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Athar (Aka the Lost, the Defiers)A faction dedicated to proving that the powers that rule the Outer Planes are not "gods" as they claim to be, but frauds who must be overthrown for the good of the multiverse. Their headquarters is the Shattered Temple in the Lower Ward. Their Factol prior to the Faction War is Terrance, a male planar human of Lawful Good alignment, who is a 19th level Priest of the Great Unknown. The Faction War sees Terrance Mazed by the Lady of Pain, and the Athar are forced to mostly quit the City of Doors to instead set up a new city for themselves at the base of the Spire, where the powers can't reach them. A few remain behind, hiding in the Undercity of Sigil.
- Fire-Forged Friends: They and the Godsmen were once enemies, until they figured out their ideas were Not Sodifferent; they became close allies as a result.
- Hollywood Atheist: There is a strong vibe of this to the Athar.
- Their founders were Dunn (a man who wanted Poseidon to die because Poseidon and his church had taken all his possessions, his wife had been seduced into being a Poseidon priest's concubine, and his daughter had been stolen to Arborea by a proxy of Poseidon), and Ciro (a dispossessed Loki priest who wondered why gods, who should be beyond such things, would be dependent upon the faith of others for their power).
- Meanwhile, their current factol became who he is when he realised that it was his own intellect and intuition that had helped him through every problem in his life, rather than the aid of his goddess, Mishkal.
- Athar tactics include a lot of stereotypical atheist tactics, like trying to Logic Bomb priests or induce crises of faith.
- Honor Before Reason: A disadvantage of being a member is that an Athar is not allowed to accept aid from clerics of specific deities; this includes healing magic, should the Athar be injured.
- Nay-Theist: With the minor twist that a portion of the faction are theists, believing in a (non-personified) Great Unknown. They just don't believe the 'gods' running around on the planes are real gods.
Believers of the Source (Aka the Godsmen)A faction who believe that life is a series of tests and challenges that must be overcome; as a person incarnates, their actions cause them to move further up or down the ladder of being, until eventually they achieve godhood. Their main base of operations is the Great Foundry in the Lower Ward, from which the produce all of the metal goods of Sigil. Their Factol is Ambar Vergrove, a Neutral Good male planar half-elf, also a 19th level ranger. The Faction War results in Factol Vergrove being Mazed by the Lady, though many of his followers believe he Ascended instead. Forced to leave by the Lady's decrees, many Godsmen end up merging with the also-leaving Signers faction to form a new philosophy, known as the Mind's Eye, based on core elements of both the original faction philosophies.
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Their goal, kind of. Technically you can just walk to a higher plane of existence in Sigil, but they want to belong there as gods. (They also claim that the gods themselves are supposed to ascend as well eventually; it's kind of like Nirvana.)
- Eternal Engine: The Great Foundry is like this, although it is unique among the Trope in that it does have a very necessary use. (It makes all metal goods for Sigil except weapons and armor.)
- Secret Test of Character: They believe every being in existence is being tested. They aren't quite sure what the tests are (like whether they have to be Good, Evil, Lawful, Chaotic, or whether it's something else) but they try to figure that out.
Bleak Cabal (aka Bleakers)An ancient faction, defined primarily by their belief in the utter lack of any great meaning or hidden purpose to The Multiverse. Their role in the Cage is predominantly one of charity and compassion; they operate free soup kitchens, run orphanages, and take care of the mentally ill from their headquarters in the Gatehouse, an ominous structure at the edge of the Hive Ward. Their Factol is the Chaotic Neutral male planar half-orc Lhar, an 8th level fighter whose parents (a blind male human and a female orc) moved to Sigil in hopes that their Interspecies Romance would be tolerated better there; unfortunately, they found it difficult to get jobs and eventually had no choice but to give Lhar to the Bleaker orphanage. At the time of the Faction War, Lahr had already consigned himself to the Madhouse, having been replaced by Sruce, who is sent to the mazes. The Bleakers are unaffected by the events that plot; they simply shrug their shoulders, stop calling themselves a faction, and keep on as they were before.
- The Anti-Nihilist: the good aligned members anyway.
- Bedlam House: The Gatehouse has been known to end up like this at times, depending on who is currently in charge of the Bleakers.
- Dark is Not Evil: They officially believe the multiverse is meaningless and pointless, with there being no great purpose to anything, but they are mostly not of evil alignments and, indeed, dedicate themselves to charity and good works — if there is no point, then there is no reason not to try and alleviate the suffering of others, is there?
- Determined Defeatist: What keeps Bleakers going as individuals instead of succumbing to apathy and dying; there is no point to anything they do, but they have to keep trying.
Doomguard (aka Sinkers)A faction who worships entropy, believing that all things will inevitably end and it is only proper to celebrate the destruction that awaits all. They control the Armory, the great storehouse of all weapons in Sigil located at the edge between the Lady's War and the Lower Ward, and thusly serve as a restraint on the war capabilities of the Harmonium. Their Factol is Pentar, a Chaotic Neutral female planar human, 20th level ranger, who actively encourages the Doomguard to be active in furthering entropy, driving the majority who violently lash out against the multiverse to drive them to destruction. Wielder of the Blade of Modron Death, she has less interest in her faction and more in planning for her own upcoming attempt to destroy the next Great Modron March. Factol Pentar was one of the first Factols to be Mazed during the Faction War, and the subsequent battles see the Doomguard rendered virtually extinct; those who survive are hated by the populace of Sigil with almost as much intensity as the members of the Mercykillers and Fated. The survivors flee to their fortresses on the Negative Quasielemental Planes, but because of their ethos they seem likely to fade away into oblivion.
- Dark is Not Evil: The Doomguard may not have the nicest sounding goal, but there are members of all ethical alignments and even some Good aligned member.
- Dark is Evil: However, the faction of the Doomguard advocating direct violence and destruction is in the majority of the faction, and their leader is part of this faction.
- Omnicidal Maniac: As mentioned, there are Doomguards who actively believe entropy needs a helping hand in the total consumption of everything, and so try to speed it along.
- Straw Nihilist: A rare variant where they believe the active pursuit of universal annihilation is a worthy pursuit in its own right.
Dustmen (aka the Dead)A faction that believe all life and afterlife as seen in the Great Wheel is a falsehood; instead, all who think they are alive are instead dead souls, trapped in a false perception of life. Only by letting go of this misconception and becoming detached from the lie can they fall into True Death, and whatever passes beyond. As a consequence, they operate the Mortuary in the Hive Ward and make themselves useful by collecting and disposing of all the many corpses that Sigil generates every day. Their Factol is Skall, a Neutral Evil male planar lich of unknown origin, and a 19th level wizard. The Faction War sees the Dustmen dissolved as an official faction, but they retain their role as the gravekeepers of Sigil, even if their philosophy starts to wither out with the Mazing of Skall, whom is believed by the Dustmen to have officially ascended to True Death at last.
- The Coroner: When in charge of the Mortuary, they were in charge of collecting, processing, and disposing of Sigil's dead, along with everything else that entailed. Given the high population density of Sigil, there's no space for cemeteries, the Mortuary having portals to every known Prime world. The Dustmen would typically send a corpse to wherever the next of kin desired; unclaimed ones would be cremated via portals to the Elemental Plane of Fire.
