Empress Jessamine Kaldwin (book)

Empress Jessamine Kaldwin is a book found in Dishonored, The Knife of Dunwall and Dishonored 2.

Transcript
[Excerpt from a book on the late Empress]

Many of those who lived through her reign will weep until the ends of their lives over the pale beauty with the piercing eyes, and the foul end she met at the hands of her own twisted servant and protector.

''In her father's day, the Kaldwins were thrust in the limelight despite their distance to the throne, when the former dynasty provided no heirs. A prosperous age followed the Emperor, but his daughter would have different luck. During her short life, political intrigue and minor conflicts created cracks in the Empire, undermining unity across the Isles.''

The Rat Plague, however, was a terror for which neither Empress Kaldwin nor any other living being was prepared.

Location
In Dishonored, copies can be found in several places: In The Knife of Dunwall, a copy can be found on a shelf beside Daud's bed in his quarters during the mission, The Surge.
 * In the music room next to the Lord Regent's chambers on the second floor of Dunwall Tower during the mission, Return to the Tower.
 * In Daud's quarters on the second accessible floor of his hideout in Central Rudshore, on the desk above Daud's Key during the mission, The Flooded District.

Transcript
[Excerpt from a book on the late Empress]

''Perhaps in retrospect other historians will see how easy it was for us to fall into the traps set by the schemers who managed the assassination of Empress Jessamine Kaldwin. By allowing them to write history, it was for years thought that her trusted protector Corvo Attano was also her murderer. A concept we now know to be utterly false. Yet even after the tricksters themselves were put down, banished or imprisoned, it remained "common knowledge" that the royal protector was also Jessamine's murderer.''

''How nicely they arranged history for us, and how readily we devoured their stories, hungry for each perfectly cooked morsel. But it is well past the time for us to set aside this plate of lies. The schemers were not to be trusted with the Empire, or with Jessamine's life, and they are certainly not to be trusted with the writing down of accurate histories!''

Location
In Dishonored 2, this book can be found on a chair in the corridor leading from the Imperial Safe Room to the rooftops of Dunwall during the mission A Long Day in Dunwall.

Kaiserin Jessamine Kaldwin La emperatriz Jessamine Kaldwin (Libro) Императрица Джессамина Колдуин (книга) Cesarzowa Jessamine Kaldwin (książka) L'Imperatrice Jessamine Kaldwin 女皇贾思敏·考德温（书籍）