The Vain Daedric Prince Azura - Elder Scrolls Lore

In our latest Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim video we delve into Azura.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an open world action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth main installment in The Elder Scrolls series, following The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on November 11, 2011.

The game's main story revolves around the player character and their quest to defeat Alduin the World-Eater, a dragon who is prophesied to destroy the world. The videogame is set two hundred years after the events of Oblivion, and takes place in the fictional province of Skyrim. Over the course of the game, the player completes quests and develops the character by improving skills. The game continues the open world tradition of its predecessors by allowing the player to travel anywhere in the game world at any time, and to ignore or postpone the main storyline indefinitely.

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[honestkyn]

By azura by azura by azura by azura! It's fudgemuppet.

[mrl]

> detests betrayal, corruption, and deception
> is allied with Boethia and Maphala

[hydrogenone]

_"Love Me, Love Your Neighbors, _ *Scorn Me At Your Own Risk"*
~A

[edgarrice]

Azura -- Daedric Prince of high-maintenance girlfriends.

[urthofthenewsun]

As a Dunmer player, I love Azura for the sheer fact she gave my reincarnation of Indoril Nerevar the chance to blast the smug grin off Almalexia’s face.

[Jonas_æ]

Azura being a prince regretful for not taking part in the creation of Mundus was an interesting idea. It would make an interesting twist on her depiction, with a sun and a moon in hand. The moon being Lorkhan, the creator (at least the one initiating the process) of Mundus, and the sun being Magnus, the architect of the creation. She is holding them up, perhaps revering their work and creation, despite not taking part in it.

She decided to hold on to her power instead of investing it in the world she seem to take so much interest in. Perhaps she wants to be loved and revered like the ones who created it, and so reaches out to mortals for recognition. After all, those two creators are no longer there to receive the love and recognition the mortals have for them, one fleeing to Atherius and the other killed by the other Aedra. It goes hand in hand with her sphere of Vanity & Egotism to want to pick up where they left off and be the "living god" to oversee the creation and receive the affections of the mortals in it. And perhaps this is exactly why she dislikes that the Tribunal used the power of the creator to become "living gods" themselves. Not only could they take away from her worship, but they gained their position from the power of the god of creation. The creation she didn't partake in. Of course she would see that as an insult.

[jakeevara]

Today, I had an almost genuine religious moment with Azura through my character.

I had just enrolled at the college of Winterhold, and after the first class with Tolfdir, my character took a break to visit the grounds. He wandered up to the roof of the Hall of Attainment, and suddenly, out of the dusk sky, for the first time ever I spotted the Shrine of Azura from the roof of the college.

I have been playing this game on and off for nearly 10 years, and I had never noticed that you could see the shrine from the college roof.

There and then, my character decided he had to visit that giant statue. I blew off Sarthaal for a bit and ran him over to the statue, (without fast-traveling to the nearby cave, since it felt like he had to make the pilgrimage honestly) and when he arrived, he was greeted by the priestess, who told him she had foreseen his coming long before his birth.

Never in my 12 years of playing Elder Scrolls games have I had a more immersive moment than this. For the entirety of the side-quest, I was completely immersed into my character's perspective, sharing in his sense of wonder, his perseverance in reaching the statue, and his determination to retrieve the star. When Azura spoke to him, I felt like she was speaking directly to me. Truly amazing organic storytelling right there!

TLDR: I saw Azura's statue from the college for the first time and was transported back to 2011, when Skyrim was the most mind-blowing game I had ever seen.

[xanderellem]

She's the scolding mother of the dunmer people, harsh but fair and always caring

[Desolate-Utopia]

I've always loved Azura. There are some interesting aspects to basically every Daedra in some way, but Azura is the one Prince that actually cares for her loyal followers, and you very well may be able to even experience her love first hand seeing as she's interactive with mortals unlike the Aedra. I can see why she's revered by a lot of races on Tamriel. So what I'm trying to say is, Azura 2020.

[Chrysaetos]

Yeah she's not ''perfect'' but still one of the better options out there. She'd be my goddess of choice, and that realm is definitely a helping hand in that.

[trackpadkiller]

By Azura by Azura by Azura by Azura! It's another Elder scrolls lore video, I can't believe it's you my favorite channel and a vid I liked.

[Killerdroid]

I liked your point about Azura and Mara representing motherhood. Going off of that, Mara could represent the nurturing aspect of motherhood while Azura represents the strictness, discipline, and punishment aspects of motherhood.

[darkwzrd]

Azura is my favorite. If you treat her with respect, she will take care of you. Just don't disrespect her or try and trick her. if you do, she will curse and/or destroy you.

[TheNN]

I disagree about one thing: Azura would not have participated in creation even despite her desire for love. It is in fact because of it that she did not do it. In the end the Aedra, the Divines, expect worship and devotion because of their part in creation, while labeling Daedra worshipers as always and automatically evil (even in the rare cases when this is not true), and that is not how Azura works. She wants the devotion to be absolute, but also true. She wants people to come to her not out of obligation, but genuine desire TO be with her. So when she is betrayed, her wrath is all the more potent (if sometimes overblown or undeserved).

[chrisscorpio]

Azura is the most trustworthy, fair, and decent of the Daedra OR Aedra. She is BALANCE. Hence the "Dusk and Dawn", Moon and Star.

[gerbenvanegmond]

Drew the daedrologist, awesome title!

[anjairis]

I think Azura wants to do good, wants to be good but she knows she has a temper and sometimes lash out. She wants to be THE god and the center of attention and she knows she could be but her own faults and flaws which aren't many but significant is what's holding her back. At least that's my impression of Azura.

[LauraTeAhoWhite]

Azura in my opinion is the most likable of the Daedric Princes, she is fair and just, she doesn't demand worship, nor does she seek the rule the mortal world. But she is no pushover.

[gisellep]

Waiting for Meridia aNothEr haNd tOuchEs thE beAcon hEaR mE aNd oBey

[mrself]

I believe why her reactions and curses are so drastic when she is betrayed is because when people worship/love her they do so genuinely, she doesn’t obligate to worship her, she prefers when people do it out of their own will. So when people go out of their way to fake love her and then betray her, it’s pretty much on them for their fuck up