Hello, I was wondering how a Dishonored Pagan would view The Outsider considering the events of “Death Of The Outsider”? Thank you for your time.
Full disclosure: I haven’t actually played Death of the Outsider yet and I haven’t finished Dishonored 2 because my PC is a potato and can’t run it. I'm reasonably familiar with both of those games thanks to youtube and the like though.
There was a change in writers over all three games (and the expanded universe stuff, books and comics ext) and I feel DoTo drifted in a direction that feels very...off to me. It retconned a lot of the things that drew me to the Dishonored universe and I honestly feel the plot was clumsy and poorly handled. The game was marketed as a good 'introduction' to the Dishonored series, despite being the last chapter in a franchise which gives players the option of killing off it's most iconic character.In short, it makes me feel disappointed and a little uncomfortable.
It's like meeting a stranger who has a mutual friend with you and starts describing them in a way that seems really out of character for that person.You start to wonder if the stranger telling you the story about your mutual friend is really talking about the same person because the stranger's perception of your friend is so different to your own.Things get weird fast when the stranger tells you your mutual friend had died.Are they really the same person after all then?Without getting too deep into metaphysics and pagan worldview stuff I essentially treat DoTo like officially-sanctioned fanfiction. My personal relationship with and perception of the Void and the Outsider have forked off from what is now ‘canon’ but they are more genuine and authentic to me.I suppose that makes me some kind of heretic, oops. Nobody tell the Abbey.