Good to see a video like this. I'm tired of seeing videos titled stuff like "Everything you need to know about Sigil: A Guide for Experts" and then it's like 11 minutes long.
Dude im am so incredibly glad i found you when i did. These sort of topics of the worlds of dnd have always interested me and i just love falling asleep to your videos (not a bad thing i swear) ive even found myself playing one of your vids to listen to as i fall asleep and next thing you know its 3 hours later and im still awake listening intently 😂. Your delivery and thorough research is so rare to find, especially with how small of a channel you are. Youll start growing in no time if you keep this level of thought and purpose into your videos. Plus its so easy to tell you just love talking about this kind of stuff. Im the same exact way, to the point where i get too detailed for some of my friends and they just stare at me blankly 😂. Keep up the awesom work dude, ill be here for the ride to 1 mil!
I now watch Guide to the Abyss regularly as a sleep aid, after already watching it once normally. I love these long, chill, fascinating dives into the world of Planescape.
This video is very good. I would kill for an in-depth dive in the planescape Torment game. I played it as an introduction to the setting, and it was so complex and frustrating yet mysterious and intriguing. Although I never finished my adventure, I think you are the right man to honor that lovely game with a comprehensive analysis or a short of guide to surpass the complex lore barrier to help me and all the people who never fully understood the game enjoy it at its fullest.
I searched Sigil, I see uploaded 8h ago, I see uploaded by a channel with less than 10k subs… I get sad thinking it’s not high quality video… then I see 2h long and in the first 20 seconds nice editing… i like the video, sub and share then continue watching. Thank you
Thanks for the primer. I suspect since I've seen a lot of buzz about expanding the Eve of Ruin campaign, and Sigil is a key location there, I wouldn't be surprised if this comes in handy for a number of DM's.
Thank you for these videos man, I rewatch them quite a lot & you’re very underrated.I don’t usually post on social media, but I always post your vids when new ones come out. I wish you the best of luck man, hopefully you get the recognition you REALLY deserve soon :)
Nice Wade. Another brilliant job. Having run a Planescape campaign since '95 ( which is still going...) while I was initially hesitant to use Sigil as anything more than a quick stopover point, I did grow to love it, and use it more. I think the initial fear was just due to the common DM fears regarding urban adventure, but of course, Sigil is on a much greater scale in every way. I'd say my major inspiration for making use of Sigil was the novel "Pages of Pain" by Troy Denning. Definitely needs credit.
Ah yeah, I thought about using that novel as source material in this video but decided not to because I don't think it's considered canon (and because I haven't read it and then I'd have to and I already read enough things for one video).
@@WadeAllen001 Hey. Oh understood completely. For yourself though, I would recommend you read it, at the very least for personal pleasure. Having read it, at that point it really gave me a great sense of mood for the city, that I hadn't quite grasped from the rulebooks. Much like DiTerlizzi's art set the aesthetic style for Planespace writ large, for me at least, Denning's book really crystalized in my mind the mood for Sigil. Somehwat of a Baroque gritty feel...
I read about half of the book till my ebook reader broke. It was hard to grasp as a non native speaker. But it definitely had quite an atmosphere. It delved too quickly into a maze, though!
Hell yes, I've been absorbing all things Planescape (including your other videos) in preparation for taking my players there next session. Your timing is perfect.
Wade you always outdo yourself with these videos, it's absolutely amazing! I still hope you will do an in depth video about Elysium tho 😅 I get that there are more people demanding videos about the Nine Hells and the Abyss, since players will more likely find themselves in those places, or encounter inhabitants of them, but from the little I heard and read about Elysium it intrigued me way more than the Heavens of Mount Celestia for example. 😊 Keep up the great work, you rock!
Thank you so much for all of the work you put into all of these. I LOVE listening to them, especially the Planescape ones as I'll be running the 5e campaign soon and am incorporating 2e stuff into it, large in part on your reporting of cool details they cut or altered. I really appreciate these, man. Keep doing great stuff please!
Good stuff, thank you for the ADD to 5e highlights (Sigil can be/is a full campaign setting). Also, great questions (ie potential additional details). Keep up the cool Outer Plane vids!
