Codex: meta lore document, or in-universe lore document?
Jun 29, 2023 14:36:41 GMT
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Post by Sandetiger on Jun 29, 2023 14:36:41 GMT
This is a question that has been floating around in my head for the past year and I'm only just now getting around to looking into it a little more seriously. Is there any consensus on how the Codex for the Mass Effect trilogy fits into the game? Is it an in-universe document? (IMO the MEA one is pretty definitively an in-universe document, so I'm not asking about that one :-) 
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I've seen it floating around that it reads like an Alliance intel document, although that doesn't necessarily fit 100%
. One person who I spoke with felt that the voice narration (Neil Ross?) for the Codex sounded like basic information being conveyed to a New Recruit a la the Alliance or perhaps the general public via an in-universe narrator, but I can't speak for that personally as I'm deaf. Someone else mentioned a while back that they fell into camp "In-Universe Even If It Occasionally Contains More Meta Information Than It Really Should" because of how some of the documents are constructed, but couldn't remember what made them go "there's no way this is meta knowledge."
I do plan on doing a full read and analysis for my own personal curiosity at some point, but that's tabled while I work on another project. In the meantime -- is there a more obscure Word of God from BioWare staff (maybe Chris Hepler?) floating around out there that answers this question more definitively?
)I've seen it floating around that it reads like an Alliance intel document, although that doesn't necessarily fit 100%
considering Shepard isn't technically Alliance in ME2
. One person who I spoke with felt that the voice narration (Neil Ross?) for the Codex sounded like basic information being conveyed to a New Recruit a la the Alliance or perhaps the general public via an in-universe narrator, but I can't speak for that personally as I'm deaf. Someone else mentioned a while back that they fell into camp "In-Universe Even If It Occasionally Contains More Meta Information Than It Really Should" because of how some of the documents are constructed, but couldn't remember what made them go "there's no way this is meta knowledge."
I do plan on doing a full read and analysis for my own personal curiosity at some point, but that's tabled while I work on another project. In the meantime -- is there a more obscure Word of God from BioWare staff (maybe Chris Hepler?) floating around out there that answers this question more definitively?