Description

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Population: 932
Social Class: Upper class
Character: Large, ostentatious palaces surrounded by high walls on wide, well lit avenues.
District Type: Wealthy residential
Buildings: Upscale residential, embassies
First Impressions: This is where the well-lanned bloods of Sigil live. Mansions that are far too big for their owners surrounded by impenetrable walls make this place look like a dream that no cutter can touch.


The Nobles District is so named for the prevalence of the richest of the rich of Sigil who call the district home: a concentration of jink and power to make a power of wealth blink. The district itself is bounded more or less within the ranges of Portal Close, Harmonium Street, and Lords’ Row, give or take a block or two. Sitting on large tracts of land, the so-called High Houses of Sigil sprawl out within their fenced in compounds, separated from the grime and trudge of Sigil’s residents. In fact, some of the houses are so set apart that the residents could die within and it likely wouldn’t be discovered for years if they had already paid their guards and servants.

The more noted residents of the ward, those who can be called genuine golden lords and not just underground power brokers, include: Zadara the Titan, Jeremo the Natterer of the Ring- Givers, Wei Minh Lee the Proxy of Shou-Hsing and dealer in potions of longevity, High Priest of Puchan the self-titled Lord of Wealth, Duprak Jarneesh, of the d’Arlen family, and the planar arms merchant. two of this list shall be detailed further in this volume. Of course, those underground power brokers and royalty of the cross trade can have as much, or more, power than the true Golden Lords.

This is where the power of Sigil lies in its entirety. In the noble district, no move goes unnoticed, no meeting is chance. Every move is coldly calculated and anticipated, as no one trusts their neighbor and is never content with what they have.

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High Houses: The High Houses are palatial estates that dot the Noble District. Each High House is a compound to itself – an ostentatious waste of space for Sigil, but that’s the way it is in the Cage. Servants, messengers, and entire staffs live their entire lives inside the compounds of the High Houses. These buildings are all incredibly well patrolled, as any knight with two eyes in his face can tell that just a few hours here could set a body up for life.

Library of the Lady: One of the High Houses in the Noble’s District houses the Library of the Lady, a large building housing numerous books. Anyone is free to enter the library and conduct research, but they must abide by the mysterious Librarian’s rules: books don’t circulate, books aren’t to be harmed. Within the Library’s halls, a berk can find any number of graybeards doing their own research willing to lend some wisdom for the right garnish, or cullers can look for themselves with advantage on any Knowledge or Arcana checks while within the library’s halls. Researching any question in this fashion takes 1d4+1 hours.

Planar Embassies: Those few nation-states that exist across the Planes (and few there are, the majority of which are small kingdoms that dot the Outlands) have joined in the kriegstanz, recognizing that a chance to rule Sigil is a chance to gain a serious upper hand. As such, many planar powers have sent proxies and ambassadors to Sigil, and the most well-lanned of these cutters have set up here in the Noble’s District in one of the planar embassies. Cutters looking for trouble are advised to seek it elsewhere – this area of town is riddled with some of the most powerful fiends, celestials and bloods this side of the River Oceanus. Even the Lords of Hell each have a proxy set up in one of the embassies here. The peace is kept by a steady patrol of Harmonium guards, the very best the faction has to offer.