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|Used by the intra-diegetic narrator, adopting the perspective of [[18th century]] occultists in the [[post-War universe]].
|Used by the intra-diegetic narrator, adopting the perspective of [[18th century]] occultists in the [[post-War universe]].
|[[5 November (releases)|5 November]] [[2001 (releases)|2001]]
|[[5 November (releases)|5 November]] [[2001 (releases)|2001]]
|rowspan=10|The idea of "{{w|Elemental|Elementals}}", supernatural beings associated with a particular element, was popularised in the 16th century by {{w|Paracelsus}}. Originally referring to the four classical elements, it is used in [[Post-War universe|post-War-universe]]-related material under the assumption that the Time Lords were elementals of [[time]], with [[Sabbath Dei]] stating in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Camera Obscura (novel)}}an ultimate constituent of reality.<br/>In [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}}, a cladistic terminology of "Time Elementals", with "Lesser Time Elementals" being the humanoid Archons and "Greater Time Elementals" being the [[TARDIS|timeships]], is said to have been elaborated in the [[post-War universe]] by [[Meta-History|Meta-Historian]] [[Leiter Formosis]]. The terminology was shown to have been used by members of the race in later stories, such as [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The God Who Came For Christmas (short story)}} where the [[God of the Inner Mysteries]], in addition to being described in narration as "an elemental", refers to [[The War Chief's TARDIS|his ship]] as "one of the great elementals" in dialogue.<br/>"Elemental forces" is used in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)}} as a collective to refer to the [[Babewyn]], a different class of elementals altogether from the Time Lords, but in narration within [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Sometime Never... (novel)}}, the Doctor is referred to as the "one elemental force" which the [[Council of Eight]] was unable to control. "An elemental force" was used repeatedly in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}} to describe [[the Toymaker]]. "Elemental forces" was used in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}} as explicitly an alternative term for the Archons or Lesser Time Elementals.  
|rowspan=10|The idea of "{{w|Elemental|Elementals}}", supernatural beings associated with a particular element, was popularised in the 16th century by {{w|Paracelsus}}. Originally referring to the four classical elements, it is used in [[Post-War universe|post-War-universe]]-related material under the assumption that the Time Lords were elementals of [[time]], with [[Sabbath Dei]] stating in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Camera Obscura (novel)}}an ultimate constituent of reality.{{what}}<br/>In [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}}, a cladistic terminology of "Time Elementals", with "Lesser Time Elementals" being the humanoid Archons and "Greater Time Elementals" being the [[TARDIS|timeships]], is said to have been elaborated in the [[post-War universe]] by [[Meta-History|Meta-Historian]] [[Leiter Formosis]]. The terminology was shown to have been used by members of the race in later stories, such as [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The God Who Came For Christmas (short story)}} where the [[God of the Inner Mysteries]], in addition to being described in narration as "an elemental", refers to [[The War Chief's TARDIS|his ship]] as "one of the great elementals" in dialogue.<br/>"Elemental forces" is used in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)}} as a collective to refer to the [[Babewyn]], a different class of elementals altogether from the Time Lords, but in narration within [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Sometime Never... (novel)}}, the Doctor is referred to as the "one elemental force" which the [[Council of Eight]] was unable to control. "An elemental force" was used repeatedly in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}} to describe [[the Toymaker]]. "Elemental forces" was used in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}} as explicitly an alternative term for the Archons or Lesser Time Elementals.  
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|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|The God Who Came For Christmas (short story)}}
|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|The God Who Came For Christmas (short story)}}
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|Originally introduced in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Time Warrior (TV story)}} as a name for the Time Lords' [[Gallifrey|home planet]]. Stated by the Doctor in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Pit (novel)}} to translate to "they that walk in the shadows".
|Originally introduced in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Time Warrior (TV story)}} as a name for the Time Lords' [[Gallifrey|home planet]]. Stated by the Doctor in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Pit (novel)}} to translate to "they that walk in the shadows".
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|rowspan=13|"gods"
|rowspan=14|"gods"
|[[TV]]: {{cs|Underworld (TV story)}}
|[[TV]]: {{cs|Underworld (TV story)}}
|Used by [[Minyan]]s such as [[Orfe]], [[Herrick]], and [[Idas]], and by the [[Fourth Doctor]], in dialogue.
|Used by [[Minyan]]s such as [[Orfe]], [[Herrick]], and [[Idas]], and by the [[Fourth Doctor]], in dialogue.
|data-sort-value="7 January 1978"|[[7 January (releases)|7 January]] - [[28 January (releases)|28 January]] [[1978 (releases)|1978]]
|data-sort-value="7 January 1978"|[[7 January (releases)|7 January]] - [[28 January (releases)|28 January]] [[1978 (releases)|1978]]
|rowspan=19|"Gods", sometimes uncapitalised, is a general real-world term for deities. Instances vary, and sometimes flip-flop, between "gods" being a descriptor for the kind of beings the [[Time Lord]]s are, but not exclusive to them, and cases where "the gods" (or "the Gods") is used to mean "the Time Lords" exclusively; the question is typically contextual, depending upon the culture of the speaker.
|rowspan=19|"Gods", sometimes uncapitalised, is a general real-world term for deities. Instances vary, and sometimes flip-flop, between "gods" being a descriptor for the kind of beings the [[Time Lord]]s are, but not exclusive to them, and cases where "the gods" (or "the Gods") is used to mean "the Time Lords" exclusively; the question is typically contextual, depending upon the culture of the speaker.