I love your DnD planescape videos, planescape is a just such an interesting setting, and your videos are by far the most in-depth and vivid depictions of the different worlds and planes. I feel like a good topic to cover would be some of the more obscure upper planes lore (elysium, bytopia etc.) since I feel like the upper planes are more neglected in general in DnD material
Another great video, and that's coming from someone that isn't that into Sigil haha. I'm most looking forward to The Gray Waste/Hades video, but Elysium is my second choice.
I keep imagining an interdimentional burlesque theater, but it hosts performers from all over the multiverse, so the most normal thing you're likely to see in a night would be a lizardfolk sexily shedding their skin. And then the weirdest could be something like a microwave on legs heating up leftovers. 😂
I'm glad focus was on the original setting, and in great deep depth. I understand the need to concede to the remake though... I'm happier ignoring most of that.
Thanks for this amazing work, Wade. I just discovered that you have a Patreon page! I can't believe I never realized that! I joined and would like to say thanks by upgrading. Do you think you could make it an annual thing? I don't know how it works, but if I have to join a paid tier for the first time, it would definitely do it for you. 😊
Thanks for joining my Patreon! Unfortunately I am not eligible to enable annual billing. I just looked it up and apparently one of the eligibility requirements is to have earned at least $200/month on Patreon for the past 3 months, which I definitely do not have. I will enable annual billing as soon as I'm eligible though!
In my D&D game, I'm gonna have the players travel to Sigil in order to find a pathway to a realm they need to travel to that doesn't have portals anywhere else. I feel it would be fun to reimagine Sigil as this advanced Sci-Fi city with flying cars, robots, neon lights, skyscrapers, and a population in the tens of millions. I feel like a place that is the literal Nexus of the Multiverse should not have the aesthetic and technology level of a late medieval/early renaissance era European city.
Hello Wade, Have you already done a comprehensive video about Shadowfell? It would be great to see that soon. It still needs to be online; texts about Shadowfell are usually available, but a deep-dive video should be added.
Maybe I'm missing it in your series but I don't see the oddball planes (yet?) or did I miss them, i.e. Ethereal, Astral, and Shadow? Might be some more but I can't think of any top of my head.
One idea I have is for you to write videos with a character and build who personally experiences these places With canonical knowledge you could easily extrapolate to writing short stories of this person going to or learning of these places. As well as making those videos superbly long 👀😍
I imagine Sigil as a closed torus. So that you can't just jump out of the cage. So I imagine that Sigil exists infinitely often. It makes little sense to jump into an infinitely large multiverse where humans and other humanoid creatures are the most common species in the multiverse. Infinity is the greatest and most absolute equalizer. So I figure, if you're a humanoid, you're more likely to end up in the humanoid sigil. If you're a dragon, you're more likely to end up in the dragon sigil, and so on. In dragon sigil (as an example), the factol... are dragons. All these sigils exist simultaneously in the same place, at the same time, and have some kind of bizarre interaction with each other. Perhaps, as the Sign of One claims, each visitor creates their own version of the sigil. On Baator and Abyss. Personally, I don't like it so much that only these two planes get so much love and attention, especially in 5e. But it makes sense for a very combat-based system where you embody the most heroic character. The paradisiacal, well-meaning planes offer rather little drama, action and all that of a ‘good’ heroic story. Although I would partly disagree. While watching this video about Sigil, I also noticed that Fiend and Tiefling are mentioned most often. While Celestia and Aasimar hardly exist. Which is kind of strange for a city of neutrality. On the other hand, why would Celestia want to leave her paradise? Climbing Mount Celestia could be an interesting campaign for a more role-playing and survival-oriented game system. The Lady of Pain also seems pretty evil, even though she is supposed to be the embodiment of neutrality. Just her name, ‘Lady of Pain’. Sometimes I think that Planescape is so big and diverse that the DnD system is too small to embody all the wonders and oddities this system represents. Another good video. Keep up the good work. In my opinion, yours is the best video about Planescape on the internet.
@@kallemort What its "true neutral" in the first place? 2e and 3e have a different idea of "true neutral". Are the normal dnd commoners "true neutral" at all?
I think that Mount Celestia would be a great backdrop for adventure, moreso than a place like Elysium. On that note, most archons from Celestia aren't permitted to leave the plane.
