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Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
The Lady of Pain The greatest entity in Sigil is the Lady of Pain, an eternal being who watches over the Cage. She appears almost human, although she most definitely isn’t. She wears ornate robes
that shroud her body, and a mantle of blades coated in blue-green verdigris surrounds her masklike face. No one is certain who or what exactly the Lady of Pain is, but it’s widely accepted she’s a being
Monsters
Lady of Pain.
Dabus patrol the City of Doors to maintain public buildings, portals, and utilities. They use their innate ability to manipulate Sigil’s infrastructure not only to effect repairs
but also to combat individuals who disrupt the city’s operations or violate the Lady’s edicts, hurling bricks at troublemakers and subduing them by causing the streets to sprout grasping
Races
were first created by the Lady of Pain to patrol the magical mazes that she uses to trap her foes.
Minotaur horns range in size from about 1 foot long to easily three times that length. Minotaurs often
Monsters
only leader the faction has ever had. A popular Duster legend holds that other than the Lady of Pain herself, Skall is Sigil’s oldest resident, the first creature to live and die in the City of
backgrounds
weapons. Or you might have grown up in Whitestone, perhaps even remembering the brutal days when Lord and Lady Briarwood ruled your homeland—a reign that began some thirty years ago and lasted for
haunts the mind of its creator, Percival de Rolo, manifesting as a pain that lives always behind his kind eyes.
You were granted a musket or a pistol (as described in the fifth edition core rules
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Interfering with the Lady The Lady of Pain is omnipresent, unknowable, and invincible. With a look, she can flense troublesome creatures to within an inch of their lives. Any creature that targets
learned its lesson, the Lady sends it to the Mazes in the next blink. Similar to other godlike beings, the Lady of Pain has no stat block. She is beyond the ability of characters to defeat by conventional means.
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
—pathways controlled by the enigmatic Lady of Pain. Terraform Studios Dabus—floating, silent servants of the Lady of
Pain found only in Sigil—protect the City of Doors
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
The Mazes The Mazes are demiplanar cages created by the Lady of Pain. Reserved for would-be power mongers and dissidents who threaten the city on a grand scale—or foolishly target the Lady herself
the Lady of Pain leaves a single portal in every Maze, but finding the escape route is all but impossible for the imprisoned, as even if such portals exist, they can’t be detected through magical means. The few who claim to have escaped the Mazes are quickly branded as liars.
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
unpredictably, and portals cease to function. The Incanterium is to blame. 3 Without warning, the Lady of Pain sends two-thirds of Sigil’s population to the Mazes. It’s up to the characters to figure
, bringing the conflict to the city. 6 Dozens of dead factions unite in Undersigil. They mount an uprising on the surface and attempt to oust several factions. 7 The Lady of Pain locks the Cage without
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Dabus Dabus are silent, floating beings who serve the Lady of Pain. Found only in Sigil, dabus communicate through visual rebuses, conjured illusory images that convey their thoughts. Dabus maintain
Compendium
- Sources->Monsters of the Multiverse
minotaurs were first created by the Lady of Pain to patrol the magical mazes that she uses to trap her foes. Minotaur horns range in size from about 1 foot long to easily three times that length
Compendium
- Sources->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Shar The Mistress of the Night, the Dark Lady, Our Lady of Loss The dark twin of Selûne, Shar is the goddess of darkness, both in its physical form and as it exists in the minds and souls of mortals
have the power to make folk forget their pain or become inured to a loss, and many people in distress pray to Shar for such a blessing. Shar is revered by those who must venture into dark places and so
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
do, authorities maintain order and stifle cosmic peril. Only when these eruptions threaten the city on a grand scale does the Lady of Pain intervene. Humans are the earliest known inhabitants of the
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
backgrounds, feats inspired by the planes, and a collection of spells and magic items appropriate for planar travelers. Chapter 2 introduces the mind-boggling city of Sigil, the enigmatic Lady of Pain
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
place, and ruined city blocks are restored. These are dabus, the silent caretakers of Sigil and loyal servants of the Lady of Pain. Dabus patrol the City of Doors to maintain public buildings, portals
).
Claudio Pozas (l), Isabel Gibney (r) A Dabus Rebus That Translates as “Leave at Once, the Lady Commands It”
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
from citizenry, travelers, and even the ranks of other factions. In the meantime, they vie for power in the Cage in a way that doesn’t upset Sigil’s order or provoke the Lady of Pain. Factions are led by
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Parade) requests the characters’ aid in removing someone or someplace from Sigil before the Lady of Pain learns of it.
