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Voiced by Billy Lush in the first game, the actor was replaced by Robin Lord Taylor from Dishonored 2 onwards. The character has often been viewed as a sort of trickster god , though director Harvey Smith has denied this interpretation.
After I found out that he was made into The Outsider when he was a teen, Billy Lush's version sounded (to me) like a 40 year old voice with what's supposed to be a teen's physical appearance. I also like that in Dishonored 2 we got to find out more about the Outsider himself.
- Overview
- Biography
- Dishonored
- The Knife of Dunwall and The Brigmore Witches
- Dishonored 2
- The Return of Daud
- Death of the Outsider
- The Veiled Terror
- Personality
—Overseer Sturgess describing the Outsider
The Outsider is a mysterious, morally ambiguous supernatural being, neither good nor evil. He usually appears to people of interest as a plain-looking young man with short brown hair and black eyes, wearing a brown coat, blue-grey pants and black boots.
—Ricardo Bare
The Outsider was born over 4000 years before the events of Dishonored. He lived as a human outcast with no known family in a ruined city. When he was fifteen, he was sought and taken by the Envisionned who saw in him all signs to become one with the Void, notably his age and bits of prophecy (the celestial movements and events like the mass dying of fish).[citation needed]
The cultists brought him to the Void through a place in Shindaerey Peak where the boundary of the ethereal world is the thinnest. There, they prepared him for a ritual: "he was bathed and dressed" in painted clothes, his eyes painted over, "his hands were adorned with [golden] rings"[citation needed] and he was drugged with potions and smokes that made him forget his memories, including his own name and age.
He was then restrained to a sacred Altar in a deeper layer called the Ritual Hold by the cultists. There, they slit his throat with the Twin-bladed Knife and he "merged in part with the Void". A spiritual image of him was turned into the god-like being known as the Outsider, an inhabitant of the Void. His physical body remained in the Ritual Hold, cast in stone as he was screaming in pain, unable to move or even speak, immortal to anything but the Twin-bladed Knife that created him. His name was also eternally lost to him, which was essential to the ritual. Unbeknown to him though, the Outsider's Mark is in fact his name, written in a language only the dead can read. Giving his name back to his physical body can break the ritual.
The Outsider first meets Corvo in the Void after the latter escaped Coldridge Prison. He gives him his Mark and the Heart, a tool to find runes and bone charms but also listen to people's secrets. Throughout the events of Dishonored, the Outsider observes Corvo and his actions, often appearing to comment his choices and their effect on the world. A...
Upon regaining interest in Daud, the Outsider reappears to the assassin, warning him of his inescapable conclusion, but revealing that the terms of his fate can be altered. He gives Daud the name "Delilah", which Daud discovers is a powerful witch planning to possess Emily and become Empress herself. At the end, the Outsider reminds Daud of all his...
In Dishonored 2, he appears to either Corvo or Emily as they are asleep aboard the Dreadful Wale to offer his mark. Whether the protagonist accepts it or not, he gives back the Heart, although with another purpose in mind. Throughout the events of the Coup, he watches and discusses the current affairs of the world, intervening on occasion to assist...
As stated in Dishonored: The Return of Daud, Daud went on his quest to destroy the Outsider after he appeared to him through recurrent nightmares. After Daud gets deathly weakened by the Twin-bladed Knife and captured by witches, he foresees the changes brought to the Empire by Emily's actions during her exile in Karnaca.
In Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, the Outsider observes the quest of Daud and Billie Lurk to destroy him. Quite apart from trying to preserve his own life, the Outsider appears to Billie for the first time and gives her relics to assist in her mission, including a new eye and arm. Far from being simple aids, these artifacts grants her the ability to see disturbances caused by the Void as well as powers not tied to the Outsider.
Eventually, Billie steals the Twin-bladed Knife from the Eyeless Gang and finds how to enter the Void through the lair of the Cult of the Outsider. There, she locates his physical body in the Ritual Hold and can closely examine his trapped body before making her decision to kill or free him. If Billie kills the Outsider, by stabbing him slowly in the heart, she resigns herself to be nothing more but a killer. Should she decide to spare him, she convinces a reluctant Daud to break the sacrificial ritual by whispering the Outsider's real name in his ear. After the Outsider becomes mortal, Billie takes him out of the Void, giving him another chance to live the mortal life that the cultists had taken from him.
In Dishonored: The Veiled Terror, a vision of the Outsider still appears in Billie's nightmares, warning her of the chaos that is to come following his separation from the Void.
—The Outsider
The Outsider is revealed to have "human emotion, but inhuman perception", making him "almost alien", or as Harvey Smith interprets him, possessing two parts – "human faculty and something primal and chthonic".[citation needed] Harvey Smith also notes that "some of [the Outsider's] lines are sarcastic", but his tone can go unnoticed.
Though widely sought and worshiped throughout the world, the Outsider states that he "[doesn't] play favorites", and is known to only appear to "interesting" individuals – his interest in people being the primary prerequisite for his audience. He deems devotees of himself and the Void to be "unhinged" and grants them no favors for their reverence. Those who manage to pique his interest are frequently given his attention, however; furthermore, those who he sees as particularly interesting and potential agents of change are bestowed his Mark, with social standing and effort having no bearing on their selection. Due to his standards, it is not uncommon for long periods of time to pass without the Outsider marking anyone. It is not enough to be extraordinary; Anton Sokolov is one of the greatest inventors of his time, and a highly regarded artist, yet when the Outsider speaks of Sokolov's efforts to communicate with him, he concludes, "But if he really wanted to meet me, he could start by being a bit more interesting."
His interest in those bearing his Mark is heavily dependent on their execution and vision. Unpredictable, low chaos actions generally garner his amusement and fascination, while high chaos ones are typically met with uninspired synopses of given situations. Should the actions of a Mark bearer become mundane in his eyes, the Outsider seemingly abandons them, until his interest is renewed.
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Voiced by Billy Lush in the first game, the actor was replaced by Robin Lord Taylor from Dishonored 2 onwards. The character has often been viewed as a sort of trickster god, though director Harvey Smith has denied this interpretation.
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Jul 28, 2017 · I really did prefer Billy Lush's voice acting, but its understandable why he got ditched, even if his claims of not actually being transphobic are legit. He was my favorite part of the game - his delevery was excellent, and the writing was really dry and mildly sarcastic - not emotional in anyway - it was indicative of his godlike nature.
