Talk:Farley Havelock/@comment-5581261-20121013211209/@comment-3410662-20121014173048

Okay, short rant before I get to my rebuttal; you can skip this paragraph if you want. This is why I love this game. It doesn't explicitly tell you anything, so if you just want a hack-slash-stab-stealth game, it's there for you. But if you want, you can also listen more closely to things that are going on--listening at key-holes before entering a room, reading the books, listening to audiologs, it all lets you put together pecies of the puzzle.

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Okay, now then, I don't think we've determined when exactly Havelock was removed. It would make sense for Havelock to keep it vague. It would probably have been quiet at the time, since apparently he was fairly famous and removing him over a matter of honour would have drawn too much attention. So what if he was leaving it vague because it happened shortly before, or even long before, the Empress 's assassination? Even near the beginning of his written logs, he's carefully wording the journals to seem as if he values Corvo as a person, but at the same time it feels distinctly as if he's talking about a tool. The way he treats him, as well; except for that last visit to the pub with everyone still alive, he generally just briefs or debriefs Corvo, then tells him to go to bed. Keeping a tool well-oiled

Pendleton's much the same way, if not worse, since he shamelessly manipulated Corvo into dueling that lord (don't remember his name). But Havelock was a lot smarter in the way he did it. I mean, it wasn't like he wasn't leaving signs everywhere that he was planning on betraying Covo by the end of the game, but at least he had the good grace to try to conceal them.

I don't know; I might be reading too far into things. I'm almost certain that Havelock was using Corvo as a tool, and probably would have hired Daub if he'd known about his existence and had the coin to pay him, but for all we know he was perfectly sane and just a manipulative ass.