You've killed us both

[Renegade_]

Alexander escapes: "You didn't stop him and now you will PAY"
Agrippa escapes: "Two birds in one shot, luckyyy"
The portal is destroyed: "Hey Danny-boy, thanks for stopping Alexander, I'll let you off the hook"

Problem with that is the third scenario: if The Shadow was after "stopping Alexander" then it wouldn't be chasing Daniel. If it was after preventing the Orb's use, as I mentioned in the first post, then it would have been content to leave without killing anyone. Furthermore, the Shadow is described as a 'universal balancing force', like gravity, and so for it to change its mind or have some whimsical flippy-floppy personal agenda seems a contradiction.

For a man who escaped teh Shadow som much times (and with our help as well) - escaping it another time is a piece of cake. I'm not even surprised.

Regarding to other endings: Shadow was chasing Alexander as well, but since the Inner Room as impenetrable coz of Orb, Guardian decided to took Daniel first. Now, if you remember, we broke that protective barrier and Alexander want to escape from Shadow in to other world which implies teh fact: Guardian can't follow him.
Back to the endings: the first one, when you let Alexander escape, the only victim is you. The second one, when you help Agrippa, it happens that you move with him to the other world, because, as you remember, there was Weyer as well (who is supposed to be on the "other side"). Such conditions clearly states that Daniel escaped from the Shadow.

"a man that could escape The Shadow so much times" would have have likewise been able to escape in all three endings; he didn't, so that theory doesn't work.

"regarding to other endings": Yes in all cases we broke the orb, yes in all cases Alexander wants to escape, yes in all cases The Shadow cannot follow him into the portal... but how does any of that explain why in only some cases it takes Daniel? Also, again remember, The Guardian is a balancing force, it doesn't 'decide', but even if it did, the problem still remains as to why it didn't 'decide' to take him in all endings (unless as I say we are to believe it is some whimsically fickle force).

Yes we rejoin with Agrippa & Weyer, but you're mistaken: this only happens quite clearly after The Shadow has taken Daniel. We see him die, he most certainly did not escape alive, and so The Shadow also takes him in this ending, yet not in all of them, leaving the contradiction.