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When the creators of Nirn discovered that they were losing their power
many tried to escape
but most of them failed
losing their physical body and immortality in the process.
This made them strongly tied to the planet and its inhabitants.
Eight of these very beings,
together with a ninth newcomer in the later years,
came to be what we know today
as the Nine Divines.
The Nine Divines are worshiped all over Tamriel and influence the inhabitants there
but act in many different ways across the different provinces.
In Skyrim, these are the gods of major influence:
Dibella is the god of beauty and love
and does not vary in neither name nor actions in Skyrim
and the rest of the provinces.
She is the muse of artists
and the fire in the bedchamber.
Like Dibella,
Mara behaves the same in all provinces of Tamriel.
She is the god of fertility
and motherly love.
Kyne is the Nord name for Kynareth
the god of the storm and the winds, often worshiped by sailors and sea-farers.
She is the one to have tought the Nords the strength of their voice
and the use of their shouts.
Then we have Shor,
the nordic name for Lorkhan himself,
that although said to be dead is believed to be awaiting
strong nordic warriors in the glorious halls
of the after life, otherwise called Sovngarde in the nordic tongue.
Finally there is Alduin,
the nordic representation of Akatosh,
and while Akatosh is referred to as the god of time,
and generally a protector of the people of Tamriel,
Alduin is known as the god of destruction.
For with destruction
comes creation and a new beginning,
for such is the cycle of time.
Why Alduin has taken shape in Skyrim these days however
bringing fire and destruction upon it, remains to be seen.