Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1486547-20130805224453/@comment-187.207.10.7-20131207001409

No Daedric Prince is worth of worship. Every single mortal is a tool for them and they doesn't care for them at all (when you are of no more use, they will kill you), even they had created nothing but for themselves: their own kingdoms. If power is to dominate utterly by force, make mortals kill each other (or doing unethical acts) for nothing else than powerful daedric artifacts that could be an advantage in battle or not (like the Wabbajack), could be ethically questionable (like Ebony Blade), then Daedric Princes are powerful... and your characters are no more than greedy individuals, who does not deserve to be called heroes, that seek for power without seeing this type of power is only a trap. If I'm not wrong, Oblivion is full of souls of those fools who were lured through their ambitions.

Some had said that The Nine are boring and powerless when compared with the Daedric Princes. However, I think is the other way: Daedric Princes have created their kingdoms and didn't spend its own immortality in the process but all in Oblivion is static in a general sense, while altought may be change, there is thermodynamical equilibrium in a sense. That is why Daedric Princes must interact with the universe outside Oblivion and that's the reason Mehrunes Dagon wanted to conquer the mortal plane. The Eight lost immortality, more or less voluntarily, (except for Magnus) but they had designed the world and independent beings in it. Moreover, Daedric Princes come from Chaos (Sithis) but it feels to me that Sithis is not Chaos at all but only a boring repetitive change.

Could I do a parallel with JRR Tolkien's Ainulindalë and Silmarillion. Daedric Princes want to dominate in the same manner that Morgoth, Sauron or Ungoliant do; mocking on the efforts of The Eight as Morgoth mock on the Valar efforts to build Eä.

The Nine, then, let the mortals decide which path to take. Unlike Daedra, who want you to take the path they want. That's because Aedra seem weak against Daedra. Therefore, if there are some beings worth of worship they must be The Nine.

Said that, my character (a middle-aged Imperial) is agnostic, seeing every Aedra or Daedra, (Anu, Sithis or the All-Maker, too), as beings impersonating gods and obscuring the true nature of Mundus. And books, like the Monomyth, telling us creation myths trying to explain the unexplainable and the relationships between this beings, as in real world have done misticism and religions oppossed to science (which in TES could be represented as magic without misticism, and "normal" physical sciencies, which were mastered by the Dwemer, that is to say that the only thing that separates Mundus from our world in this respect is the existence of magic).