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Help me girl, I’m becoming mildly obsessed with an obscure character from the Doctor Who Expanded Universe

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It’s not the same as hosting a live rewatch, but I’ve gone and pirated my own books, risking the wrath of BBC copyright, put all my old Dr Who books up here in this folder in PDF format - some are duplicates for some reason, but, there you go. They’re all long out of print, but might be worth it for fans in lockdown. Feel free to share in other DW groups- I’m not on all of them.

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Chapterhouses

If you have read my blog at all, you can probably guess that I like Doctor Who. One thing I really like about it is how deep its lore goes. If it isn’t onscreen, it’ll be in the audios, or the books, or the webmovies, or the comics, or this one really obscure out-of-print novel by Lawrence Miles that isn’t even on the Wiki and can only be bought for the price of one (1) human soul. I’m exaggerating slightly here, but not much. The bad thing about that is, it gets to the point where things are really very hard to explain to folks outside the fandom. Heck, it’s hard to explain to folks inside the fandom. Here, however, is the quick-and-dirty version of where baby Time Lords go to school.

When your average Time Lord (or indeed Time Lady) turns eight, they are taken to see the Untempered Schism, or as I like to call it, the Ripped Trousers of Rassilon. They gaze into the Time Vortex. Some go insane, some are inspired, some run away, etc. etc. Incidentally, remind me to tell you all about how Time Lords are basically Cthulhu in funny robes.

Anyway, after these children are scarred for life or whatever, they are sent to the Time Lord Academy, where they are put in a house. It’s a bit like Hogwarts, except the student gets to choose where they go. My sister tells me it’s like Divergent. I’m sure that means something to some of you, so let’s go with that. Here are their options:

Prydonian: The most influential chapter, politically. Known for producing more Presidents than any other house. Also known for producing more runaways than any other house. They tend to be brash and headstrong. The Doctor and the Master are Prydonians. They wear red and orange. It was founded by Rassilon, aka the Lovecraftian Thomas Edison with a Label Maker.

Arcalian: The science nerds. Second most important chapter. They like to spend all their time locked in a library, reading old records of council meetings to bring up at the new council meetings. When they aren’t doing that, they like to experiment with forces beyond the ken of man. I am probably an Arcalian. They wear green and brown and other earth tones. Founded by Omega, aka Rassilon’s Ex-Boyfriend Stuck in Antimatter World.

Patrex: Artsy weirdos who nevertheless get a majority of the stuff on Gallifrey done, probably because they have more or less all the creative thought. They do paintings but also they invent time-traveling nanobots that can fly up your nose to mind-control you. Third-most influential chapter. They wear heliotrope and yellow which is a rather eye-burning pairing for the most artsy house. Founded by the Other, aka Possibly the Doctor Who.

Scendles: Constantly broke. They spent all their money just getting into politics. They’re the hard-working backbone of Gallifrey, deeply pragmatic and efficient. They wear tan, pale gold, and cream. They were founded by Pandak, aka Grover Cleveland, Vampire Slayer (So called because he was President on at least two separate occasions).

Cerulean: Filthy plant-touchers. They just go out and… touch plants! Gross, right? They’re tolerated because they’re very good caretakers, so they’re more or less the ones who grow the new baby TARDISes. Based on the Green Party. They wear blue. Founded by Lazuline, aka That Hippie.

Dromean: Quiet and observant, clear-headed and philosophical. They’re usually considered the ‘goth’ chapter due to their quietness and their tendency to wear all black and silver. They like to watch the universe go by. Founded by Aperion, aka Wearing Spiked Boots All the Time Probably Didn’t Help Shake the 'Goth’ Thing.

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The “Merlin” Master of the 1980s Doctor Who Annuals

I’ve found him: the most obscure Master incarnation of them all. Someone even some Gordon Tipple and Edward Brayshaw devotees say “doesn’t count”. And best of all, this isn’t some sort of War King or Professor Stream situation, a character who’s only the Master through the backdoor: he appeared in fully licensed Doctor Who stories, under the name of “the Master”. 

