I'd like to know which conception of Lady's Mazes everybody's have.
In a first place, I imagined that when somebody was thrown into one of it, the Lady duplicated the aera where the guy was as nobody was looking at it. Then, this sod was surprised not to recognize the next corner, the next street of the Cage because it has suddenly became a copy of the area duplicated. Step by step, this berk was horrified to discover that his prison was growing, always with the same buildings, the same streets, the same rooms...
I was surprised of the shape of the maze in the video game "Torment" or in the novel "Pages of Pain" where the maze was more like a traditional labyrinth.
I think I prefer a version more inhuman of the mazes. I think the movie "Cube" or the novel "House of Leaves" by Danielewsky could be good inspirations to create new ideas of mazes
Have you some ideas to share?
It's not like the majority of the population would recognize that the hapless victim was mazed, so it wouldn't be a popularly recognized happening. (I mean, she did sort of nail the Indeps with that Plague awhile back...)
I think that the mazes probably start out as a copy of Sigil. There are houses and maybe sometimes people there, but as times go by the houses fades. The walls grow more and more alike and at the end its all the same. Just walls standing up from the ground with nothing to distinguish between them.
Maybe the mazed walks deeper into the maze and end up in something more basic about the maze itself or maybe the maze is a metaphore of the state of the mind.
Another idea might be that the maze is actually a mental construct.
The lady puts the maze into peoples heads, making them believe they are in a maze. After a while of wandering the streets of Sigil, acting like madmen, they get picked up by bleakers that bring them to the gatehouse. It would probably contradict some canon though.