I remember reading some rumors that part of the dev team behind Thief also works on Dishonored. Thief was a fantastic game, so is Dishonored, and the similarities are striking. It would be interesting to know if this fact is true.
This would not surprise me at all. One of the main level designers for Dishonored also did City 17 in Half-Life 2. When I first played through it I was like "wow this person really got inspired by HL2". Turns out it was the same guy. Dishonored was honestly a better Thief reboot than the new Thief, but then again the new Thief really made me furious. I think I got < 2 hours in before I just couldn't stand it anymore.
Ironically, Dark Shadows has been one of my all-time-faves because of the great atmo. Today I'm sitting next to my 16-year-old watching him playing Dishonored (+ Skyrim and others) on the Paystation.
That's true. At the very least, one of the head designers was on the Thief team.