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|image      = TimeLordsTIOT.jpg
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|type        = [[Humanoid]], [[elemental]]
|type        = [[Humanoid]], [[elemental]]
|aka        = '''''[[#Names|see list]]'''''
|aka        = '''''[[Names for the Time Lords|see list]]'''''
|individuals = [[Rassilon]], [[Omega]], [[the Doctor]], [[the Master]], [[Romana]], [[Irving Braxiatel]], [[Borusa]], [[Artron]], [[the Monk]], [[Narvin]], [[Iris Wildthyme]], [[Morbius]], [[the Minister of Chance]]
|individuals = [[Rassilon]], [[Omega]], [[the Doctor]], [[the Master]], [[Romana]], [[Irving Braxiatel]], [[Borusa]], [[Artron]], [[the Monk]], [[Narvin]], [[Iris Wildthyme]], [[Morbius]], [[the Minister of Chance]]
|affiliation = {{il|[[Fledgling Empires]]|[[Temporal Powers]]|[[Free Time]]}}
|affiliation = {{il|[[Fledgling Empires]]|[[Temporal Powers]]|[[Free Time]]}}
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{{Time Lord counterparts}}
{{Time Lord counterparts}}
The '''Time Lords''', ([[TV]]: {{cs|[[The War Games (TV story)]]}}) also known by [[#Names|many other names]], were inhabitants of the planet [[Gallifrey]], most famous for the creation and attempted monopolisation of [[time travel]] technology. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Time Bomb! (comic story)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Time Warrior (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)}} et al.) They created and upheld the [[Laws of Time]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Three Doctors (TV story)}}, {{cs|Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)}}) after [[Anchoring of the thread|establishing]] the [[Web of Time]] to keep the universe "rational". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Once, Upon Time (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|So Vile a Sin (novel)}}, {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}}, et al.)
The '''Time Lords''', ([[TV]]: {{cs|[[The War Games (TV story)]]}}) also known by [[Names for the Time Lords|many other names]], were inhabitants of the planet [[Gallifrey]], most famous for the creation and attempted monopolisation of [[time travel]] technology. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Time Bomb! (comic story)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Time Warrior (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)}} et al.) They created and upheld the [[Laws of Time]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Three Doctors (TV story)}}, {{cs|Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)}}) after [[Anchoring of the thread|establishing]] the [[Web of Time]] to keep the universe "rational". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Once, Upon Time (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|So Vile a Sin (novel)}}, {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}}, et al.)


Time Lords were [[Time sensitivity|sensitive to timeline]]s, being able to see "all that is, all that was, all that ever could be," ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}}) but also "what must not [be]". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)}}) They had an instinctive urge to stay away from events that would [[fixed point|always happen]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Waters of Mars (TV story)}}) They were seen as [[Immortality|immortal]], or nearly so, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The War Games (TV story)}}, {{cs|Last of the Time Lords (TV story)}}) partially due to their ability to [[regenerate]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Planet of the Spiders (TV story)}}) They had [[Time Lords in popular culture and mythology|a great place  in the mythologies and cultures of other civilisations]], being outright called "the '''Gods'''" by several species, including the [[Minyan]]s ([[TV]]: {{cs|Underworld (TV story)}}, [[COMIC]]: {{cs|Omega (comic story)}}) and the [[Gendar (species)|Gendar]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Out of the Box (short story)}})
Time Lords were [[Time sensitivity|sensitive to timeline]]s, being able to see "all that is, all that was, all that ever could be," ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}}) but also "what must not [be]". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)}}) They had an instinctive urge to stay away from events that would [[fixed point|always happen]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Waters of Mars (TV story)}}) They were seen as [[Immortality|immortal]], or nearly so, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The War Games (TV story)}}, {{cs|Last of the Time Lords (TV story)}}) partially due to their ability to [[regenerate]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Planet of the Spiders (TV story)}}) They had [[Time Lords in popular culture and mythology|a great place  in the mythologies and cultures of other civilisations]], being outright called "the '''Gods'''" by several species, including the [[Minyan]]s ([[TV]]: {{cs|Underworld (TV story)}}, [[COMIC]]: {{cs|Omega (comic story)}}) and the [[Gendar (species)|Gendar]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Out of the Box (short story)}})
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By the time of the [[Sixth Doctor]], the Time Lords were said to have reigned in "absolute power" for "ten million years", ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Ultimate Foe (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)|namedep=The Imperator Presidency}}) a number "so round that many feel it must have been (…) a purely arbitrary figure chosen just to suggest 'a very long time'". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)|namedep=The Imperator Presidency}}) During the final day of the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]], it was claimed the history of the Time Lords spanned "a billion years". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}})
By the time of the [[Sixth Doctor]], the Time Lords were said to have reigned in "absolute power" for "ten million years", ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Ultimate Foe (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)|namedep=The Imperator Presidency}}) a number "so round that many feel it must have been (…) a purely arbitrary figure chosen just to suggest 'a very long time'". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)|namedep=The Imperator Presidency}}) During the final day of the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]], it was claimed the history of the Time Lords spanned "a billion years". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}})


== Names ==
{{main|Names for the Time Lords}}
Although primarily known as the '''Time Lords''', ([[TV]]: {{cs|[[The War Games (TV story)]]}}) this species were also known by many other names. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)}}, etc.)
For example, they were sometimes referred to as '''Lords Temporal''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|First Meetings (short story)}}, {{cs|Master Faustus (short story)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)|minute=29)}}) or by variations on "'''archons'''", "'''Archons'''" or "'''Archons of Time'''". ([[PROSE]] {{cs|Crimes Against History (short story)}}, {{cs|The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)}}, {{cs|The Bloodletters (novel)}}) They were known to some as '''Gods''' or '''gods''', ([[TV]]: {{cs|Underworld (TV story)}}, [[COMIC]]: {{cs|Omega (comic story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the Enemy (short story)}}, et al.) sometimes specifically '''Gods of the [[time|Fourth]]'''. ([[WC]]: {{cs|Death Comes to Time (webcast)}}) Others called them '''Lesser Time Elementals''' ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}}) or simply '''elementals'''. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)}})
Other noteworthy titles included "the  '''Superiors'''", ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Bright White Crack (short story)}}) the '''[[Architect]]s''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Golden Age (novel)}}, {{cs|The Great Houses (feature)}}, {{cs|Lilith (feature)}} etc.) and the '''Engineers of History''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)|namedep=The War King}}, {{cs|Opioid Painkiller of the People (short story)}}) as well as the '''Sun Builders''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Going Once, Going Twice (short story)}}, {{cs|Out of the Box (short story)}}, etc.) or '''Watchmakers'''. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Christmas on a Rational Planet (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)}})


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