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The creatures which came to be known as the Divergence dated back to the birth of [[the universe]]. When [[Rassilon]] travelled to the [[end of the universe]], he found that they had devoured and eliminated all [[life]] within 10,000 millennia of his own [[time]] and were capable of casting their own [[Web of Time]] which could encircle his. He did not know of their specifics of whether they were a [[species]] or a [[genus]], but witnessed and feared their primal and elemental strength and ability to restructure all [[matter]].

Rassilon released biogenic molecules to make the dominant life forms of 69,000 [[planet]]s to make them resemble [[Gallifreyan]]s and intended to allow all other life, including every Divergent, to [[death|die]]. The Divergence realised that Rassilon was changing the [[future]] and tried to stop him, but he trapped them at the end of the aborted timeline and sealed them within [[Divergent Universe|a pocket universe]] which he put in a [[Möbius loop]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Zagreus (audio story)}}) creating a constant cycle of death and rebirth. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Next Life (audio story)}})

Rassilon siphoned power off from the Divergent Universe to [[Rassilon's Foundry|his foundry]] until he was challenged by the [[Committee of Three]] and stopped it, triggering the automatic firestorm to stop the Divergence escaping and killing the Committee. The Divergence were desperate for release and got a glimpse of the universe when [[Stone (Zagreus)|Dr Stone]] and [[Matthew Townsend|Reverend Matthew Townsend]] briefly opened a gash in [[space]] and [[time]] in [[1951]], but Townsend detonated a [[bomb]] and prevented them from escaping. They later empowered [[Goldilocks]] and the other [[animatronic]]s at [[Winkle's Wonderland]] to damage or destroy the foundry's [[reality lock]] in a bid for freedom. This plan failed thanks to [[Walton Winkle]].

The Divergent Universe was due to reopen at the [[end of the universe]], so Rassilon made plans to infect the [[Eighth Doctor]] with [[anti-time]] and have him kill the Divergence with a dagger forged from [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. [[Zagreus]], the entity created when the Doctor was infected with anti-time, refused to be Rassilon's puppet and instead sent him through the opened door to the Divergence. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Zagreus (audio story)}}) He remained in the universe for more than 84 cycles. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Next Life (audio story)}}) The Doctor was [[exile]]d to the Divergent Universe by [[Romana II]] and intended on making peace with the Divergence if it was possible. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Zagreus (audio story)}})

The Divergence set themselves up as the dominant species of the Divergent Universe and set to work trying to break the cycle of death and rebirth. This included setting up a base of operations on the planet [[Caerdroia]] and constructing the "crucible world" of [[Bortresoye]] to conduct their experiments.

 

Eventually the cycle somehow caused the Divergence to wither and die but they were then absorbed by the creature known as [[Daqar Keep]], who subsequently absorbed all their power and assumed their authority in the Divergent Universe. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Next Life (audio story)}})