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Celebrating Ten Years of Dishonored (October 9th, 2012)

❝  so ends the interregnum, and now emily kaldwin the first will take her mother’s throne, after a season of turmoil. you will stand at her side, corvo, guiding her young mind, and protecting her from those who seek to exploit her, or cause her harm. you watched and listened when other men would have shouted in rage. you held back instead of striking. so it is, with the passing of the plague and emily’s ascension, comes a golden age, brought about by your hand. and decades hence, when your hair turns white and you pass from this world, empress emily -emily the wise, at the height of her power- will lay your body down within her mother’s great tomb, because you were more to her than royal protector. farewell, corvo.

INKTOBER DAY 12 - WHALE

video games challenge→ favorite male characters [7/7]

Dishonored 2 + Concept Art: Daily life on the streets of Karnaca

Fans of the Dishonored series!

I am a graduate student and a longtime fan of the Dishonored games, and I am fascinated by the new characters and identities in the most recent games. I seek to learn more about fellow fan responses to the games, as well as activity within the Dishonored fandom. 

Would you please consider taking 15 minutes to take this anonymous survey?  I will use the survey results to learn about public perception of diversity in video games. The information will be included in papers I write for my graduate classes, which may develop into a doctoral dissertation, and the information may be shared in conference presentations and in journal publications such as Game Studies or Transformative Works and Cultures.

If you are over 18 years of age, you may take this survey. This survey will take about 15 minutes to complete, and you may skip any question. The survey collects no identifiable information about you and I set it so it does not record IP addresses.

Your perspectives and your experiences on the Dishonored franchise are important, and I thank you for considering completing this survey!

Dishonored 2 + Concept Art: Characters & Creatures 

“From the young empress Emily Kaldwin to the lowliest laborer tolling away in the Karnaca silver mines, every single character in Dishonored 2 received our full attention.

We browsed the books of the masters, finding inspiration in the way the Orientalists treated realism. We crafted the costumes, gestures, anatomy, skin, and lighting with Detaille, Meissonier, Buland, Malczewski, Dagnan-Bouveret. We referred to the work of popular illustrators like Leyendecker, N. C. Wyeth, Schaeffer, Cornwell. We studied the anthropology of the Mexican Revolution through the amazing photography of Agustin Casasola. We enriched our eyes first, before we started to bring our powerful, charismatic characters to life.

We then considered how the searing sun of Karnaca would leave its mark on the workers who live there. We researched dress codes, costumes, and anatomy. We focused on body language as a new visual feature, including details to make the world deeper and reveal a character’s origin with every passing glance.

Karnaca is the home of a variety of ethnic groups with distinctive faces. Clothes are well cut and tailored, while hands, arms, legs, and faces are rough and have stories to tell. Clothing is a medium to show a character’s position in society, but what’s fundamental is the person inside the costume. That attention to detail raised the quality to an unexpected level, where all the city’s inhabitants have a backstory and truly fit within their environment.”