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the best parts of lungbarrow are when the doctor is drunk and calls lungbarrow gallifrey's most dysfunctional family and also the bit where ace calls andred a boytoy

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the lungbarrow theory still remains the funniest theory on who the doctor's parents are because a) it makes andred technically one of the most important characters in canon as the doctor's dad despite him canonically being a cringe loser and b) it means their parentage is actually a paradox: the doctor can't have been born without leela and andred meeting but leela and andred can't meet without the doctor's intervention

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do love how lungbarrow is established as a weird House because it just makes the doctor stick out even more. i mean it's possible the doctor was just slightly eccentric to everyone else but lungbarrow specifically looked at him and went "you terrible failure of a time lord"

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Pocket guide to Doctor Who new fans.

DWEU/EU: Doctor Who Expanded Universe.

This is used for all the content that isn't on TV such as comics, books, audios, etc.

EDAs: Eight Doctor Adventures.

Media: books and audios.

The only screen appearances of Eighth Doctor we have are the Movie and the short scene at 50th anniversary. All the Eighth Doctor stories are books and audios.

Believe me this man - be it for have only two screen storylines or not - is one of the most complex characters I have ever seen??? I still trying to figure out what in hell was the whole "there are nine Gallifreys" thing and he comes and just *slap sound* Faction Paradox.

VNA/NAs: The Virgem New Adventures.

Media: books.

This books series were published after the original show (Classic Who 1963-1989) went into hiatus.

It follows the story from where the show stopped. It is a Seventh Doctor's saga featuring Ace as companion and later Berenice Summerfield.

BSNA: Bernice Summerfield New Adventures.

Media: books and audios.

Bernice Summerfield was first introduced on Prelude Love and War a Seventh Doctor short story.

Being part of the collection of novelizations VNA the character has appeared in 23 books before the Big Finish started making the novels audios.

Then she earned her own audio series Bernice Summerfield New Adventures.

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do all Time Lords have decrepit fucked-up ancestral homes or is that just a special treat for cousins from Lungbarrow and Heartshaven

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HEY! Just read your list of Oldblood houses and I wanted to add that Stillhaven also has Yayani as it's members.

Yayani is presented to us in The Missy Chronicles by Stephen Cole.

Spoiler: she dies in the same tale as she is presented so we really don't have that much background but that she had Abridgment Syndrome.

Hope I was helpful and not obnoxious!

Oh, thanks for letting me know! <3 It's no bother at all. I honestly appreciate it. Sometimes I do overlook things or haven't come across something yet. I appreciate the help!

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House Dvora aka (House of the Devouring Hounds)

Here is another meta about one of the Great Houses of Gallifrey. This house is arguably Romana’s ancestral birth house, as well as the house of other famous Time Lord’s like Morbius (Also known as the Imperator.) 

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The House of Dvora was first mentioned in “The Ribos Operation” episode from Romana telling the Doctor her full name: Romana-dvora-tre-lundar. However, it wasn’t officially explained or revealed to us until the Faction Paradox Series book, “The Book of the War.”  

Facts about House Dvora:

One of the six ruling houses during the War in Heaven

Tribal, ‘Alpha Male’ type house. Never shies away from using force. Gained an enviable reputation for eminence. An emblem of controlled, concerted, voracious power. 

Dvora members are described as being: “Neither gauche nor hidebound, the members of House Dvora look out across the landscape of the Homeworld from the comfortable position of an established pack predator. They are not careless, They are sombre, they are sane, they are pre-eminently practical. What they grip, they hold. When not deployed in the field their personas are icy, untouchable and ironic, but they can when necessary, adopt any passion.” 

Dvora is renowned for being practical, efficient and unstoppable. 

Labelled the first of the Newblood House’s after the “Imperator crisis.”

The most powerful Newblood house on Gallifrey and the house that exercises the greatest real power. Considered far mar stable than the other new blood houses. 

The “Devouring Hounds” title referred to the controlled dominance of a pack leader rather than the wild savagery of the followers. 

The Prydonian Chapter was reduced to a servitor of House Dvora. 

The War King and the Imperator were flaws in the breeding-engines a thousand years before the War. After the Imperator crisis, its younger members were scattered around the Homeworld for their protection, causing Larissa to grow up in House Ixion and Romana in House Heartshaven. 

Despite this, Dvora maintained its place as one of the ruling Houses.

Percy Shelley’s dream-inspired 1819 poem The Mask of Anarchy originally contained a reference to Dvora.

