Help with Daedric lore?

goaway · May 2017

I've been looking around for the names of the cults/orders that worship the Daedric princes. I know The Order of the Mythic Dawn worships Mehrunes Dagon. Does anyone know if any of the others have names for their groups of worshipers? I thought that Vaermina's were the Eternal Dreamers but having trouble verifying that online. If anyone can help I'd really appreciate it.
List of the ones I'm still looking for info about:
Molag Bal
Azura
Boethiah
Clavicus Vile
Hermaeus Mora
Hircine
Malacath
Mephala
Meridia
Namira
Nocturnal
Sanguine
Sheogorath
Vaermina

Thanks in advance!

essi2 · May 2017

If it's not in here then nobody knows

Magdalina · May 2017

There's a Vaermina shrine in Cyrodiil with friendly cultists who are more than happy to tell you all about their op dreams (at least I think it was Vaermina, was definitely some dreams related Prince). I don't remember where it is though, it's not marked on the map in any way, nor is there a quest associated with it. Just a small quirky gathering.

Also wouldn't ones worshipping Molag Bal be the Worm Cult?

goaway · May 2017

Thank you guys! That helps a lot

MythicEmperor · May 2017

Magdalina wrote: »

There's a Vaermina shrine in Cyrodiil with friendly cultists who are more than happy to tell you all about their op dreams (at least I think it was Vaermina, was definitely some dreams related Prince). I don't remember where it is though, it's not marked on the map in any way, nor is there a quest associated with it. Just a small quirky gathering.

Also wouldn't ones worshipping Molag Bal be the Worm Cult?

Well, the worm cult follows Mannimarco. So not exactly.

WhiteCoatSyndrome · May 2017

I don't think there would be a single universal cult for each Daedric Prince--IIRC the Stonefire Cult was Molag Bal's even though he's already got the Order of the Black Worm largely running things. Daedra worshipers tend to be persecuted so they're not likely to be knocking on doors asking people to join up or trying to make a universal name for their sect. Also for the more dangerous cults someone is going to want to destroy them if they get a reasonable amount of power, so even if they had one universal cult it's not necessarily going to be the same one throughout the ages.

ArchMikem · May 2017

MythicEmperor wrote: »

Magdalina wrote: »

There's a Vaermina shrine in Cyrodiil with friendly cultists who are more than happy to tell you all about their op dreams (at least I think it was Vaermina, was definitely some dreams related Prince). I don't remember where it is though, it's not marked on the map in any way, nor is there a quest associated with it. Just a small quirky gathering.

Also wouldn't ones worshipping Molag Bal be the Worm Cult?

Well, the worm cult follows Mannimarco. So not exactly.

The Worm Cult worships Molag Bal, with Mannimarco as the leader of said Cult.

MAEK · May 2017

ArchMikem wrote: »

MythicEmperor wrote: »

Magdalina wrote: »

There's a Vaermina shrine in Cyrodiil with friendly cultists who are more than happy to tell you all about their op dreams (at least I think it was Vaermina, was definitely some dreams related Prince). I don't remember where it is though, it's not marked on the map in any way, nor is there a quest associated with it. Just a small quirky gathering.

Also wouldn't ones worshipping Molag Bal be the Worm Cult?

Well, the worm cult follows Mannimarco. So not exactly.

The Worm Cult worships Molag Bal, with Mannimarco as the leader of said Cult.

They worship Molag Bal because Mannimarco worships Molag Bal, they pretty much just do anything that guy says.

TheShadowScout · May 2017

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

I don't think there would be a single universal cult for each Daedric Prince...

^This!^

There are many cults. Some follow this or that daedric prince. But its not an universal religion thanks the the general prosecution of daedric cults (at least not since the fall opf the chimer and ayleids, where it was an general religion), so... you can have one cult worshipping an lesser known prince, or a dozend scattered all over the world paying hommage to one prince.

For example, the mentioned order of the mythic dawn does indeed worship Mehunes Dagon - at the end of the third era. In ESO days? Remember how the founder of the mythic dawn was slain during the events of TES:Oblivion? And he didn't exactly look eight centuries old, so... I daresay that cult would at best be a vague prophecy in ESO times.

On the other hand Kinlady Estre does pay hommage to Dagon as we found during the Auridion questline... with some side worship to Molag Bal to keep in Mannimarcos good graces...

And as also mentioned, Molag Bal has both the order of the black worm and the stonefire cult active in ESO times, as well as possibly others, smaller, less know ones - there definitely is a connection between him and Angolf the gravesinger of the Glenumbra questline, as we find out in Coldharbour... so the bloodthorn cult is also more or less connected to Molag Bal...

But that's the thing about deadric cults - they come and go, but the princes they worship are (mostly) eternal. This giving the developers free hand to invent and discard cults as needed...

Darlgon · May 2017

Try this, even tho, from what Sir Lawrence said on the last ESO Live.. any information may or may not apply, depending on how ZoS changes their content. Apparently, making MMO expansions supersedes lore at ZoS.

https://www.imperial-library.info/

SilverIce58 · May 2017

You could just say that for Azura, Boethiah, and Mephala that their cult is the Dunmer themselves (technically). Hircine's followers would just be were-creatures, tho as a cult? Maybe the inner circle of the Companions? Malacath would be most Orcs outside of Orisinium (maybe some inside, its been a while since i've been there). For Namira, I'd say cannibals in general, not counting bosmer bc of differences in how they eat the dead. Nocturnal's followers are thieves mostly, but a cult is a specified type of people, so I'd say Nightingales. Vaermina's cult is (are?) the Supernal Dreamers, of that I know for sure, since she is my favorite prince, and DC is my preferred faction.