Theory:Timeline - War in Heaven

This page lists appearances of the War in Heaven in chronological order. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed as much as possible, but still with exceptions, that Time Lords meet in the same order. These cases will be noted. In many cases there are sequences of stories from different Time Lords' perspectives, where individual stories can not be compared.

Limiting factors
The Book of the War provides several guidelines for constructing a timeline. The Second Wave began terrorising Faction Paradox in year 6 of the War, and the Fourth Wave, with biodiverse elements like Robert Scarratt, began in year 17. Humanoid 103-form timeships can only appear after year 10, and Cwejen were first created in year 29.

Any story with the Eleven-Day Empire must take place before AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire. Any story with Mictlan must take place before PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5, and any story with the War King must take place before AUDIO: Body Politic. Any story set during the War must be before COMIC: Political Animals.

Before the War

 * PROSE: Cobweb and Ivory
 * The enemy is planning for the War.


 * PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet
 * Grandfather Paradox is released from prison.


 * PROSE: Gramps
 * The Grandfather loses his arm.


 * PROSE: Alien Bodies
 * The Eighth Doctor first encounters the War.


 * PROSE: Unnatural History
 * Faction Paradox has plans for the Doctor.


 * PROSE: Interference (main story)
 * The Doctor's timeline is disrupted.


 * PROSE: The Blue Angel
 * A facet of the War is breaking out in the Obverse.


 * PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5
 * The Doctor is looking for a way back into the Obverse when he again intersects the War.


 * PROSE: Enemy of the Daleks
 * The Doctor meets the Klade and makes Last Contact. Screaming, he is pulled into a portal.


 * PROSE: The Book of the War: Rivera Manuscript
 * A renegade captured by the enemy is dosed with praxis and foresees the Event.


 * PROSE: Interference (framing narrative) / Toy Story
 * The Doctor has met the enemy, but the TARDIS wiped his knowledge of the event.

Romana's Gallifrey

 * AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element
 * The Etra Prime incident is identified as a precursor to the War in The Ancestor Cell.


 * AUDIO: Enemy Lines
 * Romana regenerates into her third incarnation.


 * AUDIO: Intervention Earth
 * The precogs and the Matrix are beginning to predict that Gallifrey will be destroyed. Omega returns.


 * PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon
 * Romana III has realised that War is coming.


 * AUDIO: Luna Romana
 * Romana III commissions a new generation of Battle TARDISes.


 * PROSE: The Banquo Legacy
 * Romana's agents find Compassion and bring her to Gallifrey.


 * PROSE: The Ancestor Cell / The Gallifrey Chronicles (flashbacks)
 * Romana has built the Nine Gallifreys. The War has not yet reached Romana's Gallifrey. Faction Paradox attacks from the future, and the Doctor destroys the planet.


 * PROSE: Now or Thereabouts / With All Awry
 * The Doctor's timeline is shattered and he's recuperating in the Eleven-Day Empire. Ceol evicts him.


 * PROSE: The Burning - Escape Velocity
 * The Doctor spends a hundred years on Earth, disconnected from the War.

The War King's Homeworld

 * PROSE: The Infinity Doctors
 * The Master has returned to Gallifrey and is an advisor to the Lord President. The Doctor solves the Omega crisis.


 * PROSE: Alien Bodies (flashbacks from Qixotl and the Shift)
 * The War begins in the Cataclysm.


 * PROSE: Holding Pattern
 * Faction Paradox's armies clash against the Great Houses and the Enemy on Mercy.


 * PROSE: Newtons Sleep
 * The Faction is being devastated by the Second Wave (6th year of the War)


 * PROSE: Interference - Book One / Interference - Book Two (evacuation of Ordifica)
 * Ordifica is destroyed by the High Council (6th year of the War)


 * PROSE: The Parliament of Rats
 * Lethe is temporally devastated by the War.


 * PROSE: Against Nature
 * The Fourth Wave (y17) exists. The Eleven-Day Empire is still intact.


 * PROSE: Dead Romance
 * Cwejen don't exist yet; Cwej regenerates. (Shortly before the Cwejen's formation in y29.)


 * PROSE: Erasing Sherlock
 * Krakatoa erupts.


 * PROSE: Erasing Sherlock Prologue
 * PROSE: A Gallery of Pigeons
 * AUDIO: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel
 * PROSE: The Book of the Enemy
 * Sherlock Holmes is erased from history.


 * PROSE: Prologue to Warring States
 * PROSE: Warring States
 * 41st year of the War. Krakatoa's eruption awakened Octavia's witchblood.


