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so than the ordinary citizens who search out or build shrines to The Outsider to seek his help or his blessing . Unlike most of the other organized groups and gangs in the series , the Eyeless are unique in that their ranks draw from all social strata , as opposed to being polarized into groups of either the privileged or the destitute . In Dishonored : The Death of The Outsider , the Eyeless succeed in opening a pathway into the Void as they pursue the place where The Outsider slumbers , presumably to both gain additional power and be closer to the god they worship . Yet theirs proves an unhealthy fascination . Of the Eyeless , The Outsider comments to Billie that they are “ never satisfied , no matter how much they take .” Still , even after death and a form of rebirth as a god , The Outsider gains no peace . The members of the Abbey seek his destruction and the eradication of his memory from the living world , while the Eyeless mount a relentless campaign to strip away his secrets and to invade his domain in the Void .
That The Outsider is a source of both revulsion and fascination stems in part from his refusal to explain his own nature . As Hazel Monforton 20 argues , “ Sea monsters , witches , black magic , wayward girls , thieves , murderers , etc ., are all blamed on The Outsider ’ s influence . Some rightfully , most arbitrarily ” ( n . p .). The Outsider offers no theology or doctrine for his faithful to follow , yet he seems to be the closest thing to hope they have left . He empowers , for good or for ill , those who tend to be rendered powerless by others or by their circumstances , those he describes as “ interesting .” Once the mark is accepted and bestowed , The Outsider does not direct the behavior of those who bear it . He may appear to them , as he does to Corvo in the first game and to Corvo or Emily in the second , and comment that their actions have power
20 Hazel Monforton is one of the writers for Dishonored : Death of The Outsider .
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