Some unanswered questions.

[Culinus]

- Why was Daniel able to simply piece an Orb back together with some adhesive (twice), when evidently Alexander could never do so himself with his own broken Orb?

I had a theory about this when I was playing the game. When running around collecting the orbs from the torture rooms I thought about what I had read in the dairies earlier when he tried to assemble it the first time. Because he'd had a lot of difficulty getting the pieces together, and Alexander who was obviously a very intelligent and educated man had thought it was impossible I simply assumed there would be some puzzle when assembling it.

In the diaries he says that the pieces are constantly changing. When he manages to assemble it correctly he says that he knew (almost beforehand) which piece went where, even though they obviously couldn't be put together earlier. So my theory was that the orb pieces aren't actually physically changing, but rather ones perception of them changes depending on which state of mind you are in. And as you remember he assembled it right after having been awoken by a nightmare, so I came to the conclusion that you'd have to be very scared (insane) to manage to reassemble it. Unfortunately (for the story), the orb could be assemble when at "Crystal clear".