Basically I'm trying to read through the http://www.imperial-library.info/obscure_text/5th_era_loveletter.shtml, the problem is that I don't know enough to know what half the terms in it refer to. Hopefully you guys can help me along, these are the main ones I'm having trouble with:

CODA: Is this like some magical database?
The Digitals: Sounds similar to the CODA
Lull: Time?

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C0DA is Time. No idea why that terminology was used though:



I remember this being discussed last year. You should probably do a forum search, probably under the Word Merchant's posts, if you want the post I'm referring.

Lull, I'd imagine (since I haven't read the Loveletter in a long time) is basically existence. Not specifically time, at the risk of being pedantic.

One of the most important things is that "digital" and "C0DA" sound futuristic and computational. Would would TES mythos look like if instead of being set in a medievelesque fantasy world it was set in a futuristic computerized world? And what if an enormous disaster forced the people of this world to etch out a subterranean living?

Anyways, looking at it's meaning in english, digital refers to a way of encoding information: specifically, when you encode digitally you encode the information in individual units. This is opposed to anologue encoding which encodes a continuous stream of information. The first Digitals are "mantellian, mnemolia, the aetherial realm of the etada. The Head of this order is Magnus, but he is not its Ward, for even he was subcreated by the birth of Akatosh." What we seem to have is a synthesis of concepts-personified and concepts-as-digital-units.

Based on that a "chronicule" would be a digital unit of time, obviously. Although C0DA does mean time, I suspect it more specifically refers to the encoding/registering of temporal (that is, historical) information: C0DA is a registry of historical data.

I like that idea a lot.

Like The Elder Scrolls, or The Elder Scrolls themselves?

It should be noted that MK mentioned before that 'digital' in this case is to be understood in the original, literal sense, i.e. 'like the fingers on a hand'. I'd link to a particular posts, but I can't find it anymore.

Don't really know, but I doubt it.

Wait, TES is the Matrix now.
I hate metaphysics.

There are similar concepts in both "The Matrix" and TES, especially Gnosticism and Eastern religions, from what I've seen discussed on the forum.

Actually, I really, really like the idea of the C0DA being the Elder Scrolls themselves. It's even cooler when you consider that ships like the C0DA Paravant, then, are really time travellers.