Names for the Time Lords: Difference between revisions

|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)}} that it is a fitting name for "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.