The Book of the War commented that, since the translation of House names into English was imprecise, the pronunciation of “dev-or-ay”, though non-standard, wasn’t unreasonable.

House of moderate size. 

Notable Members of House Dvora:

Romanadvoratrelundar (Romana)

The Imperator (Morbius) 

Thessalia

The War King

Larissa

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Books/Audios House Dvora is mentioned in:

The Book of the War

Newtons Sleep

De Umbris Idearum

A Farewell to Arms

A Labyrinth of Histories

Gallifrey: Panacea

Going Once, Going Twice 

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My Conclusion about House Dvora:

To be honest, It’s existence makes sense because of Dvora being in Romana’s full name, but yet, I have so many questions about it. SO MANY QUESTIONS.

The Heartshaven & Dvora Debate: I’ve covered everything with Heartshaven in this post, but now it’s time to talk about Dvora. The famous debate if Romana’s house is Dvora or Heartshaven. And since researching in into it more since my Heartshaven post, I’ve gotta say that what’s said in Panacea still holds true. Romana is from House Dvora, but was raised in House Heartshaven because of the Imperator crisis. It’s younger members were scattered around Gallifrey and raised in different houses, but they all came from Dvora. So when Romana says she is the mortal heir of Heartshaven and inheritor of Dvora, that’s what it is referring to. 

Dvora’s fate: This is primarily what I’m questioning, what Dvora’s fate is. Obviously it’s still around if it’s mentioned in the audios and apparently ruling over the Prydonian Chapter. But how is the rest of it’s members, the ones who weren’t sent away? So many questions with this house. 

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House of Heartshaven

This is a little discussion/analysis about one of the Great Houses of Gallifrey and Romana’s ancestral home from Doctor Who/Gallifrey Audios.

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The House of Heartshaven was first mentioned in Gallifrey 2.1 Lies. However, it wasn’t fully revealed to us until Gallifrey 3.5 Panacea. It is Romana’s childhood home.

Facts about House Heartshaven in Panacea:

In an effort to get the doors to open, Romana at first chants, “I am Romana, heir to the House of Heartshaven, and I command these doors to open!” When they don’t, she tends to go into deeper detail about herself saying, “I am Romanadvoratrelundar, mortal heir to the House of Heartshaven, inheritor to the House of Dvora, and custodian to the House of Everston, and I command–” to which the doors finally open.

Heartshaven usually has a doorkeep, probably a footman of sorts, from Romana’s immediate action of asking for them when she gets inside and saying how dusty the place is.

All the staff of the House are currently dead or missing because the place has become infested by pig-rats due to the war. They can apparently eat through Time Lord flesh. This same fate more than likely pertains to her cousins/family too.

However it is possible Janartis could have something do with everyone missing too. Janartis was exiled to the Outlands and Romana found him in her home. 

It’s a big old house

It has a dormitory wing

Romana states, “When I was a time-tot, the lamps of Heartshaven lit up when the heirs to the house crossed the hall and the paintings would whisper their welcome. Now it’s dead.”

Heartshaven is left to burn down after Leela and K-9 try to recuse Romana.

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don't be a coward, chris. show us the looms.

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Time Lord Physiology

*Name of TV episode, novel, audioplay or comic this is referenced or shown in is in italics*

External Anatomy:

Gallifreyans are identical to humans in their appearance

Gallifreyan children age at a similar rate to human children (The Sound of Drums) but upon hitting puberty their ageing would slow with their teenage years lasting for decades (Legacy of the Daleks) 

When fatally injured or sick, Gallifreyans have the ability to regenerate when they would usually die

If injured, but not severely enough to require regeneration, a Gallifreyan can slip into a “healing coma” where they would appear dead but they can dedicate all their energy to healing (Inferno, Planet of the Daleks, EarthWorld, Vanishing Point)

Some Gallifreyans can change their eye colour without the need for regeneration (Vampire Science, Doctor Who and the Daemons)

Gallifreyans are superior physically to humans (Terror of the Autons)

Gallifreyan bones can withstand pressures and impacts which would shatter human bones (The End of Time)

Gallifreyans have resistances to both extreme cold (Tomb of the Cybermen, Planet of the Ood) and extreme heat (The End of the World)

Gallifreyans can survive exposure to vacuums for brief periods (The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe)

Gallifreyans can resist higher-frequency sounds which would deafen a human (The Christmas Invasion, Partners in Crime)

