Dishonored Lore: The Outsider 

I feel like if we get Dishonored 3 he'll make a cameo as an NPC just woundering about. Maybe he'll be a street sweeper.

how could someone kill the outsiders? he was killed into the void when he was a child, and then trapped for 4k years, forcing him to see and know what people do in all that time. its just torture. i choose to free him

Fun fact: The outsider was inspired by a short story called "The ones who walk away from Omelas" About a utopia city, but to keep the city happy and stable they have to lock a child up there whole lives.

Interesting how the Outsider is to me (an uninteresting person) the most interesting character in the game, while being interested in interesting people.

The outsider prefers Low Chaos because it's far more interesting when someone who has power that they can abuse chooses not to, while also denying their desire for revenge in favor for justice. Not because he actually cares about the loss of human life.

The Outsider is sort of like Doctor Strange regarding seeing the future. In Dishonored 1 he said there are many outcomes and he is wondering what outcome will Corvo choose. So he knows every possible way of the future to be fulfilled but he does not know what it will be exactly.

Lack of omniscience? Dude he literally tells you that he sees everything, everywhere.

Just to be clear low chaos does not mean clean hands. Corvo 100% killed some and spared some. We know The High Overseer was branded, but corvo totally butchered his way through the golden cat due to the fact that they knew Emily was about to be moved and would want to act with haste. And so on. Lord Regent and the Executioner are Canonically killed. Meaning Burrows probably flees to the dungeon and corvo confronts both after broadcasting his message. And Havelock is confirmed dead. Either by suicide or fighting to the death.

The weirdest part about the outsider is the fact that despite dying thousands of years ago he wears the same style of clothing as people in modern dunwall do What has fashion just not changed for literal millennia in the dishonored universe?

From the descriptions of the Void through the games, it sounds like a metaphysical concept that exists in our minds made manifest, which is why it has structures that represent the character's perspective or recent events. It would also explain the fact that the Outsider is known to appear in dreams, something that exists in our minds. It also just sounds like a metaphor for the void inside all of us, that knows who we are and watches from the inside. Just a completely hypothetical take I thought was fun to think about

As a note- you may not outright kill your targets, but 99% of the time, those are fates worse than death. It's definitely not better than a clean kill- a lot of the targets end up with fates like 'sent to a silver mine, tongue ripped out' or 'given to creepy, rapey stranger'.

Dishonored has some of he best lore I've ever found in a video game series - or anywhere, really. Thank you so much for this!

I really love ur video. The outsider is one of the biggest underrated characters in video games

What gets me is the fact that if he had never given Daud his mark way back when, Daud never would of killed the Empress and then the outsider would of never given the mark to Corvo and so on with Emily, whether or not that was his intention, or just pure coincidence that he started a domino effect makes him even more eerie.

dude will live on as secret sage or smth with all knowledge and wisdom he gathered all those years as outsider. thats how i pictured it if we get another sequel to this series

Does Delilah become the next avatar then? Since Death of the Outsider operates under the assumption on the low chaos ending from Dishonored 2, Delilah should be trapped in the void. Trapped in the fantasy of her perfect world. So during Death of the Outsider, it could be said that there are two avatars and that could be why the Outsider urges Billie Lurke to find him. Because he knows whether Billie kills him or not, the void already has a replacement for him. Maybe that's why he gave Duad his mark. A long game plan to free himself from the void he had been trapped in.

So the void now longs for a new avatar? Will the void be pissed by the humans for taking away its avatar? Or will it give it's power to anyone and everyone randomly ? Will it leak out and engulf the world in everlasting darkness? Is the void kingdom heart ?

