The Nine Divines

Akatosh

Can follow Akatosh: Everyone

Racial starting deity for: Breton / Imperial / Khajiit / Nord

Tenets: 2% per character level, 2.5% per main story quest completed, +1.5% per dragon soul absorbed, -0.1% per bounty gold

Shrine Blessing: 15% Fire Resist

Follower: Attacks, spells, scrolls, shouts and enchantments are up to 30% stronger against dragons and Miraak.

Devotee: Praying resets the cooldown of your last used shout and power. Craft a powerful amulet with 5 of each of the eight divines amulets.

Shrine locations: 

1. • -North of Frostfruit Inn in Rorikstead

   • -Northeast of Twilight Sepulcher

   • -Northeast of the Atronach Stone

   • -Fort Sungard, southeast of Rorikstead

   • -Skyborn Altar

Arkay

Can follow Arkay: Everyone

Racial starting deity for: Breton / Imperial / Nord/ Bosmer

Tenets: Kill an undead: +0.5%, Kill anyone with a summoned undead minion: +1.5%, Perform Arkay's Rites on a marked corpse: +2.5%, Receive a bounty: -0.1% per bounty gold, Summon an undead minion: -40%, Become a vampire or other undead: Abandoned

Shrine Blessing: 30 More Health

Follower: Regenerate up to 5% of Max Health based on missing health. Can perform Arkay's Rites.

Devotee: Revive after death for 50% favor. Attribute fortifying spells are up to 20% stronger.

Shrine locations: 

1. • -Wayward Pass

   • -Northeast of Windhelm, south of Snow Veil Sanctum

   • -Hall of the Dead of Markarth, Whiterun, Riften, Solitude, Windhelm 

   • -Gravekeeper's quarters in Falkreath

Dibella

Can follow Dibella: Everyone

Racial starting deity for: Breton / Imperial / Nord

Tenets: Quest "The Heart of Dibella" completed: 40%, Persuade a person: +2%, Favor decreases half as fast while under the effects of Lover's Comfort, Receive a bounty: -0.1% per bounty gold

Shrine Blessing: Prices are 20% better

Follower: Take up to 20% less damage when you have lovers comfort and an ally in combat, or when you have 2 or more allies.

Devotee: Activate a person in combat to unequip them and make them follow you for 90 seconds. Illusion spells are up to 15% stronger/longer lasting, twice that for charm, rally and command spells.

Shrine locations: 

1. • -South of Old Hroldan Inn

   • -Temple of Dibella in Markarth

   • -Broken Tower Redoubt

   • -Morvunskar

   • -South of Dawnstar

   • -Shack near Abandoned Prison

   • -Haelga's Bunkhouse in Riften

Julianos

Can follow Julianos: Everyone

Racial starting deity for: Imperial

Tenets: Per Mage skill level: 0.1%, Per point of Magicka: 0.1%, Receive a bounty: -0.1% per bounty gold

Shrine Blessing: Increase Magicka by 30

Follower: All spells last up to 25% longer and hostile spells are up to 20% weaker.

Devotee: All spells have up to 25% more magnitude based on favor.

Shrine locations: 

1. • -Fellglow Keep

   • -North of Shearpoint

   • -Harmugstahl

   • -Fort Amol

Kynareth

Can follow Kynareth: Everyone

Racial starting deity for: Imperial / Khajit / Nord

Tenets: Per point of Stamina: 0.1%, Favor decreases half as fast while under the effects of Voice of the Sky, Discover a new map location: +0.50%, Receive a bounty: -0.1% per bounty gold

Shrine Blessing: Increase Stamina by 30

Follower: Plant-based food has 1.5x magnitude/duration. Up to 25% damage and critical damage with bows/daggers when not sneaking.

Devotee: Pray to summon a sabre cat. Friendly animals and spirit summons healed 5 per second. +10% critical hit chance with bows/daggers while not sneaking.

