Hey guys,

I've decided I'm going to play my new Skyrim character as if she actually was a person and not a vessel for mad l00tz or whatever.

She's a dark elf, a follower of Azura, destruction mage, and in general someone who studies the daedra and daedric artifacts.

Here's the thing though. With my regular character, I'll just do every daedric shrine quest so I can get as much stuff as possible. In this case, I might want to not do some of these. Definitely not doing Namira's quest, for instance. I'm just wondering how far to go. Many dark elves follow Boethiah as an ancestor god, yet Boethiah revels in murder and betrayal.

Would a somewhat traditionalist dark elf like this character be fine with murdering for Mehrunes' Razor? The Skull of Corruption? Sacrificing a follower for the Ebony Mail? She isn't motivated by greed (not primarily at least) but by academic and religious curiosity.

I'm not looking for circumstantial ways to rationalize doing everything in the game, I don't want to. I have my other character for that. I'm just trying to get in the mindset here.. I tend to mentally place myself in the situation, and as myself I would not kill someone without being threatened with aggression first. I just don't feel like people in Tamriel in the fourth era care for my moral sensibilities, so I need a bit of handholding. If anyone feels like it.

If the task is given by Melphala, Azura, and/or Boethiah, it's cool and just fine. After all, they're the "good" daedra. The other princes? Best not to if you're going to be that kind of traditionalist. And generally, the dunmer take little issue with lies, deceit, murder, and so on. Hell, that is why the Morag Tong operate, to serve Melphala.

They probably wouldn't really have a problem with it. When they first appeared they worshipped pretty much all Daedra, that just stopped later on. Now a days I think they worship primarily the "good" Daedra, but I don't think they would necessarily hate people that follow the others.

More important however are the Daedra themselves, they don't just give you stuff for doing a quest, they want to bind your soul to them, I would think that following all Daedra would create a bit of a problem there...

I guess I've always kinda glossed over that, or not taken it seriously. Without roleplaying in the slightest I catch myself rolling my eye and mouthing 'yeah yeah bless your holy feet give me my stuff' - you know. I imagine the character pretending to worship them.

I guess there's no way to reconcile it in terms of lore.. but then again the book written by one priestess of Azura says she went from worshipping Molag Bal to Boethiah to Azura.. soo...?

Changing worship is definitely possible:It even happens during one of Skyrim's quest for an NPC



Still you swear to a Daedra and I can't imagine other Daedra being happy with what you did, in fact you'd imagine that they would do their best to kill you or at the very least, try to, take away their blessings (read: artifacts). They all want your soul in the end... I find it strange that there are no consequences for "switching sides" 15 times in a single year.

With a few exceptions, most of the Daedric lords don't demand that your character swear a vow of eternal loyalty to them. For the most part, it's a mortal champion that they're bending just a little bit their way with the promise of an artifact in exchange for a service. A simple transaction, a service for service.

I do like how you can actually choose to become more than "just" a questing champion. My Breton swore to use Dawnbringer in Meridia's name, and now every time I take it with me into a barrow, I mentally shout "For Meridia!" before charging in and making some Draugr explode... but my Breton still mostly follows the Nine Divines (he's a Talos fan, especially since coming to Skyrim and being declared something special by special people). He just likes Meridia, has nothing against Azura or Sanguine, and will do the quests of the other Lords if they don't require him to do something particularly twisted (like, say, eat somebody's face or beat somebody to death for no good reason).