What The Heck Is C0DA? Part: 1, Landfall, Tommorowind, and Hunting The Numidium...

[@furtvvanglerr8296]

Talos turning into Lorkhan makes complete sense

[@danausplexippus5079]

He probably was Lorkhan all along. Lorkhan is the Trickster God called forth by Padomay to end Anu's time by means of bringing change. He rose to Godhood over Nirn by means of having multiple Shezarrines, mortal aspects / champions of change and therefore mortality itself which is Lorkhan's sphere, take the required steps towards Godhood.

[@callmecalvin7297]

@Andrew Sossaman yep

[@lorefox201]

given that lorkhan turned into Talos the wheel keeps turning

[@reesetorwad8346]

@@danausplexippus5079 Nope. Multiple errors. But I can see how an inattentive player might get confused.

[@a.s.raiyan2003-4]

@@reesetorwad8346 Well it's not Tolkien.

[@tekdaystar345]

Kirkbride is a brilliant writer, he’s just batshit crazy.

[@infinitybreak4459]

Exactly

[@rustyshackleford6874]

Yeah even if you're a genius you still need quality control and somebody saying "no that's stupid, we're not putting it in the game" at least occasionally

[@ajflink]

Kinda like Lovecraft or Poe but with less dignity?

[@bullymaguire7554]

Arguably being batshit crazy is how someone becomes a brilliant writer.

[@liamconverse8950]

Is there really a difference when it come to creative endeavors?

[@DinggisKhaaniMagtaal]

Wow, Kirkbride’s Dunmer bias is really showing. As a Saxhleel enjoyer I am somewhat disturbed.

[@AthenaTennosN]

I mean, their whole lore arc begins with splitting from the original Mer tribe to seek metaphysical ascendance specifically, as promised by Veloth. I don't think it's "bias" exactly, rather it's that their key lore direction had always been about this thing about transcendence, and they were written the way they were with a particular transcendence-themed ending in mind. It just has been explored more thoroughly than other races' stories by virtue of being the focus in the game that was made before Bethesda became an "aaa developer" if you know what I mean. ES:O, for all its flaws, has some rather interesting tidbits on everything and everyone else... although in practice, only Khajiit lore has this distinctive MK's fever dream feel to it (another race favored by Azurah, a fun little coincidence). Which is weird, because the game freely namedrops old deep lore concepts like Towers or Dreamsleeve every now and then, invents new ones that rival MK's acid trips ("water is literally the memory of the world") and not in a diluited Skyrim-esque manner either.

[@StarlitSeafoam]

There have been at least two Dragonbreaks in the history of Nirn, one during the First Era caused by the Maraakati Selective (and detailed in the book Where Were You When the Dragonbroke, (incidentily, written by none other than MK)), and another, the Warp in the West, caused by the reassembly of the Numidium in the Third Era (detailed in the events of the game Daggerfall). And yes, they caused just as much mayhem as you might imagine. Don't play with Towers, kids.

[@defeatstatistics7413]

Potentially two more, one in Rimmen when the Numidium was activated again, and one at the Battle of Red Mountain.

[@HierophanticRose]

Finding a magic stone to fight Demons altogether sounds like a childlike interpretation of ALMSIVI's divinity, minus the foul murder

[@TheRelevantusername]

This is how I interpretated it. Like, the way its written, that's totally how I think it is. They basically have the tribunal, Dagoth Ur and Nerevar as children, who go on an "adventure" into RED FUCKING MOUNTAIN (assumedly), which is played off as a joke, but anyways. They end up finding a magic stone, which Vivec divides, and hands out. This magical stone grants them powers, and turns their skin grey in response, although Vivec only turns half grey, half gold as usual. It's... bizarre, but yeah. Another interpretation, of a similar branch, would be that this is what happened when the tribunal messed with time to make themselves always have been divine in nature. Having went back and manipulated the timestream or timeline to where.they found numidium as a children's toy, and activated its power before their rise to true power.

[@timjohnson8362]

New theory, starfield is just coda

[@nickb1241]

The only possible good ending for whatever starfield will be

[@horacegentleman3296]

C0da is less than canon, but much, much more than fanfic.