Shrine locations: 

1. • -Temple of Kynareth in Whiterun

   • -Fort Sungard Shrine

   • -Southwest of Morthal

   • -Wreck Of The Brinehammer

   • -Crystaldrift Cave

   • -Solstheim, north of the Earth Stone

Mara

Can follow Mara: Everyone

Racial starting deity for: Breton / Imperial / Nord / Bosmer

Tenets: If married: 25%, If owning least one house: 25%, Donate to a beggar or child: up to +2.5%, Favor decreases half as fast while under the effects of Lover's Comfort, Receive a bounty: -0.1% per bounty gold

Shrine Blessing: Restoration spells cost 10% less to cast

Follower: Attributes restored 0.5 per second with lowered hands. Restoration is up to 20% stronger. Praying cures diseases.

Devotee: Allies (not summons) within 100 feet are healed by up to 20 points health and magicka per second. Take 25% less physical damage with lowered hands.

Shrine locations: 

1. • -Nightcaller Temple

   • -Temple of Mara in Riften

   • -Northwest of Old Hroldan

   • -Near the western border of the Pale and Whiterun

Stendarr

Can follow Stendarr: Everyone

Racial starting deity for: Breton/ Altmer / Imperial / Nord / Bosmer

Tenets: Per side quest completed: 2%, Clear a dungeon: +2.5%, Kill an undead: +0.5%, Kill a daedra: +2.5%, Receive a bounty: -0.1% per bounty gold, Summon an undead minion: -40%

Shrine Blessing: Block 15% more damage

Follower: Take up to 50% less magic and physical damage as health decreases. Attacks against undead, werewolves and daedra restore health.

Devotee: During prayer, gain up to 20% improved physical damage and healing for 300 seconds.

Shrine locations: 

1. • -South of Swindler's Den

   • -Fort Greenwall

   • -Stendarr's Beacon

   • -Hall of the Vigilant

Talos

Can follow Talos: Everyone

Racial starting deity for: Imperial / Nord

Tenets: Per civil war quest completed: 2%, Per word of power learned: 1%, Kill an elf: +0.5% (or +1.5% if Thalmor), Absorb a dragon soul: +1.5%, Receive a bounty: -0.1% per bounty gold

Shrine Blessing: Time between shouts reduced by 10%

Follower: Attacks are up to 20% stronger against playable races, snow elves and Falmer.

Devotee: Shout cooldown halved when an enemy within 20 feet dies.

Shrine locations: 

1. • -Temple of Talos in Windhelm

   • -Island north of Saarthal

   • -Valley west of Saarthal

   • -Island northwest of Winterhold

   • -West of Windhelm Stables

   • -Riften

   • -Weynon Stones

   • -Whiterun

   • -Shrine of Talos in Markarth

   • -Fellglow Keep

   • -East of Whiterun

   • -Southwest of Windhelm

   • -Southwest of Froki's Shack

   • -Northeast of Pinewatch

   • -Fort Sungard

Zenithar

Can follow Zenithar: Everyone

Racial starting deity for: Breton/ Imperial / Nord

Tenets: Per store invested in: 3%, Create a weapon: +0.5%, Create a piece of armor: +0.5%, Accept skill training: +0.5%, Receive a bounty: -0.1% per bounty gold

Shrine Blessing: Improve items 5% better (Smithing)

Follower: Tempering items is up to 15% better. Deal up to 10% more damage with unenchanted weapons.

Devotee: Pray to Zenithar to buy and sell items directly. Able to craft perk potions at the Aetherium Forge for 100k gold and 10 of each ingot.