Is she? Evil in D&D is primarily defined by selfishness. She seems to only intentionally kill and maze people who threaten the safety and stability of the city, which could very easily be considered an act of protection of all the people who live there. And if her shadow kills people automatically, well that's rather accidental, akin to when you accidentally step on an ant. I do think it would be better to avoid stepping on ants, but I don't think it's evil to do so accidentally.
I think you slipped on a detail by quoting a version of the text that cannot be true. You recognize that people sent to the mazes do not age, but my understanding is they are functionally immortal. Due to the beautiful mathematics of infinity, everyone sent to the mazes will eventually escape through their portal, but very few have as of yet (edit: 21:30 you said most never escape). Truly nerdy dms include scholars trying to determine the half life of escape, that is to say if you became aware of some number of people being sent to the mazes at once, on average how long would it take for half of them to find their portal. Estimates generally place it high enough that less than 1% of all so sentenced have found their portal.
The pronunciation of Sigil isnt weird, its germanic/norse. English is weird because you belive you have no clue how to make sounds outside your anglosaxic words. However you make north european sounds in a lot of your pronunciation , you just dont realise it
Good to see a video like this. I'm tired of seeing videos titled stuff like "Everything you need to know about Sigil: A Guide for Experts" and then it's like 11 minutes long.
@@karljeffries4848 ^^^^
YESSSSS this is satisfactorily long
Giggity
To continue the implication
Always to a degree
My fave videos to binge last between 1 hour and 12. Wonderful series excluded.
Agreed!!!!! Gj with the videos
That's what I said 😳🥵
YES. I need all of my DnD lore videos to be this long.
Oh man. Great job
Dude im am so incredibly glad i found you when i did. These sort of topics of the worlds of dnd have always interested me and i just love falling asleep to your videos (not a bad thing i swear) ive even found myself playing one of your vids to listen to as i fall asleep and next thing you know its 3 hours later and im still awake listening intently 😂. Your delivery and thorough research is so rare to find, especially with how small of a channel you are. Youll start growing in no time if you keep this level of thought and purpose into your videos. Plus its so easy to tell you just love talking about this kind of stuff. Im the same exact way, to the point where i get too detailed for some of my friends and they just stare at me blankly 😂. Keep up the awesom work dude, ill be here for the ride to 1 mil!
Something tells me there's not even a million people on earth interested in Planescape, but I appreciate your confidence in me!
I now watch Guide to the Abyss regularly as a sleep aid, after already watching it once normally. I love these long, chill, fascinating dives into the world of Planescape.
I don't often see Mechanus discussed in much depth so a video about it would be great. Same for Carceri, Acheron, Gehenna, and Limbo.
Big agree. My clockwork sorcerer requires more information I can bombard my DM with. Give my little shape bois their time in the spotlight.
This video is very good. I would kill for an in-depth dive in the planescape Torment game. I played it as an introduction to the setting, and it was so complex and frustrating yet mysterious and intriguing. Although I never finished my adventure, I think you are the right man to honor that lovely game with a comprehensive analysis or a short of guide to surpass the complex lore barrier to help me and all the people who never fully understood the game enjoy it at its fullest.
I love the demi-plane apt idea, thats some spiffy thinking! Im gonna have to keep that one in mind
Literally starting a Planescape campaign this weekend. Thanks for the drop!
That's awesome!
I searched Sigil, I see uploaded 8h ago, I see uploaded by a channel with less than 10k subs… I get sad thinking it’s not high quality video… then I see 2h long and in the first 20 seconds nice editing… i like the video, sub and share then continue watching. Thank you
This is my new source of go to sleep videos. Love the voice. Very soothing.
My player left Sigil last session but I'm still going to watch this for science or just personal interest.
Thanks for the primer. I suspect since I've seen a lot of buzz about expanding the Eve of Ruin campaign, and Sigil is a key location there, I wouldn't be surprised if this comes in handy for a number of DM's.
My Planescape campaign just got a MASSIVE upgrade. Thank you!!! I love planescape and Sigil and I want to talk about my campaign ideas forever!!!
This is the kind of in depth content i look for in session prep. Thank you for not cutting it short
I am running Eve of Ruin, the campaign uses Sigil as the Hub City of the adventure. Thank you for posting!!
Ah, perhaps I should've used that as a source? Does it offer any new information about Sigil?
