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[Segev]

Bows to the lady of pain. :D

Don't do that! That draws her attention! She HATES it when you do that!

[Knightslayer]

Don't do that! That draws her attention! She HATES it when you do that!

Yes... just let her quietly glide by and hope you are beneath her notice that day...

[Atlantea]

Yes... just let her quietly glide by and hope you are beneath her notice that day...

???

Okay... Apparently I have stumbled into a reference I have no clue about. Care to enlighten me?

[Mentalshock]

The Lady of Pain is a reference a rather vengeful goddess in Sigil, City of Doors in the Dungeons and Dragons setting.  Suffice to say that drawing her attention usually leads to a rather brutal and quick death.

EDIT: Egad, I'm more geeky than I thought.....

[Segev]

Technically, the Lady of Pain is not a goddess. Nobody knows WHAT She is, other than lethally painful to so much as look upon. Her shadow flays flesh from bone of all it touches. She is the ruler of the City of Doors in the sense that she has definite rules that she communicates only through punishment of transgression, but which are fairly easy to understand. And she prevents all gods from entering her city. Nobody knows how, or if it's a function of the city or a testament to her personal power. She's an enigmatic force of nature that has a recognizably humanoid form and is presumed to be sentient. She also never leaves the City, so far as anybody knows.

One of her rules is: do not worship the Lady of Pain.

[Mentalshock]

GOd-like didn't seem accurate enough.

  Eldritch Abomination, maybe?


   Bride of Cthulu?

[Knightslayer]

The Lady of Pain is a reference a rather vengeful goddess in Sigil, City of Doors in the Dungeons and Dragons setting.  Suffice to say that drawing her attention usually leads to a rather brutal and quick death.

EDIT: Egad, I'm more geeky than I thought.....

Yep, the Planescape setting.

[dwturducken]

I was out of D&D before the Planescape setting came out, but my brother was into it. He'd always get upset with me when I would reword this song...  ;D

[Atlantea]

Wow...  :o

I had NO IDEA!  I just plucked the phrase "Lady of Pain" out of thin air without having any reference to what you said! It seemed right at the time so I went with it.

What a weird coincidence!

[TimtheEnchanter]

Don't do that! That draws her attention! She HATES it when you do that!

You must never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.

[DrakeGrimm]

You must never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.

"If it bleeds, we can kill it."

[Atlantea]

You must never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.

How appropriate, now that I think about it:

"They passed down all the roads long ago. And the Red Bull ran behind them, and covered their footsteps."

And NCSoft is like King Haggard in his castle and/or the Red Bull, jealously keeping all the unicorns in the world for himself and never letting them go. Until the world all but forgot about them.

But City of Heroes may be that one Unicorn that wins freedom, and with it all the rest, if we but find our own inner magic and follow the path of the hero.

Molly Grue: "What is the use of wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn?"
Schmendrick the Magician: "That is what heroes are for."

[Zedrik]

Wow...  :o

I had NO IDEA!  I just plucked the phrase "Lady of Pain" out of thin air without having any reference to what you said! It seemed right at the time so I went with it.

What a weird coincidence!

I can't remember if it was speculation or if it was stated as inspiration for The Lady of Pain, but there is a poem.
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/swinburne/dolores.html
(Warning: It's NOT a short one.)

[Segev]

They all passed down that road long ago, and the red bull followed behind, and covered their footprints.