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The Daedric Princes are only more powerful than their Aedric counterparts because of the Aedra's sacrifice of power to make Nirn.


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This can be seen most notably in Online, when Akatosh bestows his power to the Vestige in the form of the Amulet of Kings. It first requires a sacrifice to even give you that power, then once the Vestige has this power, he's barely able to one hit mortal creatures.

Let alone the fight with Molag Bal, while the Vestige did take him down, it took quite a few blows before old Bal did come down. And even then, you could partially attribute the victory to the Vestige's own combat prowess.