Faction Paradox


 * For the book and audio series, see Faction Paradox (series).

Faction Paradox, once known as House Paradox, were a time-active faction devoted to the promulgation of temporal paradoxes and opposed to the Time Lords and their philosophy of rationality and stability. Founded by Grandfather Paradox, their base is located in the Eleven-Day Empire. They delighted in creating time paradoxes and played a neutral role in The War between the Time Lords and the Enemy.

Origins
Seceding from the House of Lungbarrow (NA: Christmas on a Rational Planet), Grandfather Paradox created House Paradox around four hundred years before what would have been the War in Heaven. To the Time Lords (now made sterile by Pythia's curse), the title of “Grandfather” was as offensive as the new House's interest in perverting Time and their mockery to Time Lords' pretension to immortality implicit in House Paradox's death fetishism. Due to their constant boundary pushing (such as recruiting members from the "Lesser Species") and the Grandfather's grandstanding in the High Council, House Paradox was stripped (perhaps at the behest of the Grandfather) of their rights as a House and reformed itself as a Faction. (FP: The Book of the War)

Two thousand years before the Second War in Heaven the Faction Paradox had a homeworld to itself. They were believed to had gotten corrupt at this point and became involved with several sordid criminal activities. Whilst they believed they were safe from the Time Lords due to their blood rites, their activities involved the peddling of time travel technology which drew the wrath of the Time Lords who wiped out the inhabitants of the Faction homeworld. However, a few survived which continued their activity of sharing advanced technology with the natives on various colonies. During that time, they built up a number of cults and secret societies throughout the universe which included the Order of the Rectangle, the Cult of the Black Sun and Luminus. (EDA: Interference - Book One) The Grandfather founded the Eleven-Day Empire during this time, but was arrested and imprisoned on Shada before House Paradox had Loomed its first generation. (FP: The Book of the War)



On escaping during the crisis surrounding the Carnival Queen (NA: Christmas on a Rational Planet) the Grandfather surrendered Paradox's status as a House, transforming it instead into a Faction. Departing Gallifrey and starting to recruit members from other species, Faction Paradox completed the transition from Gallifreyan chapterhouse into a cult. (FP: The Book of the War)

Near the start of the Second War in Heaven, the War King hired House Lolita to destroy the Eleven-Day Empire. Doing so Lolita wiped out all members of Faction Paradox apart from Cousins Justine and Eliza. (BBV: The Eleven Day Empire)

Fifty years into the War, the Faction had managed to recruit enough new members and technology to once again become a major force in the War. (FP: The Book of the War)

Members of the Faction led by Mother Francesca, survived the Second War in Heaven and attempt to rebuild the Faction in London, 1774. (FP: Political Animals)