Origin

THE RECORD OF RASSILON: THE GUARDIANS OF THE UNIVERSE. THE UNIVERSE IS IN A CONSTANT STATE OF FLUX - AND IS ESSENTIALLY BALANCED BY THE COSMIC POWERS OF THE GUARDIANS. BEINGS SUPERIOR TO EVERYONE.

'Everyone. Well, that‘s helpful I must say.‘

'Keep going,‘ laughed Millennia, 'this is such fun!‘ The Doctor continued reading aloud:

RASSILON ONLY KNEW OF TWO GUARDIANS - LIGHT AND DARK, GOOD AND EVIL, BLACK AND WHITE. BUT RASSILON WAS AWARE THAT THERE MAY BE OTHERS. BEINGS FROM ANOTHER UNIVERSE, COME TO EXPLORE, INVADE OR COLONISE OUR OWN. HE DEFINED THEM AS SUB-GUARDIANS - FOR MANY WERE THE CREATURES THAT CAME UNTO OUR UNIVERSE AS IT WAS BORRN, OR AS THEIRS EXPIRED. AND RASSILON NAMED THE SUB-GUARDIANS ‘THE GREAT OLD ONES’, SPECULATING THAT MAYHAPS THEY WERE TIME LORDS FROM THAT OTHER UNIVERSE, FAR MORE ADVANCED, FAR FURTHER EVOLVED.

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AND THE GUARDIANS REFUSED TO REPLY AND CAST RASSILON DOWN FROM THEIR REALM - TAUGHT HIM HUMILITY. TAUGHT HIM THAT AMONGST EPHEMERAL BEINGS, THE TIME LORDS OF GALLIFREY WERE SUPERIOR, BUT THERE WERE THOSE MORE SUPERIOR THAN THEM. AND FROM THIS, RASSILON LEARNED TO RESPECT LIFE IN ALL ITS FORMS, FOR HOWEVER POWERFUL ONE MIGHT CONSIDER ONESELF TO BE, THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING SUPERIOR.

'Rubbish,‘ said Mortimus. ‗What can be more advanced than the Time Lords?‘

Vansell chipped in from the doorway 'No wonder they don‘t teach this at the Academy. Imagine if Delox discovered she‘s not the highest form of evolution in the cosmos?‘

The others laughed, but the Doctor, Mortimus and Jelpax were engrossed in scrolling through the data pad‘s information.

'Look at this.‘ The Doctor was pointing furiously.

LATER TIME LORDS REFER BACK TO THIS LIST WHEN DISCUSSING A BEING, OR BEINGS - THE DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS ARE INCONSISTENT - KNOWN AS THE TOYMAKERS.

Mortimus was nodding excitedly as he read on. 'Yes, yes, yes. A being - or beings, if you like - of vast mental powers, who could build and destroy entire realms with his mind.‘

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Divided Loyalties, Round 2, Chapter 1