Which Daedra/Aedra Would You Worship? Options

[Elisabeth Hollow]

If you had your pick of worshipping any Daedra or Aedra, no matter how large or small they were, which would it be? I also apologize if this thread has been made before.

Mine would be a tie between Meridia, Azura and Mara.

[Lady Saga]

I might work with Azura. The game just tells us that she is a goddess of sunrise and sunset, but never goes into detail about what that actually means. When I put my knowledge symbolism and comparative religions to that, it it leads me to focus on how these times are moments of transition. It is a time when it is neither day, nor night, and the world hangs between these two states. That makes me think of Azura as a goddess of transitional states, who guides people who are moving from one phase in their life to another.

Now that I've been learning more about the Nine and Daedric Lords (through Lord Haaf-Mersey's eyes) I am having trouble understanding why Azura is not one of the Nine, and Arkay (burials and death) is not a Daedric Lord.

[Destri Melarg]

Now that I've been learning more about the Nine and Daedric Lords (through Lord Haaf-Mersey's eyes) I am having trouble understanding why Azura is not one of the Nine, and Arkay (burials and death) is not a Daedric Lord.

Hey, Saga. Short(ish) answer: Arkay is one of the Nine for the simple reason that the Daedra would never have stooped to create him. Imagine the compassion needed to bring Arkay into existence. The Daedra are many things, but compassionate is not one of them. Arkay is unique amongst the Nine because he didn’t exist before the creation of mortals (Nobody died before mortals came around). The lore makes him the ‘son’ of Akatosh, which makes sense when you consider how much time is wrapped into the cycle of life and death. But to me Arkay is a bit of a cop out, a way for the Aedra to reclaim those pieces of themselves lost in the creation of the world. As such Arkay seems more like an accommodation put forth by Mara or Stendarr to have mercy on the poor souls condemned to the Mundas.

But that’s just an opinion.

On topic: It’s definitely Mephala for me. As a writer I feel that the webspinner and I are exactly the same.