[SPOILER] Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*

[PathOS]

A few things are still confusing me.

Did Mandus transform the orphanage children into manpigs or did he just use them as is? (regarding the journal entry where he describes "children" going into the steam pipes with messy consequences, then feeding survivors to the "pigs" (again, manpigs, or people?))

Who exactly did he transform into manpigs? Mostly poor? No rich? I suppose it seemed more like Mandus' hatred towards the rich was a later thing in around October and he'd been doing stuff since June at the latest.

Now in several of his Journal entries he refers to the "Product". Is this a reference to regular pigs, manpigs or humans?

Sometimes it's hard to get a grasp on who is he serving to whom for dinner and such.

This is by far a better story than a man who sees a vision of the future and decides to kill everyone.I just felt like the idea of killing everyone wasn't justified enough. Daniels reason for torturing people made sense. He was scared of the shadow. Mandus should have been given more motivation. Maybe instead of his wife dying after childbirth, she could have been killed by some hobo or begger. Maybe his kids could have been kidnapped by hobos too or something idk. This may sound dumb but at least his hate of the poor and others would have been more justified.

Mandus' Journals clearly indicate a man who was already at the brink of a mental breakdown before he even made his ill-fated sabbatical to Mexico, talking of losing everything, wealth and such, and killing his creditors. His happenstance in Mexico pushed him over the edge after showing him a future where his sons die in a World War, having been already pushed to the brink before this, and reeling from the loss of his wife after all this time, he was easily put under the influence of the Orb and formed a split personality.

At the start, he thought that he could save his children from that fate by making a sacrifice like the Aztecs, but as time goes by and his descent into madness continues (especially the more he experiments with Compound X), his warped self starts to believe that all of mankind is damned and that there are no "worthy souls" that can be saved, which eventually culminates in the murder of his twins, and then expanding the machine into something greater that can wipe all mankind out.

It was a gradual process which led him to decide to end all of man. The thing no one can really say is, what changed his mind after Christmas?