I was away from home for so long. Looking for a cure for them. The rat plague was like nothing we'd ever seen before. Our hopes lay with the outlying lands, but no one had experienced anything like this. When I returned early I knew something was not right.
No sooner had I delivered the bad news to the Empress about my trip than specially trained assassins with unknown powers came upon us in Dunwall Tower. Guards - no where to be seen and whilst I was held powerless, Jessamine was murdered.
They took Lady Emily. I was framed. Put in prison and tortured, a date of execution announced.
But I got out. I had hidden allies.
I met The Outsider.
He has shown me a different path with his mark. I once was Lord Protector. Now I am an assassin.
I make my own way now. I tracked down the Pendleton brothers who were holding Emily captive.
I killed the High Overseer Campbell who conspired in the plot to murder the Empress Jessamine and take over the throne.
Our group, the Loyalists, we're not going to stop. Not until every one of those traitors is dead.
The Lord Regent. He's the one. He's next. Taken the throne illegally from the Empress and Lady Emily, my blade itches for his blood.
I listen through the keyholes, I watch from the rooftops, I see through their eyes. I know what is coming, I see everything.
The Outsider walks amongst us. That's what they say.
They forget. So do I.
Street gangs, assassins, weepers, overseers, wolfhounds, prostitutes, the so called aristocrats, they're all the same.
They all go to the same place in the end.
Listen, even now, you can hear them.
The whispers in the shadows, hiding from the City Watch. Do you have the plague, they ask. Neighbours turning in friends to the authorities. Half the city is dead, the other half remaining fights over what ground is left.
This is where I prowl. This is where I change our future. This is where I get my vengeance.
I am but a shadow. They never know I am there, not till it's too late. I work with the people, the ones who still struggle on, surviving the tyranny of Dunwall.
Who we are and what we do shapes the world around us. I've chose my path.
What will you choose?
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Vengeance
Teen FictionA short based on Dishonored (a new steampunk game on console), from Corvo Attano's point of view. I love this game so freakin' much, if you're a gamer and you haven't played this, go play it. Now! :D As usual, inspired (by the game obviously!) and Z...
