Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.61.178.23-20130722105712/@comment-10056803-20130725022332

I thought the Skaal were supposed to follow some fusion of Anu, Padomay, Nin (Not Ama Nin, who is obviously Mara in a Breton healer suit)/Nirn/Whoever-she-is-from-the-Children's-Anuad-That-Represents-Nirn's-Creation-Myth-Being-So-Confusing-But-She-Died-With-The-Aedra-Creating-Mundus, Sithis, and company who basically are an all-making precursor deity, or possibly just one of Anu's alien-weird aspects like how every single deity entity in the Elder Scrolls universe is entitled to the privilege of being multiple people, a realm-or-planet-size plane of existence, and who knows what else.

Beyond that, I have little idea beyond the VERY core Dragonborn DLC main quest, they know about the magic stahlrim ice, they're a split-off from the early Nords, they apparently can recognize if Hircine's Bloodmoon has come again via signs, until a certain shaman read a Black Book as part of said Dragonborn DLC main quest and got tentacle-sniped by Herma-Mora were able to keep oneness-of-the-land and horker-skinning secrets from him like how Farengar and Balgruuf were able to keep the Ebony Blade away from Mephala's eyes, and the All-Maker is their patron deity, while Herma-Mora and probably Alduin represent parts of the Adversary who may or may not be similar in function to Sithis/Padomay/Both of them, and such things you learn from wiki walking.

Considering the Skaal as a people are a big relic of their early, pre-sentience state and founding deities Anu and Padomay, many daedra and some aedra really do not want them.