What race is the timeless child?

The Timeless Child's species were a largely unknown species from another universe or dimension, being, according to the Spy Master, the Doctor's original species as the Timeless Child.
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Where is the timeless child from?

The Timeless Child was a title used to refer to the mysterious being from whom, across several regenerations, the First Tecteun extracted the secret of regeneration. According to the Spy Master, the Timeless Child's incarnations were none other than the original incarnations of the Doctor, long before the First Doctor.
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Is the Master the timeless child?

In some ways, the Master being the Timeless Child would've made more sense, especially as the character is known to consistently cheat death. Going as far back as the Roger Delgado years, the Master has always had a penchant for being one step ahead of his enemies and even outsmarting them when they least expect it.
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How does the Master know the Doctor is the timeless child?

That's the setup - The Master has The Doctor in a loopy-energy-force-field-trap-thing. While in that trap, The Doctor is able to inject The Doctor into The Matrix. The purpose of all this is to show The Doctor the true history of his/her life, so that The Master can show The Doctor about the Lie of the Timeless Child.
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Is the Doctor not a Time Lord?

The Time Lords are an ancient race of extraterrestrial people in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, of which the series' main protagonist, the Doctor, is a member. Time Lords are so named for their command of time travel technology and their non-linear perception of time.
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Regeneration's History and the Timeless Child



How long is a Gallifreyan year?

So 237 Gallifreyan Years is equal to 209 Earth Years. This means one Earth Year is 1.133971291866 Gallifreyan Years.
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Is the Doctor actually Gallifreyan?

The Doctor, as explained at length by the Master, was not Gallifreyan at all. She was discovered as a child on another planet by a Gallifreyan scientist called Tecteun (Seylan Baxter), who – after bringing her back home – extracted her power to regenerate in order to form the basis of Time Lord society.
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What race is the Doctor?

The vast majority of sources agreed that the Doctor was a Gallifreyan and a Time Lord, (TV: The War Games, et al.)
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Did the timeless child ruined Doctor Who?

Season 12's Timeless Child reveal was so big because it completely altered the very foundations of Doctor Who. First, it changed history, by revealing that the Doctor had an unknown number of lives prior to who fans know as William Hartnell's First Doctor.
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Is Sam Swift immortal?

Ashildr uses her spare immortality charge to cancel out Sam's death - the portal is closed and Sam is saved - whether he has become immortal remains to be seen!
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Who will be the 14th Doctor?

Doctor Who casts Sex Education's Ncuti Gatwa as 14th Doctor - Polygon.
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Does the Doctor have unlimited regenerations?

Doctor Who Just Removed One Of The Original Show's Most Frustrating Time Lord Rules. Doctor Who just undid one of its major rules regarding the Time Lord regeneration process, allowing The Doctor to have unlimited regenerations. Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for Doctor Who "The Timeless Children."
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Will the timeless child be Retconned?

Yes, the timeless child thing will get retconned like every single doctor origin story before it. Moffat's take of him as the son of dirt poor farmers was new and contradicted origins stories before.
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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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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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Why did the master burn Gallifrey?

The Master claims he burned Gallifrey as revenge for some dark secret the Time Lords were hiding. "They lied to us," The Master says. "The founding fathers of Gallifrey...
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How old is the Doctor after timeless child?

The 2005 relaunch has generally taken the more conservative approach, with the Twelfth Doctor suggesting he has aged to somewhere around two thousand years old.
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Who is Tecteun?

Tecteun was a Shobogan and one of the first inhabitants of Gallifrey to explore other planets. She discovered the Timeless Child on one such planet, and adopted her as her own. She later brought the child back with her to Gallifrey.
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Is the master related to the Doctor?

Their father is the king of the Time Lords and their mother is one of the two people who support The Doctor. [Doctor Who] From The End of Time, they all seem to know each other intimately.
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Is Time Lord a rank or species?

It's kind of grey in the modern era, but in classic, Gallifreyan is a species. Time Lords are a subset of that species who have longer lives due to time vortex stuff. All Time Lords are Gallifreyan, but not all Galifreyans are time lords.
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Are the Weeping Angels Time Lords?

The Weeping Angels are dead Time Lords

One scene in 2010's 'The End of Time - Part Two' has two Time Lords punished by being forced to stand stock still "as monuments to their shame" – like "the weeping angels of old."
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Can the TARDIS translate Gallifreyan?

River Song explicitly mentions that High Gallifreyan writing "doesn't translate" -- even the TARDIS can't do it for someone who doesn't read it.
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Are there black Time Lords?

Doctor Who unveils its first black portrayal of the Time Lord in show's 57-year history... as show boss CONFIRMS actress Jo Martin is 'definitively the Doctor' Doctor Who has introduced its first black portrayal of the titular Time Lord in its illustrious 57-year history.
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Are all Gallifreyans Time Lords?

There are still Gallifreyans whom are not Time Lords, some which lived outside of the Capital Cities. There are also non-Timelord farmers in the series such as in the episode Hell Bent. Essentially from all this we can determine that Time Lords are Gallifreyan but a Gallifreyan may not always be a Time Lord.
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