Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-6150460-20130202092040/@comment-5348372-20130202202514

The original primordial gods were anu and padomay(sithis), anu is basically peace and represents everything. Padomay is the opposite, he is nothing, a force of destruction and chaos. When they clashed, the blood of both gods became the aedra, whereas the daedra are made solely of the blood of padomay. The first aedra created was akatosh, who soon afterward apparently created time. After that the other aedra formed. Then the Aedra known as Lorkhan convinced the other gods to form nirn, so they did and in doing so Lorkhan died his body forming nirn. The other aedra (except magnus) tried to flee but were bound to nirn partially already. Magnus got away and is not bound to nirn, he basically is magic and all magic on nirn is just traces of Magnus. The most powerful of the aedra bound to nirn are the nine divines (or the eight because I don't think talos is an aedra). The weaker aedra created reproduction so they could partially stay alive, but each successive generation they got weaker until they became all the races of men and mer you see in the games. Weirdly no mention of the origin of the bestial races. The Daedra hate the Aedra because they're opposites of each other. The Aedra love peace and order, while the Daedra love change and chaos. The Daedra are immortal because they didn't have a hand in the creation of nirn and therefore didn't lose the massive amounts of power the aedra did. The aedra basically are nirn now, any use of power like akatosh's physical manifestation in Elder Scrolls: Oblivion is very strenuous for them and could effectively kill them. IN SUMMARY - The leader of the Aedra is Akatosh because he was the first and probably the most powerful. The Daedra don't really have a leader because of their selfish and rebellious nature, although some Daedra are more powerful than others. The main god of everything, if he'd be classified as a "god", is probably Anu becuase he is EVERYTHING. Anu is basically everything that exists in the Universe. But I'm a Dark Brotherhood lover, so I say screw Anu. HAIL SITHIS!