- Dark is Not Evil: Officially, the Dusties lean towards the neutral and lawful scale of the alignment axis, and they do contribute a vital role to the running of Sigil. Still, as is lampshaded in "The Factol's Manifesto" sourcebook, for all that it's well-meant, most people tend to view somebody who hopes for the demise of everyone else to be evil.
- Dark is Evil: Then again, there are a lot of Neutral Evil and Lawful Evil Dustmen, and their Factol is not only Neutral Evil himself, he plans to force his philosophy upon the multiverse and help all achieve True Death... by exterminating all life in The Multiverse with an army of undead slaves.
- Dead All Along: The central dogma of their philosophy; they think everyone is dead. Some are just more so than others.
- Nature Hero: Oddly enough, a lot of Druids are members. Dustmen Druids see death as a necessity in the Circle of Life analogy.
- The Necromancer: A lot of necromancers are part of the Dustmen. The Dusties also use large numbers of walking dead (animated skeletons and zombies) as manual labourers, and, two of the five "Circles" (ranks in the Dustmen hierarchy) are actually comprised solely of free-willed undead.
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Some Dustmen are good, some are evil, but almost all of them are creepy. To give one of many examples, In the Cage: A Guide to Sigil mentions a member named Mhasha Zakk, who runs a taxidermy shop in the Merchant's Ward, who acts like a sweet old granny save for the fact she really loves her work, and if a customer is an attractive type, she might ask for his or her corpse after his death. And she is deadly serious about it. What makes this especially creepy is the fact that at least three customers apparently accepted this offer - they are displayed in her shop.
- Secret Circle of Secrets: The higher ranks of the Dustmen are similar to this. Even amongst the Dusties themselves, few people know that the Third and Second Circles are comprised exclusively of Dustmen killed and reanimated as undead by Skall himself.
- The Stoic: Encouraged as a way to avoid attachment.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: Amazingly, the Dustmen try to avoid killing people through violence if they can. They believe that only via natural death can mortals find true enlightenment. (This does not mean, however, that all of them are pacifists that will not fight and will automatically grant mercy to enemies.)
Fated (aka Takers, The Heartless)A faction dedicated to the idea of taking what you want from those you can take it from. They serve Sigil in the role of its tax collectors, operating out of the Hall of Records. Their Factol is a male prime human from Oerth (though he claims to have been born on Toril) named Rowan Darkwood, a Chaotic Good epically powerful individual (he's a dual-classed ranger/priest of Heimdall, with 19 levels in the former class and 20 in the latter class). The Fated earn great hatred because it is Factol Darkwood who sparks the Faction War. They are forced to flee the Cage and settle on Ysgard, eventually evolving into an arguably purer incarnation of their philosophy that focuses on taking what they need and not what they want.
- Ambition Is Evil: Beyond the fact that the Takers can basically be seen as this themselves, Rowan Darkwood's ambition leads this officially Chaotic Good man to commit atrocities that include seducing a mentally ill girl young enough to be his daughter, marrying her for power, selling her into slavery to the Fiends, and then sparking the infamous Faction War.
- Good Is Not Nice: Whilst Lawful Good characters cannot join the Takers, but there are more than a few Neutral Good and Chaotic Good Takers.
- Honor Before Reason: A Taker cannot accept anything that he did not take for himself. This includes genuinely offered aid from others; a member of the Fated cannot even allow another person to heal him if he's injured.
- I Own This Town: The Fated were in charge of collecting taxes, potentially making Darkwood the most powerful individual in Sigil other than the Lady. His downfall was not settling for second-best.
- Might Makes Right: The fundamental core of their philosophy; take what you can, and to the hells with everybody else.
- The Scapegoat: As one might expect, the members who survived the Faction War are not well-liked, and pretty much everyone else blames them for what happened. seeing as Darkwood started the whole thing.
- Social Darwinist: They may believe in Might Makes Right, but they aren't hypocrites about it; if you're strong enough to take what you want from a Fated, and proceed to do so, then it belongs to you and they just have to get stronger. Life is about the struggle to get stronger, and the weak deserve no pity or aid.
- Stable Time Loop: The eventual fate of Factol Darkwood. In short, he starts the Faction War with the intent of using it to cover his efforts to obtain the Labyrinth Stone and use it to cast the Sigil spell and claim control of Sigil. He promptly gets Mazed by the Lady on day 19. Eventually, he escapes, only to find the Maze has released him into Sigil some 500 years into the past. This version of Darkwood is imprisoned by the Bleakers as a barmy and renamed Gifad. Towards the end of the Faction War, Gifad is released or escapes and is used to try and end the Faction War by casting the Sigil spell with the aide of the Labyrinth Stone. He fails and is cast into the past, over 10000 years ago. Having lost his memory, he studies magic and eventually becomes the wizard who created the Labyrinth Stone and the Sigil spell in the first place — only to be sealed inside the Stone when he attempts to cast it. And then, millennia later, Rowan Darkwood will be born, learn of the Stone and the spell, and begin the Faction War all over again.
Fraternity of Order (aka Guvners)A faction dedicated to the belief that all things in the multiverse are governed by laws and if these laws are uncovered, one can control reality itself. They form the trinity of justice in Sigil with the aid of the Harmonium and the Mercykillers; the Guvners create and define the laws, as well as try criminals, while the Hardheads catch the crooks and the Red Death punish them. As a result, their faction headquarters is the City Court, at the heart of the Lady's Ward. Their Factol is Hashkar, a male planar dwarf Sage of Lawful Neutral alignment. Unbeknownst to almost anyone outside the highest Guvners (except the Revolutionary League — and even they don't really know (or much care) that it's true), Hashkar is actually a petitioner to The Lady. According to the story Hashkar was once a planar dwarf who came to revere the Lady of Pain as the law at the center of the multiverse. He has never left Sigil, even for the faction HQ on Mechanus. And his single-minded dedication to law makes him have a personality just like that of a petitioner. It is possible that the Lady allows him to worship her in secret, but if that were to come out she'd have to kill him as an example. He is murdered by a Xaositect assassin during the Faction War; this leads the Fraternity to declare war on the Xaositects as a whole. After the Lady of Pain makes her decree, they retreat en-mass from Sigil to their headquarters on Mechanus, to begin the laborous process of electing a new Factol and restructuring themselves to return to Sigil.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: What they hope to achieve.
- Corrupt Bureaucrat/Obstructive Bureaucrat: Common negative stereotypes of Guvners, and one that evil-aligned Guvners tend to easily fit into.
- Insufferable Genius: A common trait amongst the Guvners. For example, they almost never allow for appeals against their sentences — after all, they know all the rules, so if a Guvner made a ruling, then it must obviously be the right one.
- Order vs. Chaos: Firmly on the "Order" side of things; all members of the Fraternity of Order must be Lawful, though whether they are Lawful Good, Lawful Neutral or Lawful Evil is unimportant.
- Loophole Abuse: Some of them can actually manifest powers by exploiting loopholes in the laws of the universe itself. (In game terms, learning how to do this is a benefit of being a member; however, you can only use a power like this a limited number of times before the loophole closes.)
- Motor Mouth: Their former leader, the now-deceased Factol Haskar, was notorious for this. It was unwise to ask him a question (even one as simple as "Which way to the exit?") unless you planned on listening to him for a long time. Haskar tended to lecture at the drop of a hat, and would always answer questions in the most complete and thorough ways possible.
