Clerk's Ward

An affluent district, home to most of the city's lower-rung bureaucrats and middlemen. Extremely orderly.

Civic Festhall
Headquarters of the Society of Sensation, the Civic Festhall’s noted throughout the multiverse for its concerts and art exhibitions, as well as its wine shops, taverns, and jewelers, all catering to the most discriminating customers. While tickets for many of the Civic Festhall’s concerts are sold only to Sensates, citizens can gather behind the Festhall and listen to the music through the walls (providing they behave in an orderly manner and disperse as soon as the concert ends). On occasion, the administrators open their personal galleries and museums to the public. And because the Sensates encourage artistic expression in all forms, they tolerate, even encourage, informal performances in the streets. Those skilled at juggling, singing, or dancing can make a surprisingly good living collecting the coins tossed by appreciative spectators.

Greengage
The Greengage, across the street from the Civic Festhall, sells glasses of cider cutters sip while sitting on the curb. It's earned a fine reputation, although it's not wildly popular with the big folks. The owner, a halfling named Marda Farambler, built it so anyone under 4'6" would be comfortable here. Greengage serves as a second home to much of Sigil's halfling and gnome community. The commons are spacious and cozy for any small or smaller creature. Everyone else drinks their cider outside.

Marda specializes in cider, both unfermented and hard, from the orchards of the goddess Sheela Peryroyl. The latter cider is such a potent brew that Marda normally allows only two tankards per customer.

Grundlethum's Automatic Scribe
This small shop’s the only officially sanctioned one of its kind in all the Cage. Anyone with the jink to cover the fees can pay the Automatic Scribe to write a document of any kind: statements of intent to purchase, promises of payments due, exclamations of passion, whatever a body needs (or wants) set down in writing. Chant is some nasty things are going on around the shop that, if they were truly unconnected from one another, would be wildly coincidental.

Hall of Information
An adjunct to the Hall of Records, the Hall of Information may be Sigil’s most valuable resource. It provides general information about government operations, cultural affairs, and private sector services; Cagers and visitors with routine questions are directed here.

Located midway between the Hall of Speakers and the Hall of Records, the Hall of Information’s a stately edifice of blue marble edged in onyx, its sparkling crystal windows framed in turquoise. A pair of marble ramps leading inside runs between three marble columns. The words on each column taken together summarize the Hall’s credo: COOPERATION, COMPLIANCE, and CONTROL.

All interior walls and floors are made of polished blue marble, illuminated by aquamarine chandeliers. Every surface is spotless. Footsteps and muttered conversations echo in the otherwise silent hallways. A faint aroma of apples hangs in the air.

Hall of Records
As the headquarters of the Fated, the Hall of Records provides a number of services to all Cagers and visitors, regardless of their faction affiliation. The Hall, a former college, has been subdivided into a variety of record-keeping and administrative offices. With appropriate administrative approval, anyone may peruse the public document library in the Hall of Records to check tax assessments or examine exchange rates.

The public may consult the Announcement Board in the Hall lobby, where ordinances, regulations, and statistical findings are posted on a daily basis. Visitors may also wish to patronize the businesses on the adjacent streets; copyists, tax mediators, bodyguard services, parchment dealers, and pawnbrokers thrive in this area.

Hall of Speakers
The glistening spire atop the Hall of Speakers symbolizes the glory of the individual, a cornerstone of the Sign of One’s philosophy. This is their headquarters after all. A massive statue before the building underscores the point; it depicts a woman holding an entire world. Within the walls of this stately edifice, factols and plebians engage in lengthy, detailed discussions about the precepts, statutes, and decrees affecting all Cagers.

Anyone with a silver piece can rent a meeting room in the Hall of Speakers for an hour; the administrators guarantee privacy. Cagers may also listen to - and occasionally participate in - the Speaker's Podium debates.

Jeena Ealy's Compound
A fenced compound not far from the Civic Festhall is home to Jeena Ealy. Her bodyguards and scribes live in dormitories, also in the compound. Jeena’s true-life adventure books have not only brought her legions of fans, but have made her arguably the ward’s most famous citizen. She set up this compound to have complete control over every aspect of publishing her works.

Lazz School of Vivid Unpleasantness
Just down the street from Jeena’s compound is the Lazz School of Vivid Unpleasantness, impossible to ignore thanks to the brilliant hues of its stuccoed walls, walls set at impossible angles to form indescribable shapes, shapes ending in improbable spikes and blades.

Artists studying here tend toward controversial expressionism. Black-garbed buskers perform 'round the clock in the School's public courtyard. Pungent clove smoke nses from the scented pipeweed favored by the crowds who gather to absorb the atmosphere. The street musicians and avant garde theatrical performances create a cacophony that lends a festive feel to the immediate area surrounding this island of creativity. The School’s not just for any berk. Most fans are young Indeps and Bleakers. Guvners despise the place.

Tea Street Transit
Located between the Hall of Speakers and the Hall of Records, Tea Street Transit provides pony-drawn cabs that’ll carry cutters to virtually any destination. The proprietor, Kyl Silkfoot, guarantees satisfaction. Customers shouldn’t be deterred by his gruff exterior or the foul smoke from his tarweed cigars; Kyl’s ponies are dependable, his cabs as comfortable as a mother’s lap.

Tensar's Employment Service
The bronze plaque over the doorway of Tensar’s employment Service captures the essence of the man within, for no one in all of Sigil is more trustworthy than Utadas Tensar. Tensar operates from a nondescript red brick building in Hull Road, Employers from all corners of the city pay him to screen and interview applicants, knowing that he'll find them capable employees. A black slate in the shop's front window lists some of the available positions.

Trianym
Those unable to gain access to the Hall of Speakers might consider the Trianym, a public forum where just about anyone can speak his mind on the issues of the day. Located about a block from the Hall of Speakers, the Trianym comprises three cylindrical, black brick platforms. Sura Ekness an amiable Guvner resplendent in a silver cloak and polished copper arm bands, selects the topics and participants and supervises the debates.

The debates have no formal structure; participants may speak as much as they like, so long as they remain on their platforms, refrain from using magic or props, and don’t stray from the topic. During the debate, spectators show their approval by tossing coins at their favorite speakers, and pelting unimpressive participants with pebbles and garbage.

Triopic Nic'Epona
Perhaps the most breathtaking monument in all of Sigil, the Trioptic Nic'Epona - known affectionately as Triona - resembles a gigantic rearing nic'Epona (horse that is descended from Epona, the god of horses). A short walk from the Hall of Speakers, fashioned from fist-sized chunks of azurite and onyx, the statue stands nearly 200 feet tall. Three oval eyes - one ruby, one emerald, one amber - are spaced on her forehead like the points of a triangle.

Notable People

 * Eman Heshter: Owner of Heshter's Arms
 * Marda Farambler: Owner of the Greengage
 * Grundlethum Blackdagger: Inventor
 * Bordon Mok: Chief of the Hall of Information
 * Jeena Ealy: Author
 * Kyl Silkfoot: Owner of Tea Street Transit
 * Utadas Tensar: Archmage famous throughout the multiverse for his unparalleled mastery of arcane magic/temporary employment administrator
 * Sura Ekness: Debate Moderator