Something I think is interesting is that the cure to the rat plague was the combination of Sokolov and Piero's elixirs. Sokolov's healed the body, and Piero's restored the mana/soul. So the plague itself might have been partially magic, given the fact that you can summon rats seemingly out of nowhere with a supernatural power.
I think it’s more that Sokolov was aiming to cure the symptoms of the plague whereas Piero was trying to combat the mental degradation and loss of cognitive abilities. Once they put both their formulas together they were able to cure the plague and even reverse the effects in weepers who were thought to be terminal at that stage previously.
I just want to explore Pandyssia...it's a really big map with a lot of lore to explore...do you imagine a Dishonored where you can go anywhere? it would be incredible.
It was kinda imply as the story goes that all the... well most of the Loyalist are coward (except Samuel he's the best character willingly betray them immediately after they planned to poison Corvo). I mean they all send Corvo to do all their dirty works and take all the credits for it. And in all chaos route whether Corvo choose kills or neutralise they will always betray him.
@@BlossomPathOnStage15 late response to your comment, but I'd say it's less of the Loyalists 'taking the credit for Corvo's work' and more of the Loyalists 'reaping the benefits of Corvo's work'. Corvo was set to take the fall once the Loyalists opted to take power for themselves, so essentially Corvo became their fall guy. In regards to the Loyalists being cowards, I'm not entirely sure I agree. I'd definitely say that Trevor and, to an extent, Martin were cowards for sure. Not sure where I stand on Havlock regarding cowardice, but he was certainly an opportunist. But I do agree that Samuel was the best of them all, which is why I always dread reaching the final mission on High Chaos.
@@Queen3210 havelock is a coward, as soon as you grab the key to Emily's room he drops the facade of "I don't want to fight" and starts attacking you while yelling for guards
@@yooooo6296 Oh yah. I was a bit surprised about that. When I got to him on low chaos, I was going to let him go, then I get stabbed as soon as I turn my back.
i've always thought the outsider intentionally ignored Sokolov, as he'd make the biggest impact on the world without it. and i think the outsider only gave the mark though those who'd make changes to it,
One thing about the High Overseer is if you brand him, and have high chaos when daud captures you, hell be a wheeper guarding the loot daud threw in the cutscene
It happens regardless of chaos level I think, because he was there when I did a no-kill run. Unless it was changed in an update; I haven't played it in a while
@@kamo7293 if your on low chaos, the amount of weepers down there is trivial. I had played through the game multiple times on low chaos and never had I worried about them in that section.... and I was like 13 at the time, you can "miss" all the weepers down there if you please
While I'm curious about the rest of the world I'm also very afraid to leave the intimacy of the Isles. What drew me to this world was how personal and close a generic story about the assassination of an Empress became. I'm very attached to Corvo in particular, and I couldn't get into Daud's story that much because it lacked that intimacy I loved so much. The second game, playing as Emily and witnessing her realize her training escapades were still not letting her see the empire as it is, was just as compelling. Navigating the world of Dishonoured is breathtaking and incredibly immersive _because_ you don't need to expand it too much. There is detail and depth in every every design, in every song, in every conversation you overhear; a cultural and social stamp that you can't misidentify when comparing it to other equally distinct but similar game worlds. If there are to be more games in the Dishonoured world, they need to be crafted with as much love and dedication as those we got so far. I don't want this world ruined so it can make more money. I want this gothic, slightly musty but beautiful industrial universe to remain connected to the sea, to the grime and harshness of a culture so enriched by it's depressing erosion.
1. i enjoy how the world changes in response to your actions. people are angrier, emily in particular responds with some very disturbing dialogue, and the plague spreads more because there's more dead bodies for the rats to feed off of. 2. being nonviolent and going for ghost seems to fit in with the idea of a protector rather than an avenger. i like the idea of someone who isn't sinking down to the level everyone else is and just trying to help his daughter.
I agree. However, it's pretty lame that they give you all these tools and powers to use for combat in an incredibly interesting and exciting way just to penalize you for using them.
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti I'm sorry I'm not sure what you mean. I was saying it's lame that the devs gave us all these tools but if we use them we get the bad ending
@@jonathanjameson5050 yeah its the same with rich people who get the bad prison ending if they use all the tools at their disposal. I think its immersive. Either you have sadistic fun in life and get shit for it or you pull yourself together and have anything work out well
The way pandissia is described in the intro makes me think of hp love craft describing islanders…. And it’s a good parallel because of dishonored setting
When I saw the views on this video I expected some shoddy lore video in bad audio and was fully prepared to click away after 5 sec. I couldn't have been more wrong. Happy to have found your channel, hope it will grow fast and see some more traffic, can't wait for your take on dishonored 2!
I remember playing through the masked party mission and not thinking much at the time how messed up it was to technically spare her. Amazing how much can just fly over your head when you're in middle school
I don't recall why I wanted to look up the lore of Dishonored, I already knew most of this but I absolutely love this video! Your reading of things I already knew somehow captured my attention the entire time. Amazing video, definitely got a sub from me for this.
Ah, so the entire ruling body of Dishonored was incompetent. As if releasing a plague on purpose wasn't bad enough, not doing anything at all to contain it is just as bad.
Had she imposed strict measures it wouod have made excuse for the spymaster to off her and plant a puppet. Theres really no win. She didnt do anything but realistically it was a loss either way
You made me think, the outsider has no stake in the world. He’s, an outsider… Also, with the Lady Boyle one, it is said in the book that she’s able to charm the stalker and escape.