[@bullymaguire7554]

I'd say C0DA is more canon that whatever broken mess of a "game" TES6 will turn out to be. Official releases isn't the same as canon in TES. Never has been.

[@horacegentleman3296]

@@bullymaguire7554 good point

[@willhowardlokoartyui]

@@bullymaguire7554 Yes it is lmao. C0DA isn'r canon and never will be

[@PMMillard]

They'll probably write the glitches and bugs into the storyline

[@rayzas4885]

@@bullymaguire7554 thats fucking stupid

[@cbradey2757]

Kirkbride was crazy but brilliant. Just looking at his concept art for Morrowind makes me sad. I wanted that forbidden tickle mask haha.

[@papanoble8378]

Dude, his concepts for Oblivion make me genuinely depressed. Todd Howard fucked up ngl

[@azuragoddess]

@@papanoble8378 yeah, he made Oblivion to be as generic as possible. Instead of an actual interesting province we got another medieval England.

[@deadsoul7409]

Yeh like don't get me wrong, I adore the the games but everything after Morrowind became extremely simplistic ​@@azuragoddess

[@azuragoddess]

@@deadsoul7409 I agree. I started playing TES games with Skyrim and I really enjoyed it back then, but when I played Morrowind I came to realisation how dumb and primitive Skyrim is to the point it`s barely RPG. Morrowind did everything better.

[@ThibautVDP]

i don't know what Michael is on, but i'm sure he thinks it's Skooma blessed by Caius Cosades himself.

[@danielvictor3262]

There was a rumour that he was on shrooms and MDMA when he was writing that

[@Birbucifer]

@@danielvictor3262 Rumors like that make it harder for talented writers to get jobs. It's also untrue.

[@DagothDaddy]

I think the whole Tomorrowland section is supposed to represnt the plot of morrowind as its told by this society thousands of years later with the TV heads representing the final stages of corpus and the "camera weilding" dunmer representing the Neravarine who is inflicted by corpus but thanks to Fir does not suffer the negative effects instead just gaining the immortality and resistance to disease effectively "weilding" it as a tool or weapon.

[@darthtitteous1215]

So a Coda in music is like the end, but it’s like a special ending. I remember my music teacher had a really weird explanation for codas though, it’s like what’s important is you’re supposed to know it’s there, and typically the song repeats a few times before you go to the coda and finish the song. Also the coda is typically unique to the rest of the song, so it makes sense for the title of a book that’s basically the end of elder scrolls, the kulpa has been repeating for a while now and now it’s time for the end end.

[@roderik4]

I've learned over the years that all of C0DA makes sense in context. As I've incorporated more of this context, more of it makes sense. There are A LOT of obscure references, not only to lore and real life mysticism, but also to community stuff. It's also highly symbolic in nature. A very good example is the Tomorrowind part, which I also did not understand until I read a commentary by Lady N (MK's wife), that said it was a way to portray how the dunmer viewed their heroes from a pop culture lens (i.e. by comparing them to Justice League or Avengers).

[@SeptimArchive]

3:52 yeah that is the right pronunciation of his name, in one of the videos of MK on youtube he pronounces it this way.

[@infinitybreak4459]

Ah ok just wanted to be safe 😅

[@spookydonutghosthouse]

Imagine how bethesda era fallout would be if kirkbride still worked with bethesda and wrote for fallout 3, 4 and 76.

[@bullymaguire7554]

They'd easily be some of the most well crafted games they'd ever release. His batshit insane writing style would be absolute perfection for the world of Fallout. It'd be New Vegas quality but even weirder.

[@San_Vito]

Urgg, no thanks. Fallout had great people working at world-building by the time of Fallout 2, and even for the New Vegas' Obsidian. No need to bring MK's diatribes into Fallout.

[@trolltroll5931]

​@@San_Vitobooooo

[@ClericDoggo56]

Kirkbride's brilliant mind of researching religions and existencialism would be wasted on a game like Fallout. It's just a franchise that goes on an another timeline of our world. Kirkbride is best at works of fantasy and such.

