in 1931, Blackreef was originally home to a small fishing settlement and a military base where experiments were conducted on local temporal anomalies. It is now owned by the AEON Program, founded by scientist Egor Serling to exploit the island's unique properties to gain immortality by living in an infinite time loop. Serling attracted eight other eccentric and talented individuals to his cause, the Visionaries, and scores of young, fanatical followers called Eternalists dedicated to serving them. Thanks to the time loop, the members of the AEON Program are able to hold a never-ending party where they can do anything they desire without fear of consequences, since the loop resets at midnight and restores everyone to their original state with no memories of the previous day. Disrupting the natural flow of the loop are two of the Visionaries: Colt Vahn and Julianna Blake. Julianna is immune to the time loop's memory erasure, and every day she alerts all of Blackreef's inhabitants that Colt has betrayed the AEON Program and wants to break the loop, causing everyone to hunt him. Colt develops the ability to retain his memories from previous days as well, and is thus able to learn the behaviors and patterns of the Visionaries and Eternalists. In order to break the loop, Colt must assassinate all eight of the other Visionaries, including Julianna, in one day, because the loop requires only one of them to still be alive at midnight in order to reset again. The game's director Dinga Bakaba confirmed that Deathloop exists in the same universe as the Dishonored series, far in the future after the events of Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, and both the Dishonored series and Deathloop include references alluding to one another. Characters The central characters of Deathloop are the nine Visionaries: Colt Vahn (voiced by Jason E. Kelley) - The previous head of security of the AEON Program who seeks to break the loop and escape Blackreef. Julianna Blake (voiced by Ozioma Akagha) - AEON's archivist and new head of security, who is constantly hunting Colt. Egor Serling (voiced by Josh Zuckerman) - The founder of the AEON Program and a self-proclaimed "pseudoscientist". Dr. Wenjie Evans (voiced by Erika Ishii) - AEON's head scientist and the builder of the loop machine that generates the time loop. Harriet Morse (voiced by Marcella Lentz-Pope) - The leader of the cult of Eternalists. Ramblin' Frank