27:18 the canon choice is giving her to the stalker, in the book " the corroded man" ,its revealed that lady boyle killed lord brisby and took over his estate
"What!? This game just told me Im evil!" Samuel: "I think you're a bad person. Therefore I'll alert the base." "WHAT!? OMG! YOU SUCK!" "Ooh! That was probably not the best counter argument to my chaos score. Maybe its time to just own it."
On my 1st playthrough when he said he was gonna alert the guards, I immediately panicked and shot him with a sleep dart before he could fire. I killed everyone else but I didn't want to kill samuel.
I just want to go on record saying, if THAT'S what your playthrough looked like, I ABSOLUTELY want to watch it. I watched "Heh heh. AHHHHHH!" about 30 times.
Just finished replaying this game through again for the first time and was trying to find some more info on the world that I might've missed.... you hit every single point I wanted to know about perfectly. Video was incredibly well structured and paced. I can't believe this video is under 20k views.
just found this video as I've been going on a bit of a Dishonoured binge again recently. An amazing and detailed overview of one of the best game franchises of all time. Keep on doing what you're doing! Can't wait to see more x
excellent and short lorethrough which, most importantly, explains how the rat plague got into dunwall,who brought it there. I love how she has explained which choice is more worthy/suitable on certain characters which need to be eliminated!
Amazing video quality! The script, your voice and theme it all just fits so perfectly! 🥰 i can't wait what your future videos will bring and when your channel'll blow up Keep up the great work
Thank you for this incredible video. You've brought us a great amount of detail presented through delightful storytelling. This is not only a good recap, it's a great reminder of the world history and backstories that slip the mind over time, or are just not noticed while you're distracted by rat swarms. Qualms: I wish there was a discussion on the Heart, and just a little bit about the powers from the Outsider and the different mechanical defences. I'm guessing this video is mostly for people who completed the game, and those aspects are rather memorable. Thanks again!
10:20 My, my, you must say, what we experienced from 2020 onwards, and the currently *reported 800 000 dead in the US* , is a plot like this possible in this reality too? .......eerie.... 🤔🤔🤔
I'm just discovering this channel and I'm loving how well you explain everything in this video. I didn't know all this lore about Dishonored (well, to be fair I only played each game once and relatively recently).
My favorite way to play is Clean Hands with the non-lethal options used for the main targets. Hear me out for that (Spoilers btw) Thaddeus Campbell - Marking him as a heretic is the ultimate revenge as he is cast out from the highest power and forced to live as a beggar at best. Custis and Morgan Pendleton - Forced to work in their own mines without their tongues. They can't use their power because no one will know who they are, and those that do will take their chance at revenge on them. Lady Boyle - Force her to live with a creepy guy that will never let her out of her sight again. That's just beyond creepy and death for her would be a mercy. Hiram Burrows - Use the audio log to ruin him, make him live out the rest of his days knowing that he failed not once, but at every turn. Killing any target is the easy way out for them and for you, but doing the extra leg work will make the rest of their lives so very much worse.
I would love to see a short 9 episode show of the Dishonored world, with Arkane's art style. The perfect painted look to capture that Otherworldly Familiarity.
I remember the first time I played this game I did an almost fully non-violent play through except for 1 kill I did on accident at the beginning of the game. Had to replay the whole game just to get the achievement. Lol
One of the many moments in my gaming experience that made me sit and dwell on a subject is that scene where you come across the man with his friend and he’s holding him just talking to him A very somber moment
So I’ve just been going through a bunch of your videos because I’ve had more time to listen to UA-cam than unusual and I would love to see you tackle a definitive version of Draken/NieR so far. I feel like the amount of effort that you put into these videos would truly make for one of the most perfectly compiled long form lore video
Are you a voice actor? Your voice is so soothing and calming...and did you write the script? And with the backdrop of my favour game Dishonoured...I'm so happy to find this channel...already subbed, and hope your channel gains more following
Thank you for those kind words! To answer: I'm not a voice actor, and the videos are all done by myself with occasional additional footage capture help from channel moderator Viryl.
First off, I've recently found your videos and I love them, you have the perfect mix of telling the lore and adding little jokes. Secondly, even the developers admitted Lady Boyle's nonlethal ending was terrible in a way completely different than the other targets, so in the books you learn that a few years after being taken, Boyle's husband disappeared under mysterious circumstances and she was content living with the mansion and wealth he left behind, far from Dunwall.
Always nice to click on a random lore video and be Blown away by high production quality and fantastic narration. Stupendous work, I shall stick around for a while
Edit: I've drafted my 3-page Twitter apology for mispronouncing 'Daud'. It will only be released when a full week goes by without mention of it. Hey! Future Tiptoe here. Thanks for checking out these videos! If you'd like to keep up on UA-cam Community info, I'll be posting extra bits of info here in the future: ua-cam.com/users/TiptoeTheTankcommunity As of this post, this is a relatively young channel. I've only really been around since the end of 2020. I hope to be around for the foreseeable future; I'm excited to watch this little passion project grow. More info and content will come with time! Thank you for being here so early in the game. PEACE! -Tip
Just played this after you recommend it. Finished it one day yesterday. Damn slicing with katana and blinking is so satisfying that I dont care I got chaos ending lul.
Thank you! I started this game on a whim a few nights ago not really expecting much except a fun game. Playing through it, I felt like... There's got be more. And your video proves exactly that. This game's lore and story is so amazing but to be honest, I didn't feel like reading all the books haha so thank you!
Just gonna point out, even in Dishonored 1, Emily is explicitly aware of Corvo as her father, (she even makes a drawing of Corvo that calls him "Daddy") its also heavily implied that behind closed doors they actually lived like a regular family, but Emily doesn't explicitly call Corvo any fatherly terms because of his lack of nobility and the threat that poses to the throne. (despite functionally every character Corvo meets being pretty clearly aware of it) She's just intentionally keeping it hidden as a facade. Not that doing so exactly makes much sense when she makes one of the drawings and when everyone Corvo meets being pretty aware that Emily is his daughter.
