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* FateWorseThanDeath: The Lady's non-lethal punishment of choice, referred to as Mazing, traps the victim in an extradimensional labyrinth of randomized design. Whilst stuck inside, the victim's immortal and unable to age or die from injuries ([[DrivenToSuicide self-inflicted]] or otherwise) or starvation/thirst, possibly leaving them to run the maze for the rest of eternity. This isn't as fun as it sounds, given that you're trapped alone in total isolation, [[GoMadFromTheIsolation which doesn't tend to do much for a person's sanity]]. Fortunately, there's ''always'' a way out... ''if'' you can figure it out. However, even this ability to escape is a form of CruelMercy, as it's possible for the offender to exit into a completely different place or time, sometimes thousands of year in the past or future, leaving them no better off than they were when trapped inside of the maze.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: ''She's'' the Bigger Fish. It's incredibly rare that being can even slightly inconvenience her, and ever rarer that they live to tell the tale. There are no known limits to her power that aren't self-imposed, and she can apparently ignore or even overrule cosmic principles that limit other beings. No matter how powerful someone becomes, they will never equal or surpass her without [[TheWorfEffect the DM's intervention]].

* CoolPet: Her closest friend is Dib, an Byotian ethyk; dib's ability to induce anger in other beings can often distract and confuse anyone who tries to hurt Kyle. At least, long enough for her to either flee or drive a knife between his ribs.

* PoisonousFriend: She uses charm, flattery and false pretenses of friendship, all to goad people into getting themselves mazed.

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* HumanoidAbomination: The Lady looks surprisingly human-like -- true, she's a StatuesqueStunner, being over seven feet tall, but otherwise she just looks like a woman with a bizarre taste in headdresses. However, the reality is that she's an entity whose powers make her alien and scary to DemonLordsAndArchDevils, Archangels, Faerie Lords and ''Gods'' alike, capable of doing things that otherwise should be impossible.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Much like Koe, she feels the Blood War is a NecessaryEvil, and seeks to prolong it to keep the fiends only fighting each other.

* BaldWoman: Her head is completely hairless; [[spoiler: also qualifies as BaldOfEvil.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Worship her at your own peril]]
The legendary and enigmatic ruler of Sigil, a towering and feminine humanoid who wears a mantle of myriad blades. She never speaks, relying on her Dabus' to communicate for her, and takes little active interest in running the city on a day-to-day basis. Rather, her concern is the survival of Sigil as a whole, which she appeals through swiftly applied and brutal methods at her own seeming whim.

* AppealToForce: To put it quite bluntly, the Lady rules Sigil because she has the power to curbstomp anything and everything she wants, whenever she wants. [[spoiler:As seen when she utterly ''annihilated'' the Portal God Aoskar ''and'' all his temples ''and'' pretty much all of his worshippers, simultaneously, ''throughout the entire multiverse''.]]
* CoolCrown: Sort of. When seen from a distance, she seems to be wearing a wicked cool headdress made of long, razor-sharp metal blades that encircle her entire head. However, if one gets close enough to see her features more clearly (''not'' recommended, given what she's known to do to people who annoy her) one sees that it's not a headdress... It's ''part of her body!''
* TheDreaded: Anyone who doesn’t fear or respect the Lady Of Pain enough to give her a wide berth at all times is either stupid or dead. Usually both.

* FateWorseThanDeath: The Lady's non-lethal punishment of choice, referred to as Mazing, traps the victim in an extradimensional labyrinth of randomized design. Whilst stuck inside, the victim's immortal; unable to age or die from injuries ([[DrivenToSuicide self-inflicted]] or otherwise) or starvation/thirst, possibly leaving them to run the maze for the rest of eternity. This isn't as fun as it sounds, given you're trapped alone in total isolation, [[GoMadFromTheIsolation which doesn't tend to do much for a person's sanity]]. Fortunately, there's ''always'' a way out... ''if'' you can figure it out. However, even this ability to escape is a form of CruelMercy, as it's possible for the offender to exit into a completely different place or time, sometimes thousands of year in the past or future, leaving them no better off than they were when trapped inside of the maze.

* AGodIAmNot: Although the Lady's power level is divine at the very least, she refuses to allow others to worship her, swiftly Mazing or Flaying anyone who tries. Some argue that it's because she's an entity of such power that begin called a "mere" god is ''insulting''. It's more commonly accepted, and may be the official explanation, that if she were to allow others to worship her like a god, then that would turn her into an official god, which would collapse the warding around Sigil that keeps gods ''out''.

* RiddleForTheAges: All details about who the Lady is, where she comes from, what she is, what she wants, how her powers work, etc, are never to be officially solved.

* TheScottishTrope: InUniverse, nobody actually ''calls her'' "The Lady of Pain" if they can avoid it. They much prefer honorifics and euphemisms, like "The Lady" or "Her Bladed Serenity".
* SeriesMascot: She is without a doubt the face of Planescape, or at least Sigil, and her face is the outright logo for the Planescape line.

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* BadassBeard: The long, flowing beard on his chest is a classic "mage's beard" look, which gives you a warning of just how strong he is.

* NotSodifferent: He was surprised when a bariaur compared him to Harys Hatchis, whom Tarholt views as an "urgent buffoon".

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A female githyanki who wants to find the secrets to unraveling the mazes of the Lady of Pain, a process she is pursuing by manipulating the arrogant and foolish into challenging the Lady and getting themselves mazed. Then, through some unknown process -- believed to stem from her training as a hr'a'cknir -- she enters the resultant maze from its gate in Sigil, maps it out, and then follows her own trail back.

* InvincibleHero: Sly never loses a case. Ever. Not even in the Court of Woe. It is suggested that juries sometimes rule in his favor to get rid of him, but to him, victory is victory.

* DrunkOnTheDarkside: Or rather, in painful withdrawal from it. Omott pines for the divine power it once had, but cannot return to Sung Chiang, so now seeks another god to serve.

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* TheNecromancer: The fact that he possesses shelves full of talking skulls should clue you in on this. In fact, he's actually close to a necromancer of the original style; he gathers skulls and binds their owners' souls into them in order to use them as a source of information.

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* InexplicablyAwesome: Even if there are some D&D fans out there who really don't like her, what else can you call a figure about which we know nothing, but who's capable of keeping the collective might of the ''entire multiverse'' at bay through sheer force of will alone?
* LordBritishPostulate: A deliberately invoked aversion; the official rule is to '''never''' stat the Lady of Pain, ensuring that she can '''never''' be formally fought or killed. Incidentally, this actually does lead to player backlash; one of the more common complaints about Sigil is how the ruler literally exists to be invoked as a handy way to [[RocksFallEveryoneDies kill off players the DM has taken a disliking to]].

* TheWorfEffect: Given her status as the most ungodly powerful creature in the entire multiverse in canon, more than a few Dungeon Masters have had her be defeated or outwitted in some way to give their villains "credibility" -- which hardcore purists scoff. In a canonical example of it, during the events of ''Die, Vecna, Die!'' she is forced to enlist the players' help to intervene with Vecna, as he's managing to hold her off just enough to struggle towards completing his goals of rewriting reality in his own image.

* {{Transgender}}: It's obscured by time, and canonically dubious (see FlipflopOfGod) but, a fan willing to track down the 2nd edition "Uncaged: Faces of Sigil" sourcebook will find that it lists Shemeshka the Marauder as male, but uses feminine pronouns and language to describe her. This may be a result of Yuggoloths being hermaphroditic.

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