Office of the High Overseer

Office of the High Overseer.

The Office of the High Overseer is the principal residence of the High Overseer and a gathering place for Overseers within Dunwall, located in Holger Square. It is the central location of the High Overseer Campbell mission.

Details

Front lobby.

The Office of the High Overseer contains all necessary facilities for the functioning of the Abbey of the Everyman in Dunwall. These include a gathering place for worship and collection on the first floor, a room with urns containing the ashes of notable members of the Abbey including those of High Overseers and High Oracles, a kennel for the keeping of wolfhounds, a meeting room, a library, and an interrogation room. On the upper level is a dining room where the High Overseer conducts meetings. In front of the Office in Holger Square are stocks used to punish Overseers for their indiscretions or, presumably, to exact punishment for any crime deemed worthy by the Abbey.

A back area of the Office that contains a back yard and various workshops for the conduction of Abbey business (the destruction of bone charms and runes, the holding of abducted children awaiting The Trials of Aptitude, the creation of Overseer music boxes, propaganda broadcasts, etc.), as well as Overseer quarters, warehouses and kitchens.

Campbell's secret room.

On the lower floors of the Office, Thaddeus Campbell maintains a secret room for licentious and sacrilegious activities; various articles of clothing, a note and an audiograph shed light on his sexual and sometimes murderous exploits with courtesans. A rune can also be found on display in a case beside a copy of Litany on the White Cliff.

If an alarm is triggered within the building, the Office goes into a 'Lockdown' procedure. All windows will be shuttered, and both Overseers and the City Watch will be on high alert.

Trivia

• While Campbell's secret room can be seen through a barred window in the Holger Square storm drains, it can only be accessed by pressing the eye of the Holger statue across from the exit to the Kennels.
• The Sokolov painting of Campbell in the process of being painted in the prologue can be found in Campbell's secret room.
• When Corvo Attano first passes by the central gathering area, an Overseer named Sturgess can be heard preaching about the Outsider, and entertaining questions from churchgoers.
• On the second level of the Office of the High Overseer, Corvo can hear two Overseers discussing how one of them was caught on a ledge during a lockdown.
• In the archives, the Overseer's speech changes depending on chaos level. On low chaos he calls Corvo skilled and says that he got out of Coldridge with half the Watch looking for him. On high chaos he says that Corvo is bloody-minded and that he left a trail of bodies. The Overseer finishes his speech by accusing Corvo of practicing black magic.

Gallery

Exterior

Office of the High Overseer, as seen from Holger Square.

Gate leading from Holger Square to the Office of the High Overseer.

Entrance to the Office of the High Overseer.

Office of the High Overseer.

Office of the High Overseer front view.

View of the entrance.

A sign announcing the curfew near the Office of the High Overseer.

Interior

Meeting room carpet render.

The Seven Strictures.

Urns of former High Overseers and Oracles.

The ashes of a former Overseer spilled on the ground.

Stairs leading to the second floor.

A hallway in the Office of the High Overseer.

Meeting room at the Office of the High Overseer.

The rune above the fireplace in Campbell's meeting room.

A second floor room.

Archives.

Archives room, upper level.

Second floor hallway.

A hallway leading to the interrogation room.

The interrogation room.

The interrogation chair.

A tray with pliers in the interrogation room.

Statue of Holger.

Entrance to Campbell's secret room.

Mattresses in Campbell's secret room.

Kennels.

Another area in the kennels.

Locked door in the kennels.

Hound corpses kept behind the locked door.

A bunk bed in the kennels.

Announcement center.

Map of the Office of the High Overseer.