Do the gods represent Anarchy?

Post » Mon Jun 17, 2013 1:48 am

In the book V for Vendetta. V describes Anarchy like this. "Anarchy wears two faces both creator and destroyer Thus destroyers topple empires; make a canvas of clean rubble where creators then can build another world. Rubble, once achieved, makes further ruins' means irrelevant."

since the Aedra create and the Deadra destrory and TES is based on a lot of earthly things. Do they represent Anarchy?

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Racheal Robertson
 
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Post » Sun Jun 16, 2013 10:48 pm

An interesting idea; certainly some gods and interpretations of gods represent anarchy (the Mythic Dawn springs to mind), but the majority are power-hungry and domineering. For instance, Akatosh is associated with the Divine Right to Rule of the Empire, and the Daedric Princes are known as the Lords of Misrule: not lack of rule but wrong rule.

Secondly, the Aedra and Daedra do not fit into clean categories of creators and destroyers despite the conventional seperation of "ancestors" and "not ancestors". All empires and statehoods strive for longevity, but not necessarily stagnation. Chaos and constant-change can thrive in a system that is not anarchic or anarchistic.

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Post » Mon Jun 17, 2013 3:36 am

This is a very tenuous connection. Plenty of things create and destroy--construction workers, for example. There's nothing anarchic about a construction site, however. And in the end, Mundus is like a very large construction site that was built using the limbs of the construction workers themselves...

That's not to say that there aren't some anarchic aspects to some gods, of course. Boethiah, for instance, is a Daedric Prince whose sphere includes "the unlawful overthrow of authority." That does not, however, mean that every Daedric Prince includes this sphere of influence (though I'm sure the process of overthrowing authority probably requires someone to use aspects of other Princes in their quest), and it certainly doesn't mean that all the Aedra are willing to go along with it, either. In the end, claiming that the gods of TES represent anarchy is like saying that the gods of any polytheistic pantheon represent anarchy: While some might, others most certainly do not, and taken as a whole they actually represent the sometimes-chaotic (but usually well-patterned) order of the universe.

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Post » Mon Jun 17, 2013 2:37 am

Not all Daedra destroy, some even create for instance Azura, Boethiah, and Mephala all helped create Chimeri/Dunmeri society and religion, Azura and Boethiah both had children, possibly with mortals. Alandro Sul was the immortal son of Azura and Nerevar was supposedly the son of Boethiah.
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