User blog comment:Crazywarfire/My Dishonored Theories/Explanations./@comment-3410662-20130323032520

Response Theory 1 would totally have spawned Emily. She's almost certainly Corvo's daughter, though there isn't any definitive proof (this is why she isn't labelled as Corvo's daughter on her page).

Response Theory 3: Why did he let himself die, then? Did he think Pendleton would save him? My respect for him is zero, regardless of his mental faculties, but if he knew it shoots him down to negative a billion. Why didn't he try to save the others?

Daud's Guilty Conscience: That one was self-explanatory.

Respone Theory 4: Your friend is wrong, but for completely different reasons. Killing Emily would have been equivalent to killing his only chance to be Emperor (or at least, the closest thing to it; there's no one that Emily would listen to more), and he didn't have his powers at that time anyway. The reason that this doesn't make any sense is that he didn't know who he was going to target until he was told. He wouldn't have even needed the Loyalists. And wouldn't it have been better to slaughter them all afterwards, instead of celebrating with them?

Overseers in Flooded District: Hiram isn't stupid. He's a coward, which makes him stupid when he's afraid, and he's obsessed with order (check out my blog entry for my beliefs on that), but he's certainly not an idiot. Otherwise he would never have been able to plan all this.