Dishonored is a series of action-adventure games developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.

[1] The player assumes control of an assassin who has access to various supernatural powers, which can be used to navigate a level and defeat enemies.

[7] In the first game, Royal Protector Corvo Attano is framed for the assassination of Empress Jessamine Kaldwin.

He allies with the Loyalists—a resistance group fighting to reclaim Dunwall, and the Outsider, a supernatural being who grants him magical powers, to restore Kaldwin's daughter, Emily, to the throne.

[8] Dishonored was released in October 2012 for PlayStation 3, Windows, and Xbox 360 and it received very positive reviews from critics and became one of the best-selling new video game intellectual properties in the 2010s.

[9] Subsequently, Arkane released two downloadable content packs, The Knife of Dunwall and The Brigmore Witches, for the game.

Both content packs feature the assassin Daud, who murdered Empress Kaldwin at the beginning of the game.

[10] In the second game, the witch Delilah Copperspoon, who claims to be Jessamine's older half-sister and the successor to the throne, topples Emily's rule.

[17] Co-director Dinga Bakaba later clarified in 2020, saying that the press had over-interpreted Bare's statement and added that he did not think "there was a decision to put [the] Dishonored series on hold".

However, Bakaba reiterated that they would not be revisiting the same storyline in the future, and that subsequent games in the series would only feature new protagonists.