Time Winds

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Time wind, which is the capitalization used in the vast majority of sources, and per naming conventions regarding plurals. Compare time storm (rather than Time Storm).

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The Time Winds, (PROSE: The Bloodletters, etc.) time winds (PROSE: Engines of War) or Winds of Time, (TV: Silver Nemesis, GAME: The Iytean Menace ^[+]Loading...["The Iytean Menace (game)"]) were the winds of time within the Time Vortex and intercept points such as the Gateway, (TV: Warriors' Gate) described in some accounts as a form of temporal radiation. (PROSE: Engines of War)

Nature

As the wind within the Time Vortex, TARDISes could be described as "roaming the Winds of Time" whenever they travelled through time. (GAME: The Iytean Menace ^[+]Loading...["The Iytean Menace (game)"])

According to one account, the time winds were a form of temporal radiation and caused anomalies and glitches in space-time. They manifested as "a window right through to another time, only the world on the other side [was] shifting in constant flux". (PROSE: Engines of War)

The time winds could have a detrimental effect on computers such as K9 Mark II and occasionally beings such as the Time Lords. However, certain species with time sensitivity, such as the Tharils, could walk or ride the time winds to access other times and places. (TV: Warriors' Gate)

Under ordinary circumstances, it was thought impossible to lie under the Time Winds. With no possibility for falsehoods, this became useful for Time Lord interrogations. (AUDIO: Blood of the Time Lords)

Items could be ripped apart by the time winds within the Time Vortex, or eaten slowly away. This also applied to species which lacked abilites to weather the time winds, including Daleks. (AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks, PROSE: Exit Strategy) Other forms of species could apparently live inside the Time Vortex without being destroyed by the time winds, to the Nine's surprise, (AUDIO: Relative Time) such as the Reapers, whose resilience was so great the Ninth Doctor said nothing in the entire universe could harm them. (TV: Father's Day)

History

After he was thrown into the Time Vortex, Morbius referred to having been "thrown into the Time Winds". Although they lacerated his body, he clung to life long enough to emerge in the Valley. (AUDIO: Morbius the Mighty ^[+]Loading...["Morbius the Mighty (audio story)"])

In E-Space, the Tharils used their ability to sense the time-winds to build an empire. After rebelling against them, their non-time-sensitive human slaves began to use special methods to capture and imprison Tharils so they could harness this ability. It was a painful process, as demonstrated when it was used on the Time Lady Romana, who she screamed in agony. (TV: Warriors' Gate)

Lady Peinforte made reference to riding the "winds of time" while travelling from 1638 to 1988 by means of a time storm. (TV: Silver Nemesis)

When the Eighth Doctor was led by Straxus to France, during the Great War, he found a leak of time winds from the vortex - caused by Kotris and the Daleks - was causing trouble and harm to the humans. (AUDIO: The Great War)

When the Eighth Doctor sabotaged the ship of the Dalek Time Squad, (AUDIO: Mutually Assured Destruction) the Dalek drones that were thrown out were torn apart by the time winds. (PROSE: Exit Strategy)

Time winds blew and shone upon the sky of the planet Moldox, coming from the near space-time anomaly known as the Tantalus Eye. (PROSE: Engines of War)

The Monk once told the Corsair of the temporally-changeable Ghost Wars that "the Time Winds blew strong there". (PROSE: The Bloodletters)

Iris Wildthyme's TARDIS would let in time winds every time it entered the Time Vortex, (PROSE: Verdigris) or by some accounts, the Maelstrom. The winds often caused a lot of noise, causing passengers in the Celestial Omnibus to shout. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme) Because of these winds, Iris worried about taking off with the doors to her TARDIS slightly ajar. (AUDIO: Iris Wildthyme and the Claws of Santa) Time Winds also caused the windows of the Celestial Omnibus to rattle. (AUDIO: Iris Wildthyme Speaks...!)

Captain Jack Harkness was killed by the time winds when he clung to the side of the Doctor's TARDIS as the Tenth Doctor attempted to dematerialise before Jack could reach him; however, Jack's immortality brought him back to life as soon as the TARDIS landed on Malcassairo. (TV: Utopia)

When both the Great Intelligence and Clara Oswald entered the Doctor's time stream on Trenzalore, the time winds ripped them into countless copies of themselves that were scattered along the Doctors' life. Though it was predicted that such an act would claim their lives, both survived. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)

Placing something next to the heart of the TARDIS or the time rotor would expose it to time winds. Clara Oswald placed a turkey under the console, which the Eleventh Doctor explained would either be cooked or lay eggs. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)

One TARDIS' exterior shell was destroyed by exposure to the Time Winds as it stayed in the Time Vortex for a long period of time, leaving the interior exposed and the occupants go insane. (AUDIO: Scenes From Her Life)

The Tenth Doctor explained the Time Destructor by stating that Kembel had been "ravaged by the Time Winds". (AUDIO: The Dalek Defence)

During the Last Great Time War, the Dalek Temporal Assault Squad was destroyed by the Time Winds before they could complete their mission. (AUDIO: Eye of Harmony)

Behind the scenes

• A deleted scene from Daleks in Manhattan showed the Tenth Doctor saying "wherever the time winds take us".