- Refuge in Audacity: The Guvners openly admit that they seek to know the rules so they can bend them in their favor, with the eventual goal of doing this to the rules that hold reality itself together. People let them do it anyway, simply because they're the only guys who really know how everything works now.
- Rules Lawyer: The Fraternity of Order is basically what happens when these kinds of people unite to try and take over the universe.
- Vast Bureaucracy: What the Fraternity is like, and what any place controlled by them or where they are drawn to tends to be.
Free League (aka Indepts)Aka "the Faction that isn't", the Indeps are the loosely aligned coalition of independent Sigil natives who, for whatever reason, refuse to join one of the other factions. They are defined, as far as that term can be applies to them, by their belief in and promotion of acceptance, balance and individuality. This means the majority of Indeps are Neutral in some way — True Neutral, Neutral Good or Neutral Evil, typically, with True Neutrals and Neutral Goods being most common. The Free League is regarded with disdain but usually indifference by most "Order-focused" Factions; the Harmonium are a hostile exception. Because of their loose nature, they have no official Factol, though there are three individuals respected enough to be "unofficial leaders"; Bria Tomay (planar female human, 14th level Chaotic Neutral bard) and the twins Lethea & Lesander (female and male, respectively, prime wemics, 6th level Lawful Neutral fighters). All three of them are Mazed during the Faction War, though the Free League, understandably, accuses the Harmonium of having them murdered. The ending of the Factions is no sweat for the Free League, who simply repeat that they are not a faction and get down to enjoying life without the Harmonium oppressing them.
- Anarchy Is Chaos: Averted. They get along just fine without a Factol.
- Blessed with Suck: Of all the Factions, they are the only one that can be said to have the actual attention of the Lady of Pain upon them. This is not a good thing.
- To put it in proper perspective; right after the Great Upheaval, when the Factions were reorganised into the 15 seen here, the Free League swelled to over one million members. The Lady, annoyed by the fact that one of the least tractable/manipulatable Factions was now so strong, promptly took action; over the span of 50 years, she personally winnowed the membership down to under 20000 souls by means of Mazing or eviscerating whoever caught her attention.
- At the time that "The Factol's Manifesto" was written, her amusement at the fact that Indep historians were attributing the mass culling to a mysterious plague led her to create that plague to infect the Indeps at random.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: This more or less sums up the relationship between the Harmonium and the Free League.
Harmonium (aka Hardheads)A faction originating out of a Prime world called Ortho, founded around the ideal of bringing about the greatest good for the greatest number. No matter what it takes or if others like that. A fairly young faction, only 500 years old at the time of Planescape's initial release, they began when a group of adventurers set out to "rid the country of chaos and bring peace to the land". Somehow, they went from succeeding at their goal to leading a righteous crusade to extend the same peace and harmony over the rest of Ortho, until all non-Lawfuls had been eradicated. Disturbed by the fact that chaos and disorder would still plague their lawful, regimented society, the Harmonium turned its attention to what it believed was the source; the Outer Planes. After an initial crusade to the Lower Planes failed, they resettled in Sigil as a "beachhead" in their conquest, and have since made themselves useful. Allies to the Fraternity of Order (who form the court system) and the Mercykillers (who punish the guilty), the Harmonium have become the police officers of the Cage, operating out of the City Barracks in the Lady's Ward. Their Factol is Sarin, a male human Paladin (16th level) from Ortho, who is married to Faith, a Lawful Good 12th level cleric and a female planar human. During the Faction War, Sarin is assassinated by the Revolutionary League, who publicly take responsibility, and his widow takes over; it is her benevolent commands that persuades them to leave peacefully and retreat to Arcadia, where there are signs that the group will become less militaristic. Few hold any belief that the change will be permanent, though.
- City Guards: Of Sigil, before the Faction War.
- Good Is Not Nice: The Harmonium's intentions and overall goal are benevolent, but their actions in pursuit of it... well, see below.
- To put this into perspective; if the Factol finds out about the Lawful Evil Hardheads who have been murdering Indeps, they will be chastised... but only for doing so without proper orders; the Harmonium expects to one day officially crack down upon the Free League, so their actions would have been fine if they hadn't been acting independently.
- Knight Templar: A big part of why the Harmonium is so disliked by everyone, despite their good intentions. The Harmonium will bring peace and order to the universe — by force, if need be.
- Their homeworld of Ortho has had all Chaotic and even Neutral races completely wiped out in pursuit of the Harmonium's "perfection". This includes Chaotic Good and Neutral Good races like elves and pixies.
- They're so bad about this that their former headquarters on Nemausus generated so much evil in the name of good that it turned the plane's Character Alignment into Lawful Neutral dumping it from Arcadia into Mechanus.
- Never Live It Down: In-Universe. The Harmonium's accidental planar slip of Nemausus, the third layer of Arcadia, is a big thumb in the eye to the faction's goals, abilities and beliefs.
- People often aren't too impressed with the Harmonium when they find out about the whole "genocide of Chaotic Good and Neutral Good races on Ortho" thing.
- In "The Factol's Manifesto", it's mentioned that those who are familiar with Rajaat and his Champions from Athas have been known to directly compare the Hardheads to them — something the Harmonium vigorously protests against.
- Order vs. Chaos: The Harmonium stands on the "Order" side and is allied with the similarly Order-focused Fraternity of Order and Mercykillers, whilst it remains bitter enemies with the Chaos-focused Free League, Revolutionary League, Xaositects, Fated and Doomguard. They also don't like the Bleakers much.
- Lawful alignment is essential to joining the Hardheads.
- Parton Deity: Most of them regard the Oeridian god of justice St. Cuthbert as their patron; he is worshipped by most spiritual leaders within the faction.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: According to legend, they started as nothing more than a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, like the typical adventuring party. They grew into an Army of Thieves and Whores, then a well-disciplined army, and eventually, an army of such great size that they brought order and peace (or their perception of it) to Orthos. (But then they figured, why stop there?)
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Despite the bad reputation they have achieved, the Harmonium keeps attracting Lawful Good types, who believe that their cause is worthy even despite how they attempt to bring it about.
Mercykillers (aka The Red Death)A faction dedicated to the pursuit of justice above all else, born from the union of two similar factions at the end of the Great Upheaval; the Lawful Good Sons of Mercy and the Lawful Evil Sodkillers. The Faction War sees them split back into these two factions again, for the most part.
- Fluffy Tamer: Their mascot is a wyvern called the Wyrm, which was kept in a tower near the Prison. Mostly it's a pet, but it did have uses; first of all, the worst criminals that received the death penalty (usually for betraying the city) were fed to the Wyrm. Second, its venom could be made into Truth Serums, making interrogations incredibly easy.
- The Determinator: If you break the law, they will find you.
- The Fettered: Mercykillers officially cannot act to punish injustice until and unless the criminal is properly defined as such. In the triad of lawmaker factions, the Harmonium catches the criminals, the Fraternity of Order convict them, and the Mercykillers punish them. Mercykiller players are forbidden from catching or judging enemies of their own initiative, as a result; the best they can usually do is note down injustices in order to present them to their faction and get them avenged as soon as possible. (Of course, one reason the crime rate around the Prison is almost zero was due to too many rumors of them breaking that rule.)
- Knight Templar: Only MUCH more so then the Harmonium; the Lawful Evil side of the Mercykillers holds far more sway over the faction than it does in the Harmonium.