Pindurski Not all planar wanderers
travel to Sigil intentionally
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
teleportation circles, the Lady of Pain prevents spells and other powers from allowing anything to enter the City of Doors. That means creatures and objects from outside in the multiverse can’t be
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Spiral, still functions. However, like the portal to Hopeless, it is difficult to reach. Additionally, unleashing thousands of modrons on Sigil is dangerous. Should this happen, the Lady of Pain
Compendium
- Sources->Candlekeep Mysteries
helmet with its shattered horn hangs above the fireplace hearth. Vecken is sympathetic to the characters’ objectives because he still feels the pain of Sarah’s death five years ago. Any talk of the
other three servants were interred in the public cemetery, Waterdeep’s City of the Dead. The remains of Lady Maria and her children were not. Vecken remembers talk of Lord Viallis wanting his wife
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeon Master’s Guide
of all kinds are bought and sold here. The city is the domain of the inscrutable Lady of Pain, a being as old as gods and with purposes unknown to even the sages of her city. Is Sigil her prison? Is she the fallen creator of the multiverse? No one knows. Or if they do, they aren’t telling.
Compendium
- Sources->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
inscrutable game, the rules of which are known only to her and the Lady of Pain. Others suggest that she is balancing the multiverse by having mortals complete various tasks, and some say that it is
After the Fall After the nagpas were created and then banished by the Raven Queen, the shadar-kai watched as she fell deeper and deeper into a divine madness. Her pain and turmoil over the betrayal
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
brain three times the size of its body and cost the rat its fur. The Node hovers above the ground, held aloft by its own intellect. The rat swears vengeance against the Lady of Pain, promising untold
, and melted-down manacles and chains. A cranium rat genius broods within the junk piles. Called the Node, the hairless rat claims to have escaped the Lady of Pain’s Mazes—a feat that bestowed it a
Compendium
- Sources->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
Factol Skall Hinchel Or Skall is the current factol of the Heralds of Dust and the only leader the faction has ever had. A popular Duster legend holds that other than the Lady of Pain herself, Skall
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
faction to another—the only constant in the City of Doors is the Lady of Pain herself. If you’d like to create and be part of your own faction, ask your DM about doing just that.
Your faction should
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
. Intrigue and treachery abound, blanketed behind the sumptuous veils of high society: masked balls, gambling houses, and private banquets. The Lady of Pain doesn’t reside in the ward that bears her name, but
pantheon find worshipers in the City of Doors. No temples to the Lady of Pain exist in the ward; to construct one is an offense worthy of banishment to the Mazes. CoupleOfKooks “It’s the Lady’s Ward
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
regularly hires adventurers as debt collectors. Incanterium. Long thought to have been banished to the Mazes by the Lady of Pain along with their base of operations, members of the Incanterium are slowly
business that went up in its place, Fretter’s Fetters and Fritters, was destroyed when the tower suddenly reappeared. Until recently, most folk believed the Lady of Pain consigned the tower and its
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Planar Parade). The Lady of Pain pays little attention to what goes down in Undersigil, though nothing in or under the City of Doors is beyond her reach. Dead factions, banished from the city above
Compendium
- Sources->Storm King's Thunder
points” to cause maximum pain. If an alarm sounds in another part of the castle, Sansuri ends the interrogation, frees the griffons from their cages in area 7, and makes her way to area 6. Unless he is
delayed for some reason, Cressaro (see area 14) meets her there. See the “Lady of Masks” section earlier in this chapter for more information on how Sansuri interacts with unexpected guests. Countess
Compendium
- Sources->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Gnome Gods Who forged the chains that bind Tiamat in Avernus? Why do the modrons go on the Great March? Who is the Lady of Pain, really? I can’t tell you, but the answers lie in the Golden Hills. And
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
forgotten in the City of Doors. In life, Aoskar subtly spread his worship through every portal in the Cage. Aoskar foolishly sought to seize control of Sigil from the Lady of Pain, but now the god and his
for him, from priceless baubles to worthless junk. Tattershade lives in fear of something, but no two stories agree on what. It could be the Master of Bones, a powerful devil, or the Lady herself. Face
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
his kind—a lean, purple-skinned figure in flowing robes, his horns protruding from a voluminous tuft of white hair atop his head. Shunned by the Lady of Pain and ostracized by his kin for declaring
the hands of the faction’s Undead guards and be reanimated into their ranks. Map 2.2 depicts the Hall of Vigils. CoupleOfKooks “Without passion, a body has no pain. Divest yourself of all passions
Compendium
- Sources->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Lady of Pain and other figures who seek to oust gods from Sigil pay the winner no attention. Feather. The participant wins a Quaal’s feather token (bird). Flask. The participant wins a flask of holy
Compendium
- Sources->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
people often turn to Lady Luck for help. The Lady’s Hall is there to hear their pleas, and to accept their offerings in exchange. While such intercession often takes the form of blessings, magical or
a sharp eye out for pickpockets. Street musicians are forbidden on pain of heavy fines and expulsion from the market, so the Wide proves more subdued than the chaotic markets of the Outer City. Quiet
Compendium
- Sources->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
influential organization, such people often turn to Lady Luck for help. The Lady’s Hall is there to hear their pleas, and to accept their offerings in exchange. While such intercession often takes the form of
sharp eye out for pickpockets. Street musicians are forbidden on pain of heavy fines and expulsion from the market, so the Wide proves more subdued than the chaotic markets of the Outer City. Quiet