Outlands and Sigil - D&D Lore
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Episode 32 - Outlands and Sigil
Today we explore the Outlands and the very unique Sigil which is placed directly in the center. The Outlands connect the Outer Planes together through gateways, and Sigil is connected to everything via portals. All in all it's pretty bad ass.
Also I've been told I pronounce Sigil incorrectly. Sigil (The City of Doors) is pronounced /ˈsɪɡɪl/ (siggle)
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References:
In the Cage: A Guide to Sigil - www.drivethrurp...
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There is a species native to the spire, the center of the Concordant plane of the Outlands, the Rilmani.. however, most people overlook these beings of cosmic neutrality. Great vid as always Jorphdan!
I somehow missed this in my research. But good to know thanks AJ :D
AJ Pickett holy s*** it's my two favorite Dungeons & Dragons UA-camrs I think honestly play a game with you two would be Beyond Epic just saying that much
I know right! They're both in an adventure I'm writing as reoccurring NPC. Well actually Jophdan has a possibility of dieing..sorry Jophdan lol
@Stygian Eons No not yet, he's a Scrappy Sage lol
I see the Rilmani as a threat to creation's growth, forever seeking to keep everything in a nice neat boxed in balancing act.
I love that you covered the Far Realm!
I have just finished making a homebrew Sorcerous Origin of the Planeswalker. These videos have been incredible as I created the subclass and more so as I prepare to play it. Thank you so much! I have fallen in love with the planes of D&D and I think this will be my new favorite class.
:Applauds:
Ah, Sigil, the only city-state worth playing in.
Someday I'll run an adventure there with the explicit propose that the players may never leave.
I've just gorged on dozens of your videos in a row. This is some awesome deep diving.
I thought aboleths originated on the prime material plane as the very first beings? And the mindflayers from the future are the only entities which the aboleths cannot remember with their primeval ancestral memories. So my theory was the mindflayers are the eventual evolved descendants of the aboleths which would make them both originally from the material plane, even though they're tagged under the lovecraft dimension.
Love your videos man, you're my favorite D&D UA-camr by far, keep up the great work!
Thanks man :)
Would love to see an episode on the land of Ravenloft!
0:22. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be
Funny tidbit someone once told me: You know that infinitesimal small chance that something can exist in a universe of infinite possibilities? The spire at the center of the Outlands is all those numbers summed. That is why it is infinitely high, but has an end.
He confessed to been bullshitting me, but that right there describes the outlands to me down to a science. The sum of all those statistical flukes and variables.
When you find a Sigil portal that leads into the Dark Tower...
#TOOMETA
As a DM, i love planescape campaigns. So many directions to go with the story. =)
Great video, I just made a light foot halfling bard character in our dragonlance campaign (I dislike kender) so I figured he could have been from Sigil and fell through a door way as a small child.
I would love some videos on the regions of Faerun and notable landmarks there! Your video on the Netherese really inspired me and I'd like to see more of those kind!
Always excited for another D&D Lore episode!
Love it. I wish there was a cosmology playlist. I want to watch these all again
Hey Jorphdan, keep doing lore videos, even if its a monster type or other weird stuff, or even do adventure summaries, like not campaign diaries but just old school adventures and what lore they have.
Oh I will :) New Lore ever Wednesday don't worry! Next week will be on the Land of Intrigue! Amn, Tethyr and Calimshan.
Thou shalt not f*** with the Lady of Pain.
Just the #1 rule for those visiting the Cage, berk.
Fantastic series, utterly engrossing, thank you very much!
THIS. this is the video i've been waiting for. finally!
this was awesome putting all this info in one place. the original boxed set for 2e was great for this
Dude your videos are pure fire
We should all get together and have a massive D&D game once a year have three or four DM's all working together on a single unified overarching story in which some people can play the villains and some people can play the heroes and our illustrious host who has blessed us with the most amazing UA-cam channel here could totally be one of the DM's so could the guy from The Mightygluestick and a few others think about it over a hundred people all gathered together to play one massive game of DnD over the course of a week or two
Michael Johnson I don't like the jackets that make me love myself or the padded rooms that prevent me from hurting myself or the medication that makes it impossible to walk Thorazine Shuffle I don't know if that would be fun but that many DM's that many players that would be epic I think we can agree
It blew my mind when I found out that the Nameless one was part of the dnd universe. I had known of dnd but knew nothing about it, I thought that black isle literally just made up all the lore they did for the purpose of Planescape: Torment.
Ok time to replay the greatest crpg of all time.
