Is it possible to worship an Aedra and a Daedra ?

Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:38 pm

1- Everything is possible in the game, but i'm saying in roleplaying aspects, is it possible ? and why ?



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2- The aedra gave most of their power to create Mundus, so how can someone worship a Daedra since they did not wanted to create Mundus ?
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Sakura Haruno
 
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:16 pm

I guess. Meridia and Arkay seem to be pretty compatible.

Also there's Mephala and Dibella: in Skyrim there's a Nord woman who worships Dibella by sleeping with pretty much every man in town.
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:28 am

1- Everything is possible in the game, but i'm saying in roleplaying aspects, is it possible ? and why ?



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2- The aedra gave most of their power to create Mundus, so how can someone worship a Daedra since they did not wanted to create Mundus ?

Not sure on the first but i'd assume so as to the second the deadra can give very immediate rewards and power for serving them the devines usually can't/don't
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:00 am

Yup. It just depends on how you view them. The traditional Cyrodiils and Altmer would probably abhor it, whereas, say, a Khajiit might consider it as only natural.

The Aedra are too dead to really object to anything.
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:19 pm

Not sure on the first but i'd assume so as to the second the deadra can give very immediate rewards and power for serving them the devines usually can't/don't

The divines can't because the used most of their power to create Mundus. They "give" most of their power to create us (in a roleplaying aspect) while the Daedra don't. AND the rest of their power that is remaining, they use to not let the Daedra totally influence Mundus, otherwise Dagon could cause destruction and rule Nirn etc etc.. i guess.
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:47 am

The divines can't because the used most of their power to create Mundus. They "give" most of their power to create us (in a roleplaying aspect) while the Daedra don't. AND the rest of their power that is remaining, they use to not let the Daedra totally influence Mundus, otherwise Dagon could cause destruction and rule Nirn etc etc.. i guess.

I know i just meant people usually go with instant gratification over long term benefits, though i was assuming you meant how as in why so i likely missed the point :blush:
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:06 pm

Worshipping Vaernima, isn't an act that brings instant gratification. Same wwith any so called "luck" god.
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:43 pm

Not sure on the first but i'd assume so as to the second the deadra can give very immediate rewards and power for serving them the devines usually can't/don't


Divines can heal you. Although it's ad libitum, so I guess they're more like spiritual coke-machines. Still, the power is there.
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:42 am

Worshipping Namira, isn't an act that brings instant gratification. Same wwith any so called "luck" god.



I don't know. Mind control and the ability to eat human flesh might appeal to the type of people Namira wouldn't mind hanging out with.
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:50 am

I don't know. Mind control and the ability to eat human flesh might appeal to the type of people Namira wouldn't mind hanging out with.


Sorry, I mean't Vaernima. How embarassing.
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:02 pm

I worship Talos. He deserves it. And that Thalmor trying to forbid the worshiping of Talos. Humpft.. By Ysmir, this is nonsense.
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:22 am

I always figured that the daedric quests was a form of daedra worship.

This game is more vague, but in previous games, in order to summon the Daedra to give you a quest, you had to jump through certain hoops. Oblivion had you sacrificing something to the various daedra lords, like getting that special brandy to Sanguine or making yourself "ugly" for Vaermina else the three junk objects for Sheogorath. That sort of sacrifice seemed like at least a form of worship to me.

Praying to the aedra is pretty easy, if unsatisfying, just walk up to a shrine to whoever and activate it. The Knights of the Nine were obviously a bit more involved in doing this, however.

You also can't really say that the aedra are dead, either. For dead guys, they sure show up pretty often as avatars or inhabiting the bodies of mortals or just outright divine intervention.
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:01 pm

Not sure on the first but i'd assume so as to the second the deadra can give very immediate rewards and power for serving them the devines usually can't/don't


For the life of me I can't remember what book or npc:

A dunmer said that. The Divines don't interact as [hard] as the Princes. The Princes are very active in the lives of mortals. There power is [true]. Bracketed for my lack of eloquence. I think it was her response to a similar question. Tried to explain the Dunmer view of the Daedric Lords.

I don't think praying to more than one godspirit is bad, so to say. But the more devout you become, I'm very sure the less they want to share. Your daedra master would be particularly vocal about it
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 3:56 pm

A dunmer said that. The Divines don't interact as [hard] as the Princes. The Princes are very active in the lives of mortals. There power is [true]. Bracketed for my lack of eloquence. I think it was her response to a similar question. Tried to explain the Dunmer view of the Daedric Lords.


Sounds like what a Dunmer NPC in Cheydinhal says about the daedra. Her point was basically that when you worship a daedra, you get effects, not necessarily good effects, potentially very bad ones, but clear and measurable effects.
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:26 am

Back when I was the Nerevarine, I worshiped both Talos and Azura.

Talos gave me a lucky coin and Azura gave me a ring and told me I was the best ever. So...yes.. I think you can worship both. =)

Neither religious sphere is exclusionist - I think in (modern) TES (monkey people be damned) the Tribunal is probably the closest thing to a religion that excludes worship of anyone else - and even they still had "good daedra".
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