[SPOILER] Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*

[PathOS]

The Machine/Orb does seem to refer to itself as Mandus' "child" of sorts, so that's why the first "Daddy don't kill me" was probably the machine. The Machine/Orb also talks about itself from its own point of view as "the egg" and how he was placed upon the mantle and then put next to the hearts of Mandus' children.

Also the ending monologue referring to the manpigs singing was a throwback to another of Mandus' notes where he stated that such "children" would never sing, and would more easily swear fealty to a god. I took that as a note that the manpigs were free of them both and did indeed have their own minds despite Mandus/Orb's attempts to make them into automatons of their own.