Ah Sigil, the only place in the Multiverse where a Gith and a Mind Flayer can go get a beer together and where an Angel can go on a date with her Devilish Boyfriend
Yes!! This is awesome! Just what I was looking for! Finally found more info on the far realm 👍🏻
imagine opening a door walking through. but you are teleported 5 feet infront of the door
"We can excuse the fact that you slaughtered two yugoloths before you realized where you were, outsider, but you pronounced the name of our fair city as "Sijil", not "Sigil" and there can be no excuse for that!" -- her Honour, Rastina Tollin of the Guvners
Wait, they pronounce it with a hard G?
@@Droid15243Z This is a direct quote from Planescape Campaign Setting book for 2nd edition and considering that it is factol of Guvners which says it, I'm gonna go with "Yes" :)
@@shomzlezilebovic Where were you when Matthew Mercer got decimated by chat back when Critical Role started? xD
@@Droid15243Z Around that time, I was somewhere in Limbo, spreading the good word of our lord and saviour, the Chad Kangaroo :}
I love your videos! Would you ever consider talking more about the factions of Sigil? I think that'd be super interesting!
That would be super interesting. I'll add it to my list of topics thanks!
Keep researching cause I'll keep watching! You just gave me a good idea for my campaign!
sweet! :D
What I would love to see is the items. From legendary artifacts to common objects.
the circular shape of the realm reminds me of the halo arrays from the halo franchise
I'd like alittle history on volo and elminster I don't know their past that well.
WeavingChaos look up the book: Elminster in hell
Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition is available on Steam if anyone is interested in playing as an Amnesiac Immortal in Sigil. Comes with all the traditional RPG gameplay with stats, alignment and plenty of choices through dialogue.
Thank you for these great videos
Would love to see some videos on cities and locations in faerun. Great videos as always.
Thanks man with all this info it's helping me to improve upon my campaign
+Tj Martins sweet!!
I hope that one of those future 5e settingg would be Outlands and Sigil.
I appreciate your videos, Jorfdan
Thanks :)
I would love a video on the 5 factions of Faerun (sorry if i am spelling it wrong). I play a druid member of the Emerald Enclave, but my DM doesn't know or have much to go on when it comes to canon info on the faction to incorporate to his game. It would really mean alot to me and to some others out there.
Faerun History just did a video on the Emerald Enclave! Perhaps he'll continue with more. It's on my list of potential videos, just need time to plan them all out.
ua-cam.com/video/0h7bilUo7K8/v-deo.html
I think its mentioned or assumed somewhere that the lady of pain is the primordial of neutrality
Great video as always! I want to hear more about that lovecraftian junk
My personal theory (others must have thought the same too, but I had this idea some time ago) is that the Lady of Pain is an Overgod, much like Ao.
In the wiki I found that in the novel Waterdeep by Troy Denning, Ao responds to a Master wich suggests he wouldn't be the only one in direct contact with this entity. So maybe there is an Overgod for each realmspace, including sigil?
There is only one Realmspace. It is the crystal sphere in which "the Realms" are found. It contains the world of Toril, its sun and neighboring planets. But yeah, other crystal spheres exist, and they probably have their own overgods.
But Sigil isn't in a crystal sphere. The city floats above one of the Outer Planes.
Also, I prefer the theory that gets a mention in the DMG. The Lady of Pain is "the fallen creator of the multiverse". Maybe Ao's master used to answer to her.
Millstone1985 yeah, confused my theories, the other one is that there is a realmspace for each game table
The Master is the DM
Amusing, entertaining & inspiring... great video series. Much love
Thanks!!
Love it, sir!
I kind of understand that a lot of people are confused by the lady of pain and I think the way she's able to do a lot of what she does is because of psionics in 3rd Edition any of you play 3rd Edition or second editions of this psionics is kind of broken that is to say way overpowered but how she's able to stop Magic from working how she's able to inflict wounds on people just by meeting their gaze her inherent connection to outlands and sigil her ability to neutralize or combate even the most powerful of beings if they enter her Realm points to the fact that she was probably one of if not the most powerful psionics users that has ever lived whether she's a psionicist or whether she's some type of Mystic I'm not sure
Keep it up and
ill be back every week
First one (or among the first), for a change. Good video, as always.
Holy Pelor, I lost it at the Lady's Man.
Great Video as always, I would like for more lore about the cities and nations in the sword coast though
Next week is about Amn, Tethyr, and Calimshan :) Sword Coast will come eventually I want to cover Waterdeep, Luskan, Baldur's Gate, and others in the area.
Thanks for replying! Looking forward to it
Hey it’s been a while since you made this but thanks for doing so. I’ve never played DND with Planescape and my only experience of it has been as the Nameless One in the Torment CRPG.
Happy to be of help :D
Sigil reminds me of of Omega in rhe Mass Effect games.
Large oddly shaped city floating in space ✔
Led by a lady of Pain (Aria T'Loak) ✔
Home to many and native to none ✔
Love the video. Can the next series be a chronological timeline of forgotten realms from start -35000 DR to present 1491 DR. I know you have cover some of it already.