- Lawful Neutral: This is the ideal alignment that the Mercykillers aspire towards, to the extent that Lawful Good and Lawful Evil Mercykillers are prone to suffering penalties to their faction abilities due to the conflict between their viewpoint and the ideals of the faction.
Revolutionary League (aka Anarchists)An extremely loose faction based pretty much entirely on the idea of opposing the other factions.
- And Then What?: All of them want to bring down "The System". Exactly what they intend to build in its place is a matter of debate.
- In a sense, they got exactly what they wanted at the end of the Faction War: all the factions, even theirs, were gone as the major players in Sigil. What they should do next is a matter of hot debate between the various cells of the faction.
- Bomb Throwing Anarchist
Sign of One (aka Signers)A faction who believe that a person's willpower defines reality around them.
- Clap Your Hands If You Believe: A solipsistic variant.
- It's All About Me: This is literally the central belief of all members, but funnily enough not all of them are jerks.
- Narcissist: This is a group that claims one person is the center of the universe, and while they are at a loss to reveal who, they are certain this person is a Signer. As a result, they come across as this.
- Ret Gone: It has not been proven, but many detractors claim they can (and have) made some of their opposition disappear from existence simply by willing it. (Of course, if it is true, it seems unusual for a detractor to say this and thus confirm their claims.)
Society of Sensation (aka Sensates)A faction who believe that the multiverse only exists insofar as you can experience; thus, by experiencing all the multiverse has to offer, you will understand the true purpose behind existence.
- The Hedonist: Some Sensates are this, but they are looked down upon by most true Sensates and quietly pushed out of the way.
- Sense Freak
Transcendant Order (aka Ciphers)A faction believing that instinct is superior to thought and so the body must be trained to act without conscious thought in order to achieve true transcendence.
- Don't Think, Feel: All members of the Faction must act on their first impulse.
- Karma Houdini: While very little of the responsibility for the Faction War falls on them, they were virtually untouched and unpunished for it. While no longer an organization with an official charter, former members still run the Great Gymnasium, unofficially spreading their ideals through the Cage and the Planes, while Rhys was the only Factol not killed or sent to the Mazes during the War, and is now a member of Sigil's city council.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Well, not exactly, but their philosophy gives a Player Character who joins a rather unique penalty: once he has decided on an action, he is not allowed to change his mind. (In other words, this is where a "no takebacks" rule is mandatory for a player). This does not mean the Player will always become a Leeroy Jenkins, but it might increase the risk or it happening.
Xaositects (aka Chaosmen)A faction that exists on the idea that the multiverse is nothing but chaotic whimsy and chance, so the true way to experience life is to give yourself over to whim and chaos.
- Chaotic Stupid: Not technically necessary, but there is a tendency for people to play the faction this way. Probably because the descriptions of the faction tend to make them sound like they are this way.
ModronsThe outsiders native to Mechanus, the Lawful Neutral plane, who originate from their segment of the gear-world known as Regulus. The Modrons are a bizarre hierarchy of construct-like beings, starting at the barely-sentient Monodrone and ascending all the way to the godlike Primus, the One and the Prime.
- Clockwork Creatures: Subverted; they look like machines, and are made of metal, but they're very much living creatures. (Which means, for instance, spells that only work on living beings, like healing potions, work on them just fine.)
- Hive Mind: Sort of. Modrons are in a sense, extensions of Primus, a godlike being whose own thoughts direct and move the whole race.
- Lawful Stupid: As elemental incarnations of the Lawful Neutral Character Alignment, Modrons are lawful to the extent that it makes them seem quite insane to human perspectives. To put this in perspective; during the second adventure of "The Great Modron March", the players have to deal with the fact that the Modrons refuse to accept that a city in their way has changed in the three centuries since the last march and so will blithely march their way through the city, smashing buildings that are in their path and trampling any living creature that fails to get out of the way.
- Living Polyhedron
SlaadiThe outsiders native to Limbo, the Chaotic Neutral plane.
- Chaotic Stupid: As elemental incarnations of the Chaotic Neutral Character Alignment, Slaadi are chaotic to the extent that it makes them seem quite insane to human perspectives.
- Extreme Omnivore: As "chaos elementals", Slaadi will eat just about anything that catches their eyes.
- Reality Warper: They have the ability to shape the essence of Limbo to a degree proportionate to their intelligence; mortals can learn how to do this, but slaadi do it by instinct.
YugolothsThe third branch of the fiend family, the daemons to the tanar'ri (demons) and baatezu (devils). Lords of Gehenna, the Neutral Evil with a hint of Lawful plane, although they originated in the Grey Waste, the pure Neutral Evil plane.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: Subverted. The lowest ranking Yugoloth is actually stronger than the next rank. Those who realize this get singled out as potential candidates for promotion.
- Evil Tower of Ominousness: They have two of these, the Tower of the Arcanaloths on Gehenna, and the much larger Khin-Oin on the Grey Waste. Attempts have been made to build a third tower on Carceri, but the geheleths keep tearing it down.
- Hermaphrodite: According to the "Faces of Evil: The Fiends" sourcebook, yugoloths are all either hermaphroditic or genderless, in terms of reproductive capability, adopting genders pretty much according to their whim.
- No Mouth: The highest ranking Yugoloths, the Ultroloths, don't have mouths.
- Plague Master: The Oinoloth (the powerful Yugoloth that currently rules the tower of Khin-Oin) can control the plagues of the Grey Waste.
- Precursors: Legends tell of the baernoloths, ancient fiends who created the yugoloths, and also purged Law and Chaos from themselves by transferring it into larvae which became the first baatezu and tanar'ri. Of course, while the baernoloths clearly do exist (one of them plays a vital role in one module) almost all legends about them are told by the yugoloths, and thus subject to scrutiny.
- War for Fun and Profit: Some believe that they are behind the Blood War.
Specific NPCs
A'kin the Friendly FiendA cheerful and apparently good-natured male arcanoloth who runs a magic item shop known as the Friendly Fiend.
- Ascended Demon: Seemingly. No Cager really buys it, however.
- Bazaar of the Bizarre: The store he runs is like this. (Surprisingly, many powerful magical items used by Shemeshka have come from here.
- Noble Fugitive: Fugitive, definitely. He became one by writing The Factol's Manifesto. He claimed to have only good intentions in mind, to expose the corruption of the factions, but the faction leaders thought otherwise.
- The Rival: To Shemeshka, but to what extent is not known; they may be Friendly Enemies, Arch Enemies, somewhere in between, or may even shift between the two. What is known is, despite their apparent enmity, they seem to cooperate at times, many of the powerful magical items Shemeshka uses coming from A'kin's store. The biggest indication was in the forward to The Factol's Manifesto, where A'kin (although he didn't reveal himself then) said that Shemeshka and her organization was his biggest source of information for the book, but she eventually double-crossed him and leaked an advance copy to the Mercykillers, thus making him a fugitive.
FellA mysterious "fallen Dabus", supposedly disowned by the Lady of Pain for becoming a priest of the dead god Aoskar — indeed, it's commonly whispered that it was his conversion to Aoskar that prompted the Lady to move against him and destroy him. He now runs a tattoo business and is a member of the Sign of One faction.
- Broken Angel: He's a fallen Dabus, disowned by the Lady of Pain, unable to float.
- Doom Magnet: Not really, but most residents of Sigil are afraid he might turn into one. After all, he double-crossed the Lady, and it's very possible she might just be biding her time. People tend to avoid him, not wanting to be around if she ever does come to punish him more severely.