This game was a pleasant surprise. When I started playing I had no idea this game would become one of my favorites. The gold standard of gaming for sure. Easily up there with Ocarina of Time and Skyrim.
Outside of a Clean Hands run. It is... Way more merciful to kill Lady Boyle than it is to hand her over as essentially a slave and captive to the stalker. As much as I feel like the other non-lethal options fit. Y'know, High Overseer branded a heretic, (which he is.) Pendeltons set to work in their own mines, Hiram's lies beaten by the truth. Lady Boyle's is... Not fitting. What would've been fitting would be somehow bankrupting her, since her thing is huge amounts of wealth.
Dude... the audacity to unleash a plague ON PURPOSE to rid a city of lower class - Wow! I actually - literally - said that. Getting back into the Dishonored games, so this is a great refresher. Dark stuff! Also, you have a very nice voice to listen to.
It would be so sick to have a Dishonored 3. As someone who appreciates the historical links between real life and Dishonored, I'd like to see a couple fun inclusions like a level based on the 1904 St Louis World Fair. It would also be cool to have a manifest destiny theme with Pandyssia where there is an Oregon Trail style diaspora into the continent so we can get a glimpse of it's mysteries.
I watched all 3 of your dishonored videos. Love the voice! This series is weird for me, because a quick death still seems more preferable than many of the low chaos choices IMO. Doing a replay in 2022, and didn't want to read all the books and notes. Having a surprising amount of technical curfluffle on this game. Also if Daud was so renowned, Corvo would've been able to identify him during the assassination of Jessamine.
Muito bom, tava querendo jogar os três jogos de Dishonored após terminar Deathloop e ver que tinha uma conexão entre ambos. E como não lembrava direito da história do primeiro, mesmo tendo sido o único dos três jogos da série que tive o prazer de jogar, vim procurar um vídeo da história para entender melhor. Muito obrigado pelo vídeo, foi bem explicativo e esclarecedor.
I'm certain Emily knew corvo was her father. But perhaps instructed to not address him as so. To me the smoking gun is an image she draws of corvo that is titled "Daddy"
Holy hell your voice is so cool!! I've just finished reading the first book and now playing the first game.... Out of sync slightly but wow is your voice perfect for this world!! Please do more videos on Dishonored!
Maybe arcane should do a game called venture to pandicia or something and maybe it could even be the lost continent that maybe Skyrim took place on a long time ago and now it's a wild crazy place
I think the canon ending is actually somewhere between high and low chaos. Corvo does kill some people but not everyone. It kinda makes it unique as gane stories go. Most go for the good ending, some go for the evil ending like Legacy of Kain Blood Omen, this one seems to be in the middle. My take anyway
Oh, is that the canon ending? I like that more. I haven't played the second one yet, but I'd be glad to learn that Corvo wasn't the pure, good protagonist type. God knows, no one would blame him. Though I went high chaos in my game. Hopefully he didn't go full postal in the canon ending. 😅
@@TiptoeTheTank I think so though I'm not entirely sure. Haven't played the second one either. It's been a while since I checked but I'm pretty sure that's how it was portrayed in the book that takes place between the games.
@@TiptoeTheTank You guys are actually not far off. Canon isn't perfectly in between high and low chaos...BUT... you are technically right when you say that canon is when Corvo kills some people but not everyone. Low chaos was chosen as the canon ending by majority of the fans based on all the things such as the books and the sequel games. The problem is that people usually think low chaos = no killing, but with the way the game mechanics work, you can actually kill quite a few people and STILL be considered low chaos. Each person contributes an amount of chaos depending on who they are. To explain it simply (this isn't accurate btw just a way to explain it), if you kill a civilian, you add 1 chaos, if you kill a hostile (like a guard), you add 2 chaos and if you kill a target (like the High Overseer), you add 3 chaos. You can actually play through a level, leave everyone alive but kill your target and STILL receive a low chaos rating. Or, alternatively, you could kill a ton of guards but leave your target alive and receive a low chaos rating. Someone on reddit actually tested this out. If we use mission 3 as an example (the amounts change per mission) and you DONT kill the targets or civilians, you can kill 35 hostiles and still receive a low chaos rating. But if you kill 36, you get a high chaos rating. On the other end, if you leave the targets and hostiles alive but kill more than 7 CIVILIANS, you get a high chaos rating (showing that 7 civilians are basically worth the same amount of chaos as 35 hostiles). You can kill ALL the targets and as long as you leave the hostiles and civilians alive, you can still get low chaos. If you choose to leave all the hostiles and civilians alive, you can have the freedom to DECIDE whether each target should live or die. You can choose to mercy kill Lady Boyle if you don't feel right about shipping her off to a psycho or you can decide to kill the Lord Regent as revenge. This is how I personally think Corvo would act.
Canon: D1: - Branded Campbell. (He'll die either way because he'll turn into a weeper if spared) - Killed the twins. Corvo went on a rampage inside the golden cat to find Emily. - Saved Sokolov (ofcourse) - Shipped of Boyle (but later she kills her stalker and becomes even more rich) - Shamed the lord Regent, he'll then get imprisoned and sentenced to die BY Corvo's hand. (So Corvo will kill him either way) - Saved Daud (Duh) - Martin, Havelock and Pendleton all die regardless of what you choose.
Tbh, the pendleton brothers one I'm not 100% sure about because our source material indicates 2 different things. We know that Corvo DID go on a rampage inside the golden cat, but then again from the comics we know that he did establish a friendship with Slackjaw. So it's kinda dubious. The other ones I'm 200% sure about.
