Time of Chaos

Lady Peinforte suggested that the Seventh Doctor has secrets related to "Gallifrey, the Old Time, and the Time of Chaos (TV: Silver Nemesis) However, the name of Time of Chaos was applied inconsistently to early periods in the history of Gallifrey and the universe at large.

The Tenth Doctor treated the term as synonymous with the Dark Times. (TV: The Infinite Quest) Rassilon also equated the terms, once reminding the Other that he had "shut the gate on the Time of Chaos" (PROSE: Lungbarrow) through the anchoring of the thread. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet, The Book of the War)

In Quartinian's account of Gallifreyan history, however, the Time of Chaos was the merely second era of the Age of the Pythias. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible) Charley Pollard witnessed a simulation of the Great Mother's visit to Rassilon's Foundry in the Time of Chaos. (AUDIO: Zagreus)