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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 3443765" data-attributes="member: 11697">The world of artistic license presumably. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> It was a well drawn image, and I used a scan of the page for my desktop background for a while, however the picture wasn't exactly accurate to the source it was trying to depict.The lights/fires/smokestacks/etc across the ring at night that twinkle like stars through the haze was always one of the mental images of the city that I most appreciated.The Shattered Temple (and the surrounding Shattered Temple District of the Lower Ward) was originally the high temple of Aoskar. What few records of the period remain indicate that when Fell was ordained as a high priest (and proxy) of Aoskar, the Lady obliterated the temple and much of the surrounding area, leaving only Fell alive (either as an example, or out of mercy for his former status as one of her servants, or perhaps as a curse because he'd have to live knowing he was responsible for the death of the god whose presence had momentarily filled him).There was once a portal in the ruins of the temple, prior to the Faction War, that opened up into the Astral above the floating godisle formed from Aoskar's deific corpse.She won't actively kill people, and her shadow is only cast to do precisely that. On the rare occasions she appears and drifts along a street, people will look away or quickly go elsewhere out of fear, but unless you do something to her, or are otherwise breaking one of the whimsical rules of Sigil (don't worship the Lady, don't harm the city, etc) she won't so much as look at you. Of course, the average person isn't necessarily aware of this to any degree of absolute certainly. Her appearance is rare enough that it's not normal by any means for the populace to see her, and when she does appear to actively do something it's usually very quick and very brutal, so people are terrified of her at the same time they respect the (relative) peace that her presence provides to the City of Doors.</blockquote>

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