Sigil NPC list, Venues list and Map downloads
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I have an interesting NPC, he was one of my old Player Characters from a friend's game (Genis homebrew World) whom I use as an NPC in my campaign world. The levels and exploits you see are accurate. I played him from 22nd to 36th level, all levels before that were written as character background.
Name: Firion Windrunner
Race: High Elf
Age: 217
Sex: Male
Alignment: Neutral Good
Worships: Ehlonna
Class and Level: Rogue/28, Fighter/6
Archetype: Playboy elven archer
Address: #12 Threefate Road, Lady's Ward
House Type: Mansion
Role in Sigil: Negotiator
History
Born in the frozen northlands of the Genis supercontinent, Firion has been adventuring since his 19th year. As an elf child of six, he was orphaned when his parents were killed by a Change Storm, but he was discovered by lord Cornyo, master of a thieve's guild known as the Scytheclaws. He quickly took to the art of the dagger, and to the craft of stealth, becoming one of Cornyo's finest agents (second only to Kaia Longstrider, the wood elf demon huntress). However, one day, Cornyo was captured and sentenced to death...knowing that the elf would inevitably try to save him and die in the process, he convinced the judge to allow him to say farewell to his guildmates. That night, he sent Firion away, telling him to expand his horizons and get the greatest treasure in all the multiverse. Excited and oblivious, Firion left to find adventure on his own.
Looking for treasure was his highest priority, of course, having not developed his refined tastes and etiquette skill as of yet. The larger cities such as Alexandria offered ample opportunity to seek out rare items. However, when he first encountered Imperials, the fun really began. Magic weapons and protective items were in high quantity during the wars, and he relieved warbands of some minor ones. He bore no hatred for the Imperium, but the reactions of their generals were far more amusing than the opposition (rebels are quite dull and stoic), so he loved messing with them above all else.
It isn't known when Firion first discovered how much he enjoyed the company of women, but it became one of his defining characteristic a mere twenty years after he left the Scytheclaws. His favored tactic in robbing corrupt nobles was to get to know them, seduce their maids or daughters, and rob them blind while they slept in afterglow (some times they even helped him). With his silver tongue he was never discovered. The nobles never even suspected him, and the satisfied ladies had a good laugh at their expense; he had a way to change the hearts of even the most difficult, shrewish, prissy, elitist, even outright evil hearted women into sweet and caring souls. Even after the corrupt ones died years later, their daughters and maids were able to teach their own children the value of goodness.
Adventuring parties valued him in his knife abilities and his skill with traps. A party came and went, and he was with many of them. While some were content to give up after their first Ogre, or tackling their first succubus (literally in Firion's case), or crushing their first ancient evil, or defeating their first Balor, the wanderlust and adventurer's spark never died down in his young heart. Ironically, given that he was usually let through the castle doors, he never had to climb any towers...or anything for that matter.
He longed to see his "sister" Kaia, and "big brother" Krull again and was very homesick by the time he reached the age of 65 (and slain his first Beholder, losing his favorite dagger, Beauty, in the process). Thus, he decided to return to his home city, only to discover the city in ruins. The elf was shocked to see his home town devastated, and even more shocked when Krull, now living in the ruins as a hermit, told him the truth about what had happened the night he left. Cornyo had gone to the gallows, and he wished he had been there to save him...he would have taken a bow and fired at the rope, then rushed up and gotten him out of there, if only he had that ability. At that point, Firion resolved to learn the longbow and to become the greatest archer in all the multiverse.
But an even worse shock was when he learned that Krull was dying (being a half orc he had a short lifespan). As a final act of kindness to his old friend, he tracked down Kaia and Ratchet (a gnomish Expert), who were all at Krull's side when he died. He would not see either of them again for fifty years.
From then on, Firion sheathed his daggers and always had out his longbow. He trained intensily, far more so than he had with his daggers. It was for his skill with archery that he eventually became famous, and it was his arrows that felled his first glabrezu, his first mindflayer sorcerer, his first lich (a tough fight which only he and the party cleric survived), his first Balor, and countless chromatic dragons, orcs, goblins, gnolls and dire animals. Ironically, in all that time he never once met a Drow, his race's most hated enemy.