@@TiptoeTheTank I know the studio is working on other things, and that the composer sadly passed away, but I do hope we'll get a third game eventually. It seemed they were seeding that the next story would take place in Tyvia, and I would love to go there!
Boyle was the only decision that was hard for me, killing her was fucked up since she was basically an innocent, but the less chaotic option was arguably way worse. Ended up taking the terrible non-lethal option since I wanted the 100% "good" ending even though the thought of it made me gag, I consoled myself with the thought that Corvo not being a completely terrible person would send people to rescue her after saving his daughter.
23:18 so this was my only problem with this game, it has the moral system of a Star Wars writer aka some of the “”good”” options are actually FAR worse than the “”bad”” option of just killing the target. So an example of a sith option in SWTOR (the Star Wars MMO) you are tasked with boarding a ship and neutralising a defector, you finally get to him and you are given 2 options the lightside choice of handing him over to imperial forces where he will spend the next few weeks of his life been tortured to find out what info he gave to the Republic and to try and get any info he may have gotten from them before been executed publicly (assuming he lives that long) or there is the darkside option of a quick death on the spot. Now to me the quick death on the spot is by far the best option for him ied consider it the lightside option if I was writing the story but no because you killed him it’s bad even thought you are saving him from weeks of torment and pain and it’s the same here and in all the other targets, by not killing them you are condemning the target to a much worse fate but somehow because we didn’t kill them it’s somehow ok (just don’t think about what’s going to happen to them, especially the noble woman we give to her “”admirer”” I sure that will turn out fine…. Right?) Apparently some people think that the worst thing that can happen to a person is death, well as someone that spends most of my time in pain due to a disability there are far worse things than death and mine isn’t even that bad compared to others.
Something I think is interesting is that the cure to the rat plague was the combination of Sokolov and Piero's elixirs. Sokolov's healed the body, and Piero's restored the mana/soul. So the plague itself might have been partially magic, given the fact that you can summon rats seemingly out of nowhere with a supernatural power.
I mean anything from pandyssia has some sort of magic to it
I think it’s more that Sokolov was aiming to cure the symptoms of the plague whereas Piero was trying to combat the mental degradation and loss of cognitive abilities.
Once they put both their formulas together they were able to cure the plague and even reverse the effects in weepers who were thought to be terminal at that stage previously.
Indeed, the plague rat was caused by the rat swarm that summoned by the lonely rat boy
@@thangnghiem4229 no the plague was caused by the lord regent importing plague rats from pandyssia
@@BlossomPathOnStage15 could be true but all the rats summoned by the "devouring swarm" power disappear once theyre done
I REALLY hope Arkane decides to do another dishonored the lore is just too big to ignore. Hopefully it is set in Morley tyvia or even the continent.
I just want to explore Pandyssia...it's a really big map with a lot of lore to explore...do you imagine a Dishonored where you can go anywhere? it would be incredible.
@@Nazax Death Loop could have easily taken place in the Dishonored universe.
@@yokiryuchan7655 Could be, they are so familiar in terms of design. I hope Death Loop bring us a good story :)
@@Nazax I don't think it does. but it easily could have. Blackreef Island could have easily been a location in Pandyyssia.
ngl they could make an MMO with this lore as a basis, either 4 isles as separate factions or empire vs Pandyssia
25:30 Trevor is definitely a coward. He sends you as a replacement in a duel without letting you know first. I was dumbfounded when that happened.
It was kinda imply as the story goes that all the... well most of the Loyalist are coward (except Samuel he's the best character willingly betray them immediately after they planned to poison Corvo). I mean they all send Corvo to do all their dirty works and take all the credits for it. And in all chaos route whether Corvo choose kills or neutralise they will always betray him.
@@BlossomPathOnStage15 cecelia and samuel were always my favorites
@@BlossomPathOnStage15 late response to your comment, but I'd say it's less of the Loyalists 'taking the credit for Corvo's work' and more of the Loyalists 'reaping the benefits of Corvo's work'. Corvo was set to take the fall once the Loyalists opted to take power for themselves, so essentially Corvo became their fall guy.
In regards to the Loyalists being cowards, I'm not entirely sure I agree. I'd definitely say that Trevor and, to an extent, Martin were cowards for sure. Not sure where I stand on Havlock regarding cowardice, but he was certainly an opportunist. But I do agree that Samuel was the best of them all, which is why I always dread reaching the final mission on High Chaos.
@@Queen3210 havelock is a coward, as soon as you grab the key to Emily's room he drops the facade of "I don't want to fight" and starts attacking you while yelling for guards
@@yooooo6296 Oh yah. I was a bit surprised about that. When I got to him on low chaos, I was going to let him go, then I get stabbed as soon as I turn my back.
Love how you made your voice sound like the heart while reading
i've always thought the outsider intentionally ignored Sokolov, as he'd make the biggest impact on the world without it. and i think the outsider only gave the mark though those who'd make changes to it,
One thing about the High Overseer is if you brand him, and have high chaos when daud captures you, hell be a wheeper guarding the loot daud threw in the cutscene
It happens regardless of chaos level I think, because he was there when I did a no-kill run. Unless it was changed in an update; I haven't played it in a while
@@kaygirl10101 You're indeed right, it is the non-lethal result on the High Overseer and nothing else.
@@blakehansen5434 i think its just a skill issue on your part cause i hardly had to look at the weepers on my low chaos run to grab my stuff
regardless of chaos he will be the weeper closest to the supplies. you literally can't miss him and his red coat
@@kamo7293 if your on low chaos, the amount of weepers down there is trivial. I had played through the game multiple times on low chaos and never had I worried about them in that section.... and I was like 13 at the time, you can "miss" all the weepers down there if you please
One simply cannot get enough of doshonored lore!
