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% Magic Resist

Follower: Attacks, spells, scrolls, shouts, and enchantments are 6-60% better against dragons

Devotee: Meditation resets the cooldown of most recently used shout and power

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: 40 Fortify Health

Follower: Regenerate 1-5% of max health per second based on missing health. Can perform Arkays Rites

Devotee: Revive with full health upon taking fatal damage. Costs 15% devotion

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: All skills improve by 5% when under Lovers' Comfort

Devotee: Activate to make a person in combat unequip all items and follow you for 90 sec (costs 5% favor)

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 40

Follower: Spells cost 2-20% less to cast

Devotee: Spells and scrolls are 10-20% more effective

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 40

Follower: Increase movement speed by 15% in combat

Devotee: Meditating outdoors will summon a sacred Sabre Cat mount

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: Regenerate 1hp/sec at all times

Devotee: Living allies within 40 feet wont flee and are healed 10-20 health per sec.

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 10% more damage

Follower: Take 4-40% less damage from Daedra and undead

Devotee: When meditating, spend 10% favor to gain 30-60% improved attack, defense, and healing for 3600 seconds or 5 battles

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 and shouts against Elves increased by 4-40% (halved for non-elves)

Devotee: When meditating, remaining shout cooldown is halved whenever an enemy dies within 40 feet 

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 10% better (Smithing)

Follower: Smithing, Alchemy, and Enchanting are x% better

Devotee: When meditating, able to buy and sell items

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: Foes within 40 feet suffer 2-20% reduced magic resistance and can't absorb spells

Devotee: Activate a person below 30-60% health to paralyze them with 1 health. Costs 10% favor

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: Your attacks deal 4-40% more damage when fighting one opponent

Devotee: When meditating, invoke Daedric Invisibility for 300 seconds. If broken by a sneak attack, deal 25% more damage. Costs 10% favor

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%

Shrine Blessing: Conjuration spells cost 10% less

Follower: Conjuration spells and effects last 10% longer. Meditate to make a 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).

> Discover 5 locations

> Clear 2 dungeons

> Loot 3 chests

> Gain 5 skill levels

> Read 3 skill books (must be first time reading, see Xarxes for info)

> Eat 25 food items

> Perform 5 training sessions

> Read 15 (unread) books

> Barter 10 times

> Persuade 2 characters

> Intimidate 2 characters

> Contract 3 diseases (impossible as a vampire/werewolf. not a bug)

> Complete 2 side quests

> Kill 15 people

> Kill 15 animals

> Kill 15 creatures

> Kill 10 undead

> Kill 5 daedra

> Kill 5 automatons

> Perform 10 sneak attacks

> Win 2 brawls

> Learn 3 spells

> Trap 10 souls

> Enchant 5 items

> Improve 5 weapons

> Make 5 weapons

> Improve 5 armor pieces

> Make 5 armor pieces

> Mix 15 potions

> Mix 10 poisons

> Harvest 15 ingredients

> Eat 15 ingredients

> Accumulate 1500 more bounty

> Pick 5 locks

> Pick 5 pockets

> Commit 5 assaults

> Commit 5 murders

> Steal 3 horses

> Trespass 3 times

Devotee: When meditating, allows you to make a Wish, permanently granting an additional perk point. Costs 30% favor

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: Spells and effects you cast on yourself last 15% longer

Follower: Find Edritch Pages on corpses. Similar pages can be bound at a tanning rack to create Eldritch Tomes that improve your magic and shouts

Devotee: When meditating, permanently raise a skill of your choice to its maximum level. Costs 1% favor per skill level 

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: Regenerate 2% of your maximum Stamina per second

Follower: Double damage to living targets with 4-40% or less health

Devotee: When meditating, invoke a Hunt against the living within 500 feet, revealing and exposing them to Bitter Mercy. Costs 10% favor

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: Deal 15% more attack damage and critical damage against daedra

Follower: Generates 8 Obelisks of Order in Skyrim. Activating one grants 15 points of Health, Magicka, and Stamina

Devotee: Activate an opponent in combat to trap them in an inert but invulnerable state for 15 seconds. Costs 5% favor

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

• Epic foes: Dragons, Dragon Priests, Giants, Mammoths, Centurions, Wispmothers, powerful DLC creatures, and of course epic bosses.

Shrine Blessing: Power Attacks cost 10% less stamina

Follower: Attacks deal 4-40% more damage

Devotee: When an enemy dies within 40 feet, their killer is healed by 100-200% of the amount of overkill damage dealt

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: Burning Path: Nearby foes burn for 20-40 damage per second and explode on death for 100-200 damage. Meditate to recharge

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: Poisons you mix are 15% more effective

Follower: Sneak Attacks deal 4-40% more damage from behind

Devotee: Meditating allows you to seize control of the nearest person within 75 feet to fight for you. Costs 5% favor

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: Attacks, spells, scrolls, shouts, and enchantments are 4-40% better against undead

Devotee: Activate an undead opponent in combat to call down a solar strike that deals 500-1000 damage. Costs 15% 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 2-20 Magicka and Stamina per second from nearby enemies in combat

Devotee: Activate a person in combat to banish them to Coldharbour. Meditate to request the items. Costs 15% favor

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 Poison Resistance by 50%

Follower: Reduces poison resistance of all within 40 feet by 6-60%

Devotee: Poisoning a person or putting a Human Heart or Flesh into their inventory reduces armor by 100-200 and deals 20-40 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: You find Mysterious Coinpurses when pickpocketing. Meditating clears non-violent crime bounties up to 20-200 gold

Devotee: Meditating allows you to 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: Resist Disease 25% (does not work on followers)

Follower: All skills are more efficient. Meditate to request Peryite's Gifts to gain favor. Peryite's Gifts are as follows:

• > Attack damage -20%

• > Armor -100

• > Carry Weight -100

• > Speed -10%

• > Shout time +25%

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• > Health -75

• > Magicka -75

• > Stamina -75

• > Health Regen -50%

• > Magicka Regen -50%

• > Stamina Regen -50%

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• > Fire Resist -50%

• > Frost Resist -50%

• > Shock Resist -50%

• > Poison Resist -100%

• > Disease Resist -100%

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• > 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 opponent in combat to inflict all of Peryite's Gifts you have on the target, plus 5 disease damage per second for each Gift. Meditate to recharge

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: Using beneficial potions and alchemical ingredients is 15% better

Follower: Health, Magicka, and Stamina regenerate 50% faster while a potion, food item, or ingredient is active

Devotee: Can meditate in combat, forcing the 5 nearest hostile people to dance for 20 seconds. Costs 10% favor

Shrine locations: 

1. • - Wilderness south of Kynesgrove

   • - 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: Meditating grants a random Touch of Madness. High favor with Sheogorath yields more beneficial effects. 

Devotee: Receive a Touch of Madness whenever you enter combat

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 2-20 levels higher.

Devotee: Activate a sleeping person to summon an illusion to accompany you for 60 minutes. Costs 10% favor

Shrine locations: 

1. • - Nightcaller Temple

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