I'm stupid, but i need to ask..

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Well, that explains the part about him picking up something nasty.

So it may not be the machine? I was so sure about that is actually was the machine talking..

Also, i guess the chldren did die.. or they got slaghtered?

-- Sorry for poor english :3

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There's a whole spectrum of things that could've been talking to Mandus during the game: the machine itself, the enginner, his own self (due to a mental disorder or a supernatural affection, or even both) as a separate, autonomous being or just as "yet another voice in his head" .

Mandus had killed his children "to spare them from the upcoming terrors of the world" - when and where? That's what a lot of us is wondering about.