Tall order there. If you get a chance pick up "Grand History of the Realms" and flip through it. I think you'll understand what an endeavor that actually would be. From my perspective it makes more sense to the viewer if I pick a region or a group and follow their history, zoom in on a piece of history. Trying to keep my videos as 6-8 minutes of digestible lore.
Thanks for the comment :D
Who's here from the newest video? Also, keep up the good work Jorphdan!
Thanks!! 🙂
I've finally watched all planar videos.
And you earned yourself a new subscriber :D
Welcome :)
Thank you Jorphdan!
So Sigil is literally Homebrew Heaven?
I wonder because I yearn to play a Celtic-Born Seeker (2nd Edition idea), but the only feasible idea that I can think of is that my character just got stuck in the Feywilds long enough for the latest edition to pass by.
Man this makes me want to replay Planescape Torment.. again :3
So good :D
I love the outlands and sigil jorph.. especially the outlands reminds me of schizopherenia
Sigil, the place where everyone is an arrogant jerk because they think the Prime material plane is Bumpkinsville. I'd pay real money to see one of them dropped on a Spelljammer ship and find out how 'tiny' the prime material plane actual is.
Love the ROM reference!
It’s Jorphdan!
I hope you'll do a video on the empire of Narfell at some point :)
I'll see what I can do!
5:00 so basically the home of the elder ones.
Forgot the most important part of The Ladies Ward. That its home to......courvoisier.
You didn't talk about Zorquan. He's a dragon god in the draconian pantheon, in the cult of dragons it said he lived in the outlands
Thanks for interesting video.
So, if the Lady of Pain keeps the gods out of her realm, where do gods of true-netral allingment reside? (I.e. Augma, Gond, and Silvanas.)
Man, ya didn't introduce Sigil the paradoxical way it is meant to be! The City of Doors, Sigil, is a wheel-shaped structure on top of an infinitely tall mountain at the center of the Outlands.
And though I hate to mention it, if only because it was written without consulting the Planescape canon, but Vecna managed to break the "No deities in Sigil" rule, but it was mostly just one of his steps to true godhood from the lowest ranks of divinity.
And yeah, all of your stuff is the surface level information, so I guess stuff will have to be left out. I'm just a huge Planescape fan. Perhaps you could cover factions of the Forgotten Realms next, like the Harpers or Zhentarim. Or even just realms like Halruaa or Elturgard.
By far my Favorite setting, i hope they bring it back in 5e. I like Planescape more than FR.
Yes!
Wouldn't it be weird if Sigil was actually the interior of a mighty serpent deity like Dendar?
You're onto something! ;)
@@Jorphdan I also been thinking that if Sigil is a true fulcrum to the universe and the Lady of Pain has the power to keep other gods out, then perhaps she is some manifestation of the god Ao, or one of their creations
For Deities do Zorquan
Great video but one correction: the Rilmani are beings that are native to the Outlands. They are described in the Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix 2 for 2e and the Fiend Folio for 3.5e
Thanks! and thanks for the reference. Somehow these creatures escaped my readings. I appreciate the information :)
Nice.
You should do a video on the Underdark
Capital idea!
My favorite realm is Arcadia.
Sigil the city is pronounced with a hard ‘g.’
nope that's a real word and it's in fact pronounced soft with a j sound.
“Siggle”?
@@migmindy The CITY is pronounced with a hard G. The word "sigil," which refers to a sign or symbol, is pronounced with a soft G. Sigil (the city) rhymes with giggle.
@@jessicaslater4243 I get that English isn't consistent and it's not even English it's fantasy, but I just really don't the sound of Siggle. Ima just hold on to the soft g and y'all do what you want
Jorphdan I'm really loving the videos you're making. They are nice and manageable with enough info to allow a guy to have an idea about the topic at hand, but not too much info that I'd be drowning. As a long time very casual player and a more recent DM I'm looking for good content like this to get more information on the lore and what not of the multiverse. But I've got questions about a bunch of stuff, like I know your videos come from a Forgotten Realms perspective, is there any way to get info from an ebberon perspective? The planes are the same right? faerun and ebberon are both on the material plane right? are all their gods interchangeable? are any of them the same but with different names? if the fey wild and shadowfell roughly align to the material plane does that mean you could travel from faerun to ebberon?
Okay you don't have to answer any of that but are there any resources like yours a guy could look at? maybe a podcast or audiobook?
If anything please keep making these videos. Oh and in a previous video I heard you say something about the doublydoo, do you watch AvE as well?
