Talk:Overseer Music Box/@comment-1917647-20160828213953/@comment-28380995-20160828231020

Maybe that's also how they cure the scoliosis!

On a more serious note, this does interestingly tie back to the debate in the Abbey as to whether the heretical nature of the supernatural is due to the Outsider's influence, or is inherent to the void itself. I always wish there were more books on it than just this.

Additionally, if we suppose your idea of the music's power coming from an even older deity to be true, it means also accepting the idea of a hierarchy within the void, based on seniority or age. We also have to accept that the power of a deity (or at least the method by which it manifests itself) in some way lingers on after the deity itself is no longer the incarnation of the void. Thematically, this works quite well in Dishonored, as the idea of the echoes of the older deities being greater than the Outsider mirrors Dunwall being in the shadow of that older city quite neatly.

tl;dr: me likey your idea.