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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3644992" data-attributes="member: 18280">The Guardians of TimeTwo Guardians of Time, nearly omnipotent and immortal beings are responsible for maintaining the balance of the cosmos, personifying the Causal Nexus.  The White Guardian represents life, order, and “good”, whereas the Black Guardian represents death, chaos, and “evil”.  Essentially, they characterize diversified structure and homogenised entropy.  Few beings know that they exist – the High Council of Gallifrey and the Eternals were the only two mentioned specifically, and the Guardians were known to the Eternals as “The Enlighteners”.The Guardians have almost limitless powers, but they are only able to use them indirectly.  They can manipulate coincidence, grant a portion of their power (temporarily or permanently) to others, or send agents to deal with a being or situation that concerns them.  They are also able to create paradoxes without causing problems with time – a feat that even Time Lords have difficulty with.The Black Guardian has been known to use the Shadow, Vislor Turlough, and the Eternal Captain Wrack as agents. In addition, the Black Guardian masqueraded as the White Guardian in an attempt to convince the 4th Doctor to give him the Key to Time.The White Guardian has, at this time, only been known to use the Doctor and his companions as agents.  It is said that the Guardians of Time would exist until neither is needed any more.  It is uncertain what part the Guardians had in the Time War.  It is also uncertain whether or not they were still needed thereafter.  The Guardians of Time were once near-mythical; they might now be extinct.The Key to Time:  This is a perfect crystalline cube made up of six irregularly-shaped segments and a wand-like locator core.  The segments are scattered through time and space, and each segment is normally disguised as a being or object.  While each of these segments can be harnessed as a source of incredible power (even while hidden), when brought together and assembled using the locator core, they become an artefact of unlimited power.  A being that holds the Key to Time can mould reality to his desire, merely by naming it.  When the 4th Doctor, the 1st Romana, and K-9 Mark II were sent by the White Guardian to collect and assemble the pieces of the Key to Time, they were disguised as a lump of jethrik, the planet Calufrax, the Great Seal of Diplos, part of a statue on Tara, a holy relic swallowed by Kroll on the moon of Delta Magna, and the Princess Astra of Atrios.  When the 4th Doctor caused the Key to be scattered again throughout time and space, he restored Princess Astra by ordering the 6th Segment to again take her form.  The location of the other five segments is unknown.</blockquote>

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