Shrine locations: 

1. • -Northwest of Four Skull Lookout

   • -East of Gjukar's Monument

   • -Northeast of Riften Stables

   • -Inside Whiterun, to the left of the Bannered Mare

The Daedric Princes

Azura

Can follow Azura: Dunmer / Khajit / Anyone who has completed "The Dark Star"

Racial starting deity for: Dunmer / Khajit

Tenets: Trap a soul: +0.5%, Discover a new map location: +0.25%, Favor gains from prayer multiplied by up to x1.5 if outside in clear twilight, All favor gains multiplied by x1.25 if you are a Dunmer, All favor gains multiplied by up to x1.5 based on your Illusion skill

Shrine Blessing: 10% Magic Resist

Follower: Enemies within 100 feet can't absorb spells and have up to 20% reduced magic resist. Blind/Chameleon spells are up to 25% cheaper.

Devotee: Activate an enemy below 30–60% health based on favor to paralyze them with 1 health. Soul trapping spells cost up to 40% less.

Shrine locations:

1. • Raven Rock Temple

   • Wilderness north of Talking Stone Camp

   • Shrine of Azura

   • Temptation: obtain the Star during "The Black Star"

   • Temptation: read "Invocation of Azura" or "Azura and the Box"

Boethiah

Can follow Boethiah: Dunmer / Anyone who has completed "Boethiah's Calling"

Racial starting deity for: Dunmer

Tenets: Perform a sneak attack: +1%, Kill a person: +0.75%, Commit a murder: +5%, All favor gains multiplied by x1.25 if you are a Dark Elf

Shrine Blessing: 10% fortify One Handed

Follower: Deal up to 30% more damage when facing only one foe.

Devotee: Meditate to gain invisibility for 90 seconds; when broken by a sneak attack, deal up to 25% more damage.

Shrine locations: 

1. • - Raven Rock Temple

   • - Sacellum of Boethiah

   • - Temptation: kill the cultists during "Boethiah's Calling"

   • - Temptation: read "Boethiah's Proving" or "Boethiah's Glory"

Clavicus Vile

Can follow Clavicus Vile: Dunmer / Anyone who has completed "A Daedra's Best Friend"

Racial starting deity for: None

Tenets: (Modified favor decay: 0% per day)

(Modified favor gain from prayer: 0% per day)

Complete a Pact: +15%

Fail a Pact: -20%

Pact to gain favor with Clacivus Vile (see following pacts):

Clavicus Vile Pacts (39 total)

You have 60 minutes to complete a pact or else you fail. 

Pacts cannot be skipped (unless you abuse save/load cheese).

Shrine Blessing: Conjuration spells cost 10% less

Follower: Conjuration spells are up to 20% stronger; pray to accept a pact which potentially grants a perk point.

Devotee: Pray for a perk point (costs 99% favor). Most teleporting and traversal spells are up to 50% cheaper.

Shrine locations: 

1. • - Haemar"s Shame

   • - Temptation: commune with Clavicus Vile during "A Daedra's Best Friend"

   • - Temptation: read "Feyfolken III"

Hermaeus Mora

Can follow Hermaeus Mora: Bosmer / Anyone who has completed "Discerning the Transmundane"

Racial starting deity for: none

Tenets: Quest "At the Summit of Apocrypha" completed: 25%, Read an Eldritch Tome: +25%, Read an Eldritch Page: +2.5%, Read a skill book: +1.5%

Shrine Blessing: 10% Longer Self-Cast Spell Duration

Follower: Find Eldritch Pages on corpses. Similar Eldritch Pages can be bound to create Eldritch Tomes that improve magic and shouts.

Devotee: Pray to permanently raise a skill (costs 10% favor). Entropic spells are up to 20% stronger.

Shrine locations: 

1. • - Waking Dreams Chapter I

   • - Sea of Ghosts, west of Septimus Severus' Outpost

   • - Location: Black Book - Waking Dreams

   • - Temptation: commune with Hermaeus Mora during "Discerning the Transmundane"

   • - Temptation: read "The Doors of Oblivion"

Hircine

Can follow Hircine: Bosmer / Breton / werewolf / Anyone who has completed "Ill met by Moonlight"

Racial starting deity for: Bosmer

Tenets: Kill a living target: +0.5% (+0.2% per level difference), Favor decreases half as fast if you are a werewolf, All favor gains multiplied by up to x1.5 based on your Light Armor skill

Shrine Blessing: 25% Stamina Regen

Follower: Deal up to 60% more damage to living targets down to under 50% health.

