Powers

Veil: Place a wall that covers an area from view. To onlookers, the Veil captures the way things looked as it was placed and they are unable to perceive any changes made from the other side until the Veil dissipates.

Barrier: The Veil becomes a physical wall.

Collector: Summon a spirit from the Void that flies in a straight line to things you point to, which then stores an object out of sight until you decide to remove it elsewhere. Living things can't be stored indefinitely like inanimate objects.

Mitosis: The spirit explodes into many smaller pieces of it, allowing it to attach to more things.

Reform: After the spirit explodes, forcefully pull its small pieces together with everything they're attached to.

Nightmare: Those affected by Nightmare witness their deepest fears, triggering fight-or-flight. Choose who sees the illusion and choose who/what you're placing the illusion on. Effects vary by individual.

New Purpose: Enchant inanimate objects from a distance to perform actions they're capable of. Ex. stop a gun from firing, a door slams on an enemy

Pressurize: The gravity in an area within range is increased, pinning enemies to a surface. Weaker living creatures and inanimate objects like rats and bottles will be destroyed.

Centered: Focus Pressurize on yourself to walk on walls and ceilings and force increased gravity upon other things as you move.

Protean: Transmute your body to a material you touch. Ex. touch water = become humanoid shaped water.

Chameleon: Your body is now camouflaged with what it transmuted into.

Living Hive: Your body disperses into a swarm of vermin (typically insects) that you control independently within a short range.

Facsimile: Make a completely functional copy of a small object from a distance.

Loyal Clone: Clone a subservient perfect copy of a human from a distance.

Incorporeal: Become intangible to move through thin obstructions and become immune to damage.

Siphon: Pierce a single target with vein-like tendrils, healing you by draining the victim of their blood.

Seeking Siphon: The tendrils spread to nearby victims.

Blood Boils: Bubbles of hot blood form in the tendrils that explode when an enemy enters their proximity.

Sculpt: Temporarily mold a section of inorganic material from the ground or walls into a specific shape like spikes, a platform, or a wall.

War Form: Your bones seamlessly emerge from your flesh to create sharp weapons and armor.

Misfortune: Release a wave of bad luck in front of you that makes all affected fail any actions they attempt.

Environmental Hazard: Objects are now affected by Misfortune and can fail in your favor at just the right moment.

Fractured: Space in a designated area is warped so that multiple of the same object can exist simultaneously. Ex: Throwing a grenade into the area becomes six of the same grenade.

Recall: Trails of all things that have moved become visible to you. Instantly return anything to a point of that trail for as long as Recall lasts. Memory of living things is wiped to that point if moved.

Call to Slumber: Lull multiple targets in a large area into a deep sleep, only awakening when disturbed.

Sleepwalk: Those affected by Call to Slumber rise at your command and view you as a beloved member of their community, easily bending to your will.

Radiance: Conjure light that can blind, illuminate, and set things ablaze when focused.

Evaporate: Fire a projectile of light that renders a small radius of solid matter immaterial.

Overcharge: Charging Evaporate fires multiple bolts at once at the cost of more mana.

Homing Shot: Default Evaporate will now always home in on targets, with Overcharge tag multiple targets and each shot will home in on the targets.

Mind Scan: Detect the presence of minds within an average sized radius and hear what they're thinking.

Fade: Turn into barely visible mist that allows flight and the ability to move through thin or small openings.

Ghost: Staying still reduces visibility and pauses Fade's timer.

Frigid Breeze: Passing through a living target shocks their body into paralysis with severe cold.

Meld: Meld into the ground to hide yourself and move two-dimensionally.

Enhancements

Spite: Poisonous gas spews from your wounds. The closer your enemy the more debilitating and lethal the poison becomes.

Pack Bond: Form an arcane symbiotic relationship with an animal of your choosing. This animal is granted basic Agility, Reflexes, Strength, and Vitality and can be commanded.

Oneirism: See potential futures while you dream.

Bonecharms

Voltaic Cloak: Your body is covered in electricity, harming those nearby. Beastlike: Your nails and teeth are now as sharp as claws and fangs.

Discerning Ears: Detect lies.

Silver Tongue: People are more likely to be persuaded with your words.

Extrasensory: Know when you're being watched and from where.

Artifacts

Spoilers for the games and books

Slabs and trinkets = Mark powers and bonecharms

Cabinets, dressers, and chairs from the Dishonored games return. A sewing machine with “Rosewine” on it is also in the Dunwall Archives. Antique dueling pistols with oil cartridges resemble guns from Dishonored.

One of the drawings (badly drawn Clockwork Soldiers?) you can find in Death of the Outsider can be found in the Dorsey Manor.