It’s sooo good
Doshonored 😭
It's "Doud" not "dosh"
@@leetworldfan101 sounds like gru tryna say it
While I'm curious about the rest of the world I'm also very afraid to leave the intimacy of the Isles. What drew me to this world was how personal and close a generic story about the assassination of an Empress became. I'm very attached to Corvo in particular, and I couldn't get into Daud's story that much because it lacked that intimacy I loved so much. The second game, playing as Emily and witnessing her realize her training escapades were still not letting her see the empire as it is, was just as compelling. Navigating the world of Dishonoured is breathtaking and incredibly immersive _because_ you don't need to expand it too much. There is detail and depth in every every design, in every song, in every conversation you overhear; a cultural and social stamp that you can't misidentify when comparing it to other equally distinct but similar game worlds. If there are to be more games in the Dishonoured world, they need to be crafted with as much love and dedication as those we got so far. I don't want this world ruined so it can make more money. I want this gothic, slightly musty but beautiful industrial universe to remain connected to the sea, to the grime and harshness of a culture so enriched by it's depressing erosion.
1. i enjoy how the world changes in response to your actions. people are angrier, emily in particular responds with some very disturbing dialogue, and the plague spreads more because there's more dead bodies for the rats to feed off of.
2. being nonviolent and going for ghost seems to fit in with the idea of a protector rather than an avenger. i like the idea of someone who isn't sinking down to the level everyone else is and just trying to help his daughter.
I agree. However, it's pretty lame that they give you all these tools and powers to use for combat in an incredibly interesting and exciting way just to penalize you for using them.
@@jonathanjameson5050who do superrich feel who can afford all the assassinations and private militias they want?
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti I'm sorry I'm not sure what you mean. I was saying it's lame that the devs gave us all these tools but if we use them we get the bad ending
@@jonathanjameson5050 yeah its the same with rich people who get the bad prison ending if they use all the tools at their disposal. I think its immersive. Either you have sadistic fun in life and get shit for it or you pull yourself together and have anything work out well
@@jonathanjameson5050 the devs are like the outsider, they give you the powers but it‘s up to you how to use them.
The way pandissia is described in the intro makes me think of hp love craft describing islanders…. And it’s a good parallel because of dishonored setting
When I saw the views on this video I expected some shoddy lore video in bad audio and was fully prepared to click away after 5 sec. I couldn't have been more wrong. Happy to have found your channel, hope it will grow fast and see some more traffic, can't wait for your take on dishonored 2!
Hell yeah! Thank you for checking it out. Dishonored 2 will be a few weeks out, but we'll definitely back to it. 😃
I remember playing through the masked party mission and not thinking much at the time how messed up it was to technically spare her. Amazing how much can just fly over your head when you're in middle school
Same
Yes.. Some of the "low chaos" choices are messed up and probably worst than the "high chaos" choices.
If you read her notes, she wanted to get out of here. And she was also very happy to get kidnapped because it was her kink
@@PrechtGaebolgHadesOh..
@@isaiahmassey703 Yeah lmao. I think the devs then changed that in the book to avoid criticism because how sensitive people are these days
I don't recall why I wanted to look up the lore of Dishonored, I already knew most of this but I absolutely love this video! Your reading of things I already knew somehow captured my attention the entire time. Amazing video, definitely got a sub from me for this.
Ah, so the entire ruling body of Dishonored was incompetent. As if releasing a plague on purpose wasn't bad enough, not doing anything at all to contain it is just as bad.
Had she imposed strict measures it wouod have made excuse for the spymaster to off her and plant a puppet. Theres really no win. She didnt do anything but realistically it was a loss either way
I'm glad our real life authority figures aren't that stupid.
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@@NotAGoodUsername360 🤦
Maybe Russell was Britin during movie LMAO
Did you forget about Daud in the end? You know, The Flooded District
You made me think, the outsider has no stake in the world. He’s, an outsider…
Also, with the Lady Boyle one, it is said in the book that she’s able to charm the stalker and escape.
Yes but Corvo could not guess what would happen
So the Outsider lied when he said she’d spend the rest of her life in exile. Not surprised.
@@MisterPeckingOrder iirc she lived her life out on Brisby's island using his money, still in exile.
27:18 the canon choice is giving her to the stalker, in the book " the corroded man" ,its revealed that lady boyle killed lord brisby and took over his estate
I love the Dishonored series, I’m really enjoying your retelling and lore videos.
This world would make for a really interesting TV series.
I would just have to hope they wouldn’t completely botch it like a lot of adaptations.
I've seen some news saying the Netflix is currently working on a live adaptation of it, though I'm not completely sure.
2023 and still waiting for dishonored 3
"What!? This game just told me Im evil!"
Samuel: "I think you're a bad person. Therefore I'll alert the base."
"WHAT!? OMG! YOU SUCK!" "Ooh! That was probably not the best counter argument to my chaos score. Maybe its time to just own it."
On my 1st playthrough when he said he was gonna alert the guards, I immediately panicked and shot him with a sleep dart before he could fire. I killed everyone else but I didn't want to kill samuel.
@@AgelastSoap Did it change the level at all?
@@elam3654 it just made it so he didn't shoot or drive the boat away.
I’ve never gotten the high chaos ending, he just called me a horrible person and left, no threat to shoot or anything. Medium chaos ending
I just want to go on record saying, if THAT'S what your playthrough looked like, I ABSOLUTELY want to watch it.
I watched "Heh heh. AHHHHHH!" about 30 times.
