DISHONORED: Shadows of Vengeance
The world believes the Outsider is a ghost of the past, silenced forever by Billie Lurk’s twin-bladed knife in the heart of the Void. They are wrong. In a cosmic joke orchestrated by the depths of the Void itself, the ancient entity has been cast into the most restrictive prison imaginable: the fleshy, demanding, and remarkably heavy body of an infant. Reborn as Elias Kaldwin, the miracle heir to Empress Emily Kaldwin and the visionary alchemist Julian Mercer, the former watcher of the stars now finds himself pinned beneath the weight of gravity and the stifling, overprotective affection of a mother who refuses to let him out of her sight. To the court of Dunwall, he is a silent, brilliant child and a "Mama’s boy," but behind his unblinking eyes lies a four-thousand-year-old mind that views human morality with cynical amusement and deep-seated irritation at the biological indignities of breastfeeding and afternoon naps.
While he endures the mundane rituals of the royal nursery, Elias is far from idle. He watches with divine focus as his father, Julian, unknowingly crafts a revolutionary pneumatic arsenal—a silent air rifle destined to render the clumsy crossbows of the past obsolete. Elias secretly catalogs every blueprint and alchemical formula, intending to weaponize his father’s genius to protect the woman who unknowingly gave a god a second chance at life. He has become a silent guardian of the Kaldwin throne, using a recovering fraction of his power to spy through the eyes of ravens and manipulate the shadows of the palace to neutralize threats before they even reach the gates. Yet, his true gaze is fixed on a darker horizon, toward the remnants of the Whalers, the Brigmore Witches, and the cults that have long stained the Isles. Above all else, he waits for the day his mortal frame is strong enough to settle the ultimate debt. Billie Lurk took his throne in the Void and forced him into a life of royal silk and antiseptic, and Elias intends to repay that theft by dismantling her legacy and proving that killing a god was merely the start of a much more personal war.