Category:Gallifreyan Chapters

The Chapters or Chapter House of Gallifrey were the political affiliations of the various Great Houses and Families.

There appear to have be six chapters (The Ancestor Cell) each representing one of the founders of Time Lord society. The most prominent were the Prydonian Chapter closely followed by the Arcalian Chapter and the Patrex Chapter. The remaining three, the Dromeian Chapter, the Cerulean Chapter and the Scendles Chapter were overshadowed by the former.

Each Chapter had it's own dominant colour, and wore robes of that colour for ceremonial occasions.


 * Prydonians, Scarlet and Orange
 * Arcalians, Green
 * Patrexes, Heliotrope (bright purple)
 * Dromeians, Silver Grey
 * Ceruleans, Blue
 * Scendles, unknown

Gold was reserved for Gold Usher (The Deadly Assassin)

The heads of the Chapters were the Lord Cardinals, and the chief of these in a chapter was known as the Cardinal Prime (Lungbarrow and The Deadly Assassin novel) Both Lenadi and Borusa served as this for the Prydonian Chapter.

According to Commander Hallan in the BFG Gallifrey Audio Series marriage was a way of strengthening the bonds between Houses and Chapters.