- Reality Warper: On a limited scale. Occasionally, the tattoos he creates with his rebus speak become real items or even creatures (with limited duration). He has very limited control over this, and it more often than not happens unintentionally.
- Starfish Language: Like all Dabus, he speaks in a visual language of rebus puzzles. Fortunately, a helpful customer who frequented his tattoo parlor often put together a guide for understanding the language of the Dabus, which he sells there too.
Shemeshka the MarauderA female (or is she?) arcanoloth/ravaasta (in 4e) who is infamous throughout Sigil for being a fabulously wealthy business owner and the master of the biggest and best guild of spies, thieves and assassins in all the Cage, a position that has earned her the title "King of the Crosstrade".
- Ambiguous Gender: Dresses, acts like, calls "herself" and is referred to as a female... but her profile writeup in the "Uncaged: Faces of Sigil" sourcebook officially lists her gender with a male symbol. Later works, however, use a female symbol. Not helped by the fact that all yugoloths are hermaphrodites, according to the "Faces of Evil: The Fiends" sourcebook.
- Berserk Button: Her temper is infamously volatile, but the surest ways to tick her off? Ask why she doesn't call herself "Queen of the Crosstrade", or mention A'kin the Friendly Fiend.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Incredibly Lame Pun aside (arcanoloths look like anthropomorphic jackals, ravaasta look like equally anthropomorphic foxes), as sweet, friendly and generally affable as she acts, Shemeshka is still a highly dangerous fiend and, more importantly, has a savage temper that is easily unleashed.
- Ensemble Darkhorse: Of the NPCs of Planescape, she may easily be one of the best known, besides the Lady of Pain herself. When the 4th edition "Manual of the Planes" sourcebook was released, Shemeshka was one of the very few Planescape NPCs to make the edition jump. Indeed, one could argue that the Arcanoloths survived the transition and became the Ravaastas mainly due to her impact on Planescape.
- Flip-Flop of God: Whether or not Shemeshka is a transwoman or a ciswoman; as mentioned, "Uncaged" says she is male, while other sourcebooks say she is female. "Faces of Evil", meanwhile, pretty much makes it canon that it's all up to what she considers herself to be, since as an arcanoloth she's biologically hermaphroditic.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Shemeshka's temper, and the spontaneity with which she'll fly into a berserk rage, is infamous throughout Sigil.
- Interspecies Romance: It's a common rumor that the reason Shemeshka hasn't moved against her would-be rival, the tiefling Kylie, is because she gave birth to her after a liason with a human man.
- Mama Bear: If Kyle truly is her daughter, the Trope applies; hurting her is off limits if Shemeshka has anything to say about it. As Autochron the Bellringer discovered, Kyle seems be under Shemeshka's protection.
- She Is the King: Shemeshka is always referred to as the King of the Crosstrade — and don't you forget it!
- Sissy Villain: Whether or not you believe she's male, Shemeshka is still very flamboyant and effeminate. She iconically favors wearing a dress made of thousands of small blue/green/violet beads, and she adorns herself with beads, jewellery, bracelets and rings to the point of garishness, as others have noted (but rarely commented on). She's also incredibly vain and fussy about her grooming; she always has to be meticulously beautiful and she surrounds herself with "groomer-guards", one of whom carries a full-length mirror and the rest of whom have the main responsibility of keeping her immaculately clean and beautiful, at all times.
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- Transsexual: It's obscured by time, and canonically dubious (see Flipflop Of God) but, a fan willing to track down the 2nd edition "Uncaged: Faces of Sigil" sourcebook will discover that Shemeshka the Marauder is actually male. She just looks like a woman, dresses like a woman, and insists on being referred to by feminine pronouns.
- Unknown Rival: While she becomes enraged if someone mentions A'kin in her presence, no-one dares mention Zadara, a titan and member of the Merkants who Shemeshka hates not only because her financial and business connections give her more influence in Sigil, but because Zadara is a more influential female resident. (Of course, the most influential female resident is the Lady herself, but no-one ever points that out to Shemeshka.) It's unlikely Shemeshka will ever try to make a move against Zadara, though; Zadara is a titan, who killed two pit fiends who invaded her house, personally. (There are witnesses to back this up.)
- Whip It Good: When angry or actually attacked, Shemeshka's preferred weapon is to break off a vine from her razorvine headdress and use it as a lethally barbed whip.


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"Oh, it's so good," he says, taking a sip of his Sapporo. "My 7-year-old daughter loves it. You'll love it." He eats another and grins. "So good." I lift a skewer and examine the little clusters of atria and ventricles. Whole poultry hearts are not, it's safe to say, a regular part of my food routine, and despite Bourdain's enthusiasm, I'm a little dubious. But when you eat with Bourdain, there is no other option: You'll have what he's having. I open my mouth and take a bite.
A week after our dinner, Bourdain is leaning back on a leather couch in a small editing room at the offices of Parts Unknown's production company, Zero Point Zero. It's 10:30 a.m., and he is deep into one of his favorite activities: geeking out over movies. Director-editor Nick Brigden and producer Jared Andrukanis have joined him to discuss a rough cut of what will end up being season 4's premiere episode, filmed in Shanghai. At the moment, however, the trio is immersed in a rambling discussion about film arcana that touches on such subjects as the martial-arts film Haywire and impressively specific moments from various David Lynch classics.
This sort of movie banter, it turns out, is central to the Parts Unknown creative process. Bourdain's shows have grown more visually complex and cinematic over the years, using intricate editing and atmospheric slo-mo shots to add mystery and gravitas. Episodes are often directly inspired by Bourdain's film passions. A season 2 trip into Tokyo's nightlife underbelly—complete with segments on bondage and S&M—was informed by the work of Tokyo Fist director Shinya Tsukamoto, while the Shanghai episode currently unspooling on-screen tapped Hong Kong's Wong Kar-wai as its key reference point. Bourdain usually picks the influences, but it's up to the team to execute that vision. "Before we go out on a shoot, Tony will give us a homework assignment, which is about a dozen esoteric films," says Brigden. "We become obsessed with those filmmakers. We live and breathe them."
Bourdain is more than just Parts Unknown's host, head writer, and executive producer; he is its creative engine, picking locations, teasing out themes, obsessing over narrative structure, and guiding its overall artistic vision. At one point while watching a meditative, beautifully shot Shanghai montage, he's distracted by some incongruously funky background music. "I wish there was no bass," he says to Brigden and Andrukanis. "It shouldn't be danceable. It should be wistful." It's a small detail in a short segment from a single show, but it's easy to see how that one tweak will transform the mood of the scene—and maybe even the whole episode.
That quest for excellence is a big part of what's kept Bourdain excited about making a show with the same basic format for the past 14 years. He can be intense, but he constantly pushes the crew to reach toward the new. "We literally sit down and try to figure out, 'What's the most fucked-up thing we can do?' " he says, taking a swig from his industrial-size cup of light-and-sweet deli coffee. " 'What haven't we done that we can try?' "
Another way Bourdain stays engaged is by constantly experimenting with technology. As equipment has improved over the years, the show has become more visually accomplished. In addition to high-end cameras like $16,000 Sony F3s with cinema-quality lenses and more modest equipment such as Canon 7Ds, the team now regularly uses GoPros, often in unexpected ways. In the Shanghai episode, they rigged up what they refer to as "shot cam," a GoPro attached to a shot glass that captures, to dizzying effect, the liquor's-eye view during a night of revelry. They have used bags of risotto for makeshift tracking shots ("risotto cam") and turned a Hot Wheels track into a camera dolly. Bourdain is especially excited about the possibility of shooting an upcoming show entirely on iPhones.
