[SPOILER] Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*

[Mjarr]

So in other words we are back to the beginning -- too much holes and contradictions, too much unexplained, too inconsistent. So far all the theories are like that.

Perhaps the game's story is nothing but a result of greatly unreliable narrator combined with the idea of self lying to self - of course, this is presuming the engineer is Mundus' other half, so to speak. A Machine for Pigs and sudden call forward to the Great War in the end by yourself? Clairvoyance anyone?

Finding himself in form of an object which tells him of the future that he will do something great to help the world? Check. Deeply touch after illness and death of one's wife? Check. Hints to the bit two-faced (especially sexual) morality of Victorian\Edwardian era England? Check; after all, few of the notes\loading screen poems would be right at home in 19th century erotica novel, or even arguably at Fanny Hill, and words and written text have their own interesting discrepancies for someone as well-educated as Mundus. The Great War apparently is implied to happen in-universe? Check. Machine for some pig-creatures for the sake of some purpose intending to avert The Great War, or at the very least death of his children alongside twisting his own hatred? Check. In the end puts an end for that, instead murders his own children (or otherwise contributes to the fact) and engages in conversations with himself via weird looking telephones - and otherwise after artificially induced amnesia? Check. Wanders around in conspicuously absently populated London? Check. The other part of self is not exactly agreeing with oneself? Check. Raising obvious question: which one is using or lying to another? Check. Plenty of flirting with the idea of how worthless and ephemeral life is? Check. All ending in something which can be perceived as self-fulfilling cycle? Check.

One of the dozens of guesses I could make up? Mundus simply was unable to come to terms with his own personal loss, and turned into bit of a lunatic.

Admittedly that pointless waste of text has no real foundation aside from speculating for the sake of speculating, so actual contribution the discussion is bit nonexistent. Maybe I should refrain from posting in middle of the night.