Talk:Dishonored/@comment-4357842-20130530005522/@comment-5607198-20130530031557

you're confusing your terms. The game certainly has a definite antagonist: it has 4. Burrows serves as the antagonist up until his death, and is then replaced by the Loyalists, chief among them Havelock.

You're thinking a story can only have ONE, which is untrue. But if you want to be singular about it, you could say the antagonist is the corruption of power. All of Corvo's victims (the main targets, that is) were given power or the chance for power, and they fell to their darker natures.

Granny Rags gained magical ability and became a demented murderess.

Campbell and Burrows had much more mundane aspirations, but are nevertheless granted power and they abuse it.

The Loyalists, whether you believe they had pure intentions or not, are ultimately consumed by the same lust for political power that befell the two others.

Daud is granted magical abilities and uses them to become a petty murderer, just the scariest one around.

Lady Boyle is seizing her chance for political power (with her thighs, lol) and becomes party to a monstrous regime to do so.