#C0da

[wanmojie]

mk's latest doodle has inspired me a lot!

[risaho]

“Give me the head of the Mainspring Ever-Wound here on a platter, then on my blood-stream yet I will carry him.”

[a-skrub]

Jesper the Dog and Keith the Cat

my stylus is painful to use but i manage to make this

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Word Ruins

Unofficial TES concept art for The C0DA art guide - created by a TES artist and writer

Art by Michael Kirkbride

[shorkhan]

For a while, I have been pondering over the thought that Lorkhan and Aka are not enemies. Lorkhan enthusiasts and Auriel enthusiasts will probably not like that, if they prefer the notion of eternal conflict between the two.

I believe, that specifically in the current Kalpa, Aka and Lorkhan may be the most cooperative.

For a long while I believed that Aka was evil. Why? Because I looked at Alduin and Auriel and was like: How is Aka supposed to be a good guy? And *suprise*, Aka is not evil.

[You can always correct me if you want, or if you have something to add]

That is because Alduin is essentialy that early wrath of Aka that unlike everything else on Mundus, never gets devoured. He is basically the version of Aka that looked at himself and the Et'ada around him and was disgusted by it - even by himself.

So Alduin is essentialy that early frustration of Aka, incarnate. That which continued to live on for possibly NUMEROUS of Kalpas. In a way, Alduin really hates himself the most and wants to devour himself, though he can't. Because the Dawn he can't undo.

It is indeed possible that we as The Last Dragonborn ended his misery, after he had survived for Kalpas and Kalpas on end.

That version and memory of Aka, aka Auriel, we hear about is fury and anger that is possibly worlds in the past. Though, he eventually gives up his powers for stability's sake.

Alduin is really that one wound within the kalpic cycle that was now left to be healed. He was that memory of a failed past that always slipped through. I think that makes the feat of the "Dovahkiin Ysmir Stormcrown" much much more meaningful.

The other wound was Lorkhan's heart lying beneath the Red Mountain. Praise Nerevarine for that!

In any case, when i read through the Song Of Pelinal it seems to me as if Alessia represented Aka and Pelinal represented Lorkhan, and yet also the other way around. Alessia/Aka the empress/king who sits the throne, governs, rules and then there is Pelinal, another Mask of the astrayed Sithis, being the shadow of Aka. Only that this shadow moves by itself.

Than the obvious synthesis between Aka and Lkhan, manifested as the many later Dovahkiin suggests that Aka and Lkhan drive each other.

Then Akatosh who is basically a dragon, powered by a human heart and later Talos who is powered by Aka's soul. The Nords who were once Dragons and the Dragons that were once Nords.

So... Aka and Lorkhan are not enemies and not rivals. It is merely the fragments and memories of forgotten worlds and an unchangeable past that slip through and blight our vision.

I have so many more points, but I fear that I will lose the plot, as I am writing this as a freestyle.

Cheese.

[mostdream6977]

HOW DARE YOU? ASK YOURSELF, GENUINELY, WHY ARE YOU HERE? WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? SOME KIND OF INCARNATE? ANTICIPATION, GOD, OR LOVER, EH? HOW QUAINT. HERE FOR THE BOAST AND MISSING FOR THE BIRTHDAYS. WAS NUMIDIUM ON YOUR LIST WORTH THE ABSENCE? WERE ENDLESS MARKS ON MY SKIN WORTH DYRE MOON? YOU GOT WHAT YOU FUCKING WANTED. HOW'S IT FEEL?

THE BEGINNING OF THE WORDS IS AMARANTH

[renegade-hierophant]

Jubal-lun-Sul, a servitor, and Hlaalu Hir by @katyhargrove

[tread-ever-litely]

The Agent is a Bard: TES Ramble

I want to preface this by saying this is purely headcanon, c0da-leaning, and completely out there in terms of solidity and in terms of what is widely known/available. I am and have been a huge Elder Scrolls lore and non-canon additions nut since I was a wee child. So let’s get into this.