This channel came out of nowhere into my suggestions and im really glad it did. Reminds me a lot of filmcomicsexplained. Keep the lore coming
Yea Samual tried to sell me out in the end after our last boat ride but unfortunately he wasn’t as quick on the draw as I was😂
I absolutely love this game. It’s my favorite stealth game of all time. I can’t get enough of the Lore and back stories!
Alfred: "Some men, just want to see the world burn"
Me: "hey now, some women want the same as well"
Facts
Based
Lol true I know a few woman who want to watch the world burn lol 🌍🔥🔥🔥
Just finished replaying this game through again for the first time and was trying to find some more info on the world that I might've missed.... you hit every single point I wanted to know about perfectly. Video was incredibly well structured and paced. I can't believe this video is under 20k views.
This channel deserves more subscribers, I love the fully detailed context of the lore. Hope you do Dishonored 2 and I hope you get more subscribers!!
Thank you for checking it out! Dishonored 2 will be in a couple weeks; we'll definitely get back to it. 😉
just found this video as I've been going on a bit of a Dishonoured binge again recently. An amazing and detailed overview of one of the best game franchises of all time. Keep on doing what you're doing! Can't wait to see more x
excellent and short lorethrough which, most importantly, explains how the rat plague got into dunwall,who brought it there. I love how she has explained which choice is more worthy/suitable on certain characters which need to be eliminated!
This video is so good. The way you told the story always kept me engaged and immersed in it’s world. You just earned yourself a subscriber❤.
I’m really glad UA-cam put this on my feed today. I love dishonored and you are very good at narrating.
This video just got recommended to me, hope that means YT is recommending your videos to a lot of people!
Thank you for letting me know! I'm glad it's starting to show up in recommendations. That's exciting!
Amazing video quality! The script, your voice and theme it all just fits so perfectly! 🥰 i can't wait what your future videos will bring and when your channel'll blow up
Keep up the great work
I'll definitely keep at it. Thank you for such kind words!
The algorithm suggested your channel. I like this video. Have to peep all the videos now.
I would absolutely have watched this playthrough. Your clips looked really fun. Nice retelling!
@@Viryl_TV Good shout! Adding to my watchlist.
Thank you for this incredible video. You've brought us a great amount of detail presented through delightful storytelling. This is not only a good recap, it's a great reminder of the world history and backstories that slip the mind over time, or are just not noticed while you're distracted by rat swarms. Qualms: I wish there was a discussion on the Heart, and just a little bit about the powers from the Outsider and the different mechanical defences. I'm guessing this video is mostly for people who completed the game, and those aspects are rather memorable. Thanks again!
dishonored might be my favorite game so i love to see when it gets recognition, great video
Your narrative skills are amazing, i hope your channel becomes more popular and successful
10:20 My, my, you must say, what we experienced from 2020 onwards,
and the currently *reported 800 000 dead in the US* , is a plot like this
possible in this reality too? .......eerie.... 🤔🤔🤔
I'm just discovering this channel and I'm loving how well you explain everything in this video. I didn't know all this lore about Dishonored (well, to be fair I only played each game once and relatively recently).
My favorite way to play is Clean Hands with the non-lethal options used for the main targets. Hear me out for that (Spoilers btw)
Thaddeus Campbell - Marking him as a heretic is the ultimate revenge as he is cast out from the highest power and forced to live as a beggar at best.
Custis and Morgan Pendleton - Forced to work in their own mines without their tongues. They can't use their power because no one will know who they are, and those that do will take their chance at revenge on them.
Lady Boyle - Force her to live with a creepy guy that will never let her out of her sight again. That's just beyond creepy and death for her would be a mercy.
Hiram Burrows - Use the audio log to ruin him, make him live out the rest of his days knowing that he failed not once, but at every turn.
Killing any target is the easy way out for them and for you, but doing the extra leg work will make the rest of their lives so very much worse.
They didn't just create games with Dishonored and its sequels, they created am entire World. One I very much want to return to someday.
I would love to see a short 9 episode show of the Dishonored world, with Arkane's art style. The perfect painted look to capture that Otherworldly Familiarity.
It is super super relaxing to listen to your voice before bed
This is exactly what i was looking for, Thank you for the time and effort you put into this video, loved it
Anyone who makes Dishonored content earns my sub. Will check out your other lore vids too, this is thorough and is very professional.
Pandyssia sounds beautiful. The imagery you used reminds me of my tropical/temperate home
Extremelly underrated channel ! And and amazing video , loved the bit about your playthrough !
I remember the first time I played this game I did an almost fully non-violent play through except for 1 kill I did on accident at the beginning of the game. Had to replay the whole game just to get the achievement. Lol
already 10 year. wow how fast the time is, remembered my college days.
One of the many moments in my gaming experience that made me sit and dwell on a subject is that scene where you come across the man with his friend and he’s holding him just talking to him
A very somber moment
Thank you for covering details that the game wasn't very clear on. That helped me a lot.
So I’ve just been going through a bunch of your videos because I’ve had more time to listen to UA-cam than unusual and I would love to see you tackle a definitive version of Draken/NieR so far. I feel like the amount of effort that you put into these videos would truly make for one of the most perfectly compiled long form lore video
Are you a voice actor? Your voice is so soothing and calming...and did you write the script? And with the backdrop of my favour game Dishonoured...I'm so happy to find this channel...already subbed, and hope your channel gains more following
Thank you for those kind words! To answer: I'm not a voice actor, and the videos are all done by myself with occasional additional footage capture help from channel moderator Viryl.
First off, I've recently found your videos and I love them, you have the perfect mix of telling the lore and adding little jokes.
Secondly, even the developers admitted Lady Boyle's nonlethal ending was terrible in a way completely different than the other targets, so in the books you learn that a few years after being taken, Boyle's husband disappeared under mysterious circumstances and she was content living with the mansion and wealth he left behind, far from Dunwall.
