User blog comment:Pauolo/All pre-release info on Dishonored 2/@comment-16533050-20160517222932/@comment-5607198-20160518203917

my impression of sokolov from the first game was that he's a man almost entirely driven by expression. Morality does not matter, its just resource and result that does. Why create a lightning-slinging death tower? To see if it can be done. Why carve an exquisite statue? to make the statue exist.

The squabbling of the people in charge doesnt matter, as long as he has access to his pleasures, be they drink, women, science, or art. He will create because he can, and doesn't care where the material comes from.