Talk:Calendar/@comment-3525200-20140109002918/@comment-1500935-20140110224104

By developed I meant not technologically but in size. It seems to be a pretty large city, and I'm sure even London was not that big 600 to 800 years after its foundation, yet the Empire of the Isles is clearly based on the British Empire on the Victorian era. Well, that or the evolution of this current civilization was rather fast.

Still if that aristocrat at the Boyles' party was right by saying the discovered ruins were a thousand years old, it may be possible that Dunwall is not the original capital of the Empire (if there even was an Empire before the foundation of Dunwall), which would explain why all buildings kinda look the same, even in the oldest districts such as the Old Port or the Flooded/Rudshore District. It wouldn't be far-fetched to think the Overseers wanted to establish their main administration in what was once a pagan land (I suspect those "ruins" to be a temple to the Outsider). That's basically what they did with White Cliff, which isn't that far from Dunwall to begin with.