What a wonderfully done video!
Thank you for checking it out!
I love how low chaos is more cruel
Love your style of lore exposition! This is fantastic!
A fantastic game series, rich with lore! Your storytelling ability really does this fascinating world justice!
Always nice to click on a random lore video and be Blown away by high production quality and fantastic narration. Stupendous work, I shall stick around for a while
A great video, and the narration is a calming voice with a complimentary background soundtrack
I just wanted to tell you that your work is a veritable inspiration for the storyteller in me. I love it!
Damn that last bit had me wondering if it was a voice line from the game. You did a phenomenal delivery!
Edit: I've drafted my 3-page Twitter apology for mispronouncing 'Daud'. It will only be released when a full week goes by without mention of it.
Hey! Future Tiptoe here. Thanks for checking out these videos! If you'd like to keep up on UA-cam Community info, I'll be posting extra bits of info here in the future: ua-cam.com/users/TiptoeTheTankcommunity
As of this post, this is a relatively young channel. I've only really been around since the end of 2020. I hope to be around for the foreseeable future; I'm excited to watch this little passion project grow. More info and content will come with time! Thank you for being here so early in the game. PEACE!
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Good luck to you my friend
I think you see former Overseer Campbell in the whaling district where you get your equipment back.
Switching up the thumbnail on this vid is definitely doing something, I’ve watched it a few times already and it’s still being recommended haha
Love dishonerd lore videos and this is deffinatlybone of the best ones I've seen
Just played this after you recommend it. Finished it one day yesterday. Damn slicing with katana and blinking is so satisfying that I dont care I got chaos ending lul.
High Chaos team unite!!
As a huge fan of this game, I appreciate the time and effort you went through for this video really great stuff!
Loved this game when it came out back in 2012, and it's more relevant today than ever
Got into the game series last year....absolutely underrated game
Thank you! I started this game on a whim a few nights ago not really expecting much except a fun game. Playing through it, I felt like... There's got be more. And your video proves exactly that. This game's lore and story is so amazing but to be honest, I didn't feel like reading all the books haha so thank you!
Just gonna point out, even in Dishonored 1, Emily is explicitly aware of Corvo as her father, (she even makes a drawing of Corvo that calls him "Daddy") its also heavily implied that behind closed doors they actually lived like a regular family, but Emily doesn't explicitly call Corvo any fatherly terms because of his lack of nobility and the threat that poses to the throne. (despite functionally every character Corvo meets being pretty clearly aware of it) She's just intentionally keeping it hidden as a facade. Not that doing so exactly makes much sense when she makes one of the drawings and when everyone Corvo meets being pretty aware that Emily is his daughter.
This game was a pleasant surprise. When I started playing I had no idea this game would become one of my favorites. The gold standard of gaming for sure. Easily up there with Ocarina of Time and Skyrim.
Outside of a Clean Hands run. It is... Way more merciful to kill Lady Boyle than it is to hand her over as essentially a slave and captive to the stalker. As much as I feel like the other non-lethal options fit. Y'know, High Overseer branded a heretic, (which he is.) Pendeltons set to work in their own mines, Hiram's lies beaten by the truth. Lady Boyle's is... Not fitting. What would've been fitting would be somehow bankrupting her, since her thing is huge amounts of wealth.
Wonderful video and impeccable narration
Thank you so much for checking it out!
At any moment you mentioned Sokolov I thought I would hear "Anton Sokolov made this lock"
Dude... the audacity to unleash a plague ON PURPOSE to rid a city of lower class - Wow! I actually - literally - said that. Getting back into the Dishonored games, so this is a great refresher. Dark stuff! Also, you have a very nice voice to listen to.
I'm addicted to this phenomenal channel.
It would be so sick to have a Dishonored 3. As someone who appreciates the historical links between real life and Dishonored, I'd like to see a couple fun inclusions like a level based on the 1904 St Louis World Fair. It would also be cool to have a manifest destiny theme with Pandyssia where there is an Oregon Trail style diaspora into the continent so we can get a glimpse of it's mysteries.
Intro was crazy. Such a good video
I watched all 3 of your dishonored videos. Love the voice! This series is weird for me, because a quick death still seems more preferable than many of the low chaos choices IMO. Doing a replay in 2022, and didn't want to read all the books and notes. Having a surprising amount of technical curfluffle on this game. Also if Daud was so renowned, Corvo would've been able to identify him during the assassination of Jessamine.
I killed everything with a sword lol the game is awesome thank you for the lore god bless
This was an absolute joy to listen to - thank you for the passion and hard work here. Actually made me want to play the game.
So we’re just not going to talk about her rendition of “Drunken Whaler” at the beginning of the video? 0:07
Great channel just subbed 👍
Muito bom, tava querendo jogar os três jogos de Dishonored após terminar Deathloop e ver que tinha uma conexão entre ambos. E como não lembrava direito da história do primeiro, mesmo tendo sido o único dos três jogos da série que tive o prazer de jogar, vim procurar um vídeo da história para entender melhor. Muito obrigado pelo vídeo, foi bem explicativo e esclarecedor.
I would love to see Dishonored as a TV series with how good games have been adapted recently!
I'm certain Emily knew corvo was her father. But perhaps instructed to not address him as so. To me the smoking gun is an image she draws of corvo that is titled "Daddy"
Holy hell your voice is so cool!! I've just finished reading the first book and now playing the first game.... Out of sync slightly but wow is your voice perfect for this world!! Please do more videos on Dishonored!
Well you're in luck because there's two more Dishonored videos. She did a lore vid on each game.