In the Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, the protagonist is a relatively blank slate like in all the other entries. However, I’ve personally headcanoned that the Agent is a Bard. Agent is a class that appears in the later entries, (Morrowind, Oblivion) but has no presence in Daggerfall itself. Unless of course you re-create it via a custom class. So what’s the idea? Bards are storytellers, usually giving their stories through song — and a key factor in Daggerfall’s plot is the Numidium, the giant Brass Golem created by the Dwemer. Daggerfall also possesses multiple endings that were unified into a single explanation of the “Warp in the West” where upon Numidium’s activation, time stopped flowing linearly and all the possible outcomes happened.

This brings to mind an idea of the concept of a game of telephone, how a story changes ever so slightly each time it’s told. Who else but a Bard would tweak their story a little bit over and over, saying they made different choices that resulted in something unique to spice up their narrative? Now obviously the Agent seemingly vanishes after the events of Daggerfall, probably due to screwing with Time so supremely.

Numidium, and by extension the Dwemer, utilized a form of magic known as Tonal Architecture — which is using sound in such a way that magic effects are brought about. Bards obviously also use sound. This is purely a neat little thematic connection to be made for the idea, Tonal magic, and a Bard’s musical storytelling. The multiple outcomes, the Numidium breaking the Dragon, a story told with slight differences each time: all because a storytelling, song-singing Bard made all the choices possible to please everybody they could via a giant fantasy time-warping mecha.

[imagineargonians]

A Duraki legend mentions “Shezarr, who stole [the mead of poetry] stoneworking from the [dwarves] Dwemer and taught Zinfara to call nirncrux from the mountain-roots.” A Perena tale claims that the Cult of Stars learned soul magic from a “white-bearded stranger.” Likewise, “Shezarr of the Snowy Beard” is said to give the secrets of Ayleid battle-magic to the Nedes of Cyrod, showing them how to turn their enemies’ arts against them - The Footsteps of Shezarr

literally Odin.

also I choose to believe that lorkhan's "death" was in fact a planned self-sacrifice. I know that the monomyth & c0da have my back

[g3rladthel4d]

[wanmojie]

Hlaalu Hir in bal mora

[risaho]

I found this new npc at the brass fortress…I guess her lines actually MEAN something but I cannot figure out exactly what???

（Made by LibCustomDialog by MrPikPik）

[shiveringgroovy]

i forgot i made this wonderful image that makes sense to me and like 3 other people

[a-skrub]

"In a better time."

"In a better time, perhaps we could stroll across the flowing memories beneath our feet."

"In a better time, perhaps we could play all day and run away from the past we want to forget."

"In a better time, perhaps we could repeat the moment, even for our fleeting life."

"So please tell me, when i shouted your name, do you still remember?"

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Vivec

Unofficial TES concept art for The C0DA art guide - created by a TES artist and writer

Art by Michael Kirkbride

[shorkhan]

So many names, yet only one remains

"Lorkhan, LKHN, Sep, Shor, Shezarr, Ysmir, Talos. So many names…"

"Does it really matter in the end? I am here. I am part of this and I will die, as always, just to bear a new name, yet the same old branding. They might brand me Lorkhan, but am I truly Lorkhan still? I shatter, am born anew, forget myself, only to find myself once more"

(...)

"And still my heart rests in the heart of the heart of the great wheel. Too shattered to share the dream with you that we once shared - if only you had dared to dream. And so still, I long for the stars, to be united and yet I am caged as part of the Amaranth. Caged by the one I wanted to engage with, heartless and broken, i shed one mask after the other, die slowly like every other mortal that has the courage to suffer."

(...)

But when Alessia dared to dream, she dreamt of a golden dragon, guarded by a knight. Together they spoke as the skies shook: Oh, dearest Saint Alessia, hearest thou my voice? Accept the Adabal-a, that you may assist humanity for when Ayleid cease to reign. Light the dragon fires and turn the tide.

(...)

"I, who is of both Aka and LKHN wear the Stormcrown, who inheritated this realm from The One. I shift the times, spew the fire - I, Talos Stormcrown, see that you have suffered for me to win this throne, and I see how you hate jungle. Let me show you the power of Talos Stormcrown, born of the North, where my breath is long winter! I breathe now, in royalty, and reshape this land which is mine. I do this for you, Red Legions, for I LOVE YOU!

ANU AE PADOHME AE TAMRIEL

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(This is what sleeplessness, black metal, coffee and cigarettes does to man)