There is a vulnerable nerve cluster in a Gallifreyan’s left shoulder which can disable them if hit (Set Piece)

Gallifreyan reflexes and dexterity are far above humans with the ability to perform actions which humans can’t (Terror of the Autons, The End of the World, The Doctor’s Daughter)

Gallifreyans can see in the dark (Lucifer Rising) and notice incredible amounts of detail from distances which humans would find impossible (The Eleventh Hour)

Gallifreyans can identify substances by taste including specific details about the composition of the material (The Christmas Invasion, Bad Therapy, Tooth and Claw, The Idiot’s Lantern, The Eleventh Hour, Day of the Moon, The Time of the Angels, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)

Internal Anatomy:

Gallifreyan blood is darker in colour than human blood and has an orange tint to it (The Two Doctors)

Gallifreyans have a two hearts (The Power of Three, The Doctor’s Daughter) but can survive with only one working heart although in a greatly weakened state (The Shakespeare Code, The Power of Three)

Gallifreyans have 2 extra ribs compared to humans giving them a total of 26 ribs (Blood Heat)

Gallifreyans natural body temperature of 15°C/59°F (Blood of the Daleks)

Gallifreyan brains are larger and more complex than human brains (The Brain of Morbius)

Gallifreyans can separate their brain hemispheres allowing them a greater ability to multitask (Island of Death)

Gallifreyan lungs are the same size as humans but they have extra pulmonary tubes similar to a lymphatic system to supply oxygen to their dual hearts this also makes them naturally buoyant in water (Island of Death)

Gallifreyans can survive longer without oxygen to the point that a human would be unconscious (The Two Doctors, Mummy on the Orient Express)

Gallifreyans do not need as much sleep as humans and can survive on as little as one hour of sleep (The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Mummy on the Orient Express, Night and the Doctor, The Highlanders)

Gallifreyans are immune to the effects of helium gas and some anaesthetic gases (The Robots of Death)

Gallifreyan skin has a deeper subdural and subcutaneous layer which gives them greater durability (Burning Heart)

Gallifreyan DNA has a triple helix structure (The Crystal Bucephalus, Doctormania)

Gallifreyan bodies can reject and expel cyanide (The Unicorn and the Wasp)

Gallifreyans can and do have allergic reactions to specific substances (The Caves of Androzani)

Other Abilities:

Gallifreyans can share a telepathic link with each other allowing long distance conversations (The Three Doctors, The Pirate Planet)

Gallifreyans are largely resistant to mind control (The War Machines, The Green Death)

Gallifreyans have several mental manipulation abilities including: hypnosis (Terror of the Autons, The Ribos Operation, Fear Her), mind-reading (The Girl in the Fireplace), sharing thoughts (The End of Time), relief of mental disorders (The Shakespeare Code), inducing sleep or unconsciousness (Listen), influencing dreams (The Eleventh Hour), transferring knowledge (The Lodger), and memory erasure (Journey’s End)

Gallifreyans have the ability to sense all possible timelines radiating from an event (The Parting of the Ways, The Fires of Pompeii) including negated timelines (Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS)

Gallifreyans can sense, and have a instinctual repulsion to, fixed points in time (Utopia)

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This fascinating piece on Trial of a Time Lord was published in InVision # 89 is some hefty Hinton-flavored canon-welding and recontextualizing the Gallifrey of Trial of a Time Lord with the heavier lore of both the VNAs and EDAs, but it is also a really neat glimpse into exactly how Hinton himself utilized and absorbed Eighth Doctor and Faction Paradox material… his assertion that the Doctor’s half-humanity is purely a result of the Faction’s biodata virus really tickles me, for one thing… 

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Gallifreyan Great Houses & Members (Part 2 - Newblood Houses)

Check out Part 1 - Oldblood Houses 

Newblood is a term for Time Lords of newer houses. Newblood’s are loomed with two hearts and have better rebirth control than the older houses. They view regeneration as trivial. Newblood Houses were more likely to produce interventionists, and some even viewed time-active cultures as not being lesser species; for these reasons, they were often viewed by Oldbloods as smug and ambitious, accepting diversity rather than conformity. (from Faction Paradox: The Book of the War & Virgin New Adventures: Christmas on a Rational Planet.)

