WELCOME to the Elder Scrolls Podcast with FudgeMuppet. In this episode, Scott, Michael & Drew explore Meridia.
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Wasn't Talos involved in knights of the nine 🤔?
I frequently play a necromancer in ES; So when in Skyrim she plucked me up and suspense 2000 feet off the ground and told me I was going to purify her temple for her, it was less divine intervention and more being a teen of color being caught by the cops and forced to help on their latest sting. Where even though you didn’t anything, you know exactly what is going to happen to you if you don’t.
dawnbreaker is my all time favorite deadric artifact. I was a little disappointed that it did not play a story in the dawn guard dlc but most enemies in skyrim are either bandits or undead.
Noice
Is meridia the Daedric prince of hypocrisy?
I feel the 6 worst Daedra are: Mephala, Boethiah, Vaermina, Nocturnal, Namira, Peryite.
The 6 best are: Hircine, Azura, Malocath, Sheogorath, Sanguine, Molag Bal.
Where's camel!?
Meridia makes perfect sense if you consider her aspect is light and life. This is why she hates undeath. It is aborrant to everything she values. She doesn't hate undeath because it mostly equates to soul slavery. But because the energies involved are fundamentally repugnant to her. Slavery of any kind is fine to Meridia. It is the life/unlife question that decides her. She no doubt opposes Molag for the very reason that Molag is perfectly fine with unlife as slavery and as such is given to inflicting it as often as possible.
I think the thing is Meridia understands what she is just like the dremora. In eso for instance, dremora explain to you, that human concepts like good and evil mesns absolutely nothing to them. They do what interests them and manipulates accordingly. It's survival to them. A power struggle on any lvl is a struggle worth being in. I think Meridia thinks like this too… She really doesn't care about human understanding because humans don't understand enough to have an opinion. All she needs humans to understand is to she chooses to help humans. However, molag bal suggest humans under his rule would of been better against others we know nothing about. Humans are just chess pieces to them.. WHY this is? I have no idea.
Hi Scott 👋 I noticed you’ve been wearing your glasses a lot more often. When I was going though school (of all grades) I got picked on a lot for wearing my glasses. It caused me to stop wearing them and I spent the majority of my high school career walking around legally blind and not being able to read the white boards… I don’t know your reasoning for having them on again but regardless I appreciate you and your decision to wear them in front of millions of eyes 🤓 thank you all and keep on being the best nerd inspiration out there!
Talking about her colored rooms reminds me of the story, the masque of the red death.
The ayleid armor/designs from Beyond Skyrim reminds me of Aztec motifs. Which fit since human sacrifice was common in that ancient culture, and one of their primary deities was tired to the sun (among other things)
Man Scott must be so bad at mmorpgs. All these years later and he's still salty asf. 😂
Meridia helped stop the invasion of Molag Bal, brought the vestige on his path, manipulated the fighters guild into fighting the invasion and stoping the mortuum vivicus.
Then her Blade gave the energy to restore the crystal tower and keep nocturnal from becoming omnipotent, as her plane got overran by her forces.
But then when she was weakened by that, her priests in Skyrim lost faith after a harrow storm and just sealed her temple to rot.
She has done so much for the mortals in the second era and still they regard her the same as the princes who threaten them.
No wonder she sounds old and bitter.
Scott, I'm into religious academia. Meridia is unlike Talos or, to a lesser degree, unlike Vivec. They're so grand that they lose their ego and personality. Their minds become decentralized in a way. Meridia is very sober and involved. I think that a tier list for morality is in order. This will widely be regarded as a good move and may spark something great.
I dread to think what is inside Drew's Poke Ball… If he throws it, and a voice says "A new hand touches the beacon" I'm getting TF out of here. 😂
I think the deadric artifacts are just another tool in their feuds. Meridia hates Molag Bal, who is the progenitor of at least one type of undead. Dawnbreaker is likely her answer.
The only daedric prince that generally cares about their followers is Azura.
There's a theory on reddit somewhere that Meridia's Sphere is delusional hope. its kinda cool
This is awesome