I know this may seem like a silly question to all the lore bffs but wtf is C0DA, ive seen it mentioned in the works I will admittatly never figure out until someone spoonfeeds it to me.

I just want to know.

Nobody knows except MK, from what I've gathered. Some have conjectures on what C0DA is, but that's about it.

The C0DA broke when Twice Vehk appeared again from Aether, but they captured enough of Him to render the words stable again.

That should settle it.

God, I hope that was a joke on your part. It's not funny.

I assumed the C0DA was a Mnemoli or some kind of artificial Mnemoli.


But it's a collection or the name of an organization.

The Vehkship fragment makes C0DA sound more like a computer though.

C0DA is the Godhead. He broke into Anu and Padomay who broke into Anuiel and Sithis. They eventually stablized into the et'ada. And since everyone is everything is everyone, Vehk did appear... kinda.

... How's that?

I like that, but it only seems to make sense inside the Loveletter. How can the future Dunmer use the Godhead like a memory bank though? That theory leaves a lot for speculation.

Because everyone is everyone. It's how KINMUNE could go to ancient Skyrim by accessing "her" memory.

I feel like that KINMUNE thing ended on a nasty cliffhanger. So KINMUNE escapes the Dwemer catacombs and goes to Cuhlecain's Cyrodiil -- i.e. shortly before the time of Talos -- then...what? Come on! Tell us MK!

Anyway, if the C0DA is the Godhead, then that has interesting implications with regard to the vehkships, doesn't it? Since as Chaplain pointed out it seems to be the computer system (if such a thing could exist even in Fifth-Era Tamriel) that powers/controls the vehkships.

Where were you when the C0DA broke?

So he's Akatosh?

Alright, I'm completely lost. Where is all of these references to C0DA and the Godhead coming from? I've only read about C0DA in the 5th Era Loveletter, which hardly made since. Can someone please elaborate on what vehkships are, what the Godhead is? I thought it all began with Anu and Padomay, is there reason to believe something came before that? Plus, what is KINMUNE? And MK? I've read into a lot of stuff, but I have no idea where any of this is coming from, so I guess I must be very behind in my research. Please bear with me on my ignorance in these topics, it's just I really would like to know these things. /blink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' />

EDIT: Just figured out MK is Michael Kirkbride. Silly me.

C0DA is mentioned in the http://www.imperial-library.info/content/loveletter-fifth-era-true-purpose-tamriel and the fragment on http://www.imperial-library.info/content/forum-archives-michael-kirkbride.

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/kinmune is a vengeful AI mining robot from the 9th Era.

The Godhead is Everything; Everything is the Godhead. (Also no actual heads are involved, it's actually just an archaic form of the English -hood suffix.)

And you're by far not the first to fail to connect to dots from MK to Michael Kirkbride. Happens every Tuesday.

So who are those C0DA Digitals? The Tsaesci Creation Myth makes me think that "calculations" = Digitals = et'Ada.

I imagine that it means computers that are part of or in servitude to C0DA.

And has there been a consensus reached on why there is a 0 instead of an O? It seems like something of significance. If the C0DA is the Godhead (a theory I don't really accept), the 0 could refer to a beginning state. Still my biggest bone to pick with the Godhead theory is that the Iun Sul says the C0DA talks to people, and that's completely unlike the Godhead we've known in TES. Unless of course Vehk is the Godhead, but that conflicts with the fact that the Loveletter describes Vehk returning to Mundus.

So what is possible of communication that also breaks in two when gods walk the earth? I'd say a Tower of some sort.

From the stuff MK wrote, it sounds like C0DA are ships, or maybe you could think of them as rockets, used to navigate either Aetherius or the Void. I think.

What is a coda? The bit at the end of the music. Lorkhan looked at the wheel from the edge and saw 'I', but "A single Wheel? More like a Telescope that stretches all the way back to the Eye of the Anui-El, with Padomaics innumerable along its infinite walls." What do you see lookkint at the end of a telescope? An O. Where are you looking at it from? If 0 is the first state, isn't it also the last? If you are looking at an O from 0, and want to talk to/appear before/love someone somewhere on one of the I's, what do you do. Send a fragment of information or knowledge, or a mind state. That's my theory, a Vehkship is the means of bringing information from the end state 0, or C0DA. Which could be very different in nature to creation myths and memories of dead gods, which could be thought of as information from the initial state. Unless you are a Nord, when living on/in an I one minute, and the next I the next minute, is much more interesting than worrying about 0's.

[Thinking about it, why wouldn't that information be digital? 1 and 0 to us are a convenience, +5volts or zero volts or whatever inside our maths processing machines, I and 0 are perhaps more unassailable concepts in the ES universe.]

A coda isn't just the end of the music, it's a specific type of ending that's written separately from the rest of the piece. Taking the coda ends the song, but if you don't take the coda, you'll eventually loop around and have another chance. Connection to kalpas/ the dreamsleeve cycle?

So C0DA would then be 11111111 a new kalpa would likely be 00000000 and what we see now can be anything from 00000001 to 11111110?

Aren't humans the glitch in the system that always leaves a 1 in that string of 0's somewhere?

C0DA = 1100000011011010

Or if you split the hex values C0 and DA you get two numbers, 192 and 218, which sounds suspiciously like part of a network address.

I think C0DA is a very clever reference to the fact that the whole TES universe is a computer game and MK one of its creators. Sort of like a Matrix reference. If you consider that Vehk is one of MK's aliases then it could be that in many of his writings he was saying "I live inside a universe I helped create and will continue to help create".


http://www.imperial-library.info/content/vehks-teaching

On this premise the above could then easily interpreted to mean "our characters in the game reflects our true nature".

Or maybe I'm just being silly. /biggrin.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':biggrin:' />

^ I like this.

CODA? I've never heard of that. Where is it referenced in the series?

Haha. Good. Well done you. /smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />