[spoilers] Who the heck is Emily's father?

[AshyGreen]

Did I miss something? Other than a few hints left by the Empress that she's very emotionally attached to Corvo? I'd really rather not believe that Corvo is Emily's father - just think about it, an Emperess having an affair with her guard? In the world of Dishonored, rival politicians would be all over it.

And that leaves Emily's father unknown.

[Not So Serious]

Hints that Corvo is the father:
1) One of the pictures Emily draws of Corvo says "Daddy" in the top-left corner
2) At the end, you can find Havlock's journel where he writes "is [Corvo] really her father?"
3) In the High Chaos ending, Pendelton will say "Everyone knows you were screwing the Empress!"

[TeslaGirl]

Personally, I don't think Corvo is Emily's father. The way I played the game, Corvo was far too honorable to besmirch his Empress's honor by bedding her; no matter what his personal feelings for her were.

I prefer to think that he knows who the father is, but remains silent. There is no power on earth that would make him betray Jessamine's confidence. Emily's affection for him serves a very practical purpose in protecting her life - she needs to trust and believe in him.

Several comments are made throughout the game that Corvo is a court outsider and doesn't "mingle" with the imperial sychophants. I do not think he cares what gossips say about him -so long as it doesn't undermine Jessamine's throne.

Let everyone assume he fathered the child if that is what Jessamine wants - it keeps them from searching for the real father...

[BaconHer0]

Publicado originalmente por TeslaGirl:

Let everyone assume he fathered the child if that is what Jessamine wants - it keeps them from searching for the real father...

... Who was a whale! A big fat whale in the deep blue sea!

[LordVelvet]

the royal guard having an affair with the queen/empress.. wont be the first time and for sure wont be the last.

[BaconHer0]

Queens don't stay unmaried though... Dunwall has strange customs.

[MikePlaysIt]

I'm going to weigh in and say that Corvo indeed is Emily's father. Yes, Corvo is extremely honorable, BUT, you can not say that he wouldn't have relations with the Empress because of his honor. He wouldn't be besmirching the Empress and her name if he were to have a private relationship with her, one of which they kept secret apparently pretty well, as even to this day 10+ years after the fact, there are still only rumors, and most simply spur from the fact that there is no other father figure in Emily's life...

I honestly think that Corvo and the Empress feel in love. Apparently after Corvo was given to Jessamine's father, as a gift, to serve him, apparently. I think that's when they fell in love, far before Jessamine's rule, and hid it, because Corvo was not a noble, as he was stated before, and Jessamine gave him the highest ranking, closest position she could, which was royal protector. You don't make someone royal protector unless you are extremely fond and comfortable with them. Because as it's stated in one of the books, usually the royal protector is chosen while the royal is still a child. So Jessamine had to have had very strong feelings for Corvo. Strong enough, to simply have sex one night, and have Emily be the result.. Simple as that.

[ADVENT Testiculator]

I'm pretty late, but Emily most likely doesn't know that Corvo is her father if he even is. In the beginning of the game, if you keep talking to Emily, she will say "If you won't marry my mother, would you marry me?"

[MikePlaysIt]

Publicado originalmente por Spodermen:

I'm pretty late, but Emily most likely doesn't know that Corvo is her father if he even is. In the beginning of the game, if you keep talking to Emily, she will say "If you won't marry my mother, would you marry me?"

Yes. If you keep talking to her while playing hide and seek or just before talking to Jessamine. I also think that. I don't think that Emily knows that Corvo is her father. As for the "daddy" drawing, well, like I said before, he's the ONLY father figure in her life, so that explains that.

That's part of the reason I really want Dishonored 2 to still involve Corvo and Emily, maybe where you continue as Corvo in the beginning of the game, and then once Corvo trains Emily enough, to take care of herself, once Corvo becomes old and frail, you then play as Emily. Maybe during this time you are approached by the Outsider who gives Emily her own set of powers in order to keep the whole chain of trapped loved ones going (it's stated in the Dishonored wiki that Empress Jessamine will remain trapped and misused until there is no longer anyone alive, who she cares about, that is marked by the Outsider).. Or maybe Corvo, not knowing of how big of a ♥♥♥♥ the Outsider is, makes a deal with him to get Emily powers so she can take care of herself after he's gone, selling his soul maybe? To become trapped, just as the Empress' is/was? Then the game can go into the whole deal where you "battle and defeat the Outsider" as stated in some of the leaked Dishonored 2 stuff.. Maybe Granny Rags gives Emily a bit of information, because she remembers her fleeing the Golden Cat as a girl, and that's when Emily finds out about her mother and Corvo being trapped, THEN IT'S ON! Maybe Emily teams up with the Overseers. Because that would certainly be a change of pace, seeing as how the Overseers were enemies in the first game. It would be interesting. .............Wait, what were we talking about again? lol

[Wizerd]

Emily draws a picture of Corvo in his room after you capture Sokolov. It is on the table next to your bed and it says "daddy" under it.

[aqvarivs]

thread equals hashtag fail

yawn

[NaNoStRiKe]

Corvo is her father! check the wiki theres an entire back story to the game wich is awsome!

[Gosha]

Publicado originalmente por CUCUMBER WATER:

Emily's father was a whale found in deep ocean while the Empress was travelling. It was unfortunately caught and turned into whale oil and tinned meat.

It was a tragic scandalous story forbidden to be repeated in the empire.

I just logged in to clarify: it was a SPERM WHALE.

[aqvarivs]

A young Samuel forced himself upon Jasmine long before she was Empress and is why he had to escape to a life at sea. That is where as youthful midshipman, Farley Havelock returned the favor as he and Samuel clung desperately to each other in a sea tossed forepeak one stormy night. Which is why Samuel has a love hate relationship with Corvo and studiously ignores the women of the Hounds Pit. Love, she makes you do crazy things. :D

[Sandwich Man]

I'll take it from here. Look up the fugue feast in-game or on the wiki, it'll answer this plot hole.

But of course no one does that sort of thing. So, I'll just explain it.

In short, the fugue feast is basically a more docile verison of the purge where the laws are mostly irrelevant and people can get really drunk and the like. Since the day of the fugue feast is stricken from the calendars or any other records, even though everyone knows that's the date of Emily's conception, they literally can't talk about it.

Corvo had Emily when he and Jessamine knew they could start a family without being judged. As a foreigner and a commoner, he simply could not marry the heir to the Dunwall Empire. But on a day that no one is allowed to remember, anything goes.

[MikePlaysIt]

Publicado originalmente por Thway the AetherKnight:

I'll take it from here. Look up the fugue feast in-game or on the wiki, it'll answer this plot hole.

But of course no one does that sort of thing. So, I'll just explain it.

In short, the fugue feast is basically a more docile verison of the purge where the laws are mostly irrelevant and people can get really drunk and the like. Since the day of the fugue feast is stricken from the calendars or any other records, even though everyone knows that's the date of Emily's conception, they literally can't talk about it.

Corvo had Emily when he and Jessamine knew they could start a family without being judged. As a foreigner and a commoner, he simply could not marry the heir to the Dunwall Empire. But on a day that no one is allowed to remember, anything goes.

Hm. Thats interesting.