Talk:Rat Plague/@comment-68.188.143.124-20121011043340/@comment-136.159.160.248-20140307002535

The Outsider was referred to as The Great Leviathan once, so he/it might be the "King of all Whales" or something like that. Also a book somewhere mentioned that when the last of the leviathans fall the world will be consumed by the void, so that could be understood as the Outsider's way of avenging his physical body's "death". Or perhaps the Outsider is the only thing preventing the void from engulfing the physical realm, and that humans are spelling their own doom with industrialization.

In fact, pretty much all of the industrialization in the game were depicted in a negative light, so I think the second possibility there might have been the whole point behind the game. But that's just my opinion.