The Seven Strictures.
This article is about the book found in the Dishonored franchise. You may be looking for the Overseer principles.
The Seven Strictures is a book found in Dishonored, The Knife of Dunwall, and Dishonored 2.
Transcript[]
[Excerpt from a commonly distributed overview of the Seven Strictures]
Surround your innermost being with these Strictures, and you will be safe.
The Seven Strictures are our core principles, taught and reinforced by Overseer across the Isles. From these principles stem all manner of rules, social codes and beliefs about the Cosmos.
The Seven Strictures
1. Wandering Gaze
2. Lying Tongue
3. Restless Hands
4. Roving Feet
5. Rampant Hunger
6. Wanton Flesh
7. Errant Mind
All these behaviors must be restricted in order to keep one's heart free from malevolent influences. They are the inroads of the Outsider.
Location[]
- In Dishonored, it can be found on a shelf in the entryway of the Office of the High Overseer and next to a corpse in Cell F inside the Kennels during the mission High Overseer Campbell.
- In The Knife of Dunwall it is in the Overseers' command post in the Flooded District during the mission The Surge.
- In Dishonored 2 it can be found in a second-floor bookcase and next to the third-floor safe in the Overseer Outpost in the Campo Seta Dockyards during the mission Edge of the World.