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The story so far

The story of Dishonored

6 parts, from the opening to the ending (where it turned on your choices, what every ending shares). Read it before Dishonored 2. This page tells the ending.

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  1. Dunwall Tower

    You were Corvo Attano, bodyguard to Empress Jessamine Kaldwin. You returned to plague-stricken Dunwall without a cure. Assassins attacked during your reunion. Daud killed Jessamine, and her daughter Emily vanished into their hands. Royal Spymaster Hiram Burrows blamed you for both crimes. You spent six months in Coldridge Prison while he ruled as Lord Regent and prepared your execution.

  2. The Hound Pits

    You escaped with help from the Loyalists, who gathered at the Hound Pits Pub. Admiral Havelock and his allies wanted Emily restored to the throne. Piero Joplin supplied your mask and equipment. The Outsider marked you with supernatural powers. You moved against High Overseer Campbell, one of Burrows's supporters. Whether you killed your targets or found other ways to remove them depended on you.

  3. The Golden Cat

    You found Emily at the Golden Cat, where the Pendleton brothers held her. You removed the brothers and brought her back to the Loyalists. Next, you abducted Royal Physician Anton Sokolov to identify Burrows's financial backer. His information led you to the Boyle family's masked party. There, you identified the supporting Lady Boyle and ended her involvement by the means you chose.

  4. The Regent Falls

    You returned to Dunwall Tower and brought down Burrows, through assassination or exposure of his crimes. Your apparent victory ended at the Hound Pits. Havelock, Martin and Pendleton betrayed you and took Emily for themselves. Boatman Samuel had been ordered to poison you. He secretly reduced the dose and set you adrift, leaving you alive in the Flooded District.

  5. The Flooded District

    You awoke in the territory of Daud and his assassins, facing the man who had murdered Jessamine. Whether you killed him or left him alive was your decision. You escaped and returned to the Hound Pits, now occupied by the City Watch. The conspiracy had turned on its own people. You learned that Emily had been taken to Kingsparrow Island.

  6. Kingsparrow IslandThe ending

    You reached Havelock's lighthouse, where Emily's fate depended on you. If you saved her, you helped her take the throne. The violence you had spread shaped her reign: recovery and freedom from plague, or terror and corruption. If you failed to save her, she died and the Empire fell into despair. You left your mask and blade at her grave and sailed away.

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Written by an AI model from the game's wikis, and checked against them part by part by another before it was put here.