Dishonored 2

Dishonored 2

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Circle of Life

Circle of Life

Cast Possession once, chaining between human, hound, rat, fish, and bloodfly

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How to unlock the Circle of Life achievement in Dishonored 2 - Definitive Guide

Location
In mission 5 "The Royal Conservatory" you need to infiltrate the conservatory. After the Wall of Light in front of the main entrance of the building, turn right and continue between the building and gate until you reach stairs going down to the basement.

Explanation
Make sure you have unlocked the Possession power and have the upgrades to posses humans and to chain between hosts. You need 12 Runes to unlock all of those. To make it easier you can increase the duration of the power with 1 additional Rune, for a total of 13 Runes.
Normally the Possession power is only available to Corvo, but you can use it with both characters during New Game Plus (thanks to C3LLDW3LLER).

At the bottom of the stairs on your right there is a closed door. Make a quicksave if needed. Open the door and wait for the hound to get close and notice you. You can help by making some noise. When it is close enough use Possession on the hound. Now go through the other door (if the first door is on your right, this one is in front of you) and go down a second stairway. Quickly chain to a rat that's running away as you're coming down the stairs. In the same room there is also a bloodfly, so chain into that. As the fly go through the tunnel and on the other side find a guard that is patrolling the area. Chain into the human and walk over to the pond containing the fish and chain into one of those to unlock the achievement.

Notes:
This cannot be done after you eliminate Breanna in the non-lethal way, as this removes all bloodhounds from the level.
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10 Oct 2019 14:19

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You need to use Corvo for this achievement?
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By C3LLDW3LLER on 20 Oct 2019 19:40
Yes, that is correct. I forgot to mention that in the guide, but the Possession power can only be used by Corvo during a normal playthrough. However, during New Game Plus either character can use all powers.
Thanks for the comment! I will add this to the guide.
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By F77Bloky on 20 Oct 2019 20:06
If you accidentally kill the guy guarding the pond, you can still use unconscious body of someone else, just leave it on the pond's edge and go bloodhound -> rat -> bloodfly -> fish and then human. You probably won't see fish underwater when in bloodfly body, just click somewhere on the water and it should be fine to posses fish.
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By TrollBarowy on 27 Aug 2022 17:54
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Requirements
-Play as Corvo OR if you have are on NG+, you can use Corvo's and Emily's abilities both.
-Possession: Chain targets, extended possession, and controlling humans

Highly recommend
-One crafted 4 accommodating host trait bonecharm.
-Possession: Lasting possession

Ideal location for this in Mission 05: The Royal Observatory. Here is a video I made showing you the easiest way to chain the targets as I take a slightly different approach then most other videos on youtube. With this route/strategy, you should have plenty of time to spare.
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19 Feb 2022 18:54

*HOW TO GET PAST HOUND DEATH GLITCH*


All credit towards Late Night Gamer
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21 Dec 2016 00:00

The earliest you can work on this achievement is during Mission 5, The Royal Conservatory. Take note that this can only be done with Corvo, as Emily does not have the Possession ability. In addition, you must have at least thirteen Runes on hand by the time you reach Mission 5.

Once you reach the outer streets and courtyard of the Royal Conservatory, go ahead and open the character menu and scroll over to the "Powers" tab. Using thirteen Runes, unlock all four Possession skills and then close out of the menu. Your next task will be to pass the Wall of Light at the Conservatory's front entrance and locate the staircase on the far right that leads to the basement and lower yard. In the basement area, you should spot a door that, if you peek through the keyhole, leads to a storage room with a gravehound. To the left of this door is a lower platform infested with rats and a couple bloodflies. There's also a small sewer entrance to the far left that leads to a fountain in the yard where some fish can be found in addition to a single patrolling guard.

After spotting all the hosts you need, create a manual save (for backup in case you mess up), open the door to the storage room, possess the hound using , and then quickly move to the lower platform inside the basement. Now tap to transfer over to a rat and then a bloodfly. From here, fly out of the drainage pipe, transfer over to the human guard, then finish off the cycle by approaching the fountain and possessing a fish. The achievement will unlock after a few seconds of possessing the fish.

