Talk:Daud/@comment-5419222-20140504114746/@comment-5756858-20150522215731

@ RafaelRudshore

Of course he's at fault - Hiram might have hired Daud, but it was still him that killed the Empress, his hands that swung the blade. He could've refused the contract - but he didn't.

Anyway, I spared Daud on high chaos, but finished him on low chaos.

On my high chaos run, I killed every target, along with a slowly increasing number of guards and weepers; I like to think that, by the time Corvo meets Daud, he no longer gives a fuck who he kills, and he's pretty burned out. The encounter with Daud sparks something in him, though; he feels a certain similarity, and chooses to spare him. He also fails to rescue Emily later on.

On my low chaos run I did the opposite; I went non-lethal on every target, and killed no one - except Daud. I figured that low-chaos Corvo is all about just retribution, and Daud is unfortunately still a murderer. The non-lethal route of stealing from him isn't really comparable to what Corvo does to the other targets, so I felt that killing him was more in line.