The Vault

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Plane: Carceri
Layer: Colothys
Ruler: Staccato Thaman
Sigil's not big enough to hold all the prisoners the Harmonium apprehends, and plenty of people would like to see a berk disappear entirely from the streets of the Cage. That's why the three lawgiving factions created the Vault - its a place for them to stash inconvenient prisoners and let 'em languish. no one on the street knows exactly where the Vault is, but it's a well-known chant around Sigil that this place exists.


Run by a Harmonium tiefling named Staccato Thaman, so named for his lightning-fast command of his fighting sticks, the Vault rests atop one of Colothys' peaks. The outside of the huge metal building is covered in razorvine, and ravor shrubs blanket the land for a mile all around. It's entirely enclosed; only three windows mar the surface of the Vault.

The only visible entrance into the Vault is through a two-way portal from the Prison in Sigil. If a body were try try entering through one of the windows, he'd likely find himself staring down about 20 crossbows.


Inside are only two groups: the prisoners, and the guards. These prisoners have proven to be too much of a bother to be kept in Sigil's prison, and anyone sent here can give up hope of leaving. This place has, so far, proven to be escape-proof, and the guards have absolute power of life and death over the prisoners. They exercise this power with some frequency.

All the guards are members of the Harmonium or the Red Death. Anyone else visitnigthe place - well, they'd have two options: Live the rest of their lives in the Vault, or die a dishonorable death among the razorvine.