In his 110th year, he met Maura, who was the first human to understand that he lacked Elven wisdom desoite being over 100 years old; its a trait that takes many, many centuries to acquire. He fell in love with her, and they made love only once; it was idifferent from all the other women, and he made it known to her. When he proposed to her, she was delighted to accept. He wanted to get her a really good wedding present, so he set out alone to find a legendary ruby. Along the way he was attacked by mindflayers, who repeatedly hammered his brain with Mind Blasts. Although victorious in the end, the last Mindflayer standing used mindrape on him, making him forget everything within the past six months, including Maura, in a final cruel act of revenge.
5 years later, he rose to the level of hero in his home region. After a rocky start, he helped a ragtag team of epic adventurers bring four cities which had been swallowed by one of the Old Gods back to the Prime Material Plane. They slew Pseudonatural trolls, dueled with Daruth, beheaded a Sirrush, Bested an Anaxim, fought with a Drow High Priestess, and defeated a Cthulhuesque spawn of the deep ones. Unfortunately, during the Drow Battle, Cray was slain and could not be revivedl; to this day Firion blames himself for Cray's death.
It should be noted, that during that quest, Firion died for his first, second, third, and fourth times. Additionally, he saw Sigil, the Far Realm, a female drow (which he had previously assumed had snakes for hair and had never considered sleeping with) all for the first time. He was rewarded with a mansion in a city called Travail.
His new fame enabled him to rediscover Maura. At first when he heard her name from her irate brother, he did not remember her. When he heard that she was forced to work at a "Hostess Club", he became infuriated that one of his dalliances could have caused so much suffering. He vowed to rescue her, and marry her, just to make up for the five years of suffering he had caused. Disguising himself as a woman, he entered the Hostess club and rescued her while his 2 teammates from the previous adventure distracted the pimp, and found Maura. She was of course delighted to see him again, and she embraced him, tearfully overjoyed...but the elf just stared in shock as full memory flooded back to him. He, too, began to cry more than he had when he learned Cray could not be brought back. With his Helm of Teleportation he escaped with her, and the very next week they were married, with Kaia watching him closely.
Firion had more adventures in his home supercontinent, facing off against a shape of fire, narrowly escaping a construct capable of shredding an Anaxim, helping to slay an atropal child of Gaia (the saddest "how I became a villain" story he has ever heard), assisting Ra in defeating a godslaying monster, taunting a pit Fiend Lord, starting an a capella band with a bunch of Slaadi, dealing with the Gleaners, and running errands for Loki. Unfortunately, while he and Maura were living in Sigil, there was a tragic blow to the land, and it was cut off from the planar metropolis when the only known portal was closed.
Present Time
A hundred years have passed since then....Maura died at a ripe old age long ago, but her legacy of love with Firion lives on. Raion, their eldest son, has grandchildren of his own, and many of them have also become parents. Firion's house is full of his descendants of various half elven, quarter elven, and even three-quarter elven combinations. He is a devoted father (and grandpa, great grandpa, etc) as well as an excellent host; his balls are among the most well attended social functions in all of Sigil, attracting even the Lady herself at times.
Most of his free time is spent practicing his archery, telling stories about his adventures to his younger descendants, playing the violin, training in his special trap-filled basement, or sampling wines from all over the multiverse; his critique of Elven Wine is valued by many scholars.
Role in Sigil
Firion runs a special kind of business. He brokers deals between adventurers and their patrons, taking a small percentage as a finder's fee. Some times, a rich fellow loses an item and needs it back. Some times there is something that needs to be slain, and nobody can find someone strong enough. Some times there are high level or epic adventurers around, but some times they are busy saving the multiverse from some threat to its existance and can't handle a specific threat. Of course, some times these same adventurers need mundane things they don't have time to get themselves. Every job has the right guys to do it, and Firion matches the jobs to the clients, negotiating rewards for the adventurers and of course his own fees.
The business operates out of an exclusive club started by some of his former adventuring party members, and also any of the extraplanar or material plane branches of the "Shannon's" chain of taverns. More wealthy patrons and clients (or ones Firion happens to take a liking to) tend to conduct their business at his mansion, where they are served a fine meal by Hudsondil, his long time chef, and served tea by his favorite granddaughter, Ika.
I will post more information on Windrunner house of #12 Three Fate Road later on if this is to your liking.
I hope this gives you a good quest giver type to work with, and also a good "regional" half elf template to work with.
