The Outsider (Dishonored)

Height: 189 cm Eye color: completely black with white and iris. Hair color: dark blond, closer to black. Voice: slightly cold but melodic and charming. Clothing: He wears a distressed dark grey and black leather blazer with a high collar over a white shirt, dark opal and silver cufflinks "resembling an octopus's eye", tapered black trousers with black leather boots with silver buckles. He has no rings on his hands (though one ring can be seen in the painting "Alien in Conditioned Dreams"). He is no longer a motionless figure and has a habit of teleporting to different points in the location. His gestures have also become more expressive and varied; he is not a disembodied spirit and is able, for example, to catch the protagonist with one hand.

Many people consider the Outsider to be a deity and worship him; however, the Abbey of the Commoners considers this to be heresy, punishable by severe punishment.

The Alien is the personification of the Abyss[2] and appears to people of interest to him as a pale young man with dark hair and completely black eyes.

People who particularly interest the Outsider can receive his Outsider mark glow zps6bc5450b mark, which grants supernatural abilities. The Alien is also known to have influenced Piero Joplin's inspiration through dreams.

Shrines dedicated to the Outsider can be found throughout the Islands.

The boy who would become the Alien was born approximately 4,000 years ago in an unknown and now long-defunct city. His mother was dead and his father was a "monster", and the boy lived on the streets, wandering and begging. Fifteen years later, the cult members saw a sign in the night sky that the Void needed an Outsider. After studying the migration of birds, the entrails of certain animals, and, most importantly, the disappearance of several celestial bodies, the ancient Seers rushed to find the right person. The cultists went from city to city, looking for the child that the "command verse" spoke of, and eventually found a boy who fit the criteria. The cultists captured him and brought him to a place where the line between the real world and the Abyss is especially thin. Before this, the boy was forced to drink sickeningly sweet potions and breathe in colored smoke with a sour smell, which clouded his mind so much that he could not remember his own name or how old he was. The cultists prepared him for the ritual: they put gold rings on his fingers, painted his eyes, and dressed him in bright clothes. They chained him to an altar made of a smooth, polished black metal like that found in the hearts of fallen stars. Above the altar were two columns of broken black stone, intertwined above him like petrified tree trunks. The boy tried to fight and resist all the time, even when he was drugged and exhausted, but several pairs of hands held him back. Until the very end, he believed that he could escape. The cold sucked out the last of his strength, and his head began to spin - it seemed as if the Abyss was spinning around him.

The Alien has human emotions but non-human perception, and is not a classic trickster god, despite the fact that his actions may resemble this archetype. We can say that he has the qualities of a chthonic god, which represent the unconscious, mystery, suppressed desires, creativity. In this regard, according to the developers, the Shadow archetype in Carl Gustav Jung's classification is close to the Alien.

The Outsider is revered throughout the Empire, despite the Abbey's ban, but the Outsider himself only appears to those he is interested in. He tells Daud that he "doesn't play favorites," but he can openly express admiration for Corvo.

The criterion of "interestingness" is the most important for the Alien. Because of this, it is not uncommon for it to not mark anyone at all for a long period of time. For example, it ignores the greatest modern natural philosopher Anton Sokolov, calling him boring and expressing disgust at the rituals Sokolov performed. It also never appeared before the members of the cult that created it. In addition, the Alien's interest in people it has already marked depends on their actions. Resourceful "poetic" solutions that maintain low chaos delight and amuse it, while actions that increase the level of chaos cause boredom. Sarcasm and irony are characteristic of it. Apparently, if the actions of the marked cease to surprise it, it stops making contact. No matter what actions the marked take, the Alien remains a neutral observer looking for entertainment. However, there are several instances where the Outsider hints at its hostility towards the Marked: most notably, it shows hostility towards Delilah after she escaped the Abyss.