Believer's Forge

It's supposed to be a secret, but some lucky sods stumbled upon the forge maintained on the Ethereal PLane by the Believers of the Source. the Believers are one of the factions of Sigil-and all the factions seem obsessed with maintaining off-plane redoubts, as if the only one with the most secret hidey-holes will eventually come out on top in their ages-long cold war philosophy. Who knows? Maybe they're right.   Though Tumult may rage on the streets of Sigil, Believer's Forge usually remains untouched by the forces that sometimes rock the faction's headquarters. This is mostly due to infrequent contact: A shifting portal in the council chamber of Sigil's Great Foundry connects to the overseer's quarters in Believer's Forge only one full day out of every year that passes in Sigil. the rest of the time, those who work the forge are forced to use more roundabout methods to stay in contact with the other Believers.   The Godsmen back in Sigil have good reason to stay in contact with the forge-it is the one place in the multiverse with the capacity to manufacture source tokens. Source tokens look like translucent pebbles, cloudy gray with dark swirls at their core. A Godsman with a source token may enter the Ethereal at will from anywhere else in the multiverse. Each token works only once, then dissolves. usually, only factotums or factors on faction missions recieve the tokens: however, the stones've been known to slip into the hands of non-Believers from time to time, due to the overseer's indiscretions.   Believer's Forge is a great complex hidden deep within a tremendous chunk of stable ether. from the exterior, nothing alerts the casual eye to the fact that it is anything other than so much solid ether. In fact, the chunk of protomatter housing the forge is just one of a series of several deep masses that float in a chaotic swarm through the Deep. Still, scrutiny and luck may reveal that several outcroppings are actually camouflaged balconies carved to hide their outlines. the balconies open onto a massive hollow gallery where the main foundry is housed. Inexplicably, gravity once more holds sway within the forge hollow. Small stairwells zigzag down the walls, connecting the balcony entrances to the ground level.   Towering furnaces, smoking smelters, bellows, pipes, and blazing incinerators dwarf small figures that labor throughout the hollow. these are nathri, drawn into the service of the Godsmen with the lure of eventual godhood. At any one time, 50 nathri work on shift in the forge hollow, while four other shifts of nathri take their ease in connected arcades for sleeping, socializing, and playing.   Near the apex of the hollow is a wide interior balcony. the balcony opens onto the private chambers of the single Beliver named Dalton stationed here to oversee the work and production of the source tokens.