Bodily Requirements

Post » Wed Sep 01, 2010 5:05 pm

In the Shivering Isles, Sheogorath's daedric servants do not need to eat or sleep. Most other daedra are probably the same way. Strangely, although they have no ability to reproduce, the innate desire is still there for some daedra, such as Molag Grunda and her Frost Atronach consort.

Oh, and have a http://www.uesp.net/w/images/Fishystick.jpg! All new members get one.


All new members?I did not get one.:)
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maya papps
 
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Post » Wed Sep 01, 2010 4:48 pm

I didn't get one :sad:

Probably because my first post was a year after i joined, nobody knew i was new i suppose. I joined to be able to use the search button.

All new members?I did not get one.


I didn't get one either; the lore people don't give out fishy sticks much. Eventually, I gave myself one.

To both of you, have a http://www.uesp.net/w/images/Fishystick.jpg!
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David Chambers
 
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Post » Wed Sep 01, 2010 4:45 pm

Don't eat the Lore Fishy Sticks, I'm pretty sure Prowler poisons them.
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Post » Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:15 pm

I didn't get one either; the lore people don't give out fishy sticks much. Eventually, I gave myself one.

To both of you, have a http://www.uesp.net/w/images/Fishystick.jpg!


Nor did I. I think there should be a sticky to warn first time posters that if they post in the lore section they are statistically less likely to receive Fishy Stick. As I did not know this.
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Jerry Cox
 
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Post » Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:35 pm

I think one of the Mazken mentions drinking or toasting their victory Cylarne and I remember some lady in morrowind who was going to get eaten by winged twilights so I think they do have biological impulses. Also they are vulnerable to poisons which work by suppressing metabolic processes so there must be something going on. but I don't think they have the same requirements as beings on mundus. different daedra most likly have different needs, hungers for example didn't have a wellspring but when the Mazken/Aureals loose theirs they all fall down.

Just because they can Eat and Drink doesn't mean they have to. They could be eating and drinking for sole pleasure, indulging themselves in something that isn't needed to survive.
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Lou
 
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Post » Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:46 pm

I have a theory on that. I believe that all Daedra may be "linked" to their respective Lord (Azura, Molag Bal, Maerhunes Dagon, etc.). I think that Daedric Lords somehow give their followers energy, they're dependent upon the power of their lord for sustenance. The feed off of their lords power/aura/whatever.

That would explain why Daedra seem to follow their lords blindly. Afterall, Daedric Princes have so many Dremora that they could easily overthrow them if they desired to.

Even if they thought they couldn't win, the honour gained defeated somoeone/something so powerful would be more than enough of an incentive.

Seeing as Dremora delight in battle, I doubt they would obey the Daedric Lords simply because they're stronger then them.
There has to be something they need from their Lord (IE their continued existence).


The Dremora appear to serve out of the desire for protection and a belief that their order creates a protective bond, but they make it plain that their service to Mehrunes Dagon is not an existential necessity and is not a permanent relationship:
The Oath Bond

We serve by choice. We serve the strong, so that their strength might shield us.

Clans serve by long-practice, but practice may change.

Dremora have long served Dagon but not always so.

Practice is secure when oath-bonds are secure, and trust is shared.

When oath-bonds are weak, there is pain, and shame, and loss, and Darkness, and great fear.


And some of the intelligent lesser Daedra are independent, almost to the point of being free agents:
I did note, however, that when Divayth Fyr sought a Daedra of a character like unto the Dremora, but of greater power, and greater inclination for independence and initiative, or solely as a master, he summoned Xivilai, who are like the Dremora in personality and temperment, except that they hate subordination, and are liable to disloyalty and betrayal when they feel they have not been treated with the proper deference and respect.


I don't think the link is of a nature that makes a lesser Daedra's continued existence contingent on maintaining the link to his Prince. They serve a Prince because they receive some benefit, but they consciously or unconsciously choose to do so. They would not starve the way the Tribunal was starved by long-denied access to the Heart of Lorkhan, but they would at least in the case of the Dremora be vulnerable to those that would prey upon them.
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Post » Wed Sep 01, 2010 4:45 pm

Just because they can Eat and Drink doesn't mean they have to. They could be eating and drinking for sole pleasure, indulging themselves in something that isn't needed to survive.


