Talk:Dishonored: Death of the Outsider/@comment-30613712-20170907155039/@comment-16533050-20170909094009

The plague would have still existed, and the Empress would have been stuck with a traitorous Royal Spymaster in her inner circle. The other islands would have basically encirled the city and left it to die.

None of Hiram's machinations had anything to do with the Outsider. Rather it was his narrow minded view of the unnecessity of the lower class. Hiram bascially murdered tens of thousands of people. The Abbey was his ally, and he had a powerful voting Bloc within Parliament.

Regardless of Daud's success or not, Hiram was still a dangerous hidden threat with considerable resources at his beck and call.