Not all of these experiments pay off, and Bourdain is okay with that. The point is to resist the predictable, especially when it comes to TV's ingrained conventions. "The only thing that makes me upset and, really, a dick is if something is fucking plodding and reasonable," he says, spitting out that last word with palpable revulsion. "It starts with an establishing shot, I go someplace, I meet somebody, I sit down, I eat, and I come to a conclusion: That kind of conventional thinking really upsets me. I would much rather see some incomprehensible, over-the-top, fucked-up thing, because at least you're trying to do something awesome."
That attitude inspires a lot of loyalty. "He is fun, funny, smart, sardonic, and a pain in the fucking ass sometimes," says Lydia Tenaglia, who cofounded Zero Point Zero with her husband, Chris Collins. "But it's a very collaborative process. He is challenging in all the best ways. He can outtalk, outwit, outhumor anybody who's trying to argue with him, and sometimes that gets your ire up. But ultimately you take that ire and channel it into the show." Which is the whole point: Bourdain is determined to keep pressing ahead. "It's not Tony trying to put his scent all over the tree just for the sake of putting it all over the tree," says Collins. "It's, 'No, no, no, we did this two years ago. We cannot execute in this way again.' "
Bourdain isn't just pushing technical boundaries; he's also challenging the definition of what reality-based television can be, both in terms of visual artistry and subject matter. Over the years, the locations have grown more topical, and now the show is as focused on cultural nuances as unusual food. It's a shift that intensified with a No Reservations episode filmed during the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Bourdain and his crew found themselves trapped in Beirut during the fighting, an experience they turned into a vivid war-zone travelogue that went beyond the usual food footage, incorporating behind-the-scenes segments with the crew hiding out in a hotel and subsequently escaping the besieged city. "The Beirut show was clearly some kind of point of departure," Bourdain says. "It wasn't like, 'Oh, I'm going to be Dan Rather now.' It was, 'I went to eat and a whole bunch of stuff happened and we found ourselves completely out of our comfort zone as far as subject matter.' But we tried to keep the focus on the human element. It changed all of our outlooks on the show. It inspired us to go tell slightly more complicated stories."
In recent seasons, Parts Unknown has explored global hot spots such as Libya, Congo, and, perhaps most notably, Gaza and the West Bank—a season 2 episode that offered many Americans their first intimate look at Palestinian life. "By the end of this hour, I'll be seen by many as a terrorist sympathizer, a Zionist tool, a self-hating Jew, an apologist for American imperialism, an Orientalist, socialist, fascist, CIA agent, and worse," Bourdain says at the beginning of the episode. "So here goes nothing." Bourdain is modest about that show's accomplishments, but for anyone who's seen it, the recent Gaza conflict most likely feels dramatically more tangible.
Next, Bourdain wants to venture into such other unfamiliar locales as Syria, Afghanistan, and Yemen. "Who wouldn't want to go to Yemen?" he says. "It's one of the most beautiful, ancient, fantastic places on earth. Okay, there's very dodgy shit going on right now. You've got to be careful and figure out a smart way to go to Yemen, but—it's where coffee came from!"
One of season 4's episodes focuses on Iran. Bourdain was astonished by how off-base his assumptions turned out to be and how warmly he and his crew were greeted, even when they weren't filming. "I like when my view of a place is complicated by things that I actually see," he says. "I love having my teeth kicked in by a different perspective." At one point during our meal at Tori Shin, Bourdain rolled up his shirtsleeve to show me a tattoo that includes some Greek writing. "It basically says, 'I am certain of nothing,' " he told me. "It's from the ancient Greek skeptics. If I believe anything, it's that. It is my joy and my privilege to travel around the world being wrong about shit."
In the kitsch-prone world of celebrity chefs, Bourdain sticks out as an earnest, uncompromising voice and relentless advocate for authenticity, occupying a strange position as both an antiestablishment bomb thrower (he is known for ripping into Emeril Lagasse, Rachael Ray, and other famous chefs) and, at this point, an entrenched member of the culinary in-crowd.
"It's a terrible accusation to say that you're part of the foodie establishment, but I guess it's true," he says. "You try to be dignified about it. Because so much of what the foodie establishment is doing is so fucking wretched."
Bourdain's unfiltered personality is a big part of his appeal. "He stands for 'no bullshit,' " says Ripert. "People trust him and his opinions, because even if he's wrong, he's true to himself. That is his brand." Not surprisingly, Bourdain bristles at the idea that he's essentially the CEO of Tony Inc. "I don't have any merchandise," he argues, referring to the sort of product deals that have enriched food-world celebrities such as Lagasse. "Do you see any pots and pans? If I wanted an empire, I'd have said yes to the knives, cookware, food, restaurants in Vegas, Tony's Airport Restaurant, endorsements of liquor, beer, cars. When I have a bad meal at Wolfgang Puck's, I'm pissed at Wolfgang. I don't want people pissed at me."
Bourdain has spent decades earning that deeply embedded sense of integrity. He grew up in a cosmopolitan household in northern New Jersey: His mother was an editor at The New York Times, and his father, a merchandising executive in the classical division of Columbia Records, enjoyed introducing him to heady entertainment such as Dr. Strangelove—a jolt for the elementary schooler. By the time Bourdain was in junior high, he was already fascinated by danger and darkness. "I was a child of the '60s who became a teenager too late to really enjoy the worldwide revolution, flower power, harmony, peace, and love," he says. "It was clear none of that was ever going to happen and it was all a hideous, bloated joke. I was an angry teenager. I admired outlaws, the black hats, from a very early age. I wanted to be bad. I identified with bad people." He started smoking pot when he was 13 and got into LSD a couple of years later, and in high school he discovered cocaine.
Bourdain attended Vassar for a couple of years in the early '70s, a period he does not look back on fondly. In Kitchen Confidential, he describes himself during that time as "a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout, badly in need of a good ass-kicking." After dropping out of college, he spent some time on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts, where he got a job washing dishes in a restaurant where a friend worked. Soon he moved up to cooking, and something clicked. He decided to get serious about the trade, and in 1975, he attended the Culinary Institute of America. After graduating, he dove into the world of New York restaurants, scoring a series of gigs at various eateries. But the jobs always seemed to fall apart for one reason or another, and Bourdain had by then moved on to more serious drugs. "Heroin was really inevitable," he says. "Most of the people I admired were junkies. Because it was the worst thing you could do, I eagerly went after it."
At first he managed to keep his addiction hidden, but eventually, Bourdain started to unravel. "You become pathetic," he says. "You betray your employers, your coworkers, your loved ones, your family. There's a lot of guilt and shame and self-loathing. As a chef, I just spent more and more of my time out of the kitchen, supposedly looking for lobsters but in fact on the street looking to score. I got to the point where I just couldn't stand the sight of my face in the mirror. I hated being desperate and needy. And my ego, thankfully, didn't allow me to stay that way." He kicked heroin in the mid-'80s but was still doing cocaine, a habit that escalated into a full-blown crack addiction. The higher-end restaurant positions dried up, and Bourdain found himself taking soul-killing jobs cranking out omelets for indifferent brunchers. "On crack you become psychotic," he says of that dark period. "I just really, really bottomed out. You're crawling around on the floor looking at paint chips and hoping that they might be a chip of crack that dropped and, 'Oh, hell, I'll smoke it anyway just to see.' You reach a point where you've had enough."