I didn't necessarily mean to imply that they had to for survival. But the facts that one - they can at all and two - they do find it pleasurable says something about their biology.
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Post » Wed Sep 01, 2010 2:11 pm

Eating and drinking aren't the only unnecessary things that daedra can do for pleasure.
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Post » Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:24 am

Eating and drinking aren't the only unnecessary things that daedra can do for pleasure.


Like [censored] people trying to complete a pilgrimage.
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Jessica Lloyd
 
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Post » Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:22 pm

Like [censored] people trying to complete a pilgrimage.


Yesyesyesyes thats what im saying those are complex organs needed to eat people and [censored] things and you wouldn't install them just for pleasure because they are the higher maintenance body parts think of all the money spent on peptobismol and viagra if an organism didn't need them theyd leave them out. do deadra have DNA? does the TES universe even use DNA? if they do it works diffrent then our own as "the mothers traits are always dominant" is not what I learned junior-high biology.

And there are no toilets anywhere! and not all NPCs eat or sleep Deadra worshipers and bandits don't and neither does the PC except to level up maybe we need to broaden our discussion what are the bodily requirements of Nords vs Bosmer vs Argonians vs Deadra or maybe im rambling.
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Post » Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:03 pm

Do Dremora actaully have unspeakables?

I mean Twilights have boobies.
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Post » Wed Sep 01, 2010 7:47 pm

Yesyesyesyes thats what im saying those are complex organs needed to eat people and [censored] things and you wouldn't install them just for pleasure

Yes you would if you're the bodily incarnation of a myth or concept. Daedra are not people. Their body is mythopoeic, not biologic.

do deadra have DNA? does the TES universe even use DNA?

No.

Instead, there's blood and myth. What else could be needed?

And there are no toilets anywhere!

Because toilets are irrelevant to the story. The game is not created to scale, and does not contain all that should exist. For example, you've got yarn and you've got clothes, but you have no knitting needles. Why? Because there's only so much useless-for-the-hero clutter that can be created and placed into the game.
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Post » Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:32 pm

I do of course realize that toilets where left out because they where irrelevant to the game. but as devils advocate I feel obligated to point out that the absence opens other options. Knitting and yarn for example, the only reason we assume that they knit is because we knit. They might make cloths using a completely alien process. Perhaps there is a method to make a blouse using apples, calipers and a water breathing spell that modern terrestrial science isn't yet equipped to understand. There could be no toilets because they aren't needed. There are references to hunger here and there but I never heard anyone even mention needing a bathroom. isnt it funnier if we don't make assumptions?
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Post » Wed Sep 01, 2010 3:37 pm

Do Dremora actaully have unspeakables?

I mean Twilights have boobies.

Well, how would that Dremora in Maar Gan perform necrophilia on pilgrims that he's killed? He clearly states his plans to do so when he attacks you.
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Post » Wed Sep 01, 2010 7:20 pm

Well, how would that Dremora in Maar Gan perform necrophilia on pilgrims that he's killed? He clearly states his plans to do so when he attacks you.


Hah, yes that pilgrimage was interesting.

Though don't take it seriously. The Dremora is saying it only to goad you, and probably out of it's utter boredom, I doubt the Temple would allow it's disciples to be [censored] by Dremora!
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Post » Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:21 pm

Hah, yes that pilgrimage was interesting.

Though don't take it seriously. The Dremora is saying it only to goad you, and probably out of it's utter boredom, I doubt the Temple would allow it's disciples to be [censored] by Dremora!


But then again I might doubt a humble priest could do much against such a mighty dremora lord who has just killed a nerevarine to be. (is that an actual word?)
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Post » Wed Sep 01, 2010 2:58 pm

Hah, yes that pilgrimage was interesting.

Though don't take it seriously. The Dremora is saying it only to goad you, and probably out of it's utter boredom, I doubt the Temple would allow it's disciples to be [censored] by Dremora!


You never know...
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Post » Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:30 pm

There are references to hunger here and there but I never heard anyone even mention needing a bathroom.

here and there? A big part of Cyrodiils populace that died during the Oblivion Crisis did not do so by the hand of daedric creature, but simply because someone in their neighbourhood decided that they were so hungry they could totally steal an apple from that guy over there.
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Post » Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:56 pm

But then again I might doubt a humble priest could do much against such a mighty dremora lord who has just killed a nerevarine to be. (is that an actual word?)


Humble priests in the service of Three Living Gods. The Dremora are only there becuase of the Tribunal. They'd leave otherwise.
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