The Heritage shotgun has “DUNW” inscribed on it.

A recording of Drunken Whaler can be found and a note nearby says it sounds like something their grandma used to listen to.

Harriet mentions a Great Beyond, a place of emptiness, that she supposedly saw after surviving a plane crash. Which in Dishonored 2 there’s a note about people who accurately described the Void after suffering from near death experiences.

The loop/anomaly itself is possibly not entirely scientific as Harriet and Egor make an observation that Wenjie asked each Visionary to provide something of theirs, a talisman, to “personalize” the machine.

Fia dreams of rich occultists plotting the fate of the world. Inspiration for Charlie’s game in which he includes “scrimshaw gewgaws”. In Death of the Outsider, Cienfuegos had prophetic dreams of something in Shindaerey. And Fia’s dreams are more than just dreams, as her recordings and paintings of Visionaries change depending on what you did on the previous loop.

The mammoth found in Karl’s Bay looks nothing like a mammoth in reality so the setting either isn’t or not entirely based on our own world. The game also seems deliberately careful not to explicitly say if this “motherland” is Tyvia,  Russia, or some other fantasy Russia.

Read on a Bad Luck Mary plague in Updaam, there was a “Year of Empty Nets”. Possibly related to the Month of Nets.

A note found in Updaam at night in front of the library says Blackreef used to be a site for witch trials.

If you input the first code Egor found that is “unknown - external to island” into his machine, you can vaguely hear the sound of whales.

An Eternalist setting up the band’s stage in Updaam will talk about Joplins, a measure of electricity in this universe.

Aleksis’s statue is made of whalebone and he says whalebone is expensive these days.

“The Isles Official Mail!” is a magazine.

“Hearths 62″ can be found on a photograph.

“That smell. What are they mixing these inks with?”

Deathloop spoilers

As in, does the Mark amplify the consequences of the wearer’s actions?

I know many things in high and low chaos are the fault of what we do in the game, like more bodies means the plague spreads faster and so too do bloodflies.

But what of changes in chaos that the wearer is highly unlikely to be responsible for?

The game makes it clear that our actions have consequences, positive and negative, and they ripple out across Dunwall and Karnaca. You can explain the differences of attitudes the NPCs have by saying someone you killed affected them in a negative away and they’re more on edge.

But then how do you explain things like a massive storm appearing over Kingsparrow Lighthouse in high chaos, while it doesn’t show up at all in low?

Gwen Horcroft, the founder, may have been marked by the Outsider and is possibly still alive or they’re using her marked hand like Paolo does with Granny’s but it spreads the gift of divination/scrying.

Rosewyn says this when you confront her,

“We cannot see past the moment when you breach the Void. Every hour our sight grows short. Only I have seen the method to our blindness. Only I have seen the knife in a dead boy’s heart.”

To the east of Gristol is a strait called the Strait of the Outsider. The Abbey insists on calling it the Strait of Storms.

"Between The Isles and Pandyssia, in the open ocean, lives a creature larger than the largest ship built by humans. It slides through the water, its back parting the waves. Some say it's a whale, though no known whale has ever come to close to its size. Others claim that it's a sea monster with tentacles. When it's seen, very little survives its destruction. Witnesses clinging to the floating debris of their ships and the occasional explorer in a fast boat with the winds and the tides in their favor are the only ones to come back with the tales of it. No one knows how many ships, lost at sea, fell victim to it.

Records going back to the beginning of the Empire mention a creature like it. Some of the ancient ruins seem to have depictions of it carved into the stone. Fishermen and whalers have story after story of seeing it in the distance, enormous splashes of water that shouldn't exist, whirlpools that appear and then vanish. Sailors attribute all sorts of maritime phenomena to it.

It's had many names through history. Behemoth. Titan. Outsider's Messenger. Today, they call it the Devourer.

A spirit (or I’m guessing that’s what it is) exists that refers to itself as “an Outsider”. It comes in the form of a rat and offers to grant possession of an animal. Unlike Corvo’s Possession, you fall unconscious and seem to leave your body behind. The first time is free but additional times come at a cost.

This new lore about the Wynnedown Witches and Morley in general is good shit and everything I wanted.

You guys want a canonical Outsider-worshipping holiday?

There’s a fuck ton of new lore and interesting things in the new Dishonored RPG, but what interests me most are all things arcane in it.

Below the cut are all the new powers and bonecharms described in the guide.

When he’s dead they lose their power. She loses her power. No Arcane Bond. So what was the point here? Lead a powerless band of assassins with her at the top with the powers Delilah gave her? At the very best they’d have bonecharms and that’s pretty much it.