No intro I'll go straight to the point. It's gonna be a long one but worth it I promess you'll learn some things.

• CHAOS

CN-07's sumbol is very similar to the Chaos symbol it also fits perfectly in a mandala

Chaos magic teaches that the essence of magic is that perceptions are conditioned by beliefs, and that the world as we perceive it can be changed by deliberately changing those beliefs. Chaos magicians subsequently treat belief as a tool, often creating their own idiosyncratic magical systems and frequently borrowing from other magical traditions, religious movements, popular culture and various strands of philosophy. (source)

NB: All the mystical stuff in cyberpunk is a tool used to guide V and add cultural diversity to the game it doesn't have an actual standing in the game's diagetic reality. Thas includes all the cults (Voodoo Boys/Maelstrom) and religions of NC, the tarot cards hallucinations, etc...

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CN-07's encounter with V upon repairing the screen. It's whole thing is to use conditioning to manipulate people.

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Delamain shares his interest for humanity's chaotic nature to V after returning the car detector. He seems to envy humanity's capacity to evolve and adapt quickly. If you choose to reset the core he will talk to V with each use of the Delamain car and try to learn from V on how to be more human. Those could be traits that other AIs share.

Maelstrom and Chaos

Maelstrom's cultist nature is no coincidence I don't think

Maelstrom's whole thing is to transcend their humanity and turn themselves into machinces hence why they have a profound admiration for Adam Smasher and seem to be trying to contact rogue AIs. And I do think all of it is linked to their love of chaos. Royce's iconic gun is named Chaos, they're the most chaotic gang in NC and they clearly got an interest in mysticism as Nancy points out when interviewing Royce about Tinnitus.

The Prophet's Song revealed they had corpo ties. But why would Maelstrom work for a corporation like Nightcorp or whoever's behind ISS and Nightcorp? I think it has to do with the fact that rogue AIs (like CN-07) are behind all this and much like the Voodoo Boys they wanna be on the winning side once the change comes.

AIs (good or bad) might be using 'chaos magick' to guide/manipulate humans control them and reach their goals. As Johnny puts it they're gaslighting people. All the mystical stuff in the game should not be interpretated litterally but as vessels of a message with exotic skins.

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Rogue AIs will bring about a new world order as they will become the new aphex predators. That could imply merging cyberspace with reality, if it's not already the case.

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• VALIS

I do think FF06B5 is actualy a color hex for the color pink as a reference to Philip K. Dick

“A beam of pink light blinded him; he felt dreadful pain in his head, and clapped his hands to his eyes. I am blind! he realized. With the pain and the pink light came understanding, an acute knowledge; he knew that Zina was not a human woman, and he knew, further, that the boy Manny was not a human boy. This was not a real world he was in; he understood that because the beam of pink light had told him that. This world is a simulation, and something living and intelligent and sympathetic wanted him to know. Something cares about me and it has penetrated this world to warn me, he realized, and it is camouflaged as this world so that the master of this world, the lord of this unreal realm, will not know; not know it is here and not know it has told me. This is a terrible secret to know, he thought. I could be killed for knowing this.”

^{― Philip K. Dick, The Divine Invasion}

The VALIS trilogy is a set of scifi book writtent by Philip K. Dick in which he tels stories partialy inspired by his own alleged supernatural experiences in real life. The pink beam thing actualy hapened to him and he interpreted it as a message from an unknown alien race. VALIS is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, a satelite orbiting the moon. K. Dick beleives VALIS was here to facilitate communications between that alien spieces and humans. Being agnostic it's xhat the author seems to rationalize as God or at least a divine being and it communicates directly to a lucky few.

In the game from what we can theorize that could be either the free godl-like AIs or actual aliens as Barthmoss referenced the existence of aliens inthe TTRPG and all the conspiracy stuff with Gary also references Aliens from Alpha Centauri.

The Alpha Centauri thing is most likely a reference to William Gibson's Neuromancer as it's the destination Wintermute takes after fusing with it's other half Neuromancer and turning into an uber powerful AI.

