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#1 zombiegleemax Nov 03, 2003 18:36:43	Alright, in a game on the boards, my character has a cohort from Sigil. I have some questions: 1. After the faction war, what organization held the function of the Theives' Guild? She has taken a PrC that requires you to be on good terms with the local theives' guild. 2. Were there any relatively prominant teifling males around, pre-faction war, that would have a one night stand with a succubus, and when she turned up 9 months later, with their newborn child, he "disposed" of the demon, and dropped the newborn in the Hive? If so, what did he look like?
#2 Shemeska_the_Marauder Nov 04, 2003 14:29:24	There's a number of organizations in Sigil, but no single one 'Thieves Guild'. Given the unique nature of the city, and its size, an organized thieves guild with a centralized location and guildhall would have been obliterated by the factions in the interest of protecting their faction members. Even post faction war, the power players within Sigil are too busy carving up property and the filling the power vacuum like a Thanksgiving Turkey for an organized thieves guild to form. However there were, and are a number of crimilar organizations. First and foremost there's Shemeska the Marauder, who sells information, has spies laced throughout most every group in Sigil that answer to her, and who ranks as one of the largest land owners in Sigil. "She snatches up businesses like ripe apples." She's never in public without a gaggle of obiquitous, well dressed tieflings who serve as toadies, groomers, and bodyguards. (And assassins). Her status as an underworld figure is the worst kept secret in Sigil. She flaunts her power and her influence, but don't dare be presumptious about calling her anything but a well connected, upstanding citizen and socialite who happens to know far too much about far too many things she shouldn't be able to know. Then there's Rule of Three, a marquis cambion who was rumored to have been involved in the robbery of several mansions in The Lady's Ward. The same rumors say he killed his companions after the successful robberies. This has made him a living legend among the criminals of the Lower Ward and the Hive. He's also one of the major players among Tanar'ri within Sigil, and its rumored that he exists as an agent or proxy of one of the Abyssal lords, possibly Grazzt. Thats unproven though. There's also Muriov Garianas, a previously minor player in Sigil who has seen his power expand rapidly since the end of the Faction War. A cleric of Pluto, he currently seeks to demolish the ruins of the Shattered Temple and build a grand temple to his own power upon the spot. He's approaching a nearly open war with the displaced Athar of Sigil who see this as blasphemy. Garianas's family runs a criminal protection racket in their district of the Lower Ward, though proving this would be difficult. The family and their supporters in the Ward, who seem to genuinely appreciate them and willingly accomodate their actions, have a wall of silence with regards to official questions. Garianas may well eventually run into conflict with The Marauder, or any of the other powerful members of Sigil's elite such as Zadara the Titan, should he attempt to hedge into power outside of his own metaphorical sandbox. Noshtoreth of the Umber Scales, high priest of the temple of the Abyss. This tiefling, along with Rule of Three, is the most powerful Tanar'ri blooded citizen of Sigil. The temple is well connected, and has a history of 'getting things done'. Very powerful, and very shadowy. They mostly handle protection and assassinations, rather than attempting to gain political power or influence such as others of Sigil's less than legal elite. There's also The Three Toads, a fence operation in the Lower Ward, based out of The Styx Oarsman, comprised of a Hydroloth, a Slaad, and a Hezrou, all females. They buy and sell most anything, not asking for the buyer or the sellers identity. They likely have ties to a number of the previously mentioned fiendish or fiend blooded elites. The Hive is littered with local gangs and crime organizations, though none of them compares in any way with the previously mentioned groups or persons. Though some of those within the Hives racial ghetto's, such as the Lotus Blossom District may be small but locally unchallanged by Sigil's larger or ostensibly more powerful groups, given the insular nature of the racial enclaves.