The Daedra, by their nature, are compelled to foster change on Nirn, and each of them fosters the said change according to their spheres. They care for very little other than advancing their own agendas, because they really cannot appreciate or comprehend anything beyond these agendas. In a way they are like a kid with a magnifying glass setting an anthill on fire just to see the ants run around.

Nice definitions. I'll have to make sure to add them as an in-game book

BTW, what about Nocturnal?

1. Thank you for making a thread not complaining about the game.
2. thank you for bringing about a question I've been meaning to ask.

I think he is not Evil...but is considered evil due to liking Raw Power like others have said. People think of the Orcs as evil due to the wars they fought in/looks/how they practice their culture.

I actually like Malacath...He reminds me of Crom...

Malacath itself is a ruse perpetrated by Boethia(sp), to draw Trinimac's followers away from him so they could be so cursed. But now, Trinimac really doesn't care what his followers call him, and has accepted the role of Malacath.

And if mehrunes is a god of revolution, he's more a god of failed revolutions that eat their own children.

Nocturnal is the mistress of night. Mystery, the unseen and ununderstood.
Aquisition through deception, theft.
She is often worshiped by thieves, though she does not ask for followers and does not always acknowledge those that do worship her.
In that she seems quite like lady luck.

This is what the author of 'Invocation of Azura' says about Nocturnal:
"It was in an old and profane tome that I came upon the name of Nocturnal -Nocturnal the Night Mistress, Nocturnal the Unfathomable. As the book prescribed, I called to her on her holy day, the 3rd of Hearth Fire. At last I had found the personal mistress I had so long desired. I strove to understand her labyrinthine philosophy, the source of her mysterious pain. Everything about her was dark and shrouded, even the way she spoke and the acts she required of me. It took years for me to understand the simple fact that I could never understand Nocturnal. Her mystery was as essential to her as savagery was to Boethiah or treachery was to Molag Bal. To understand Nocturnal is to negate her, to pull back the curtains cloaking her realm of darkness. As much as I loved her, I recognized the futility of unraveling her enigmas"

He had you sacrifice one of each race in Oblivion....He's I guess Neutral Evil? Or Lawful Evil? He does it in the name of Knowledge, so that is a LAWFUL Cause, but the way he goes about it is...well Bad. lol

evil is a perspective, and your perspectiv is lacking knowledge and...well, perspective. dagon is destruction, not evil, he destroys stuff because it is in his nature, if you want to try and apply any label to any deadra "chaos" is a much better word to use, his end could be to help renew the world (like alduiin's) or to stop the world from being destroyed (he tried it before as the lepper demon, then alduiin turned him into dagon) which is far from evil even if he is chaotic

and tehy do have free choice (although the princes would rather use their nature, i know for a fact all the lesser deadra have a choice in who they serve and what they do)

To be fair, he doesnt care if you trap a soul of a bandit you kill in self defence or an innocent.
In Skyrim he doesnt mind if its blood you draw yourself or collect from a kill someone else made.
If you must put an allignment on him, neutral.

Yeah, I sort of realized that after I posted, my bad

Indeed, as I said he's about getting knowledge regardless of the cost. The strict requirement to gain the knowledge is the souls or the blood in those cases, and that's all that matters - you could get them in a way most people would perceive as good by killing bad guys you'd kill anyways, or you could murder innocent people. To H-Mora that part just isn't relevant. (unless he's secretly trying to learn about what you would do when given such a requirement, which he may be given that the Daedra have a penchant for using mortals as playings)

That depends on who you kill, there's certainly no lack of people in Tamriel who deserve it.

Daedra are neither good, nor evil. Their morality is alien.

How did Boethiah trick him?

he's kinda a jerk but not evil

Boethiah took the shape of Trinimac, to further convince some of the Aldmeri to listen to him, further changing them into the Chimer. Some accounts even have Boethiah's "eating" of Trinimac, a bit more literal than it should be. Some say that he was just "corrupted". This action changed Trinimac.

Malacath isn't 100% evil, he may not be the nicest Daedric lord but he's not completely evil. Heck he's one of the reasons why Mede was able to save Tamriel in Infernal City. He cares about the Orcs, I kinda wish he would do something about the 60 year life span.

Nobody knows. It's all allegory and obscure religious texts. Boethiah is the Prince of Plots though, so trickery is his/her bread and butter.

Basically:

Boethiah tricks you into going down the dark alley, then bashes you over the head and takes your lunch money.
Mephala puts roofies in your drink, then ties you up in leather, has kinky six with you and five of your friends, and then writes a poem about it. You eventually die either from the roofies or from being tied up too long.
Dagon curbstomps you, then curbstomps your corpse, then curbstomps everyone in the five mile radius. Because he's always angry, all the time.
Molag Bal just bashes you over the head in broad daylight, and then raqes your possibly dead body. Possibly one piece at a time.

Yes, we know. I stated above how and why.

Unknown.
http://www.imperial-library.info/content/morrowind-changed-ones
http://www.imperial-library.info/content/morrowind-true-nature-orcs

It is just said he tricked him.
In some accounts it is a battle between them, and Boethiah took Trinimac's form after he defeated him, and talked to his followers in disguise.
Mythically amounts to the same thing I suppose.