Name: Firion Windrunner
Race: High Elf
Age: 217
Sex: Male
Alignment: Neutral Good
Worships: Ehlonna
Class and Level: Rogue/28, Fighter/6
Archetype: Playboy elven archer
Address: #12 Threefate Road, Lady's Ward
House Type: Mansion
Role in Sigil: Negotiator
History
Born in the frozen northlands of the Genis supercontinent, Firion has been adventuring since his 19th year. As an elf child of six, he was orphaned when his parents were killed by a Change Storm, but he was discovered by lord Cornyo, master of a thieve's guild known as the Scytheclaws. He quickly took to the art of the dagger, and to the craft of stealth, becoming one of Cornyo's finest agents (second only to Kaia Longstrider, the wood elf demon huntress). However, one day, Cornyo was captured and sentenced to death...knowing that the elf would inevitably try to save him and die in the process, he convinced the judge to allow him to say farewell to his guildmates. That night, he sent Firion away, telling him to expand his horizons and get the greatest treasure in all the multiverse. Excited and oblivious, Firion left to find adventure on his own.
Looking for treasure was his highest priority, of course, having not developed his refined tastes and etiquette skill as of yet. The larger cities such as Alexandria offered ample opportunity to seek out rare items. However, when he first encountered Imperials, the fun really began. Magic weapons and protective items were in high quantity during the wars, and he relieved warbands of some minor ones. He bore no hatred for the Imperium, but the reactions of their generals were far more amusing than the opposition (rebels are quite dull and stoic), so he loved messing with them above all else.
It isn't known when Firion first discovered how much he enjoyed the company of women, but it became one of his defining characteristic a mere twenty years after he left the Scytheclaws. His favored tactic in robbing corrupt nobles was to get to know them, seduce their maids or daughters, and rob them blind while they slept in afterglow (some times they even helped him). With his silver tongue he was never discovered. The nobles never even suspected him, and the satisfied ladies had a good laugh at their expense; he had a way to change the hearts of even the most difficult, shrewish, prissy, elitist, even outright evil hearted women into sweet and caring souls. Even after the corrupt ones died years later, their daughters and maids were able to teach their own children the value of goodness.
Adventuring parties valued him in his knife abilities and his skill with traps. A party came and went, and he was with many of them. While some were content to give up after their first Ogre, or tackling their first succubus (literally in Firion's case), or crushing their first ancient evil, or defeating their first Balor, the wanderlust and adventurer's spark never died down in his young heart. Ironically, given that he was usually let through the castle doors, he never had to climb any towers...or anything for that matter.
He longed to see his "sister" Kaia, and "big brother" Krull again and was very homesick by the time he reached the age of 65 (and slain his first Beholder, losing his favorite dagger, Beauty, in the process). Thus, he decided to return to his home city, only to discover the city in ruins. The elf was shocked to see his home town devastated, and even more shocked when Krull, now living in the ruins as a hermit, told him the truth about what had happened the night he left. Cornyo had gone to the gallows, and he wished he had been there to save him...he would have taken a bow and fired at the rope, then rushed up and gotten him out of there, if only he had that ability. At that point, Firion resolved to learn the longbow and to become the greatest archer in all the multiverse.
But an even worse shock was when he learned that Krull was dying (being a half orc he had a short lifespan). As a final act of kindness to his old friend, he tracked down Kaia and Ratchet (a gnomish Expert), who were all at Krull's side when he died. He would not see either of them again for fifty years.
From then on, Firion sheathed his daggers and always had out his longbow. He trained intensily, far more so than he had with his daggers. It was for his skill with archery that he eventually became famous, and it was his arrows that felled his first glabrezu, his first mindflayer sorcerer, his first lich (a tough fight which only he and the party cleric survived), his first Balor, and countless chromatic dragons, orcs, goblins, gnolls and dire animals. Ironically, in all that time he never once met a Drow, his race's most hated enemy.
In his 110th year, he met Maura, who was the first human to understand that he lacked Elven wisdom desoite being over 100 years old; its a trait that takes many, many centuries to acquire. He fell in love with her, and they made love only once; it was idifferent from all the other women, and he made it known to her. When he proposed to her, she was delighted to accept. He wanted to get her a really good wedding present, so he set out alone to find a legendary ruby. Along the way he was attacked by mindflayers, who repeatedly hammered his brain with Mind Blasts. Although victorious in the end, the last Mindflayer standing used mindrape on him, making him forget everything within the past six months, including Maura, in a final cruel act of revenge.