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|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}}
|Mentioned in entry {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)|namedep=Zo La Domini}} as a "constant description": that they are "considered the 'gods' of the time-aware universe".
||[[17 September (releases)|17 September]] [[2002 (releases)|2002]]
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|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|Warlords of Utopia (novel)}}
|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|Warlords of Utopia (novel)}}
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|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Cosmology of the Spiral Politic (feature)}}
|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Cosmology of the Spiral Politic (feature)}}
|Used by the intra-diegetic third-person narrator.
|Used by the intra-diegetic third-person narrator.
|[[7 November (releases)|7 November]] [[2004 (releases)|2004]]
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|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|Warring States (novel)}}
|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|Warring States (novel)}}
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|rowspan=3|References the term of "[[the Houseworld]]" for [[the Homeworld]], used repeatedly in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Of the City of the Saved... (novel)}}. Similar to "Homeworlders".
|rowspan=3|References the term of "[[the Houseworld]]" for [[the Homeworld]], used repeatedly in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Of the City of the Saved... (novel)}}. Similar to "Homeworlders".
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|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|Weapons Grade Snake Oil (short story)}}
|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)}}
|Used by the extra-diegetic third-person narrator, and by [[Professor]] [[H. Lennstein]] in the text of ''[[The Great Houses And Us]]''.
|Used by the extra-diegetic third-person narrator, and by [[Professor]] [[H. Lennstein]] in the text of ''[[The Great Houses And Us]]''.
|[[17 January (releases)|17 January]] [[2017 (releases)|2017]]
|[[17 January (releases)|17 January]] [[2017 (releases)|2017]]
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|[[TV]]: {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}
|[[TV]]: {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}}
|Used by [[Maestro]] in dialogue.
|Used by [[Maestro]] in dialogue.
|[11 May (releases)|11 May]] [[2024 (releases)|2024]]
|[[11 May (releases)|11 May]] [[2024 (releases)|2024]]
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|"L.T.E.s"
|"L.T.E.s"
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|[[26 December (releases)|26 December]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]]
|[[26 December (releases)|26 December]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]]
|Abbreviation for "Lesser Time Elementals".
|Abbreviation for "Lesser Time Elementals".
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|rowspan=2|"oppressors"
|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|By the Time I Get to Venus (novel)}}
|rowspan=2|Used by [[Theo Possible]].
|[[4 November (releases)|4 November]] [[2012 (releases)|2012]]
|rowspan=2|See "trans-temporal oppressors".
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|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Rise & Fall of Señor 105 (novel)}}
|[[17 November (releases)|17 November]] [[2019 (releases)|2019]]
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|"Overseers of Causality"
|"Overseers of Causality"
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|[[1 March (releases)|1 March]] [[1999 (releases)|1999]]
|[[1 March (releases)|1 March]] [[1999 (releases)|1999]]
|Used by [[Christine Summerfield]] for lack of a better term as a specific name for "[[Chris Cwej]]'s employers" at several points, e.g. referring to Chris as "an official agent of the time travellers". In the [[Dead Romance (anthology)|second edition]] of ''Dead Romance'', some of these instances were replaced with mentions of "the Houses".
|Used by [[Christine Summerfield]] for lack of a better term as a specific name for "[[Chris Cwej]]'s employers" at several points, e.g. referring to Chris as "an official agent of the time travellers". In the [[Dead Romance (anthology)|second edition]] of ''Dead Romance'', some of these instances were replaced with mentions of "the Houses".
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|rowspan=2|"trans-temporal oppressors"
|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|By the Time I Get to Venus (novel)}}
|rowspan=2|Used by [[Theo Possible]].
|[[4 November (releases)|4 November]] [[2012 (releases)|2012]]
|rowspan=2|Juxtaposed with Possible's own class, "the causal [[chronoletariat]]", in reference to {{w|Marxian class theory}}.
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|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Rise & Fall of Señor 105 (novel)}}
|[[17 November (releases)|17 November]] [[2019 (releases)|2019]]
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|rowspan=5|"Watchmakers"
|rowspan=5|"Watchmakers"
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