I appreciate that's a big claim in the title - but I think I may have done it. This seems too much to be a coincidence. This is with some inspiration from Glitching Queen's video uploaded yesterday. Worth watching that first, she explains how to get the word CODA from the Der Eisendrache books, and what a coda is etc. I just felt like there was more to it than where she got to.

So, supposing you have the prerequisite knowledge from her video, then you apply this further -

• Line 3: Dee
• Line 18: Sage
• Line 22: Teal
• Line 23: Draco

In the image, look at where the CODA count finishes on Line 23 (Draco, Myth vs. Fact). The word immediately before that final comma is Draco, which is an anagram of CODA + R (hint at DECODER D-CODA). On Line 18 (Sage, Wisdom for the Ages), the word before the comma (Sage) is an exact anagram of the last word in the title (Ages). This seems to be two ways to point to a clue - anagram the words immediately before the four commas.

The period on Lines 3 and 23: Look at the punctuation across all 24 titles. Only two lines in the entire list contain a period, and they are the first and last comma lines.

Line 3: John Dee, Illuminated De-Resurrectionist. (The only title that ends with a period)
Line 23: Draco, Myth vs. Fact (Contains an internal period)

Dee + Draco = A DECODER

Seems to be giving us a hint we're onto something. So -

Combine the 16 letters from those four words with the commas (D-E-E + S-A-G-E + T-E-A-L + D-R-A-C-O):

Combining Dee (D-E-E) with the CODA inside Draco (D-R-A-C-O) gives you the 6-letter verb DECODE, with the letters A and R left over.

Solve the remaining 10 letters: Combine that leftover A and R with Sage and Teal (A, R + S, A, G, E + T, E, A, L = A, A, A, E, E, G, L, R, S, T). Those 10 letters form A GREAT SEAL.

Putting all 16 letters together gives the complete message with zero leftover letters -

"DECODE A GREAT SEAL"

Yes, those 16 letters will decode into about 10 other phrases that make sense if you run them through an anagram solver, but this phrase is the only compelling one.

I feel like this is hidden in plain sight. An anagram allows for that. Enciphered texts looks like enciphered text, these book titles, although some odd, don't look like code, so it's not reasonable to look at them as Cyphertext. I don't think the IEE is a cypher, because that'd look too obvious. This is literally hidden in plain sight, with a new, novel way of coding the message that Jason has invented that doesn't look like a cypher, but uses a unique mechanism to hide a message.

A coda is a final part, chapter, or scene that happens after the main story ends to wrap things up or share what happened next. Jason's coda is this hidden message, his legacy, that carries on what happens next. He doesn't want it to be found, because that would in a sense close out the story. However it does conclude the coda.

The word comes from the Latin word "cauda", which literally means "tail", it is an ending.

Yes it's not some grand message. However, Jason told us not to set our expectations high. This is beautifully simple and elegant when you work the solution.

I'd also refer to Jason's few hints on this. He mentions books - The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi. It teaches that you achieve victory by mastering discipline, recognising patterns, and remaining completely adaptable to change. This fits with the unique "decoding" process here.

Also, Here Be Dragons: The Scientific Quest for Extraterrestrial Life by David W. Koerner & Simon LeVay. It explores the boundaries of what science can prove versus what remains hidden in the vast unknown. A core theme is human psychology: people naturally assume that missing or hidden knowledge must conceal something incredibly important. The thing about this solution is that it is entirely unimportant. It means something to me, but if I’m right... It means everything to him.

I believe Jason's grand masterpiece was THE GREAT SEAL, and I have DECODED it.

Edit: Can we please calm down on the toxic mean girl comments if at all possible. I value my mental health as it's not been good over the years. I don't need unnecessary hate. You can disagree with this post and leave it and move on, but there's no need to be cruel. It would suck to have been the one to solve this only to have it sullied by people acting like this.
Edit 2: So after waking up the following morning, it's been great to see a ton of nice comments and the mood shifting on this post. Thank you everyone that left a polite comment even if you didn't agree this was the answer.

Before the official Zombies Timeline was even released, in one of the Black Ops 2 developer documents, it's stated that Moon took place on 2020, despite using the wrong skybox asset.

There's another one that also states that took place on 2112, but seems it was disregarded during development.

I CAN'T PICK IT UP NO MATTER HOW (I'm playing duo so i can't restart the game)

Seriously. It’s every other game. High rounds, Easter egg runs ruined. It doesn’t exist in bo6. It didn’t become such a common issue until this most recent season. Clearly they have the skill and resources to fix it. And they just won’t? Game breaking bug. Among many, many others. Been giving you guys my business for almost 2 decades(like a lot of us in here) and you can’t even be bothered to fix a glitch that ruins the game? It’s such a stain on what should be a generational zombies game. What a shame

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Was playing some BO1 Kino with my roommate. I had hit the box which was in the dressing room, and I got a teddy bear. While it was still attempting to move from the room, I killed a zombie and got a fire sale. Naturally the box spawns in every room like it does. After the fire sale, it moved to the MP40 room. We continued on to the theater and turned on the power, and lo-and-behold, there’s another box in the theater. I have my roommate run back to the other and we were both able to hit them at the same time for 950, so definitely two boxes on the map without a fire sale. It only let me hit the glitched one once, but I got monkeys from it, and then it just wouldn’t let either of us hit the one in the theater again, and it stayed there until we got another fire sale. But for just a split second, we had two hittable boxes on the map without a fire sale. Kinda cool lol

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I have never had this issue with any other game.

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