Anton Sokolov

Anton Sokolov, working on his elixir.

Anton Sokolov is the head of The Academy of Natural Philosophy and Royal Physician. He is a prolific inventor, and is responsible for much of the technology encountered in Dishonored. He also created Sokolov's Health Elixir, which restores health and staves off the dangerous effects of the Rat Plague.

Sokolov has little consideration for ethics, and intentionally infects healthy citizens to research the plague; one of these can be found imprisoned in his laboratory.

In his spare time, Anton is a painter, art patron and drunkard. His paintings are famous and nobles pay a lot of money to have portraits made for them, despite Sokolov's contempt for the nobility. He is somewhat obsessed with the Outsider, so much so that he attempts rituals and sacrifices in order to summon him, to no avail. The Outsider's reasoning for not showing himself to Sokolov is that he doesn't find him interesting enough to be worth meeting.

Before the events of the game, Anton worked with Esmond Roseburrow to create the industrial revolution, and possessed an intense rivalry with Piero Joplin. Currently, Sokolov lives above Kaldwin's Bridge, in a safehouse located at the very top.

Trivia

• Anton is the target of the mission "Kaldwin's Bridge".
• Based on his name, it is possible that he has Tyvian descent/ethnicity.
• Sokolov's paintings can be found in the game world, and are among the most important things to look for. Every painting is worth three hundred coins (as compared to regular art objects, which usually yield around 150 coins); furthermore, the game counts "Sokolov's paintings found" as a separate point at the end of each mission. It is therefore recommended to obtain the paintings for the sake of completion, as well as for major bonus cash.
• Sokolov may be modeled after Grigori Rasputin, the Russian mystic who was hired to heal Czar Nicholas II's son of hemophilia and was a notoriously debauched party animal. Though his genius mind at technology and his fame at painting has a resemblance to Leonardo Da Vinci.

Gallery

Sokolov texture model by Mashru Mishu.

Sokolov in-game model by Mashru Mishu.

Anton Sokolov's self portrait.