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Feels more Cat Lord to me, though I can't imagine how/why she'd be in Sigil...First person on the left might be Rhys of the Ciphers. The tail and the big ears resemble the 2e art a lot.
Feels more Cat Lord to me, though I can't imagine how/why she'd be in Sigil...First person on the left might be Rhys of the Ciphers. The tail and the big ears resemble the 2e art a lot.
No, we haven't.We've had twenty straight years of sadness and anger being the only valid emotions and people have the gall to ask why we're all depressed.
It's definitely her. If you see DiTerlizzi's twitter post on some of his favourite Planescape art and then compare it to the people in the picture, this is absolutely the cat lady.Feels more Cat Lord to me, though I can't imagine how/why she'd be in Sigil...
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There is some zany in Planescape, but zany usually has a mirror, too. Like, the Xaositects were played for laughs a lot of times (LOL SO RANDOM), but were also unpredictable hedonistic thugs. Xanxost had a similar vibe - so funny and unpredictable and OH GOD HE'S EATING MY FACE THIS HAS TAKEN A TURN.Yeah this is important - the unsettling, dark and grimy side should be there. Not just the "FUN WACKY ADVENTURES LOLZ!". It's not like it needs to be hugely dark - just enough not to be twee or purely "zany".
STRANGE WHIMSY is absolutely a valuable Planescape vibe.Planescape has plenty of fun and whimsy to it as well. The videogame was very noir, but the setting material has a range of tones, with some elements being dark, some whimsical, some weird, and some all three. A lot of it is of a piece with classical faerie tales, actually. In fact, I think a lot of it was too goofy for people when it came out (the slang, etc). I think the goal was to make the familiar become strange.
Yeah, that tail could definitely be a cat tail, and the dress and jewelry and expression feel a lot more "pampered cat" then "wordless acetic"Feels more Cat Lord to me, though I can't imagine how/why she'd be in Sigil...
People do have an open mind.Yeah, Spelljammer wasn't the best product, but come on, let's at least discuss this product with an open mind!
The dress also looks similar to the old 2e art, seems like cat lord is most likely.Yeah, that tail could definitely be a cat tail, and the dress and jewelry and expression feel a lot more "pampered cat" then "wordless acetic"![]()
The first is a banner in the background on the right side of the illustration. It very closely resembles the original Sensates symbol, only there are two hands instead of a hand holding an ear on the bottom (yes, I'm a total Planescape geek and remember this stuff). After Faction War, the Sensates officially disbanded, but many continued to operate the Civic Festhall in Sigil, though others went to Arborea, joined the Mind's Eye, or decided to travel the planes.
The second is tattooed on the forearm of the blue tiefling on the right side of the illustration. The horns are very reminiscent of the skull motif Doomguard symbol, though the "ball of fire" between the horns is new.That's interesting because the Doomguard was basically exiled from Sigil post-Faction War... retreating to their fortresses near the Negative Energy Plane... their factol Alisohn Nilesia was one of the few factols to "survive" the Faction War by virtue of being sold to devils as a slave.
Didn't the author of faction war state that there were plans to return Sigil to the status quo but the plans were quashed so things ended up just remaining post-faction war?I have every expectation that the new Planescape will retcon Faction War out of existence completely.
If they've got any sense they will. But these are the people who gave us 4E Planescape which, despite 4E basically being in an entirely different cosmological setting, with fundamentally different planes and so on, still made Faction War canon, and turned Sigil into the Des Moines (or for British people, the Milton Keynes) of the multiverse. So they might not have any sense - but hiring DiTerlizzi suggests at least some working brain cells!I have every expectation that the new Planescape will retcon Faction War out of existence completely.