Shapeshifting Outsider

Tagged as The Outsider

Creator: Sarge

Description:

shapeshifter Outsider. an eldrich entity, no one knows his age or real form, but like after ppl started worshipping him or some shit he took interest on people and would be rather comfortable shifting into a humanoid kind thing, what he's like in-game obviously

and like. something something ppl of dunwall believing in shit like anthropocentrism and more complex stuff i just forgot abt. anyways yea i love the outsider and also he's nonbinary periodt

YES. I always thought it was a little interesting that people in game also seem to have different interpretations of the outsider, both physically and personality wise. Some people view him as an almighty being, others just view him as almost a trickster like creature, and even other just kinda go “haha witchcraft go brrrrr” until they accidentally murder their friend

Honestly in my terms, the outsider checks all the boxes of a trickster archetype.

He’s very strange in that he definitely comes across as the trickster god type, since he gives off the vibes being omnipotent and all knowing, so he’d know just what to say to kinda lean one way, and the general way he speaks to and treats those that worship him, and just the general disregard of people using witchcraft without any sort of experience

But simultaneously he isn’t like a agent of chaos or anything he’s just,,, overall curious and fascinated with human nature and allows others to use his gifts to meet their own fate on their own volition

what if the outsider myth originated somewhere else, and travelled around, each culture having there own interpretations? Like, i know the abbey depicts sider as a winged serpent, but what about the ancient civilizations that came before the empire?

I'm actually working on an AU that takes place in Northern Gristol's Iron Age, and one of the peoples there worships the Outsider as a whale god who's well-meaning, but mischievous :D The village where the opening takes place has an artifact in his honor that they believe calls the whales they depend on to their coasts every whaling season, and the story kicks off because the artifact is stolen and the whales stop coming.

I know that on the wiki for morley they mention some witches selecting the king and queen of morley after a huge civil war, and im :eye: :lips: :eye: because of how witches founded the place, smth smth sider being interpreted as a sort of patron deity of the monarch along with influence over those who died discordant/violent deaths. Just a thought™. Or the possibility of those witches possibly being a pair of morleyan deities that pre-date sider but later got codified as witches in written records