#the aedra

[gideonaweaponachild]

TES incorrect Quotes dump - part one?

Sanguine: Finding it hard to believe that it’s considered taboo and “creepy” to like someone’s insta from half a year ago, when there are posts circulating on this website from 1750BCE

Hermaeus Mora: If he didn’t want it circulating in the fourth era he should have sold better copper!

Storm (my hero of kvatch): One of my best friends is my cousin and he has a kid who’s older than me and that’s weird.

Vara (my vestige): I personally think it’s weirder that your best friend, *whispering* My MUM!!! *in a normal tone* is more than 3,000 years older than you.

Máni Nerevar (my nerevarine): Neither of those things are that weird considering WE’RE IMMORTALS

Alva Cedar Lockley (my LDB/Lorkhan), during the events of TES V: Skyrim: This is a terrible time to be alive *remembers the beginning of the dawn era and her time trapped in the heart of Lorkhan* - I just remembered the beginning of the dawn era- this is a not so good time to be alive. Vilkas: Hey, Alva, how do you remember the beginning of the dawn era? Alva, frowning: not fondly, I do not recall it fondly.

Soren (Jyggalag/OG Sheogorath), when he was Sheogorath: I drew a gay little clown, to piss you off. Haskill: Excellent self portrait, m’lord.

Dremora Warlock: Hey guys? We’re all aware that Ysgramor is like. Just average looking right? Benteinn (Mehrunes Dagon): There are people in oblivion who would kill you for saying that, Laura. Ingrid Sybil Lockley (Akatosh), Ysgramor’s wife: Enter Ingrid. Laura the Dremora: I'm so sorry Ms. Lockley I won’t do it again!

Some of these are fromcopy pasted from my personal pre-existing collection and thusly have my version of the Daedric Prince's true names/nymics

[vaerminasteponme]

The daedra being the Elder Scrolls pagan gods is so funny to me, cause they are part of the same pantheon as the Divines. They are all Original Spirits. They are depicted as evil when like that’s not really what they are about, don’t get it twisted they do some evil stuff, but they also have a capacity for good. They are just the extremes of the ideals they embody, like the divines. The Dibellan arts can be depicted as vulgar and overly sexual but that’s what Dibella is about, she is beauty and sex and desire in its purest form. Some cultures even conflate the deities. The Forsworn see Mara and Namira as the same goddess and in a way they aren’t even far off. Mara is the Goddess of love and Namira is the goddess of revulsion but they both exhibit a desire to embrace those shunned by society. Mara wants them to be changed by love while Namira wants them to be consumed by it. Honestly I don’t even think there is a right answer, at least not if they are looked at figuratively.

Mara wants people to become their best selves from love and views it as transformational, love is something to be projected outward onto others. Namira turns love inwards, an unconditional love for the self. If we take the cult of Namira as a figurative example they represent people who have to ‘wear a mask’ to fit into society. To be themselves would be to face ridicule and even danger. There are a lot of examples of disenfranchised people who fit this role, queer people, nonwhite groups that follow different cultural norms or even express their ties to their native culture and people who are neurodivergent. More than this Namira is excepting of all the wretched and unsightly of the world in Tamriel. She embraces people because of their imperfections and differences.

Tl:dr Mara can be interpreted as radical love and tolerance being externalizer and Namira represents radical love and acceptance of the self. They are two sides of the same coin and equally important.

[gideonaweaponachild]

Funniest thing about my hc that all the daedra and aedra are siblings except for Molag Bal (HoK!sheo who is their nephew/son) is that it makes perfect sense.

Everyone hating Molag Bal?

Oh yeah he cheated on their sister and stole from her. ✅

They fight one minute work together the next?

They’re siblings that’s just what siblings do. ✅

Killing and stealing each others favorite mortals?

Mortals = Toys ✅

Everyone likes the Hero of Kvatch?

That’s their nephew and making him like them more than he likes his father is classic sibling behavior: they all want to be the favorite auncle. ✅