Talk:The Heart/@comment-24.247.158.94-20130701172414

I think that the only way to set up a storyline where the Empress is put to rest, you have to get the ending where Emily dies, and you have to have already killed both Daud and Vera. Corvo is grief-stricken at Emily's death. He had already come to the conclusion that the Outsider had trapped his late beloved in that her own heart. He then knew that all the Void Walkers, himself included would have to die. When the Outsider says, "I wonder, are you chasing something or running away?", I think it's a bit of both. He has absolutely nothing left but to put his Empress to rest. It probably occurs to him that the Empire might fracture and that Serkonos would finally be free; in a mad dream, perhaps. Maybe, after tracking down all the other Void Walkers and killing them, he returns to the Serkonan shores. And just before he shoves his own blade between his ribs, he hopes that he may finally be reunited with his lover and daughter, whom he failed to save in this life.