In D&D, each god has a weapon they favor over others, and so their clergy are trained in this weapon and many will use it instead of the mace (or sword in the case of Paladins) many think of when they think of Cleric weapons. I was thinking of how this might work in TES (especcialy Skyrim) when RPing a Cleric/Paladin of a specific Prince or Divine and was wondering if anyone had any tips or comments. Also wondering if people have/might use this in an RP

Daedra

Azura

Favored Weapon: Dagger

Note: not sure here, there is no real weapon seen being held by her or as any artifact. The Priestess you meet in Skyrim has a dagger (though that is likely because she is considered a mage, not a healer/priest class by the game), so i just went with that for now

Boethiah

Favored Weapon: Bastard Sword

Note: is seen with a sword (possibly a greatsword) in daggerfall, then is seen with a great axe in Morrowind and Oblivion, then back to the sword in Skyrim. yeah, boethiah's weapon is as confusing as to what gender is wants to go with.

Clavicus Vile

Favored Weapon: Long Sword

Note: sort of similar to azura, the Rueful axe was created as irony and not because he specifically liked axes, and the umbra sword basically became its own thing.

Hermaeus Mora

Favored Weapon: Mace

Note: not a clue, just put mace because it is the basic weapon for a cleric.

Hircine

Favored Weapon: Spear

Note: seen using it on a lot of his appearences, plus has the spear artifact in Morrowind.

Jyggalag

Favored Weapon: Long Sword

note: has a sword as his personal weapon in Oblivion, so this is the only possible thing that can go here

Malacath

Favored Weapon: Falchion (greatsword)

Note: while his major artifact is a Maul/Warhammer, he himself is seen with a Falchion in nearly all of his appearences. Falchions do not really appear in TES, so greatswords are the closest approximations.

Mehrunes Dagon

Favored Weapon: Great Axe

Note: same as malacath, except even in Oblivion he is seen with a Greataxe.

Mephala

Favored Weapon: Bastard Sword (katana)

Note: him/herself is not seen with any weapon, so just went with the artifact weapon type

Meridia

Favored Weapon: Long Sword

Note: same as Mephala's notes

Molag Bal

Favored Weapon: War Mace

Note: same as Mephala's notes

Namira

Favored Weapon: spear

Note: No idea what so ever, spear just felt right.

Nocturnal

Favored Weapon: Longbow

Note: similar to Mephala and them, not really seen with any specific weapon, but has the Bow of shadows artifact

Peryite

Favored Weapon: ???

Note: no idea what so ever, has no artifact weapon and is not seen with any weapon spcifically

Sanguine

Favored Weapons: Quarterstaff

Note: "uses" a dagger in Skyrim, but.....that does not really seem like it would actually be his favored weapon and seems to mostly just be dev laziness. In daggerfall, he has what looks like a staff of sorts and his artifact is a magic staff

Sheogorath

Favored Weapon: Quarterstaff

Note: not sure, not really seen with any specific weapon, so just went by his main artifact's type. Fork (dagger) might be a better option though, since he also has the fork of Horripalation.

Vaermina

Favored Weapon: staff?

Note: not really sure, i guess maybe staff since her main artifact is a staff

Nine Divines

Akatosh
Favored Weapon: Longbow

Note: Auriel is a part of akatosh and it is specifially stated that Auriel's bow was supposedly used by Auriel himself. Also his amulet looks like an arrowhead

Arkay

Favored Weapon: long sword

edited Note: crusader relics

Dibella

Favored Weapon: Dagger

Note: either this or maybe a mace. a dagger just feels right for dibella's concept, though her amulet reminds me of a mace, so not sure

Julianos

Favored Weapon: Staff

Note: god of all things magey, so a staff fit. Not sure really though

Kynareth

Favored Weapon: Scythe (greataxe)

Note: Nature, so a scythe just seem to fit

Mara

Favored Weapon: Mace

Note: a faily generic weapon for a fairily generic deity. Also, she has a lot of similarities to teh D&D deity, Pelor, who's favored weapon is a mace

Stendarr
Favored Weapon: Maul

Note: Main leader of the Vigilants uses one, and a warhammer just seems to fit stendarr's concept a bit more IMO

Talos/ Ysmir
Favored Weapon: Long Sword

Note: go look at any talos statue in the game

Zenithar
Favored Weapon: Mace

edited Note: crusader relic

EDIT: would just like to point out, obviously the concept does not really exist in TES, but thought it would be a cool thing to do.

Zenithar Should be Mace, and Arkay should be Longsword

seeing as those are their Aedric Artifacts that became part of the Crusaders Relics

Edited for correction, forgot about those.

That's really interesting. Thanks

Why does Mehrunes give out his Razor (dagger), then, if his "favored weapon" is a great axe?

*shrug* do not ask me, a couple of the daedra are actually seen with a specific weapon type different than their artifact. Note sure why, maybe He realizes the only people who are crazy enough to follow him are mages and assassin's/thieves, both of whom would rather use a dagger to a great axe. but yeah, it is why I mentioned that the concept does not entirely fit into TES.