Let me take a stab for bobg. He does indeed play dead is dead.

Angel and Sarrah Dinsteel are sisters from a wealthy Anvil family. After their parents died, Sarrah looked after Angel. Buffy and Angel are friends and Angel has told Buffy much about Sarrah. Sarrah was a beautiful black-hair Breton who died inside an Oblivion gate - her 39th. Angel has never really gotten over it, and through their friendship actually, neither has Buffy. Angel still has nightmares. Even Buffy sometimes sees a haunting vision of Sarrah standing by a lava flow on the plains of Oblivion.

This is how real and precious the characters of bobg are.

My khajiit spellsword K'shara is a devout follower of the khajiit pantheon. She accepts the nine and daedra as a silghtly mis-presentated versions of the gods she worships. "Silly humans.." she thinks, but is not about to start preaching how wrong she thinks they are.

My Assassin Ra'vena worships no one. She doesn't doubt their existence, but sees no obligation to worship any deity. She is a member of the Dark Brotherhood, but just works for them, thinking the zealous worship of Stihis is a hinderance to the faction.

Sounds like Ra'vena would get along well with Gogron gro-Bolmog. Ra'vena should convert to tomato....

I have had so many characters I cannot remember them all. I cannot answer any of the poll questions because they go all over the place. Some of the more memorable ones are:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/subrosa_florens/oblivion/Oblivion470.jpg is a Witch by religion, although she is an archer/alchemist by class. She worships the Earthbones (a.k.a. Mother Nature), and has a spirit-guide: Raven.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/subrosa_florens/oblivion/Teresa-ActII-Valfreya02.jpg is a Nord, as such she is a good old Shor worshipper.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/subrosa_florens/oblivion/Oblivion275.jpg is a Dunmer, and an Azurite.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/subrosa_florens/oblivion/Oblivion262.jpg An Argonian assassin, she follows Sithis all the way.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/subrosa_florens/oblivion/Oblivion320.jpg was in interesting one. A Mazken exiled to Mundus by Sheogorath, whom she formerly worshiped. Her travels in Cyrodiil, and especially the friendship she developed with Ohtesse, caused her to eventually become a devout follower of the Nine Divines.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/subrosa_florens/oblivion/Oblivion451.jpg Is another interesting one. She was a follower of Mehrunes Dagon, as was a member of the Mythic Dawn. However the Oblivion Crisis left her questioning her beliefs, and in the end she went to the Shivering Isles to stay, becoming the new Sheogorath. So ultimately she came to worship herself, as the new Madgoddess.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/subrosa_florens/oblivion/Oblivion452.jpg is an Orisimer from Orsinium, and as such is a follower of Trinimac (not Malacath).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/subrosa_florens/oblivion/Oblivion471.jpg an Imperial assassin, Lilith follows no deities. She kills, and that is enough for her.

Nice haha. This is my first TES game and I'm not a lore buff so I just have my characters worship the standard ones you find in the game.

Wonderful to read, SubRosa - as always. :wavey:

I mostly worship the Daedra even though my character is a Khajiit i mostly worship Sheogorath and Peryite

She doesn't care much for orcs, and she's a carnivore

Screw the Nine! Screw the Daedra! Screw the Tomato!!! I'm a Sithis.

Do you believe Sithis is the primary force or the Night Mother?

I actualy have to disagree with this. I think it's very possible to not believe in gods in Cyrodiil. How do we know that the blessings we resieve from alters are the work of the gods? It could just as easily be some kind of ancient, powerful, misunderstood magic that resides from time long forgotten. Other than the curing and blessings there isn't really any proof that Aedra (that's what the nine are) even exist. Daedra lords definitely exist but if you remember much from Morrowind's lore you'd know that there was a considerabe amount of debate as to whether or not the daedra lords could even be considerd gods. All they are, are just realy powerful daedra. You wouldn't consider a scamp to be a god would you? Of course not. A daedra lord is no defferent, just much more powerful. It's like the difference between a level 1 character and a level 50 chracter. They're pretty much the same but one's just a LOT more powerful. Even if the nine exist, you could probably use this mentality with them too. This is the mentality I have towards religion IRL as well.

Back on topic:
Valiri is definitely a follower of the nine. She focuses mainly on the teachings of the churches of Mara nd Dibella: She loves everybody and everything :hugs:
Most of my other characters generaly don't follow any religion.

Atheist.

Atheist means you don't believe in God (or Gods, in this case). How can you not believe in something that's so obviously there, in this case?

Daedra have shrines, talk to you, and actually do stuff. (Like make it rain dogs ). You just ignore it? Really, I want to know how an atheist character would work. :shrug:

Look up two posts haha. Scarie provides a well thought out and believable explanation on that exact topic. All my characters believe in the Nine and Daedra but always choose a primary god to follow.

That's Scarie's justification, I want to know what Rothwell thinks about it.

Touche my friend.

In Morrowind, you meet Wulf, who is an avatar of Tiber Septim. So I'm pretty sure he exists. And, I can't remember the cave from Morrowind right now, but there was another side quest in Morrowind where you found the avatar of another of the Nine as well. Although they aren't as well represented in Oblivion as the Daedric Princes are, the Nine do physically appear from time to time. So I still think that they do exist.

edit - you can also encounter Jon Hawker, the avatar of Zenithar in Morrowind as well. So that's two examples for physical proof of the existence of the Aedra. Although, there can be some debate over whether Talos can be considered an actual Aedra or not.

Sithis

:D

Im sorry if I made it sound like I was trying to get at you. I'm actually interested the perspective of each non-believer in Oblivion, since from my viewpoint, up until this topic was made, I thought it was impossible to not believe in the Gods. Scarie proved me wrong, but I just want to know how many aspects there are too it.

Haha ya I know. I just made this topic to spark that kind of a discussion and also because I wanted to know if I was the only person who had learned about the tomato religion, although thats more of an easter egg than anything but still.

I think what Scarie is getting is that how can Wulf and Jon Hawker prove they are avatars of gods, and not just mortals with magic powers lying through their teeth? Anybody can walk up to me and claim they are Zeus. Maybe he can even cast a shock spell. But that does not mean he is really Zeus. An Atheist in Tamriel is simply a person who rejects the belief that these people with magic are gods. It really is not that difficult a thing to do.

Yes, but on what basis? Why would they, is probably my main question.

My Altmer Necromancer worships Hermaeus Mora, hoping to get a grasp of his (her?its?) eternal knowledge.

My Imperial Paladin worships the Nine Divines, but especially Talos for his founding of the civilized empire. Needless to say that the end of the mainquest broke his heart

The only thing I will say is that the only real argument against atheism in Tamriel is that I have never met an NPC who claimed to be one. There are plenty of people who hate the Aedra or Daedra, but in the two games I have played (Morrowind and Oblivion) I have never seen one person in the game claim to be an atheist. So to me, I think that the constant meddling in the affairs of the mortals that the Aedra and Daedra do in TES universe, is kind of all the proof you need that they exist. But in Nirn, as well as here, we can all believe what we want.

I don't see how your character can go through the main quest, and witness the end of it and say ... "I still don't believe in ya'll. There's a perfectly logical explanantion for everything that just happened and it doesn't involve Daedric Princes or gods."

Else God Hater is the closets but then again she's not an atheist she just hates the gods as indicated by her name and talking to her.