Talk:Black Shard Arm/@comment-29735342-20170918214644/@comment-10786238-20170925013914

It's kind of unclear. However, I think your comments make a lot of sense. I always thought that the powers coincide with who has them.

For instance, Delilah's powers are focused on nature and painting, since she loved those things, and she can eventually possess others or statues and such because of her lust for control. Corvo is an outsider to Dunwall, so his powers include being able to literally live in the skin of a citizen of the city, and his use of the rats is connected to him getting his powers during the Rat Plague. Emily is focused on getting her throne back, so her transportation move involves literally grasping an area and pulling herself toward it. And so on and so forth. Zhukov had his life torn apart, so he has powers reliant on mirror images, of lives that could be, but aren't.

However, when it comes to Billie, the thing that I get stuck on is whether or not her powers come from just the general Void (like users of the Mark or Zhukov), or are specialized to the artifacts themselves. Like... what if someone else had the eye and the arm? Would they have the same powers? The Twin-bladed Knife is a special case, considering it is directly tied to the Outsider himself, but the others I'm unsure of.