Oh man what I would give to play the first one for the first time again, enjoy
Maybe arcane should do a game called venture to pandicia or something and maybe it could even be the lost continent that maybe Skyrim took place on a long time ago and now it's a wild crazy place
I think the canon ending is actually somewhere between high and low chaos. Corvo does kill some people but not everyone.
It kinda makes it unique as gane stories go. Most go for the good ending, some go for the evil ending like Legacy of Kain Blood Omen, this one seems to be in the middle. My take anyway
Oh, is that the canon ending? I like that more. I haven't played the second one yet, but I'd be glad to learn that Corvo wasn't the pure, good protagonist type. God knows, no one would blame him.
Though I went high chaos in my game. Hopefully he didn't go full postal in the canon ending. 😅
@@TiptoeTheTank I think so though I'm not entirely sure. Haven't played the second one either. It's been a while since I checked but I'm pretty sure that's how it was portrayed in the book that takes place between the games.
@@TiptoeTheTank You guys are actually not far off. Canon isn't perfectly in between high and low chaos...BUT... you are technically right when you say that canon is when Corvo kills some people but not everyone.
Low chaos was chosen as the canon ending by majority of the fans based on all the things such as the books and the sequel games. The problem is that people usually think low chaos = no killing, but with the way the game mechanics work, you can actually kill quite a few people and STILL be considered low chaos.
Each person contributes an amount of chaos depending on who they are. To explain it simply (this isn't accurate btw just a way to explain it), if you kill a civilian, you add 1 chaos, if you kill a hostile (like a guard), you add 2 chaos and if you kill a target (like the High Overseer), you add 3 chaos. You can actually play through a level, leave everyone alive but kill your target and STILL receive a low chaos rating. Or, alternatively, you could kill a ton of guards but leave your target alive and receive a low chaos rating.
Someone on reddit actually tested this out. If we use mission 3 as an example (the amounts change per mission) and you DONT kill the targets or civilians, you can kill 35 hostiles and still receive a low chaos rating. But if you kill 36, you get a high chaos rating. On the other end, if you leave the targets and hostiles alive but kill more than 7 CIVILIANS, you get a high chaos rating (showing that 7 civilians are basically worth the same amount of chaos as 35 hostiles). You can kill ALL the targets and as long as you leave the hostiles and civilians alive, you can still get low chaos.
If you choose to leave all the hostiles and civilians alive, you can have the freedom to DECIDE whether each target should live or die. You can choose to mercy kill Lady Boyle if you don't feel right about shipping her off to a psycho or you can decide to kill the Lord Regent as revenge. This is how I personally think Corvo would act.
Canon:
D1:
- Branded Campbell. (He'll die either way because he'll turn into a weeper if spared)
- Killed the twins. Corvo went on a rampage inside the golden cat to find Emily.
- Saved Sokolov (ofcourse)
- Shipped of Boyle (but later she kills her stalker and becomes even more rich)
- Shamed the lord Regent, he'll then get imprisoned and sentenced to die BY Corvo's hand. (So Corvo will kill him either way)
- Saved Daud (Duh)
- Martin, Havelock and Pendleton all die regardless of what you choose.
Tbh, the pendleton brothers one I'm not 100% sure about because our source material indicates 2 different things. We know that Corvo DID go on a rampage inside the golden cat, but then again from the comics we know that he did establish a friendship with Slackjaw. So it's kinda dubious. The other ones I'm 200% sure about.
Dishonored is such a fun game. Especially on a replay. I also suggest people to search pros playing it. The skill in doing tricks and kills is insane
27:15 ...., I don't pay attention enough. Didn't know this was an option, still wild to even make it an option.
I love the lore of Dishonored, and this video is amazing. ❤️
Thank you so much!
@@TiptoeTheTank I know the studio is working on other things, and that the composer sadly passed away, but I do hope we'll get a third game eventually. It seemed they were seeding that the next story would take place in Tyvia, and I would love to go there!
Boyle was the only decision that was hard for me, killing her was fucked up since she was basically an innocent, but the less chaotic option was arguably way worse. Ended up taking the terrible non-lethal option since I wanted the 100% "good" ending even though the thought of it made me gag, I consoled myself with the thought that Corvo not being a completely terrible person would send people to rescue her after saving his daughter.
Yay! I'm delighted to see this.
I wanted to recap my lore of this game.
I found a channel with a soothing voice.
23:18 so this was my only problem with this game, it has the moral system of a Star Wars writer aka some of the “”good”” options are actually FAR worse than the “”bad”” option of just killing the target.
So an example of a sith option in SWTOR (the Star Wars MMO) you are tasked with boarding a ship and neutralising a defector, you finally get to him and you are given 2 options the lightside choice of handing him over to imperial forces where he will spend the next few weeks of his life been tortured to find out what info he gave to the Republic and to try and get any info he may have gotten from them before been executed publicly (assuming he lives that long) or there is the darkside option of a quick death on the spot.
Now to me the quick death on the spot is by far the best option for him ied consider it the lightside option if I was writing the story but no because you killed him it’s bad even thought you are saving him from weeks of torment and pain and it’s the same here and in all the other targets, by not killing them you are condemning the target to a much worse fate but somehow because we didn’t kill them it’s somehow ok (just don’t think about what’s going to happen to them, especially the noble woman we give to her “”admirer”” I sure that will turn out fine…. Right?)
Apparently some people think that the worst thing that can happen to a person is death, well as someone that spends most of my time in pain due to a disability there are far worse things than death and mine isn’t even that bad compared to others.
The Lord Regent literally doomed the whole city. Giving him a quick death would be too easy.
Amazing video youve earned a sub. Ive watched every single video out there on dishonored lore and its so good to see another one