User blog comment:X-Machinist-X/Dishonored random stuff/@comment-24438839-20151011213917/@comment-26438896-20151012154152

Hehe, this is pretty complicated to explain.

I think many people who believe in the Outsider's existence - and magic, too - also worship Him, excluding the Overseers - without the Outsider(s) and the Void, also the Abbey of Everyman wouldn't logically exist.

For a human, life in Dishonored means choice, I think: despite being a game, it mainly focuses on choices (the playes can decide if to kill or not, Havelock choices to betray Corvo for his own reasons, Samuel choices to conduct a solitary life - meaning without any wife or family - among his Amaranth and etc) and the Outsider is the "evidence" of this; he gives Corvo his Mark and powers to see how Corvo uses them, if to spare enemies of kill them, if to use powers for good or abusing them - and his choices greatly influence the Outsider's thoughts. This is what I think.

Bioshock Infinite (which I'm playing lately, because it's many times compared with Dishonored for having both superpowers and architecturally similar places - just to see and I'm enjoying it) has got choices, too, but they're not effective like Dishonored's and you're forced to kill enemies, even if you don't want - so it's stupid to say Dishonored has "copied" Bioshock series and so on, because they're very DIFFERENT for this part! I'm using this game just to make an example and underline how Dishonored is unique.

Probably many uncountable people were in the Void, and about the first entity... I cannot give you a response.