The Clocktower is the tallest structure in Dunwall save for Dunwall Tower itself,[1] and a well known landmark in the city.
Description
The Clocktower is situated on the northern edge of the Estate District,[2] and stands out significantly among the estates of the city's nobility. It has a large metal lattice-style of architecture holding the clock's mechanisms. The clock itself has four faces facing each directions and chimes every hour.[1] It can be seen from almost anywhere in Dunwall due to its elevated position.
The Clocktower was destroyed in a terrorist attack by the Rat Gang in 1852, using explosives and Bonecharms in an attempt to take out the Lord Protector and the Empress.[3]
Trivia
- The Clocktower is as iconic to Dunwall the Elizabeth Tower, often referred to as Big Ben is to London.
- Despite its iconic appearance, the Clocktower is never directly visited in any game, though it was originally intended to be part of a mission at the Gristol Parliament cut from Dishonored.[4]
- This would place the parliament near the Clocktower, just as Big Ben is part of the Palace of Westminster, housing the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
- During Corvo Attano's time in the Estate District, the clocktower rings four times at regular intervals.
- The Clocktower's bell sound is a stock sound. It can be heard in the gameTeam Fortress 2 for Halloween maps.
- The Clocktower can be fully seen in the Void during the introduction of The Knife of Dunwall, None Like Her.
- On the 8th Day, Month of Darkness, 1851, roughly after the second hour in the morning,[1] Empress Emily Kaldwin climbed the Clocktower for the view it gave her of the surrounding city.[2]
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