How are Time Lords born?

Time Lords aren't born, they're crafted. At the age of eight, every Gallifreyan child is brought before the Untempered Schism, a tear in the fabric of time and space. To look upon it is to see eternity.
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Can Time Lords have babies with humans?

Gallifreyans can probably have children with humans.

Although it's never happened on screen. The Doctor's granddaughter Susan married a human in the 22nd century, and one account says that they were unable to have children while another says they did.
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What did Time Lords evolve from?

Other sources suggested that the ability for a Time Lord to regenerate came from evolution caused by exposure to the Vortex through the Untempered Schism. Melody Pond's human DNA was able to develop many of the characteristics of Time Lord DNA (such as regeneration) simply by being conceived in the Time Vortex.
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How do Gallifreyans become Time Lords?

The majority of Time Lords were genetically Gallifreyans, since they arose from the species; they considered themselves to be the elite of Gallifreyan society, (PROSE: Interference - Book Two) as only a select few bloodlines had been granted the privilege of becoming Time Lords when Rassilon originally unveiled the Eye ...
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Are Time Lords sterile?

Rassilon led a revolution against the Pythia, eventually causing her to kill herself and send her followers to the planet Karn. However, before she died she cursed Rassilon and all future Time Lords to sterility.
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Do all Time Lords have a TARDIS?

Retired Time Lords are not permitted to own a TARDIS, and unauthorized use of a TARDIS carries a mandatory Death Penalty.
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Can Time Lords get drunk?

This is thought to be because they metabolize alcohol very quickly. But there is an exception to that rule-- if ginger beer gets involved, then it can reduce their ability to tolerate alcohol and leave them feeling a bit worse for wear. So if you ever want to get a Time Lord drunk, ginger beer is the way to go.
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Are Weeping Angels Time Lords?

The Weeping Angels being disgraced Time Lords creates a classic Doctor Who time travel paradox - the Time Lord punishment was inspired by the Weeping Angels, but the Weeping Angels were created by the Time Lords' punishment.
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Is Time Lord a species?

The Time Lords are a fictional humanoid species originating on the planet Gallifrey, seen in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Time Lords are so called because they are able to travel in and manipulate time through prolonged exposure to the time vortex.
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Why do Time Lords have two hearts?

One, it's exactly that, a coincidence, and both races – whatever the Timeless Child is, and the Shobogans of Gallifrey – have two hearts. Two, the genetic experiments Tecteun conducted to derive regeneration from the Timeless Child altered the Time Lords to have two hearts too.
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Do Time Lords have two hearts?

The process allows them to disguise themselves as humans physiologically and psychologically, meaning they only have one heart and are stripped of non-human powers, and of any memory of having been a Time Lord.
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Is the Doctor the last Time Lord?

He has experienced the cutting-off (the end of experience, i.e. "death") of every other timeline of every other Gallifreyan who lived while he was alive, and as we go forward in his own timeline, no new Gallifreyans can be born. So in this sense, The Doctor is indeed the last of the Time Lords.
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Is the Doctor the original Time Lord?

The Doctor, it transpires, was the very first of the Time Lords as we know them, exhibiting the ability to regenerate forms indefinitely. Her DNA was subsequently spliced into other Time Lords, but through genetic engineering, their number of regenerations was capped at 12.
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Why does the TARDIS not like Clara?

In answering that question in Doctor Who Magazine, Moffat suggested that the TARDIS' dislike of the current companion may be due to her sceptical nature and how she did not seem suitably awed by the Doctor's spaceship. Or, as he said, “It's almost like it's all building to something…
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How old can a Time Lord get?

Well, the way I see it, at least from the point of view as it's presented, is each timelord life gets around about 80-100 years, so they age normally, if a timelord regenerates due to injury (as every doctor bar Hartnell) has, the "extra years" stack up into the next regeneration, so they could potentially live twice ...
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Can a Time Lord regenerate into a child?

From what I've been able to find; Yes, a Time Lord can regenerate into a child-like form. The best example I've been able to find thus far is The Master regenerating into Professor Yana.
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How did Time Lords get regeneration?

Time Lords released massive amounts of a hormone called lindos in moments of extreme trauma, and it was this hormone which triggered regeneration.
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Why is Gallifrey in a bubble?

At the conclusion of "The Day of the Doctor" (2013), Gallifrey is revealed to have actually survived the Time War, though it was frozen in time and transported into a bubble universe, before being unfrozen and arriving at the end of the universe at a chronological point before "Hell Bent" (2015).
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How many regenerations do Time Lords have?

He travels through time and space, saves the Earth, and has millions of fans all over the world. But as every "Whovian" knows, the Doctor cannot last for ever: Time Lords are able to regenerate only 12 times before they die.
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How many regenerations does River song have?

Assuming they did not, it would appear that Melody Pond/River Song gave up TEN incarnations (9 regenerations) to save The Doctor. First Regeneration - while homeless, young Melody Pond apparently succumbed to hunger & illness, undergoing her first regeneration in the episode "Day of the Moon".
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How is River Song a Time Lord?

In "A Good Man Goes to War", it is revealed that River is Amy and Rory's daughter Melody (Harrison and Maddison Mortimer), who was conceived in the TARDIS while it was in the Time Vortex and consequently carries Time Lord DNA.
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Is Rassilon the Doctor's father?

In these proposals, the Doctor's father was the son of Borusa and heir to the Sash of Rassilon. In John Leekley's Fathers and Brothers, Ulysses was "the Great Explorer", a hero of Gallifrey. After having a son on Gallifrey, the Master, Ulysses fell in love with a human woman and had another son in ancient Egypt.
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Can Time Lords be ginger?

It is said that during the Feast of Rassilon, Time Lords and Gallifreyans are allowed to have ginger because it reduces their tolerance to alcohol. They sometimes have ginger beer on holidays.
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What are Time Lords allergic to?

Aspirin and Time Lords
  • Aspirin was a poison fatal to Time Lords. ( ...
  • Jo Grant once offered an unidentified tablet to the Third Doctor, who declined because it was for the wrong metabolism and would probably kill him. (
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What is the DRS name?

John Smith. The Doctor's most common alias (apart from the Doctor, obviously), this is his standard pseudonym on Earth.
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