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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3444490" data-attributes="member: 4937">No, or rather, not necessarily.&nbsp; The other possibility is that the torus at the top of the spire is infinitely large.&nbsp; Thus, since it is also infinitely far away, regardless of the finite distance you approach it, the field of vision it fills is exactly the same.&nbsp; Sigil itself occupies an infinitely distended finite region of the torus.&nbsp; Every time you take a step in Sigil, you move an infinite distance but you do not occupy the interveening space.&nbsp; Since you only percieve the finite quantums of space between point A and point B, it appears to you that there is only an ordinary distance between here and there.&nbsp; This is also the reason that adjacency in Sigil is such a slippery concept.&nbsp; Since The Lady has built her city in an infinite space, it has infinite room to change and grow, and any part of the space can be made to be adjacent to any other part.&nbsp; Since the torus has infinite size, its also adjacent to everything else outside of it as well, which is why its such a great place to put gates.&nbsp; Since the average percentage of the space occupied by the city at any time is zero, and the average quantum of space which makes up the city is very small, this makes it a very hard place to get into except by the routes (what you might call wormholes) The Lady has chosen.&nbsp; What the Dabus are doing with all that work is going around maintaining and changing the routes between the infinitely distended packets of space.&nbsp; This is part of The Lady's layered defence against teleportation.Much more than that is not known.&nbsp; It's possible that the city of Sigil occupies an infinite space, and that the Lady only allows a finite part of it to be occupied at once.&nbsp; All the discarded buildings are not infact discarded, they are just shunted into the not publically accessible part of the city.&nbsp; It's also likely that here are also the Lady's mazes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 3444490, member: 4937"] No, or rather, not necessarily. The other possibility is that the torus at the top of the spire is infinitely large. Thus, since it is also infinitely far away, regardless of the finite distance you approach it, the field of vision it fills is exactly the same. Sigil itself occupies an infinitely distended finite region of the torus. Every time you take a step in Sigil, you move an infinite distance but you do not occupy the interveening space. Since you only percieve the finite quantums of space between point A and point B, it appears to you that there is only an ordinary distance between here and there. This is also the reason that adjacency in Sigil is such a slippery concept. Since The Lady has built her city in an infinite space, it has infinite room to change and grow, and any part of the space can be made to be adjacent to any other part. Since the torus has infinite size, its also adjacent to everything else outside of it as well, which is why its such a great place to put gates. Since the average percentage of the space occupied by the city at any time is zero, and the average quantum of space which makes up the city is very small, this makes it a very hard place to get into except by the routes (what you might call wormholes) The Lady has chosen. What the Dabus are doing with all that work is going around maintaining and changing the routes between the infinitely distended packets of space. This is part of The Lady's layered defence against teleportation. Much more than that is not known. It's possible that the city of Sigil occupies an infinite space, and that the Lady only allows a finite part of it to be occupied at once. All the discarded buildings are not infact discarded, they are just shunted into the not publically accessible part of the city. It's also likely that here are also the Lady's mazes. [/QUOTE]

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