>References and inspiration Dishonored heavily inspired the characters and tone of this quest. Knife of Dunwall in particular.
The Old Whaler’s name is a reference to the Whalers of Dishonored, assassins with magic powers.
Arcane bond is directly taken from the game — an ability which lets Daud share magic powers with his assassins.
Fade is similar to Blink, although instead of moving quickly, it is teleportation.
Hellish Quart’s Kalkstein inspired the idea of a manager / adventurer as a protagonist.
I draw a lot of inspiration from history as well.
Johannes is a cuirassier that is based on German Reiter mercenaries and English Civil War’s cuirassiers (they were nicknamed lobsters irl, which is also why he is called such in the quest)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_lobstersSira’s tournament clothing is based on 16-17th century european clothing and pictures from Meyer’s manuscript
https://youtu.be/1PjmD4tDSZMHowever, his hat is based off the tellerbarret [picrel] which is more of a landsknect (type of german mercenary) thing. Some are floppy but some are more sturdy. I chose the one that is basically “straw hat + decorations” since wide brimmed straw hats are used for agriculture anyway.
http://scagermanrenaissance.blogspot.com/2007/09/tellerbarret-or-pizza-hat.html?m=1The mystery behind the Old Whaler was taken directly from a Critikal video about fishing tournament — a fisher was caught cheating by stuffing lead balls and fillets into fishes he caught.
