Truly a splendid work of art. Left me shedding tears and crying, an effort provoked substantially more nowadays. Thank you for your work. I love it, truly.

The non-lethal approach is very brutal indeed. I tend to play low-chaos, but not killing anyone in the game has always been tricky for me. For instance, I felt like killing off the Weepers was more of a sign of mercy than a sign of violence. And sometimes you'd learn such terrible things about NPC that you'd wonder if it was wise to spare their lives in a city with such a corrupted system where they'd probably be allowed to try it again as soon as they wake up and you wouldn't be around. However, in most cases I didn't care that my actual targets would be in a lot of torment because of my vengeance. I only felt bad about the Boyle woman... They weren't exactly the most pleasant, but who is? Most characters seem to have some sort of flaw. It makes them more authentic, though. Like Samuel is a lovely character but he takes the Abbey and its Seven Strictures quite seriously despite it being extremely corrupt and not completely accurate. And you being chosen by the Outsider makes it a bit strange. Anyway, the Boyle woman wasn't satisfying to me at all. Just because she had a rather unfortunate love interest, she has to die/disappear? Seems far too harsh. With Morgan and Custis, Treavor at least tried to reason with them, even got a cousin or uncle to talk some sense into them, but they were stubborn and apparently very cruel men as the game kept telling us. Corvo could've just abducted Ms. Boyle and then she could have heard the truth later herself over the broadcast system. They could've at least tried. If it was hopeless, it would've been just as easy as to eliminate her in their own custody.

But I love your take on what happened to all of them! In my first playthrough I was really surprised to find Campbell back as a Weeper. But before that happened must've been terrible, too. Somehow I doubt the Pendletons would've lasted very long in those mines. I think they'd end themselves once they realise they're never going to get out. Though they might not have the courage to do so, to truly cast away all hope and accept that it is their fate. Without that it would be hard to end it, I suppose.

I think it makes sense that Hiram Burrows starved to death. Everything was so chaotic after his arrest! So despite him being a very high profile prisoner, he was forgotten. And he thought he'd make history. In Dishonored 2 there isn't a whole lot of talk about the affair anymore. There's some about clearing Corvo's name from those deeds, but otherwise it's mostly criticism about Emily Kaldwin, and speculation and hits of the Crown Killer.

I like how Corvo visited Admiral Havelock and Havelock finally realized that just because Corvo didn't assassinate his targets, didn't mean he showed mercy or was in any way soft. That there might be a possibility that he simply choose not to kill them because he could give them a fate far worse than death. That must have been a chilling realization. I think he's going to wish that he drank the poison with Treavor Pendleton and Teague Martin.

Spoiler alert. However my friend, you forget, or probably missed, the fact that you can avoid Daud's battle if you sneak behind him with some well timed blinks and grab his pouch. That will serve as sending a mesaage to him. Of course, you need to blink out and in again for the key. But believe my words: its a completely possible feat, even without time stop (sadly, Daud shares this ability, as seen in the DLC, which in turn would trigger the battle immediately)

oooooooohohhhhhhhh this is good
honestly for lady boyle i headcanon that it takes her all of like two weeks to get brisby out of the way and take over his holdings and whatnot. the outsider likes surprises, right? what about watching someone fight and win a game with her own damn set pieces, no matter whether she was meant to or not. but this? all of this? all of this is good. a-plus job, 11/10, gold stars all around.

This is pretty interesting. I never put much thought in what happened to that lot if you don't kill them. I though The Lord Regent's end was the best though. They just leave him there to starve to death instead of executing him

Gosh. This is something that has always bothered me about the game. Even if you spare the targets, they each suffer a fate worse than death, so it's not really an act of forgiveness or compassion. It's just a way to avoid staining your own hands with blood. Seems the only people you can truly show mercy are Billie Lurk and Daud in the DLC.

Huh, I was a low-chaos player, but I killed all the targets (and a bunch of assassins, and a few people I didn't like or who just got unlucky) except I 'spared' Lady Boyle. She wasn't involved, at least not directly, in the Empresses death after all. Neither were Morgan and Custis, but I just hated them and unlike the other targets, I didn't figure out what the nonlethal option was for them. Reading your story though, maybe I should have found and taken the nonlethal option with the twins and just put Lady Boyle out of her misery. Ah well.

Although it was a good to see Daud regretted what he had done, there was no way I was sparing him considering what he did; he didn't deserve Korvo's mercy in my opinion. If you're going to kill just one person in the whole game, it should probably be him because I can't fathom just letting him go free. I don't mind you not including him in this story; I certainty am not interested in reading about Daud's potential 'happy ever after'.

Well, to be fair, Daud deserved to get away! :P
(his playthrough was fabulous!)

Personally I didn't kill anyone because it took so much more time (and re-loads lol) to sneak around and find out all the routes to take out the guards... but yeah, the "let them live" routes where all pretty undesirable when Corvo did it.

Wow. Just... wow. I suddenly feel totally justified in doing an almost entirely high chaos run (I spared Lady Boyle, but I killed everyone else) seeing as all of them would have been worse off alive than dead, really.

I enjoyed this a lot. Very well written, and it captured the feel of Dishonored perfectly.

Interesting. I'm realizing I should have thought more what happened to all the villains Corvo left alive.

This is very interesting. Well written, and well thought out.

Absolutely amazing!

This story covers what I had in mind for sparing the Marks rather nicely. The only one I felt sorry for was Boyle... the rat faced fellow was creepy,

Wow. In my first play through of Dishonored, I spared everybody, even though a large part of me felt that their admittedly awful fates weren't enough to make up for what the targets had all done. Now, though...

Just - wow. I actually feel sorry for these guys, especially the Pendleton twins. I think I might kill them all on this next play through, out of pity.

This is quite a food for thought for low chaos players :)