Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-76.77.161.158-20150430065353/@comment-9212235-20150501194956

I'm trying not to play devil's advocate here, but this is a moot point. Hercine CAN'T be completely destroyed. Not even if killed in the Hunting Grounds. It doesn't work like that. This isn't D&D. Think of et'ada as more conceptual ideals rather than actual beings. At this point you can begin to understand what they are. The et'ada are the emotional manifestations of the Godhead within his Dream. Emotions cannot be destroyed or killed within the Dream. Even Lorkhan, the one that died, isn't gone. The plane(t)s aren't just of daedric creation. They ARE the daedra. Take ESO and Battlespire as a good example. In both games the Princes were defeated on their own planes. ESO especially helps provide evidence that this does very little to the Prince as he is immediately seen after you defeat him. All you do is release souls he had stolen. You wanna know what permanently destroying Hercine would do? It would destabalize all of Aurbis, as each Prince fills the space between the scopes in order to maintain the aurbical structure.