The Hybrid

The Prophecy of the Hybrid, (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual) otherwise shortened to simply the Hybrid, was a Gallifreyan legend that said all Matrix prophecies predicted that a hybrid creature, thought to be crossbred from two warrior races, would stand over the ruins of Gallifrey and unravel the Web of Time, breaking a billion billion hearts to heal its own. (TV: Hell Bent) According to the Dalek Combat Training Manual, the text of the legend dated back to the Cloister Wars, (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual) while another account claimed it was the first prophecy that was made by the Matrix, but it was ignored at the time given that it was forecasted to occur billions of years in the future. (PROSE: A Brief History of Time Lords) Nonetheless, the Time Lords were certain it would come eventually. (TV: Heaven Sent)

The Dalek Combat Manual, even despite being part of a confidential chapter intended only for section leaders, blanked out what the text of the legend actually entailed. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual) On the last day of the Last Great Time War, the Visionary had predicted Gallifrey would fall. (TV: The End of Time) When the planet survived the Time War, (TV: The Day of the Doctor) began to fear that the Hybrid would bring about the prophesied fall. Convinced by that the Twelfth Doctor knew about the creature, (PROSE: A Brief History of Time Lords) he trapped and imprisoned the Doctor in his confession dial for information about the Hybrid. (TV: Hell Bent)

Behind the scenes

 * Although Hell Bent, among other series 9 episodes, offered multiple possibilities as to the identity/nature of the Hybrid, showrunner Steven Moffat, in an interview for Doctor Who Magazine #504, confirmed that he intended that the Hybrid was the pairing of the Doctor and Clara. He retroactively linked this fact to the reason why the Doctor's TARDIS exhibited some hostility towards Clara in series 7.
 * The events of The Timeless Children fit multiple aspects of the Hybrid. For example, 's fusing with the Cyberium made him a hybrid between two warrior races, the Time Lords and the Cybermen. Additionally, the CyberMasters were Cyber-Warriors converted from dead Time Lords, thereby making them a hybrid species of Time Lord and Cyberman. Furthermore, the Master stood over the ruins of Gallifrey after learning the story of the Timeless Child and murdering the Time Lords in his rage, thereby "breaking a billion hearts to heal [his] own". However, no official source, in-universe or not, has made any correlation between the events of The Timeless Children and the Hybrid.