Kronos

Kronos, also spelt Cronus, was the most fearsome of the Chronovores, a species of extradimensional creatures that devoured time. He and his siblings were worshipped as Titans by the ancient Greeks (PROSE: The End Times), and by the people of Atlantis, which he eventually destroyed. Kronos described himself as "a destroyer, a healer, a creator ... beyond good and evil". (TV: The Time Monster)

Biography
By one account, Kronos was the offspring of a Chronovore known as Prometheus and an Eternal known as Elektra, a union which violated the Ancient Covenant. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel) At the moment of his birth, Kronos was imprisoned in a crystal and was cast down to the Ephemeral universe. Eventually, the crystal landed on the planet of the Constructors of Destiny, where he influenced their culture and became a godlike figure to them. Kronos continued to have this effect on other planets and culture he encountered, including the Dæmons. The Dæmons then sent the crystal to Atlantis on Earth, so it could destroy it, because the Dæmons deemed it a failed experiment. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel)

In Greek mythology, Kronos was the Titan who ate his children, including Poseidon, but was eventually overthrown and supplanted by his son Zeus. (TV: The Time Monster) These stories, "in some brainmelting timeless way", were actually true, and reflected a struggle between primal, extradimensional forces. (PROSE: The End Times)



In the 1970s, gained control of a fragment of the crystal, and used it to summon Kronos so enslave him. This failed and the Master went back in time to the last days of Atlantis. Kronos ruined the city. In the aftermath, he stopped both the Doctor's and the Master's TARDIS in the Time Vortex and, appearing as a huge, translucent female face, asked the Third Doctor whether he wanted Kronos to destroy the Master. The Doctor demurred, Kronos let him free, and the Master escaped into his TARDIS. (TV: The Time Monster)

During the Quantum Archangel crisis, Kronos created the persona of Paul Kairos, a student under Ruth Ingram and Stuart Hyde, to manifest upon Earth. Kairos, through miraculous talent, had reverse-engineered the Master's TOMTIT device, and created an enhanced version, the TITAN Array. He was stripped of the rights to his own invention, the quantum lattice, by Anjeliqua Whitefriar, and was in a relationship with a fellow student, Arlene Cole.

As Kairos, Kronos worked with the Sixth Doctor and helped end the crisis by shedding his human guise and attacking the Mad Mind of Bophemeral during a violent engagement between the Archangel and the Doctor. Following this, he allowed the Kairos persona to remain active as an independent being, but not before Kronos was forced to sacrifice his life in order to destroy the Mad Mind. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel)

Behind the scenes

 * The name Kronos refers back to Greek mythology; was the father of the Olympian Gods.
 * The Titan Cronus (Kronos) has been conflated with, the Greek embodiment of time.