That super monotheistic outlook on story telling is neat 2:45

I honestly feel like death of the outsider both is a bad ending and ruins the possibility of more stories. There's no evidence that it's possible to create another outsider. Only because it's implied that the rituals that created him were lost to time

They way I perceive it, the Void kinda represent the power of Omnipresence and none of the other aspect of god, I based that on the power of the players that we assumed are his own too. The blink is self explain since it's a short ranged teleport, the time travel or time vision can be also easily associated to omnipresence. The possession is more tricky but I can still see it as an aspect of omnipresence if our mind is a space (And if we want to move around the world it is). Délila powers to rewrite reality through painting definitely is a form of omnipresence, and so are the shifting state of matter caused by the spells and bone charms (and would explained all the missup of it because no one understand how to properly applies the power since it kinda is not straightforward). Yes the Outsider isn't a full God but he definitely had some aspect of one. Another aspect that goes with my theory is how Billy perceive void disturbance throughout Karnaka and we have heavily implied clue from the Eyesless that it was Délila resurrection that had caused it. Meaning that void magic 'breaks' reality and the Outsider might try to avoid that ence all his 'restrain' acts. It also ties to his distastes to Délila (for her utter lack of concerns about anything but her twisted visions) and other cultes he didn't really bless such as the Eyeless who wouldn't be responsible enough for such consequences. My last theory to explain his action is he might had tried to create the situation of Death to the Outsider where somebody is determined to put an end to his plight and hopefully not take his place nor leaving anyone with the means to do so. The eyeless don't know how to create another Outsider and they are the one with the most clues for that. It would explain why he marked both Daud and Corvo despite the conflicting allegiances because their impacts had mold the world around them to weaken dangerous groups and render them inept to commune with the void without an Outsider to help. but i might be stretching a bit there. What you make of those tidbit of theories on the Outsider?

Oh, now I feel a calling to play again...

Near as I can tell, the outsider isn’t necessarily neutral because he’s in the middle, but rather because because he’s on both extremes. At least in the first game, the outsider is pleasantly surprised by either extreme. Yes he’s happy when you achieve the low chaos ending, and yes it seems that he only tolerates the high chaos ending, but in the lesser known third ending (I’ve heard it called total chaos) wherein Emily dies, the first thing he says is “I don’t know about you corvo, but I’ve had a lovely time” he just wants to see history change and witness human nature. I think it’s a very believable position for a 4000 year old demigod who learned everything ever as a mortal child

Actualy if you think about it a entity thts omnipitent will see every possible future making it impossible to know 100% which one will come true so id say he is acuratly omnipitent

Could the change in the voids appearance be related to the pollution of the oceans? After all, there are strong oceanic themes to the void (theres even whale ambience) and in D2, theres an explosion of industry. Heavy machinery and overfishing are everywhere, significantly more prominent than in D1 and we see severely polluted waters and whale carcasses presented throughout D2. Since the void reflects reality and seems strongly ocean themed, I thought there'd be a connection

The 1 dislike was high overseer Campbell

If you look at Gods of the Ancient world, he definitely is one, as they were depicted as being much more human then the Christian God.

As far as billie didn't he forcibly just return her to the original state, because Before she had no arm, no eye but after The time relapse and change she had both her arm and eye back, couldn't that be the case. -can't recall exactly what his motive was at that time but only that he was 'regifting' what she lost. I only figured it was then void-touched because of it being essentially torn between 2 realms given it's decomposed nature etc. Or did i completely just imagine a whole story element

damn, no talk of granny rags

Death of the Outsider was not a DLC, it was its own standalone game

Actually Delilah mentions that the void is ever-changing. That is why it is different in the games.

Great!👍

Can you do a video on the weeping angels from Doctor who

I believe that Billie will be the next avatar for the void. She wants nothing to do with the void, is trying to change her ways, only to be sucked in to the old life and doing things differently. If we're talking about metaphysics, I think she is a great candidate

Do a lore video about Kratos from God of War, please?

you can still get low chaos if you kill teh targets, high chaos is prett much killing all the guards

11:19 "Simirlaly"? :-) Good video btw

to me the outsiders is more omniscient being then omnipotent

A completely omnipotent god is more of a modern idea that goes hand in hand with the emergence of a singular god as opposed to multiple or many gods. I’ve actually studied this concept in some detail and have really only found one set of unified details in religion that sets a god aside from mortals across cultures and history, and that’s an indefinite lifespan and no need to procreate. Most gods that humans have worshiped through our history are minor compared to the concepts we are working with today. They have need for sustenance, they can be harmed or destroyed, so on. They typically only represented rule over some small portion or aspect of reality.

