Now, look, I really don’t want to keep trying to force WT connections where there aren’t any, but…
Born 13 April 1985
He’s 41, a solo dev, and French.
Edit: Thanks to @toddumptious: The school code post is dated May 12, 2002 and is titled “When we were 17”. Arnaud would have just turned 17 the month before this date. I think we’ve just found our guy.
Arnaud the Architect seems like a match to me.
So we stop calling them Archie and start calling them Arnie?
I note that Arnaud has a “licence in philosophy”. Doubtless that’s something that got mangled in translation.
Nevertheless, it conjours the delicious picture of police arresting people for philosophising without a licence.
If they mean the Diogenes brand of philosophy, i.e. living in a barrel and pleasuring oneself in public, I could see why they’d need licenses for that. 
I was going to make a diogenes joke in response to that but I didn’t quite know how to get there. Bravo.
Arnaud Schwarchitector
don’t have a screenshot, but just emailed System:
Subject: Connection Attempt Alpha
Text: Aloha! Operator Astrosurf66 standing by …
I also emailed system just now
So it seems Architect could very well be Arnaud. But Ghost being a similar age could also make them Arnaud too. My money is most likely on Architect though.
But I have a wild theory too.
Ghost and Architect are the same psyche. Architect is the Real Arnaud who got pulled from the W/ARE device and sent to hospital to recover and Ghost might be a part of their Psyche that got trapped in W/ARE device, a corrupted copy that didn’t get pulled out with the rest of him upon termination. Maybe that’s why they come across quite blunt and short, it’s not the full psyche of Architect, just a fragment. Just a ghost.
Of course this does go out the window as a theory once I realise they were good friends who went to a DJ gig in Lyon, and haven’t really seen each other in person since then (or at least it was implied this is the last time they truly hung out as friends).
Wild theories aside, what does seem concrete is Architect is Arnaud.
thick tinfoil hat thinking here…
Something has been twisting my mind for a while since this dreamer stuff went on during Waking titan. What if… one of the dreamers was pregnant? What if the child was somehow forced an early birth and the only way to be saved and kept alive was to be placed within a chamber somewhere to allow the body to survive. And instead of being conscious about our world to suffer as a premature birth baby, the baby was kept safely in that chamber as their conscious was then uploaded into the simulation from birth and only knows what life is through the eyes of the simulation.
I wouldn’t say Architect being Arnaud is confirmed until the site goes live and we’ve seen what the text is actually referring to, but the description lines up too well to be a coincidence. We’ve been trying to figure out how this thing is related to WT for a while now, and having a recurring character would certainly help make sense of things.
Could still be a crazy misdirect, but that would be blatant trolling and kind of pointless. But I guess we’ve earned that after the NED stunt.
ArNED 
Mrs Vector here. I was having a look when vector_cmdr gave me the deets on what transpired overnight. Noticed that the image of the maze didn’t match because it was missing the trolley in the left of the image.
I found the image on unsplash though with trolley included.
So I guess its not from Callisto Protocol?
Interesting, that would make it the second image from the new batch that came from Unsplash, that we know of.
Licence (pronounced lee-sawnce) is just the French word for a university degree, it’s like Master (MPhil) or Bachelor or so.
“The Names Bond; James Bond: Lee-Sawnce to kill” just hit’s differently.
It’s cropped a little on the Callisto Protocol site but looks like the same image.
Yep that’s what I meant. They’ve used the unsplash image on recalldreams and the cropped image is used in the Callisto Protocol SIGGRAPH presentation, it’s a real location in Singapore.
Real world locations:
Any more in there?