[@stefanpavlovic4534]

8:29 worm hunt is straight up from the Dune

[@infinitybreak4459]

Yup now that you point that out that sounds exactly like Dune

[@OCDobbins]

Kirkbride was my DM in high school. A little bit of his D&D content carried over.......

[@infinitybreak4459]

Wait, really? I would love to get some more details if you'd be down to chat about it?

[@OCDobbins]

I’ve known him since middle school. We used to be good friends. Have you seen his Warhammer figure painting on IG? Quality work!

[@infinitybreak4459]

@OCDobbins i did! He seems like a very interesting individual. I wish i could pick his brain honestly. He came up with a lot of solid ideas for tes and think he should develop more worlds for other properties

[@OCDobbins]

Where are you located?

[@infinitybreak4459]

@@OCDobbins ohio, but i was hoping to chat over like discord

[@Jimjam-lk4ud]

I'd kill to have an elder scrolls spin off set in the 5th era with this theme

[@StarlitSeafoam]

So, it sounds to me like MK is having Jubal achieve CHIM (ascending to godhood), which is why he talks to Talos, who is really Lorkahn (this realization is part of him understanding CHIM, and why he goes from calling him a virus (from the elvish perspective Talos makes men and thus the mortal world stronger) to a preacher (someone who can show elves the way out of being mortal, who can preach the way of escape back to being what they were before the trap of creation)), and him meeting the Numidium is like the final step. The Numidium is powered by energy from Lorkahn (technically Wulfarth's soul, one of Lorkahn's aspects/mantels), which is also what allowed Vivec, Sotha Sil, and Almalexia to achieve godhood (harnessing the power of Lorkahn's Heart). So, it's the final step.

[@isaachester8475]

It seems to me like Jubal and Vivec actually become the Amaranth by the end of C0da, so I agree. I think CHIM is a stepping stone to Amaranth, so it makes sense that Jubal and Vivec would achieve CHIM first before achieving Amaranth.

[@heathjohnson2698]

Kirdbride was on some heavy shit while writing C0DA so his writing quality shifts a lot.

[@MrHackTheGibson]

No he wasn't. This has been debunked many times.

[@rickthebrick200]

@@MrHackTheGibson Yes he was, it was revealed to me in a dream.

[@MarcoC.130]

​@@rickthebrick200dream chads: 1, source-cels: 0

[@StarlitSeafoam]

Well, the Song of Pelinal says this: "he was Pelinal the Whitestrake because of his left hand, made of a killing light" and this: "[And then] Kyne granted Perrif another symbol, a diamond soaked red with the blood of elves, [whose] facets could [un-sector and form] into a man whose every angle could cut her jailers and a name: PELIN-EL [which is] "The Star-Made Knight" [and he] was arrayed in armor [from the future time]." So, Pelinal Whitestrake could be interpreted as a lazer wielding, sci fi-esque super soldier. The Numidium is essentially a robot, and the Dwemer seem to have had some sort of telepathy or technology allowing long distance communication, plus they created tons of automotons, and airships. Technology is definitely not absent in the Elder Scrolls, or Kirkbride's lore friendly writings, though the lack of attempts to at least disguise it with poetic language is very un-Elder Scrolls-ish.

[@horacegentleman3296]

Also Sotha-Sil and the clock work city. The left handed elves. The various Akaviri technologies.

[@Tigershark5639]

So the neraverine had a giant mech battle with the numidium

[@infinitybreak4459]

Pretty much!

[@arempy5836]

As someone with little to no investment in TES, this is awesome!

[@Gaia_Gaistar]

TES lore is some of the best lore in any game series. It's very complex, most players don't even pay attention to it even when they are surrounded by it in the games.

[@arempy5836]

@@Gaia_Gaistar Agreed. I've really gotten invested in the Lore since I made this comment. There's so much room for theories and metaphysics.

[@Gronglegrowth]

A very nice analysis of a topic most people cannot (or refuse to) understand. I've been trying to understand C0DA for a while, and with this I found some new ideas I hadn't thought of. On the subject of Jubal lun Sul cutting off his hands. I don't fully understand this yet, but there's a quote from the 36 Lessons of Vivec which may explain it: "According to the Codes of Mephala, there is no difference between the theorist and the terrorist. Even the most cherished desire disappears in their hands. This is why Mephala has black hands. Bring both of yours to every argument. The one-handed king finds no remedy. When you approach God, however, cut both of them off. God has no need of theory and he is armored head to toe in terror." (Sermon 11) Take this as you will.