The fact that this came out 2 weeks before I'm starting my 5e planescape campaign is an absolute godsend. Thank you for all of your hard work!
I love planescape lore and especially Sigil, so thanks for such a comprehensive video on it!
I wanna go on one of those manta tours so bad 🤩
Thank you for these videos man, I rewatch them quite a lot & you’re very underrated.I don’t usually post on social media, but I always post your vids when new ones come out.
I wish you the best of luck man, hopefully you get the recognition you REALLY deserve soon :)
Thanks! That means a lot.
Doing the Lady’s work, thank you for these videos!
Got into Planescape last year and have been starved for content!
Nice Wade. Another brilliant job. Having run a Planescape campaign since '95 ( which is still going...) while I was initially hesitant to use Sigil as anything more than a quick stopover point, I did grow to love it, and use it more. I think the initial fear was just due to the common DM fears regarding urban adventure, but of course, Sigil is on a much greater scale in every way. I'd say my major inspiration for making use of Sigil was the novel "Pages of Pain" by Troy Denning. Definitely needs credit.
Ah yeah, I thought about using that novel as source material in this video but decided not to because I don't think it's considered canon (and because I haven't read it and then I'd have to and I already read enough things for one video).
@@WadeAllen001 Hey. Oh understood completely. For yourself though, I would recommend you read it, at the very least for personal pleasure. Having read it, at that point it really gave me a great sense of mood for the city, that I hadn't quite grasped from the rulebooks. Much like DiTerlizzi's art set the aesthetic style for Planespace writ large, for me at least, Denning's book really crystalized in my mind the mood for Sigil. Somehwat of a Baroque gritty feel...
I read about half of the book till my ebook reader broke. It was hard to grasp as a non native speaker. But it definitely had quite an atmosphere. It delved too quickly into a maze, though!
@@suy21 Indeed, the maze theme was strong.
Hell yes, I've been absorbing all things Planescape (including your other videos) in preparation for taking my players there next session. Your timing is perfect.
Fantastic video, thank you for the work you do. I would love one on Mechanus since the Primus is one of my favorite figures in D&D lore.
Wade you always outdo yourself with these videos, it's absolutely amazing! I still hope you will do an in depth video about Elysium tho 😅 I get that there are more people demanding videos about the Nine Hells and the Abyss, since players will more likely find themselves in those places, or encounter inhabitants of them, but from the little I heard and read about Elysium it intrigued me way more than the Heavens of Mount Celestia for example. 😊 Keep up the great work, you rock!
Thank you so much for all of the work you put into all of these. I LOVE listening to them, especially the Planescape ones as I'll be running the 5e campaign soon and am incorporating 2e stuff into it, large in part on your reporting of cool details they cut or altered. I really appreciate these, man. Keep doing great stuff please!
Good stuff, thank you for the ADD to 5e highlights (Sigil can be/is a full campaign setting). Also, great questions (ie potential additional details). Keep up the cool Outer Plane vids!
Time for another banger! Thank you for introducing me to planescape lore it’s been super interesting
this is so amazing ive been hoping for another installation :D
Yes, I would like a 2 hour video about Sigil. What a coincidence!
Nice, another one! Your narration and pacing is among the best of "lore" content. Good stuff man.
Gotta love when that fresh Wade pops up. I appreciate these videos and the time you put into making them!
I love your DnD planescape videos, planescape is a just such an interesting setting, and your videos are by far the most in-depth and vivid depictions of the different worlds and planes. I feel like a good topic to cover would be some of the more obscure upper planes lore (elysium, bytopia etc.) since I feel like the upper planes are more neglected in general in DnD material
I'd love to see a video detailing "Turn of Fortune's Wheel". I heard that it was pretty unique in terms of how it handles Character Death.
just finished the video, i'd love to see a new one on mechanus. that's always been the plane that interested me the most, at least
bro dropped a movie. i didnt watch it yet, but i hope to hear tons of philisophy and a lot of updating your journal
Never clicked on a video so fast! Well made, well researched and entertaining to boot. Well done once again Wade!
Thanks!
Your videos really make one feel like they've been there.
Oh hell yea this is perfect!! I needed a new video to listen to while working AND I’ve been wanting to learn more about Sigil ❤❤❤
Another great video, and that's coming from someone that isn't that into Sigil haha.
