C0DA C0DA is a script for a 64 - page digital graphic novel authored by the ex - developer Michael Kirkbride , released to the public on February 14 , 2014 , on its principal website . Before its release , several other texts were featured on the site alongside some art - work , including , but not limited to , " KINMUNE " , " Et ' Ada , Eight Aedra , Eat the Dreamer " , and the " Republic of Hahd " . The main purpose for C0DA was to encourage the idea of lore as a living open - source world that anyone can freely contribute to and reinterpret in their own personal manners . For this reason , C0DA was released alongside the website Tomorrowind Today ; a site for other people to feature their own stories . The text itself can not really be interpreted as " canon , " more so it attempts to persuade the reader to deconstruct the idea of canon entirely . The story was also designed to address several of the mysterious concepts introduced in some of Kirkbride ' s earlier works , as well as in . C0DA is set in the far distant future of the late Fifth Era , where an apocalyptic event known as Landfall has forced the remaining inhabitants of Nirn to take refuge on the moon Masser . The story centers around the Dunmer noble , Jubal - lun - Sul , who seeks the means to shepherd his people to a safe world , away from Landfall . His actions eventually culminate with the destined end of the universe to make way for the peace and salvation of its rebirth . Background . C0DA ' s background is introduced in the text " Loveletter From the Fifth Era , The True Purpose of Tamriel " , which brings some insight into a few aspects of C0DA ' s lore , most importantly the concept of the " Amaranth . " The Amaranth is a state that lies beyond all existence and the means to create a brand new universe ; it was designed to present the natural " end - point " of the Elder Scrolls mythology . C0DA ' s timeline officially begins with a currently unreleased text known as " Dies Irae , " said to feature a catastrophe resulting in the death of the Three Good Daedra . It continues with the short text , " The Prophet of Landfall , " which depicts the arrival of the Numidium and the very beginning of Landfall . It is heavily implied that the Numidium ' s return was caused by its siege of Alinor which lasted from the " Mythic Era until long into the Fifth . " The Prophet of Landfall is followed by another unreleased text referred to as " Stringendo , " which progresses into the partially released text " Landfall : Day One . " This text depicts the events leading up to the refugees escaping Nirn on a ship known as the Wonderweir , including the erasure of the Altmer race and the Nerevarine ' s confrontation with the Numidium , utilizing Akulakhan . The subsequent and final text is C0DA itself , bringing a hypothetical end and new beginning to the Elder Scrolls lore . Plot . Sometime well into the Fifth Era , a catastrophic event known as Landfall has forced the surviving inhabitants of Nirn to take refuge under the surface of the moon , Masser . Those refugees who escaped from Morrowind have reformed a sprawling new community known as Ald Sotha in the Velothiid , also known as Morrowind 2 , built from the burrows of titanic worms . The winds on the moon ' s surface make it too hazardous to traverse . When the winds die down during periods referred to as " Landfall Season , " all inhabitants of Velothiid are permitted to make pilgrimage to the moon ' s surface . However , the danger ' s of the journey deter most people from taking it , and because of this , many have forgotten where they originally came from . The narrative opens on Jubal - lun - Sul , a Dunmer noble of the old salt - merchant House Sul , a bloodline said to be registered by C0DA . He is overlooking from the balcony of his under - manor , reminiscing about his first pilgrimage and consultation with Memory and the Wheels of Lull . The setting flashes back to the year 5E 892 during the 88th Landfall Season . Jubal - lun - Sul travels with his wealthy friend , Hlaalu Hir , through a worm tunnel on what is to be his first pilgrimage to the moon ' s surface . Jubal appears sheepish and slightly anxious , while Hir , who has clearly made the pilgrimage before , is much more optimistic . Upon exiting the tunnel , they look upon the remains of Nirn , now the Wheels of Lull , an interlocking skeleton of fiery debris , gears and other mechanical apparatus , as well as what appear to be incomprehensible mathematical equations . Back to the present day , Hir visits Jubal at his under - manor , and Jubal appears hesitant to share the results of his marriage proposal to the High Alma . Hir , a busy man , and in a hurry , demands he spit out the news . To Hlaalu Hir ' s astonishment , Jubal excitedly states that the High Alma had agreed to allow him to marry her daughter . Hir , both cheerful and confused , wonders how Jubal managed to convince the High Alma to agree to a marriage so far outside of her caste . Confirming Hir ' s suspicions , Jubal states that there is a catch , that he must hunt a specific thing to prove his worth . Given it is Sacrifice Season , Hir believes the High Alma has sent him on a suicidal pursuit to kill a Worm . Jubal denies this and states his actual target was picked by Memory , that he must hunt and kill the Numidium , a notion Hir finds amusingly ludicrous . Jubal - lun - Sul and Hlaalu Hir travel together to a corner club , in which Hir owns . Sitting in a booth , Jubal says he needs a " cat , " a request that Hir is reluctant to fulfill but eventually gives into . A skinny Khajiit comes to their table and hands over a bag of Skooma , on the house , which Jubal smokes from a pipe . Jubal then perceives himself back in the Velothiid Worm tunnels , though different from before . He is greeted by the ghostly Wheels of Lull , with " women ' s eyes " appearing within its cogs . Jubal and Hir eventually find themselves walking through a multi - leveled marketplace in Ald Sotha , privately overseen by Hir ' s family , for reasons concerning Jubal ' s marriage . The friends are interrupted by two mysterious ghost - like apparitions in the form of fingers , referred to as the " Digitals . " The Digitals point at Jubal accusingly , seemingly frightening the market ' s crowd into hiding . Something glows to the left of Jubal , but he pays no mind , instead telling the Digitals to quite down as their loud noises are distressing the pedestrians . While Hir attempts to turn Jubal ' s attention to the growing light to his side , in which the people are truly hiding from , the Digitals accuse Jubal of trying to be a condescending groom . Jubal asserts he is merely shopping for a weapon , to which the glowing light reveals itself to be Vivec , who states that he may be able to help him . The story flashes back to old Resdayn , designated Morrowind ( 0 ) during Eras now erased . Jubal begins to monologue over the fabled life of Vivec . He states that a youthful Vivec , alongside his friends Nerevar , Sotha Sil , and Almalexia , discovered a hidden cave with a special stone that gave them powers that they used to chase away demons . Switching now to a different story of Vivec ' s legendary origins , designated Morrowind ( 1 ) , Vivec is now a teenager leading a gang of guttersnipes in Mournhold . He is visited by a masked soldier of the extinct House Indoril , Nerevar , who sees something special within Vivec . Vivec eventually becomes a general of House Indoril and drives out a horde of demonic Ash monsters ; it is said that he fought so well he became a god . The next fable , one well known by the people of Velothiid , is set in a land known as " Tomorrowind , " also dated to an erased Era . The people of the comic book styled Neo - Victorian Tommorwind are being terrorized by strange figures with television sets for heads , transforming their victims to match their odd appearance . Alandro Sul , depicted as a camera wielding journalist , runs from these monsters and calls for Vivec on his wrist watch . Vivec arrives and picks up Alandro with Muatra ; they meet up with the members of the " Pseudo - 6th - House , " Almalexia , Sotha Sil , Molag Bal , and The Ur , all seemingly presented in a satirical grasp on real life Superhero comics . Alandro Sul recommends that they get Nerevar for help , to which Vivec responds saying " Ha . which one . " The group descends into an inter - dimensional tunnel made of liquid video in order to find the Intellective , a bionic brain - headed despot from the future , revealed to be Yagrum Bagarn . The Intellective is accompanied by Tsaesci scientists , who are upgrading their master . Alandro Sul , shocked by the current situation , wonders whether the Intellective is making another Numidium , to which Vivec replies that he ' s buying one instead . Jubal is shown sitting in his study ; he breaks away from the Tomorrowind story , stating that after the return of Numidium , time stopped making sense and the inhabitants of Tomorrowind were forced to live inside the moon in an event known as Landfall . However , Jubal - lun - Sul believes he has found a way to escape from Landfall . He also believes his ancestor , Alandro Sul , knew how to escape too . The setting returns to Tomorrowind , in a reminiscent documentation of the whole ordeal . Alandro Sul narrates his memories of Vivec and the Pseudo - Sixth House , praising them as " super - people " capable of doing the impossible to save the world . He concludes saying that he can ' t imagine a world where their kind of impossible isn ' t possible . Back to the Ald Sotha marketplace , Jubal tells Vivec he is not supposed to see him yet . Vivec then teleports himself and Jubal back to the Sul under - manor where Jubal states that the people who just witnessed him teleport are going to think he is cheating . Vivec vanishes after Jubal turns his back to him , which makes Jubal believe Vivec has forgotten the things he had once said , a flaw he intends to fix . Following this , Jubal walks over to his balcony and calls upon his servitor to send a micro - wasp missile message to Hlaalu Hir immediately . Sometime later , Hlaalu Hir arrives at Jubal ' s tea room , complaining about the expense of Jubal ' s request . Nevertheless , Hir offers Jubal a flask of Sujamma to help cope with what he ' s about to go through . It is revealed that Hir has hired a group of Khajiit surgeons for Jubal , who are to perform a strange surgical procedure injecting large amounts of Skooma to put him in an extreme psychedelic state . As Jubal begins hallucinating , one of the surgeons begins to mention an old Khajiiti proverb : " Two moons , two paws , ten claws . Take but one away and you — " Jubal interrupts him saying " cut them both off . " The scene cuts to a corner club in Ald Sotha where Jubal is having his bachelor party . The regular patrons have been replaced with strange guests , including many gods and demi - gods . Jubal wears bandages over the stumps where his hands used to be . As he does not recognize many of the guests , Jubal grows nervous , but Hlaalu Hir assures him he ' ll be fine . Jubal goes to speak with some of his divine guests , including Morihaus , a Hist tree , and Almalexia . While drunk , he gets into a particularly heated conversation