I know that the majority of Malacaths followers are orcs, but what are the majority of Hircines followers?

Lycanthropes?

Lycanthropes, Hunters, and random furry people?

I ment race. Like Molag bal is of the most importance in morrowind so I'd think that the dunmer would be his most likely followers. Where as I havent been able to find Hircines favored nation.(sorry I wasnt spesific)

Where did you get that Molag is the most important one in Morrowind?

I would say that Azura is more important then old Bal, he's one of the Four Corners thou.

I always thought of him and Boethiah as top dogs in morrowind. And that all the dunmer not of the temple, cult, or ancester worship chose between them.

Boethiah is probably very important.

But I shouldn't speak to much about my fellow Dunmers since I'm quite biased.

Hircine is likely to have a soft spot for the bosmers : living in a jungle unsuited to reaising animal and with the Green Pact forbiding to harm a plant, they probably get most of their food from hunting. Which means the majority of them are hunters instead of the farmers you'd find elsewhere. Which should endear them to the Prince of the Hunt.

Boethia is probably the most important "bad Daedra" of Morrowind and his chosen champions are Dunmer.

Hircine probably favors Nords or Bosmer. Just a guess.

The worshippers aren't really depended on races... only malacath Is mostly only worshipped by orcs.....
Azura is worshipped by alot of people, many dunmer but khajiits also worshipped her specifically..
Anyone can worship a daedra.. Hircine is the prince of hunting.. so hunters mostly pray to him...

Boethiah's among the "good Daedra" (good in the sense that the Temple doesn't torch their worshippers, anyway). Without Boethiah, the Velothi Exodus might never have happened. In Morrowind, Molag Bal's importance seems to come from his patronage of vampires and his role in the 36 Lessons of Vivec. I doubt any Daedra is so strongly anathematized among the Dunmer as Molag Bal.

Anyway, I don't think Hircine-worship is a matter of race, more of trade, as the patron of all manner of hunters. The other Daedra with close racial ties would be Boethiah and Mephala (Chimer-Dunmer) (the other "good Daedra", Azura, is widely popular), besides Malacath already mentioned.

Uhh...Boethia is one of the good daedra, while Molag Bal is one of the 4 corners of trouble. Boethia was the one who inspired, as the tale says, for the chimer is leave summerset ilse and head to what is today Morrowind. Molag Bal just tries to [censored] them and taint dunmer blood, not to mention is an enemy of Boethia.

Anywho, lycans are his most prized mortals easily. Discounting lycans for a second, the nords probably rank pretty high, since he did make Solsthein the place of his Hunt, and area filled with nords. Bosmer probably too, due to probably being good prey and that they also do hunt a lot. I guess races with a strong affinity towards hunting, which pretty much seems to be nords and bosmer.

It was a typo, honest. I know he's one of the good ones.


edit: Reason I'd suspect Hircine would favor a lot of Bosmer and Nords is those two classes strike me as the ones who probably have the most hunters per capita. Maybe Argonians too. In fact, the Nords less than the Argonians. I don't see them as having much of an agrarian society at all. For food they probably hunt and fish a lot. On the other hand they're probably quite resistant to Lcyanthropy.

In Morrowind, his shrine was ruined and no-one seemed to care. It was left up to Orcs to rebuild it.

Why would they (Orcs) help Boethiah, didn't he do the unspeakable to Trinimac?

Edit: Being part of the four corners isn't a sign of power, it just means that they didn't go along with the tribunal.

It's not as if ALL orcs rebuilt the statue. The sculptor probably cared more about sculpting rather than religious BS.

Being a part of the Four Corners means that they have a great importance for their culture.

We were talking about Dunmer correct?
But yes Boethia "ate" Tinimac.

Rather than left to Orcs to rebuild it, it seemed more along the lines of the person who was available and could do it was an Orc.

But just because Boethiah ate Triminac doesn't mean no Orc will ever serve him, some probably don't care much about those stories, if they believe them at all (or even know of them.), as has been said, the sculptor was probably more interested in building a statue than theology and creation myths.

As to Hircine, I don't get the impression that he favors any specific race, and I don't see any reason he should, it's not as if only certain races can be hunters, and he doesn't seem to have any known ties to any race that I know of. Even if some lifestyles do lend themselves more towards hunting then others, I'm sure all hunters will do fine for Hircine.

Molag Bal is important in Morrowind because uesp says so, sillies.

Interesting fact: Hircine means "like a goat" in english. Just a little ironic since he favors lycanthropes. A wolf in sheep's clothing, so to speak.

After the Shrine is completed, a heap of Orc's are hanging around admiring it. No dunmer to be seen.

It just seems strange that they gave up their famous "rock" to a god who befouled and transormed their patron.

There's no such thing as lycans on Nirn. What there is is a bunch of were-creatures, including werewolves. Damn, Lycanthrope might a bit of a mouthful, but what's wrong with a werewolf that you need to pin a wrong name on them. And no they don't have a secret war with vampires or such crap.

Lycan is short for Lycanthrope. Which is a werewolf. This isn't some "Oh, I'm just an Underworld freak", it's just semantics.

Here's the thing, typing "Lycanthrope" or "were creature" every is annoying and I will more than likely misspell "lycanthrope" every time it's not in front of me. I use "lycan" for short, because while not technically correct, to everyone else it's the same thing as "were-creature." And don't you [censored] assume I am even remotely drawing any influence from that hack of a movie series "underworld."

So keep your semantics to yourself.

The term "lycan" is current only in Underworld lore. Elsewhere it is rarely, if ever, used. In particular, it has not been used in any Elder Scrolls material. So members who object to it being introduced here are not being pedantic without foundation. Nonetheless, arguments over usage are not on topic here and are not to continue.

Sorry if I assumed wrong and i apologize for the harsh tone. It's that most of the time I've seen 'lycan' used on this forum it was with the reference to the 'underworld' movies and too ofthen asking 'hu why are them lycan no like in the movie' (horrible wording and typos optional), rather than as any sort of abreviation. Which made me sort of allergic to the term.

As far as Hircine's favor toward one race or another go, it's in my opinion a direct offshoot of how god hunters and/or interesting preys they are. Which would probably rate the bosmers rather high - a tradition of hunting, sneaky, good with bows... what's not to love there from hircine's point of view ? (size and strength when it comes to the kill probably , but that's about it. And it has no effect on the hunt itself)

Either way he was quite obviously not making a reference to Underworld.

Anyway, if there were any particular race that Hircine were to favor, it would be therianthropes seeing as he made them.