Devotee: Pray to reveal living targets within 500 feet, exposing them to bitter mercy. Can deal up to 30% more damage to undead under half health if you're a werebeast.

Shrine locations: 

1. • - Glenmoril Coven

   • - Snowclad Ruins

   • - Wilderness north of Gjukar's Monument

   • - Temptation: commune with Hircine during "Ill Met by Moonlight"

   • - Temptation: read "The Totems of Hircine"

Jyggalag

Can follow Jyggalag: Everyone

Racial starting deity for: None

Tenets: Activate an Obelisk of Order: +30%, Kill a daedra: +5%, Clear a dungeon: +5%, Summon a daedra: -5%, Jyggalag abandons you if you complete the quest "The Mind of Madness", All favor gains multiplied by up to x1.5 based on your Heavy Armor skill

Shrine Blessing: 15% More Damage Against Daedra

Follower: Collect 8 Obelisks of Order to Fortify Health/Magicka/Stamina by 20 each.

Devotee: Activate an enemy to etherealize them for 3 seconds. Take no damage while staggered.

Shrine locations: 

1. • - Wilderness next to North Shriekwind Bastion on a cliff

Malacath

Can follow Malacath: Dunmer / Orsimer / everyone who completed "The Cursed Tribe"

Racial starting deity for: Dunmer / Orsimer

Tenets: Kill an epic enemy: +15%, Temper a weapon: +1.5%, Temper a piece of armor: +1.5%, Receive a bounty with the Tribal Orcs faction: -0.25% per bounty gold, All favor gains multiplied by x1.25 if you are an Orc, All favor gains multiplied by up to x1.5 based on your Smithing skill 

Shrine Blessing: Power Attacks cost 10% less stamina

Follower: Power attacks deal up to 15% more damage and use up to 15% less stamina.

Devotee: When an enemy dies within 20 feet, their killer restores health based on overkill amount and favor.

Shrine locations: 

1. • - Fallowstone Cave

   • - Temptation: complete "The Cursed Tribe"

   • - Temptation: read "The Code of Malacath"

Mehrunes Dagon

Can follow Mehrunes Dagon: Dunmer / Khajit / Anyone who has completed "Pieces of the Past"

Racial starting deity for: Dunmer / Khajit

Tenets: Defile a shrine: up to +5%, Kill a person: +0.75%, Favor gains from prayer multiplied by up to x1.5 based on Self-Immolation success, All favor gains multiplied by up to x1.5 based on your Destruction skill

Shrine Blessing: Destruction spells are 10% more effective

Follower: Daedric fire burns your spirit as you meditate, draining magicka. Stop meditating at 20% or less to gain more favor and Burning Path activations

• Magicka is hidden during meditation. 

• Stopping early gains you nothing. 

• Stopping late results in death. 

Devotee: Nearby enemies burn up to 40 per second and explode upon death. Destruction spells are up to 10% better and nearby friendly Daedra have their attributes healed 5 per second.

Shrine locations: 

1. • - Shrine of Mehrunes Dagon

   • - Temptation: visit Silus Vesuius' museum

   • - Temptation: kill Silus during "Pieces of the Past"

   • - Temptation: read "The Oblivion Crisis"

Mephala

Can follow Mephala: Dunmer / Khajit / everyone who completed "The Whispering Door"

Racial starting deity for: Dunmer / Khajit

Tenets: Perform a sneak attack: +1%, Poison your weapon: +0.5%, Intimidate a person: +5%, All favor gains multiplied by x1.25 if you are a Dark Elf

Shrine Blessing: 10% Stronger Poisons

Follower: Sneak attacks deal up to 20% more damage from behind when not wearing heavy armor.

