Editing Planescape (section)

===Sigil===
[[Image:Lady_of_Poke.jpg|right|thumb|Don't let its slow flaying shadow fall on you]]
According to the rules of the Multiverse, [[Sigil]] is the center of it. 

Sigil itself is a planar megalopolis built on the inside of a torus (imagine a tire lying on its side with buildings all around the inside surface). From anywhere on the Outlands (the most neutral of the Outer Planes), Sigil can be seen floating above the great stone Spire, but since [[Wat|the Spire is infinitely high]], the only way in or out is through the portals that manifest themselves inside of doorways, windows, and any other kind of bounded space. Because of this, Sigil is also called 'The Cage'.

Portals like those in Sigil exist all over the multiverse, linking distant planes to each other, but the concentration is highest in the Cage. This phenomenon makes Sigil one of the most coveted locations in the multiverse. Gods and fiends would love to take over, but Sigil is guarded by a being called the [[Lady of Pain]], whose diligence bars would-be conquerors from entering the city. Those within the city that displease the Lady find themselves either flayed alive by her shadow or cast into Mazes from which few ever escape.

Prior to the events of the Faction War, Sigil's political and philosophical system was dominated by fifteen factions, all vying for the most believers (see Factions, below). After the [[Faction War]], many surviving factions left Sigil when the Lady of Pain told every leader to disband or die, whilst those that remained gave up on their political power. This was, in many ways, a repeat of an event from several thousand years prior to the "present" of the setting, when the "Great Upheaval" saw the Factions winnowed down to fifteen from over ''fifty'' groups. TSR did have plans for future supplements detailing new sects or factions returning after Sigil had gotten settled down again, but these plans were lost when TSR went under. As a result, Sigil was rewritten in a post-Faction War format in the [[Manual of the Planes]] for [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]], and this lore was subsequently copy-pasted into [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]].

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