5 years later, he rose to the level of hero in his home region. After a rocky start, he helped a ragtag team of epic adventurers bring four cities which had been swallowed by one of the Old Gods back to the Prime Material Plane. They slew Pseudonatural trolls, dueled with Daruth, beheaded a Sirrush, Bested an Anaxim, fought with a Drow High Priestess, and defeated a Cthulhuesque spawn of the deep ones. Unfortunately, during the Drow Battle, Cray was slain and could not be revivedl; to this day Firion blames himself for Cray's death.
It should be noted, that during that quest, Firion died for his first, second, third, and fourth times. Additionally, he saw Sigil, the Far Realm, a female drow (which he had previously assumed had snakes for hair and had never considered sleeping with) all for the first time. He was rewarded with a mansion in a city called Travail.
His new fame enabled him to rediscover Maura. At first when he heard her name from her irate brother, he did not remember her. When he heard that she was forced to work at a "Hostess Club", he became infuriated that one of his dalliances could have caused so much suffering. He vowed to rescue her, and marry her, just to make up for the five years of suffering he had caused. Disguising himself as a woman, he entered the Hostess club and rescued her while his 2 teammates from the previous adventure distracted the pimp, and found Maura. She was of course delighted to see him again, and she embraced him, tearfully overjoyed...but the elf just stared in shock as full memory flooded back to him. He, too, began to cry more than he had when he learned Cray could not be brought back. With his Helm of Teleportation he escaped with her, and the very next week they were married, with Kaia watching him closely.
Firion had more adventures in his home supercontinent, facing off against a shape of fire, narrowly escaping a construct capable of shredding an Anaxim, helping to slay an atropal child of Gaia (the saddest "how I became a villain" story he has ever heard), assisting Ra in defeating a godslaying monster, taunting a pit Fiend Lord, starting an a capella band with a bunch of Slaadi, dealing with the Gleaners, and running errands for Loki. Unfortunately, while he and Maura were living in Sigil, there was a tragic blow to the land, and it was cut off from the planar metropolis when the only known portal was closed.
Present Time
A hundred years have passed since then....Maura died at a ripe old age long ago, but her legacy of love with Firion lives on. Raion, their eldest son, has grandchildren of his own, and many of them have also become parents. Firion's house is full of his descendants of various half elven, quarter elven, and even three-quarter elven combinations. He is a devoted father (and grandpa, great grandpa, etc) as well as an excellent host; his balls are among the most well attended social functions in all of Sigil, attracting even the Lady herself at times.
Most of his free time is spent practicing his archery, telling stories about his adventures to his younger descendants, playing the violin, training in his special trap-filled basement, or sampling wines from all over the multiverse; his critique of Elven Wine is valued by many scholars.
Role in Sigil
Firion runs a special kind of business. He brokers deals between adventurers and their patrons, taking a small percentage as a finder's fee. Some times, a rich fellow loses an item and needs it back. Some times there is something that needs to be slain, and nobody can find someone strong enough. Some times there are high level or epic adventurers around, but some times they are busy saving the multiverse from some threat to its existance and can't handle a specific threat. Of course, some times these same adventurers need mundane things they don't have time to get themselves. Every job has the right guys to do it, and Firion matches the jobs to the clients, negotiating rewards for the adventurers and of course his own fees.
The business operates out of an exclusive club started by some of his former adventuring party members, and also any of the extraplanar or material plane branches of the "Shannon's" chain of taverns. More wealthy patrons and clients (or ones Firion happens to take a liking to) tend to conduct their business at his mansion, where they are served a fine meal by Hudsondil, his long time chef, and served tea by his favorite granddaughter, Ika.
I will post more information on Windrunner house of #12 Three Fate Road later on if this is to your liking.
I hope this gives you a good quest giver type to work with, and also a good "regional" half elf template to work with.
Ambrus
Explorer
I've just updated the NPC List download and searchable database to correct a few mistakes and add in some new entries culled from my recent research, bringing the current number of entries up to 826. Enjoy! 
That being said, I welcome others to post their own NPCs and venues in this thread or even in the planewalker.com forums if they want to share their work with others.
It wasn't my intention to deprive others of the hours of fun such a project can bring though.Defier said:This map and NPCs list was something I was planning doing myself.
Thanks a lot!
