Divine
The various people of Tamriel worship a variety of deities and otherworldly powers. The principal among these are the Aedra and Daedra. Aedra, translated from Aldmeri to "Our Ancestors", include the "Nine Divines" of Imperial worship (or 8+1, as Tiber Septim ascended to godhood upon his death and became the Ninth, Talos). The Aedra, as a rule, don't take an active hand in the affairs of mortals except for certain extreme circumstances, such as the end of Oblivion, due to the way they went about creating the Plane of Mundus and world of Nirn, where The Elder Scrolls is set. The Daedra, translated as "Not Our Ancestors", are the "demons" of The Elder Scrolls, embodying the more evil aspects. It is unknown exactly how many godly Aedra, or at least non-Daedric beings, exist in the Elder Scrolls universe. While it seems highly like that the Nine Divines of Imperial Worship exist, especially Akatosh and Talos, many of the Tamrielic races have their own deities, though their existence is debatable; some seem to be alternate names for members of the Nine or Daedric Princes, while others might simply be mythological or powerful, but not divine, entities. The worship of Talos was illegal in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim due to the White-Gold Concordat, a peace treaty between the Empire and the Aldmeri Dominion set in place at the end of the Great War where the Aldmeri Dominion's only demands, if peace were to be kept, would be the creation of an embassy to the Aldmeri Dominion in Skyrim (located near Solitude, the capital of the province), and the outlawing of the worship of Talos, who the Thalmor (agents of the Aldmeri Dominion) hold to be true as being a man, nothing more, and certainly not a god.
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Famous quotes containing the word divine:
“He never supposed divine
Things might not look divine, nor that if nothing
Was divine then all things were, the world itself,
And that if nothing was the truth, then all
Things were the truth, the world itself was the truth.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. Divine Providence has a mission for her children to fulfill; though a mission unrecognized by political economists. There is ever a moral balance preserved in the universe, like the vibrations of the pendulum. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.”
—Lydia M. Child (1802–1880)
“Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that the gospel of Jesus Christ must be Divine Reality. The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a mere human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.”
—Daniel Webster (1782–1852)