Lady of Pain

The Lady of Pain is one of the primary figures of the Planescape campaign setting. She is an immensely powerful being who protects the city of Sigil from outside forces. Despite being at least as powerful as any known deity, she accepts no followers, and is known to respond to those who try to worship her with extreme violence.

She is left deliberately statless to prevent powergaming players trying to fight her or actually coming up with ways to defeat her in combat, and is automatically assumed to win whatever fight she gets into. Her attacks basically go like this: The Lady of Pain floats toward you. Her shadow falls over you, and you feel the pain of ten thousand knives flaying the flesh from your bones. You die. The only way to defend against the Lady of Pain's attacks is to grab your character sheet before the DM manages to tear it up.

If she knows what's good for her, she stays the fuck away from 15th level 4th edition rogues, and pun-pun, and the neutronium golem.

It is common for DM's to kill her off with their BBEG to show how strong the campaign villain is. "oh mah gawd, da villeen just keeled da ladee of pain, he's soo stwong." Needless to say this is the sign of DMs who are so fucking retarded that you should seriously consider rebellion or physical violence. Why? Well that would be because killing the Lady of Pain would wreck the absolute balls out of not just Planescape but actually every single thing in every single book for every single setting within the same game system. Seriously. If something can kill the Lady then they are not only the new omnigod of everything, but they are more powerful than everything else ever put together (ie the forces that have failed to kill her) in which case they aren't so much a big bad as they are fucking ludicrous and beyond the realm of anything any possible player characters could do to combat them.

Killing the Lady of Pain

A lengthy thread once occured in which several Anons, Namefags, and Tripfags got together and came up with a way to destroy the Lady of Pain by causing complete omniversal armageddon. Much delight and humor was had by all, interspersed from occasional bitching from faggots trying to disprove everything the discussion was trying to prove, and failing at it. It was sublime.

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  unused art from Planescape: Torment

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  An image of the Lady that won't result in Mazing if seen

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  Lady of Poke

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  How Vecna actually lost his hand.

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