WMG / The Consuming Shadow

The Warrior's Boss is really dead all along

In The Warrior's good ending, T sends him a message. It could mean that T or the Ministry got involved, but maybe all this time The Warrior has been getting messages from beyond the grave.

• T gets messages from himself, who's dead, so it's not that much of a stretch.
• Alternately, the ally and the enemy are impersonating the Boss to manipulate the Warrior.

The pentagram's material is what gives it power, not the symbol on it.

If making a pentagram was all it took to reduce the downside of casting spells, every cultist and member of the Ministry would have worn one. It's likely that the pentagram item the player can equip was fashioned from a magic artifact, and the symbol itself has no influence.

• They might as well all have them. Keep in mind The Ministry Man didn't really have time and opportunity to prepare himself properly.
• Alternatively it may not be the material it's made of but rather a special process/ceremony is required to infuse its power into it. As for the symbol itself, it may simply hold a special property that allows it to possess this power.

The invader's enemy is the one who adds Birth Stars.

The invader's enemy is also a deity, presumably of great power despite its lack of interest in living in our world, and when a human who actively opposed the invader dies or succeeds, the 'helpful' god converts their accomplishments into a magical star. The invader's opponent might be aware of the existence of other universes, and though it has a strange sense of morality, ultimately believes invading the human world is wrong and wants to help give humans in other realms a better chance.

The RNG is actually the invader's ally and enemy working against each other.

They're both Ancients, beings with incredible power. One tries to prevent the invader from getting into our world, the other one tries to help it. So it's not too far-fetched to think that both of them try to influence what's happening in the game. If the player finds a lot of clues and has lots of positive random encounters, that's the invader's enemy gaining the upper hand. If the clues come slowly and the random encounters are all negative, it's the invader's ally being victorious.

The playable characters live in a recursion in The Strange, but they are really from Earth

All four characters are the quickened. The Warrior is a Vector, The Wizard is a Paradox, and The Ministry Man is a Spinner. The Scholar's classification is unknown, as befitting for his Jack of All Stats status. All four originally came from Earth, but ended up in the recursion that is this game. The only for them to escape is for all four of them to get the Ending A.

The Warrior and The Wizard are an alternate counterpart of Diabolik and Eva Kant

While Diabolik is not the criminal mastermind he is in his own universe, here he does still have his dislike of guns, and Eva, while not having her melee agility as the Wizard, does still posses a great mind that she kicks butt using magic and guns.

The Wizard is a magician-scientist in the Chzo Mythos

In Yahtzee's short story set in the Chzo Mythos, The Expedition, shows concept of the magician-scientists or magicians. The Wizard herself has done research into magic.

If all Investigators became a Team.

This is how it would playout:

• The Scholar would be The Hero.
• The Ministry Man would be The Lancer to Scholar, as his gameplay style is similar too the Scholar, but with the caveat he has more resources. He also has more experience in fighting the monster compared to the Scholar.
• The Warrior is The Big Guy, for his large stature and his melee abilities.
• The Wizard is The Smart Guy, for her intelligence and her ability to use magic without sanity lost.
• If there needs to be someone who is The Heart, it would be the Scholar. His research and perseverance in saving the world is what helps the others in taking up his task when he dies in the game. He also the main character who has the most personal reason to save the world: to ensure his family has a future. While the others do seek to save the world with good intentions, their reasons are not quite as personal, the Ministry Man is saving the world partly because its his job to do so, the Warrior fights partly out of seeking redemption for his criminal work, and the Wizard saves the world because it is the rational thing to do, and because she doesn't want some random cosmic being mess with the physics of the universe.

All four Investigators become apart of the Special Talent Project from Chzo Mythos.

For their experiences with the invasion of the Ancients, and special virtues that went into defeating it, making them viable members.. The Ministry Man might already be a member through the Ministry of Occultism(especially if he indeed an alternate version of Trilby.).

The events of the Ministry Man's Golden Ending lead to the events of Gunpoint, assuming the prevailing theory of his implied identity is true.

The Ministry Man's best ending results in him having to flee the country after he killed a possessed co-worker. If the theory of him being Trilby is true, this gives him the chance for a fresh start, allowing him to go back to his previous ways under a new identity. This is evidenced in Gunpoint by "Conway" having a similar dress sense, sense of humor, and proclivity for gadgets, whereas his slightly loosened morals towards killing could have been brought on by the events of The Consuming Shadow.