The Eye of the Nameless One

Lore & Background

The factions of Planescape are fictional philosophical and political organizations. Introduced in the 1994 Planescape Campaign Setting, the original fifteen factions served both as character affiliations and as institutions responsible for much of the administration of Sigil. Each advanced a different explanation of reality in a setting where belief can physically affect the multiverse. Several factions, including the Believers of the Source, the Dustmen, the Revolutionary League, the Society of Sensation, and the Xaositects, perform narrative and gameplay functions in Planescape: Torment. They control several important locations in Sigil, provide quests and dialogue, and allow the Nameless One to affiliate with some of their ideologies.

Reader's Guide

In Planescape: Torment, the Eye of the Nameless One is associated with the factions that control locations in Sigil. The game's lead designer and writer was Chris Avellone, not Tim Cain. Companions in the game include Morte (not Modro), Annah, Dak'kon (not Inquisitor), and Ignus (not Xan), among others.

Did You Know?

• The factions were introduced in the 1994 Planescape Campaign Setting and expanded in the 1995 supplement The Factol's Manifesto.
• The 1998 adventure Faction War dismantled the original political arrangement, dissolving or merging several factions.
• The 2023 boxed set Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse restored the factions to a formal role in Sigil's administration, reorganizing them into ascendant and minor factions.
• The Society of Sensation and its Sensorium, as portrayed in Planescape: Torment, allow stored experiences to be shared, including memories associated with grief and isolation.