Talk:Dishonored: Death of the Outsider/@comment-30613712-20170907155039/@comment-1607296-20170909003120

Without the Outsider the rat plague still would have occured, however the Outsider marking Daud, Granny Rags and Delilah made the situation considerably worse:

Daud assassinated the Empress allowing Burrows to take over (yes this could have happened anyway but I wouldn't bet on it as it seemed to require literal magic for the assassins to get past Corvo), Granny Rags spread the plague (even asking Corvo to help her do so at one point) and tended to the rats like pets and while Delilah's coven is relatively small compared to everything else it still didn't help.

Not to mention that if Delilah was never marked Dishonored 2 would have never happened, or at the very least she'd have been much less dangerous.