I hand wave that with 'higher races'. I.e., the Daleks and Time Lords fought, waves of change and counterchange convulsed the universe, the little races went on ticking over not remembering that up until 'now' they had been green flibbery things, not blue spiky things. While higher beings like Gelth can remember being corporeal, even though in the timeline as it exists now they've always been gaseous. The ones that didn't go crazy passed on the legend.
Plus I figure that time is all twisted and scarred; maybe your race remembers fighting the Daleks, yet if you go back to that legendary period in a time machine you won't find any Daleks... yet when you jump forward year by year the stories still begin.
So, yes, perhaps the same thing that saved the Doctor from death has killed the thing that imposes that arbitary limit of regenerations.
Ten's emo only really makes sense in that context. He's gone through lives at a rate of about one a century, which means that odds are he won't make it more than 3-500 more years if he only had 13. And he's got access to the whole of the timeline. Cassandra was hundreds of years old, IIRC, and for most of those was in a regular body. If he wanted to, he could just pop them up the timeline to a nice body shop and get them tuned up for a few hundred years themselves. If he's really immortal, this doesn't work so well.
Plus, there's something gloriously creepy about the idea. Constantly dying and being reborn, bound to the wheel. As if his reward and punishment for the genocide was to live long enough to do everything the Timelords once would have done.
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Plus I figure that time is all twisted and scarred; maybe your race remembers fighting the Daleks, yet if you go back to that legendary period in a time machine you won't find any Daleks... yet when you jump forward year by year the stories still begin.
So, yes, perhaps the same thing that saved the Doctor from death has killed the thing that imposes that arbitary limit of regenerations.
Ten's emo only really makes sense in that context. He's gone through lives at a rate of about one a century, which means that odds are he won't make it more than 3-500 more years if he only had 13. And he's got access to the whole of the timeline. Cassandra was hundreds of years old, IIRC, and for most of those was in a regular body. If he wanted to, he could just pop them up the timeline to a nice body shop and get them tuned up for a few hundred years themselves. If he's really immortal, this doesn't work so well.
Plus, there's something gloriously creepy about the idea. Constantly dying and being reborn, bound to the wheel. As if his reward and punishment for the genocide was to live long enough to do everything the Timelords once would have done.