Talk:The Void/@comment-1500935-20180316010634/@comment-16533050-20180323191242

While an interesting theory, I don't interpret the fifth verse that way.

"They found a path away from the light"

"To an ancient tree withered by blight"

To me, finding a "path away from the light" reads as locating a path to the Void from the real world. It could also be interpreted as getting away from the brighter blue area of the Void as seen in D1 to the darker depths where the table is found in D2 and Corvo says, "this part of the Void feels... older."

Even the Outsider describes it as, "a crumbling island at the very edges of the Void. But this one is special. It's the place where my throat was cut, four thousand years ago. This is where my life ended and it began again. It's where they made me."

He doesn't seem to be talking metaphorically, as he seems to fully admit that the island is in the Void and not merely a representation.

With Delilah's site in The Brigmore Witches, there is a tree, a stone table, and a series of stones surrounding the area where she prepares to perform the ritual to subvert Emily's body for herself.

This seems to be thematic within the Dishonored universe, where rituals of great power are performed within the Void itself to directly tap into the Void's power. If Delilah was using all this 'merely' to expunge a young girl's soul from her body and needed to be in the Void to do so, my supposition is that creating a God for the Void would also require the act to be performed within the Void.

Yes, the Outsider was bound later to the Ritual Hold, but that might have been a necessary anchor for the spell to take effect, such as how Delilah needed a painting of Emily along with some of her hair to put a binding or permanence to the ritual.

TL/DR Just my opinion.