most of the text is just scribbles meant to look like words (shakes my fist at arkane) but its good for showing all the Bits and how theres really not a lot in there

half of the body is a gear that i don't think connects to anything like the gear bits are just Not Touching Anything and i am pushing jindosh down the stairs i am bullying this fictional character why is it there?? why are there so many gears like I Get that it goes with the clockwork thing but it just… it doesn't look like it should work. like it doesn't look like it could be real in any circumstances like the design is purely aesthetic

The gear might be connected by its side surface to something inside the body like a piston or a cam. In fact the teeth are asymmetrical and stick out on the side, which is bad for classical side-by-side gears (it's just a bad configuration for solidity), but would be coherent if it's connected to mechanisms inside the robot's body

Eels: Danny danny danny I am grabbing you I love you. Something ELSE that gets me is that there is a fuckig..... TV???? Apparently??? In dh1??? I never found it personally but there's screenshots that I've seen from y'all???

It looks like vacuum tube technology? In color?? Which would provide SOME basis for cameras which by extreme extension could get us to clockworks but ALSO silver graphs are NEW here there aren't even moving pictures yet WHAT IS HAPPENING? Lovelace was active in the irl 1830s-1850s so with the weird mishmash in dhverse we could have types of early computing for clockworks though which is actually neat to think about

Oh a cool hc - it's some sort of advanced steampunk-y early computing alongside maybe some black magic jindosh got from delilah... like, micro bonecharms in their heads or something that gives them some sort of extra oomph....

Hiaen: There are two things to keep in mind concerning DH technology. One is that sometimes the Outsider will meddle, or magic is used, and it allows technology far beyond what should be possible in that time (specifically Piero's inventions, and whale oil used as a multifunction fuel)

Another thing is that the money disparity is huge - while silvergraph are just available, they're available to a widespread public. It needs some knowledge to develop the pictures, but apparently the cameras are cheap enough that a Howler and a random NPC on the docks can acquire one. On the other hand, Hiram's TV was one-of-a-kind and he had all the Crown's money to pay for it, and Jindosh had Luka's funding.

Custy: Yah I think overall smth to point out is the fact that Dunwall doesn't exactly follow our timeline of technology, so like there's some room for like advanced tech sneaking into earlier time periods (see: Potes's entry about sewing machines being a thing way earlier than they should)

Eels: Yeah yeah yeah for sure. I guess what gets me is how vastly different something like a fully functioning tv is in terms of timelines - like, color wasn't invented until the 1960s?? I think?? Hiaen's point about wealth distribution also stands, the TV specifically has always just stuck out to me as Weird even given the flexibility of everything else

Custy: YAH like with the sewing machine stuff it still feels like it fits? But with a fully functioning TV in the 1800s it just feels off?

Eels: Yeah, it feels like something that was more of a dev choice they didn't 100% think through and was more for gameplay than actually lore consistent

Custy: Like no amount of wealth could develop such technology so early, since it clashes with everything else about the technology of Dunwall

Hiaen: I agree, Jindosh's clockworks aren't as far-fetched - we can imagine basic computing at this time, automatons have been a thing that exist for a while, whale oil solves the eternal problem of power autonomy. The only iffy thing would be cameras functional enough for facial recognition, and I'm ready to admit to black magic for that part (especially since it's close enough to what Jindosh and Breanna were doing with the Oraculum).

Color TV though? Before photography? Before radio? Especially something that looks like cathode ray tubes, it's not an elaborate lense-and-mirror trick.

Owls at the Conservatory using clockwork parts

Magpie: Also I have to point something out because I am 100% sure they were just cutting corners by reusing assets

but the wing of the owls in the conservatory (the mechanic part that's exposed)? it's literally the Clockwork Solider's leg

Makes me wonder if 1. they can move? 2. Jindosh made them? 3. Jindosh made them using his magnetic technology so they can move