Lore 101: The other Princes

Woodenplank

After writing a "guide" for Skyrim I was encouraged to do some more. So in all my hubris I now take it upon myself to attempt to write a witty, informative piece on a favourite subject of mine: Elder Scrolls lore.
Tl;dr: If you need one of these, just downvote me and leave the thread.

The daedric princes that have unique origin stories

Now there are commonly named 16 daedric princes. 12 of these are (more or less) original spirits that decided to stay "screw that" to Nirn and Divine creation, and just make their own private little worlds (i.e. planes of Oblivion).
The last four princes were, however, not part of the original lot. And I believe their origin stories are actually entertaining, so here I will try to set them forth in a way that even casuals can go along with.

1. Meridia - or: "a star-lit bender"
Meridia is the daedric prince(ss) of light and living energies.

Before all that though she was Merid-nunda, an original spirit that helped create the Mundus. At some point these "magna-ge", as they were called, decided that Mundus wasn't as dope a place as they had imagined, and decided to leave. So Merid-nunda popped right out into Oblivion, where she was chided by the Daedric princes for mooching on their turf.
So Merid-nunda decided not to care at all, and she made from her own essence a great drag-lens (don't overthink it) and used it to bend the light of Magnus (i.e. the sun) to form her own Colored Rooms which became her own, private little part of Oblivion.
And she also changed her name to sound less like a nord housemaid or something...

2. Mehrunes Dagon - or: "stop stealing my grub you little b*tch"
Dagon is the daedric prince whose sphere is destruction, disaster, and all-round flipping the finger at the status-quo.

Before all that though he was happy little demon, skipping around in joy (I'm actually not making this up). He was The Leaper King Demon, and he loved creation very dearly.
So whenever the end of the world came around (this happens fairly regularly) and ALDUIN THE WORLD-EATER would go around gulping up the entirety of creation, the Leaper King Demon would jump around hiding odd bits of the world here and there, and when the next world came to be he would chuck them in there at random - and so he hoped that one day (when we're talking cycles of worlds ending and being reborn, "one day" is pretty loose - just roll with it) the world (AKA Kalpa) would be so big and filled with odd bits, that Alduin could not possibly eat it all, and the world would live on forever!

Alduin caught on to this little scheme though and cursed the Leaper Demon with banishment to Oblivion and an unquenchable desire to destroy all that which he had tried to protect.
And thus was born the Prince of Destruction.
Fun fact: Khajiiti tradition calls Dagon "Ja'khajiit", meaning "kitten" - This is be cause he, like a kitten, has a tendency to claw and tear everything for no apparent reason.

3. Malacath - or: "Why orcs worship ***"
Malacath is the 'daedric prince' of the spurned and ostracized, as well as keeper of oaths and curses.

Before Malacath there was the altmer (high elf) ancestor spirit Trinimac. Trinimac was a great knight of the altmeri pantheon, and his feats are many.
The daedric prince Boethiah did, however, not give a ***. She needed the steal a bit of Trinimac's credibility with the altmer, so she ate him. (Ate? - Yes, "ate". But no one said you had to be literal about it. Then again; no one said you shouldn't be).
When Boethiah had wrapped things up (and by that I mean: set about the creation of two distinct races, a divine disease, a sovereign nation, and the creation of several gods - but that's another story) she took a dump, as people are wont to do after eating god-like spirits, and the tremendous pile of feces became the daedric prince Malacath (again; you can decide for yourself how literally you take this). The followers to Trinimac transformed with him, and became the 'Pariath Folk' - more commonly known as orcs. (Following the style of Malacath, they can be classified as sentient pieces of green god-dung)

Malacath's... unique origins makes him a strange prince - indeed; his fellows do not even consider him a prince (see how he is actually ostracized himself?) - and he famously hates other daedra, even creating the weapon Scourge which is designed to help mortals fight daedra.

4. Sheogorath - or: "Why you shouldn't be boring at parties"
Sheogorath is the daedric prince of madness. And cheese. Presumably also cabbage and yarn.

Sheogorath's one is a wierd tale (as is to be expected for a bipolar-multi-personality-disordered-schizophrenic-homicidally-insane-god). To be understand it we must begin with Jyggalag.
Jygga-who-the-feck-you-talkin'-bout? Well Jyggalag is what you might call the 17th of the 16 daedric princes. He is/was the Daedric Prince of Order (and the colour gray). He gained a great influence ('when' is neither clearly defined nor clearly definable) and his expanding zone of grayish buzzkill annoyed the other daedra, so they cursed him to become every he was against: "order, smiling, outlandish thoughts, colour, cheese (assumed)" - and so he became Sheogorath.
That wasn't enough though: aside from becoming the god of anti-order, with a psychosis that would be the envy of The Joker, Jygg would also return to his orderly fashion once every era - and then smash his own plane of Oblivion before he would become Sheogorath again, having to rebuild it all.



If you actually read any of this, thanks alot!
If you feel the need to correct any mistakes, feel free to message me (these things are always sort of hazy, but I left out insecurity and discussion to make it an easier read)