"It has been theorized that gods do in fact gain strength from such things as worship through praise, sacrifice and deed. It may even be theorized that the number of worshippers a given Deity has may reflect on His overall position among the other Gods. This my own conjecture, garnered from the apparent ability of the larger temples to attain blessings and assistance from their God with greater ease than smaller religious institutions" - "An Overview Of Gods and Worship In Tamriel".

ok, i should have been clearer. when i say "gods," i mean daedra, aedra, and other divine beings around since the dawn. i don't mean smaller "gods," like ebonarm or lus, who are either specific versions of an aedra or just plain made up. real gods will exist regardless of who worships them, defied heroes won't matter if no one worships them. hence, larger temples (eg. the Divines or the tribunal) have more power as they are plugging into a semi-stable power source instead of the belief (mythopoeic as it may be) of the followers.

To kill Akatosh permanently, you'd have to cause a dragonbreak permanently.

Could an apotheosis be such that the actual process is infinite? That is, at every moment? Thereby the jills would be permanently at work and not reforming the dragon.

Just an idea, kill ALL of his worshippers, destroy ALL his shrines, destroy every single text about him. That's the best way without going godhood, or simply go Nerevar on him and cut his spirit out with Keening and smash it with Sunder.

Wouldn't the permanent drag onbre ak give you a chance to kill jill? Kill Jill, and time stays shredded. It'll be exciting.

A return to the dawn, the Aldmeri goal.

:whistling: just a small thought - mind control:

create a mass-forgetfulnes spell

create an alergy spell

mad cow disease anyone?

And it wouldn't kill just Akatosh, but all gods are dead in the Dawn. All we have is Anu.

I suppose it might be helpful to subdivide the Dawn for clarity. It is during the dawn that the other gods came about and during the dawn (or early merethic? I don't really see much of a distinction between the two) that they made Tamriel and became mortal. So yes, for a part of the Dawn there was only Anu/Padhome, but there were also times when a multitude of gods existed. The way I understand it, the Altmer (in general, Psijics being one exception) want to return to the time just before Mundus when there were tons of gods and no mortal limitation. The Dwemer (and, I would think, some Alessians) were looking to get back to the singular Anu state, or even the Godhead before it. Hence the Endeavor and Numidium (singular ascension, "individual beyond all AE" and all that), versus the Elven Towers (returning existence to what it was before the convention).

Obviously not fact-checked, which will probably come back to bite me in the butt

I really need to stop posting one liners