with Akatosh , whom he ridicules for failing to keep his control over time . As the argument continues , Jubal eventually tells Akatosh to go away as he is drinking with the groom of his brother ' s dead body . As Akatosh vanishes , Talos approaches Jubal congratulating him , but Jubal tells him to go away too , calling him a " virus . " As Talos angrily backs away , Kyne confronts Jubal and insists that he apologize to Talos immediately . Making amends , Jubal sits with Talos where they both continue to get even more intoxicated . Jubal and Talos then decide to leave the party , holding each other up for support . Contemplating the argument they had just had , Talos demands to know why Jubal called him a virus . Jubal replies saying the reason for this insult was because Talos had fed off " the Mastery " like a virus , something he doesn ' t take any particular offense to as the alternative situation would have required one of them to win at the expense of the other . Talos and Jubal - lun - Sul exit the subterranean tunnels leading to the surface of the moon . There , Jubal points to the remains of Nirn stating that , the Arena , was where they used to live . Jubal goes on to say that , from the beginning , the only reason they were put there was to fight , which is a notion he doesn ' t quite understand . Talos , as he begins to transform into Lorkhan , tells Jubal that he is lying , and that anyone who has cut off their own hands already understands ; Jubal had the Arena in reach , but decided to refuse it . Knowing time was almost up , Jubal begins to meditate , and just as Lorkhan decides to leave , Jubal takes back his insult of calling him a " virus " and instead refers to him as a " preacher . " As he sits meditating , Jubal - lun - Sul is finally visited by the massive spiky Numidium . Jubal greets the Numidium — who only replies with empty speech bubbles — stating he has to kill it now . As he promised no tricks , the Numidium agrees to shrink to Jubal ' s size for the time being . Jubal decides to start his confrontation with the contrarian Numidium by reciting scriptures from each of their respective cultures , the Dunmer and Dwemer . Beginning with the words of his people , Jubal delivers a line from Sermon 11 : Knowing every assertion made makes the Numidium want to destroy more and more , Jubal continues with the words of the Dwemer , in which he simply repeats " No " over and over again . Jubal states that while the Numidium wants to think of its philosophy as ' Never Underestimate The Little Guy ' , it is really only coming off as a brat , which gets nobody anywhere . Jubal goes on to reveal that the Numidium was , itself , the ' Disappearance of the Dwarves ' , their attempted escape from existence , which begs the question of why the Numidium keeps trying to come back . Jubal asks the Numidium if it has some sort of unfinished business , to which the Numidium replies saying " maybe . " This makes Jubal incredibly frustrated , as that is the " magic word " and they both promised to not use any tricks . The Numidium reiterates , stating " GREY AREA . GREY MAYBE . " With these words said , Jubal ' s assumption of the Numidium was proven correct , and he yells at it that the whole time , all it wanted was to win , which the Numidium affirmed with a simple " YES . " Jubal , who had finally gotten what he wanted from the Numidium , apologizes to it before decapitating it with an empty speech bubble . While Jubal lay exhausted over the Numidium ' s corpse the Digitals return saying that there is no more Wheel or Lull , and that the time for union and Amaranth has come . The next day , Jubal is ready for his wedding , clad in the brass shell of the defeated Numidium . As he is preparing , however , the room is flooded with Morag Tong assassins , led by Hlaalu Hir . A micro - wasp missile appears and begins drilling into Jubal ' s forehead . Jubal tells his old friend to call it off to no avail , Hir only replies stating that this is painful for him too . Jubal , growing ghost hands , pulls out the wasp himself and proceeds to kill off the Morag Tong assassins . While fighting , Jubal asks Hir what hurt him the most , which Hir discloses was that Jubal never told him what the Wheels of Lull had said . Flashing back to the time Jubal made his first pilgrimage , he is greeted by the Wheels of Lull , a spirit known as Memory . Memory thanks Jubal for making the pilgrimage as fewer people make the journey with each passing year . Jubal asks her why , and Memory responds saying that she is leaving soon . Memory continues , urging Jubal to not tell anyone she told him this because otherwise they will all come to her , and she hates goodbyes . In the present , Jubal continues to kill the remaining Morag Tong assassins , finally getting to Hlaalu Hir whom he proceeds to choke to death . Jubal , speaking over Hir ' s dead body , assures that Hir ' s House is dead and that he will never get to know what Memory said . Regardless , Jubal tells Hir to go in peace knowing that Memory was right , that goodbyes are the worst . Jubal now enters the Temple of Ald Sotha , where the whole Dunmeri race is present for his wedding . His wife - to - be , the High Alma ' s daughter , is revealed to be Vivec taken a female form . The priest overseeing the wedding is Lorkhan . As Jubal and Vivec recite their vows , Akatosh , occupying in the gaping wound where Lorkhan ' s Heart once resided , begins eating his own tail . Once Vivec and Jubal kiss , Lorkhan ' s wound is healed and all things are made secure . The story ends with the birth of the first Nu - Man , who will become the next Amaranth .