Theory:Timeline - Time Lord Victorious

This page lists the orders of the Time Lord Victorious meta-narrative, basing its information from the Time Lord Victorious website.

Road to Time Lord Victorious

 * PROSE: The Dawn of the Kotturuh
 * PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times (Kotturuh content)
 * In the original timeline, the Kotturuh spread death through the universe in the Dark Times, leading to the present day in which death is common.
 * TV: The Deadly Assassin, TV: State of Decay, TV: The Curse of Fenric, TV: The Runaway Bride
 * As revealed in various stories, most notably The Guide to the Dark Times, these stories show the result of the Kotturuh's spread of death during the Dark Times. Other television stories indicated within Time Lord Victorious to have been impacted the Kotturuh's gift of death include The Dæmons, Pyramids of Mars, The Hand of Fear, City of Death, Enlightenment, and The Timeless Children.


 * AUDIO: Lesser Evils
 * In the original timeline, the Kotturuh exist into the Doctor's era, which is intended to be shown in Lesser Evils. (DWM 556) This is further confirmed in AUDIO: The Enemy of My Enemy.


 * TV: Genesis of the Daleks, TV: Planet of the Daleks
 * These television stories are included in The Road to the Dark Times boxset because they show growing hostilities between the Daleks and Time Lords, which will lead into the Daleks' actions in Time Lord Victorious. Planet of the Daleks also shows the Daleks' use of suspended animation.


 * PROSE: The Restoration Empire (backstory)
 * Having not yet declared war with the Time Lords, the Daleks establish the Restoration Empire after TV: Remembrance of the Daleks.


 * PROSE: Can I Help You?
 * Brian the Ood is active as an assassin.


 * COMIC: A Little Help from My Friends / Alternating Current
 * After the Doctor lives through the Time War, a young Tenth Doctor has several time-breaking encounters with the Thirteenth Doctor which lead to the Tenth Doctor being pulled into the Time Fracture timeline created by his future self. After the events of COMIC: Defender of the Daleks, the Tenth Doctor is returned to normal history.


 * TV: The Waters of Mars (until the Doctor takes Adelaide Brooke to Earth)
 * An older Tenth Doctor gets involved in events on Mars and changes human history by saving the life of Adelaide Brooke.

Time Fracture in the Doctor's Era

 * TV: The Waters of Mars
 * PROSE: What the TARDIS thought of "Time Lord Victorious"
 * As Adelaide Brooke walks out of the TARDIS onto Davies Street during The Waters of Mars, her presence forms a Time Fracture which instantly spreads through time. The TARDIS quickly forms a plan for the Doctor's future which will be enacted in PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead, and the sheer immensity of what the Tenth Doctor will do to the Kotturuh travels backwards in a tangle of cause and effect to affect the chaos caused by the Time Fracture.


 * WC: UNIT Field Logs


 * GAME: The Edge of Time
 * PROSE: Canaries
 * PROSE: He's Behind You / Visiting Hours / A Perfect Christmas / The Paradox Moon
 * The Time Fracture scatters paradoxical objects throughout time, which result in the resurrection of Different and Same.


 * PROSE: The Last Message
 * The end of Time Lord Victorious wraps around to its beginning, with the  Trailer reaching the Daleks. The Dalek Restoration Empire decides to invade the Archive of Islos, which was founded in the Dark Times in AUDIO: The Minds of Magnox.
 * PROSE: Secrets of Time Lord Victorious
 * WC: The Archive of Islos
 * WC: The Sentinel of the Fifth Galaxy
 * WC: Planet of the Mechanoids
 * WC: The Deadly Ally
 * WC: Day of Reckoning
 * COMIC: Defender of the Daleks
 * After failing to get the help of a younger Tenth Doctor, the Daleks decide to use the Eighth Doctor.


