A spiritual image of him was turned into the god-like being known as the Outsider, an inhabitant of the Void. There, they slit his throat with the Twin-bladed Knife and he "merged in part with the Void". He was then restrained to a sacred Altar in a deeper layer called the Ritual Hold by the cultists. There, they prepared him for a ritual: "he was bathed and dressed" in painted clothes, his eyes painted over, "his hands were adorned with rings" and he was drugged with potions and smokes that made him forget his memories, including his own name and age. The cultists brought him to the Void through a place in Shindaerey Peak where the boundary of the ethereal world is the thinnest. When he was fifteen, he was sought and taken by the Envisionned who saw in him all signs to become one with the Void, notably his age and bits of prophecy (the celestial movements and events like the mass dying of fish). He lived as a human outcast with no known family in a ruined city. The Outsider was born over 4000 years before the events of Dishonored. The Outsider replaying his own sacrifice in the Void. This aspect, in my opinion, is much stronger than the trickster qualities." -Ricardo Bare The 'Shadow Self' from Jungian archetypes. You could say he has 'Chthonic' or 'Underworld' god qualities which represent the unconscious, mystery, secret or repressed desires, creativity, etc. " is not classically a 'trickster god,' but he's done a few things that probably remind people of other trickster examples, like granting man some kind of forbidden boon.
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