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Beyond all these, this species were also known as the '''Sun Builders''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Going Once, Going Twice (short story)}}, {{cs|Out of the Box (short story)}}, etc.) '''Watchmakers''' ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)}}, etc.) ([[French]]: ''les '''Horlogers''''' ([[POEM]]: {{cs|Auteur and the Homeworld (poem)}})), '''Causal Initiators''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dinosaur in the Snow (short story)}}) '''Shadow-People''', '''[[Great House|House]]-Dwellers''', '''Perpetua''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Armored Creature of 004X (short story)}}) '''Lightbringers''', '''Celestials''', '''''Grigori''''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)}}) '''''Bijoutiers mystérieux''''', ([[POEM]]: {{cs|Auteur and the Homeworld (poem)}}) '''''Jeune-Vieillard''s''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Kingdom Cryptiqqa (novel)}}) '''Lesser Time Elementals''' ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}}) or simply '''elementals'''. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)}}) | Beyond all these, this species were also known as the '''Sun Builders''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Going Once, Going Twice (short story)}}, {{cs|Out of the Box (short story)}}, etc.) '''Watchmakers''' ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)}}, etc.) ([[French]]: ''les '''Horlogers''''' ([[POEM]]: {{cs|Auteur and the Homeworld (poem)}})), '''Causal Initiators''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dinosaur in the Snow (short story)}}) '''Shadow-People''', '''[[Great House|House]]-Dwellers''', '''Perpetua''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Armored Creature of 004X (short story)}}) '''Lightbringers''', '''Celestials''', '''''Grigori''''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)}}) '''''Bijoutiers mystérieux''''', ([[POEM]]: {{cs|Auteur and the Homeworld (poem)}}) '''''Jeune-Vieillard''s''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Kingdom Cryptiqqa (novel)}}) '''Lesser Time Elementals''' ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}}) or simply '''elementals'''. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)}}) | ||
Collectively, the Time Lords were frequently referred to as '''the Great Houses''' or '''the Houses''', in reference to [[Great House|the family units in which they were divided]], each of whom dwelt in a literal [[Chapterhouse]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}}, etc.) | Collectively, the Time Lords were frequently referred to as '''the Great Houses''' or '''the Houses''', in reference to [[Great House|the family units in which they were divided]], each of whom dwelt in a literal [[Chapterhouse]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}}, etc.) "'''The Homeworld'''" was occasionally deployed metonymically to refer to their inhabiting species; ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}}, etc.) indeed, the [[Seventh Doctor]] suggested that the word "'''Gallifrey'''", before coming to refer to [[Gallifrey|the planet]], had been a name for the Time Lords themselves, as it originally translated to "'''they that walk in the shadows'''". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Pit (novel)}}) | ||
The original version of the inhabitants of [[Gallifrey]], before becoming the Time Lords, were variably refered to as [[Ancient Gallifreyan]]s ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)}}, {{cs|A History of the Universe (short story)}}) or [[Shobogan (species)|Shobogan]]; ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Timeless Children (TV story)}}) the latter term would come to be used for a particular anti-establishment group active within the [[Capitol]] and the [[Low Town]] in later eras, ([[TV]]: {{cite source|The Deadly Assassin (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cite source|The Eight Doctors (novel)}}) once described by the Doctor as "New Age [[Time Lord Academy|Academy]] dropouts". ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|All-Consuming Fire (novel)}}) | The original version of the inhabitants of [[Gallifrey]], before becoming the Time Lords, were variably refered to as [[Ancient Gallifreyan]]s ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)}}, {{cs|A History of the Universe (short story)}}) or [[Shobogan (species)|Shobogan]]; ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Timeless Children (TV story)}}) the latter term would come to be used for a particular anti-establishment group active within the [[Capitol]] and the [[Low Town]] in later eras, ([[TV]]: {{cite source|The Deadly Assassin (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cite source|The Eight Doctors (novel)}}) once described by the Doctor as "New Age [[Time Lord Academy|Academy]] dropouts". ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|All-Consuming Fire (novel)}}) | ||
