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==== As a being from outside time and space ==== | ==== As a being from outside time and space ==== | ||
Yet another account simply suggested that the Toymaker originated from "outside [[time]] and [[space]]". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who Character Encyclopedia: Updated Edition (reference book)|page=35}}) One source saw the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] describe the Toymaker as an "[[elemental force]]" with "the power of a god", and suggested that he originated outside the universe; he described [[the Toymaker's domain]] as "another realm, a hollow beneath the [[Under-Universe]]". In this account, the Toymaker and the Doctor both suggested that the Toymaker had never properly "entered" [[the Doctor's world]] before his battle with the Fourteenth Doctor. ([[TV]]: {{cite source|The Giggle (TV story)}}) | Yet another account simply suggested that the Toymaker originated from "outside [[time]] and [[space]]". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who Character Encyclopedia: Updated Edition (reference book)|page=35}}) | ||
According to the [[Eighth Doctor]], the Toymaker came from "the [[Dark Places]]", ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Endgame (DWM comic story)}}) also home to [[the Mara]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Kinda (TV story)}}, {{cs|Snakedance (TV story)}}) who would later be cited as one of [[the Pantheon|the same pantheon]] as the Toymaker. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)}}) The Dark Places were "another dimension" with ties to the darker aspects of [[consciousness]], a "stilled heart-beat away" from the conventional universe. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Kinda (TV story)}}, [[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Body in Question (comic story)}}) | |||
One source saw the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] describe the Toymaker as an "[[elemental force]]" with "the power of a god", and suggested that he originated outside the universe; he described [[the Toymaker's domain]] as "another realm, a hollow beneath the [[Under-Universe]]". In this account, the Toymaker and the Doctor both suggested that the Toymaker had never properly "entered" [[the Doctor's world]] before his battle with the Fourteenth Doctor. ([[TV]]: {{cite source|The Giggle (TV story)}}) | |||
This source suggested that the Fourteenth Doctor had accidentally summoned the Toymaker into reality by casting salt at the [[edge of the universe]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}, {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}) where he had recently met more primitive beings who referred to themselves as "[[not-thing]]s" and exhibited a range of powers, including reshaping and resizing themselves. They claimed to have come from the [[nothing]] which existed beyond the edge, being shaped by distant echoes of the thoughts and lives of the universe's inhabitants. Having been shaped by these echoes of "war and blood and fury and hate", their sole burning desire was to enter reality, "play [mortals'] vicious games, and ''win''". This ethos ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}) echoed the linked account's depiction of the Toymaker as holding that "all that exists is to win or to lose", hence placing games above the Doctor's notions of good and evil. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}) The [[Fifteenth Doctor]] later inferred that the [[Goblin]]s followed the Toymaker into the universe as part of [[The Toymaker's legions|his legions]]; after he defeated the Goblins, they appeared to either be erased from [[existence]] or be pulled back into another [[world]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)|chaptnum=Thirteen and Eighteen|page=100, 137}}) | This source suggested that the Fourteenth Doctor had accidentally summoned the Toymaker into reality by casting salt at the [[edge of the universe]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}, {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}) where he had recently met more primitive beings who referred to themselves as "[[not-thing]]s" and exhibited a range of powers, including reshaping and resizing themselves. They claimed to have come from the [[nothing]] which existed beyond the edge, being shaped by distant echoes of the thoughts and lives of the universe's inhabitants. Having been shaped by these echoes of "war and blood and fury and hate", their sole burning desire was to enter reality, "play [mortals'] vicious games, and ''win''". This ethos ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}) echoed the linked account's depiction of the Toymaker as holding that "all that exists is to win or to lose", hence placing games above the Doctor's notions of good and evil. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}) The [[Fifteenth Doctor]] later inferred that the [[Goblin]]s followed the Toymaker into the universe as part of [[The Toymaker's legions|his legions]]; after he defeated the Goblins, they appeared to either be erased from [[existence]] or be pulled back into another [[world]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)|chaptnum=Thirteen and Eighteen|page=100, 137}}) | ||
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The [[Sixth Doctor]] was drawn to [[Blackpool]] believing that he had detected the presence of "the Nexus of the [[Primeval Cauldron]] of Space-Time itself" there. Upon coming face-to-face with the Toymaker, he realised that he had been detecting the Toymaker himself, and deduced that the Toymaker had "set up the [[Space-Time Vortex]]", to which the Toymaker corrected: "Doctor, I ''am'' the Space-Time Vortex". ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|The Nightmare Fair (novelisation)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Nightmare Fair (audio story)}}) When [[Peri Brown]] marvelled at the thought of the Toymaker as "a being the Time Lords couldn't handle", the Doctor, who had yet to come up with his later theory about the Toymaker being from another universe pointed out that "there [were] lots of them… Time Lords generally aren't very good at handling things, especially ''themselves''". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Nightmare Fair (audio story)}}) | The [[Sixth Doctor]] was drawn to [[Blackpool]] believing that he had detected the presence of "the Nexus of the [[Primeval Cauldron]] of Space-Time itself" there. Upon coming face-to-face with the Toymaker, he realised that he had been detecting the Toymaker himself, and deduced that the Toymaker had "set up the [[Space-Time Vortex]]", to which the Toymaker corrected: "Doctor, I ''am'' the Space-Time Vortex". ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|The Nightmare Fair (novelisation)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Nightmare Fair (audio story)}}) When [[Peri Brown]] marvelled at the thought of the Toymaker as "a being the Time Lords couldn't handle", the Doctor, who had yet to come up with his later theory about the Toymaker being from another universe pointed out that "there [were] lots of them… Time Lords generally aren't very good at handling things, especially ''themselves''". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Nightmare Fair (audio story)}}) | ||
The [[Twelfth Doctor]] claiming that the Toymaker was spawned in the [[Dark Times|chaos before time]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Relative Dimensions (comic story)}}) Likewise the [[Seventh Doctor]] described the Toymaker as an [[Elder God]] originating from the [[Old Times]] at the beginning of the universe. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Magic Mousetrap (audio story)}}, {{cs|Black and White (audio story)}}) In fact, one account equated him with the [[China|Chinese]] [[trickster]]-[[god]] [[No Cha]], depicting him as one of the magical entities from the chaotic "[[time before this]]" who had survived the [[Time Lord]]s' [[Anchoring of the thread|imposition of rationality]] upon the universe. Only when rationality's foothold on the universe lessened, such as during the reign of the [[Carnival Queen]], was the Toymaker able to descend from his realm outside time and space, and interfere in the physical world once again. ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)}}) | |||
In contrast, one account mentioned the "chap" who became "obsessed with games" and took to dressing like a [[China|Chinese]] [[Mandarin (bureaucrat)|mandarin]] as a member of one of the [[elder race]]s from the [[original palimpsest universe]]; in this account, this original state of reality before the [[Great House]]s' interference was one of perfect linearity, and it was only after the introduction of [[time travel]] to the universe that various members of the elder races went mad and turned their powers to evil or mischief. ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|Mr Saldaamir (short story)}}) | In contrast, one account mentioned the "chap" who became "obsessed with games" and took to dressing like a [[China|Chinese]] [[Mandarin (bureaucrat)|mandarin]] as a member of one of the [[elder race]]s from the [[original palimpsest universe]]; in this account, this original state of reality before the [[Great House]]s' interference was one of perfect linearity, and it was only after the introduction of [[time travel]] to the universe that various members of the elder races went mad and turned their powers to evil or mischief. ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|Mr Saldaamir (short story)}}) | ||
