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Question, if Daniel chose to drink the amnesia potion. Why was he frantically trying not to forget things like his name and where was from, and that he must stop Alexander. Isn't that what the letter you find is for?

I'm thinking it was just a spur of the moment thing and he was freaking out about what the potion was doing to him.

I don't think it's an amnesia potion; that's just a side effect. It either metamorphosized him or restored his youth. As he says in his note, "he's old and weak, you're young and strong," suggesting that the other Daniel wasn't. Likewise the inter-scene excerpts ("at the consulate in Constantinople") hint at a lifetime of experience, not a young man...

Of course this probably means (going along with the general themes of the Penumbra scenes) that the other Daniel was (is?) senile, insane; and evil himself. Maybe the potion gave his other personality (i.e. the PC) a body...