Talk:The Lord Regent's Confession/@comment-92.21.204.96-20130529232827/@comment-69.140.94.30-20131130194001

Yeah, that's what I thought too. But, like the other posters have alluded to, the confession never says that he was going to frame Corvo, only that he was going to kill the Empress. Even if Corvo became the scapegoat, he still did the act of killing the Empress (as the average citizen understands it, at least.) It's true that all the other evidence, like Daud's note, show that Corvo was indeed innocent, but that's not the type of thing that could be easily broadcast to the entire city, unless Corvo would sit there himself and do it. And even then, people might not believe him. I think this is a really well written point of the plot: Corvo has exposed the Regent, but is still wanted for murder. It's not really a Catch-22, but is pretty interesting, if you ask me.