In 1998, in his early forties and finally off of hard drugs, Bourdain scored a job as the executive chef of a modest Manhattan brasserie called Les Halles. Though the work suited him and the restaurant was a success, he had no health insurance and zero savings, and he struggled to pay the rent. He also owed the IRS more than $10,000 in back taxes. Still, for the first time in years he was pretty happy.
One day, just for the hell of it, Bourdain decided to write an article about the rough-and-tumble kitchen demimonde that he had come to know so intimately. The combination of literate-tough-guy prose and restaurant-business revelations proved irresistible, and The New Yorker ran the piece in April 1999. Soon Bourdain had a contract to write a memoir. When Kitchen Confidential came out the next year, it was a minor sensation, with its now-famous proclamations about the horrors of weekend brunch and why you should never, ever order fish on Mondays. His life changed instantly.
Bourdain stopped cooking at Les Halles in 2001, and he's never worked professionally in a kitchen again (although he's still credited as the restaurant's "chef-at-large"). He is married to his second wife, Ottavia, a food-world veteran (they were introduced by Ripert) who is now a competitive mixed-martial-arts fighter. Having a daughter has forced him to make some adjustments in his shooting schedule. "I can't be away that long, because I come back and my daughter is different," he says. "I'm trying to be a good dad, given the weirdness of my situation. Nothing makes me happier than watching cartoons with my daughter. The second she was born, the Ramones T-shirts, vestigial leather jackets, that shit was in the garbage. It's gone. It's undignified at my age."
But all of those years of noise and sweat and exhaustion—those long nights navigating open flames and scalding pans and uncountable, endless portions of steak frites—have left marks, both physical and otherwise. "Everything important I needed to know I learned as a dishwasher," he says. "In an uncertain universe, some things are still for certain: Dirty plates, if you put them on a plastic rack and push them into the machine and press the button, will come out clean—every time. If you work hard at your job and do it well, even if it's a shit job, there is some kind of satisfaction in that, whether you're stacking plates, chopping vegetables, or just setting out a plate of food. There's this magnificent moment before a plate goes out to the dining room, for instance, when you know, and it's just for you. You think, Hmm, that's a pretty good fucking plate. And then it's gone."
CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker's office, on the fifth floor of the Time Warner Center in New York, is an unexpectedly modest rectangle adjacent to the airy newsroom, with only a bank of TV screens mounted on one wall suggesting that this man runs the world's most recognizable TV-news operation. When Zucker took over CNN in January 2013, nobody knew how he was planning to remake the network—including Bourdain, whose show was in production but hadn't yet aired. Zucker might have killed it right then, but instead he gave it a prime Sunday-night time slot and a major marketing push. "Tony is an incredibly strong storyteller—he tells stories through food and travel and a little alcohol mixed in," says Zucker. "Really, that's what CNN should be about. I learned as much about Israel and the Palestinians from Tony's hour on Jerusalem as I did from any reporting that I've seen."
Parts Unknown ranks among CNN's best-rated programs. Over its season 3 run, it averaged a strong-for-cable-news 402,000 viewers in the 25-to-54 demographic, according to the Nielsen Company, making it the most-watched show across all of cable news in that age group during the period it aired. Parts Unknown is at the center of Zucker's plan for remaking the network, which involves cultivating high-profile original content. When Zucker started, CNN had no original series. By next year, Zucker says, it will have 12 or 13 on the air, including the fugitive-finding hit docuseries The Hunt With John Walsh, which premiered in July with the highest 25-to-54 ratings for a debut program in CNN history, and shows helmed by Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe and Lisa Ling, former cohost of The View. "All of the news networks are finding that the genre is suffering from viewer erosion to the Internet and mobile," says Derek Baine, a media analyst at SNL Kagan. "I think you're going to see a lot of the news networks migrating more toward destination shows."
Those kinds of distinct, freestanding programs offer several advantages over regular news and news-commentary programming, which face increased competition from online news sources. For one thing, viewers seek them out rather than tuning in haphazardly. They're hour-long narratives, so people tend to watch the whole thing rather than dropping in randomly for a few minutes at a time. They're also more reliable; viewership doesn't fluctuate due to relative interest in the news of the moment. And they aren't perishable, unlike programs that discuss current events. A show like Parts Unknown holds up indefinitely, so CNN can profit off of reruns days or weeks or even years after it first airs, making it considerably more valuable than something that's instantly out of date. Collaborating with CNN has worked equally well for Bourdain, who hasn't always had the smoothest relationship with the television business.
After Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain pitched a book in which he would travel the world on a quest for the perfect meal. His publisher liked the idea, and surprisingly, Food Network—which Bourdain had never been shy about bashing—wanted to document his travels. The book and show, both titled A Cook's Tour, arrived in 2001. Over the course of two seasons, Bourdain visited cities such as Hanoi and Oaxaca, bringing along Lydia Tenaglia and Chris Collins as camera operators and creative partners. But the executives who had championed A Cook's Tour eventually left, and Bourdain says the network started pushing for episodes on middle-of-the-road American fare, like barbecue.
Bourdain now has a term for such corporate meddling: being asked to "eat a shit sandwich." It's one of the few meals he flat-out refuses to consume. "Given a choice between eating the sandwich and not having a television career, I would happily not have a television career," he says. "Most people eat the sandwich." He quit, taking the show to Travel Channel.
Renamed No Reservations, it ran for eight seasons and scored 12 Emmy nominations (including two wins, both for cinematography). But eventually, Bourdain started to feel that familiar pressure to dumb things down. "They were basically saying, 'Let's appeal to the masses,' " says Tenaglia. " 'Let's not go too deeply into the darker, more complex geopolitical social stories.' " Bourdain wasn't happy, but with his contract about to expire and other options looking scarce, he was leaning toward renewing.
Then his agent got a phone call from CNN, which was exploring the idea of broadening beyond news and politics. "I thought [Bourdain's work] was very much in the vein of what CNN stood for," says the network's former managing editor, Mark Whitaker, a longtime Bourdain fan. "Because, in a sense, Tony Bourdain is like a foreign correspondent: He uncovers stories and takes you places that you haven't seen before."
Bourdain never expected to end up on a serious news network. "They called out of the blue, and our response was, really?" he says with a laugh. "We had a great discussion. They said, 'We want you to do what you want to do and be as smart as you can. Any place that you haven't been able to go, we'd like to help. Congo? No problem.' " Bourdain was impressed, especially if CNN could facilitate shooting in the kinds of logistically difficult areas that he was itching to visit.
CNN has remained true to that initial pitch, Bourdain says, letting him map his own creative itinerary and providing assistance wherever possible. "They've been unfailingly cool," he says. "They've backed me up. I've never had an uncomfortable conversation with anyone at CNN."
Chicken hearts, it turns out, are fantastic—like regular chicken, but gamier, more intense, chickenier. The rest of the meal at Tori Shin is similarly exciting, a typically Bourdainian affair that involves an endless procession of poultry bits along with pork belly, quail eggs, and sea urchin.
