Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11276487-20130713025241/@comment-24642674-20140306025540

1. Everyone seems to be forgetting that the original Aldmer pantheon was filled with their ancestors, hence Aedra=ancestor! when the main Aldmer culture started only worshipping their greatest ancestors, the Chimer split off and went to morrowwind. The Altmer pantheon, which is probably the closest to the Aldmer, is, by that logic, filled with their greatest ancestors. I cannot explain the Atmoran gods. Talons is the greatest ancestor of the humans, hence his god hood. Alessia combined the pantheons of the elves, notably the high elves, and the nords to create the church of the eight divines, until talos. 2. Alduin was the greatest dragon and was praised, not worshipped, by the other dragons because of it. He grew vain and took lordship over the other dragons. When the atmorans, the leader of their pantheon's symbol was a dragon, saw the dragons thought they were looking at some part of the gods themselves and started worshipping them. 3. In all the history of Nirn there has never been a reporting of a dragon egg or dragon youngling. They have always been and if their soul is not absorbed always will be. So there is some weight to their divinity.