The Lord Regent's Confession

The Lord Regent’s Confession is an audiograph found in Dishonored, recorded by Hiram Burrows.



Transcript
''If I explain, then you will see, I am not at fault. My Poverty Eradication Plan was meant to bring prosperity to the City, to rid us of those scoundrels who waste their days in filth and drink, without homes or occupations other than to beg for the coin for which the rest of us toil.''

''And it was a simple plan – bring the disease bearing rats from the Pandyssian Continent, and let them take care of the poor for us. The plan worked perfectly. At first. But the rats – it was as if they sought to undo me. They hid from the catchers, and bred at a sickening rate. Soon it didn’t matter, rich, poor, all were falling sick.''

''And then people began to ask questions. The Empress assigned me to investigate whether the rats had been imported by a foreign power. I knew the truth would come out eventually. So there was no other way than to be rid of her, and take power myself. She had to die, you see. SHE HAD TO DIE.''

''Bringing about the death of an Empress is not an easy thing, but it gave me the chance to attack the plague with some real authority. Quarantines! Deportation of the sick! But there’s always some idiot woman searching for her wretched lost babe, or some sniveling workman searching for his missing wife. And then quarantine is broken!''

''But you can see how my plan should have worked? Would have worked! If everyone had just followed orders.''

Location
The audiograph can be found in Hiram Burrows' safe during the mission Return to the Tower.

Trivia

 * Hiram Burrows' nonlethal elimination is accomplished by playing the audiograph over Dunwall Tower's broadcasting system.
 * A bug can occur in the PC, Xbox One and Xbox 360 version of Dishonored that causes the audio for the confession not to play when the audiolog is put in the broadcast machine. Aside from the sound not being heard, the event is considered to have occurred as intended, and all characters in the game will react as though the confession had played.