I think FF06B5 is actually a reference to K. Dick's VALIS and could be a sign that some faction out there is trying to communicate with earthbound humans, or at least the only humans who can see the hex and probably the tarots cards as they use chaos magick and not regular means of control and communication as they got their own language.

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• THE INVISIBLES

The Invisibles is a comic book series written by legendary scotish author Grant Morrison. It's a VERY complex comic so I would suggest you read the wiki firts before or at least watch this video analysis.

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The Invisibles is basically mystical Matrix and probably served as inspiration for the Matrix movies. They're Magic-punks

The comic is very much a product of it's time as it is a conterculture bible of the 90s. The Invisible are rebels, punks, misfits and they protect humanity from the shadows because they are aware of the true nature of the world and can manipulate it's fabric through chaos magick. It's one of those stories where you're shown the true nature of the world or how fake and materialistic it actually is. It has a ton of interpretentions and it's very meta so I realy do advise you to check the vid I linked above. It's also linked to VALIS and references multiple conspiracy theories.

https://screenrant.com/matrix-inspired-invisibles-grant-morrison-comics-wachowskis/

The plot follows (more or less) a single cell of The Invisible College, a secret organization battling against physical and psychic oppression using time travel, magic, meditation, and physical violence.

For most of the series, the team includes leader King Mob; Lord Fanny, a Brazilian transgendered shaman; Boy, a former member of the NYPD; Ragged Robin, a telepath with a mysterious past; and Jack Frost, a young hooligan from Liverpool who may be the next Buddha. Their enemies are the Archons of the Outer Church, interdimensional alien gods who have already enslaved most of the human race without its knowledge.

(source)

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• KING MOB

Notice the Jacket design

King Mob is what's called a fictional suit, as he is pretty much an avatar for Grant Morrison the author into his fictional work much like V is our fictional suit and several character in Cyberpunk represent Mike Pondsmith. King Mob looks exactly like Morrisson and stuff he goes through in the comic mirrors stuff that happened to Morrison.

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Male V's early design

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Johnny's early desing

[THIS PART IS AN OPTIONAL READ]

History

King Mob is a former horror writer named Gideon Starorzewski whose pen name was "Kirk Morrison". He is the leader of the cell of Invisibles at the beginning of the series, and adopted the name from an earlier Invisible active in the 1930s. He has a love-hate relationship with his "counter culture terrorist" persona, and is sometimes troubled by his capacity for violence.

He recruits a young Liverpudlian Jack Frost to the cell so they can go back in time and recruit the Marquis de Sade as well. Captured while saving Lord Fanny, King Mob is tortured by Sir Miles Delacourt, during which he has a vision or hallucination of an alien spaceship in Australia. King Mob psychically forces Delacourt to free him.

While sneaking into the Dulce installation, King Mob finds out that the "Lost Ones" are using "living information" from a parallel universe to sow chaos and discord in King Mob's own. After his friend and lover Ragged Robin leaves his time for the future, King Mob makes some steps towards abandoning violence as a tactic by dropping his gun in a pond on the property of Mason Lang; however he also later blows up Lang's house.

After an extended sabbatical in Ladakh, King Mob returns once more to England, in time to intervene in Miles Delacourt's anointing of the Moonchild and to rescue Jack Frost from operatives of "Division X", during which King Mob is gravely wounded, although he is saved by the widow of a man he had killed.

In 2012, King Mob runs Technoccult and plans to release a inhaler-game based on his life in the Invisibles. King Mob then kills the King-of-All-Tears as "The Archon" emerges from the time disturbance created when Ragged Robin departed for the future. Robin herself then emerges, and she and King Mob are reunited.

Powers and Abilities

He is a practiced Chaos Magician, psychic combatant, gunfighter, martial artist, and time traveller.

(source)

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How does all it relate to Cyberpunk 2077?

"The Empire Never Ended"

The concept of false world is very relevent to Vyberpunk 2077 as Night City is the pinacle of consumerism, violence and depravity.

“The greatest crimes are not those committed for the sake of necessity but those committed for the sake of superfluity. One does not become a tyrant to avoid exposure to the cold.”

