The Guide to the Dark Times

More a teaser trailer than anything, listing the different groups you can expect to see from the event and how they fit in.

I do like the details they retcon in here though about how the other peoples we know of from the dark times fit in here, how the daemons fought, the eternals fled, the racnoss hid, and Sutekh and The Great Vampires made a deal.

There's that thing you get in a lot of stories where to show off how big and strong a new threat is, you have them come in and easily beat up the old threat, and that's basically what this is, but with some fun worldbuilding. I always love it when the whoniverse deals with death as a concept and I think it works well here

📝6/10 = FINE!

Time Lording through time and space, one victory at a time! This time: who’s who in Who!

This little story in the Doctor Who 2021 Annual is written like a news article by River Song. It fleshes out the main players of the TLV event—the Kotturuh and races who have come into contact with them, such as the Racnoss, the Osirians, the Eternals, the Dæmons, and the Time Lords. It's well-written and a good help to get a grip on the overall story arc, but it’s not essential.