User blog comment:Naruto12354/Dishonored sequel?/@comment-5469467-20130126025947/@comment-3410662-20130126030548

I'd prefer they keep out of Dunwall altogether. If they go elsewhere, it'd be easy to just download a save from the first game and have a few people comment on the events that took place there. In Dunwall, however, they'd have to constrict things quite a bit; one ending has Dunwall being completely destroyed, and another leaves the fate of the plague quite ambiguous.

If they put it before the beginning of the plague, well, we already know that Dunwall is going to be formed and that it isn't going to be destroyed until the plague strikes, so what do our actions mean? One of the nice things about branching stories (and despite what it may look like on the outside that is definitely a major defining feature of the game) is that there's no guarantee that you'll get a happy ending which was made just to satisfy the crowds, because that happy ending can still be there side by side with the terrifying, horrible, depressing ending.