[@Gronglegrowth]

Additionally, here is an in depth analysis of some topics discussed in C0DA by reputable loremasters: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYK2fKOrdpqArbc It might also be of use to read some of the additional C0DAs on Tomorrowind Today, which is a site that fleshes out C0DA. One I recommend is A Khajiit C0DA; it attempts to explain some things, and adds far more questions of its own in doing so, but it is an interesting read.

[@StarlitSeafoam]

Oo, thanks for this! I think this quote, along with several others from the 36 Lessons, support the idea that Jubal is actually trying to achieve CHIM. For example, Sermon 27 says "The third walking path explores hysteria without fear." Which nicely explains why Jubal drank all that Skooma after he had his hands removed. He is attempting the Third Walking Way, approaching hysteria without fear. Also, Vehk is helping him to find a sword; this sounds a lot like the Second Walking Way mentioned in Sermon 23: "I give you an ancient road tempered by the second walking way. Your hands must be huge to wield any sword the size of an ancient road, and yet he who is of right stature may irritate the sun with only a stick." I'm sure others have noted all of the above before me, but I figured I would write it down anyway. :)

[@Gronglegrowth]

@@StarlitSeafoam Actually, it's AMARANTH. CHIM is individual; AMARANTH is together.

[@OphanimAnthem]

Never got that part 2

[@tuliodosanjos260]

The answer behind the blood regristration on coda is in the comentaries of misterious Xerxes, writed by Mankar Camoran in the end of the 2E.

[@Seventh_Bean]

"Recorded, the slaves that without knowing turn the Wheel" I would say that's closer to context than an answer, even after reading all four Commentaries.

[@roflguy114]

Well. Allinall portrays the coda series well i think.

[@infinitybreak4459]

I agree completely

[@StarlitSeafoam]

Huh. Sadly, no idea what he might mean by "registered by coda". The only time I have seen coda mentioned in Kirkbride's writings in the games or out was in the secret 37th book of the 36 Lessons of Vivec in which he pretty much just did a coded advertisement for C0da and kind of connected the lore with the storyline of C0da. Wish I knew more.

[@isaachester8475]

Well if it helps, a coda is an end to a piece/section in sheet music. So maybe the entire chain of events is the music, and the end is the coda, and things are “registered” or permanently written down in the end. Perhaps the 0 in c0da signifies that the end of this universe is actually the beginning of another. I’m really stretching to find answers tbh

[@isaachester8475]

It’s also worth noting that codas tend to mark the end of a repeating section. For example, the music might repeat several times before the coda brings it to an end and starts a whole new section. This could be the endless cycle of the Wheel in the Aurbis, and the C0da is the escape from that Aurbis to make a new universe.

[@JDG602]

Kirkbride always gave me kind of a I will dabble a bit in some skooma then I think I will write all my ideas down and see whats happens. You were not joking about taking a 180 into a craZy direction. Thanks for the vid. Just to be clear I love Kirkbrides work besides coda it just is not up to him to decide all these huge changes in the series, and I do not care if he was the one that came up with a lot of the tribunal and culture in Morrowind. He is not the owner of Elder scrolls it is a collective baby.

[@sadviking96banana9]

Someone finally said it! I’m not gonna pretend to understand all the lore here, but I can speak for most people when I say I don’t want the elder scrolls to be an over the top acid trip. Making things trippy/confusing does not equate to good world building

[@DinggisKhaaniMagtaal]

He really doesn’t like people making that claim apparently. From what I’ve seen, his more whacky stuff comes from sleep deprivation writing sessions. As someone who had their only fever dream in their life when sleep deprived writing an essay on Aztec cosmology as it relates to the human body, I totally see where he’s coming from, and why he is adamant about people making the “schooma” claim as it seems to suggest people can only be that creative when on substance (although he did admit to drinking either whiskey or bourbon during those sessions, but still much different than psychedelics).

