Talk:Corvo Attano/@comment-67.238.165.96-20121025193258/@comment-1888015-20121026003420

Anyone with enough support and influence could have become Lord Regent.

Even Havelock mentions that he wished he could become the Lord Regent and set Dunwall straight, as he puts it.

Also the game did take some inspiration from that type of era, but pinpointing it down to just that wouldn't give some other parts of the game's inspiration the credit they deserve.