Sigil NPC list, Venues list and Map downloads

[Echohawk]

Edit: I'm just putting this list of polyhedron issues with supposed Planescape material here for my own use:
Issue #100: The Analects of Sigil
Issue #127: The Day of Grace
Issue #135?
Issue #137: Sigil and the Sea

As far as I can tell, there were only those three Planescape articles in Polyhedron. (The article "Gifts from Below" in issue #135 is not specifically a Planescape article, and doesn't mention Sigil at all.)

Here is some information from those issues:

Polyhedron #100
The Analects of Sigil
The Five Citadels of the Planescape Setting
by David "Zeb" Cook

NPCs mentioned (but not specifically referred to as residents of Sigil):

• The late Handulus, scholar of the 3rd rank (the article is his confession) who abandoned his rank and status among the Governors to become a foot soldier in the Doomguard.
• Jerak of the Mercykillers (extractor of Handulus's confession)
• Jeron, factor of the Governors ("killed" by Handulus, who directed him on a path certain to bring him to his doom)
• Schalgtar, contributed an article on the dream-snakes of Elysium to the Great Dictum

Polyhedron #127 (has a Planescape cover too!)
The Day of Grace
Sigil's New Year Holiday
by Monte Cook

NPCs mentioned:

• An unnamed little girl who approached and spoke to the Lady of Pain. The Lady spared her, thus giving rise to the day of Grace, the first day of Sigil's year.

Polyhedron #137
Of Sigil and the Sea
The Ditch
by William James Cuffe

NPCs mentioned:

• Lissandra the Gate-seeker (mentioned as having dubbed a special type of portal a "Multiportal")
• Zadara the Titan (quoted as saying "She who controls the powder, controls the multiverse..." in one of her less than lucid moments)

Ambrus, please drop me a mail if you need any other information from these three articles.

 

[Ambrus]

A big thanks to Echohawk for the information on these elusive articles. I've sent you an email with a request for further info.

Also, for those who've asked about the map, I just wanted to let you know that I've begun playing with illustrating the new buildings I intend to add. Here's a preview:

Clockwise from the top, they are the Zactar cathedral, the Tower of the Prophet, the Great Library of the Lady, the Battling Bariaur statue and the Screaming Tower.

 

[Ryltar]

Neat-o .

 

[Ambrus]

Actually, while I'm busy working on the map, I was wondering if anyone had some observations to offer for venues that they feel are incorrectly located, badly illustrated or somehow just plain wrong. A lot of stuff is placed on the map according to whatever makes most sense to me, but I'm curious if there are differing opinions out there.

 

[Defier]

So far I don't have seen any mistakes on the venues list Ambrus, but I haven't make an extense survey either. The only confuse part to me is the integration of the list of places from the game Torment into the basic layot of the Hive (I know is not somenthing easy anyway)
As a sugestion, I would locate the the Zactar cathedral into the Foundry District under the fog of the Foundry, that area is little populated.


The figures of the new buildings are very nice and cool. You could possibly individualize each one building and street with this and Sigil would almost como alive.
hahahhaha just a joke, that would be insane

Great work.

 

[Ambrus]

The only confuse part to me is the integration of the list of places from the game Torment into the basic layout of the Hive (I know is not something easy anyway)

Well, if you want a peek behind the curtain so to speak, take a look at my original pieced together Torment map showing how the various Hive Ward play-areas supposedly link up. You'll notice the venue locations were added to later help me in my work.

After I did that, I superimposed the Torment map on top of the In the Cage map, and adjusted it's angle and size so that two large recognizable landmarks (in this case, the Mortuary and Ragpicker's Square) on both maps aligned properly. Then I assigned locations for the various venues approximately where they appeared. Hopefully that makes some measure of sense to the curious. A similar effort was done with the Clerk and Lower Wards play areas.

As a suggestion, I would locate the the Zactar cathedral into the Foundry District under the fog of the Foundry, that area is little populated.

Heh. That's not a bad idea. Being lost in the smog would help explain why Cagers have left a huge empty building unoccupied for so long, city-space supposedly being rare and precious and all...

Great work.

Thanks.

 

[Ambrus]

I have two favors to ask of anyone who takes an interest in what I'm doing:

Because of something I read in a forum post I discovered a Forgotten Realms novel, Tymora's Luck, that has a few chapters set in Sigil; one I didn't previously know about. I've since purchased a copy from my FLGS and am making my way through it. I'd appreciate it if anyone here could tell me if there are any other such D&D novels that feature the city of Doors. I'm looking for new sources to index and I'm just trying to make certain I don't miss anything. Check the my download page on planewalker.com to see a full list of every Planescape source I'm aware of.

To that end, I'm also looking into the old Blood Wars collectible card game. I do own one of the Duel Decks, but I certainly don't have a full set of every card produced for this CCG; but I'm betting someone here does... I've read that the Warlord's Tactical Manual includes pictures of every card, but I don't know if that also includes the three Escalation Packs (Rebels and Reinforcements, Factols and Factions and Powers and Proxies) or not. What I'd like is to know which Warlord or Legion cards feature unique individuals whose home is "Sigil" along with any distinct Battlefields are in the City of Doors. I just figured I'd try asking for help before I contemplate shelling out some big bucks on Ebay for the Warlord's Tactical Manual for what might prove to be a pointless effort.

 

[Ambrus]

Just wanted to mention the newly posted NPC list update. This latest update brings the grand total of Sigilian NPCs past the four digit barrier to 1,016!

I've made a real push to complete my indexing work of all missing sources including:
• A Guide to the Astral Plane supplement
• A Guide to the Ethereal Plane supplement
• The Inner Planes supplement
• A Player's Primer to the Outlands boxed set
• Planes of Chaos boxed set
• Planes of Conflict boxed set
• Planes of Law boxed set
• Baldur's Gate II video game
• Planescape: Torment novel
• Tymora's Luck novel
• All Polyhedron Magazines (Much thanks to Echohawk for his help with this!)

That leaves only two other Planescape products; neither of which I currently have:
• Blood Wars CCG
• Planescape Sketchbook (One can always dream right?)

Also, as requested, I've gone back and corrected all of the Class/Hit Dice entries (wherever possible) to bring them fully in line with published 3ed sources. Naturally errors and omissions have likely snuck into the document, so if you find any such mistakes please point them out to me in this thread so that I can make the necessary corrections. Thanks!

I'm currently working on updating the Sigil Map and Venues List (which just passed the big 300 mark) together; though they won't likely be done before the new year. Sorry.

 

[Defier]

Sigil map

Hi Andrus, happy new planar year!

Well, I would like to ask if you have any prevision when yours Sigilan map update with the new locations will be ready? Well, you now, I just want to print it I want to start my Sigilian only focused campaign with the motto "Escape from the Cage" soon . I'd invite you, but I live in a distant plane of existence (Brazil).

You promised!

Defier.

 

[Oryan77]

Because of something I read in a forum post I discovered a Forgotten Realms novel, Tymora's Luck, that has a few chapters set in Sigil;

Is that the book where the primes enter Sigil and meet a blue skinned Tiefling that begins speaking the chant? I believe the primes say something to each other about not understanding what the Tiefling is saying. If that's the same book, then nevermind. If I'm thinking of another book, I'll try to figure out which book that was. I read it about 11 years ago, and only read that chapter because it was about Sigil

I certainly don't have a full set of every card produced for this CCG;

I don't own the Tactical Manual and I'm shy a few of the cards from the set. But I do have about 1600 Blood War cards that I've been trying to sell off for $25. Let me know if you'd be interested in them
My email is oryan1977 at yahoo.com