[@itsallgoodman8867]

Michael's bizzare adventure

[@Quarhodron1]

Waiting for part 2 :P

[@Galimeer5]

The mech battle against the Numidium sounds pretty cool. Wonder what the Last Dragonborn was up to when this was going down.

[@theboy1625]

This is why I don’t take C0da too serious. Kirkbride doesn’t even implement one of the most powerful beings in Tamriel into his little fanfiction. Bros obsession with elves is holding him back

[@yhuraxappleseed206]

it's a script for a graphic novel. not an attempt without graphics. still great vid, sub.

[@Night-Lord]

I was waiting till tomorrowind, and then I immediately understood what you meant. I think that third fable gave me whiplash

[@PrayingSeraph]

C0DA is fanfic, but its interesting fanfic.

[@sukmanutzak9547]

the final battle of nirn being between nerevar incarnated powering akulakhan, vs the ancient numidium itself, i think i just chim'd

[@StarlitSeafoam]

WAIT, WHAT? MK confirms that Talos is Lorkahn?!?!? I've had that theory ever since I took a deep dive into the lore; it's HEAVILY implied in different books, quests, and events across Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim. It explains why the Thalmor hate Talos so much, even better than just "a man shouldn't be a god". C0da sounds very much like the 36 Lessons of Vivec. Lots of fascinating facts (and surprisingly deep character building for Vivec; he actually admits he killed Naravare in a coded message in the very books he wrote to quell the rumors. It looks like C0da takes that even further) imbedded in metaphors, codes, and seemingly pointless side plots.

[@arielshligman2146]

you can tell when the acid kiked in

[@ysmirwulfharth4012]

So where is part 2?

[@squishsquishmcgee6740]

Understand that it takes place in a nearly timeless semi-linear world. Where gods and men sit at the same dinner table. We know from games that the sheer energy and magical properties of the things in this story alone would explain nearly any strange thing in the story.

[@jackelderscrolls2316]

This sounds like fan-fic, kinda suiting

[@sebastianprimomija8375]

C0DA is the ravings of mad man put on ink, that mad man being Michael Kirkbride.

[@flameace78]

@@sebastianprimomija8375 a mad man who studies religion and fathered the entire elder scrolls cosmology, min you.

[@cillianthestupendous6093]

@@sebastianprimomija8375 your point being? alot of the best works of art created by humanity came from less-than-sane minds.

[@sebastianprimomija8375]

@@cillianthestupendous6093 My point was a compliment

[@cillianthestupendous6093]

@@sebastianprimomija8375 i see.

[@infinitybreak4459]

Looking back on this video years later and with more understanding of the lore (and of how to make better videos) i ask you all to take this video with a good helping of saltrice. I plan on redoing this video into one simple and clean summary of what C0DA is and it will hopefully do a much better job of summing it up, so untill then I'll leave this up despite my grievances with it.

[@melchid8448]

I need this

[@HomeNuke]

I love this video and the flow of information/opinion feels very natural yet concise. I could genuinely watch you do a series of these for out of universe writings

[@venepskeuten9206]

Would gladly watch it. Just started reading c0da and im Hella confused

[@infinitybreak4459]

@@venepskeuten9206 i think anyone not accustomed to the Fishstick is susceptible to confusion from C0DA, afterall its complex and requires a delicate state of mind

[@halcyo]

Do you wonder if C0DA is basically revenge by MK, who may be mad he’s no longer “in control” of the lore he feels he created, so this is all an elaborate, fantasy sabotage of future Bethesda stories?

[@az09Aintertest]

You can imagine this is an in-universe dark elf writer's story written while on skooma

[@diamondstarhalo8423]

eventually the games are gonna spill into the 5th era and if the dunmer aren't going full deep space 9 there's gonna be a total blowout on teslore and i couldn't be happier.

