User blog comment:Madman97/The Magic of the Aedra/@comment-4608405-20130702155316/@comment-172.6.60.43-20130703165729

Oh, and by the way, Malacanth was an Orc before becoming a Daedra. This means two things: he is a lesser Daedra and that it is possible for a mortal to ascend to a "higher state of being".