Higher Evolutionaries or High Evolutionaries were the oldest and most powerful time-aware beings in the universe. They included Time Lords, Lords of Althrace, Merlin the Wise, (COMIC: The Tides of Time) members of the Order of the Black Sun and many more across at least a billion planets. (COMIC: The Final Chapter) The Evolutionaries hired the Threshold to try and prevent the Daleks from invading parallel universes. (COMIC: Fire and Brimstone, Wormwood)