Talk:Corvo Attano/@comment-69.246.167.10-20121014025152/@comment-27202257-20121113183015

" In my opinion it's a bad decision, because I'm wandering whether Corvo is Emily's father, when I'm supposed to BE Corvo."

One of the beauties of this game is Corvo's variability. They toss you a few more steadfast things to go on--the gossip you can hear about him when eavesdropping, his interactions with Emily, body language (for lack of a better word) in his one scene with the Empress, etc--but other than that he's effectively determined by how the player sees him (and by how Emily sees him, as she'll supply a lot of information to the player in how she starts to change). He's like Gordon Freeman in that way. So, if you the player believe that Corvo is Emily's daughter, you can imagine that's what Corvo believes/knows too.

(Though it's also entirely possible that Corvo DOESN'T know, if for instance Jessamine was seeing him and a theoretical husband when Emily was conceived. I actually like that interpretation myself: she COULD be his biological daughter, or she could not, but it doesn't matter and he loves her anyway.)