: Whoever wrote the Codex could obviously see into the
: future. But, which future? There are, for all
: practical purposes, an infinite number of possible
: futures which can come from any single point in time,
: each differing very slightly, but over a long series
: of points in time, with different things happening (an
: electron happens to be here instead of there,
: connecting this neural pathway instead of not and
: causing a string of thoughts leading to a decicion
: which otherwise wouldn't happen) at each one, you can
: end up with vastly different futures.
: So, lets say whoever wrote the Codex could see *all*
: possible futures, and wrote the book to take into
: account alternate timelines due to time-traveling
: information. There is a stable form of time travel
: called a world loop, where actions in the future cause
: events in the past, which force the actions in the
: future to occur. With a time-travel method like the
: Codex, where only information from the future is going
: to the past (however it's done, I don't want to go
: into hypothetical details), ending up with a stable
: world loop in almost inevitable, it seems. Whoever
: wrote the Codex could take this into account, and
: write the Codex as it would be seen in the world loop
: in the first place.
: So, for example, it could say "You will trip over a
: rope in Tandem and crack your skull on a rock,"
: so you decide that you're never going to go to Tandem.
: Then, however, the Codex would have to read something
: like "You would trip over a rope in Tandem and
: crack your skull on a rock, but having read this, you
: will stay away from Tandem, and instead will die in a
: robbery just south of Madrigal." But because of
: this, you'll make sure to stay away from Madrigal! And
: so on. Eventually, with some much evasion of different
: things, you may forget that you were originally fated
: to trip and die in Tandem, thus you end up in Tandem
: anyway. The Codex would then tell this, that you will
: forget to stay away from Tandem, and you will forget
: anyway. You've now got a world loop.
: In other words, the Codex takes into account the fact
: that certain people will read it (and react certain
: ways) in its predictions, so it's always accurate. It
: knew Soulblighter would find the Summoner, and thus
: predicted that the Summoner would ressurect the
: Myrkridia, which in turn is what made Soulblighter
: search for him in the first place.
Right, as humans we cannot comprehend a different degree of time and space then the one we're used to, so we can't imagine how the Codex can see the future. Perhaps (refering back to Marathon, because I believe strongly in the Myth-Marathon connection) at the end of time as the ending of Marathon 2 states (or Infinity, not sure) "Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of Space and Time. I know who you are. You are Destiny." whoever is writing this or whoever is "destiny" writes the Codex, and some believe that once our Universe has reached it's finally second, it will retract back into the single atom (or whatever it was)...but perhaps time also reverses itself and the person who wrote the Codex is allowed to manipulate time, and place the Total Codex back in beginning of Myth time, therefore once time replays itself (as I'm convinced it does, but we just move on into different dimensions of time, not even conscious of it, but I won't go into that) the people of Myth now have this amazing book which tells the Future. And again, we can't comprehend different areas of time and space, so perhaps the Codex is constantly being written or re-written, and placed back in in the stages of time so it shows the correct events of the future, until someone tries to mess with fate, then more is rewritten and taken out. By who or what, I don't know. Just speculation on my part again...
Chris
