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Becoming a Daedric Prince

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There have been three different known occasions where a non-daedra became a Daedric Lord. First was Trinimac, who was swallowed by Boethia. While inside the Daedric Prince Trinimac became corrupt and emerged as Malacath. Second was Arden-Sul who took the mantel of Sheogorath, through a process called "manteling". Third was Mannimarco, who used the Mantella to absorb the divine power of Numidium and made himself a Daedric Prince. But could there be another way for a mortal or a non-daedra to become a Daedric Prince?

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Call it cliche but let's go out on a whim here and suggest that a mortal marries a Daedric Prince. It's been suggested that DPs can pro-create so marriage might be an option too, if not a highly unlikely one. Would that work?
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MadGoddess wrote:
Call it cliche but let's go out on a whim here and suggest that a mortal marries a Daedric Prince. It's been suggested that DPs can pro-create so marriage might be an option too, if not a highly unlikely one. Would that work?

This could also fall back on the Trinimac=>Malacath event. I guess if a Daedric Prince really wanted to he could turn his spouse into another Prince. Molag Bal's children are vampires. I wonder what the other Prince's off-springs would be?

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Aedra, Daedra, Mortals, we're all et'Ada. The big ones are just more powerful because they resonate primary ideas. So to become one is to come up with a concept so radical doesn't exist yet but once realized can no longer be removed and become the embodiment of that concept.

Not sure why anybody would shackle himself like that though.

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Proweler wrote:

Aedra, Daedra, Mortals, we're all et'Ada. The big ones are just more powerful because they resonate primary ideas. So to become one is to come up with a concept so radical doesn't exist yet but once realized can no longer be removed and become the embodiment of that concept.

Not sure why anybody would shackle himself like that though.

The CoC really did not have much of a choice when it came to mantling Sheogorath when you think about it. Yes he could decide whether or not to travel to the SI at the beginning but after that he/she was very much under Sheogorath's authority.
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Proweler wrote:

Aedra, Daedra, Mortals, we're all et'Ada. The big ones are just more powerful because they resonate primary ideas. So to become one is to come up with a concept so radical doesn't exist yet but once realized can no longer be removed and become the embodiment of that concept.

Not sure why anybody would shackle himself like that though.

That's all fine and dandy, Proweler, but it still doesn't answer the question.

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One query I do have as I always get confused with this: Were the Night Mother's five children fathered by Sithis or not? I know he told her to kill them and supposedly Sithis sensed that one of these children had huge potential, but I have never known for sure whether they were his children or someone else's.
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MadGoddess wrote:
One query I do have as I always get confused with this: Were the Night Mother's five children fathered by Sithis or not? I know he told her to kill them and supposedly Sithis sensed that one of these children had huge potential, but I have never known for sure whether they were his children or someone else's.

In the Night Mother's truth is says, "And so, according to Dark Brotherhood legend, Sithis visited the Night Mother in her bed chamber, and begat her five children."

So, I'd say yes. But I would say he's their father like Molag Bal and vampires, but more of a God and Jesus sense... but evil.