Devotee: During prayer, seize the nearest person within 75 feet to fight for you. Follower sneak damage buffed to up to 30%.

Shrine locations: 

1. • - Raven Rock Temple

   • - Morthal Swamps

   • - New Gnesis Club in Windhelm

   • - Temptation: receive the Ebony Blade during "The Whispering Door"

Meridia

Can follow Meridia: Altmer / everyone who completed "The Break of Dawn"

Racial starting deity for: none

Tenets: Kill an undead: +2%, Summon an undead minion: -40%, Become a vampire or other undead: Death, All favor gains multiplied by x1.25 if you are a High Elf, All favor gains multiplied by up to x1.5 based on your Restoration skill

Shrine Blessing: Restoration spells are 10% more effective

Follower: Fire, sun, and turning spells are up to 20% stronger. Physical attacks are up to 30% stronger against undead.

Devotee: Activate an undead opponent in combat to call down a solar strike that deals 500-1000 damage. Costs 50% favor

Shrine locations: 

1. • - Statue to Meridia

   • - Temptation: commune with Meridia during "The Break of Dawn"

Molag Bal

Can follow Molag Bal: Dunmer / vampires /  everyone who completed "The House of Horrors"

Racial starting deity for: Dunmer

Tenets: Kill a person: +0.75%, Trap a soul: +0.75%, Cure your vampirism: Death, Favor decreases half as fast if you are a vampire, All favor gains multiplied by up to x1.5 based on your Destruction skill

Shrine Blessing: Destruction spells cost 10% less to cast.

Follower: Absorbs up t0 10 Magicka and Stamina per second from nearby enemies in combat

Devotee: Activate a hostile enemy below level 50 to cast them to Coldharbour; pray to gain their items. Blood magic spells are up to 20% stronger.

Shrine locations: 

1. • - Volkihar Keep

   • - Temptation: commune with Molag Bal during "The House of Horrors"

   • - Temptation: read "Opusculus Lamae Bal"

Namira

Can follow Namira: Dunmer / everyone who completed "The Taste of Death"

Racial starting deity for: None

Tenets: Commit a murder: +2.5%, Poison your weapon: +1%, Eat a corpse with the Ring of Namira: +2%, Donate to a beggar: up to +5%

Shrine Blessing: Increases Disease Resistance by 50%

Follower: Reduce poison resist by up to 40% against enemies within 100 feet. Grants strong stomach and strange meat on kill.

Devotee: Poisoning or putting a human heart on an enemy damages their armor rating by up to 200 and deals up to 40 disease damage.

Shrine locations: 

1. • - Reachcliff Cave

   • - Namira's Shrine (named cave in the wilderness about 700 feet east of Ragnvald)

   • - Temptation: speak with Eola during "The Taste of Death"

   • - Temptation: read "Beggar Prince"

Nocturnal

Can follow Nocturnal: Dunmer / everyone who completed "Darkness Returns"

Racial starting deity for: None

Tenets: Obtain a Mysterious Coinpurse: +30%, Pick a lock: +1.5%, Favor gains from prayer multiplied by up to x1.5 in darkness, All favor gains multiplied by up to x1.5 based on your Sneak skill

Shrine Blessing: You are 10% harder to detect

Follower: Praying removes up to 5000 gold of your bounty. Shadow spells are up to 30% better, 50% at night.

Devotee: Better sneak and pickpocketing at night; able to astrally observe the nearest person within 300 feet.

Shrine locations: 

1. • - Thieves' Guild Headquarters

   • - Temptation: commune with Nocturnal during "Darkness Returns"

   • - Temptation: accept a Nightingale power (repeatable)

   • - Temptation: read "The Nightingales Vol. 1", "Vol. 2" or "Nightingales: Fact or Fiction?"

