The protagonists are built towards a certain playstyle:
- Corvo (Lethal): His kills are cleaner than Emily's but his non-lethals take longer. His powers are geared for higher chaos, such as rat swarms and whirlwinds.
- Emily (Non-Lethal): Her non-lethals are quick but kills are slower to execute. Her powers are geared more for controlling or circumventing situations over brute force.
Canon Choices:
According to books, DLC and other mainline entries.
- Low chaos, possibly kill-free.
- Emily Kaldwin is the protagonist.
- (The Return of Daud novel + DoTO + Harvey Smith)
- The Outsider's power was accepted.
- (The Peeress and the Price comic)
- Alexandra Hypatia, Breanna Ashworth, and Delilah Copperspoon were spared.
- (Return of Daud novel + The Peeress and the Price comic + Death of the Outsider game)
- Kirin Jindosh is dead. - Debated
- (Harvey Smith claims he was murdered or died from brain damage.)
- (Death of the Outsider game implies he could be either dead or alive.)
- Ramsey is likley dead.
- (Lethal and non-lethal options both lead to his death.)
- Stilton was knocked unconscious in the past.
- (Death of the Outsider / Meagan never lost her arm and eye.)
- No side was chosen in the Dust District. - Debated
- (Death of the Outsider game.)
- (The Return of Daud novel says Emily sided with the Howlers.)
- Duke Abele's body double supplants the real Duke. - Debated
- (Death of the Outsider game.)
- (The Return of Daud novel says Paolo became the new Duke.)
Quotes:
"In these sleepless nights of despair, you appear to me not as the mighty leviathan, but as a young man, with eyes as black as the Void." -Spirit of the Deep
"I feel as though I've lost something precious. Please help me find it." -Kirin Jindosh (genius stolen)
"I'll tell you a story about Kirin Jindosh, a prodigy from Karnaca. Just two years after his arrival, he was banned from the Academy of life, for reasons that are still not public. When they deported him, he left behind a machine that drank seawater, playing music that brought listeners to tears. They promptly took it apart, and it has never worked since." - Outsider
"Are you feeling more comfortable, majesty? Are these the people you want running a quarter of your Empire? No? It never seemed to bother you before. Maybe it looks different up close. Maybe here it's harder to ignore the way the people outside the palace get through they day." - Outsider
"Will you ever be comfortable in Dunwall again, assuming you make it back? You've seen the suffering here, the decay. But dear Corvo would you even have lifted a finger if the Duke hadn't put Emily in harm's way? Be honest now." - Outsider
"Moving through Karnaca, you left a trail of corpses at your back, but in Dunwall, Delilah has amassed her own pile of bodies. All hail the victor, assuming there's anyone left to celebrate." - Outsider