Noticed something about an area in the game

[Brigador Lemur]

Does anyone else think that the Boyle Mansion area was inspired in part by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"?
The first thing that struck me was the masquerade the Boyle's were having, it appeared as if they intended to just revel, along with their guests, in all the luxery until the plague has killed off or just passed by, showing absolutely no sympathy for those who are dying outside.
And another thing is that Corvo could very well be considered the Red Death here, as the mask he's wearing looks a lot like a skull and that he's there to take the life of someone, not everyone like the plague in the story.
Now I would like to point out that I didn't think about this until I had actually read "The Masque of the Red Death" in the iPoe app for the iPhone which made me realize the similiarities between the two.

[Sentient_Toaster]

The people on dishonored.wikia.com also draw that connection. Plague outside, luxurious debauchery inside, until the worst party guest ever crashes and spoils the fun.

(Well, you don't HAVE to spoil it for everybody;it's possible to affect very few people and leave most of the guests as they are. But...)

[Brigador Lemur]

Originally posted by Sentient_Toaster:

The people on dishonored.wikia.com also draw that connection. Plague outside, luxurious debauchery inside, until the worst party guest ever crashes and spoils the fun.

(Well, you don't HAVE to spoil it for everybody;it's possible to affect very few people and leave most of the guests as they are. But...)

Like I did actually, I only went after the target and nobody else noticed what was going on.

[Sentient_Toaster]

I think I left four people conscious on my current (second) run; everybody else had a strange urge to go to the service stairwell for some reason. Spirt Water (recharge mana from sinks) + Possession II :D.

(Didn't have a huge choice in the matter. After a certain point, for some reason all the guards and all the guests and staff still thought of me as a normal innocuous if tastelessly masked guest, but all the Lady Boyles started freaking out when they saw me, so they were the first possession targets. After that, I decided to preempt everybody else's possible alarm, too. Party in the upstairs bathroom, guys! :D)

[Brigador Lemur]

And actually this isn't the first time that Edgar Allen Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" has had an influence of sorts on a game plot.
The old DOS and Windows game Tex Murphy: Under A Killing Moon more or less has a similar plot, and funnily enough Murphy can be considered the Red Death in that game.

[Spike The Psiborg]

another thing that may interest you: corvo is corvus from latin to english corvus translates to "raven" sound familiar?

[Spike The Psiborg]

there are tons of little snippets and easter eggs in this game