I'm most looking forward to The Gray Waste/Hades video, but Elysium is my second choice.
Great lore video, always love Sigil lore. Its such a cool place. Well done
Finally, something fun to listen to on my daily commute.
I love Planescape and I really loved this video: subscribed.
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO THE NO. 1 PLANES SERIES KEEPS COMIN
Babe wake up new Wade Allen video dropped
Been loving your videos. Keep up the good work.
Great video, gets bookmarked
Good stuff as always. Thanks.
Thanks for this. Best video on Sigil!
Our lord has returned!
Nice to see Mort is still around.
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WADE ALLEN TIME
Real-estate would be a pain, trying to sell an apartment that keeps moving.
YES another video!
Loved this, thanks
I keep imagining an interdimentional burlesque theater, but it hosts performers from all over the multiverse, so the most normal thing you're likely to see in a night would be a lizardfolk sexily shedding their skin. And then the weirdest could be something like a microwave on legs heating up leftovers. 😂
Immediately liked and shared with my players. Before I even looked at it.
Thanks, I appreciate that!
The Lady of Pain sounds like the worst president of the home owner's association
Pretty good summary!
You dont have enough subs dude. I'm a slut for long form LORE videos of all things nerds this scratched that itch.
Please make separate, more detailed videos of each ward!
❤❤❤❤ love your videos more more lol love the long form lore
I'ma place you into my watch later where you absolutely belong. This much on Sigil?! Yes, please and thank you! 😁
I'm glad focus was on the original setting, and in great deep depth. I understand the need to concede to the remake though... I'm happier ignoring most of that.
Nice cold open about the soft g in sigil
Yo it's timestamped
Thank you!
Hell yeah it’s gamer time
Babe, wake up, A new Wade Allen D&D video just dropped.
😂 hilarious
I always thought of it as the inside of the tire. But I started in 4e so I guess that makes sense.
Another Rare Win for 4e:
The Fortune Wheel at the Establishment of the same name has far worse odds than the 5e version.
Waiting on a guide for arborea!
Thanks for this amazing work, Wade. I just discovered that you have a Patreon page! I can't believe I never realized that! I joined and would like to say thanks by upgrading. Do you think you could make it an annual thing? I don't know how it works, but if I have to join a paid tier for the first time, it would definitely do it for you. 😊
Thanks for joining my Patreon! Unfortunately I am not eligible to enable annual billing. I just looked it up and apparently one of the eligibility requirements is to have earned at least $200/month on Patreon for the past 3 months, which I definitely do not have. I will enable annual billing as soon as I'm eligible though!
girls hes back lock in!
51:26
I'm assuming the Lady "told" them this through her Dabus?
Yes
In my D&D game, I'm gonna have the players travel to Sigil in order to find a pathway to a realm they need to travel to that doesn't have portals anywhere else.
I feel it would be fun to reimagine Sigil as this advanced Sci-Fi city with flying cars, robots, neon lights, skyscrapers, and a population in the tens of millions. I feel like a place that is the literal Nexus of the Multiverse should not have the aesthetic and technology level of a late medieval/early renaissance era European city.
This is great! Do you have a transcript or the notes available?
Hello Wade, Have you already done a comprehensive video about Shadowfell? It would be great to see that soon. It still needs to be online; texts about Shadowfell are usually available, but a deep-dive video should be added.
I have not. I probably will do one eventually, but for now I'm focusing on Planescape stuff, and the Shadowfell didn't exist when Planescape came out.
Ooooh, do Mechanus next!
Modron Mania!
I pronounce both seagull while chewing on a mouthful of bread
The only way to DM.
Nice
Maybe I'm missing it in your series but I don't see the oddball planes (yet?) or did I miss them, i.e. Ethereal, Astral, and Shadow? Might be some more but I can't think of any top of my head.
Feywild/Plane of Faerie too. Yeah I haven't done those ones yet.
you could group planes that dont have that much content. like gehena, hades and carceri, or pandemonium, limbo and ysgard.
Planescape
Sigil reminds me a lot if Alagadda ir maybe its Alagadda that reminds me of Sigil. Not sure anymore but boy do they seem similar 😅
Sigil is actually pronounced with the same Schrodinger's "g" sound as in "gif."