I don't watch AvE... not sure what that is. But Dooblydoo is a common UA-cam term for the description. I was thinking of Ebberon but I have so much more to explore in Forgotten Realms that it won't happen for a while. I did hear of another guy hoping to start a similar channel with Ebberon content, so keep an eye out maybe it'll happen.
I think Ebberon is it's own thing, just like Forgotten Realms. It has it's own gods etc. The planes of existence are also their own thing that have become wrapped in with Forgotten Realms mythology.
Finally Yes I think you could travel from Faerun to Eberron, or Dark Sun, or what ever setting you wanted. That's the beauty of D&D :)
Can you do a video on psionics or Mystics as they're called in 5th edition I prefer 3rd Edition and 3.5 but I understand that psionics is broke in those
+joseph kofmann sure I'll add it to my list 😀
Si-jihl or Sig-gil?
You fell into the same trap as Matt Mercer.
Can you do a video on the Rilmani? They're a very interesting planar I was hoping you'd cover in this video
I'll do some research, I haven't heard of them!
I just want a doughnut now. Mmm, tori.
It's been mentioned before in other comments, but Sigil is pronounced with a hard "G" sound, like "SIG-il" not a soft "G" like the English word sigil. This is mentioned in-world as well, including "clueless berks" being mocked for saying it wrong.
Yep! Thanks :D
Can you Plane Shift into the Outlands or Sigil? Starting in the Prime Material, can you go straight to Sigil, or do you have to start in either the Outlands or another plane in the wheel, travelling into the outlands and then up into Sigil. Also, you said one cannot reach sigil except by portal, if one tried to fly up the Spire towards Sigil, would they simply never reach it?
Good questions! I think it's safe to assume there can be portals to Sigil from the Prime Material Plane, but I don't think you can plane shift there. Because Sigil blocks all teleports and conjurations. I know I read the spire that holds Sigil is infinitely high, yet you can see Sigil from the ground. So tough question, I think in my game I wouldn't allow players to reach Sigil through flight, or at the least they couldn't get in once they arrive. They would need to find a portal.
Great comment!
Wilkie Dickinson-Sparkes Canonically, you can't use magic to get in or out of Sigil, only portals, but the Outlands should be fair game.
Otoh, The Spire is described to be infinite even though it's also always perceived to be merely "really tall" with a donut on top. Drilling a hole from the outside is probably out of the question.
As for the original doors in the City of Doors. Who made them in the first place? Don't ask. Maybe The Lady herself, or Aoskar, the totes dead god of portals (guess who looked him?) Supposedly The City itself predates them both? But The Lady has always existed?
Planescape is a dish best served paradoxical.
cool cool
eh, less so unaware, but more so not caring as to them mortals and such planets and towns and such are insignificant in comparison
6:05 Why are you showing the cover to the Neverwinter campaign setting? What does that have to do with the Outlands and Sigil?
Question: Jubilex appears as if it came from the Far Realm. Was it a creature that came from there? If so, what about the Slaadi and the other creatures of Limbo?
What about the ordinal plane?
Can the Great Old Ones enter Sigil? Despite their insane power they are technically not gods. Same with Asmodeus, I wonder if he could enter and just chooses not too...
Or the Lady keeps their doors shut?
Hi
Do you know of a map of Sigil showing Bigby's statue location?
Possibly what year it arrives or is built
Thx
I know it's been a while since you've made a video for the planes, but any chance you could do some for the quasi-elemental planes? Such as Salt, Vacuum, Radiance, Minerals, etc.?
I couldn't find a ton of information on them. They are there but not really defined very well. If you know of a book I can pull from let me know.
What is the source for the picture at 2:39? I freaking love it!
TNO was a badass
Something is bugging me; how do the astral plane and elemental planes overlap, since astral connects only the material plane to the outer planes? Also, starting on the material plane, can you get to any of the outer planes through the astral plane? if so, then why can't you go from an outer plane to any other non-adjacent one by the same means? Can the material plane be used just as the outland, as a shortcut? also, how do the astral plane and ethereal plane overlap? How can you go from one to the other? And how does the astral plane and the outer planes connect? (whats the astral planes' version of border etherial?)
Hey Jorphdan. I'm new to your channel and haven't watched all of your videos, but I was wondering if you plan on making a video about the material world and it's various features (if you haven't already of course) :D
+Alex Ramey like the prime material plane? Not as broadly as that but I have faerun videos that I'm continually making. 😀
Okay cool. I just stumbled on some vids you yours that go deeper into just that. Keep up the good work. Can't wait to see more ;D
+Alex Ramey 😀
You rock
Open question to anyone who knows the answer because I have lost the information and the Source book I had for it and Third Edition in the Epic Level players guide it mentions a city in the astral plane it's it's a city of trade and commerce and I don't remember the name of it if anyone remembers let me know
Michael Johnson I think it was called unin or something like that but I like your idea better