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Land of Blood and Corpses

Chapter 9: Wonders of the Industrial Age

[Excerpt from a book on well-established companies in Dunwall compiled by Merrit’s Printing Firm, dated 1829] Since the dawn of time, the city of Dunwall has been the industrial heart of the known world as a whole. From its humble origins as a small whaling hamlet of fishermen and traders, it has grown during the reign of Emperor Euhorn Jacob Kaldwin into a sprawling, modern metropolis as technological revolution sweeps across the capital, ushering in a new era of enlightenment and progress.

Chapter Eighteen

“You’re not serious.”

“Of course I’m serious,” he turns around and the look on his face is haunting. There’s something … missing behind his eyes and it sends a chill down her spine. “I thought you were too?”

“I am,” she insists. “I want to … to do something, I want to help him–,”

Plot Twist: They’re BOTH depressed.