Please refer to the video below for a visual guide on how this is done.

NOTE: Feel free to drop a manual backup save before unlocking the necessary skills for this achievement in the event you do not wish to carry on with these skills during your playthrough.

NOTE #2: As of the December 2016 update, the method in the video below no longer works. Possessing a grave hound immediately kills you; you will need to possess the hound last. I suggest going in the following order: human, fish, bloodfly, rat, hound.

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The earliest you can work on this achievement is during Mission 5, The Royal Conservatory. Take note that this can only be done with Corvo, as Emily does not have the Possession ability. In addition, you must have at least thirteen Runes on hand by the time you reach Mission 5.

Once you reach the outer streets and courtyard of the Royal Conservatory, go ahead and open the character menu and scroll over to the "Powers" tab. Using thirteen Runes, unlock all four Possession skills and then close out of the menu. Your next task will be to pass the Wall of Light at the Conservatory's front entrance and locate the staircase on the far right that leads to the basement and lower yard. In the basement area, you should spot a door that, if you peek through the keyhole, leads to a storage room with a gravehound. To the left of this door is a lower platform infested with rats and a couple bloodflies. There's also a small sewer entrance to the far left that leads to a fountain in the yard where some fish can be found in addition to a single patrolling guard.

After spotting all the hosts you need, create a manual save (for backup in case you mess up), open the door to the storage room, possess the hound using , and then quickly move to the lower platform inside the basement. Now tap to transfer over to a rat and then a bloodfly. From here, fly out of the drainage pipe, transfer over to the human guard, then finish off the cycle by approaching the fountain and possessing a fish. The achievement will unlock after a few seconds of possessing the fish.

Please refer to the video below for a visual guide on how this is done.

NOTE: Feel free to drop a manual backup save before unlocking the necessary skills for this achievement in the event you do not wish to carry on with these skills during your playthrough.

NOTE #2: As of the December 2016 update, the method in the video below no longer works. Possessing a grave hound immediately kills you; you will need to possess the hound last. I suggest going in the following order: human, fish, bloodfly, rat, hound.

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Mission 5 "Royal Cabinet of Curiosities". Here's a video
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14 Nov 2016 05:52

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Quite simply and much earlier can be done in 3 missions. On it you will just accumulate the required number of runes. You do it almost exactly like in the video. First, into the dog, we drive the rats out of the room (this is important, it will give you more time), we get out of the dog and move into it again. Everything else is obvious. The only thing is that if you don’t have living people along the way, you can leave a corpse next to the flies and go the whole way like this - Dog, rat, corpse, wasp, fish. I got it right on the first try
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhOyEGvbDPE
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By LegionSoviet on 24 Jun 2017 13:02
If only someone would write that this trophy is made exclusively by Corvo, I played it without magic the first time and started the second time as Emily with magic and only now I realized that it was in vain.
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By Woodlix on 18 Apr 2017 02:22
Mission 5 is not the only place where you can get this trophy. It can also be obtained in the 3rd and even in the 8th.
I played to the fullest and didn’t have enough runes for the 5th mission. So I found this great alternative video.

Mission 8 https://youtu.be/Ii7NDT2vXHw

One more thing, in case the rats from the previous video do not appear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--mNd3kX7o8
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By Skripilev on 06 Jun 2017 09:14
First you need to open the grate opposite the entrance to the dog