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DEEPTREE (from Big Finish Gallifrey Audio: Lies)

The House that Andred belonged to in the Gallifrey Audios. 

MEMBERS:

Andred

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DVORA (aka HOUSE OF DEVOURING HOUNDS) (from Faction Paradox: The Book of the War, Faction Paradox: Newtons Sleep, Faction Paradox: De Umbris Idearum, Faction Paradox: A Farewell to Arms, & Big Finish Gallifrey Audio: Panacea)

One of the six ruling houses during the War in Heaven and the First Newblood house after the Imperator crisis. A tribal, ‘Alpha Male’ type house. Never shies away from using force. Gained an enviable reputation for eminence. Dvora is renowned for being practical, efficient and unstoppable. An emblem of controlled, concerted, voracious power. The most powerful Newblood house on Gallifrey and the house that exercises the greatest real power. Considered far more stable than the other Newblood houses. The Prydonian Chapter was reduced to a servitor of House Dvora. The “Devouring Hounds” title referred to the controlled dominance of a pack leader rather than the wild savagery of the followers. 

Dvora members are described as being: “Neither gauche nor hidebound, the members of House Dvora look out across the landscape of the Homeworld from the comfortable position of an established pack predator. They are not careless, They are sombre, they are sane, they are pre-eminently practical. What they grip, they hold. When not deployed in the field their personas are icy, untouchable and ironic, but they can when necessary, adopt any passion.” 

MEMBERS:

Romanadvoratrelundar (Romana)

The Imperator (Morbius) 

Thessalia

The War King

Larissa

Seven elite operatives

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HEARTSHAVEN (from Big Finish Gallifrey Audios: Panacea & Annihilation and Big Finish Doctor Who Audios: Neverland and Erasure)

A Prydonian house and family home of Romana. When Romana returned to it following the Gallifreyan Civil War, she found it abandoned and infested by pig-rats. While living at Heartshaven, Romana had a Pig-Bear servant and was an only child. The house was located far from Mount Lung. It had a well stocked wine cellar which was fortified to protect it in the case of earthquake. 

MEMBERS:

Romanadvoratrelundar (Romana)

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JURISPRUDENCE (from Big Finish Gallifrey Audio: Insurgency)

A great house that Inquisitor Darkel belonged to. Jurisprudence is the study and theory of law.

MEMBERS: 

Inquisitor Darkel

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LOLITA (from Faction Paradox: The Book of the War, Faction Paradox: The Year of the Cat, Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures Novel: Dead Romance, Faction Paradox: The Brakespeare Voyage, and Faction Paradox: The Shadow Play)

A house founded by Lolita during the War in Heaven. Initially, she was the only member and reserved all places for her future children who were timeships just like her. Originally allied with House Tracolix and the Sontarans, House Lolita betrayed them both when it destroyed the Eleven-Day Empire. Bolstered by its defeat of Faction Paradox, House Lolita gained enough prestige and political power to receive approval for making changes to 18th century history. Lolita predicted that the final confrontation between House Lolita and the survivors of Faction Paradox would take place in that time period.

MEMBERS:

Lolita (Creator/Named after)

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OAKDOWN (from BBC Past Doctor Adventures: Divded Loyalties) 

A Prydonian house and a respectable house known for producing the Master. 

MEMBERS:

The Master

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PARADOX (from BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures Novels: Alien Bodies, Unnatural History, Interference, The Ancestor Cell, The Adventuress of Henrietta Street, The Gallifrey Chronicles and especially the Faction Paradox Series.)

Once known as House Paradox, Faction Paradox was a time-active cult and criminal syndicate devoted to opposing the Time Lord’s traditional  philosophy of rationality and stability over time travel. They were founded by Grandfather Paradox as a renegade house and inducted members of lesser species into their ranks. They played a neutral role. The House was unpopular for their penchant for death fetishism (which mocked the Great Houses' pretension of immortality) and due to members' use of familial terms like "Grandfather" (disdainful, since the Great Houses had been made sterile by the anchoring of the thread). Most offensive, though, was the House's open interest in perverting the Web of Time. 

MEMBERS:

Grandfather Paradox (Creator/Founder)

Fitz Kreiner

Justine McManus

Christine Summerfield aka Eliza

Grandfather Morlock

Mother Mathara

Aaron Blinovitch

Michael Brookhaven

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RASSILON (from Big Finish Gallifrey Audio: Desperate Measures) 

A great house containing the lineage of Rassilon himself. 