While I applaud the passion and loving effort you've poured into this character (and what a character it is) I've only ever added NPCs and venues culled from official sources (by which I mean those bearing the TSR or WotC logos). I've even excluded the PCs and NPCs I've created myself.aarondirebear said:
That being said, I welcome others to post their own NPCs and venues in this thread or even in the planewalker.com forums if they want to share their work with others.
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Balesir
Adventurer
This is stunning work and a godsend as I am currently running a Planescape D&D3.5 game over the 'net using Battlegrounds RPG software. One question in this regard - is there any chance the map will be made available as a JPEG or similar? This would just make life so easy as I could then use it in BRPG directly...
Regardless of the answer to this - thanks for the map and files!
Oh, and Clueless was asking about 'software agnostic' file formats - I would suggest .csv ('comma separated variable') as a way to give all the data (but no formatting, alas) in a file type that most spreadsheet programs and many databases can upload without difficulty. Excel will save direct to CSV, so generating the file should be easy.
Regardless of the answer to this - thanks for the map and files!
Oh, and Clueless was asking about 'software agnostic' file formats - I would suggest .csv ('comma separated variable') as a way to give all the data (but no formatting, alas) in a file type that most spreadsheet programs and many databases can upload without difficulty. Excel will save direct to CSV, so generating the file should be easy.
Ambrus
Explorer
I originally posted the map in PDF format since I believed most people would want to print it out for use in their tabletop games and that that file format would help ensure that the text remained legible if it were printed at larger sizes (which is what I did myself). It hadn't occured to me that some might want to use it for online gaming...Balesir said:
How about you tell me, what image size/resolution would be ideal for your needs?
Balesir
Adventurer
Hi, Ambrus,
Well, obviously the highest resolution you have with a minute file size would be ideal...
But seriously, it is a balance between the file size (that affects sending time) and detail/quality. I would err to the high-quality side of this, since most folk using VTs will be quite used to modifying graphics for their specific circumstance and losing detail is easy but gaining what you don't have isn't. So, on balance, I would say a JPEG or similar with a maximum dimension of around 4880 px is probably around the right ballpark both for me and for most folk using Virtual Tabletop software.
I have actually generated a jpeg for my own needs by knitting screencaps together (which I plan to use for the game tonight), but a 'proper' jpeg would still be most welcome for me and, I'm sure, for other folk playing online.
Cheers!
Well, obviously the highest resolution you have with a minute file size would be ideal...
But seriously, it is a balance between the file size (that affects sending time) and detail/quality. I would err to the high-quality side of this, since most folk using VTs will be quite used to modifying graphics for their specific circumstance and losing detail is easy but gaining what you don't have isn't. So, on balance, I would say a JPEG or similar with a maximum dimension of around 4880 px is probably around the right ballpark both for me and for most folk using Virtual Tabletop software.
I have actually generated a jpeg for my own needs by knitting screencaps together (which I plan to use for the game tonight), but a 'proper' jpeg would still be most welcome for me and, I'm sure, for other folk playing online.
Cheers!
Clueless
Webmonkey
To check (for my own sanity) VT wouldn't be pulling the image directly from our site would it? Rather - you would download it yourself, and upload the file or modified file to wherever you need it? I'm not familiar with that particular software - so I'm just making sure we don't end up going down cause of it.
Clueless
Webmonkey
Ok - I just changed a few things. I made sure that a blank search will come up with *everything* in the database for you. Also - added a searchable Venues due to requests for it. (Ambrus, you may want to update the contents of that table once you get a chance - it works exactly the same way as the NPC table.)
... Now. Everyone's gone and voted in the ENnies, riiiiight...
... Now. Everyone's gone and voted in the ENnies, riiiiight...
Ambrus
Explorer
I will post one once I've gotten around to updating the map. But it seems to me that if you've knit together screencaps you must have some type of image editing software like Photoshop™. If that's the case, you are aware that it's an easy matter to take the downloaded PDF, open it and resave it as a Jpeg at whatever size you want, right?Balesir said:
Much thanks for this Clueless; I find the online search function oftentimes is more effective than searching the original Excel file. I also do intend to update the venues database soon to reflect a few corrections and additions, which in turn must be followed by a corresponding update to the map (which will prove a little more time consuming I'm afraid).Clueless said:
YES MAAM! *salutes*Clueless said:Now. Everyone's gone and voted in the ENnies, riiiiight...
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