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According to the [[Fourteenth Doctor]], the '''rules of play''', '''rules of the game''', ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}) or '''rules of fair play''', ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}) were the rules which "bound [the] entire existence" of [[the Toymaker]] and "governed" [[the Toymaker's domain]], to the exclusion of the conventional [[logic]] of the [[rules of the universe]]. | According to the [[Fourteenth Doctor]], the '''rules of play''', '''rules of the game''', ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}) '''logic of play''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Two Auteurs (short story)}}, {{cs|The Book of the War (short story)}}) or '''rules of fair play''', ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}) were the rules which "bound [the] entire existence" of [[the Toymaker]] and "governed" [[the Toymaker's domain]], to the exclusion of the conventional [[logic]] of the [[rules of the universe]]. | ||
As such, the Toymaker could ignore the ordinary "rules of the universe" and change reality according to his whim, in a process which wasn't even anything so scientific as "manipulating [[atom]]s with the power of [[thought]]", but he had to abide by universal, inviolable rules governing all game-play, including the principle of "[[best of three]]". ([[TV]]: {{cite source|The Giggle (TV story)}}) | As such, the Toymaker could ignore the ordinary "rules of the universe" and change reality according to his whim, in a process which wasn't even anything so scientific as "manipulating [[atom]]s with the power of [[thought]]", but he had to abide by universal, inviolable rules governing all game-play, including the principle of "[[best of three]]". ([[TV]]: {{cite source|The Giggle (TV story)}}) | ||
After the Toymaker's child [[Maestro]] emerged in the Toymaker's wake, the [[Fifteenth Doctor]] browbeat them into explaining [[The Lost Chord|how]] they had broken into the universe by reminding them that their father had "established" the "rules of fair play". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}) | After the Toymaker's child [[Maestro]] emerged in the Toymaker's wake, the [[Fifteenth Doctor]] browbeat them into explaining [[The Lost Chord|how]] they had broken into the universe by reminding them that their father had "established" the "rules of fair play". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}) | ||
According to [[Maritsa]]'s understanding of [[Applied Theology]], the "logic of play" was one of several alternatives to rationality which had been proposed by the [[Founders of Gallifrey|founding]] [[Archon]]s before [[Urizen]]'s proposal of "[[mathematics]] and [[geometry]]" was chosen. Because these alternative logics, which also included the [[logic of narrative]] and the [[logic of faith]], had been at the back of some of the lesser founders' minds when they performed the ritual of [[Cosmic Genesis]] which created the ordered universe, they were "buried at the very heart of space-time like a counter-melody to the great harmony". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the Snowstorm (short story)|part=16}}) | |||
However, this was not enough for [[Urizen's game-master]], who, piqued that his suggestion of the "logic of play" had been overruled, "packed his bag and stomped off to the [[Under-Universe|cosmic basement]] to make his own universe, with blackjack and… well, and more blackjack, really". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Two Auteurs (short story)}}) Even so is "urge to build destructive toys" was "woven into the [[Very Fabric|very fabric]]" of the universe he'd left behind, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the Snowstorm (short story)|part=16}}) creating the Toymaker and others like him. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Celestial Toymaker (novelisation)}}) | |||
[[Category:The Toymaker]] | [[Category:The Toymaker]] | ||
[[Category:Recreation and leisure]] | [[Category:Recreation and leisure]] | ||
