Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11276487-20130713025241/@comment-47.20.42.25-20170903212725

(the following statements are from somebody who is a noob in Elder Scrolls lore compared to you guys and girls, but considers himself to know a pretty good amount of lore compared to the casual player. You have been warned.)

I believe that at the base level, the Daedra are the most powerful beings, followed by the Magna-Ge, and then the Aedra. I believe this because as you know, the Daedra straight up refused to give their powers up to form Mundus and Nirn and stuff, so they still have all their power. The Magne-Ge ​began ​to help in the formation of Nirn and Mundus, but stopped after realizing how drained of power they would be afterwards, so they lost a good amount of power, but not all of it. The Aedra sacrificed all their power in the creation of Nirn and Mundus, leaving the Daedra at the top of the power tree, the Magna-Ge in the middle, and them, the Aedra, at the bottom. But what I think makes the Aedra more powerful than the Daedra is the fact they have enormous amounts of worshippers. Yes, the Daedra do have worshippers. But nothing compared to the amount the Aedra have, as most of the Daedric Princes are evil and malevolent, and the practice of Daedra worship is highly frowned upon in most places in Tamriel. This is what I think brings the power of the Divines up way above that of the Daedra, because worship=power. That is why the Thalmor and High Elves want to ban Talos worship, not only because they personally do not believe him to be a Divine, but also because by cutting off his worship they literally weaken him.

Thanks for listening to my noob response, please correct me on anything I said that is not in the lore or is wrong, because I just pulled all of this from my head and what I knew, and I didn't do any delving and stuff.