[SPOILER] Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*

[rotten]

The egg is almost certainly an Orb, and the whole twin candles thing is just about the puzzle in the church to open the altar.

Yeah, I forgot that puzzle, my bad.
I agree that this Egg is most certainly the Orb, but my point is that Mandus is hearing its voice and it's the voice of the machine.
Here's a couple of quotes:
- "I can only hear the voice from within that gentlest of stones. It sings to me and I dream of a great machine"
- "And then we came to London and I set it upon the mantelpiece"
If I'm not mistaken by the end of the game the Machine says "and you set me upon a mantelpiece". Not to mention that in the second ending the Egg/Orb said that now it was gonna hatch thanks to Mandus.

ALSO:
If this post - http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thr...#pid257498 - is to be believed, then this guy in the iron long isn't Oswald.