Members of Faction Paradox, unlike Time Lords, may come from any planet and be of any race. There is a predisposition towards humanoids as the Faction was founded by a Time Lord (The Gallifreyan imprint on the universe as the first sentient species predisposed the evolution of sentient races to mimic them).

Faction members of low rank will have undergone very few rituals, and as such will have the normal attributes of their race. Higher ranked members will have endured more, and begun cutting themselves off from linear time. These rituals enhance attributes, give them various gifts and spells and begin to dissassociate the being from the World of their birth moving them more towards creatures of the Void, those outside the World.

Time Travel must be Option B. Occasionally the members of the Faction and their base of operations inhabit the single timeline microcosm that is dillegently policed by the Time Lords. However, quite often they are completely destroyed or made to never have existed. This usually means that alternate timelines and paradoxes that have split off from the main timeline that still contain Faction members will eventually get around to repopulating the main timeline again with their presence.

The Grandfather, who founded the Faction, was removed from the main timeline for the majority of its existence, and possibly from every alternate timeline and paradox - as no member has yet been able to find or communicate with him.

see Faction Powers