[@leonardomagnus6762]

Amazing content, deserves more views

[@StarlitSeafoam]

Huh, the Tsaesci attempting to buy a Numidium...The last remaining dwarf would be the only link to the creators of the Numidium. Since he is in a pocket realm of Oblivion, he is outside time, so it makes sense he is "from the future". Could the Tsaesci be hoping to somehow use him to contact the other Dwemer? It supports the idea that the Dwemer just went forward in time or to an Oblivion realm, rather than erasing themselves from existence. Perhaps the Tsaesci want to save Nirn; what better way to fight the Numidium than with another Numidium? And the Tsaesci are a fascinating choice. They are heavily implied by the Remanada to be the Akaviri who invaded Tamriel during Reman's reign searching for the Dragonborn (turned out to be Reman) and became the Dragonguard, later known as the Blades. In which case, their desire to return order to Nirn, and to thus save Akatosh from the continual Dragonbreak that the Numidium is causing, makes perfect sense, since they seem to be his agents, protecting his chosen ones the Dragonborn.

[@hellpupash]

Did you ever have a part 2 to this?

[@infinitybreak4459]

Sadly, life kinda got in the way, im trying to come back and eventually do a full-on replacement to this video, but im glad it got your attention :)

[@tiny5741]

next episode when? I just learned about kinmune and went down the rabbit lore and I'm so immersed now.

[@infinitybreak4459]

Im currently on break until i can build my new recording studio in my house so it'll probably be made sometime after the end of April but dont hold your breath im known to getceasily distracted 😅

[@jacked4121]

@@infinitybreak4459 update?

[@infinitybreak4459]

@@jacked4121 still waiting on getting started, between a vacation i didnt acount for and some wisdom teeth needing taken out i havent started construction on my recording room yet i might be gone for awhile but im assuming around summer time i will have finished work on the room and can start recording audio and stuff again

[@radzilla748]

No part 2? :(

[@infinitybreak4459]

Don't worry I plan on making a part 2 to tjis and really soon considering how fast this video is growing in views :)

[@FumiTheSillyGirl]

Kirkbride being a chad

[@iannoice]

Just realized that I'm playing the same mod as in the background while listeming to the video, lol.

[@Mcarsonisdumb]

This is like listening to a 6 year old's book report on Moby Dick

[@infinitybreak4459]

It was an early video from before i realised i needed to take more pride in my work i plan on making a better version of this in which i actually have a script, apologies

[@StarlitSeafoam]

I highly recommend reading A Love Letter from the Fifth Era over on the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages for some major insights into why events unfold as they do in C0DA, and the overall symbolism that is very much imbedded in it. It's essentially a letter from Jubal to everyone in Tamriel of the Fourth Era that explains Jubal's understanding of the nature of the universe. I would also highly recommend reading the Mythic Dawn Commentaries and the 36 Lessons of Vivec, both canon sources written by MK; start with the Commentaries, because they are much easier to decipher than the 36 Lessons. MK loves to hide things behind metaphors and symbolism, and the 36 Lessons is almost like his magnum opus, haha.

[@StarlitSeafoam]

Sorry for spamming you with comments; it's just such a fascinating topic. Thanks for all your hard work making this video! I'm off to search for part II. :)

[@halcyo]

Possible the writing is a parable to Bethesda that he was important to the lore, but it’s also vengefully showing that he can destroy the lore. It’s revenge for him no longer being at the company, and he’s upset at the direction the developers have taken the world he feels he created.

[@Yoni123]

What this kid calls "a graphic novel without art" is whats generally called a book. Look it up, they're pretty neat.

[@zan192]

I never actually read through the whole thing, didn't know about Vivec etc. and i kind of liked it at first but when your mentioned modern technology, TV head people and a person with a camera, i was off. The reason why The Elder Scrolls world isn't modern is because of magic, their magic would exceed our technology in our world. There are details like Khajiit also being able to escape, which was cool, but the fact that the High Elves win the war and leads to all the races of Men going extinct, i don't like that. And then out of thin air a huge dwemer robot/god appears and casts a spell for all High Elves, no matter if they're nice people, to disappear. It's literally the purge

[@infinitybreak4459]

I agree with you to a point, the tech part can work and does make sense as some tech just has practical uses like robot servants and light sources as well as communication long and short distanced, but the problem with C0DA is when it gets into Tommorowind and how its story is just awkwardly implemented if MK was just a little more "lorefriendly" with tommorow and didn't go into the outfield for things like scientists, superheros, and television set heads then maybe it couldve worked and wouldve been more accepted amongst the community

