Talk:The Outsider/@comment-64.217.19.100-20121025044544/@comment-5607198-20121025094203

ShardofTruth, i'm not sure leviathans ARE whales in the Dishonored universe. It seems like I remember something referring to them separately. either way, though, this post (while it may be correct) is ill-thought out

to anon:

The Outsider (in absence of any evidence) does not kill whales, nor does he make the runes. The runes are made by his followers. This is explained several times, even by the Outsider himself. As for why whales, the whales are part of what ties the world together on a metaphysical level (and, if the Barrier Race theory is correct, that may be literal) and thus their bones have power.

Daud's group are called the Whalers because they wear whaling masks, to keep from getting sick in the plague soup of the Flooded District. True, it might be related on a metagaming level, but in universe its coincidental.

The Heart is almost certainly the Empress, but it has not been confirmed. Don't state as fact that which is only a supposition.

If leviathans ARE whales (and even if they aren't, it definitely doesnt refer to Corvo. what are you thinking?) then it could be referring to the fact that they are being hunted to extinction and the Empire (or at least gristol) is ENTIRELY dependent on it, to the point of ignorance of most other sources of fuel, it will utterly destroy the infrastructure. because nothing will go. It could also refer to the Barrier Race theory, which is that Leviathans (whales or some other eldritch creature 'neath the sea) are all that is keeping the world as we know it from being sucked into the Void.

that last quote relates to nothing in your post