The high ceiling was set with stained glass, which cast a rainbow of colors across the octagonal chamber. Billie stood at one of the sides of a huge eight-sided oak table that filled the room. Around the table sat seven natural philosophers, each wearing a heavier academic gown in charcoal gray, with black banding on the sleeves. Three men, four women, experts in their fields, the most senior and most respected natural philosophers in the whole of the Isles—and all highly annoyed at having been pulled from their research or teaching duties by this strange interloper, all resentful of the intrusion and the favor owed to Billie, thanks to her connection with their most illustrious member, Sokolov.

- Dishonored: The Veiled Terror Chapter 6