I was checking out the Cityscape Art Gallery and noticed this image called "The Planar City" and it looks a lot like Sigil but more like a flat ring than a hollow torus.
Is Sigil mentioned in this book?
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Sigil in Cityscape?
Sat, 2006-11-18 01:40
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Sigil in Cityscape?
Sat, 2006-11-18 11:59
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Sigil in Cityscape?
Is Sigil mentioned in this book?
Yes, it is, according to the ENWorld thread on the book. It's not a very good illustration of Sigil, but it is intended to be Sigil.
Sat, 2006-11-18 12:22
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Sigil in Cityscape?
It's not a very good illustration of Sigil, but it is intended to be Sigil.
Indeed. I'm especially displeased with the moon in the background - as though Sigil has an actual sky, like a common Prime metropolis!
Sat, 2006-11-18 13:20
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Sigil in Cityscape?
Indeed. I'm especially displeased with the moon in the background - as though Sigil has an actual sky, like a common Prime metropolis!
Maybe that's a portal in the clouds, and it is a Prime sky we're seeing.
Sat, 2006-11-18 14:36
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Sigil in Cityscape?
You are too generous.
Sun, 2006-11-19 02:07
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Sigil in Cityscape?
Maybe it's a different city named Sigil (this one pronounced Si-jill, naturally). Or maybe the picture is supposed to have the caption "The city of Sigil, as drawn by a clueless Prime." Seriously, I wouldn't be surprised if nobody on the Cityscape team knew enough about Planescape to catch this. After all, all it says in the Third Edition books is that Sigil is a city built on the inside of a torus/ring that floats above the Spire.
The ring is too flat, too narrow, and may well be too long (it's hard to tell from the angle). The smog is too much like clouds and not enough like an omnipresent haze. The architecture is all wrong (no spikes or razorvine in sight). And, of course, the presence of a moon and sky are the biggest offenders. Particularly the moon, because the Outlands doesn't have one either.
If you look past all that though, the painting itself is actually quite good. I like it, anyway. Perhaps we can just pretend it's supposed to be a different planar ring-city? Perhaps the Eberonians built it to compensate for not having one of their own?
Sun, 2006-11-19 11:34
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Sigil in Cityscape?
I think it is Sigil. The painting is fairly good in my opinion.
You have to remember that it was done by a prime-worlder for pay. That prime probably was never in Sigil and just worked from the descriptions they had.
Thu, 2006-11-30 12:14
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Sigil in Cityscape?
It's definitely Sigil; I got a look at the book and it's labeled as such. And it's a very good painting in a technical sense.
Tue, 2006-12-05 18:32
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Sigil in Cityscape?
There must be allowances for artistic interpretations.
Sigil is the stuff of myths and impossibilities. Much the same as art in a sense.
True, Sigil is not a flat ring, but it is also not a torus. Sigil is a curved ring.