Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.248.190.66-20141119163353/@comment-9212235-20141208032710

And because I'm bored I'll go ahead and sum up the other ones for you too. Some of this has to do with each other so I'll try to talk about it in a logical order

 KINMUNE 

Let's start with the easier one, KINMUNE. You can read the story here. KINMUNE is a robot from the 9th era. She was accidently transported back in time. I found a great explanation of her here to keep from typing it all out. The sum up of that sum up is that she is an robot that got sent back in time, was persecuted by Man, hunted, trapped, escaped, established herself as Queen Ayrenn, and then created the First Aldmeri Dominion.

 Walking Ways 

The walking ways are paths to transcend mortality. There are 6 of them. My understanding of the Walking Ways is limited but I will try my best to get to some sort of conclusion. It doesn't help that a few of them aren't well known in general and only have theories. I can give you a good explination of 3, 4, and 5. The rest will be mostly speculation.

1. The Prolix Tower - The one is possibly the Ehlnofey as the transcendence into immortal beings. I've always seen it as Auriel's ascention into the heavens via the Tower. I'm not totally sure about this one.

2. The Psijic Endeavor - Something something Veloth something something Psijic something something

3. The Numidium - This is the Anti-god created by the dwemer to deny reality with the help of Lorkhan's heart, Tonal Architecture, and the desire to No everthing. Numidium isn't just a god, it is the denial of existance. It's a concept as well as a being.

4. Mantling (Enantiomorph) - "Walk like them until they must walk like you." We see this in many forms, the two most notable and well known are Talos who mantled Lorkhan and the Champion of Cyrodiil who mantled Sheogorath/Aurden Sul. The idea is that the two beings become so similar that the universe can't tell them apart and they becomem the same individual. The Enantiomorph is the same thing except it includes an Observer who has the ability to tell them apart but ends up being maimed in the process (usually blinded). It also seems to be possible to partially mantle someone where you only take on aspects of the being. CoC with Pelinal (although this may have been a full mantling), Tribunal and the Anticipations, and the Imperial City and the Wheel are good examples. Interestingly, the two major mantling events also involved a being that was gone. Talos mantled the Missing God and became Lorkhan. The Champion of Cyrodiil mantled Sheogorath who had just become Jyggalag so he was also gone.

5. CHIM - The is an extremely complicated topic until you really get it. The equation of the Aurbis as says F you to it. It is the knowledge of existance (represented by a 1) that the universe is a dream (represented by a -1) and adds them together. So 1 + (-1) = 0. This is called Zero-Sum where you no longer exist. You realize that the universe is a dream which means you don't exist so how are you even here to begin wi... poof gone. Acheiving CHIM means you take that 1 + (-1) and add your own 1 to it making it equal 1, existance. This requires Love. This Love is a type of narcissism where you basically tell that dream universe to F off because you're too awesome to poof and you then become partners with the dreamer. Through Love you can acheive anything. Talos CHIMed the jungles of Cyrodiil away. Vivec CHIMed Asura away and back to her plane.

6. Scarab that transforms into the New Man - I'm not sure I've ever seen a good explanation of it. It seems to resemble the Prolix Tower and CHIM at the same time. Personally I think it has something to do with Amaranth but probably not compeletly or maybe I'm totally off. I really can't explain this one well.

C0DA

C0DA as a story: C0DA is a story script to a comic written by Kirkrbide. In short form, this story is about Jubal, a Nerevarine, who is a dunmer that lives on the moon in the 5th Era. He take a memory trip with Vivec (in male form), talks to Memory, kills the Numidium, marries Vivec (in female form), and has a baby who is the Flower Child, the New Amaranth, Tosh-Raka.

C0DA as a concept: The concept of c0da has existed for a while. It is also sometimes called headcannon. It's the idea that anything that ever happens within the TES universe happens. Your Dovahkiin didn't take out Alduin? He never joined the Dark Brotherhood? He did join the Dark Brotherhood? Yup, it's a thing. It all always happens. Even the crazy stuff like dragons being a My Little Pony or Thomas the Engine are totally within the realm of possibility. Of course most of the time these extremes aren't talked about.

C0DA in C0DA: The comic references C0DA. It's basically a massive database. Pretty much that simple.

 Numidium 

And that brings us to Walk-Brass. This thing is a lot of things. It's a anti-reality god shouting IS NOT louder than even Sithis. It is the denial of everything. It is a Tower that ends up helping Mundus stay together. It is the creation of the dwemer and their final resting place. It is the destroyer of Nirn and bringer of Landfall. There are several good threads about the No God but I particularly like this one.