Video of receiving the trophy after patch 1.02
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By kai_marcii on 23 Dec 2016 20:57
done easily in the same place from the first video, but in a different order
you move into a rat => into a dog, in it you go through the gate to a man from him to a fly (there is always above the well) from a fly to a fish
after patch 1.3, if you do it as in the video, the fourth entry is very short and you won’t be able to reach the dog
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By madboiz on 29 Jan 2017 20:45
Probably fixed it. After possessing a demonic dog, I die. Even if she argues or not.
They say you can in Adermir (mission 4). I don’t know how yet.
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By DelvooD on 19 Dec 2016 23:31
If you can’t get from a fish to a person (like me), then try first from the fish back into the fly, and from it into the person. (The fly should be left above the fountain.)
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By c0k0ji on 03 Jan 2017 20:11
If a person is not near the fountain, then he can be put to sleep or stunned and brought to the fountain. You just need to move into it last. So, the order is as follows: Dog - Rat - we don’t touch the flies, we run through the tunnel - Fish - Fly over the fountain - A man stunned by you, lying near the fountain! There will still be a couple of seconds left.
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By dark_lurker799 on 08 Mar 2017 16:44
They are done for Emeli exclusively on NG+, when all abilities are available to both characters. Initially, the introduction was a feature of Corvo.
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By Nafanya29 on 22 Nov 2017 15:29
In the latest update in February, the bug in the Kunstkamera was fixed, you can again inhabit a dog and you don’t die.
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By selimoff on 08 Feb 2017 19:19
dark_lurker799's hint is incorrect. Only today, 03/10/18, I completed this trophy. He put the guard to sleep and brought him to the fountain (Chapter 5 of the Kunskammer). Neither a fish nor a wasp can possess a sedated and stunned guard. Don't waste your time.
I went through everything as in the video, namely dog-rat-wasp-man-fish. Time running out.
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By NesvetskyLev on 10 Mar 2018 20:33
He does not listen to those who say that this is being done “exclusively for Corvo.” Maybe this was the case before, but now all trophies related to abilities are definitely done for Emily. I played Corvo for the first time without magic. Now I’m following Emily with magic and have already taken all the trophies for abilities.
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By crazy_creatiff on 24 Oct 2017 10:24
We open the gate to the fountain, then carefully open the door to the dog, then, as in the video, we start with the rat, but then the dog-man-fly above the fountain and the fish, laid end to end I must say.
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By himeo on 13 Feb 2018 00:49
For some reason, the wasp could not fly through the pipe to the container with the fish (it ran into an invisible wall). As a result, I kicked the dog out into the street (through the door, which needs to be unlocked), where I fulfilled the requirements for the trophy (there will be all kinds of creatures along the way). It seemed to me that it turned out much easier than in the video in the first tip.
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By maxfriden on 31 Jan 2021 17:11
After the patch it dies when you move into the dog, you can improvise and go down to scare off the rats, they will run to the dog, open the gate opposite the door to the room where the dog and rats are now, then a mosquito
Fly out into the chimney as in the video, if you do it quickly, he won’t die, move out at the fountain with fish, lure a person closer to the fountain, so we ended up with a man, a fish, a mosquito at the fountain, a dog and rats in the cell, now we do everything quickly 1. man - 2. fish - 3. mosquito and fly quickly through the gate that was opened into the chamber with the dog 4. rat (usually from the left right away) and there is just enough time to run to the dog, she usually walks in the center, we die and get a trophy.
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By Dimas86rus on 20 Dec 2016 09:17
I did it for Emily at company+. In mission 3 there were no rats in the room with dogs, I collected all the runes and bought more in the store, still 1 piece was not enough to fully study the Invasion and the Pack of Rats. I had to refuse to inhabit a person in consciousness. I put 2 bodies at the wasps, then 1 dog for my pack of rats. He broke the glass in a room with dogs (in that place a guard is standing teasing them), a cast of a flock of rats, possessed a dog that jumped out of the window, then a rat, then a corpse, then a wasp (I opened the aquarium before breaking the glass) then flew away, here everything depends on the speed of introduction - about 15 times I was able to fly to the fish and move in - I was thrown out of the fish right there, but got a trophy. If there are rats in a room with dogs, then there is no problem at all = rat - dog - person outside the window - wasp - fish.
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By commonerX on 22 Apr 2018 09:18
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At the Addermere Institute there is a fish pool right next to the arrival point. There is a light wall inside the building. There's an elevator right behind it. And in front of the elevator there is a display case with wasps. To the right of the elevator is a lobby with rooms and guards, where one of them writes on a typewriter, one looks at dogs (regular ones, not like in the Kunstkamera), and the third is sleeping, but we don’t need him. There are also mice on this floor. To the right of the arrival point, a little further away, there is another guard. In general, putting all this together into a puzzle will not be difficult!
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