David

According to Harvey Smith, Dowd is 42 years old.
According to the official guidebook, Daoud's motto is "Ego homini lupus" (Latin) - "I am a wolf to man." A twisted translation of "Homo homini lupus est" is "Man is a wolf to man."
Although the wanted posters show a common killer and not Daud, throughout The Knife of Dunwall, various civilians immediately recognize him.
Jerome in The Brigmore Witches also notes that he recognized Daud from wanted posters.
Although Daud doesn't have a mask, he can still zoom in and out as if he were using a spyglass (it was mentioned in Dishonored: The Return of Daud that he used a spyglass, but it is unknown if he was using one during the events of Dishonored).
Daud is referred to as "Big Knife" and "Old Knife" in correspondence between Megan Foster and the former whaler in the final mission of Dishonored 2.
If Daud initiates dialogue after sneaking up on Delilah, she will mockingly call him "The Mouse of Dunwall".
In the German, Russian, and Italian translations of The Brigmore Witches, Daud says he left Serkonos and arrived in Dunwall at the age of 16. Developer Harvey Smith confirmed this information.
Although Daud can use a pistol during gameplay, he never acquires upgrades for the weapon.
Height: 189
Eyes: blue-gray
hair: black with slight graying

Daud's unique ability is Summon Assassin. This ability consumes a moderate amount of mana and summons an assassin, depending on the level of the novice or master assassin. Corvo (Greedy Pack) and Emily (Doppelganger) have a similar ability, but currently only Daud can summon other people. Some believe it's "Attraction," but the Executioner also has it (except the Executioner received the ability from Old Rag, not the Outsider). Others believe Daud's second special ability is "Secret Bonds," but this is incorrect: Delilah Copperspoon can also transfer some of her powers to her witches. This can be confirmed from books, notes, and other sources.

Daud is marked, and therefore has a whole set of active and passive superpowers that help in the difficult craft of a hired killer: "Abyss Gaze", "Transfer", "Summon Assassins", "Attraction" and others.

Daud is considered a mentor to his whalers, as he teaches them the art of stealth and assassination and can share with them a fraction of his abilities: whalers possess such skills as "Transference", "Vitality", "Bending Time", "Attraction", "Deadly Shadow".

Dowd kidnaps Emily

Jessamine’s murder and Emily’s abduction rattled Blade Dunwall’s jaws. The Kingslayer continues to live day by day, but a sense of indelible guilt sharpens his hardened soul. Seeing Dunwall slowly sink into confusion, chaos, and vice, Dowd realized that only Jessamine Kaldwin kept the Empire from ruin and anarchy. And now that it hasn't, all that bile has spilled out onto the streets of the Empire's capital and is slowly flooding more and more territory. Daud claims he would return all the gold he got from the customer, just so the Empress would stay alive.

The omnipresent Stranger, who sees everything and everything, gives Dowd a chance to correct his mistake: he offers Dowd to settle with the Brigmore witch Delilah Copperspoon, who through a nefarious ritual wants to possess the body and mind of young Emily, threaten her, and kill her in the first chapter of Dunwall. David makes the decision to thwart Delilah’s insidious plans. The story of his struggle with the Brigmore Witches is revealed in the above supplements.

However, all these attempts to right the wrongs of the past do not save David from the revenge of Corvo Attano: the former Lord Protector, in the end, still gets to the murderer of his Empress and decides his further fate ...

Little is known about Daud's childhood: rumor has it that Daud's mother was from Pandyssia. The future Blade of Dunwall was conceived on the 13th of Ice, 1795, aboard a pirate ship whose crew held his mother captive. It was rumored that she was a witch marked by the Outsider and took control of the ship during its return to Serkonos. Daud notes that, contrary to rumor, she was simply skilled in the preparation and use of poisons, concoctions, and hallucinogens from a variety of plants and animals, and ruthless in their application.

Daud was born on Serkonos, in Karnak, and grew up in various towns on the island. The Heart reveals that at some point in his childhood, Daud's natural abilities attracted the attention of a mysterious actor, which ultimately led to his abduction.

The book "Rumors and Evidence: Daud": Daud says that at some point between this period and the events of Dishonored, he arrived in Dunwall (he was 16 years old) and began making a name for himself, "moving among the merchants and guard officers of Dunwall like a sickle through wheat." The book states that Daud later traveled the islands and sought out Outsider relics, which he confirms after meeting Corvo. It is rumored that during this time, he spent the winter at the Academy of Natural Philosophy. He eventually caught the attention of the Outsider, who marked him in 1820.

Daud, also known as the Knife of Dunwall, was an assassin, the leader and founder of the Whaler gang, and the assassin of Empress Jessamine I Kaldwin.

The protagonist of the "The Knife of Dunwall" and "The Brigmore Witches" expansions for the game "Dishonored", as well as the book "The Return of Daud", and a plot character in the standalone expansion "Death of the Outsider".