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claims for itself the status of gods". However, a measure of ambiguity is added by another passage of ''Falls the Shadow'' where the Doctor himself, within his inner monologue, denies being a Time Lord ("…''i am what i am i am not a time lord i reject the title i am myself i am a doctor and healer a good man''…"); one of the Grey Man's statements about his own race is a similarly-dismissive judgement of them for "styling themselves" as [[god]]s. | claims for itself the status of gods". However, a measure of ambiguity is added by another passage of ''Falls the Shadow'' where the Doctor himself, within his inner monologue, denies being a Time Lord ("…''i am what i am i am not a time lord i reject the title i am myself i am a doctor and healer a good man''…"); one of the Grey Man's statements about his own race is a similarly-dismissive judgement of them for "styling themselves" as [[god]]s. | ||
Yet another and even more straightforward guess, [[Names for the Time Lords|not necessarily incompatible]] with a conflation with the Time Lords, would be that the Grey Man's "people" are abrahamic [[angel]]s. The Grey Man's reference to having | Yet another and even more straightforward guess, [[Names for the Time Lords|not necessarily incompatible]] with a conflation with the Time Lords, would be that the Grey Man's "people" are abrahamic [[angel]]s. The Grey Man's reference to having "fallen" and "burned" after he was placed on trial for "blasphemy" by his people evokes the classic imagery of fallen angels. This would seem to place the internal "rivalries" among his people which translated into the introduction of Good and Evil to mortal experience as the biblical [[War in Heaven (Academic Notes)|War in Heaven]] sparked by [[the Devil]]'s rebellion. | ||
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