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Details You Might Have Missed
The following articles contain 354 interesting details, secrets, easter eggs, and connections in the franchise that are easy to miss. Some of them I discovered myself but there are many I collected from members of the Dishonored community, particularly the editors of this wiki. I try to give credit where it's due but let me know if I missed anyone. Please also note that:
- I won't list out well-known details such as the whaler spying on Corvo in the High Overseer Campbell mission.
- Some of the points here are speculations (although I wouldn't add them if there is no evidence), so don't take them as facts or confirmations.
- The Tales from Dunwall (7)
- Across Dishonored (13)
- Returning Home & Dishonored (10)
- High Overseer Campbell (12)
- House of Pleasure (15)
- T…
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Details You Might Have Missed in High Overseer Campbell
- At the beginning of the mission, if you talk to Lydia, she will tell you that someone knocked on the door of the Hounds Pit Pub a few days ago which gave everyone a scare. Talking to Cecelia reveals that she did it as a joke.
- When Corvo enters the Void for the first time, he can see a school of hagfishes swimming around. This marks the only time in the franchise, animals - other than whales or human - appear in the Void.
- The rats you summoned don't attack Granny Rag and instead just stand around.
- If you possess Granny Rag, she will say "Where? What's this. So confused. Oh, has he come for me at last? At last! At LAST!" (Yes, it's possible to gather enough runes in this mission to possess humans, and yes she says the same thing if you possess h…
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Details You Might Have Missed in Returning Home & Dishonored
- Before entering the water lock, if you look to the right, you can see a few rats riding on some floating planks.
- The Burrow Lighthouse on Kingsparrow Island can be seen from Dunwall Tower. This is a dev oversight since according to this book, the construction of the lighthouse wouldn't start until after Jessamine Kaldwin's death.
- Maybe I'm reading too much into this but this rather unique-looking dead white tree is a possible reference to the White Tree of Gondor which can be found in front of the White Tower of Ecthelion in The Lord of the Rings. Dunwall Tower is also internally called "White Tower" (here and here). In The Lord of the Ring, the white tree withered after the line of the Kings of Gondor ended, which possibly foreshadows Jessami…
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Details You Might Have Missed in The Tales from Dunwall
- This shot shows a harbor full of pre-industrialization, pre-whale-oil ships.
- In this scene, Sokolov can been seen proposing to Esmond Roseburrow a new Whaling Trawler design which features mounted speargun, oil-powered hook rigging system, and even cannons with whale-oil-powered explosives for ammunition. The cannons didn't seem to make it to the final design of the trawlers as seen in the games.
- According to the Dishonored Roleplaying Game rulebook, the flagship of Bundry Rothwild's whaling fleet, the Bundry Best, is a combination of trawler and warship. This ship was possibly built with Sokolov's original design. After all, Sokolov and Rothwild seemed to have a close professional relationship.
- This is the only time in the franchise that rifl…
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Details You Might Have Missed Across Dishonored
- Across the game, there are multiple bridges that have been destroyed with only the piers remained. Most people would think that this was due to neglect and decay caused by the rat plague, but at that point, the plague has been going on for only 2 years. That's simply not enough time for the complete destruction of almost all the bridges across the Wrenhaven. Plus there is no debris of the fallen piers either. A more probable explanation is all the old stone bridges were destroyed to allow passage for the new whaling trawlers. Kaldwin's Bridge is the only bridge left, which can be raised to let ships pass through, and was likely designed with this specific feature. [Credit: Khazzadumm, Pauolo]
- Dunwall is ravaged by the Rat Plague and most bu…