How Does Tamrielic Religion Work?

Post » Mon Mar 18, 2013 9:21 pm

I don't understand how multiple pantheons can exist for one thing. Secondly, I don't understand how corresponding gods from each of the pantheons are the same person.

If Alduin is real, that means Akatosh must be real. But if Auri-El's Bow is real, that must mean Auri-El is real. But Akatosh and Auri-El is the same god in their respective pantheons, so how can two of the same gods exist? Also, we know Nordic religion is real, as we went to their afterlife of Sovngarde; but like I said, the Nerevar exists, so.... I don't get it.

It's like saying the Greeks believe in Zeus and the Norse believe in Odin, but Odin and Zeus is the same god, but the Norse and the Greeks portray him differently. It's like saying Hecrules did all this in Greece, but the same person was called Thor and he did all this in Valhalla.

Also, if Talos literally rose to godhood, it's fact, so why doesn't the Mer believe this? What's holding them back?

Lorkhan, otherwise known as Shor, is the whole reason men exist? Where is Shor now if his heart was destroyed?

What types of figures are there? Just Deadra, Aedra, and Divines? What is their relation with each other and how did each come about?
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