The COMPLETE Guide to GODS in the Elder Scrolls - Elder Scrolls Lore 

The potato god accepts your challenge

I really want a backstory with him! Ever since oblivion I’ve been curious. I’m pretty sure he’s in Morrowind too

Having Liar in his name makes me think he could be the avatar of Lorkhan

@@Xenotaris no lorkan slander will be tolerated

Nirn!

Yo mama

Honestly? With how most treatment of deities in other fantasy stories are, this seems so much better

Remember to exfoliate after shaving to avoid ingrown hairs and never shave against the grain.

Becomes less sweet when you realize each respective God just wants their mortal souls and are willing to create whatever illusions needed to get them

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I second this!!!🎉💛

well i mean who wouldnt hate molag bal

Vampires

@@Liberater4589 a sub would probably be very into molag bal.

@@Liberater4589 Azura is apparently an ally of Molag Bal.

The Elder Oxymorons.

It's the ultimate ass-pull. You can catch Bethesda screwing with the canon, but it'll never be inconsistent with the world they created!

While it seems stupid, you have to admit that at least the way they've done it is kind of clever.

My personal explanation is that there's been way more than 9 "aedra". We know that elves lost their divinity and immortality over generations, the same is likely true for the races of men. This means that between the time of the Aedra and the races we have now, there's likely been countless gods or godlike beings. This could easily explain why the interpretations of Aedra is so different. If this was true then the Aedric gods we have now is a compilation of generations of godlike beings that's been forgotten, the 9 there's left now is the ones that wasn't forgotten and likely true aedra (aka the ones that took part in the creation, Talos being the exception) - but the way they're interpreted isn't true since they've been given aspects of the forgotten godlike ancestors of the cultures associated with them, and its warped the gods themselves since they mainly get their power from the people worshipping them (this means that if the empire believes auriel to be akatosh then he is akatosh when he responds to them, although he was Auriel first). Edit: to add to this, in this explanation something like Sovngarde is explained as the Aedric realms working like the Daedric ones. They can change it to suit their whims. The difference is that Daedra doesn't get power from worship, so they change it to suit their personal whims and entertain themselves. The Aedra on the other hand changes their realms to suit their worshippers. This means Sovngarde exists in the same Aedric realm as any other afterlife associated with Lorkhan. In the same line of thought Akatosh/Auriel has multiple different realms set up inside his sphere each associated with a different worshipped personality. This makes perfect sense if we assume that worship is the most important thing for an Aedric god. They need to be everything they're worshipped as, thus they need to shape their Aedric realms to suit that need. In short the Aedric gods are literally playing masquarades to keep their "decendants" happy and to stay empowered, if they ever stopped playing any of their assigned roles they'd be weakened substantially since they'd no longer receive worship be it in a positive or negative form (as is the case with Lorkhan).

@@ButterBoyism Fun fact - Talos isn't even the first mortal considered the "9th Divine." Both Alessia and Reman I were considered ascendant beings in the imperial Pantheon at one time or another.

Xith I feel like Heimskir’s smarter brother wrote this.

Agreed. They're a lot more subtle than the Daedra, but there's plenty of evidence the Divines still have an active role in things. Uriel even says as much when you meet him in Oblivion.

@@Slayerlord0 not that Uriel would actually know, he was just guessing

@@the_dropbear4392 True. But when the exact person you've been seeing in your dreams happens to be in the exact jail cell with a secret passage on the exact day when you need to escape a bunch of assassins, I think it's safe to assume a little divine intervention. Especially if you're in Tamriel.

Okay I have a question. What makes Mundus special from the Daedric planes? If you're a god, and you can make your own planes of existence without sacrificing your power. Why would you sacrifice your power and imprison your self in Mundus? Unless there's something special about Mundus. What is the bait for the trap? Also why did Mundus drain power from the Aedra, but the Daedra can make planes without it draining their power?

Thank you so much :)

@@FudgeMuppet you're welcome :)

You never did.

@@Alizudo Quite so, thank you for the reminder. Wintersun - Faiths of Skyrim by Enai Saion.

I'm pretty sure that guy's just a lunatic.

Well the roman gods are basically the Greek gods even roman historians have said that their predacesors worshipped the hellenitic pagan gods but with a lil Italian twist with names and stories kinda like the difference between the gods of the germanic tribes in Central Europe and the norse (Wōden for the saxons and Óðinn for the norse)

That still doesn’t explain the being of all beings, including the daedra. The being of the mortal races and the aedra are the same, even if you might say that men were “created” by the aedra. It is the case that all beings owe their existence to existence as such, which surpasses all things by being their innermost self and absolutely beyond them. Existence itself (being) has already accomplished itself and needs nothing other than itself; so the question becomes this: what are beings then if being needs nothing of us to be what it is? The answer is love. Only love can go without reason or need. Only love is purely positive, needing no reaction because it is a gift.

Hermaeus Mora.

Different world mate

Lmao you must have been playing with your eyes closed