» 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.