[@infinitybreak4459]

Also i agree with you on the second part neumidium's appearance and genocide of the altmer despite their disposition was a little bizarre, and also i wasn't aware that mankind had been wiped from existence I've been searching heavily for this info, do you happene to know where i could read more of this by chance as i would like to mention it in the next part and credit you

[@arempy5836]

Yeah, but you have to study and train to learn spells. You need to hand craft enchanted items. A gun , for example, can be mass produced and anyone can pick up and use it (not necessarily use it well but use it at all)

[@joshuagraham1598]

It's a morrowind fanboys' LSD trip

[@infinitybreak4459]

Thats honestly the most accurate interpretation I've heard yet

[@hpbecraft]

where's part 2 boss?

[@geraldbyrne4140]

Where is part 2 man?

[@BAMvideos12]

I think it's implied that the tomorrowind stuff is based on in universe comics during the 5th era.

[@A2goddess]

I think c0da is a DNA registration pretty much like a passport for the dunmer people. I don't know if this counts for nondunmers like imperials, Bretons, redguards etc.

[@infinitybreak4459]

That's an interesting theory honestly, it makes sense especially when you consider that non of the non dunmer are not named like the Kahjit

[@erisk.1707]

C0da deserves much more to be cannon than the entirety of Skyrim, and actually it's far less lore breaking than the stupid shit Emil turned skyrim into, ruining all of Nord lore as well as screwing up all lore regarding devine entities like Alduin to be nothing more than "big bad dragon king who is eeeeevil because he is EEEEEEEEEEEVIL" meanwhile C0da mostly makes somewhat sense in the lore.

[@infinitybreak4459]

I agree the in game depictions of Lore in skyrim are very disappointing but overall i still enjoy skyrim especially when i can mod those details back in

[@erisk.1707]

@@infinitybreak4459 oh yeah, Skyrim is still hella fun, don't get me wrong. just don't like these strange lore decisions

[@infinitybreak4459]

@@erisk.1707 me either especially the lack of shor and other nord versions of gods like Kyne and Tsun

[@erisk.1707]

@@infinitybreak4459 yeah exactly, and Nords culturally speaking where an interesting mix of unique aspects as Well as historically acurate vikings mixed in, now they are just horned helmet steriotypical Vikings mostly. Tbh I'm afraid that if TES 6 plays in Hammerfel that the redguards, instead of being a Mix of many different real life cultures are turned into a borderline racist depiction of steriotypes of arabic people.

[@erisk.1707]

@@infinitybreak4459 oh and while I have you here, I was wondering what mod is the gameplay in the background from? the mention of this being the wheels of Lull intrigued me and I really wanna play it now

[@sylvialc8066]

the part with the tribunal beating up tv wasnt supposed to make sense in the lore it was supposed to be fun. I loved imagining the tribunal as superheros beating up television, its supposed to be a comic book.

[@infinitybreak4459]

Yeah i know, its just jarring because its written by someone who writes a lot of deep lore that people consider cannon. I did find the concept funny just bizzare

[@satansjihad6353]

Kirkbride should write novels, he is a great genius.

[@infinitybreak4459]

He is amazing, but I'd argue his best work comes from when others help translate it

[@ReactOriginal]

Part 2 ?

[@StarlitSeafoam]

Wait...hahahahaha, Molag Bal as a superhero....LOL

[@ChineseNinjaWarrior]

Next video?

[@ubhelbr]

Hear me out. Tomorrowind is the Skibidi Toilet Universe

[@floppynwah8141]

LOL in TR for morrowind flowers named Coda they lower your personality if ate. for good reason. but kirkbright is awesome yet also kinda uh crazy so coda just dont work.

[@infinitybreak4459]

I NOTICED THAT oh my goodness

[@Tadders]

The link is broken

[@OmnisHomoSubUnoDraconeDivisus]

Yo u still gonna make part 2?