For all of the evening's excess, there's surprisingly little alcohol consumed; just a couple of beers each over the course of some two hours. Maybe it's because Bourdain has to get up in the morning to practice Brazilian jujitsu with his wife and daughter, as he tends to do lately, but he generally seems a bit more low-key than I expected. "When I'm home, I'm home," he says. "I don't have much of a social life. I'm very much trying to transition into my golden Andy Rooney years."
Of course, Andy Rooney probably never got a parasitic infection after chowing down on unwashed warthog anus in Namibia, and while Bourdain might be mellowing, he's hardly slowing down. In addition to his TV shows, he's working on a follow-up to his 2012 graphic novel, Get Jiro! He'll also publish more books via his imprint, including a memoir by Michael Ruffino, who composes the music for Parts Unknown and used to play bass in the outrageous Massachusetts rock group the Unband ("It's the best rock-and-roll memoir ever, basically," claims Bourdain). He has two documentary films in the works, one related to food, the other not, neither of which he's ready to discuss, and he's also ramping up plans for a large Manhattan food hall, which will be based on the Singapore-style multivendor "hawker centers" that are familiar to fans of his work.
The one thing these projects all have in common? Bourdain enjoys them. "I'm not looking to rule the world," he says. "I'm not looking to create a permanent brand. It's a quality-of-life issue with me. Am I having fun? Am I surrounded by people I like? Are we proud of what we're doing? Do we have anything to regret when we look in the mirror tomorrow? Those things are huge to me."
A waitress stops by to see if we want anything else. "I think we're good," Bourdain says. "Thank you. It was delicious." He pauses, looks at me, glances at his plate and then at the chef grilling skewers behind the counter. "Actually, you know what? Two more hearts for me."
A version of this article appeared in the November 2014 issue of Fast Company magazine.
Slideshow Credits: 01 / Illustration: Ollanski; 02 / Photo: courtesy of CNN; 05 / Photo: Flickr user Douglas LeMoine;


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I have an Acer Aspire 9300 laptop, and I wish to install a linux distro on it, but no distro will even launch. I made Live USB's and none of them worked. I verified that I made the Live USB correctly by trying to use it with my desktop, which worked everytime. I tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Mint, Debian, Knoppix and Puppy Linux. None of them worked. I tried normal boot and compatibility boot with each distro, to no avail.
After choosing an option in the main menu (Launch from USB or Install), it would show a blinking cursor for a while, then show artifacts and do nothing. In compatibility mode the text gets smeared all over the screen and does nothing. I tried using boot options like noacpi and xforcevesa etc. I even tried a Mint CD, didn't work. The only distro that would boot was an old version of Knoppix (CD), version 4 I think.
I simply don't know what to do anymore, I googled for help but I couldn't find any. If anyone could help me find the problem and hopefully find a fix for it, that would be great.
Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.
Edit: I tried launching Ubuntu Edgy from a Live USB, which worked. So Ubuntu Edgy works, but recent versions do not. I hope this info helps.


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- SoutheastHEALTH, Washington University School of Medicine announce collaboration (2/24/17)18
- Missouri bill would limit transgender school bathroom access (2/22/17)48
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Speak Out 12/14/07
Bad behavior
WHILE DOING my Christmas shopping I witnessed something that was disturbing. While waiting in a long line to be checked out, I watched as an employee offered to take the next person, and two older women cut through, claiming that because this young woman at the register had helped them earlier find a book they were looking for, they were entitled to be next in line. The employee tried to explain that since they had left to retrieve a book, they would have to wait back in line. These two women yelled at this poor employee. Having worked retail for 15 years of my life, I shouldn't have been but I was so shocked at the way that these older women were treating this girl. Please, holiday shoppers, don't take your bad attitudes out on the people who are helping you find exactly what you're looking for.
Pure propaganda
THE LENGTHY riposte reprinted from American Thinker asserted that Democrats are to be blamed for an alleged betrayal of our involvement in Iraq. The thesis of the article led me to think that this kind of irresponsible subjective spewing should lead the publication to be retitled the Formally Approved by the Bush Administration American Propagandist.
Bring back old movies
I AGREE wholeheartedly with the potential for the Broadway theaters. Renovate them and show classic movies. It would be another way to turn Cape Girardeau even more into a cultural center. We are already well on our way. Many of our younger generations haven't ever seen some of the wonderful old movies.
Restore old buildings
I AGREE with the comment about the old Broadway theater. I remember as a little girl my grandparents taking me there to see a movie. I think it would be great to see that theater open again instead of making it into something else like they did the Marquette Hotel. Restoring these old buildings is wonderful to see in Cape Girardeau, but restore them to what they were in the beginning. I know I would be happy, and I am sure others would agree.
Leaf-collection equality
THE LEAF-collection service in Cape Girardeau needs to be evaluated. The city picks up the exact same zones year after year even though half the leaves have only fallen when it finishes Zone A, which is where I live. In the past, the city recognized this fact and would come back through Zone A throughout the leaf collection season. But not this year. I called the city about my large pile of leaves and was told it would do follow-up collections after all the other zones were done. I guess the city is trying to save fuel, which is fine, but how about some equality next year and rotate the order of the zones? In the meantime, I guess my pile of leaves is headed for the street. I hope it blows away before it plugs up the storm sewers.
Great job with lights
ANOTHER GREAT job by the people on Kent Street. Another beautiful Christmas light display.
Depends who's stacking
HYPOCRISY: Criticizing Hugo Chavez and Pervez Musharraf for trying to stack the courts and constitutions in their favor when Bush supporters openly campaigned for the same thing in this country.
Percents, degrees
A RECENT report indicates that the warmest year was not 1998. The warmest years were in the 1930s. We've been cooling since the 1980s. To counter that report, the global warming crowd is reporting this winter may be warmer on average by as much as 4 percent. This means if the winter average is 40 degrees, it could get up to 41.6 degrees this winter.
Divine activity
IN RESPONSE to the story "Colleen's clear vision": I am curious why more people aren't moved by stories like this. How often do we see successes from people with pasts like this? I say there must be some divine activity for there to be so much transformation and faith. God bless them.
Booster-seat safety
I KNOW it's difficult to buckle your toddler into a booster seat, but it's even more difficult to scrape their faces off of the windshield and to pry their little teeth out of the air-conditioner vents. If you're not smart enough to protect your children from injury, you should have your license revoked and your children placed with someone who cares about their well-being.
Support questioned
WHY DID so many people send letters in support of Nathan Cooper? He broke the law and is a criminal. Why support his actions? Would you be proud for people to know that you wrote a letter in support of Cooper?
Sentencing issues
IT IS a sad day when Michael Vick is sentenced to 23 months for bankrolling a dogfighting ring and Nathan Cooper is only sentenced to 15 months for immigration fraud. In my opinion, the actions of Cooper were twice as bad that of Vick. Immigration fraud puts U.S. citizens at risk. What Vick did wasn't right either, but I don't feel animals should have more rights than humans. It is time for this country and our judicial system to wake up.
Pertinent quote
THE FOLLOWING quote reminds me of leftists who think embracing socialism is such a good idea: "Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom." -- Alexis de Tocqueville.
Where's the support?
AND WHAT is David Limbaugh's explanation for President Bush not signing the VA disability cost-of-living pay raise, which the House and Senate passed? Supporting the troops doesn't mean they lose our support when they come home battered and broken, does it?