Seeing as others are doing detailed breakdowns of why they'd worship certain daedra, I figure I might as well give my full two pence and give a bit more detail about why my choice would be Sheogorath.
For a start, he's madness. What's that? He's the original, the unique, the unusual. He is flare, creativity and the spark which pushes us out of our comfort zones and gives us things that are truly brilliant. Like art, he is unpredictable, charming, terrifying and entralling, but he always, always has a distressingly clear insight into the mind. He challenges people to better themselves, to rethink their place in the world, to reject the stale and the dull and the normal in place of that which is new and different, regardless of whether it is good or bad (basically the entirety of my creative design brief behind Madgod[/shamelessplug]).
He rejects stagnation. In that, he's the ultimate incarnation of the Jungian Trickster Achetype; Coyote, Loki, Anansi and Prometheus all rolled into one. Yes, he may well turn you into a sweetroll, but at the same time he's just as likely to cure a ward full of cancer patients with a wave of his hand or shower a beggar with money. He is neither benevolent nor malevolent, neither good nor evil, but is simply so entrenched in his nature that you know exactly what you'll get with him and yet at the same time have no idea what you get with him. In the Shivering Isles, this idea is made all the stronger by his very nature; he's completely, utterly, frighteningly unhinged, and yet at the same time he's very, very hard not to love.
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