I realized something notice how in dishonored 1 there are way less powers and enhancements than 2 does that mean that the void is slowly seeping in the world since the void is the source of magic why is this happening is it because of people making shrines and bonecharms ? Is the outsider purposely setting the void into the world ? Or is something more sinister happening here ? Or am i over thinking this ?

Can you do a video for raiden or solid snake

There’s a few flaws here. If I remember correctly Delilah wasn’t marked by the outsider. How he put it, “Right up until the end I thought I'd find a way to escape. I fought but the ropes only cut my skin so I went limp. And then the knife touched my throat and I knew I'd waited too long. The blood ran out and I became a god. Now you know Delilah's secret. At the end of her days, she drifted through the Void and should have been lost forever. But her will and cunning are second to none. She found this place, the island in the Void where I became what I am. It changed her and she discovered a way to draw from it, tapping into the power here. Delilah is... a part of me now. And I don't like it.” So with this she had found her way in the void finding the place where he became a god.

All hail the outsider!🖤⚖️

I think the outsider isnt interested in people who specifically will have an effect on the world I think he finds people like him who were either nobodys or people in the lowest point of their life with the potential to do things with massive repercussions

Tbh, if there is ever dishonored 3, I bet the game's story is going to revolve around killing a new avatar...

He's so handsome

So,he is like tzeench from Warhammer 40k

I hope we play as the outsider in dishonored 3 and he gets the mark of the new outsider

This explains some shit, plus also means there could be a possible lore friendly 4th dishonored game. Only to hope and dream for.

I think you have a bit wrong about this. The outsider in my opinion cant just pull anyone into the void. Each time he hands out power, he does so from a dream. People who have recieved his power can seemingly be called by him, but other people, like Piero who isnt gifted powers, is instead gifted knowledge through dreams. I feel like you need to be marked to be called at any moment. Either that, or you need to be around a place of worship for the outsider, something piero never had. Also since some powers seem to manipulate time, i feel like him calling you to the void, would be him stopping time in the real world, while he pulls your mind into the void.

He didnt give delilah power she found her own power within the void and returned to the real world

I have a feeling if the outsider is slain that doud will take his place as the void wants a representative and well his spirit is just standing there doing nothing.

gods can be killed. in the greek myths they killed all the titans which were gods and in viking mythology the ice giants killed the first ice giant which was also a god.

I really dislike the outsiders character change from 1 to 2, it makes no sense after thousands of years he all of a sudden starts feeling and wanting to help? In the first game he gives his powers because he thinks it's fun to see what they do, a somewhat insidious god. His voice change makes sense with the personality change but the original made the most sense.

The summons fro final fantasy arent really gods , they are being which reside in the world just as human below the celestials who probably created the world as we know it. Thats one of the reasons Ardyn calls them false gods after obtaining their memories they use their superiority to manipulate an kind in a way they seem fight and they can be killed or subjugated as Ardyn did.

Yey

Devil May Cry The Hellgate

I really really really dislike what they did to him in D2/DOTO

First and finally.

Im sure the outsider moved all & spoke for all & could posses & wear anyone within the void..& was the only sentiant in that world..

I loved the outsider when he was an ageless mysterious leviathan god thing from a parallel dimension, that just took the form of a person cause he thought it was funny to mess with people. but making him a human with a generic tragic backstory is just so boring, it killed all my interest. such a shame they reconnected him from the first game

I killed the outsider because i felt like the only way daud could truly rest and i felt like i owed it to him

Talking possibilities of a future Void avatar, I personally think Billie is the closest person as she is EXTREMELY void touched. Her being as touched by the void (not go to mention all she had learned & then also as being a whaler) as she is makes me feel like she’s “currently” the closest Outsider. Disclaimer: not saying I think there would ever be a game with her in such a position

Low complex multiverse at best

I thought Daud is the new avatar of void

Do Deviljho. Or don't. Keep doing characters that have been done to death.

I think Freddie fucking Fazbear would be a better deity and less cringe as an unnecessary ultracontrived lovecraftian lore than the Outsider. They where just cramming as much shit in there as possible. Even Hideo Kojima would find it impossible to suspend disbelief in the goth twink Gorillaz nuwave softcell cover band front man that is the Outsider.

with dishonored 2, the whole franchise went downhill