Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-97.81.240.58-20130603234626/@comment-11425537-20130711135830

This was actually the reason that I hemmed and hawed over the imerials versus stormcloaks. Imperials have the Thalamor, which banned Talos worship.

And I'm of the personal opinion that if your religion doesn't make attempts to hurt anyone, that there's no reason you can't worship a shoe if you so desired.

Are they right about Talos' godhood? That depends on whether or not we consider the blessings of the gods to be a psychological effect, or literal blessing from the gods in the game.

If the latter, then most would assume that the Dunmer, who don't worship most of the Aedra, would not recive the blessings from all of the shrines.

If the former, well then, it's likely that Talos is a god.

Regardless, they aren't in the right for banning one deity's worship, specially when they aspire to godhood themselves.