I like to imagine the travelers pronounce Sigil with a soft g (si-dgil), while the main inhabitants and Dabus pronounce it with a hard g (si-GUL)
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One idea I have is for you to write videos with a character and build who personally experiences these places
With canonical knowledge you could easily extrapolate to writing short stories of this person going to or learning of these places.
As well as making those videos superbly long 👀😍
I imagine Sigil as a closed torus. So that you can't just jump out of the cage.
So I imagine that Sigil exists infinitely often. It makes little sense to jump into an infinitely large multiverse where humans and other humanoid creatures are the most common species in the multiverse. Infinity is the greatest and most absolute equalizer. So I figure, if you're a humanoid, you're more likely to end up in the humanoid sigil. If you're a dragon, you're more likely to end up in the dragon sigil, and so on. In dragon sigil (as an example), the factol... are dragons.
All these sigils exist simultaneously in the same place, at the same time, and have some kind of bizarre interaction with each other.
Perhaps, as the Sign of One claims, each visitor creates their own version of the sigil.
On Baator and Abyss. Personally, I don't like it so much that only these two planes get so much love and attention, especially in 5e. But it makes sense for a very combat-based system where you embody the most heroic character. The paradisiacal, well-meaning planes offer rather little drama, action and all that of a ‘good’ heroic story. Although I would partly disagree.
While watching this video about Sigil, I also noticed that Fiend and Tiefling are mentioned most often. While Celestia and Aasimar hardly exist. Which is kind of strange for a city of neutrality. On the other hand, why would Celestia want to leave her paradise?
Climbing Mount Celestia could be an interesting campaign for a more role-playing and survival-oriented game system.
The Lady of Pain also seems pretty evil, even though she is supposed to be the embodiment of neutrality. Just her name, ‘Lady of Pain’.
Sometimes I think that Planescape is so big and diverse that the DnD system is too small to embody all the wonders and oddities this system represents.
Another good video. Keep up the good work. In my opinion, yours is the best video about Planescape on the internet.
I definitely don't think the Lady of Pain is true neutral but I wouldn't call her evil either. Lawful neutral, maybe.
@@kallemort
What its "true neutral" in the first place?
2e and 3e have a different idea of "true neutral". Are the normal dnd commoners "true neutral" at all?
@@Safier_Poochy Just my personal interpretation, but I don't think the lowest-level common humanoids should be placed on the scale at all.
I think that Mount Celestia would be a great backdrop for adventure, moreso than a place like Elysium. On that note, most archons from Celestia aren't permitted to leave the plane.
If theres a lady of pain then theres a lady of pleasure.
Its yourmommm.
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Sig ol.....
lady of pain is a evil being
Is she? Evil in D&D is primarily defined by selfishness. She seems to only intentionally kill and maze people who threaten the safety and stability of the city, which could very easily be considered an act of protection of all the people who live there. And if her shadow kills people automatically, well that's rather accidental, akin to when you accidentally step on an ant. I do think it would be better to avoid stepping on ants, but I don't think it's evil to do so accidentally.
I'll never pronounce Gif with a soft J and I'll never pronounce Sigil with a hard G. Perfectly balanced as all things should be.
Sigl, Sigle, Sigel here are 3 variations that are read and pronounced "correctly".
I think you slipped on a detail by quoting a version of the text that cannot be true. You recognize that people sent to the mazes do not age, but my understanding is they are functionally immortal. Due to the beautiful mathematics of infinity, everyone sent to the mazes will eventually escape through their portal, but very few have as of yet (edit: 21:30 you said most never escape). Truly nerdy dms include scholars trying to determine the half life of escape, that is to say if you became aware of some number of people being sent to the mazes at once, on average how long would it take for half of them to find their portal. Estimates generally place it high enough that less than 1% of all so sentenced have found their portal.
Can I plug Planescape Torment The Unofficial Audio Series to yall? Hashtag RevocerGM 🙌🏽
Sorry, I pronounce it sijil. Stop pointless gatekeeping
The pronunciation of Sigil isnt weird, its germanic/norse. English is weird because you belive you have no clue how to make sounds outside your anglosaxic words. However you make north european sounds in a lot of your pronunciation , you just dont realise it
Sigil not Sigil
No it's pronounce sigil
You pronounced it wrong.