Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.61.178.23-20130722105712/@comment-24180901-20131125160529

Amiable Daedra?

Mephala loves you, my little spud. But I do agree, everything that makes encounters with DPs memorable is a big plus.

And everything that makes the nightmare of bringing 17 competing, cutthroat, destructive, demented, near omnipotent entities to one table, to work to a unified goal while holding off stabbing each other in the back long enough to actually achieve anything come alive is great.

As I started with Mephala, here are some of my thoughts on her.

The spider goddess is considered one of the three good daedra (with Azura and Boethia(!!) and NOT with Meridia) and to understand the daedra it is worthwhile to note that a GOOD Daedra founded an assassin´s guild.

Her realms are secrecy and obfuscation, not necessarily open conflict.

So she might appreciate a couple breaking up, but she might appreciate the forming of a couple, based on false information, even more, and she might like the disappearance of people, items or information more than the other two.

She also is the anticipation of Vivec, so she might like poetry insofar as it is useful to hide information in plain sight (remember: In our world it took more than a thousand years and a Hermann Schliemann to actually read and decrypt the Ilias as information and thus find lost Troy).

Mephala directly opposing Hermaeus Mora would be a tad obvious for the webspinner, so to me, her absence in the Dragonborn plot is extremely suspicious.

That is it for now.

Have a nice time.