While Elizabeth is on her balcony in the library, Booker accidentally falls through the ceiling while she at first reacts aggressively and pummels him with several books, she realizes the significance of another human presence, and reacts to him with awe and disbelief. Unaware that she is being observed, she uses her powers to open a Tear to Paris in the year 1984, shocking Booker. Elizabeth was still able to open tears, but she lost her omniscience across the multiverse and was confined to certain realities, unable to completely escape.īioShock Infinite Main article: BioShock Infinite Escape from Monument Island Įlizabeth remained in her tower until July 6, 1912, the anniversary of Columbia's secession, when Booker DeWitt finally arrives in the city. As her powers continued to grow and reached their peak at her first menarche at 13, the Lutece twins constructed a device in the tower called the Siphon, which was activated in 1907 to control Elizabeth's powers by draining her of her quantum energy. Elizabeth tested her powers and explored numerous realities where she dreamed of escaping to her freedom, namely the city of Paris.

By the time Elizabeth reached puberty, she began to resent Songbird and wished to leave her tower. She also had a fascination of art, history, and literature. Elizabeth bonded with the Songbird through an act of kindness when it crashed into her tower and reattached its oxygen tube, thus Songbird imprinting on her.Īs Elizabeth grew, she spent her time reading and learning a variety of skills such as dressmaking, painting, and lockpicking. Columbia Industrialist Jeremiah Fink collaborated with Suchong on a protector for Elizabeth - and thus the Songbird was created by Fink to guard her. Yi Suchong - including plasmids and Protectors known as the Big Daddy. One of these tears contained the underwater city of Rapture and the works of Dr. Because of this ability and Lady Comstock's fervent rejection of her, Elizabeth was moved to Monument Island for containment and study. These appearances were caused by Elizabeth, as it was discovered that she had the ability to create portals in space-time at will. Īround this time, tears in reality began to appear in Columbia. Elizabeth was to be upheld as the heir to Comstock's throne who would one day 'cleanse the world of the Sodom below.' However, Lady Comstock believed that Elizabeth was the 'bastard child' of Rosalind Lutece and Comstock, and demanded that the child be removed from her home. The populace of the city was told that Anna, renamed Elizabeth Comstock, was a miracle child who grew in Lady Annabelle Comstock's womb for only seven days before her birth. Seeing that Columbia would fall without an heir, he sent Robert and Rosalind Lutece to retrieve Anna and thereby ensure the city's continued prosperity. Comstock was unable to have his own biological children due to overexposure from the Lutece Device, as he used it to see all possible futures and outcomes that gave him the title of 'Prophet'. As the tear closed, it severed Anna's pinky finger as she reached out for her father, placing her simultaneously in two different realities.Ī mural of Lady and Father Comstock with the miracle child.Īnna was taken to the floating city of Columbia, built in a parallel universe by Comstock, an alternate version of her father who converted to a radical form of Christianity and white supremacy following the Massacre at Wounded Knee - whereas her biological father refused the baptism and became a Pinkerton agent. Booker struggled with Comstock to get Anna, but his efforts were in vain as the two escaped with Anna as Rosalind Lutece closed the portal. At an alleyway, Booker found Robert and Father Comstock with Anna at an open portal between dimensions, ready to cross over.

Feeling immediately regretful for his actions, he pursued Robert to retrieve his daughter. On October 8th, 1893 Booker gave Anna to Robert as instructed. Later that year, Booker was contacted by Robert Lutece, a representative of Father Zachary Hale Comstock, an enigmatic man who offered to pay off all of Booker's debts in exchange for ownership of Anna. Booker then descended into depression, excessive drinking, and gambling, which resulted in him building up a large amount of debt. Booker, a former Pinkerton agent, had been expelled from the agency around the time of Anna's birth for his use of extreme brutality in quelling workers' strikes. 3.9 Return to Rapture and the Civil WarĮlizabeth, originally named Anna DeWitt, was born in 1893 to Booker and Annabelle DeWitt, with Annabelle dying from childbirth.2.6 The Hand of the Prophet and Songbird.

2.4 Emporia and Confrontation with Lady Comstock.

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