Piranesi

Piranesi. A prison without doors!

A stoker sings: "Prideful, a prince was locked in the dark; while a poet was set free. I was the prince, alone and forgot; the poet, too, was me."

Piranesi is a prison in Eleutheria. Those who are imprisoned inside it must changed themselves in multiple way. Piranesi is unmappable. Only a portion of it can be reached by the chaplains. Visitors who want to tour the prison can only do it twice in a while.

This prison was made by the Halved, to served three purpose:

• An experiment in the breaking of taboo.

• An insult to those who follow the fundamental laws.

• A question; "If I can change, why can't you?"

There are three rule of Piranesi, and those that break them would be instantly imprisoned. Unfortunately there are an unwritten fourth rule that the chaplains cannot explain what the three rule of Piranesi to the visitors. 

The Rules of Piranesi are...
The First Rule is Don't Look Back The Second Rule is Don't give names to the nameless. The Third Rule is Don't learn the Third Rule.

The Chaplains of Piranesi

The prison is staffed by four chaplains. All four of them are ex-prisoners, changed by the nature of the prison. Each of them encourage the prisoners to changes in a different way

• The Gallant Reformer is the amiable chaplain that persuade prisoners to confess their sins, to redeem themselves so that they can change for the better.

• The Glistening Deformer is the inhuman chaplain that persuade the prisoners to alter their physical forms like itself.

• The Grey Conformer is the grey-eyed chaplain that persuade the prisoners to forget their old identities. She handled prisoners in the flooded cellars, where "the most deeply condemned wallow".

• The Glib Performer is the cruel chaplain that "persuade" the prisoners to change by tormenting them. Visitors to Piranesi who choose the Performer as their tour guide should be careful, as the Performer would trick visitors to break the rules of Piranesi.

The Identity of the Chaplains

"And the Reformer. Well." The Deformer frowns. A full-body frown. Several eyes vanish entirely among the folds. "The oldest. The one for whom this prison was built, the one who changed the most severely. And for all that he prattles about redemption, he never mentions that he once was the worst of monsters. Imprisoned here for depravities beyond my understanding. Theft of hope, perversion of worlds. Several extinctions." "The Deformer was the rebellious servant of a lightless star. Its sentence was harsh. It changed itself to become human, then less than human. The Conformer was a legendary piratess, dashing, extraordinary, heroine of a dozen skies. Piranesi extinguished her. And the Performer... I know less, except that he fled from Old London, escaping the wrath of a false  god . I remember what he was like when incarcerated - courteous, circumspect, and though he had the bluest eyes you ever saw, he hid them behind dark spectacles. The eyes changed first."