Population: 460
Social Class: Upper class
Character: Wide, open avenues and silent streets wrapped around a jumble of large, imposing buildings.
District Type: Wealthy residential
Buildings: Upscale residences, average residences, warehouses, upscale services, average services, poor services.
First Impressions: Sounds echo across the ghostly streets. This area encompasses all of the worst of The Lady’s Ward: too much space, too much jink, and too much skullduggery.
Covering as much ground as the Great Bazaar, the Foundry, and the Hive put together, the Palace of the Jester is a neutral gathering ground for the rich and powerful. Too bad there aren't enough of them to fill its empty halls — a quick and daring berk could nick enough jink from these high-ups to live a lifetime of comfort and ease. In fact, the Palace is a ghostly place, all echoing corridors and dead-end staircases - no easy way to approach a mark and make off with the goods. Only the dabus seem completely at home in it, and even they have been seen throwing nervous glances over their shoulders from time to time.
Though the courtiers, factols, and other visitors might not agree, the real power in the Palace is the Lady's Jester, Jeremo the Natterer. Unlike his silent mistress, Jeremo never shuts his babbling bonebox - he'll collar primes, eladrin, anyone who'll listen. Despite his jabbering, the Natterer is very much a power in Sigil's government. Jeremo's real strength comes from his control of the puppet strings of the city: its civil service and its bureaucracy. He also has an uncanny ability to predict where portals will appear, a knack that has never been explained.
The dark of it will probably follow him to his grave. In fact, Jeremo is a member of the Ring-Givers, a sect of Ysgard that has slowly gathered power. Jeremo hopes to become the factol of the Ring- Givers when the sect finally moves into Sigil to begin its part in the kriegstanz, the undeclared war for control of Sigil, in earnest. When that happens, Jeremo plans to displace Ingwe, the current leader of the sect — and Ingwe is unaware of the danger he is in. At the heart of his palace, Jeremo keeps a great secret: a permanent portal to Ysgard that he hopes to make the centerpiece of the sect's headquarters in Sigil. So far, traffic through the portal is minimal, but that may change.
Jeremo's retinue comprises 60 humans, 24 bariaur, 7 glabrezu, and 1 lillend, all of them members of the Ring-Givers. In addition, hundreds of sympathizers throughout the city help his retinue create diversions, sell stolen goods, and play lookout to keep the watch away from his operations.
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Jeremo the Natterer