User blog comment:4. 1. 22. 5. M97/Rivalries: Dave and Madman97 on C0DA./@comment-25136035-20150622160518/@comment-25136035-20150623174627

"even if I do prefer the game's canon over my own desired canon"

- You

Huh? I think I get what you mean, that you're not one for skipping games, yeah, Im not either, and I dont think anyone is, really. Wouldnt make a whole lot of sense either. But as long as your headcanon doesnt contradict what the game says, the whole "game" is just your character's story. That's why they avoid situations in which they have to explain what did and didn't happen, aside from the main quests of course - These did happen, and were done by the hero/Hero of the corresponding game. If it's necessary that it was them, otherwise it was done by someone. Probably your hero, not necessarily though. Anyways, I think C0DA was one of the greatest things to happen to TES, because it gives me the right to write my own story, like I, like everyone of us, always did, but in an official manner - It makes each of our TES stories true, if we want to. Basically, it's made Tamriel open source, where every story we wrote is "canon", thus belongs to it as anything does. It feels more like contributing now when I write my character's stories (I sometimes literally do, hope Im no weirdo for that) than it feels like filling gaps we were meant to fill, like it previously was the case. I now have an impact, and one that lasts at that.

The icing on the cake is that it's all validated in-universe, as said universe (now) exists in an eternal Dragon Break, the first brush of Anu and Padomay recreated through their myth-echos Aka and Lorkhan, resulting in the creation of innumerable TES universes - each of them filled with the love of their creators, as every one of us loves their little ES-world, and puts at least some effort into it.

That's why there's such strong symbolism of love in C0DA - Because it's there, actually. It's always been, but now, through it, through the Amaranth of Vivec and Jubal if talking in-universe, we have the means of expressing it and creating with it. It's not all that complicated, actually, if you know the intention MK wrote it with.