Moderator Warning: The following post has not been verified and is most likely false. No credible evidence has been offered to support the claims being made. @MDGeistMD02
I'm writing this for the last time! If anyone doubts Delilah's story again, he needs psychiatric help! The Heart (Jessamine) CONFIRMS EVERYTHING SHE SAID (to Emily)!!!! Here are four important lines from Jessamine (the Heart). 1. "I knew her, as a child. We played together at Dunwall Tower. She was a kitchen girl and I... I was..." 2. "Many times, her father (Emperor Euhorn) told her that she was a princess, and PROMISED THAT ONE DAY SHE WOULD BE A QUEEN (EMPRESS)". 3. "They were never fair to her. No kindness was ever shown. They whipped her. Sent her in the streets." 4. "She watched her mother sicken and die in the deptor's prison. She will never forget. Never forgive." Also one additional quote: "Forgive me, Delilah. I should have tried to find you."
If this is not enough, here is the evidence from Harvey Smith himself.
I've been in touch with Harvey Smith on Facebook for eight years now. He personally confirmed the whole Delilah's story! He recently said to me: “I'll tell you all right now, without any twists or turns. Of course, I don't work for Arkane anymore, so I can. I have to admit, I don't like where Arkane is going at all. Now, regarding Delilah. We wanted to expand on Delilah's story, so that finally in Dishonored 2 the player gets to know her whole story. Her story is truly the most tragic. Everything she's been through is truly indescribable. She's achieved things that other people could never dream of, and she's come from the ashes to the stars. We thought that it was a great way to give the player some depth to Delilah's character. We think we've more than succeeded in that. You asked me before who my favorite character is, and my answer is Delilah. I really think Delilah's character, her psyche, her ambitions have the most depth of any of the characters. Of course, I also love Daud, Emily, and Corvo, but they really can't compare to Delilah in terms of character depth. So Delilah is the rightful heir to the throne, she always was, and if you ask me if she deserved the throne, the answer is absolutely yes. She's truly the most mature person who could rule the empire. We introduced this very well in the Brigmore Witches DLC when Delilah said to Daud: Are you doing this for Emily? Don't bother. You killed her mother in front of her and sold her to a gang of murderous crooks. You think she's fit for the throne? No, the girl Emily Kaldwin will have the mind of Delilah the First who did not inherit everything she got, but came to power through the force of her own genius! How could anyone think that a 10-year-old child could rule an empire! It's completely absurd. Now let's move on to how she ruled in Dishonored 2. Sure, her rule in Dishonored 2 was pretty bad, but that's not what I personally wanted. I thought that Delilah, when she finally took the throne, would be the best and wisest ruler, so everyone would see that and realize that Emily really wasn't fit to be Empress. But some people on the team, I won't name them now, didn't want that, they wanted what you saw in the game. Delilah is a terrible ruler who should be overthrown, Emily is a bad ruler but she's better than Delilah, etc., it's really terrible, because that kind of thinking is amateurish and immature, but in the end I still let them do it. But so you know, canonically, Delilah continued to rule as Empress within her painting until 1855, when she returned to the real world and took her real throne from her niece Emily. She was the best ruler of all, even leading her people to explore Pandyssia, as the Outsider himself said in one of the endings of Dishonored 2. You wanted a more detailed answer, and here it is.” This is evidence above all evidence, the words of Harvey Smith himself.
