The Eighty Sins of Sasamo

The Eighty Sins of Sasamo is the name given to the terraced ascent to the city of Ul'dah from Western Thanalan. On the west side of the Gate of the Sultana, the area is a series of flights of stairs, each rising to a great paved space. At its foot lies Scorpion Crossing, and to the south, the entrance to the Goblet development.

History
Prior to the recent construction of the Gate of the Sultana, the Eighty Sins of Sasamo had significance only as a back passage for the guards, and as part of a failed coup. Some two hundred years ago, Princess Sasamo, second daughter of her house, desired to inherit the throne in place of her older sibling, and plotted to bring it about by unnatural means. The conspiracy was discovered before she could carry it out, and she was charged with high treason.

The sultan chose not to execute her, but to do the next best thing: leave it to fate. Sasamo was commanded to ascend and descend the eighty steps outside of the guards' gate, eighty times a day, for eighty days. This she did, and it is said that she managed to complete her sentence--but upon taking the last step on the last day, she perished.

Trivia
There are currently only seventy-seven steps, as three of the steps have since eroded away.