MEMBERS:

Rassilon (supposed founder/creator)

Valerian

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REDLOOMS (from Virgin New Adventures: Lungbarrow & BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures: The Taking of Planet 5)

Also known as Redloom. Its members were noted for being inquisitive as well as for their initiative and being in the Chancellery Guard.

MEMBERS:

Hilred

Andred 

Redred

Leela (as Andred’s wife)

Holsred

Redloom

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TRACOLIX (from BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures: Alien Bodies, Faction Paradox: The Book of the War, The Eleven Day Empire, The Shadow Play, & The Brakespeare Voyage)

An ambitious Newblood house arguably prone to recklessness and over-concern with fashion. The House was given to furthering its interests in the universe by employing agents from other species, which could range from elegant Dandies to Sontarans. By the time of the War in Heaven, Tracolix had risen to become one of the six ruling houses, alongside Xianthellipse, Arpexia, Dvora, Mirraflex and Lineacrux, filling the space in the social hierarchy that had previously been filled by the six houses; Arcalian, Cerulean, Dromeian, Patrex, Prydon and Scendeles. 

MEMBERS:

Ruthven

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URQUINEATH (from Faction Paradox: Weapons Grade Snake Oil)

A minor house officially known as the "maven house of inconsequence" and "holder of naught.” It was "one of the shittier Houseworld bloodlines.” The Hussar stole all of Urquineath's assets and gambled them away, causing the House to go bankrupt. Antigone, ashamed of the decline her House had gone through, renegaded to the newly-formed House Paradox. By the time of the War, Urquineath no longer existed and was almost completely forgotten. House Urquineath members had purple-flecked eyes. 

MEMBERS:

Antigone

The Hussar

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OTHER NEWBLOOD HOUSES WITH NO KNOWN MEMBERS:

MEDDHORAN (from Faction Paradox: Against Nature)

All its members had the house name in their names. Many of its members were seeded with biodata of lesser races, an experiment that their parent house, House Xianthellipse, considered a failure.

WETRIX (from Big Finish The Eighth Doctor Audio: The Conscript)

One of the great houses on Gallifrey.

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Gallifreyan Great Houses & Members (Part 1 - Oldbood Houses)

Compared to the Newbloods, Oldbloods were overly traditional and conservative to a fault, the definition of Gallifrey’s stagnancy, and were always noted for being stereotypically elderly or impassive. The Oldbloods were resistant to any form of change and were consistently at odds with the newer Houses, finding fault and suspicion with even the most traditionalist of their Newblood fellows. The physical differences between them were the fact that Oldblood’s were loomed with One Heart, not two. (from Faction Paradox: The Book of the War.)

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BLUEWOOD (from Faction Paradox: The Book of the Peace - A Farewell to R.M.S)

A minor house in the era before the War in Heaven.

MEMBERS:

Plume Coteries/Bookkeepers

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BLYLEDGE (from Virgin New Adventures: Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible; Virgin Missing Adventures: Cold Fusion)

A Prydonian House that predated Rassilon. 

MEMBERS:

Patience

Amnoni Distuyssor Lorizhon

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BRIGHTSHORE (from BBC Past Doctor Adventures: Divided Loyalties, Gallifrey Audio: Enemy Lines & Eighth Doctor Audio: The Conscript )

A Prydonian House known for it’s wealth and power rather than the intellectual achievement’s of it’s cousins. 

MEMBERS:

Millennia

Livia Caralis

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FORDFARDING (from Virgin New Adventures: Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible & BBC Past Doctor Adventures: The Infinity Doctors)

A founding house. 

MEMBERS:

Castellan Fordfarding (Creator/Named after)

Quennesander Olyesti Pekkary

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IXION (from Faction Paradox: The Book of the War & Faction Paradox: Newton’s Sleep)

An ancient ruling house. Like House Catherion, it went into a long, drawn-out decline and eventual death. The physical House itself became all but deserted by the time of the Imperator. Base for the organization known as the Order of the Weal. As the Order declined, the House fell into true abandonment. It may have been subsequently used as a site for the rearing of babels. 