[@Hugme778]

You telling me the people who split atoms didnt aurvive You telling me the psjic order didnt do shit? You telling me the last dragonborn did NOTHING? YOU TELLING ME AKATOSH AND THEBOTHER DIVINES LET THIS ALL HAPPEN?!? oh pf course the dunmer survive. Kirkbride is a good writer but man his biases for a game that lets you play other races is kinda bonkers bad and it's appropriate he references the use of superheros as he essentially superherofied the entire race of dunmer

[@SteelWarden]

CODA was ridiculous.

[@TihonTheDED]

2024 here part 2 bro>>>>???? ayo

[@VivieneMara]

I can’t find part 2 :(

[@goatscream8345]

So uh, part 2 when?

[@infinitybreak4459]

So im currently on a break until the recoding room in my house is built which might be a little while but i plan on doing a much better version of this video with it being an entire summarry of what C0DA is instead of 2 videos but like i said i waiting untill i have an area to record good audio again

[@goatscream8345]

@@infinitybreak4459 Yo what the fuck that response was fast. Nice

[@infinitybreak4459]

@@goatscream8345 hey man i like to respond to comments if i actually see them 😅

[@escanor8087]

So if the Elder Scrolls meets Dune 🤣

[@paz1514]

The third fable reminds me of Shadowrun

[@caxe7]

it'd be nice if the audio quality in this was a bit better

[@Nagytika]

Okay so coda is a text based rpg. Its and ancient form of crpgs jeez

[@herecomesdatboioioi]

That link in your bio aint coda brotha

[@thesmilyguyguy9799]

: )

[@Tattletale-Delta]

This made me like Elder Scrolls lore a lot less.

[@Rynewulf]

Coda has been scrubbed from the internet, all the links a dead :(

[@infinitybreak4459]

Just saw this :( Thankfully, the internet Archive saved it still archive.org/details/TES_C0da/page/n3/mode/1up

[@Rynewulf]

@@infinitybreak4459 oh thats brilliant, thank you!

[@infinitybreak4459]

@@Rynewulf of course!

[@x4anon]

this guy was on a meth binge writing this. there is no big surprise here as to why he what writing like this, i promise that is it. you even mentioned how he wrote in they smoke skooma out of nowhere he needs his character to relate to his mindset

[@MrHackTheGibson]

The whole "drugs" angle has been debunked many times in multiple interviews. Get your shit straight.

[@x4anon]

@@MrHackTheGibson there are photos of michael passed out with no clothes on in his kitchen on drug binge.

[@mcsmash4905]

ill tell you what the vast majority of coda is and always will be - a mess of fanfiction and headcannon , bethesda is the ultimate judge of what gets to become cannon and what doesnt , you can scream about it all you want but that doesnt change the reality of the situation , simple as

[@MaRaX93]

I understand that people don't have time to spend hours reading shit on the imperial library and long reddit and /vg/ discussions, but for a content creator who makes a video specifically about C0DA, your understanding of C0DA is shallow to non-existent. Have you ever read a book in your life to begin with? Writing isn't always literal naturalistic narration, it can be symbolic and surreal and non-linear. I know video game writing standards are garbage, but Kirkbride's writings go beyond that to what I could say is acceptable writing. How tf can you make an analysis video about C0DA and think "well then they have tvs on their heads, i dont know wtf thats about lol" constitutes analysis? What would your analysis of Moby Dick be, "there was this whale lol and the dude rly wanted to kill it, i didnt get why they went to africa or something though lol"? Make a video about Solaris next, "It was a planet but like it showed them things but it was really weird lol". And again, the only reasons I'm commenting is because you choose to make an actual video covering this part of the lore specifically, and your analysis is just describing things followed by either "i liked that" or "it was bizarre". That's not an analysis, and you clearly didn't even understand what you read yourself.

[@infinitybreak4459]

Dude... relax, first off this video is old and i was just getting into deep lore at the time so forgive me if i was still getting used to MKs writtings. Second i plan on remaking this with hopefully more analysis on the writing itself since i have more experience deciphering his texts and am more used to his writting style now anyway. I admit i didnt do a good job with this video (I was still getting used to KZbin at the time i posted this and didnt understand i needed to script my shit) thats why this video never got a part 2 but there's no need to be rude about it.

[@theredwhirlwin]

Part 2?