Meridia hates undead with a literal burning passion. That's about it, really. I tried to get deeper into the lore about Meridia but I'd need some of Kirkbride's drugs to understand anything more than she fled with Magnus and tore a hole in the fabric of reality to create one of the "stars" we see.
yeah but the Thalmor are a bunch of faggy elves which by the laws of fantasy means that all elf activity is bad and all human activity doesn't matter because elves are faggots.
Oblivion, Knights of the Nine. Starts with Meridia's Champion sending his goons to slaughter the Priestesses of Dibella and write threatening messages with said priestess' blood and viscera. He tries two more times but makes the poor decision to try it when the Hero of Kvatch is there and is thwarted. In the in-game book "The Adabal-a" Morihaus describes some pretty fucked up shit the Ayleids did in Meridia's honor. Her hating undead is a side-effect, Imagine a slightly more zealous version of a 40k Inquisitor and you are closer to the truth.
So being a knight of Meridia is the ultimate thot patroller?
I just think it's piss poor timing to have a rebellion when it gives the bigger enemy more time to recover and makes both sides weaker.
I mean, he could be a fool but if he is then Ulfric's a bigger one.
The Thalmor fed him some misinformation while he was a prisoner to encourage anti-Empire behavior and encourage the natural anti-authority tendencies of the Nords. Forcing the Empire to crack down on the worship of Talos is another great way to encourage unrest without actually getting your hands dirty. So long as the civil war is ongoing and unresolved they benefit from the bloodshed. He's an unwitting pawn of their schemes, sadly.
There's a reason the Thalmor had an agent there at Helgen, and I doubt it was merely to observe matters given the level of influence they had at high levels like that.
None of his actual motives and grievances involve the misinformation that he was fed, though. The Empire genuinely did abandon Morrowind and Hammerfell and then outlaw Talos. If I remember correctly, the misinformation that he was fed was that something that he told the Thalmor led to the sack of the Imperial City.
If you ignore the latter half of the Shivering Isles where he gets deadly serious and reveals he had an actual reason for sending you to do all the things that seemed like random shit at the time, I guess.
I don't think so. The offering he requests in Oblivion is a soul gem, a ball of yarn, and a head of lettuce, but the only cheese thing was with the quest and a single line after you finished one of his tasks in the Shivering Isles questline.
Thinking about it more, it's probably the Oblivion voice actor's bombastic delivery and low-functioning spergs not really catching/remembering the parts where he wasn't LOLRANDOM.
There definitely are a few Sheogorath lines in Oblivion and Skyrim that are more grating than funny, I just find it odd that people's perception of modern Sheogorath is that he's only LOLRANDOM when he explicitly tells you his motivations in both Shivering Isles and his side quest in Skyrim. I haven't played Online, but I've heard that he's even decently villainous there in a few quests.
