Time Lords

So far we’ve talked a lot about time, and how we might possibly be frittering it away even though we don’t have all that much of it. Serious stuff! So let’s finish up all this serious talk, with something fun!

It’s a Time Lord Name Generator. How fun is that?

My Time Lord Name is: The Poet AKA Dundrollbygotheneeldri

You are known as The Poet. Your original Gallifreyan name is Dundrollbygotheneeldri or Dundroll for short.

Back on Gallifrey, you led a dull and uninteresting life, working as a Deputy Assistant to the Assistant Deputy at the Prydon Academy – but now, you travel Time and Space in search of adventure!

Your Type 66 TARDIS is currently stuck in disguise as a Sherman tank, and your latest travelling companion is a gritty, cynical newspaper journalist from the 1990s, who discovers the universe is weirder and wilder than he ever expected.

I like it! The next time I start to worry about time and now there’s not enough of it, whenever I realize that I am wasting time, or allowing corporate America to steal my time… I’m going to remember that in some alternate reality, I have a Type 66 Tardis and my Time Lord Name is Dundroll… This is going to make me smile and then I will be able to let all that worry go and just enjoy the moment even if that moment is boring or uncomfortable.

If you are a Dr Who fan, you’ll totally get this, if not…

Here’s an explanation:

The Time Lords were first created in 1969 by writers Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks, in ‘The War Games’, Patrick Troughton’s final story as the Second Doctor. The Doctor’s home planet was first named as Gallifrey in 1973 in the story ‘The Time Warrior’, written by Robert Holmes.

Since then, the mythos of Gallifrey has expanded in a massive number of ways thanks to stories like The Deadly Assassin, ‘The Invasion of Time’, ‘Arc of Infinity’ and ‘The Trial of a Time Lord’, and we’ve tried to use as much detail from the classic shows and from various spin-off novels as possible in creating the Time Lord names.

The Biology of the Time Lords

Time Lords are the elite of the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterbouros, and they are super-intelligent beings who can live for thousands of years (although not all Gallifreyans are Time Lords). They appear human, but have many physiological differences – Time Lords have two hearts, an internal temperature of only 15 degrees Centigrade, and a respiratory bypass system that protects them from suffocation and strangulation.

They also have the power of regeneration, meaning they can completely transform their appearance and personality twelve times, although certain Time Lords have found ways of extending their lives and even acquiring new regeneration cycles.

The History of the Time Lords

The Time Lords jealously guarded the secrets of Time Engineering that were bequeathed to them by the legendary pioneers Omega and Rassilon, and for thousands of years they have kept to a strict rule of non-interference with other races, only observing the outside universe and never getting involved.

Secretly, organizations such as the Celestial Intervention Agency have been regularly breaking this rule, most notably in their attempt to persuade the Doctor to commit genocide by wiping out the Daleks before they were created, long held to be the opening strike of the cataclysmic Time War.

Time Lord Society

Much of Time Lord society is aloof and stagnant – power lies with the High Council, ruled by the Lord President and the principle colleges, where it only matters whether you are a member of the Prydonian, Arcalian or Patrexe chapters.

Bureaucracy and order rule the day, while many secrets are hidden away in the computer system known as the Matrix, where the combined intelligences of generations of deceased Time Lords can create a whole virtual universe of dreams and nightmares.

Gallifrey is a frustrating, dull place to live – so it’s no wonder that you’ve finally had enough and are stealing a TARDIS so that you can escape and travel the universe!

About Time Lord Names

Our Doctor Who inspired generator will not only give you a new identity as a renegade Time Lord, but you’ll also get your full Gallifreyan name (and its shortened version), what you used to do before you escaped your home planet for a life of adventure, the current disguise of your stolen TARDIS, and a companion to travel with you!

So how about it? Are you going to check out the Time Lord Name Generator? If you do, I’d really love to know your Time Lord Name!