Treatise on the Physical Existence of that Foreign Realm [Excerpt]
The Abbey of the Everyman condemns any continued study into the Void and its existence. But consider, if you will, the whales hauled daily into Dunwall’s great slaughterhouses. Are they more, or less frightening when dangled from a butcher’s hook? Is a thing rendered more mysterious, more dangerous, and more powerful when it has been dissected, studied, and categorized? No, I say! Natural Philosophy may yet banish all uncertainties from the world and bring all that is feared beneath our knowing gaze.
It is true I am not a religious man, but one must respect the Abbey of the Everyman for its continued moral guidance of our great Empire. Surely even the High Overseer himself would agree that a thorough investigation into the Void would yield knowledge which could be used towards better protection against its malignancies. We would be able to subject the Void to scrutiny rather than be subjected to its insidious influences. Everything that is known can be brought into the natural order of the world.
If the Abbey would allow it, I am sure we may one day traverse the Void safely. We may yet be free of the Outsider’s whispers, if such a creature exists.