Talk:The Outsider/@comment-16533050-20180409102238/@comment-732225-20181231040738

A little late to the party, but have you ever wonder why the overseer sabers and the twin-bladed knife look very similar? It has to have some connection, Arkane won't do anything like that without any deliberate intention. After finishing DotO, I thought the Abbey is actually a splinter group of the Cult, perhaps they had a conflict of interest, perhaps they are actually still working toward the same goal. The overseer saber looks like the Knide being split in half, which I think is very symbolic to this theory.

As Hexhybrid mentioned, if what the Cultists said is true, then they had indeed saved the world from destruction by creating an entity which acts as a tethering for the Void. Then the Abbey's predecessor tried to prevent people from getting involve with the Void and the Outsider for fear that someone will eventually discover a way to eliminate the Outsider, thus destroying the world (as evident by what happened in The Veiled Terror). Over millennia, perhaps the original purpose has been lost to the group, and it become a religious foundation that persecutes anyone who dabble in arcane arts.

And then I read the Veiled Terror and stumbled upon this passsage: "It had started shortly before the dissolution of the Abbey of the Everyman and Billie had her suspicions that the two events may well have been connected. Because what arcane rituals had the High Overseers and the High Oracle enacted within the walls of that sacred building, in their attempt to repair the damage that Billie herself had done? The Outsider had fallen, and had left a vacuum in his place. For the Abbey and the Sisterhood, their very existence depended upon that black-eyed bastard. What lengths would they go to in their efforts to replace him? To restore a new divinity to the Void?" Though it's mentioned right after this, that this is just Billie's speculation, but I think it's a big hunt that the Abbey actually knows about the role of the Outsider and they were part of the Cult in the beginning.