Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24099618-20140114190300/@comment-7663945-20180215025530

Ugh, the fucking quote function isn't working. The point is not that they don't help. It's that they don't do anything beyond give some sort of blessing or make some would-be hero appear at the right place at the right time. That's it. That's all they do. They gift the mortals with a blessing or a mortal hero (or Lorkhan in the form of a Shezarrine), and then they sit back and have the mortals (and/or Lorkhan) do the work for them. If they were really concerned, they'd do more than that. They'd exercise their power, any power they had at all, to at least give the mortals (and Lorkhan) an easier time. Akatosh could raise some dragon that would listen to him, Kynareth could summon the animals of the forest, Mara could protect the Hero of Kvatch and/or Martin Septim, Stendarr could do literally anything of use for once in their pathetic infinite life, anything to help these poor motherfuckers trying to relight the Dragonfires while being attacked by Mehrunes Dagon and his cult of crazies. And what do they do after they plop the Hero of Kvatch in jail to meet Uriel Septim the Seventh? Absolutely nothing up until literally all hope is lost for the mortals to solve the problem on their own. Same thing in Skyrim, they plop the Dragonborn off at the border, let them get captured and sentenced to death because "fuck the list", and watch as the Dragonborn escapes from the chopping block and does all the work themselves. Neither of them even get so much as a "thank you for saving Tamriel and all the cute little mortals that live there" from the Aedra. About the only time I can think of in which an Aedra directly helps in some way beyond a blessing is the Live Another Life mod for Skyrim, in which Mara (no surprises there, she is the Goddess of Love) straight up asks you "How you wanna do this?", and then makes it happen. She's given the Dragonborn resources, and even time to prepare before Alduin arrives. How thoughtful. Akatosh would just dump them in a jail cell or schedule them for an execution that would be interrupted by the motherfucking World Eater that they're eventually supposed to kill. TL;DR, the only two Aedra I trust to be of any help at all are Mara and Lorkhan.