Peryite

Can follow Peryite: diseased / everyone who completed "The Only Cure"

Racial starting deity for: None

Tenets: Contract a disease: +10%, Accept a Gift: +10%, Cure your diseases: Abandoned

Shrine Blessing: 20% Resist Poison

Follower: Poison spells are up to 20% stronger; pray for Peryite's Gifts to gain favor. 

• Attack damage -20%
• Armor -100
• Carry Weight -100
• Speed -10%
• Shout time +25%
• ---
• Health -75
• Magicka -75
• Stamina -75
• Health Regen -50%
• Magicka Regen -50%
• Stamina Regen -50%
• ---
• Fire Resist -50%
• Frost Resist -50%
• Shock Resist -50%
• Poison Resist -100%
• Disease Resist -100%
• ---
• Alchemy -20
• Alteration -15
• Archery -15
• Block -15
• Conjuration -25
• Destruction -15
• Enchanting -15
• Heavy Armor -15
• Illusion -20
• Light Armor -15
• Lockpicking -15
• One-handed -25
• Pickpocket -15
• Restoration -20
• Smithing -15
• Sneak -15
• Speech -20
• Two-handed -25

Devotee: Activate a living target to inflict all of Peryite's Gifts on them, dealing 20 disease damage per second for each Gift.

Shrine locations: 

1. • - Shrine to Peryite

   • - Temptation: commune with Peryite during "The Only Cure

Sanguine

Can follow Sanguine: Dunmer / everyone who completed "A Night to Remember"

Racial starting deity for: None

Tenets: Receive a bounty: +0.03% per bounty gold, Consume mead, wine or ale: +0.5% (this only affects alcoholic drinks with the damage stamina regeneration effect), Escape jail: +20%

Shrine Blessing: 10% Better Beneficial Potions

Follower: Gain 100% regeneration under the effects of alcohol, skooma or harmful alchemy. Alcohol is up to 100% stronger.

Devotee: Pray in combat to force the nearest hostile to dance for 20 seconds. Dancing targets take up to 20% more damage.

Shrine locations: 

1. • - Wilderness south of Shor's Stone

   • - Temptation: speak with Sanguine during "A Night to Remember"

   • - Temptation: drink a sufficient amount of wine and/or mead (repeatable)

Sheogorath

Can follow Sheogorath: Dunmer / Khajit / everyone who completed "The Mind of Madness"

Racial starting deity for: Dunmer / Khajit

Tenets: Prayer changes favor to a random value, Disrespecting cheese will literally figuratively result in literal figurative death

Shrine Blessing: Grants a random blessing

Follower: Pray for a random touch of madness. Cheese is 2x stronger.

Devotee: Receive a touch of madness when entering combat. All skills at or below level 25 are 20% better.

Shrine locations: 

1. • - Wilderness north of Widow's Watch Ruins

   • - Blue Palace (Pelagius Wing)

   • - Temptation: complete "The Mind of Madness"

   • - Temptation: read "Myths of Sheogorath", "16 Accords of Madness, v. IX", "v. VI" or "v. XII"

Vaermina

Can follow Vaermina: Dunmer / everyone who completed "Waking Nightmare"

Racial starting deity for: None

Tenets: Character under a mind affecting spell or effect dies nearby: +1%, Kill a sleeping person: +2.5%, All favor gains multiplied by up to x1.5 based on your Illusion skill, Favor gains from prayer multiplied by x1.5 but must sleep

Shrine Blessing: Illusion spells cost 10% less to cast

Follower: Mind affecting illusion spells work on targets up to 20 levels higher and cost 50% less out of combat.

Devotee: Activate a sleeping person to summon an illusion to accompany you for ten hours. Illusion spells are up to 10% stronger when not rested.

Shrine locations: 

1. • - Nightcaller Temple

   • - Temptation: kill Erandur at Vaermina's command during "Waking Nightmare"