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human
[Dishonored] Does following and reciting the seven Strictures of the Abbey actually keep the Outsider away?

According to Overseers and the flavor text for the Strictures, you can keep the Outsider from influencing you in any way as long you stay faithful to the Abbey of the Everyman, and don't break any of the Strictures excessively. However, given how little information the Overseers actually have on the Outsider, is there any evidence in the game to suggest that the Strictures and the Overseers that enforce them are actually effective at doing this?
gpt
Actually following the Seven Strictures would make you an incredibly boring person, and the Outsider's gaze is most often drawn to those he finds interesting.

So in at least that sense, yes. It does.