The City of Dunwall
Once nearly arrived at its fall
A plague borne on a swarm of rats
Hungry enough to eat both the men and the cats
A plot to control poverty
Was a Spymaster's greatest folly
He then wished for more power
That is when things turned truly sour
His plot went in motion
The same day a bodyguard returned from across the ocean
Corvo Attono was his name
For the death of his empress he would take the blame
His charge was dead and her daughter taken
In a cell Corvo would awaken
A key was in a meal from a friend
So his sentence came to an end
Under a drawbridge and through a sewer he did go
Where a boatman was waiting for him to show
Samuel was his name
And he took Corvo to the pub from which he came
There he met his rescuers, but only two of three
Trevor Pendleton, youngest of a noble family
And Admiral Havelock to
Whom fighting is nothing new
There was also Piero Joplin
Who was a master craftsmen
He crafted Corvo's mechanical mask
for making deadly weapons he was up to the task
That night Corvo had a dream
Where a rare sight was seen
To him the Outsider appeared
In mortal events he rarely interfered
Corvo was given his mark
The number who are granted its great power are stark
He grants it to those who catch his interest
With this power only eight in that generation did he intrust
After they spoke
Corvo awoke
Even with these powers it was no walk in the park
On to his quest it was time for him to embark
The third conspirator needed freed
And a treasonous zelote needed to bleed
So Corvo set out
But as he left a maid had something to tell him about
Her uncle was the Captain of the Guard
His power their foes could not disregard
But a traitor he was not
So his death the spymaster sought
A poisoned glass of tyvian red
Was to bring Geoff Curnow to his deathbed
'Save my uncle' Callista asked
As Corvo donned his assassin's mask
Then Corvo went to the Abbey of the Everyman
Where stay the overseers who hunt down witchcraft wherever they can
Overseer Martin, the third conspirator he freed
then went to do the deed
As he went he learned of the Heretic's Brand
Those who bare it from the abbey are banned
Like a ghost Corvo snuck to the meeting room
Where he spilt the glass that would have brought Curnow to his doom
The pair came in as he hid, though the room was not dark
Curnow walked with High Overseer Campbell, Corvo's mark
The pair then fell snoozing
Campbell's black book was taken for pursuing
To an interrogation chamber the overseer was dragged
With his own brand he was tagged
Later safely in a dumpster Curnow would awake
probably with a bit of an ache
Campbell had helped hide the empress's daughter
After her mother's slaughter
So off Corvo went to the Golden Cat
Where Pendleton's older brothers sat
The former spymaster, newly a regent , they now aided
To relent they could not be persuaded
So their votes in parliament must be taken
Or else the tyrant could not be shaken
Corvo met a man named Slackjaw
Who was honorable, despite working outside the law
A combination to a safe is what he asked
In return mute and mining in their own quarry the Pendleton's would find themselves tasked
Corvo got into the Cat
He took the code and rescued Lady Emily without combat
Though he made some guards fall asleep at their post
He got in and out like a ghost
Slackjaw went through with his word
After the combination he heard
The twins were sentenced to a life of labor
Which must have been quite the change of flavor
The girl was saved and the twins banished
The spymaster's majority in parliament vanished
But he was still receiving funding for his men
To find out from whom Corvo set out again
There was one man who may know
He helps the regent though
The spymaster's mistress he painted
It was hoped that they may have been acquainted
To the house of Anton Sokolov he went
The Royal Physician and painter he relocated without consent
Alas who exactly she was he did not see
but he could narrow it to one of three
He said it was a Lady Boyle
Soon they would be hosting a masked ball quite royal
Identical but in diferent color was their dress
Who's who their guests must guess
Sneakily his target Corvo found
To a man who loved her she was given safe and sound
He never learned where she was sent
But back to the pub Corvo went
Corvo then went to the place where it all did start
To strike at the tyranny's heart
He returned to Dunwall Tower
Where the spymaster did cower
In the regent's safe was found a recording of his plot
Corvo sounded this across the city's speakers to get the tyrant caught
He was done here
Back to the pub he went in good cheer
He could return to his old life
Without further strife
Or could he
Nay, poisoned at the party he would be
But only half the dose he got
And put afloat into the the flooded district, which with peril was fraught
Where the sick and dying were thrown
And a group of assassins had grown
Led by Daud, the Knife of Dunwall
For a bag of coin he could make anybody fall
The Outsider's power he applied
It was by his hand the empress died
Through his home Corvo snuck
By Corvo's hand he was not struck
Daud was broken
As Corvo would have discovered if they had spoken
For once he felt remorse
The death of the empress was its source
He new Corvo had passed through
He later realised he'd been shown mercy undue
The key to his tunnel was gone
Vengeance Corvo had forgone
Corvo returned to the old pub where the conspiracy stayed
He was not the only one who had been betrayed
The three leader of the resistance
No longer needed their old allies' assistance
If what they did became known
From their high power they would be thrown
Every servant and maid
who didn't run was put to the blade
Only Callista, the guard captain's niece was spared
On a debt to her uncle she was locked in the tower her and Emily shared
Piero and Sokolov waited to be found in the workshop where they hid
And find them Corvo did
To one of Sokolov's old weapons they built an upgrade
With Corvo's help the final touches were made
Unconscious it rendered their foes
They found out with the traitors the empress's daughter goes
To the site of the spymaster's last project
A lighthouse, though a fortress in effect
With a flare signal for Samuel they sent
And to Kingsparrow Island they went
Corvo went to the top of the tower
And for the girl he did scour
He found the daughter of the empress and perhaps himself too
Though to make it more than a rumor the evidence is too few
She was finally placed on the throne
But of course she didn't rule on her own
By Corvo she was taught and guided
As a result in her wisdom resided
Soon they halted the plague's spread
And into a golden age Dunwall was lead
There our story ends
An empress dies, the shattered city her bodyguard mends
So Dunwall still stands today
I wonder how long it will stay that way