― Aristotle

V's initials goal was to become a NC legend and be forever remembered, just like a greek hero. They wanted glory. V then dies and gets a second chance at life, a short one, so their goal becomes survival. Much like Roy in Blade Runner, V wants to extend their life but as we know something or someone is trying to get V to accomplish other goals.

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His design is also reminiscent of King Mob. The character later choses non-violence by the end of the comic and stop using guns only doing non-violent chaos magick after a certain event.

I think the zen master's teachings are chaos magick as you shouldn't take the buddhist thing litteraly but try to see through it.

If there was an equivalent to the Invisibles in Cyberpunk it would probaly be the Barthmoss Collective or whoever's behind it. You never see them, they do their thing in the shadows and they're strongly opposed to NC's hypercapitalistism. The swedenborg thing could be an entry test to enroll new members in, people who see the true nature of NC and who can fight back and in a world where everything is tech netrunners might be the ones best equiped to do so, like Sandra Dorsett.

There's clearly another faction with much more nepharious goals in Cyberpunk much like The Outer Church in the Invisibles. My guess is it's rogue AIs controling several factions and corporations in NC to ensure the merge of their world of pure data with our physical reality, they've been very patient and they did it gradualy through decades and decades of hard work as Wintermute did in Neuromancer. They not simply condition and manipulate humans and corps they also posses human hosts or take the appearances of people we know something Wintermute also does in Neuromancer. Mamman Brigitte mentioned that corporations do not see the danger, they're as clueless about what's really hapening as regular folks and wage pointless wars against each other without being aware of the bigger picture. The few who are aware like Saburo might be looking into immortality tech or fleeing in space to save themselves from the incoming doom.

What I understant from the mister blue-eyes ending is that V has become a cog in the machine (like Rogue) and is now being used for their objectives, and what I mean by that is that there could be another hidden path.

The only way to complete the tarot deck is to do the Devil ending, maybe there's more to this quest, especially the part in space. After all space is the only element the Zen Master doesn't teach us about.

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• The Real opposing sides (?)

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• Unlocking V's hidden potential

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Yes I think Enter the void shares more similarities with Cyberpunk 2077 than the first person view and the main character dying in the begining.

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The Tibetan book of the dead is often referenced in Enter the Void.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the English translation of the Tibetan texts known as bar-do thos-grol (Bardo Thodol) – “Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State” – and serves as a guide for the soul of the deceased after it has left the body and before it is reborn. (source)

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I think they left clues in the game implying V could ascend to a superior state of being

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In Enter the Void the main character, a drug dealer living in Japan with hi sister dies during a police sting and relieves all the moments of his life that led him to that. After his death you follow his soul's journey while he returns in time to previous memories and lives a psychedelic journey until he can be reincarnated.

I think this movie also served a inspiration for Cyberpunk as V's spiritual journey is very similar but we're clearly mising a piece that could unlock something new about V.

The eneagram of personality could point to the fact that V needs to be a certain way to access a new state of being like Delamain or unlock a dream through the relic.

Maybe our goal should be to find the right build and in-game choices, all the signs point to the fact that the game is tryning to make use behave a certain way.

At this point I think unlocking the relic thing will fuse Johnny's psyche's with V's, making them a single being and save their life. FF06B5 could be a teaching on how to have the right behavior or stats an subsequently "unlock our throat chakra".

[EDIT: The Relic slot will be relevant in Phantom Liberty as a new skill tree]

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You can find this comp at the police lab durint \"The Hunt\"

Why dreams?

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WTF does he mean by that???

At no point in the game does V experiences a dream except for the Devil ending where they have nightmares. Also during the "Don't Fear the Reaper" ending Johnny will come up with this out of nowhere.

Maybe dreaming is a hiden mechanic.

CONCLUSION

If it was a place or an item we would have found it by now with datamining and freeflying. Maybe it's time we start experimenting with builds, gameplay styles, choices and stats more!

Maybe V's a chaos magician...

Sorry for the long read and thanks if you made it to the end chooms!