User blog:Madman97/The Peryite Theory (Part 2)!

The last three blogs I have done have been strictly political, and now that we have it sorted, I was set to go back into the shadows until the time I was needed to f*ck sh*t up came again. However, a user asked me if I was going to continue my old Wabbajack Grinding series or my theory blogs while I was here. I responded that I was not, but it got me thinking about the good old days and the Golden Age of Blogging that happened on the website before the First User Recession, when I was actually credible. A shell of the blogger I was then, I am disgracefully desperate to be my old self again and stop taking myself too seriously by making serious blogs...Besides this one. No, I have an interesting topic for you all today, continuing off of my last blog before I jumped ship during the Second User Recession that specified my belief that the Daedric Prince of Pestilence, Peryite, was actually anuic in nature.

The gist of the theory was that Peryite was a black sheep within his race of Daedra that seemed off to me, and by doing further research into his character, I have found that he is quite fond of the "Natural Order" of the world. For the full analysis of this fact, see the link below:

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Madman97/The_Peryite_Theory

The idea I am about to show you today is built upon a suggestion I made within the blog in saying that Peryite is somewhat noble in his quest for those to accept, "Order and the Hard Truth," as he says when he bids you good-bye in Skyrim. I was sitting in my college class the other day, bored out of my skull, and my professor was going on about the American Revolution. Being English, I get it rubbed in my face practically every day from tourists or cutesy blonde girls who ask me to say the word "Banana" because of my accent, so I was a bit out of it until we got to the parts when soldiers on both sides were being ravaged by disease. I was playing some of the Dragon Age games (Blasphemy, I know), wishing they were Skyrim and wishing more that I had not played it to the bloody bellend, and when my professor mentioned disease, I absent-mindedly drifted to Peryite for some reason.

As I'm sure you all know, it's been regarded as canon that I am actually the crazy cousin of Sheogorath with Haskill's estranged brother Dave as my servant, and thinking about dear Peryite again compelled me to remember my last theory blog. For those of you who don't know these little facts, visit my blog page to read a well established continuity no one cared to adopt. Anyway, the lovely memories I have shared with him and Sanguine while playing around drunk and beating dead animals will forever be locked in my head. Actually, Peryite's a bit of a d*ldo, always moping about work and how his fourth wife left him. It's a shame for him really. Mary is quite the bedmate.

MOVING ON

To the bloody point, I noted before that Peryite's cause was noble with him keeping with the "Natural Order," and when they say he is the Taskmaster, I didn't really think about what that meant until thinking about it in the middle of my college class. I noted in Peryite Part 1 that Peryite is much more than meets the eye, but I was struck by the idea that maybe Peryite is more than the office dragon the Daedra seem keen on keeping locked away down in the Pits. What if Peryite is in fact one of the most powerful beings in the Elder Scrolls universe?

Not as powerful as Anu or Padomay, or even Lorkhan for that matter (Pre-creation of Mundus), but right below. I didn't notice it until now just how important Peryite may be for both the mortal plan and Oblivion. The basic information we get from him is that he is the lord of Pestilence and the Taskmaster, charged with keeping order in the lowest depths of Oblivion that is unreachable without the good Prince's say-so, is not mentioned within any sort of Pantheon of Men or Mer, and has been quietly influencing Nirn for generations by spreading disease.

For a Daedra to concern itself with the "Natural Order" of things in the mortal realm is already grounds for a closer look at this serpentine Prince. Is he tasked with keeping man or merkind to a limit in order to preserve all of nature so it doesn't end up like Chernobyl? Does he plague mankind out of spite for them or because of his love for the overall balance of the world? Why then is he regarded as one of the truly evil Daedra Princes? Something is afoot...

I was throwing this idea around in my head about Peryite being the Taskmaster. Why is the Prince called that? Does he assign tasks or does he take them all upon himself? I think a little of both. He isn't afraid to deck out a quest to the main character. Like I said before, he is also charged with keeping order within the lower Daedra. There is some sort of conspiracy going on here, as it is strange for a Daedra to just let himself be saddled with a task like that instead of sitting methodically on his throne and cackling to himself. Does he assign certain tasks to various Daedra to serve as foot soldiers or operatives in another Princes game? Is Peryite's Pit offices the recruiting center for Daedra? Is this...possibly where the Daedra originated? That last one is just a spitball idea, not to be taken too seriously, but it doesn't make sense to me that a minor Daedra would travel all the way to the Pits just to be assigned a role. Plus, being the lowest part of Oblivion that is Nye impossible to reach by any mortal methods, it makes you wonder what goes down in there. Perhaps something beyond the understanding of mortals. More on that later.

What's Peryite's game? If this recruiting office is where all the minor Daedra are originally assigned their places, then Peryite essentially controls the armies of all Daedra. And yet...why doesn't he use them? With all those Daedra at his feet, he could easily invade some other realm, right? Suspicious. Or perhaps not. Maybe this is intended by Peryite. Perhaps he controls much of what goes on in Oblivion. He already does on Mundus, making sure that disease will only allow as much human growth as he feels is necessary. Perhaps this is why he is called the Taskmaster.

Or, going back to my points on why he doesn't use his infinite forces to attack something or why he would even be bothered with such an immense task as assigning all of them their places leads me to think that--contradicting my last point--perhaps Peryite was forced into this job. It's not the first time something like this has happened. The Daedra are crafty creatures. Together, they can take down some of the most powerful beings in the Elder Scrolls universe. Alone, they still can through guile. A main example is Jyggalag, cursed to become Sheogorath because he was becoming too powerful. Trinimac was extremely powerful as well, Akatosh's golden boy, and Boethia took him out and morphed him into Malacath. Both strong beings forced to become something they are not.

If Peryite was also very powerful, then keeping him at the bottom and barely mentioned in the mortal plane would be an ideal plan for those who would want to escape his wrath. Peryite is crafty, but he might have been much more many years ago. If this is true, that says something about the other Daedric Princes. If they forced this task upon him, with the whole "Natural Order" thing, does that mean the other Daedric Princes care about the natural order of things? Unlikely, so discard this particular theory and let's go back to the one where Peryite chooses to let others be powerful if he wishes it. One last example I have to give actually came from another user, Nerevarine465, who posted something interesting on my comment page.

What if Peryite is the reasons the Dwemer disappeared? The ancient race's magic and ingenuity was paramount, so much so that they tried to reach somewhere, and then they all mysteriously disappeared. Many questions are asked as to their whereabouts as of now, and perhaps they are not anywhere. Maybe they had tested the Lord Pestilence's patience by trying to reach somewhere they couldn't go. The Pits maybe? Like the Oblivion Peryite quest where the followers attempted to reach the Pits, they're spirits were lost to Oblivion until recovered. But those were a few followers of Peryite. The Dwemer were an entire race that rejected the Daedric Princes as gods, mocking them.

I'm just throwing some things around, but what do you guys think? Is Peryite anything more than an office worker, or is he rooted more deeply into the lore than we could ever know?