[SPOILER] Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*

[Ghieri]

Why don't we have a super-sceprical version?

>Lily dies at childbirth and even after 8 years or so Mandus still grieves at her death.

>Goes to Mexico in search for a treasure, because he's broke.

>Finds nothing but a tropical fever. Comes back to London, his fevered mind gives him a vision of a machine, which would make him rich.

>Constantly works on the factory, becomes more and more indifferent and/or violent towards the children.

>His children descend into the machine and get killed (for example in the steam pipes).

>Mandus blames everyone in the world and visualizes it as if he's been feeding them to the machine.

>Destroys the machine, gets amnesia.

>Travels deep into his subconsciousness, understands that he is the one to blame, accepts the truth and kills himself.


Don't really think this is true, but as a theory it will do.

Explains how his notes are all over the damned place. XD

This is probably the best explanation, it explains nearly every surreal aspect of the game, and still gives a satisfactory story.

Now, an addendum: The pig-men are also fake, representations of how mandus sees children.(Which is why they play with toy blocks, are socially amusing, horseplay in london, thus destroying it.)

The ties to brennenburg are simply to extract vitae and market it as a product. Since the pigmen aren't real in this addendum, vitae must have other market purposes, he also might have been using it to resurrect his dead children. After that fails, he destroys the machine and the game starts.