 * PROSE: Warlords of Utopia
 * 46th year of the War.


 * PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage
 * Scarratt recalls the war between alternate Romes and alternate Germanys.


 * PROSE: The Little Drummer Boy
 * Arbitrary positioning. A humanoid timeship appears.


 * PROSE: Of the City of the Saved...
 * Nominally. 48th year of the War.


 * PROSE: Prologue to This Town Will Never Let Us Go
 * PROSE: This Town Will Never Let Us Go
 * Mad Norwegian convention places each book before its predecessor.


 * PROSE: The Book of the War (for the authors)
 * 50th year of the War. Mictlan still exists. Justine is being moved from Dronid to Earth.


 * PROSE: Alien Bodies (for the Faction)
 * Justine fails her first mission.


 * AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire / The Shadow Play
 * Justine is upset she failed her first mission. The Eleven-Day Empire is destroyed. Lolita has her baby.


 * AUDIO: Sabbath Dei / In the Year of the Cat
 * Justine tries to reestablish the Faction in the 1780s. Lolita is Queen Charlotte. Compassion is being manifested in the body of Mary Culver.


 * AUDIO: Movers / A Labyrinth of Histories
 * PROSE: Library Pictures / Future Legend
 * Iris mentions the destruction of the Eleven-Day Empire.


 * PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5
 * Mictlan is destroyed. The War King is still alive.


 * PROSE: The Book of the War (for the Shift)
 * AUDIO: Coming to Dust
 * Justine is still trying to reestablish the Faction in the 1780s.


 * AUDIO: The Ship of a Billion Years
 * AUDIO: Body Politic
 * AUDIO: Words from Nine Divinities
 * The War King is killed.


 * AUDIO: Ozymandias
 * AUDIO: The Judgment of Sutekh
 * Horus says Lolita won't be a concern anymore.


 * PROSE: Head of State (election)
 * Lolita becomes President of the United States and announces her plan to drill into Earth's caldera.


 * PROSE: Spinning Jenny
 * Faction Paradox gets a new home.


 * PROSE: Head of State (future Burton)
 * Burton initiates his past self into the Faction.

After the War

 * COMIC: Political Animals
 * The War is over. Catherine the Great gives George III a woolly mammoth.


 * COMIC: Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses
 * COMIC: Creatures of Habit
 * PROSE: Father Time (Doctor's perspective)
 * The Klade is confused that the Doctor does not recognize them from Last Contact.


 * PROSE: Escape Velocity
 * The Doctor emerges from his 100-year exile on Earth.


 * PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
 * George III's mammoth is mentioned again. The Master visits the Doctor.


 * PROSE: Grass
 * Early 19th century. Catherine's gift of a mammoth to George III is mentioned.


 * AUDIO: Death Comes to Time / The Minister of Chance
 * There are very few Time Lords left, and their role in reality is being replaced.


 * PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles
 * The Eighth Doctor is planning to restore Gallifrey. The Minister of Chance is one of the four surviving elementals.


 * PROSE: The Eyeless
 * The Tenth Doctor destroys a weapon from the War.


 * PROSE: Four Doctors (alternate timeline)
 * The Tenth Doctor becomes the Time Lord Victorious and rules the universe as the Emperor.


 * PROSE: Father Time (Klade's perspective) / COMIC: Miranda
 * In the far future, the Emperor rules the universe from the Needle.

Unplaced

 * PROSE: Storyteller
 * PROSE: Mightier than the Sword
 * PROSE: Nothing Lasts Forever
 * PROSE: A Story of the Peace
 * PROSE: Print the Legend
 * PROSE: Tonton Macoute
 * PROSE: Alchemy
 * PROSE: Raleigh Dreaming
 * PROSE: Office Politics
 * PROSE: ...and from the Tower She Did Fall
 * PROSE: La Santa Muerte
 * PROSE: Dos Hombres - A Fable
 * PROSE: All the Fun of the Fear
 * PROSE: Wing Finger
 * PROSE: The Strings
 * PROSE: Squatters' Rights
 * PROSE: After the Velvet Eon
 * PROSE: Remake/Remodel
 * PROSE: A Star's View of Caroline
 * PROSE: De Umbris Idearum
 * PROSE: Playing for Time
 * PROSE: Dreamer in the Dark
 * PROSE: Annie's Arms
 * PROSE: The Mountains are Higher at Home
 * PROSE: Judy's War
 * PROSE: Red Rover Red Rover
 * PROSE: The Víkingr Mystique
 * PROSE: Life of Julia
 * PROSE: Project Thunderbird