
( PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead) ( COMIC: Old Girl PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times)Īfter the First Proliferation where life began came the rise of the Old Ones, the giants of the universe. ( PROSE: The Infinity Doctors, So Vile a Sin, et al.) After this, it was believed Time Lords were unable to time travel to the Dark Time, ( PROSE: No Future, Goth Opera) but multiple incarnations of the Doctor would do just that. ( PROSE: Introduction) Rassilon created the Time scoop in the Dark Times, ( PROSE: The Five Doctors, The Eight Doctors) and his rise to power and foundation of Time Lord civilisation ended the Dark Times, ( PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible, A Brief History of Time Lords) with the anchoring of the thread and Time Wars eradicating the monstrous creatures of the era and creating the Web of Time.

The Dark Times were a prehistoric period in Gallifreyan history. ( PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead)Īdditionally, some perspectives viewed this era as the pre-universe, ( PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet) a time of chaos that not only predated Time Lord history, but was also "before there was any such thing as history", and where the laws of time and reality of the later universe did not apply. ( TV: The Runaway Bride) Some accounts placed the Dark Time as being synonymous with the Old Time, ( PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible) but others indicated they were distinct eras, ( PROSE: A Brief History of Time Lords) aeons before the rise of Gallifreyan civilisation.

In terms of universal history, the Dark Times were billions of years before the 21st century.


The Dark Times, ( PROSE: The Five Doctors, The Pit TV: The Runaway Bride, The Infinite Quest) or simply the Dark Time, ( PROSE: The Eight Doctors, Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible TV: The Infinite Quest) were a time of chaos and monsters that predated the Doctor's reality, ( TV: The Infinite Quest) remembered by the Tenth Doctor as "the millennia that came creeping out of the endless night as the first stars switched on in the universe." ( PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead)