 * AUDIO: He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not
 * The Eighth Doctor continues investigating changes in time and meets Brian the Ood. Brian is thrown into the Time Vortex, and the Tenth Doctor's TARDIS witnesses and influences his fall through time in "What the TARDIS thought of 'Time Lord Victorious'". The Eighth Doctor is intercepted by the Dalek Time Squad.
 * AUDIO: The Enemy of My Enemy
 * The Wraxians have made the Devolver from Kotturuh crystals which survived past the Dark Times. After dealing with them, the Doctor and the Dalek Time Squad travel to the Dark Times.
 * AUDIO: Master Thief
 * The Master visits Wrax after the events of The Enemy of My Enemy and repurposes the weapon which the Daleks had sought to obtain.


 * PROSE: What the TARDIS thought of "Time Lord Victorious" / TV: The Waters of Mars
 * The TARDIS finishes manipulating the chaos caused by the Time Fracture, and ensures that the Tenth, Ninth, and Eighth Doctors all fall through the Time Fracture into the Dark Times.

In the Dark Times

 * COMIC: Monstrous Beauty
 * The Ninth Doctor arrives in the Dark Times. This story apparently occurs concurrently with the Tenth Doctor's arrival in the Dark Times.


 * PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead
 * The Tenth Doctor arrives in the Dark Times directly after The Waters of Mars. He determines that he will kill the Kotturuh and thus end death, but before he can do the deed the Ninth and Tenth Doctor arrive to stop him.


 * PROSE: All Flesh is Grass (Battle of Mordeela)
 * COMIC: Tales of the Dark Times


 * AUDIO: The Minds of Magnox
 * The Tenth Doctor and Brian visit Magnox and are followed by the Kotturuh.


 * PROSE: All Flesh is Grass
 * PROSE: Mission to the Known
 * Several weeks after the battle of Mordeela, the Doctors convene. The Kotturuh crisis is resolved. For the Eighth Doctor and Daleks, this novel leads directly into Mutually Assured Destruction.
 * As a result of the extinction of the Kotturuh, the events of AUDIO: The Enemy of My Enemy occur.


 * COMIC: Monstrous Beauty (final scene)
 * The Ninth Doctor meets up with Rose and they leave the Dark Times.


 * AUDIO: The Minds of Magnox (epilogue)
 * The Eleventh Doctor visits the Dark Times to check up on the outcomes of his previous incarnation's actions.

Fate of the Time Squad

 * AUDIO: Mutually Assured Destruction
 * PROSE: Exit Strategy
 * The Dalek Time Squad and the Eighth Doctor leave the Dark Times, and all of the Daleks save the Dalek Prime Strategist apparently die. However, a Dalek Drone also somehow survives, leading to:


 * GAME: The Hollow Planet
 * The Dalek Drone is discovered in the rock of a mining planet. It has a warning about the Doctor.


 * WC:  Trailer
 * This warning reaches the Daleks at the beginning of Time Lord Victorious in PROSE: The Last Message.


 * WC: Doctor Who - Genetics of the Daleks
 * AUDIO: Genetics of the Daleks
 * The Dalek is taken aboard Starship Future in the 30th century. The ending leads directly to the next story.


 * GAME: A Dalek Awakens
 * The Dalek Drone is destroyed with the help of the Thirteenth Doctor.


 * After the events of Time Lord Victorious, the Daleks decide to fight the Last Great Time War. (PROSE: Exit Strategy)

Eighth Doctor path

 * AUDIO: He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not


 * AUDIO: The Enemy of My Enemy

Ninth Doctor path

 * COMIC: Monstrous Beauty

Tenth Doctor path

 * COMIC: Defender of the Daleks


 * TV: The Waters of Mars


 * PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead

Daleks path

 * PROSE: The Last Message


 * WC: The Archive of Islos


 * WC: The Sentinels of the Fifth Galaxy


 * COMIC: Defender of the Daleks


 * AUDIO: The Enemy of My Enemy

Brian the Ood path

 * PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead


 * AUDIO: He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not

Kotturuh path

 * PROSE: The Dawn of the Kotturuh


 * PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times


 * PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead


 * AUDIO: The Minds of Magnox


 * AUDIO: The Enemy of My Enemy


 * AUDIO: Have I Told You Lately?


 * AUDIO: Lesser Evils