MEMBERS:

Thessalia (Leader)

Selvynkesh

Larissa

Yellow Dog of the Thirty-One Cuts

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JADE DREAMERS (from Big Finish Audio: Zagerus)

An ancient house with one of it’s members being from the Sisterhood of Karn.

MEMBERS:

Cassandra

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LINEACRUX (from Faction Paradox: The Book of War, Faction Paradox: Going Once, Going Twice & Faction Paradox: The Brakespeare Voyage.) 

An Oldblood house considered one of the more archetypical Houses: a producer of old, ponderous men, obsessed with the rules of non-intervention and the Protocols of the Great Houses. The House was responsible for crypto-forming the Nine Homeworlds, perhaps creating the prominent status it seems to hold during the War in Heaven. They wore yellow-gold robes. 

MEMBERS:

Lady Cortalianesquertal vel-Lineacrux aka Cortalian (first renegade of house)

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LUNGBARROW (from New Virgin Adventures: Lungbarrow & BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures: Unnatural History)

A Prydonian House, with 45 Cousins. Founded as a direct response to the Curse of the Pythia, the House of Lungbarrow was one of the first Houses to be brought into existence. It gradually fell from favour in Time Lord society and eventually, 350 years after the Doctor’s Looming, Lungbarrow was deleted from the Matrix records as punishment for exceeding its Loom quota. It was later reinstated. It was located halfway up the western side of Mount Lung, from which its name derives, and overlooked the Cadonflood river.

MEMBERS:

The Doctor

Almund

Arkhew

Celesia

Chovor

Farg

Glospin

Innocet

Jobiska

Luton

Maljamin

Rynde

Salpash

Tulgel

Owis

Quences

Satthralope

The Doctor’s Father/Ulysses

Grandfather Paradox

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MIRRAFLEX (from Faction Paradox: The Book of the War, Eighth Doctor Audio: The Conscript, & Faction Paradox: Of the City of the Saved...)

A small Oldblood house and the provider of most of Gallifrey’s generals and tacticians. Cousins of Mirraflex were known to be versatile and well-discipled, yet also had a reputation for ruthlessness and extreme xenophobia. Preferred using courses of action with military force and distrusted Newblood houses, especially House Xianthelipse. 

MEMBERS:

General Mirraflex (Founder)

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STILLHAVEN (from BBC Past Doctor Adventures: Divided Loyalties & Big Finish Missy Audio: Lords and Masters)

A Prydonian house for which Deca member, Rallon, was from. On the final day of the Last Great Time War, the Patriarch of Stillhaven opposed Rassilon's Ultimate Sanction. He was shamed alongside the Woman when Rassilon tried to escape the Time War. The remaining members of the House had their memories wiped and were experimented on.

MEMBERS:

Rallon

Patriarch of Stillhaven 

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XIANTHELLIPSE (from Faction Paradox: The Book of the War, Faction Paradox: Against Nature, & Faction Paradox: The Brakespeare Voyage)

A minor House that rose to power during the War in Heaven. They experimented with the very nature of the Houses themselves to create monstrous ‘war forms’. House Arpexia was Xianthellipse's closest equal and fiercest rival. House Mirraflex looked upon Xianthellipse and its associations with the lesser species as being traitorous. 

MEMBERS:

Robert Scarratt

Minkosa

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Other Oldblood Houses with no known members:

ARPEXIA (from Faction Paradox: The Book of the War)

An Oldblood House and one of the ruling houses. It’s members were committed to reason, science and a belief in objective truth.  Better than any other bloodline at producing deep-time strategies and technical devices such as experimental models of timeship and weapons systems like the babels. They were famous for their bottomless armoury. Certain hypersensitive characteristics like night vision, a strong sense of magnetism, and hallucinatory hysterics were more common in members of House Arpexia than in the other Houses.

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CATHERION (from Faction Paradox: The Book of the War)

An ancient ruling house that is now extinct and painted by Caretakers. A grotesque massacre took place at the House following the escape of a babel, leaving only one survivor behind as it mutilated and restructured its victims.The House's breeding-engine, which had been used to create the babel, was destroyed following the massacre. As well as preventing the production of more babels, this also meant there would be no further generations loomed to the House.

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EVERSTON (from Big Finish Gallifrey Audio: Panacea)

A presumed to be Prydonian house for which Romana is the custodian of. 

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