend reality and alter space and time, as when they retroactively un-did the very existence of [[Prometheus (The Quantum Archangel)|Prometheus]] for violating the [[Ancient Covenant]]s. They essentially were the universe, and so they would not dare interfere; they could never be seen to act in things or be involved so as to preserve the structure of reality, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead (TV story)|Mawdryn Undead]]'') bound not by physical laws but rather codes of conduct as were the [[Chronovore]]s and possibly other transcendental beings. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'') They considered the Eternals and Chronovores to be their "own children." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') | ||
